It's predecessors were also great memories, but when I think back to my childhood the one game that stands out most for me is:
It was just epic for me as a kid. Couldn't begin to count the amount of times I played through this. It's still one of my favourites for BG music even to this day.
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And you know that one guy in the world that kind of liked Bubsy? Yo. Don't ask me why, because I do not have an answer. I think I was a bit masochistic.
Man, I used to fucking love Bubsy when I was a kid. I played it again a few months ago, and holy shit, what an annoying game.
And I know this is reaching a bit, but there's this game I used to play that I can't remember the name of. I'm pretty sure it let you select from three people, and it was a medieval hack n' slash sorta game. There was a tall (maybe muscular) dude, I think a chick, and a dwarf or short guy. Maybe it was a short girl, I can't remember.
It may have been Gauntlet, but I recall it had side-scrolling semi-platforming elements (think Castlevania, that kinda thing) early in the game, if not throughout the entire game.
Anyone have any idea what it might have been? It was on the NES. MAYBE Genesis, but I'm like 90% sure it was NES.
Wait, what ages are we talking about here? I assumed 5-ish (3-7, basically), but if we're going up to ten, then I think I've got a couple.
I sunk more time into this game as a kid than any other, with the possible exception of MKII.
Also...
Although that might be pushing it, since I was like... 11 or 12.
Edit:
Knights of the Round??
Nah, the graphics were way crappier than that. Also, I'm pretty much 100% sure there was at least one playable female character, because I remember playing with my sister and she'd always pick her.
It still is, really. It holds the record for game I've purchased the most times (2x SNES, 2x GBA, 1x Virtual Console). When I'm stressed out I'll load up my Virtual Console copy and just veg out doing speed runs or glitching the game out. Just because.
I just remembered another one of my old favorites:
I played this game for hours and days as a kid. My dad got me in to gaming, and he used to force me off of the computer so he could play it. I remember waking up really early so I could play it before school. Dammit...now I want to play this again.
burping, hot hula chicks, maniac dentists, robbing santa claus for presents, this game had it all...
and i havent even mentioned the two play coop split screen action, the explorative gameplay, the awesome music, seriously as a kid i must have played this sucker a thousand times.
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Had a bunch of others on about forty or so Commodore Format tapes.
Megadrive
Sonic (all of them)
Ranger X
Streets of Rage (all of them)
Revenge of Shinobi
Toejam and Earl
T2 Arcade
Menacer (the 6-game cart with the gun)
Robocop Vs Terminator (Bought in US, finally got to play it eight years later on emulator. FUCK YOU REGION LOCKOUTS!)
Star Control
Alien 3
Arch Rivals
Game Gear
Global Gladiators
Alien 3
Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap
Predator 2
Columns (My late Grandmother played this all the time.)
PC
Doom (Shareware) (picked it up for £6, thinking it was the full game. Hey, I was twelve.)
Ultimate Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Terminal Velocity (Shareware)
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (Shareware)
Terminator: Future Shock
Terminator: SkyNET demo (finally got the full game five years ago)
Magic Carpet Gold (First game I bought, inspired by Neighbours)
Batman Cartoon Maker (okay, not a game, but I loved doing Batman Vs Aliens/Predator. God, I was fucked upback then.)
That's all of the ones I can remember playing as a kid.
Kirby's Dreamland.
I loved this game and played it so much, I started beating the whole game in like 15-20 minutes. But it was short anyways. I never played a console version until the one came out on the Virtual console.
...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
The two that stuck out the most from my youth were
and
My mom and I used to play PoP a lot, trading off when we died. Getting past the gate on stage 3 was my biggest achievement back then, haha. It wasn't until much later that I skipped to Jafar and was able to beat him (still probably one of the most intense, but rewarding, fights I've played through)
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
As a kid? That changed a lot, but I'd have to say the most enduring was Blaster Master. Metal Gear and the Legend of Zelda were right up there, also. Fast forward to high school and it was Wing Commander 1 and 2. And X-Com: UFO Defense, can't forget that.
Fair point... I remember playing a lot of Pirates! on the Mac Classic at school, and the black and white gave me eyestrain after a while.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
When I was little kid I was absolutely entranced by Faxanadu. I never really got very far, or really understood what was going on but every time I went to my grandma's house I'd have to fire up her NES and give it a try. I still a copy of it, but I fear that if I go back with a basic understanding of games the magic would be lost. Also, I didn't realize until about a year back that it's pronounced "Fa-Xanadu" because it's a portmanteau of Famicon and Xanadu. Maybe I'll go back to it someday if it's released on Wii so I don't have to try and enter any of those goddamn huge mantras.
When I was little kid I was absolutely entranced by Faxanadu. I never really got very far, or really understood what was going on but every time I went to my grandma's house I'd have to fire up her NES and give it a try. I still a copy of it, but I fear that if I go back with a basic understanding of games the magic would be lost. Also, I didn't realize until about a year back that it's pronounced "Fa-Xanadu" because it's a portmanteau of Famicon and Xanadu. Maybe I'll go back to it someday if it's released on Wii so I don't have to try and enter any of those goddamn huge mantras.
actually in an attempt to fill some blanks in my gaming education i went back some time ago and tried some nes classics i never got to play and this was one of them.
the game was kind of enjoyable.
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The two that stuck out the most from my youth were
I will always remember this as the awesome game that my parents bought for me in...a clothes store. I don't know why, but a clothing store had a little rack that had like five SNES games on it, and I got that one.
The two that stuck out the most from my youth were
I will always remember this as the awesome game that my parents bought for me in...a clothes store. I don't know why, but a clothing store had a little rack that had like five SNES games on it, and I got that one.
So much fun.
Clothes stores just aren't what they used to be these days.
Same with Disney games. Hmm, coincidence?
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Oldest one first, for the Intellivision. God DAMN you crapped your pants when you met the giant monsters, playing at the age of 5 or something. This was before Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and Lands of Lore, but just as good!
I loved that game!
The first console RPG? maybe. Fighting the bigger baddies was scary, sometimes they would turn you back if you tried to escape. You had to 'level' and get better gear otherwise you would be demolished.
And the doors, the magic doors. As you went deeper in to the dungeon, you would come across these doors that couldn't be opened, they were a bright random color. You could fight them, defeat them and then open 'em. They always had a magic book that gave pretty awesome powers: walk through walls, see through walls, etc. It was always a gamble to fight 'em just cause they would usually destroy you in a couple rounds.
For a while you could get a free emulator for intellivision lives! that had the game in it, but i think they pulled it from its site.
When I was little kid I was absolutely entranced by Faxanadu. I never really got very far, or really understood what was going on but every time I went to my grandma's house I'd have to fire up her NES and give it a try. I still a copy of it, but I fear that if I go back with a basic understanding of games the magic would be lost. Also, I didn't realize until about a year back that it's pronounced "Fa-Xanadu" because it's a portmanteau of Famicon and Xanadu. Maybe I'll go back to it someday if it's released on Wii so I don't have to try and enter any of those goddamn huge mantras.
I farmed so much gold back in the 80s just to get the good shield and the death spell early on. This game was quite hard and the password save drove me nuts.
While literally everyone in my elementary school was playing Oregon Trail, I was off wasting my entire recess with a whole different game:
Haha, YES. I remember we used to play that in the library (only place in the school with ancient macs) in middle school. One kid earned the nickname "Chip" cause he looked like the character Chip.
I'm surprised no one has said Duck Hunt yet. One of my first forays in to gaming was Duck Hunt. When you're 7 nothing is cooling than shooting shit. Nothing.
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It was just epic for me as a kid. Couldn't begin to count the amount of times I played through this. It's still one of my favourites for BG music even to this day.
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Knights of the Round??
Up 'til 2 Vocal Band
www.uptil2music.com
I sunk more time into this game as a kid than any other, with the possible exception of MKII.
Also...
Although that might be pushing it, since I was like... 11 or 12.
Edit:
Nah, the graphics were way crappier than that. Also, I'm pretty much 100% sure there was at least one playable female character, because I remember playing with my sister and she'd always pick her.
Get out of my past, MagicPrime!
*ahem*
It still is, really. It holds the record for game I've purchased the most times (2x SNES, 2x GBA, 1x Virtual Console). When I'm stressed out I'll load up my Virtual Console copy and just veg out doing speed runs or glitching the game out. Just because.
or Brawl. 4854.6102.3895 Name: NU..
I played this game for hours and days as a kid. My dad got me in to gaming, and he used to force me off of the computer so he could play it. I remember waking up really early so I could play it before school. Dammit...now I want to play this again.
Dragon Warrior 2
and of course
Final Fantasy
I had so many hand drawn maps and stat sheets.
...
I would say this is a case of Oregon Fail.
So what age classifies one as "a kid"?
Lode Runner
Sim City
Sim Ant, etc
A bunch of old games the Mac lab at our grade school had.
Now that area's just a parking lot... /sigh
burping, hot hula chicks, maniac dentists, robbing santa claus for presents, this game had it all...
and i havent even mentioned the two play coop split screen action, the explorative gameplay, the awesome music, seriously as a kid i must have played this sucker a thousand times.
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C64
Arnie
Ancipital (sp?)
Exile
Ghostbusters
Aliens(FPS version)
Creatures 2
Had a bunch of others on about forty or so Commodore Format tapes.
Megadrive
Sonic (all of them)
Ranger X
Streets of Rage (all of them)
Revenge of Shinobi
Toejam and Earl
T2 Arcade
Menacer (the 6-game cart with the gun)
Robocop Vs Terminator (Bought in US, finally got to play it eight years later on emulator. FUCK YOU REGION LOCKOUTS!)
Star Control
Alien 3
Arch Rivals
Game Gear
Global Gladiators
Alien 3
Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap
Predator 2
Columns (My late Grandmother played this all the time.)
PC
Doom (Shareware) (picked it up for £6, thinking it was the full game. Hey, I was twelve.)
Ultimate Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Terminal Velocity (Shareware)
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (Shareware)
Terminator: Future Shock
Terminator: SkyNET demo (finally got the full game five years ago)
Magic Carpet Gold (First game I bought, inspired by Neighbours)
Batman Cartoon Maker (okay, not a game, but I loved doing Batman Vs Aliens/Predator. God, I was fucked upback then.)
That's all of the ones I can remember playing as a kid.
Kirby's Dreamland.
I loved this game and played it so much, I started beating the whole game in like 15-20 minutes. But it was short anyways. I never played a console version until the one came out on the Virtual console.
Yes.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
and
My mom and I used to play PoP a lot, trading off when we died. Getting past the gate on stage 3 was my biggest achievement back then, haha. It wasn't until much later that I skipped to Jafar and was able to beat him (still probably one of the most intense, but rewarding, fights I've played through)
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
First game I remember playing. Best videogame series of all time, by my account.
Oh, yeah?
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
at least your shit has colors.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
When I was little kid I was absolutely entranced by Faxanadu. I never really got very far, or really understood what was going on but every time I went to my grandma's house I'd have to fire up her NES and give it a try. I still a copy of it, but I fear that if I go back with a basic understanding of games the magic would be lost. Also, I didn't realize until about a year back that it's pronounced "Fa-Xanadu" because it's a portmanteau of Famicon and Xanadu. Maybe I'll go back to it someday if it's released on Wii so I don't have to try and enter any of those goddamn huge mantras.
After that, Pokemon Red and Dragon Warrior I&II took over my GBC.
actually in an attempt to fill some blanks in my gaming education i went back some time ago and tried some nes classics i never got to play and this was one of them.
the game was kind of enjoyable.
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I will always remember this as the awesome game that my parents bought for me in...a clothes store. I don't know why, but a clothing store had a little rack that had like five SNES games on it, and I got that one.
So much fun.
Clothes stores just aren't what they used to be these days.
Same with Disney games. Hmm, coincidence?
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
Hahah,
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Archon, like battlechess but with magic powers.
I loved that game!
The first console RPG? maybe. Fighting the bigger baddies was scary, sometimes they would turn you back if you tried to escape. You had to 'level' and get better gear otherwise you would be demolished.
And the doors, the magic doors. As you went deeper in to the dungeon, you would come across these doors that couldn't be opened, they were a bright random color. You could fight them, defeat them and then open 'em. They always had a magic book that gave pretty awesome powers: walk through walls, see through walls, etc. It was always a gamble to fight 'em just cause they would usually destroy you in a couple rounds.
For a while you could get a free emulator for intellivision lives! that had the game in it, but i think they pulled it from its site.
....i still have my legal, playable rom copy
TIE FIGHTER.
Way better than Xwing. Even got the expansions. Man I loved that game to death.
And of course there was the usual Mario 3, etc that practically everyone from my era will say.
Oh, and another mention of Oregon Trail. The DOS/Apple ][ Version, of course.
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I farmed so much gold back in the 80s just to get the good shield and the death spell early on. This game was quite hard and the password save drove me nuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPBZd8wknA
God that music is fantastic.
You don't say. :winky:
Haha, YES. I remember we used to play that in the library (only place in the school with ancient macs) in middle school. One kid earned the nickname "Chip" cause he looked like the character Chip.
I'm surprised no one has said Duck Hunt yet. One of my first forays in to gaming was Duck Hunt. When you're 7 nothing is cooling than shooting shit. Nothing.
Or I'll get even bitchier.
Nobody wants that.