Mine would have to be the original Crash Bandicoot series on the ol' PlayStation. Getting Crash 2 when I was seven years old filled me with glee, and I still like that and other games in the series today. That included the spin-offs too, like Crash Team Racing and Crash Bash.
Games you love out of nostalgic/sentimental value.
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I have my gaming pile next to the computer. Let's see...
Planescape: Torment
Beneath a Steel Sky
Fallout 2
Master of Orion 2
Star Wars: Supremacy
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Baldur's Gate 1/2
Warcraft 3
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Then on the computer...
Colonization
Ragnarok
Jardinains
Best of Windows Entertainment Package (mostly for Pipe Dream)
Castles 2
Simcity 2000
Stars!
Every so often, I will be in the mood to play one of these games. Torment was recently re-completed, I'm playing WC3 a lot again, and I've got a hankering to play BG again (although don't have time at the moment).
Planescape: Torment
Beneath a Steel Sky
Fallout 2
Master of Orion 2
Star Wars: Supremacy
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Baldur's Gate 1/2
Warcraft 3
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Then on the computer...
Colonization
Ragnarok
Jardinains
Best of Windows Entertainment Package (mostly for Pipe Dream)
Castles 2
Simcity 2000
Stars!
Every so often, I will be in the mood to play one of these games. Torment was recently re-completed, I'm playing WC3 a lot again, and I've got a hankering to play BG again (although don't have time at the moment).
Phantasy star online for the dreamcast.
This was my first encounter with a real time RPG game before I had even a basic understanding of the internet. I could play my character offline for when the phone line had to be free, or online with loads of other people crazy about discovering the games dirty little secrets underneath hours of dungeoning and epic boss battles.
Also cost my parents over £300 of phone bills and brought out an OCD side of me, forever bitter I did not make level 100.
I still boot it up to get the shivers of nostalgia, but the love is long gone
This was my first encounter with a real time RPG game before I had even a basic understanding of the internet. I could play my character offline for when the phone line had to be free, or online with loads of other people crazy about discovering the games dirty little secrets underneath hours of dungeoning and epic boss battles.
Also cost my parents over £300 of phone bills and brought out an OCD side of me, forever bitter I did not make level 100.
I still boot it up to get the shivers of nostalgia, but the love is long gone
I must say that I buy Namco Museum for everything its released on, so I can play Pac-Man or Galaga whenever I like. Takes me back to the arcades of my long-ago youth. Namco Museum DS (wireless Pac-Man Vs. is nice too) and Konami Arcade Classics (Circus Charlie! Contra! Gradius!) almost always travel with my DS. I could honestly go on and on with this if I were to make it a list, I've been gaming for a while.....
Star Wars: Tie Fighter
This was the only Star Wars related flight/combat sim I've been able to stand. It had a neat little story and great action. I hated its predecessor X-Wing and all that game after, like the other X-Wing and Rogue Squadron games. These were better games, but I always loved Tie Fighter and there was no room in my cold little heart for any other. I still have fond memories of being inducted deeper and deeper into the secret order of the emperor, wondering where it would end. Thinking about those days really take me back to a time when my gaming experience was new and exciting. That was the halcyon age of my gaming life, before I owned consoles, before every big game release was a giant pissing contest. Oh, I still enjoy gaming, but that old spark doesn't exist anymore.
Star Control 3 was pure distilled magic the first time I played it and my hunger for games like it was never sated until Galactic Civilizations came along.
Duke Nukem 3D also brings back a flood of memories from when I was 14. Mostly of me sitting there playing it with headphones on while my mother had her boyfriend over so the noise didn't bother them. It was actually a gift from said boyfriend in an attempt to curry favour with me - he needn't have bothered. Not that I'm saying it was going to take more than a computer game to win me over, but more that I never had a problem with him in the first place. My parents divorced so early on that I don't remember them ever being married - any man in my mother's life was a welcome addition so long as it made her happy.
Anyway, what REALLY impressed me was that he also had instructions on how to edit the game file to unlock the blood and strippers, which were removed from the Australian release of the game.
This was the only Star Wars related flight/combat sim I've been able to stand. It had a neat little story and great action. I hated its predecessor X-Wing and all that game after, like the other X-Wing and Rogue Squadron games. These were better games, but I always loved Tie Fighter and there was no room in my cold little heart for any other. I still have fond memories of being inducted deeper and deeper into the secret order of the emperor, wondering where it would end. Thinking about those days really take me back to a time when my gaming experience was new and exciting. That was the halcyon age of my gaming life, before I owned consoles, before every big game release was a giant pissing contest. Oh, I still enjoy gaming, but that old spark doesn't exist anymore.
Star Control 3 was pure distilled magic the first time I played it and my hunger for games like it was never sated until Galactic Civilizations came along.
Duke Nukem 3D also brings back a flood of memories from when I was 14. Mostly of me sitting there playing it with headphones on while my mother had her boyfriend over so the noise didn't bother them. It was actually a gift from said boyfriend in an attempt to curry favour with me - he needn't have bothered. Not that I'm saying it was going to take more than a computer game to win me over, but more that I never had a problem with him in the first place. My parents divorced so early on that I don't remember them ever being married - any man in my mother's life was a welcome addition so long as it made her happy.
Anyway, what REALLY impressed me was that he also had instructions on how to edit the game file to unlock the blood and strippers, which were removed from the Australian release of the game.
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings was the first game that I ever seriously played. After a while, I knew that I was going to be an irredeemable gamer from then on. Nice music, historical content, big battles. It was awesome!
Since then, I've moved on to other games, but I still keep all four games (including Age of Mythology) on my shelves, so that whenever I glance at it, I'm instantly reminded of how it got me where I am today. And for that I'm grateful.
Since then, I've moved on to other games, but I still keep all four games (including Age of Mythology) on my shelves, so that whenever I glance at it, I'm instantly reminded of how it got me where I am today. And for that I'm grateful.
Sadly I no longer own these games, or even compatible systems, but my long held favourites would include -
The entire 'Last Ninja' series - System 3 rocked my world back in the 8 bit days.
'The Sentinel' - I had 'Sentinel Returns' on playstation, but it sucked.
'R - Type' Dah duh nuh DAH duh nuh dah duh nuh doh duh nuh. 'R - Type Delta' for Playstation was awesome as well. I should probably get the PS2 incarnation, but I'd have to hook everything back up.
'Stunt Car Racer' - Geoff Crammond for the win. The C64 version looked as good as every other version (including the Amiga and PC versions). Awesome racing action. Until recently I had the pc version - it's about 16k in size or something daft like that, and still well worth a look.
'Speedball 2' Well, obviously.
*FAKE EDIT*
Doing a bit of research, it would appear that Stunt Car Racer is in fact a 247k download, and is available as abandonware - Home of the Underdogs is your best bet.
The entire 'Last Ninja' series - System 3 rocked my world back in the 8 bit days.
'The Sentinel' - I had 'Sentinel Returns' on playstation, but it sucked.
'R - Type' Dah duh nuh DAH duh nuh dah duh nuh doh duh nuh. 'R - Type Delta' for Playstation was awesome as well. I should probably get the PS2 incarnation, but I'd have to hook everything back up.
'Stunt Car Racer' - Geoff Crammond for the win. The C64 version looked as good as every other version (including the Amiga and PC versions). Awesome racing action. Until recently I had the pc version - it's about 16k in size or something daft like that, and still well worth a look.
'Speedball 2' Well, obviously.
*FAKE EDIT*
Doing a bit of research, it would appear that Stunt Car Racer is in fact a 247k download, and is available as abandonware - Home of the Underdogs is your best bet.
gonna be lame and say final fantasy IV and VI.. Kings Quest/Space Quest/Police Quest/Quest for Glory..... holding a regular nintendo controller in my hand (or an SNES one for that matter)..... listening to a dialup modem...... (ok the last couple aren't games, but they do give me nostalgia and remind me of gaming).... and here's an obscure one... Meridian 59.
Man, I can related to that 100%.cattypat said:
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nline, Quake 3 Arena, Chu Chu Rocket and Speed Devils, all online. If they'd stayed online I'd never have had to have bought another games console again.Back to the main subject, my fav games console was always the Sega Saturn. I owned it at its launch until it died about a year after Sega stopped making games for it.
Many years later I rebought a Saturn only to realise just how rubbish some of these games where. I'm mainly pointing at the 3D games. Although until the latest Sega Rally came out, I've always plugged the console to play a bit of the original.
But the 2D games still shine. Saturn Bomberman, Guardian Heroes, Parodius: Fantastic Journey...
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile on the PSX will always fill me with nostalgia too.
The classical NES line up : Super Mario Bros, Tetris, Mega Man Series. Thats my early childhood.
Links Awakening. Great (handheld) game, Zelda games are great and I think this one ranges in the Top3 of all time.
Winter Games. Played it so long with my brother... we designed fake characters (clichee name + country) that has been always used to fill the numbers of players up to 8.
Turrican II. SOOO impressive on the C64
Sega Rally 2. (the year 1999 PC one, just rebought it). I love the arcade style, the beautifull music and the action filled tracks
Red Baron II. Great game, outstanding deep and well written manual, customize able as arcade game up to hardass simulation. A pain to get this one running on XP systems.
Lords of Magic. Loveable mix between turnbased games like HoMM, RTS battles and RPG elements. Packed in a LOTR like story, heartfilled graphics, fitting music, high replayability and wow... what an epic game. On the other side, it had tons of bugs, even "I fuck your progress" ones.
p.o.d. Great and clever futuristic tracks, outstanding graphics in 1998, working storyline (!!!), huge content and well, my fist "modern day/Win95" PC game.
Links Awakening. Great (handheld) game, Zelda games are great and I think this one ranges in the Top3 of all time.
Winter Games. Played it so long with my brother... we designed fake characters (clichee name + country) that has been always used to fill the numbers of players up to 8.
Turrican II. SOOO impressive on the C64
Sega Rally 2. (the year 1999 PC one, just rebought it). I love the arcade style, the beautifull music and the action filled tracks
Red Baron II. Great game, outstanding deep and well written manual, customize able as arcade game up to hardass simulation. A pain to get this one running on XP systems.
Lords of Magic. Loveable mix between turnbased games like HoMM, RTS battles and RPG elements. Packed in a LOTR like story, heartfilled graphics, fitting music, high replayability and wow... what an epic game. On the other side, it had tons of bugs, even "I fuck your progress" ones.
p.o.d. Great and clever futuristic tracks, outstanding graphics in 1998, working storyline (!!!), huge content and well, my fist "modern day/Win95" PC game.
Yes, that game was incarnation of awesome.neems said:
Anyway few games that evoke fond memories in me...
Albion- my first RPG that I ever finished. It is an old game, more than 14 years old but for its time it was awesome. Beatiful graphic, interesting world, cool character and story...Although it falls behind in may aspects against newer "classics" like BG, planescape torment etc, it is still in the top 5 of all RPGs I played.
Master of Magic: This was the first Civilization-like game in fantasy setting and so far, also the best.
Half-Life: One of the, if not THE best FPS ever.
Original Civilisation: Although with truly ancient graphic and many glitches (it is year 200 A.D you have your nice little empire over the whole continent, and contently resreaching gunpower, than suddenly some backwater nation like Aztecs or Zulu come with tanks, carriers, and bombarders and threaten you with nuclear missle...huh) it has the best gameplay from all series. The Civilisation I is the only one from the whole Civilisation series where I was able start and finish the huge map of Earth in one gaming session.
Oh hell there are a lot of them for me.
X-Wing
The Secret of Monkey Island
Day of the Tentacle
Diablo
Basically all of the Black Isle RPGs
Phantasy Star Online
Ultima Online
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Tribes 2
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Resident Evil 2
Final Fantasy II & VII
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
F-Zero
Soul Calibur
All of those were either turning points in my gaming career, or just have a lot of fond memories associated with them, or both.
X-Wing
The Secret of Monkey Island
Day of the Tentacle
Diablo
Basically all of the Black Isle RPGs
Phantasy Star Online
Ultima Online
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Tribes 2
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Resident Evil 2
Final Fantasy II & VII
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
F-Zero
Soul Calibur
All of those were either turning points in my gaming career, or just have a lot of fond memories associated with them, or both.
I have to agree with you on the TIE Fighter. Nothing got me fire-breathing angry (in a good way) like clearing minefields in an unshielded TIE Interceptor. I did however like the other games in the series.Kermi said:
I think you like Starcon 3 because you never played 2. Its a good game, but it just doesn't compare. Starcon 2 is still probably my all time favorite game and I've been wasted about two decades playing these things. The creators put out the source code for the 3do version as freeware btw. *sc2.sourceforge.net* FTMFW
I'm surprised and saddened that no one has mentioned Super Metroid yet...
The two Zelda Games released on the N64. Those were not games, they were nothing else than sagas, a fable, a legend to me. Every temple was a huge project where you had to brainstorm with your baby brother because you couldn't defeat the miniboss, or the devishly hard puzzles. And when you weren't getting on with the storyline you helped the fellow citizens with everyday tasks, and they thanked you ever so dearly for the good deeds. Or maybe you went out of the few cities and explored the massive worlds with your fellow companion, Epona.
God I love OoT and MM... They played such a huge part in my childhood.
God I love OoT and MM... They played such a huge part in my childhood.
Here's one that I'm not sure anyone else ever played, because it was created by a developer that ceased to exist. The only reason I ever knew about it was that a childhood friend's father was part of the company that made it and thereafter imploded. I managed to find a demo early on and eventually a full copy in the bargain bin of a CompUSA about a year later.
Fortunate for me, the game was made long before any sort of copy protection so it's fully burn-copyable and I've thus managed to keep several backups and reserves of it.
The game is called Ascendancy and if anyone else has played or even heard of it, I'd love to hear from them. It's an old style space empire sim, entirely turn based, but with some really citchy and quirky technologies and races. No humans, only a variety of species, many of which aren't even humanoid. They all have distinct personalities and advantages and the computer plays them that way insofar as AI of the day allowed. The thing is amazingly addictive, to the extent that my father, who has never been a gamer and was a slavishly working firm attorney back then more than once stayed up all night playing it. I would wake up in my room (where our best family computer was) and find him still wearing the previous day's clothes and twitching away, completely oblivious that it was then 6 AM.
The only problem with playing it now is that during long stints of playing it I found a small exploit that I will not expose to anyone else, though I doubt there are other players out there. Essentially it allows you to make your planets invulnerable to attack, and with all the time you invest in the game it is extremely hard not to cheat when you're about to lose one of your best worlds.
Other than that little gem, I have the standard ones... TIE Fighter, Myst, original Civilization, old arcade titles like Galaga, and a very obscure quirky space-business-trading game called Gazillionare.
Fortunate for me, the game was made long before any sort of copy protection so it's fully burn-copyable and I've thus managed to keep several backups and reserves of it.
The game is called Ascendancy and if anyone else has played or even heard of it, I'd love to hear from them. It's an old style space empire sim, entirely turn based, but with some really citchy and quirky technologies and races. No humans, only a variety of species, many of which aren't even humanoid. They all have distinct personalities and advantages and the computer plays them that way insofar as AI of the day allowed. The thing is amazingly addictive, to the extent that my father, who has never been a gamer and was a slavishly working firm attorney back then more than once stayed up all night playing it. I would wake up in my room (where our best family computer was) and find him still wearing the previous day's clothes and twitching away, completely oblivious that it was then 6 AM.
The only problem with playing it now is that during long stints of playing it I found a small exploit that I will not expose to anyone else, though I doubt there are other players out there. Essentially it allows you to make your planets invulnerable to attack, and with all the time you invest in the game it is extremely hard not to cheat when you're about to lose one of your best worlds.
Other than that little gem, I have the standard ones... TIE Fighter, Myst, original Civilization, old arcade titles like Galaga, and a very obscure quirky space-business-trading game called Gazillionare.
Star Wars Battlefront.
Age of Empires II.
Trilby: Art of Theft. (Hey, may as well be really old.)
Age of Empires II.
Trilby: Art of Theft. (Hey, may as well be really old.)