Favorite game as a Child?
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I loved Paperboy, Bomb Jack, Carrier Command, Prince OF Persia and TMNT on the Atari ST when i was a kid. It was the first computer/console i had and i used to love it! I was so pleased when i finally got better at Bomb Jack than my dad! Though he was good at it!! One of the two games ever my dad's been good at/played regularly; Bomb Jack and Ceaser 3.
Playing through rayman 2 was an amazing experience to me. It didn't hurt playing in 1024*768 resolution with a great headset. Even though I played on a keyboard, the difficulty where just right, forcing me to try multiple times on every level. But I got annoyed rarely and the satisfaction was incredible when I finished it. It was the second game I got to own myself, and I still remember every level in detail, since Ive played it so many times.
New Zealand Story on the Amiga 500. It rocked bells. Hard as nails later on though, and the time limit was punishing especially with such gargantuan levels.
I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing Moonstone when it wasn't crashing on me and Worms when I was a bit older.
-Nick
I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing Moonstone when it wasn't crashing on me and Worms when I was a bit older.
-Nick
Duck Hunt
Mario World 2
Mortal Kombat
Killer Instinct
The last two I used to play with my father, and then he quickly realized that his young daughter was beating him at them, so he stopped me from playing. ^_^ Ahh, good times.
Mario World 2
Mortal Kombat
Killer Instinct
The last two I used to play with my father, and then he quickly realized that his young daughter was beating him at them, so he stopped me from playing. ^_^ Ahh, good times.
Super Mario Bros. I also enjoyed Sonic the Hedgehog titles, specifically Sonic 3-D Blast. I miss my Sega Genesis.
Aside from the obvious (SMB3, Sonic 2/3/& Knuckles)...
Worms and Worms 2 (PC) Sheer manic genius.
Guardian Legend (NES) A space based shooter beautifully woven with a ground based shooter. A difficulty curve just barely out of reach. Compelling story to move it along, and a rare female main character, forgotten to the likes of Samus Aran.
8 Eyes (NES) Complete ripoff of Castlevania, but still fun in it's own right.
Bionic command (NES) Apparently good enough for a 3D revival later this year. So long as it holds up, I'll be happy.
Battletoads (NES) Okay, so I think we can all admit to hating that damn underground racing sequence, but the rest of it was good, right?
Willow (NES) Horrible movie, bad music for the first two towns, quasi-Zelda ripoff, but if you can figure out even how to get into Bavmorda's castle, you win.
Rampart (NES) Simple premise, impossible to master.
Nintendo World Cup Soccer (NES) If you know what you're doing, it is entirely possible to end a game 96 to nothing. Try THAT in real soccer (or football, wherever you hail from)
Ninja Gaiden 1-3 (NES) Also apparently good enough for a 3D revival. I haven't tried the new ones myself, but I've heard good things.
Startropics 1 & 2 (NES) Apparently forgotten by Nintendo in recent years as they haven't tried milking the franchise to death, but with such an awesomely out there story line, maybe that's for the best.
Vectorman (Genesis) I may not get the first person shooter genre, but the side scroller genre I do get, and this is one of the greats.
Earthworm Jim (Genesis) Faithful in every respect to the cartoon which spawned it, and that's a very good thing.
SimCity 2000 (PC) What can I say? Hell yes, I still play it. Far more than I ever play SimCity 3000 or 4.
SimTower (PC) WHY? Why do my tenets keep leaving my nice buildings? What more do they want from me?
SimIsle (PC) My PC hated me for trying to run it. And somehow I always ended up building stuff too close together so they couldn't expand when necessary. I just wish my install disk weren't so far gone...
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? (PC) Sure, it's a point and click kind of deal, and it's educational, but you're catching criminals too!
And finally Spiderman for the XT Gold operating system on an computer manufactured by AT&T some time during the 1970s. Weird as all hell, impossible to find any information on now, but superb in every way.
There may be more, but I hope not...
[EDIT] I knew it: someone had to go ahead and remind me Atari existed, which brings me to:
Kaboom. Impossible. Simply impossible. And yet, still good times.
Warlords. Kind of like Rampart, except there's only one cannon, everyone uses it, and you don't rebuild your walls.
And, for the Atari 7800: Food fight. Nothing more needs to be said.
I don't mention SNES because I didn't have one until the system was long past dead, but what the hell, Donkey Kong Country deserves mention here too.
[SECOND EDIT] Gah! Gameboy! Of course! Super Mario Land, Revenge of the Gator, Donkey Kong (1994) and... the immortal Tetris. I apoligize for forgetting Gameboy (but not for the incredibly long post now made even longer.)
[THIRD EDIT] And I still forgot Oregon Trail! I'd always die, but my family would make it, those hardy pioneering souls.
Worms and Worms 2 (PC) Sheer manic genius.
Guardian Legend (NES) A space based shooter beautifully woven with a ground based shooter. A difficulty curve just barely out of reach. Compelling story to move it along, and a rare female main character, forgotten to the likes of Samus Aran.
8 Eyes (NES) Complete ripoff of Castlevania, but still fun in it's own right.
Bionic command (NES) Apparently good enough for a 3D revival later this year. So long as it holds up, I'll be happy.
Battletoads (NES) Okay, so I think we can all admit to hating that damn underground racing sequence, but the rest of it was good, right?
Willow (NES) Horrible movie, bad music for the first two towns, quasi-Zelda ripoff, but if you can figure out even how to get into Bavmorda's castle, you win.
Rampart (NES) Simple premise, impossible to master.
Nintendo World Cup Soccer (NES) If you know what you're doing, it is entirely possible to end a game 96 to nothing. Try THAT in real soccer (or football, wherever you hail from)
Ninja Gaiden 1-3 (NES) Also apparently good enough for a 3D revival. I haven't tried the new ones myself, but I've heard good things.
Startropics 1 & 2 (NES) Apparently forgotten by Nintendo in recent years as they haven't tried milking the franchise to death, but with such an awesomely out there story line, maybe that's for the best.
Vectorman (Genesis) I may not get the first person shooter genre, but the side scroller genre I do get, and this is one of the greats.
Earthworm Jim (Genesis) Faithful in every respect to the cartoon which spawned it, and that's a very good thing.
SimCity 2000 (PC) What can I say? Hell yes, I still play it. Far more than I ever play SimCity 3000 or 4.
SimTower (PC) WHY? Why do my tenets keep leaving my nice buildings? What more do they want from me?
SimIsle (PC) My PC hated me for trying to run it. And somehow I always ended up building stuff too close together so they couldn't expand when necessary. I just wish my install disk weren't so far gone...
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? (PC) Sure, it's a point and click kind of deal, and it's educational, but you're catching criminals too!
And finally Spiderman for the XT Gold operating system on an computer manufactured by AT&T some time during the 1970s. Weird as all hell, impossible to find any information on now, but superb in every way.
There may be more, but I hope not...
[EDIT] I knew it: someone had to go ahead and remind me Atari existed, which brings me to:
Kaboom. Impossible. Simply impossible. And yet, still good times.
Warlords. Kind of like Rampart, except there's only one cannon, everyone uses it, and you don't rebuild your walls.
And, for the Atari 7800: Food fight. Nothing more needs to be said.
I don't mention SNES because I didn't have one until the system was long past dead, but what the hell, Donkey Kong Country deserves mention here too.
[SECOND EDIT] Gah! Gameboy! Of course! Super Mario Land, Revenge of the Gator, Donkey Kong (1994) and... the immortal Tetris. I apoligize for forgetting Gameboy (but not for the incredibly long post now made even longer.)
[THIRD EDIT] And I still forgot Oregon Trail! I'd always die, but my family would make it, those hardy pioneering souls.
Was still the atari age back when I was 5-10 so off the top of my head
Seaquest
Mario Bros. (yea the atari port was crappy but was still fun)
Raiders of the lost ark
Pole Position
Break out
Pac man
E.T.. Don't look at me that way, I was little and put it on easy mode would see how fast I could win
..Wonders how many people here knows that there was a Mario before Super Mario..
Seaquest
Mario Bros. (yea the atari port was crappy but was still fun)
Raiders of the lost ark
Pole Position
Break out
Pac man
E.T.. Don't look at me that way, I was little and put it on easy mode would see how fast I could win
..Wonders how many people here knows that there was a Mario before Super Mario..
Ok, I'm going to categorize:
Computer: Oregon Trail hands down (you have died of disentary).
NES: Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. 1-3, Legend of Zelda, and Jeopardy.
SNES: Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, Yoshi's Story, Shaq Fu, StarFox, and my all time favorite EarthWorm Jim. and I believe Pac-Man Arcade.
Sega Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Gameboy: Tetris and LoZ Oracle of Seasons.
(I was in my early teens when these came out).
PS1: Gex Series, Spyro the Dragon (before it became lame), and Frogger.
N64: Too many to remember. (007, Mario games, Crusin' USA, LoZ: OoT, StarWars, etcetc.)
Computer: Oregon Trail hands down (you have died of disentary).
NES: Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. 1-3, Legend of Zelda, and Jeopardy.
SNES: Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, Yoshi's Story, Shaq Fu, StarFox, and my all time favorite EarthWorm Jim. and I believe Pac-Man Arcade.
Sega Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Gameboy: Tetris and LoZ Oracle of Seasons.
(I was in my early teens when these came out).
PS1: Gex Series, Spyro the Dragon (before it became lame), and Frogger.
N64: Too many to remember. (007, Mario games, Crusin' USA, LoZ: OoT, StarWars, etcetc.)
me me me i have it on one of my old gameboy pocket cartridges
on retrospect was still a F**king big pocket to carry it around in
on retrospect was still a F**king big pocket to carry it around in
Been thinking about getting an account, might as well do it for this thread.
Even though I was a girl, I still liked the same games everyone else does. Mario RPG, Kirby Super Star, Megaman X, Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Final Fantasy 3, Pokemon and so on. My trusty SNES still works, the wonderful peice of machinery that it is, and I pull it out every so often to relive my not-so-distant childhood. The N64 was a great counsle too, I'd pull out Harvest Moon 64 pretty much every day until there was nothing left to do in the game except gain profits. I've never owned a PS1 (although I do have a PS2 now) so I'm one of those poor souls that's never played Final Fantasy 7 *gasp* but it's never bothered me much.
Good times.
Even though I was a girl, I still liked the same games everyone else does. Mario RPG, Kirby Super Star, Megaman X, Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Final Fantasy 3, Pokemon and so on. My trusty SNES still works, the wonderful peice of machinery that it is, and I pull it out every so often to relive my not-so-distant childhood. The N64 was a great counsle too, I'd pull out Harvest Moon 64 pretty much every day until there was nothing left to do in the game except gain profits. I've never owned a PS1 (although I do have a PS2 now) so I'm one of those poor souls that's never played Final Fantasy 7 *gasp* but it's never bothered me much.
Good times.
OMG those were great games! Moonstone was over the top bloody. I got an Amiga emulator just to play it again but it doesn't work.Kayevcee said:
When I was a child my fav game was Asteroids on the Atari 2600, before we got a Commodore 64 and my eyes were open to the wonders of games like Paradroid, The Last Ninja, Dropzone, Barbarian, Impossible Mission, World Games, IK+, the list goes on...