when you were young 5-10 what was your favorite game mine was Duck hunt on the NES i loved shoting them crazy ducks and got so upset when the dog laughed at me
Favorite game as a Child?
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Final Fantasy Legends, or something like that, on Gameboy. It was hard as balls, there was a ton to explore, and the spell 'Exit' was absolutely the greatest spell in the entire game because it took you out of dungeons immediately.
Contra because it was awesome though myself, my brother and our neighbor never managed to beat it.
EDIT: Holy crap, how could I forget these.
Sim City, Sim Tower, Sim Copter, Oregon Trail (I loved Oregon Trail and still pick it up every once in a while), Amazon Trail and Descent.
Descent was just a great game and I remember at one time it was installed on just about every computer in my middle school.
Contra because it was awesome though myself, my brother and our neighbor never managed to beat it.
EDIT: Holy crap, how could I forget these.
Sim City, Sim Tower, Sim Copter, Oregon Trail (I loved Oregon Trail and still pick it up every once in a while), Amazon Trail and Descent.
Descent was just a great game and I remember at one time it was installed on just about every computer in my middle school.
I have very fond memories about some of the games on my old BBC Micro-computer. The Repton series was very good, and there was a nearly pointless game called 'Pod' where you would type in commands in the form of 'Pod Can...' and the character on the screen would follow them. It was always fun typing in 'Pod Can Pop' and watching the tubby bugger explode.
I loved a game called "Hero" on the C64. You had a jetpack and a gun, which pretty much made for the best combo ever as far as my youthful mind was concerned.
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I always had a fascination with the game King's Quest VI when I was younger. It was a point & click adventure game with some of the funniest humor I remember as a kid. I even saw it on sale at Gamestop the other day, but it had all 7 games in the series on one cd, so I was totally overjoyed, having only played two of them myself.
Kirby Super Star
Age of Empires
Oregon Trail (I loved hacking the game and making headstones for people I didn't like
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And some others I can't remember.
Age of Empires
Oregon Trail (I loved hacking the game and making headstones for people I didn't like
)And some others I can't remember.
As a preschooler, I absolutely adored Lemmings. Still do, but I was unable to play it for a few years -- which seemed like a very long time back then -- because we switched from DOS to Windows and it took a while before we found the appropriate port.
When I was (probably) 7, my entire family except for Mom fell in love with a now-thoroughly-obscure (apparently it got good reviews at the time but sold poorly) TPS RPG adventure-game thingy (I suck at classification) by the name of Outcast. I was terrible at it and needed help all the time, but it was fun, and it provided more family in-jokes than any game before or since.
I don't count most of the edutainment games I used to play (although I did play a lot of Magic School Bus and Math/Reading Blaster games), but the original Zoombinis will always have a special place in my heart. I loved that game when I was in second grade, missed it for years when they took it off the school computers, and got more enjoyment out of it than I should really admit to when I finally got the chance to buy it for myself six years later. I was always a fan of the Oregon Trail, too, although I played... I think it was the fourth edition, rather than the original.
When I was (probably) 7, my entire family except for Mom fell in love with a now-thoroughly-obscure (apparently it got good reviews at the time but sold poorly) TPS RPG adventure-game thingy (I suck at classification) by the name of Outcast. I was terrible at it and needed help all the time, but it was fun, and it provided more family in-jokes than any game before or since.
I don't count most of the edutainment games I used to play (although I did play a lot of Magic School Bus and Math/Reading Blaster games), but the original Zoombinis will always have a special place in my heart. I loved that game when I was in second grade, missed it for years when they took it off the school computers, and got more enjoyment out of it than I should really admit to when I finally got the chance to buy it for myself six years later. I was always a fan of the Oregon Trail, too, although I played... I think it was the fourth edition, rather than the original.
The old Spyro and Crash games were fun, I still play the new ones because I like to do more with videogame than shoot people all the time.
NOTE: Can't wait for Far Cry 2, Turok 4, Left 4 Dead, and Resident Evil 5.
NOTE: Can't wait for Far Cry 2, Turok 4, Left 4 Dead, and Resident Evil 5.
Oh man, Sonic 2 and Sonic and Knuckles take the cake. It's always been a sore point that sonic never properly made the transition to 3d, and that my allegiance with sega had to die with the genesis. But oh well, I still love the hell out the old games.
The game that sucked me in as a gamer 4 life was METROID for the NES. I loved how you didn't know were to go but could go anywhere, finding secret upgrades in the corners. Contra was another b/c co-op was just so great, and so was the weapon selection. And Rygar too. I don't know why, I just loved it.
It's funny to read this thread.. you can tell who the older folks (like me) are. The original question asks what you played when you were 5-10 years old and some of the posts were for Sonic, Duck Hunt, etc.. lol Damn I feel old..
My 1st system was the 2600 and that was after it was out for a little while (we weren't rich). My favorites back then were Kaboom and Megamania(single player) and Warlords (multi player).
I played Kaboom so much that the bombs were just a string coming at insane speeds. No one I knew could touch me at that game.
A whole lot of time was invested in Megamania also. I STILL play that one sometimes, and my 6 year old daughter loves it too. (thanks gametap!)
lol who else remembers that before you had the 'gamer's thumb', you had the 'Atari hand'?
My 1st system was the 2600 and that was after it was out for a little while (we weren't rich). My favorites back then were Kaboom and Megamania(single player) and Warlords (multi player).
I played Kaboom so much that the bombs were just a string coming at insane speeds. No one I knew could touch me at that game.
A whole lot of time was invested in Megamania also. I STILL play that one sometimes, and my 6 year old daughter loves it too. (thanks gametap!)
lol who else remembers that before you had the 'gamer's thumb', you had the 'Atari hand'?
