Poll: The Nostalgia Thread - Your games, through the years

[LadyZephyr]

Many of us have been gamers for many years and through many generations of games. Hell, I learned to read playing SNES RPGs. I'd sit in my friend's living room, reading out loud Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and his mother would explain the plot to me. It was great.

So, what about ya'll? What was your first system? What was your favorite game? Your biggest gaming accomplishment?

I started on the SNES. I loved Zelda:LttP and this weird game called Ardy Lightfoot (I will regret forever selling it- I never beat the final boss). I got a Playstation eventually, along with Spyro the Dragon, starting my still-ongoing love affair with Insomniac Games. I was a freak who hated FF7, but loved FF8. Lunar was my favorite though no one remembers them.

I had the N64 and loved Majora's Mask best. I waited a year to get the PS2 and played... oh, pretty much every decent platformer ever. Ratchet & Clank, Sly Coopeer, the Jak series. I fell out of love with RPGs after FFX broke my affection for them. Fortunately, I discovered Metroid Prime and my final RPG, Tales of Symphonia, on the Gamecube. My biggest accomplishment, I think, is 100%ing all three Ratchet & Clank games in a matter of hours. The Zodiac in R&C2 was the biggest rip-off ever, by the way. Not worth the bolt-grinding.

And that's my history. Today, I am playing old PC FPS games like Deus Ex while I wait to decide which seventh gen console I want. Leaning towards the 360 currently. I play anything but scary games and I tend to rename my characters after figure of Greco-Roman mythology. I also hated Wind Waker because they destroyed Hyrule and I took it personally.

So what about you guys? Let's hear your stories.

 

[Jumplion]

The 6th gen will always have a place in my heart, mainly because the PS2 was when i really started to get into gaming, the PSX was just a toy for me to play with a little bit.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

The first video game I ever played was Kirby's Adventure for the NES. A bit later I managed to convince my dad to buy me a SNES-- that is probably the system I remember most fondly. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was my very first RPG-- and I consider it to be the reason I love them so much today. Super Mario World, Kirby Super Star, Contra III-- I have fond memories of playing all of those. It was a time where I could replay the same game over and over and over-- whereas nowadays it takes an exceptionally good game to hold my attention. I also remember that my cousin had a Genesis, and whenever we got together we'd play Sonic and Streets of Rage.

Good times.

 

[Whoracle]

PC for the win!

Although I started gaming with a NES and still have many fond memories of the SNES, the PC back in the olden days simply was King.

Secret of Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, Menzoberranzan and Eye of the Beholder, DOOM, Quake 1 and 2... great, now where did I put my nostalgia-DVDs?

 

[snuffler]

Fifth. Nothing comes close to the ecstasy that is golden eye n64 multiplayer.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

My parents wouldn't let me get a SNES, so for me it's Gen5, the PS1 was my first console and the first game I owned for it was FF7. I also have fond memories of Perfect Dark and Golden Eye Multiplayer with my friends who owned n64's, good times.

 

[the_tramp]

Whilst I consider myself a PC gamer (and hence I chose that), if it has to be console then I would also choose 3rd generation. I grew up playing the likes of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Wolf 3d and DooM over my grandparents house who really didn't seem to care about the violence in the latter two.

However I do have very fond memories of the Sega Master System complete with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built into it, I wish consoles would come with games built in nowadays (I don't include demos). Funny side note, my brother used to hate playing Wolf 3d because it required him to kill dogs, although he had absolutely no issue with killing Nazis, mutants etc.

 

[Sub_par]

my fondest memory is the intelevision tanks game. you could turn bouncing bullets on and unleash mayhem. little white of death bouncing all around the screen, great fun.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

What about the NES or the sega MASTER system? those rocked... the NES brought so much fun in 8-bit goodness... I can remember playing games like Super Dodgeball for hours, and the original mario games and tetris and duckhunt
so many classics so much fun... i still own one and play those games periodically for nostalgia's sake and i'm a freakin PC gamer

 

[Bobkat1252]

fifth gen for me, although I began gaming on the SNES, I was too young at the time for me now to really remember it well, but the fifth generation memories stuck in my head the best so thats what I went with.

 

[wgreer25]

First gen will always mean something special to me. I remember me and my dad playing games together on our Atari. He was as into games then as I was. He still likes to see what new games I have now (he is 74) and likes to play driving games. Poll Position was one of our favorite Atari games. I voted for 1st gen, but I think the industry as a whole continues to improve upon itself. I think there are more games in the 6th and 7th gen that might go for the *games as an art form* than the earlier gens, and that is due to the evolution of the artform/technology/developers.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

i still remember playing dungeons and dragons for my intellivision, i think it was one of the few games for it i finished but it was hard as hell if i remember correctly

oh the joys of 4 bit graphics but at least it was in colour, not the green and black of my apple ][e

 

[laikenf]

Although I started out with the Atari 2600 and later the NES in the early- mid 80's the generation I enjoyed the most was the SNES/ SEGA Genesis era.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Ahhh the fond memory's of the saga megadrive. The sleepless nights after non stop Mortal Kombat.

 

[Khedive Rex]

My first console was the SNES but I didn't really get into gaming seriously until the fifth generation. I voted for that.

I was mostly into RPG's when I started (it seems like they were so much ... better then.) but then I branched out into puzzle games when I played Escape From Monkey Island on my PC (puzzle games were so much ... better then). Eventually I tried my hand at Ocarina of Time and then I was willing to do fighting games and before long I was sucked in completely. Now I'll play anything from FPS's to turn based strategy but my start as an RPG makes me enjoy games more when there's a story.

Oh, and if there's one game that I have to choose as "Most Nostalgic" It's Thousand Arms for the PS1. I don't know why but that game will always stand out in my memory.

 

[bluemarsman]

Sixth gen was when I really got into gaming.

 

[mjhhiv]

I voted for the 5th generation, because I LOVE the N64. Perfect Dark, Star Fox, Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Golden Eye, etc.. Good times, good times.

 

[Xorghul]

The 5th. I grew up with the N64. Mario Kart, Ocarina Of Time, Super Mario 64, Hexxen, Army Men...Everything was so awsome back then.

 

[Spektre41]

5th gen. Mostly because the word "Diddy Kong Racing" turns me into a snarling beast of a fanboy (it was my first game)

 

[Unknown Entity]

Im mostly a pc gamer, but i put 6th gen simply because some games on the first xbox were brilliant such as Psi Ops and the original Halos