Poll: Old school gaming

[He_Is_Legend]

Dear community

I consider myself an old school gamer. I remember when I was younger, when my brother got a NES. I pretty much overtook it and started buying games and remember dragging a bag of games throughout the neighboroughhood to find new people whom I could trade games with.
I remember sitting up countless nights and playing the games, and asking my parents and brother about the English words I didn't understand.

I remember using all my allowance on playing arcade games and getting hooked on Street Fighter back in 91. We were on summer vacation i Cyprus and I played the game ever chance I got down at the local arcade. I still remember all the fights I had with my brother (on the game) and that he always beat me.

Now, I am an awesome gamer. I beat most people in Street Fighter 2 (one of my friends has it on the Wii) and I understand English perfectly. I still miss those old times with the hours of frustration over what Simon said and what he needed to do in "Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest".
That's why I was looking for an old gaming console (check earlier thread: Nintendo 64).

That's why I created this poll. I just want to check the community. Everyday I see a new thread conserning Team Fortress 2, and quiet frankly, it's a little too much. The game is not all THAT great EXCEPT if you're 14... I remember when I played the original Team Fortress with HL-1 graphics.

So please : Post your name in the poll and give me some of your great childhood gaming moments I would love to hear of your gaming past.
Thanks for participating

 

[DazZ.]

The game is not all THAT great EXCEPT if you're 14... I remember when I played the original Team Fortress with HL-1 graphics.

I love Team Fortress 2 and grew up playing Wolfenstein and Quake, (most notably Quake 3). You just hate it because it's a totally different game to Team Fortress 1 and have nostalgia goggles on, I didn't play TF1 though, I was on Counter Strike so have no nostalgia to get caught up in.

Tried to get into Team Fortress 1 last year and it was terrible in comparison.

As for my gaming past it's mostly been online FPS with Quake 3 and Enemy Territory, grew up an Id fanboy, they sucked me in with Commander Keen and got me hooked with Wolf & Doom. I remember my Grandad taking me out and buying me Wolfenstein on a floppy disk, I was epically happy.
And can now replay the whole game in my head secret passages and all.

 

[He_Is_Legend]

Haha, good ol' Commander Keen. Gotta love those glory coloured 2D-platform games.

It's not that I have nostalgia goggles on. it is just that everyday I see a new TF2 thread. Is this really the game that all people love? I played it for 2-3 days when It came along with HL2 and ... it's just a generic Multiplayer FPS.

We mostly played the older CS variations (6.1?) at my school, but our computers couldn't really run it, so we had to play TF1, and it was a fun game, BUT I would much rather have played CS.

Hahaha, grandad? Did he know the games was about shooting nazi soldiers? If he did: he would've got some of that gaming action himself.

I remember playing it at my friends house who had a PC of HIS OWN :O I remember it being scary as hell.

 

[Rewold]

I remember when we had a computer in a whole different building and it was nearly never used. There I played warcraft 2 in a cold building used as a storage. Born in 1991 so I missed about half of PSX's lifespan.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I've played goldeneye, starfox and all that good stuff on the Nintendo 64, and I was bought up around my dad playing his really old games. (and my mother was addicted to pacman.)

I don't consider myself an old-school gamer, though.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Put it this way my friend used to have an arcade machine is his house for Mortal Kombat

First started playing on the Mega Drive and Sega Saturn, Then after my first PC played Doom and Quake, HL1 etc. Games are very easy these days, remember hard games which actually had lives and no save points lol.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Buying the PS1 and playing Abe's Oddysee.

The sheer amount of awesomeness that washed over me that day is yet to be rivalled.

 

[ryo02]

playing 2 player on double dragon and golden axe with my brother on the zx spectrum or spending hours playing the dizzy games.

2 player on many of the sonic the hedgehog games and competing for the best times on the first level although I dont remember which game that was may have been the green hill zone as well as head to head on sonic 2 (myself allways as tails he's better than sonic anyway).

as well as many fun single player moments Ive gamed since I was 2 that was in 1984 (Im 28 born in 1982) I started with and old home pong console (may even have played that before I was 2) of my dads and an atari 2600jr.

 

[AboveUp]

You know, you'd think a retro gamer wouldn't drop a really stupid bias along the lines of "That game is cool for 14 year olds", considering they play more cutesy graphical games than anyone else. You know, games that other people say is for little kids.

Not an insult towards the retro gamers, I played my way through Mega Man 1-3 last week and just yesterday I beat Contra without the use of the infamous code. I quite love retro games myself.
I just think that was a very dumb statement to make. Sure, I'm saying that because I personally enjoyed my time spent on Team Fortress 2, but I don't see why anyone would get on a high horse and say something like that about.

I'm 23 by the way, I've been happily gaming my entire life. I got into it because my mom and aunt were both gamers too.

Buying the PS1 and playing Abe's Oddysee.

The sheer amount of awesomeness that washed over me that day is yet to be rivalled.

I remember a gaming magazine came with a demo for that game on the PS1. I didn't have a Playstation yet, but I kept the demo anyway. Few years later, I finally got a PlayStation for my birthday and decided to search for that demo disc. I must've played through it five times or so.
The very next birthday I got cash from my mom to buy whatever I wanted. I picked up my bike and headed to the nearest gaming store to get Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey. It was a platinum title by now. Heck, so was Exodus, but I didn't have the money for it... until I came home and my aunt was there. She gave me more money which had me back on my bike to go get Oddworld: Abe's Exodus.

I played them, loved them, and was left without a PlayStation for a couple of weeks. Apparently my aunt really loved those games too.

 

[TheComedown]

it is just that everyday I see a new TF2 thread. Is this really the game that all people love? I played it for 2-3 days when It came along with HL2 and ... it's just a generic Multiplayer FPS.

yeah I've noticed an excessive amount of TF2 threads recently to, people Haven been using the search bar properly me thinks. to call it generic is a HUGE stretch, please prove me wrong and name other games that were out at the same time that were similar enough to earn tf2 the "generic" badge

 

[AboveUp]

it is just that everyday I see a new TF2 thread. Is this really the game that all people love? I played it for 2-3 days when It came along with HL2 and ... it's just a generic Multiplayer FPS.

yeah I've noticed an excessive amount of TF2 threads recently to, people Haven been using the search bar properly me thinks. to call it generic is a HUGE stretch, please prove me wrong and name other games that were out at the same time that were similar enough to earn tf2 the "generic" badge

It set a standard for gaming, had a lot of features other companies copied later on, even got its own clone game that was actually fun to play (Battlefield Heroes)... and it outlasted them all. Once a game sticks around for longer than a year, it's generic based on the fact it's still around and hasn't died like other games have.

It's the typical "You can't like it because I said so" attitude that's especially rampant on the internet.

 

[xHipaboo420x]

I played TF when it was a Quake mod, and I infinitely prefer TF2.

OT: My favourite childhood gaming memory was playing NES games like Mario Bros and Operation Wolf with my dad. He was always so bloody good at them...

 

[TheComedown]

it is just that everyday I see a new TF2 thread. Is this really the game that all people love? I played it for 2-3 days when It came along with HL2 and ... it's just a generic Multiplayer FPS.

yeah I've noticed an excessive amount of TF2 threads recently to, people Haven been using the search bar properly me thinks. to call it generic is a HUGE stretch, please prove me wrong and name other games that were out at the same time that were similar enough to earn tf2 the "generic" badge

It set a standard for gaming, had a lot of features other companies copied later on, even got its own clone game that was actually fun to play (Battlefield Heroes)... and it outlasted them all. Once a game sticks around for longer than a year, it's generic based on the fact it's still around and hasn't died like other games have.

It's the typical "You can't like it because I said so" attitude that's especially rampant on the internet.

"It set a standard for gaming" can it be called generic if its the game that the others stole from? the one that set the bar?

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

That's why I created this poll. I just want to check the community. Everyday I see a new thread conserning Team Fortress 2, and quiet frankly, it's a little too much. The game is not all THAT great EXCEPT if you're 14... I remember when I played the original Team Fortress with HL-1 graphics.

Umm, sorry but what?
Except if you're 14? And if you're not, you shouldn't like TF2?
I'm sorry, either I don't understand your point or it contains strict harsh generalizations.
OT: No, I'm not an old-school gamer. I did get to play Goldeneye and it was fucking awesome but I still like MW2 more and I should.

 

[Audio]

I've been playing games for over 20yrs now. I feel that i've pretty much seen everything.
I still really enjoy old games (retro too), a lot of the games coming out today seem to be remakes to me. Glad to see the Wii offers something new

 

[AboveUp]

"It set a standard for gaming" can it be called generic if its the game that the others stole from? the one that set the bar?

I'd have to say no to that. Although that is a very debatable point you got there. Generally the type of game that actually sets any bar is the kind that has it's own charm. If anything, TF2 has more charm than any other shooter, especially online, out there.

Besides, the way the developers actually add things into the game based on its community (there's actual Scout sales pitch jokes and FYI I'm a Spy references) that sets it in a different league than most other games.

 

[Baby Tea]

It's the typical "You can't like it because I said so" attitude that's especially rampant on the internet.

Or he just doesn't see what's so special about it.
Neither do I, to be honest.

Objective based, class based multiplayer is hardly new. And after playing the game for a while, I just shrugged and turned it off. Other people might think it's amazing, and that's fine, but sometimes people just don't like a game, regardless of how popular it is. I thought the Goldeneye Source MOD was way more fun then TF2, personally. But I digress.

On Topic: I've been playing games for a long time. Ever since my dad brought home that Tandy 2500 from Radio Shack. My dad bought us kids Kings Quest 5 (The EGA edition), and we all loved it, but I was hooked. After KQ5, came Wolfenstein, Prince of Persia (The original, and 2nd best of the series), and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (The best Indy game to date, hands down).

But my big gaming love really kicked in 1997, with an unwitting purchase of what I consider the best game series ever: Baldur's Gate. I never heard of it before, but I liked the box art (Hey! I was only 13!) and the description on the back seemed pretty cool. So I got it. Probably the best entertainment purchase of my life so far. I still play the Baldur's Gate series today. If I ever get a new PC, it's the first thing installed, and it's never uninstalled.
Kings Quest, Wolf3D, and PoP let me know games were fun.
Baldur's Gate let me know that games could be fun, epic, engaging, and full of mystery and exploration.
Yup, I'm a fanboy.

 

[Xodion]

I can understand if you don't like Team Fortress 2, everyone has their opinions, but really, accusing people of being 14 just because they do like it? I (foolishly, it sometimes seems) have better expectations from the people of this community. Having just made a TF2 thread as a 24 year old, I found this line hilariously arrogant and self-righteous, which is a shame because the rest of this topic is really great.

My oldest memories of gaming have been FPS games, my dad taught me to play Doom in the early 90's, and even though my favourite game by a long shot was Civilization on my Amiga, I still love FPS games, and TF2 is a masterpiece of the genre. So much work has gone into making it interesting, balanced, and above all, fun. It makes a lot of difference when so many carbon-copy FPSs exist, and there are a lot of people in this community who love it because they see that.

 

[Tartarga]

I remember the first time I ever played pokemon on the Game Boy Color. I had no idea how to save and no idea how to catch pokemon and for some reason thought going to the poke center over and over again would level them up. Good times.