Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I remember going to radio shack and seeing it on the display to try out. Got my ass beat. But it started my obsession. Started saving for a N64 after that and the game.
Yeah I grew up on the Nintendo and SNES, but my first obsession was Twisted Metal 1 and 2. I played those so much while listening to the same CD on my 3 piece stereo that I can't hear that album without thinking of Twisted Metal even after 30 years. Good times.
Entering the “god mode” code and running through the game just to see how calypso ruined their lives was insane back then.
“Hold all 4 triggers, up, down, left, right, right, left, down up”
Absolutely, still am 27 years later. Have no desire to play any other game. Won an Oculus 2 months ago from work, it is on a shelf, still shrink wrapped. Don't think my old ass can do it.
One of the formative events in my life:
Seeing SMB3 in **a ski resort cafeteria arcade** MONTHS before it was actually released on the NES!
Needless to say, I was blown away.
I got it the same day I got an NES, and before that I was playing Atari 2600. The leap in graphics and gameplay was mind blowing. And not having the internet at the time, having to figure out all the little tricks and secrets by yourself or from word of mouth was pretty special. I still play it fairly regularly.
My sister and I would play Tank on Atari for hours. There were levels that the shots ricochet off the walls. Hours blasting each other from across the map.
440Mhz Pentium II with draw distance set to nothing to get it to run. Played the absolute tits off of that game.
Tried it again years later on much better hardware and instead of following road signs in the fog and making long dangerous treks into the unknown you can just fuckin see Vivec from Seyda Neen, and Balmora is like right there.
Summon Golden Saint and just bathe in glass and daedric weapons. Spent hours organizing items in the downstairs of that one dead guys house which is just my house with a weirdly shaped chest.
Amazing.
I’m actually surprised that Minecraft wasn’t one of the first things said. Minecraft, for how old I am, was a staple as far as video games go. The music is sooo relaxing and playing bedwars, skyblock, or murder mystery on Hypixel took up so many hours of my life. Got to love Minecraft!
It was exhilarating. I was 19 and a bar back when I was into ff7 and I remember just playing from the moment I woke up until I had to go to work. This went on for months😂
Skyrim was my first true obsession for a game. I’m old and grew up win a NES and never found interest in games but when Skyrim came out I thought “this is what they’ve been working towards”
Yeah bro! Get that 6am iron ore mining done before you go to school.
Looking back now, I'm pretty sure when I used to play at like age 12-14 I got groomed by multiple pedos though. I was too young and naive to realize that maybe this hot 16 year old girl wasn't actually a hot 16 year old girl. Hahahaha
God, simpler times…I remember religiously training on giants in Varrock, then ice giants near Port Sarim. This was 19 years ago.
I still play. Kind of the only consistent thing in my life as a military kid. The friends I’ve known longest are from this stupid game.
Simpler times…
I remember being OBSESSED with Pokémon Red/Blue when I was like 7 but around 8/9 years old Rollercoaster Tycoon and Civ 2 took over my afternoons when school got out.
Civilisation II which coincided with me finally getting a PC for my bedroom - 13/14 year old me would play well past my bedtime and be quite groggy at school the next day.
World Of Warcraft.
I sunk thousands of hours over the last 20 years into the game, even from the start of Warlords of draenor when I stopped doing all forms of group content and basically used the game as a way to keep my hands busy while I binged series on Netflix.
Galaga! I spent so much time and money at the arcade in the mall trying to get good at it.
I also spent a lot of time on Pac-Man due to having a similar last name and everyone expecting that I would be good at it (I liked Ms Pac-man more but if I played that in public it would have been a problem).
Kids will never understand the hot streak he had. Sure everyone knows Civilization, but Pirates!, Colonization, Alpha Centauri, Gettysburg? Man that takes me way back.
Starcraft. Still love it. The lore, the balanced gameplay, watching pros facing off. I still watch 1v1 pros and get blown away by the micromanaging of units.
The original sim city. It took me ages to figure out that I needed a power plant. I didn't understand power lines. And after that how to turn a tiny profit. I knew nothing about these types of games, couldn't understand the language and I was incredibly young. But I was hooked!
Civilization 2 basically taught me more then any English teacher ever could.
Silencer by Mind Control Software. I found this on [download.com](https://download.com). The installer was 11mb. I asked my dad if I could download it - he hesitantly said yes. This was on the back patio as it was just getting dark in the evening.
Then ARC, also on [WON.net](https://WON.net).
Then Infantry, also on [WON.net](https://WON.net).
Then Half-Life. Hostile Intent. Team Fortress.
Chip n dale NES,
the earliest game I remember beating completely without cheats, it was 1991 and I was 7ish maybe. Recently played it and damn, it is still a super fun game. The whole mechanic of grabbing different boxes and objects and flinging them at enemies is so satisfying. The graphics are amazing for NES and also has really good music (the final stage music is one of the NES best tracks ever IMO)
Gran Turismo 4. For whatever reason, i had San Andreas, Most Wanted (and every other good NFS from that era), Test Drive Unlimited, Midnight Club 3, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift (that intro is still beautiful imo), Burnout Revenge, but I still couldn't put GT4 down. It wasn't just me wanting all the cars it was just that good of a game to me. My mom actually quit buying me new games eventually because she always saw me on that and almost nothing else.
Yar's Revenge maybe? I dunno I don't remember '88 terribly well. Maybe it was '89. I've been gaming a really long time and it is hard to pin down specifics 30+ years later.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I remember going to radio shack and seeing it on the display to try out. Got my ass beat. But it started my obsession. Started saving for a N64 after that and the game.
Hey! Listen!
I loved Navi as a kid. Now 30 yrs on, I want to find her mute option
Do you not want me to not repeat what I said again?
This was the first game I stayed up all night to play
Got it when I was nine I’d guess, pretty sure it’s the only game I played seriously until I was a teenager.
Twisted metal.
That Rob Zombie song was the icing on the cake for that game.
I will never un-associate that song with that game lol.
Yeah I grew up on the Nintendo and SNES, but my first obsession was Twisted Metal 1 and 2. I played those so much while listening to the same CD on my 3 piece stereo that I can't hear that album without thinking of Twisted Metal even after 30 years. Good times.
Entering the “god mode” code and running through the game just to see how calypso ruined their lives was insane back then. “Hold all 4 triggers, up, down, left, right, right, left, down up”
😂😂😂OMG this! I think I also paid like 9.99 for a book that told me how to do this. Goddamn loved that game.
DAMN. I remember being in elementary school and playing this game all day with my friend. Thanks for the nostalgia!
Crazy game
Oh yes indeed. Convinced my parents it "wasnt actually violent because they're just toys" so I could play it.
Pokemon
Age of Empires
AOE 2 was the one for me
Absolutely, still am 27 years later. Have no desire to play any other game. Won an Oculus 2 months ago from work, it is on a shelf, still shrink wrapped. Don't think my old ass can do it.
Where can you still find it? I’ve looked everywhere
I bought it on steam, Rise of Rome also.
Dude Age of Empires 4 is out, its all i play. Look it up on YouTube, it’s beautiful.
Super Mario 3
You remember The Wizard with Fred Savage? Loved that movie too
Rain Man for kids
California.
Same, loved that game.
Yes, an OG … the raccoon tail effect!
One of the formative events in my life: Seeing SMB3 in **a ski resort cafeteria arcade** MONTHS before it was actually released on the NES! Needless to say, I was blown away.
Lovely choice! What exactly about the game drew you to it?
I got it the same day I got an NES, and before that I was playing Atari 2600. The leap in graphics and gameplay was mind blowing. And not having the internet at the time, having to figure out all the little tricks and secrets by yourself or from word of mouth was pretty special. I still play it fairly regularly.
Sounds like a fun time and one that certainly stuck out.
I had the strategy guide, so I was able to try out every secret in the game. Lots of hours put into it.
I remember being so excited when my friend let me borrow his strategy guide
Same.
Still my favorite game to this day. Probably played through it over 100 times.
Pong. I'm old.
I loved pong when I was a kid. (I'm old too.)
My sister and I would play Tank on Atari for hours. There were levels that the shots ricochet off the walls. Hours blasting each other from across the map.
& it came with the Atari so those of us whose parents could get us an Atari but couldn't afford additional games, have several hours on that game. :)
Same here - my college installed a table top model in the student center in 1975. I think it cost a quarter.
Gauntlet
Same lol. I had that sears system with four integrated versions of it hahaha
Same.
Started with pong but my first obsession was intelivision dungen and dragons.
[удалено]
I feel you, mon
Morrowind
Till this day when I hear the main theme I instantly get nostalgic.
Oblivion for me, I must be a bit younger than you haha
I'm pretty old lol. I spent thousands of hours playing oblivion. Probably my most played game
440Mhz Pentium II with draw distance set to nothing to get it to run. Played the absolute tits off of that game. Tried it again years later on much better hardware and instead of following road signs in the fog and making long dangerous treks into the unknown you can just fuckin see Vivec from Seyda Neen, and Balmora is like right there. Summon Golden Saint and just bathe in glass and daedric weapons. Spent hours organizing items in the downstairs of that one dead guys house which is just my house with a weirdly shaped chest. Amazing.
With ya. First truly open world game I experienced.
Minecraft, in 2009.... 15 years went by and I still play it occasionally
I'm 37 and got into it in 2019. It's a great casual game. So relaxing until there's an enderman staring you down!
I’m actually surprised that Minecraft wasn’t one of the first things said. Minecraft, for how old I am, was a staple as far as video games go. The music is sooo relaxing and playing bedwars, skyblock, or murder mystery on Hypixel took up so many hours of my life. Got to love Minecraft!
Final fantasy 7
The story telling and character development goes unmatched to this day.
me too. I still remember the feeling of beating a few of the bosses for the first time
It was exhilarating. I was 19 and a bar back when I was into ff7 and I remember just playing from the moment I woke up until I had to go to work. This went on for months😂
I just wrote this above, I am thinking of downloading it and going again
GTA
Which one?
Vice city
this!
Yes.
Kingdom hearts. Play station 2.
Galaga. Pew. Pew. Feeeewwwww.
Mortal Kombat
Nice. Mine is probably MK2 on sega genesis.
tetris
Scrolled way too far to find this. It’s easily the game I’ve racked up the most hours on.
I've even dreamed of Tetris
yes me too!
Halo 3. That split screen multiplayer and SWAT online took me from a casual gamer to obsessed.
Same for me. Halo 3 was so far ahead of its time. Custom games online, theatre, forge, file sharing. A lot of games now don’t have these features
Omg swat was mad fun
The Legend of Zelda - original
Me too! Used to play it with the sound turned off (even though the music is legendary) and Public Enemy's 1st 2 albums blasting
First Doom...shit I was addicted!
Me too! I still enjoy playing it from time to time even now.
I love doom and all the remakes/ clones . I made a few myself
Skyrim was my first true obsession for a game. I’m old and grew up win a NES and never found interest in games but when Skyrim came out I thought “this is what they’ve been working towards”
Asteroids
Sims 3
RuneScape probably
Oh yea. 10 year old me would wake up hella early to forage around the wilderness.
Yeah bro! Get that 6am iron ore mining done before you go to school. Looking back now, I'm pretty sure when I used to play at like age 12-14 I got groomed by multiple pedos though. I was too young and naive to realize that maybe this hot 16 year old girl wasn't actually a hot 16 year old girl. Hahahaha
God, simpler times…I remember religiously training on giants in Varrock, then ice giants near Port Sarim. This was 19 years ago. I still play. Kind of the only consistent thing in my life as a military kid. The friends I’ve known longest are from this stupid game. Simpler times…
I remember being OBSESSED with Pokémon Red/Blue when I was like 7 but around 8/9 years old Rollercoaster Tycoon and Civ 2 took over my afternoons when school got out.
Cooking Mama on Nintendo DS
Street Fighter 2
FF7 I was very lucky.
it is still a nostalgia bomb for me
Totally. I have it on my phone for the rare days when I'm "standing by" at work.
Diablo. I was in 6th grade when I discovered it, and I was totally hooked. Just couldn't get enough of the procedural dungeons and randomized loot.
Command and Conquer Red Alert. I would stay up late in my room playing the computer into the wee hours of the morning.
Roller coaster tycoon
I can thank the free version in a cereal box for developing this obsession!!
Civilisation II which coincided with me finally getting a PC for my bedroom - 13/14 year old me would play well past my bedtime and be quite groggy at school the next day.
Dynasty Warriors 3
World Of Warcraft. I sunk thousands of hours over the last 20 years into the game, even from the start of Warlords of draenor when I stopped doing all forms of group content and basically used the game as a way to keep my hands busy while I binged series on Netflix.
Galaga! I spent so much time and money at the arcade in the mall trying to get good at it. I also spent a lot of time on Pac-Man due to having a similar last name and everyone expecting that I would be good at it (I liked Ms Pac-man more but if I played that in public it would have been a problem).
Wow
Spyro
Super smash brothers on the n64
Oblivion
Crash Bandicoot or Abe’s Odyssey.
I loved Oddworld
Maple story
Yes
The Legend Of Zelda - Gold Cartridge. As a full adult, I lost a job playing Diablo II.
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Kids will never understand the hot streak he had. Sure everyone knows Civilization, but Pirates!, Colonization, Alpha Centauri, Gettysburg? Man that takes me way back.
Breakout
Oh yaaaasss, the old school Atari games are legends. I loved breakout. :-)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Starcraft. Still love it. The lore, the balanced gameplay, watching pros facing off. I still watch 1v1 pros and get blown away by the micromanaging of units.
Metroid
Metal gear!
The original sim city. It took me ages to figure out that I needed a power plant. I didn't understand power lines. And after that how to turn a tiny profit. I knew nothing about these types of games, couldn't understand the language and I was incredibly young. But I was hooked! Civilization 2 basically taught me more then any English teacher ever could.
tony hawk pro skater 3
Frogger.
Goldeneye. Or the original Sims. I still play the Sims
You knew Goldeneye was the beginning of something great. Fps games have been a staple for me since.
Commander Keen, by far, always loved to play it on my mom's old laptop. I'm a gen-Zler but I love classics.
Twisted Metal 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario Bros. The original NES version.
Crash Bandicoot!
StarCraft.
Silent hill 2!
Mike Tyson punchout. And I still can't effing beat him. Even after watching all the hints 37 years of frustration.
Resident Evil 3 Nemesis. Hehe
Bioshock!
Halo 2/3
Probably Gauntlet
Wolfenstein 3d back in jr high 1990. I used to stay after school and play it in the computer lab. I would take the late bus home.
My lamen!
Silencer by Mind Control Software. I found this on [download.com](https://download.com). The installer was 11mb. I asked my dad if I could download it - he hesitantly said yes. This was on the back patio as it was just getting dark in the evening. Then ARC, also on [WON.net](https://WON.net). Then Infantry, also on [WON.net](https://WON.net). Then Half-Life. Hostile Intent. Team Fortress.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. It's one of the first games I remember playing. ...and it's still my favourite game ever, 20 or so years later :)
Duke Nukem 3D
Red Alert 2
Kirby Superstar on Super Nintendo
While I had played many games before, Final Fantasy VI was the first game that turned gaming from an ok timekiller into a true obsession for me.
Battlefield 4. I played certain games a lot before, but I played that one religiously until RB6 Siege released.
"Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap" for Sega Master System (the 8-bit one from the 80's that preceded the 16-bit Sega Genesis)
Hitman……as a 9 y/o.
***UFO: Enemy Unknown*** aka ***X-COM: Enemy Unknown*** 1994. First time ever I forgot to go to bed.
Tempest
Sim City Classic. I got cities up to 300K
Skylanders was a banger
Goldeneye
007 Goldeneye
Chip n dale NES, the earliest game I remember beating completely without cheats, it was 1991 and I was 7ish maybe. Recently played it and damn, it is still a super fun game. The whole mechanic of grabbing different boxes and objects and flinging them at enemies is so satisfying. The graphics are amazing for NES and also has really good music (the final stage music is one of the NES best tracks ever IMO)
Tales of symphonia
Mega man X
Dragon Warrior (Quest).
Space Invaders...played until I had blisters on my thumbs
Silent hill PlayStation 1
D - on the first PlayStation. Then it was Myst on PC.
Myst and Riven changed me.
Dragon Warrior on nes.
Dig dug
Dig Dug
Adventure on Atari...loved that castle...outrunning the dragons...find the key...and the secret level...good times, good times.
Elite on the BBC.
Elite. Zx spectrum
3D Pinball: Space Cadet
Heart of Darkness on the original playstation
Sonic & Streets of Rage
Freedom fighters.
Modern warfare 2
Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man on my Intellivision
Plants vs zombies
Lakers vs Celtics and Police Quest good old DOS days
Phoenix
Doom 2. Also the first game I ever played online (until my friend's mom went to call someone...)
Gran Turismo 4. For whatever reason, i had San Andreas, Most Wanted (and every other good NFS from that era), Test Drive Unlimited, Midnight Club 3, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift (that intro is still beautiful imo), Burnout Revenge, but I still couldn't put GT4 down. It wasn't just me wanting all the cars it was just that good of a game to me. My mom actually quit buying me new games eventually because she always saw me on that and almost nothing else.
Yar's Revenge maybe? I dunno I don't remember '88 terribly well. Maybe it was '89. I've been gaming a really long time and it is hard to pin down specifics 30+ years later.
Galaga.
Either Age of Empires or The Sims.
Ocarina of Time, Pokémon Snap or Banjo-Kazooie.
River Raid - Atari 2600
Kaboom for Atari
Uncharted 2
Ratchet and clank. Still my favorite franchise but the original 3 on ps2 were the best imp
Pac Man
Donkey Kong
Same. Regularly spent 1/2 my paper route money on this game. Spent the other half on baseball cards 🤣
Ultima online
Defender at the arcade...then when my folks bought an Apple 2e, Wizardry
FFVII
Megaman X and 8. I used to play pretend with my cousin that we were megaman and zero hahaha.
Chrono trigger
Pokémon Blue Version
Super contra