I had been through four consoles and five jobs before most of the games in the notes had come out.
My top five were virtually chiselled on stone tablets by comparison :)
By pure numbers, mine has got to be GTA San Andreas since I only had a PS2 for the longest time. I think that might be why I kinda hate games now? Buying a new game and you get maybe a couple dozen hours if you’re lucky kinda sucks. Oh it’s just a campaign of like 9 missions? And the missions are pretty linear? idk man, might be worth like $10 but definitely not fullprice $60 or even half off $30.
Pokémon, wow, final fantasy tactic advanced, harvest moon, civilization I guess ?
- Space Invaders I feel like I should include one of the classic games I played in the 80s. You never forget your first, and I played this more than any others and it influenced my career as an adult. However I think 10 mile hike, burger time, breakout and pacman are better.
- Heroes of Might and Magic 3 My room mates would hotseat games while watching movies. A lot of fond memories
- Factorio Probably played more than any other game
- Golden Axe Warrior Not to be confused with Golden Axe. This was a Zelda clone on the Sega Master System. One of the best games on that platform IMO.
- Boulders gate 1 Besides golden axe warrior the only other RPG I really got into. Unfortunately I wiped my hard drive with a game that I had been playing for months and I just couldn’t get back into it after that.
Homm3 is GOAT. I still play that with friends and relatives to this day.
It really was the best out of all the homms. I still play it too. Absolute perfection of a game.
Bro, it’s on the play store. You can get it on a tablet, and is very much playable.
Boulders Gate? I know And I have it, along with a few other editions. I’ve just never get past the first tavern without losing interest. Which is strange because I was hooked when I first played it.
Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Space Invaders (on an Atari 2600), Tempest and Pitfall!
Baulders gate on ps2 was my introduction into RPG and a bonding experience with my aunts ex.
GTA 1 was my escape from an abusive house
Tony hawk kept me from getting picked on for my gaming choices
Smash bros had me bonding with my closest friends
NBA street helped me and my brother escape from our parents.
In chronological order
- Breakout
- Oregon Trail
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Sonic Spinball
- FF8
There are so many more but these were all big moments. Ugh I didn’t even mention the IBM golf game or Carmen San Diego, I think I need to do this list based on the systems we had.
Bold choices with both Spinball and Final Fantasy 8. You’re set to have some interesting fandoms with very deep chips on their shoulders – not to mention cosplay buster swords – arriving at your doorstep shortly.
Eep.
Bro, I almost forgot about Sonic spinball! What an acid trip of a take on Sonic.
Mine is:
- Legend of zelda, a link to the past (snes)
- Super mario bros (nes)
- Tetris (nes)
- rock n roll racing (snes)
- street fighter 2 (snes)
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- secret of mana, terranigma, kevin alone at home, there are so many before I even get to the more modern games. I haven’t even reached command and conquer 1&2 yet or starcraft or diablo1 or 2.
GTA: San Andreas and NFSU2. But not for the reasons you think. They were the first games that I could play on my school laptop. It was super slow (amd A6 1450 Apu, 4 gb ram) and those ran perfectly fine.
Heh I played NFSUG2 on a laptop with 2 GB RAM. It shipped with Vista but ran great with XP.
2 GB was a ton back then! You could fit a whole OS into that, twice!
I actually have a pentium M laptop that I played NFSU2 on during that time. My sister would use my school laptop (we weren’t allowed to use my home computer) and I’d use the pentium m machine. I wouldn’t be surprised if the pentium m had better single core performance than the A6.
Edit: I found a few benchmarks and the 735 is somewhat faster in single core performance provided that the instruction set is supported.
In no particular order and with limited time thinking about it:
- Kirby Super Star
- Mario Sunshine
- Sonic Adventure (1 & 2 if I may)
- Guitar Hero
- Zelda: Link to the Past
My first console was a NES I inherited, but the first console gotten for me was a SNES, and the first console I received new in box was a GameCube. PS2 underrepresented in this list although Guitar Hero was on there and that game was wildly important for getting me more interested in music in general.
Zelda II The Adventure of Link
Super Metroid
Another World / Out of This World
Myst
Doom
Honorable mention goes to Super Mario Land.
No order:
•Chrono Trigger •FFVII •Panzer Dragoon Saga •GTA3 •EverQuest •(Street Fighter Alpha 2 is up there too)
Halo >!because I played it with my older sister!<
Skyrim >!because it reminded me that I like RPGs!<
RuneScape >!because it taught me that I like RPGs!<
Minecraft >!because I played it with my little brother!<
DOOM >!because I was young and too scared to play it myself, but my mom enjoyed gaming sometimes, and watching her play are happy memories!<
- Super mario bros 3
- RuneScape
- Commander Keen (all of the series)
- Age of Empires
- Grand theft auto
Am I young or everyone else old?
- Super Mario Bros
- Delta Force
- Unreal tournament 99
- GTA San Andreas
- NFS Underground 2
Games that i bonded with my siblings playing growing up. Our lives would have not been the same without them.
Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, Xena Warrior Princess, Going Quackers, Pokémon Stadium
