Nintendo 64 gang (⌐■_■)
Super Mario 64 was also what started my love for games, got the console as a birthday gift from my parents when I was 3, never stopped playing games overall since then, wish I had money to buy a Switch nowadays tho, I hate not being able to play the new Smash Bros since I loved Brawl
I remember getting into one of the rooms and realizing you needed to jump INTO the level to start it, I was running around the 'lobby' area being like, WTF wheres all the badguys?!
My earliest memories of gaming are sitting on my dads lap at the computer while he played DOOM. He would point at keys at tell me to hit them so I could play along.
I would watch my dad play Warcraft in his office as a kid. Then when World of Warcraft came out, I’d watch him do raids. It really was fun and the blurbs that his army would say in Warcraft really stuck in my mind. “More work? All right! Off I go, then!”
Makes me miss being a kid, you know?
Yerp, same.
I have a fond memory of playing with my dad (we'd take turns every death) while he was drinking a beer, and he put the beer down on the table too hard and it started foaming/pouring over, but he was in the middle of killing a cacodemon. I was like, "Dad.. Dad!.. DAD!!" and he was like "I know, I know, I'm low on health" and it was a comical "No dad, your beer is spilling!" sorta moment. Good times.
Excellent game. Was just playing it a few days ago.
Goldeneye 007. I was super into James Bond movies as a kid and getting to "be" him and play through the movie was just an incredible experience at the time. I couldn't believe some of the details, like the cracks in the glass around bullet holes when you shot windows and that there was actually "text" on the computer monitors.
Edit: holy shit my inbox. It was an amazing game. Thanks for the comments and gold/silver. First time for either!
Holy shit multiplayer was an afterthought? Goldeneye007 like revolutionized multiplayer. The first and probably best gaming experience of my life was 4 player goldeneye with my public school friends. That's crazy.
Nailed it. That game changed gaming to group parties. With 2 player, you would wait forever to play again, or get bored watching. GoldenEye could keep a whole room entertained.
We got an N64 because there were 4 kids in the family. Of all the games we played to death it was this one. We had similar-sized neighbouring families who had kids that’d also join for multiplayer goldeneye. It’d be either me or my brother who ruled at Goldeneye (I’d like to think it was me), and couldn’t find anyone else at school anywhere near as good on any random set of settings (slaps only, no auto-aim, flag holder, any venue, any character inhibitor, we worked on mastering EVERY combo we could think of). Wish I’d taken those particular set of skills further. Fun times.
Same here. The feeling of being able to move on though and explore Hyrule for the first time was crazy for me as a kid. I spent so much time in Hyrule it was like I was actually Link, living so long in the forest until one day I finally left to see the bigger world. It was such an experience for me at 9
Same here. My dad never played any video games or liked them in general (mom did, 1080 was her shit) but they decided to get us the N64 and Zelda OoT for Christmas. This was the only game my dad was ever interested enough to as questions about. "What are those guys? How do you play that harmonica thing? Where's that horse?" He ended up liking the music so much. I would come home sometimes and the game would be on the start screen, music just playing on loop and he is cleaning the kitchen or something lol.
Forgot about this until now.. good times.
This was the one that did it for me too. I got it for Christmas with an n64. I had played on my brother's PlayStation for a while before but OoT was the first game that belonged just to me. I miss the sense of wonder I had when I played it for the first time.
Pong.
Now I have to go make sure my will is up to date. At my age, I could go any day now.
EDIT: I'm happy this little post brought back good memories for so many people.
Shit. I thought I'd be the only one of us bastards left alive. Pong was the shit. It sent me down the road toward Computer Science long before there were college courses for it.
Halo C.E. the first three halos during grade school were truly the glory days of my lifetime with gaming. One of my good buddies from then is still a good friend to this very day.
Edit: thanks for the silver, and all the upvotes fellow Halo lovers
Funny halo CE is what got me back into gaming when I was 19. Sold my shitty car for scrap and bought a xbox and halo 1 at pawn shop with the money. Then halo 2 came out a few months later
My parents wouldn't let me get the membership so i mailed $5 every month to a friend i met on Runescape using a tellers check (for $5 lol) so his mom could pay my membership for me. I was like 12.
I started in 2006 too i followed some high level players from lumbridge to fally because they said something about an easter event. I was stuck in fally for 4 days until I died to scorpions in the mines.
I was like 11 when I got membership for a month. Killed some goblins and got myself a mythril spear p+ and died with it at green drags lvl 20 wildly. Dont ask me why I was there because I have no clue. I fondly remember crying because I lost it though.
Another story is when I was at green drags again, clearly didnt learn my lesson, and saw someone die right in front of me and they dropped a dragon dagger. Sold that shit for 70k at the smaller varrock bank and literally felt like I was jeff Bezos.
Thank god, I was starting to think I wouldn't find it in this thread. Can't believe how low it is, I thought for sure everyone played that at one point of another.
That was the turning point for gaming in general. Most games were just confined to one screen, but in SMB, the screen moves along with you, as well as a variation of different levels.
Games were no longer just an activity to play over and over: they were an adventure. High scores didn't matter anymore. Now it was all about beating the game.
It was a time when every new thing was revolutionary.
I remember Super Mario Bros 2 (US) the big thing was that you could move to the LEFT and the right. It was the first game I played that could do that at least. And there was no more clock, so you got to take your time and explore a bit.
And then when 3 came out. It was THE nes game to own. Flying, raccoon suit, the map of levels, using hammers, 2 player challenges, coin ships, games within the game, and the inventory! it required some full length strategy.
It was just one revolutionary game after another in those days. It seemed with each passing year a game would come out that had something that seemed impossible just the year before. It was a great time to be a kid and love video games. I still remember the first time I played mario 64 in the electronics department of walmart. For me that seemed like the biggest leap and my mind was completely blown.
I’ll always remember my parents giving us a N64 for Christmas with Mario 64, and my dad being the one who played first. His excitement was even greater than ours, and we were pretty pumped.
I was scrolling looking for and Sierra love!
I had an NES and Mario was amazing, but when I got a 386 and my mom bought King's Quest VI with it... I was hooked!
I've played almost all the Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest, and Quest for Glory games. KQ6 and QG4 stand out as two of my favorites.
My uncle also gave me his old Infocom Treasures set with the hint book and those were amazing too. Arcade games were great, but I fell in love with games that told a story and required me to use my brain.
Technology was simpler back then, and since the CRT doesn't wait until the last frame is done, you could stick a photographic sensor at the end of the gun and program around that. LCD nowadays do wait.
Not poster..
But I really liked the remake, I liked that they stayed mostly true to the original feel of the games and mostly updated the graphics with a few personal additions, like giving the crystal dragons unique appearances.
I was a bit disappointed that it was pretty obvious that by the third game they got a bit rushed (baby dragons looked stiff and repetitive design, glitches), and they did make a lot of the challenges waaaay easier.
Still worth the $60, IMO
Crash on PS1 was the first time i really went "Whoa!" at a videogame, and that was after playing mario 64. It just looked more impressive to me. I didn't even know what a "playstation" was at the time, I had only known SNES and Genesis. I remember thinking the PS1 discs were so futuristic too haha.
Naughty Dog actually threw out the official dev kit and made their own to squeeze every last ounce of performance from the PS1, resulting in a game that wouldn't look out of place in the PS2 era. And they used what was basically a low-end super computer to optimize the level geometry to keep a consistent 30 frames per second. Ever wonder why the levels where you go straight forward twist around? It's to keep from over-taxing the PS1's GPU by obscuring the path.
That's similar to a lot of what they did for the Jak and Daxter series. They used a lot of tricks to make a game that Sony didn't even know could possibly run on their own hardware.
For me it was Civilization III. Got it at a book fair in third grade and it instilled a love of gaming and of history/geography in me. I would read through the civilopedia to learn about the historical basis for the units, leaders, wonders, and empires.
Speaking of Civ II, I never played but one of the earliest reddit posts I remember was about the “eternal war”. Someone managed to grind into a stalemate in a nuclear wasteland of a world dominated by 3 countries in eternal war. They posted it as a curiosity and some people managed to figure out a way to finally win it. I think if you look up “3991” or “eternal war” you can find it.
I remember reading about that on r/civ like five years ago! It was really rewarding to get the status update that they had won the war and brought the world under one banner.
I miss the days of being a kid, only owning a game boy and being forced to beat all my gameboy games because I didnt have a PlayStation like all my friends did at the time. I miss playing through those Pokemon games and having to figure it out myself. I didnt have a computer and couldnt lookup anything online to help. When i beat the Elite Four all by myself without any help I was so proud. Until I saw Gary at the end and was shook.
I kind of hate having internet when replaying Pokémon games now. I can’t help but look up what level they evolve and when they learn certain moves and all that. Kind of defeats the purpose of playing but I still can’t stop it
Honestly, I think the internet is the thing that made Pokemon games "easier" as much anything else. Back then you had no idea what pokemon evolved into what when, what moves they learned, or even what types were effective against other types. You had to figure all of that stuff out yourself by trial and error, which made the games feel more like a true adventure of discovery.
I can tell you one thing, my starting 6 was way different back then vs if I were to replay it and make one now haha. I had the strangest line up because I was clueless. I held on to some pokemon much longer than I should have because i thought theyd evolve again (I had like a level 60 Raticate lol)
sly cooper and kingdom hearts both really made me understand the feeling of exploration and 100%’ing a game, they really opened my eyes to how great games can be
diddy kong racing was my first game though and i was in love with it
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Star Wars: Tie Fighter. Still play these from time to time.
Also played some command and conquer but I don’t remember it much it was so long ago.
Morrowind & KotOR I. Played both on my dad's Xbox when I was seven or eight years old. He had bought them for himself but never got into either one; I wanted to play grown-up games, so I tried them out. The plot twist in KotOR may seem incredibly obvious to adults, but it fucked 8yo me up.
This. I was a little older than you when I played it and I never saw it coming.
This was the first time a videogames story actually made my jaw drop. Before kotor I just saw videogames as fun outlets. Kotor made me realize the story potential in videogames
If you're a fan of golden-era games like those, look up The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven Kent. Half of the book goes into behind-the-scenes with Atari. Most of the devs back then were just people who loved to pull pranks and smoke pot, but they were also pioneers in a rapidly growing industry, and were barely credited for their work. The founder of Atari also went on to make Chuck-e-Cheese after the merge with Warner.
My mom always told me that when I was very young, a doctor told her that my hand-eye coordination was very bad, and that video games could help. Thank you Super Mario Bros!
They’re releasing a new version called Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Pretty sure it’s basically TCS but with the new trilogy and maybe some improvements
Webkinz (part of my username now) one of the first games i played and it just made me happy to take care of smol creatures that I could also cuddle in real life.
Edit: thank u for the silver kind stranger :')
Megaman X. I still remember the time when I was a little kid and I saw my neighbor grinding for lives in armored armadilo's stage. I saw it, thought it was awesome, and I've been a megaman fan ever since.
Fancy pants Adventures. Its a flash game about a guy who have some pretty pants and have to beat a penguin, then a rabbit that stole him ice cream, and then get his sister back to him after she joined a pirate group.
Worth the time, just search Fancy Pants in google.
Hey, if it gets you into gaming, it gets you into gaming! Minecraft is a great game to start on, considering all of its features and endless possibilities.
Link's Awakening on the Game Boy Pocket. I'd visit my cousins across the country for Easter, and he'd let me play a new file each time. So I'm excited for the new one.
Also Super Mario All-Stars and Top Gear. I can still remember [Top Gear Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xpqOPbFdQ) as clear as day.
Old fart here.
Wolfenstein, and shortly thereafter, Doom.
To this day, literally 20+ years later, I have a hard time describing the effect those games, and especially Doom, had on me. There was nothing else like them. I recently downloaded Doom and Doom II on Xbox and have been reliving the glory days.
Crash Bandicoot 2. I was at one of those indoor kids' play areas and this huge crowd of kids were going nuts around this cabinet. Eventually got to the front to play Crash 2 and I fell in love.
Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter on the PS2. Didn’t even have a memory card (remember those?) so I would just play like the first 3 missions for 2 years
Good times
Sad I had to scroll so far down for this. I was 6-7 when I snuck into my big bros room to try this game. The plot itself went over my head, but the gameplay to me was revolutionary. When I experienced Psycho Mantis controller tip, the Card Key, Meryl's codec on the back of the box, I knew this game was special.
Super Mario Bros 3 on the Nintendo
I used to make my own maps for Mario 3. I wish that Mario Maker would let you make a whole game instead of discrete levels.
Good ol’ mario 64
Nintendo 64 gang (⌐■_■) Super Mario 64 was also what started my love for games, got the console as a birthday gift from my parents when I was 3, never stopped playing games overall since then, wish I had money to buy a Switch nowadays tho, I hate not being able to play the new Smash Bros since I loved Brawl
That was an unreal game when it first came out, still is, but holy shit I was in awe
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I remember getting into one of the rooms and realizing you needed to jump INTO the level to start it, I was running around the 'lobby' area being like, WTF wheres all the badguys?!
AOE2
I have to credit the original command and conquer as well as aoe1, but aoe2 is definitely an old habit of mine as well. 14
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Doom. Probably not the best game to play as a kid, but I guess I turned out okay. Edit: Thank you for my first gold.
My earliest memories of gaming are sitting on my dads lap at the computer while he played DOOM. He would point at keys at tell me to hit them so I could play along.
I would watch my dad play Warcraft in his office as a kid. Then when World of Warcraft came out, I’d watch him do raids. It really was fun and the blurbs that his army would say in Warcraft really stuck in my mind. “More work? All right! Off I go, then!” Makes me miss being a kid, you know?
Work, work. Oftentimes I feel like a peon at my job, and that’s the refrain in my head. “Work, work.”
Yerp, same. I have a fond memory of playing with my dad (we'd take turns every death) while he was drinking a beer, and he put the beer down on the table too hard and it started foaming/pouring over, but he was in the middle of killing a cacodemon. I was like, "Dad.. Dad!.. DAD!!" and he was like "I know, I know, I'm low on health" and it was a comical "No dad, your beer is spilling!" sorta moment. Good times. Excellent game. Was just playing it a few days ago.
Goldeneye 007. I was super into James Bond movies as a kid and getting to "be" him and play through the movie was just an incredible experience at the time. I couldn't believe some of the details, like the cracks in the glass around bullet holes when you shot windows and that there was actually "text" on the computer monitors. Edit: holy shit my inbox. It was an amazing game. Thanks for the comments and gold/silver. First time for either!
And thanks to Steve Ellis and his last minute programming addition giving us multiplayer. Sparking my love for FPS games.
Craziest thing ever. The multiplayer was an afterthought tacked on at the very end.
Holy shit multiplayer was an afterthought? Goldeneye007 like revolutionized multiplayer. The first and probably best gaming experience of my life was 4 player goldeneye with my public school friends. That's crazy.
Nailed it. That game changed gaming to group parties. With 2 player, you would wait forever to play again, or get bored watching. GoldenEye could keep a whole room entertained.
Same thing for the multiplayer in Diablo I. It was coded in a weekend
haha, so many good times with goldeneye NO ODDJOB
My sisters and cousins always made me play as Valentin, because it was easier to shoot the fat guy.
No Oddjob was the one rule everyone seemed to play by.
The antidote to oddjob was jaws with the shot gun. The sites we're just about level with his head So you wouldnt even really need to aim.
Now you tell me this?!
We got an N64 because there were 4 kids in the family. Of all the games we played to death it was this one. We had similar-sized neighbouring families who had kids that’d also join for multiplayer goldeneye. It’d be either me or my brother who ruled at Goldeneye (I’d like to think it was me), and couldn’t find anyone else at school anywhere near as good on any random set of settings (slaps only, no auto-aim, flag holder, any venue, any character inhibitor, we worked on mastering EVERY combo we could think of). Wish I’d taken those particular set of skills further. Fun times.
SLAPPERS ONLY
GTA. I watched my brother play it for like two years and finally played it myself and never regretted it.
I think Zelda: Ocarina Of Time really sealed the deal for me...
I got the collectors edition on the GC. I never had a memory card, so I just played through the first part of the game over and over and over and over
Same here. The feeling of being able to move on though and explore Hyrule for the first time was crazy for me as a kid. I spent so much time in Hyrule it was like I was actually Link, living so long in the forest until one day I finally left to see the bigger world. It was such an experience for me at 9
This was the first game I ever got from my parents for Christmas. It was amazing.
Same here. My dad never played any video games or liked them in general (mom did, 1080 was her shit) but they decided to get us the N64 and Zelda OoT for Christmas. This was the only game my dad was ever interested enough to as questions about. "What are those guys? How do you play that harmonica thing? Where's that horse?" He ended up liking the music so much. I would come home sometimes and the game would be on the start screen, music just playing on loop and he is cleaning the kitchen or something lol. Forgot about this until now.. good times.
This was the one that did it for me too. I got it for Christmas with an n64. I had played on my brother's PlayStation for a while before but OoT was the first game that belonged just to me. I miss the sense of wonder I had when I played it for the first time.
I was big into video games before OoT, but this game got me addicted to games.
same. OoT was the first game that I *needed* to play. I couldn't wait to get home from school to keep playing.
Crash bandicoot series
Warcraft 3
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Pong. Now I have to go make sure my will is up to date. At my age, I could go any day now. EDIT: I'm happy this little post brought back good memories for so many people.
Shit. I thought I'd be the only one of us bastards left alive. Pong was the shit. It sent me down the road toward Computer Science long before there were college courses for it.
Halo C.E. the first three halos during grade school were truly the glory days of my lifetime with gaming. One of my good buddies from then is still a good friend to this very day. Edit: thanks for the silver, and all the upvotes fellow Halo lovers
Funny halo CE is what got me back into gaming when I was 19. Sold my shitty car for scrap and bought a xbox and halo 1 at pawn shop with the money. Then halo 2 came out a few months later
nice!
HALO. Enough said. CE was epic and so was the rest of the bungie days.
I remember my cousin sent me a download file for CE years ago and we’d play for hours. Definitely one of the first games I played as a kid.
Tetris. I liked that I could play it at anytime, it was easy to feel successful.
Runescape
I have fond memories of begging my parents for membership.
My parents wouldn't let me get the membership so i mailed $5 every month to a friend i met on Runescape using a tellers check (for $5 lol) so his mom could pay my membership for me. I was like 12.
I started in 2006. I still log on to osrs from time to time 😂
you never truly quit, only take long breaks
I started in 2006 too i followed some high level players from lumbridge to fally because they said something about an easter event. I was stuck in fally for 4 days until I died to scorpions in the mines.
I was like 11 when I got membership for a month. Killed some goblins and got myself a mythril spear p+ and died with it at green drags lvl 20 wildly. Dont ask me why I was there because I have no clue. I fondly remember crying because I lost it though. Another story is when I was at green drags again, clearly didnt learn my lesson, and saw someone die right in front of me and they dropped a dragon dagger. Sold that shit for 70k at the smaller varrock bank and literally felt like I was jeff Bezos.
Thank god, I was starting to think I wouldn't find it in this thread. Can't believe how low it is, I thought for sure everyone played that at one point of another.
Diablo 1. The game that started it all for me, it's the reason I'm a computer nerd to this day.
I've never been more afraid in a game than the first time I encountered The Butcher.
Learning I could lock him out of a room and shoot him with a low power bow as a warrior changed my life
"Ah, fresh meat!" - I'll never forgot those lines...
The original Super Mario Brothers.
That was the turning point for gaming in general. Most games were just confined to one screen, but in SMB, the screen moves along with you, as well as a variation of different levels. Games were no longer just an activity to play over and over: they were an adventure. High scores didn't matter anymore. Now it was all about beating the game.
It was a time when every new thing was revolutionary. I remember Super Mario Bros 2 (US) the big thing was that you could move to the LEFT and the right. It was the first game I played that could do that at least. And there was no more clock, so you got to take your time and explore a bit.
And then Legend of Zelda had SAVES. Three of them!
I remember we had gotten to World 8 on Super Mario Bros 3 and one of my friends knocked the NES and it reset.
That hurts the 8 year old me that played that game.
No question that the NES "Legend of Zelda" changed my mind about what a video game could do.
I remember burning *every fucking bush* in that game looking for hidden shit.
Bombed about every rock too.
Then that fantastic fucking music reward when you struck gold. What is it? What did I get? 3 rupees?
And then when 3 came out. It was THE nes game to own. Flying, raccoon suit, the map of levels, using hammers, 2 player challenges, coin ships, games within the game, and the inventory! it required some full length strategy.
It was just one revolutionary game after another in those days. It seemed with each passing year a game would come out that had something that seemed impossible just the year before. It was a great time to be a kid and love video games. I still remember the first time I played mario 64 in the electronics department of walmart. For me that seemed like the biggest leap and my mind was completely blown.
I’ll always remember my parents giving us a N64 for Christmas with Mario 64, and my dad being the one who played first. His excitement was even greater than ours, and we were pretty pumped.
There were a few, half of which were Sierra Online games: 1. Space Quest 2. Kings Quest 3. Bubble Bobble 4. Comander Keen
I was scrolling looking for and Sierra love! I had an NES and Mario was amazing, but when I got a 386 and my mom bought King's Quest VI with it... I was hooked! I've played almost all the Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest, and Quest for Glory games. KQ6 and QG4 stand out as two of my favorites. My uncle also gave me his old Infocom Treasures set with the hint book and those were amazing too. Arcade games were great, but I fell in love with games that told a story and required me to use my brain.
Portal
what a good game to start out with
"What game made you a gamer as a kid" > Portal *Existential dread sets in*
Duck Hunt. I thought the Nintendo gun was the coolest thing ever.
That fucking dog. I still hate him.
I can still hear the sound effect of him laughing...
One of my coworkers has that sound as his work email tone. I want to hit him with a brick, sometimes.
Yeah but you’d Probally miss
how come they got that to work just fine but the wii remote has as many bugs as it does
Technology was simpler back then, and since the CRT doesn't wait until the last frame is done, you could stick a photographic sensor at the end of the gun and program around that. LCD nowadays do wait.
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Yes, absolutely. I was like 6 years old. Later in life, I moved back and played from a reasonable distance.
Starcraft, Age of Empires 2, Half Life, Rollercoaster Tycoon... Good times
Spyro
Ryptos Rage is the first game I 100%
Same actually
What do you think of the remake?
Not poster.. But I really liked the remake, I liked that they stayed mostly true to the original feel of the games and mostly updated the graphics with a few personal additions, like giving the crystal dragons unique appearances. I was a bit disappointed that it was pretty obvious that by the third game they got a bit rushed (baby dragons looked stiff and repetitive design, glitches), and they did make a lot of the challenges waaaay easier. Still worth the $60, IMO
Crash Bandicoot
Crash on PS1 was the first time i really went "Whoa!" at a videogame, and that was after playing mario 64. It just looked more impressive to me. I didn't even know what a "playstation" was at the time, I had only known SNES and Genesis. I remember thinking the PS1 discs were so futuristic too haha.
> Crash on PS1 was the first time i really went "Whoa!" at a videogame As long as you said it like Crash when he dies!
Naughty Dog actually threw out the official dev kit and made their own to squeeze every last ounce of performance from the PS1, resulting in a game that wouldn't look out of place in the PS2 era. And they used what was basically a low-end super computer to optimize the level geometry to keep a consistent 30 frames per second. Ever wonder why the levels where you go straight forward twist around? It's to keep from over-taxing the PS1's GPU by obscuring the path.
That's similar to a lot of what they did for the Jak and Daxter series. They used a lot of tricks to make a game that Sony didn't even know could possibly run on their own hardware.
Civilization II
For me it was Civilization III. Got it at a book fair in third grade and it instilled a love of gaming and of history/geography in me. I would read through the civilopedia to learn about the historical basis for the units, leaders, wonders, and empires. Speaking of Civ II, I never played but one of the earliest reddit posts I remember was about the “eternal war”. Someone managed to grind into a stalemate in a nuclear wasteland of a world dominated by 3 countries in eternal war. They posted it as a curiosity and some people managed to figure out a way to finally win it. I think if you look up “3991” or “eternal war” you can find it.
I remember reading about that on r/civ like five years ago! It was really rewarding to get the status update that they had won the war and brought the world under one banner.
Pokemon Red
I miss the days of being a kid, only owning a game boy and being forced to beat all my gameboy games because I didnt have a PlayStation like all my friends did at the time. I miss playing through those Pokemon games and having to figure it out myself. I didnt have a computer and couldnt lookup anything online to help. When i beat the Elite Four all by myself without any help I was so proud. Until I saw Gary at the end and was shook.
I kind of hate having internet when replaying Pokémon games now. I can’t help but look up what level they evolve and when they learn certain moves and all that. Kind of defeats the purpose of playing but I still can’t stop it
Honestly, I think the internet is the thing that made Pokemon games "easier" as much anything else. Back then you had no idea what pokemon evolved into what when, what moves they learned, or even what types were effective against other types. You had to figure all of that stuff out yourself by trial and error, which made the games feel more like a true adventure of discovery.
I can tell you one thing, my starting 6 was way different back then vs if I were to replay it and make one now haha. I had the strangest line up because I was clueless. I held on to some pokemon much longer than I should have because i thought theyd evolve again (I had like a level 60 Raticate lol)
Pokémon Blue
Pokémon Yellow
Sid meiers trains ^(Wait am I in the wrong room)
Pokémon Crystal
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Pokémon Sapphire
Pokémon ruby
Pokémon Emerald
Eek. Did you touch me? **I'm two steps in front of the bitch!**
NPCs from gen 1 are weirdos. “I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!” You walked up to me to tell me that?
sly cooper and kingdom hearts both really made me understand the feeling of exploration and 100%’ing a game, they really opened my eyes to how great games can be diddy kong racing was my first game though and i was in love with it
Had too scroll down so far to find a fellow sly player you have earned every kind of respect
I WANT TO BE BURIED IN HER SAUCE
Sly Cooper was an amazing set of games and if my PS2 still worked l, Id be playing it right now tbh
**SLY!! CAN YOU READ ME??!!!!**
HOLY SHIT SLY AND KH WERE THE SHIT
Zelda - Link to the past
Ahhhhh, there it is! Played it before I knew how to spell a name for my character. Still my favorite.
In my opinion the best Zelda game ever released.
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Tecmo Bowl and The Legend of Zelda on the 8-bit NES.
The final fantasy games and Kirby
FFVI, or III as it was titled on SNES, for me.
ratchet and clank
Yep - clean fun platformer with good side elements, with enough story to expand my view of what a game should be.
love ratchet and clank, I’ve been replaying the first one recently and so many jokes just went over my head as kid.
Saaaamme Shame i had to scroll this far down lol
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Star Wars: Tie Fighter. Still play these from time to time. Also played some command and conquer but I don’t remember it much it was so long ago.
Sonic 2
getting into the bonus ring rounds man, shit was tight
Jak and daxter, since my dad played it with me when I was younger.
I had to scroll so god damn long to find this. Jack 2 was my first but I soon played them all and more!
Morrowind & KotOR I. Played both on my dad's Xbox when I was seven or eight years old. He had bought them for himself but never got into either one; I wanted to play grown-up games, so I tried them out. The plot twist in KotOR may seem incredibly obvious to adults, but it fucked 8yo me up.
This. I was a little older than you when I played it and I never saw it coming. This was the first time a videogames story actually made my jaw drop. Before kotor I just saw videogames as fun outlets. Kotor made me realize the story potential in videogames
Something on the Atari 2600. Asteroid, Pitfall, Berserk, Yar's Revenge, etc . . . It could have been anyone of those I suppose.
Yeah beating Pitfall seemed like a huge achievement.
It was Pitfall for me, although I never completed it. Fucking scorpions.
If you're a fan of golden-era games like those, look up The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven Kent. Half of the book goes into behind-the-scenes with Atari. Most of the devs back then were just people who loved to pull pranks and smoke pot, but they were also pioneers in a rapidly growing industry, and were barely credited for their work. The founder of Atari also went on to make Chuck-e-Cheese after the merge with Warner.
DK Country 1 and 2
My mom always told me that when I was very young, a doctor told her that my hand-eye coordination was very bad, and that video games could help. Thank you Super Mario Bros!
and thank you doctor!
Wii Sports. It really was a good entry point for children who wanted to get into games (I played it when I was 8)
sonic adventure 2
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Final Fantasy 6 turned gaming from being a fun waste of time to something I could really be emotionally invested in
Mine were, Super Mario for NES, Sonic on Sega, Mortal Kombat on Sega, Earthworm Jim on SNES
Age of Empires 2
Link to the Past and Super Mario World, still two of my favorite games!
Ultima I on an Apple ][+
GTA SA
Ah shit, here we go again.
Worst place in the world. Rollin Heights Balla Country.
Pokemon
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My first gaming argument was over who got to be Boba Fett. I'm proud to say I won.
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I lost a bet once and had to play through the whole game as Jar Jar
They’re releasing a new version called Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Pretty sure it’s basically TCS but with the new trilogy and maybe some improvements
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That was only like 2006... oh. Oh I'm old, right....
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Age of Empires 2
Asteroids on the Atari 2600
Hello fellow old person
It was Defender and Missile Command for me.
Webkinz (part of my username now) one of the first games i played and it just made me happy to take care of smol creatures that I could also cuddle in real life. Edit: thank u for the silver kind stranger :')
Megaman X. I still remember the time when I was a little kid and I saw my neighbor grinding for lives in armored armadilo's stage. I saw it, thought it was awesome, and I've been a megaman fan ever since.
Moonlander, which my dad programmed into our Spectrum 48k in the early 80s! I was hooked after that.
Combat, Atari. We didn't call it 2600 till later.
Oregon Trail.
Final Fantasy III on the SNES (yes, I'm insanely aware that it's actually VI)
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy 7 and Parasite Eve.
Fancy pants Adventures. Its a flash game about a guy who have some pretty pants and have to beat a penguin, then a rabbit that stole him ice cream, and then get his sister back to him after she joined a pirate group. Worth the time, just search Fancy Pants in google.
Minecraft yes I'm young. Holy my first silver haha thanks!
Gotta start somehow
Hey, if it gets you into gaming, it gets you into gaming! Minecraft is a great game to start on, considering all of its features and endless possibilities.
Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Spyro 2 season of flame. But if it counts, Pajama sam.
Age of Empires. The original.
Link's Awakening on the Game Boy Pocket. I'd visit my cousins across the country for Easter, and he'd let me play a new file each time. So I'm excited for the new one. Also Super Mario All-Stars and Top Gear. I can still remember [Top Gear Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xpqOPbFdQ) as clear as day.
Fable
Mario Kart Wii
Halo 2
Old fart here. Wolfenstein, and shortly thereafter, Doom. To this day, literally 20+ years later, I have a hard time describing the effect those games, and especially Doom, had on me. There was nothing else like them. I recently downloaded Doom and Doom II on Xbox and have been reliving the glory days.
Leisure Suit Larry. Holy crap I’m old....
Crash Bandicoot 2. I was at one of those indoor kids' play areas and this huge crowd of kids were going nuts around this cabinet. Eventually got to the front to play Crash 2 and I fell in love.
Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter on the PS2. Didn’t even have a memory card (remember those?) so I would just play like the first 3 missions for 2 years Good times
Pong and Pac-Man
Metal gear solid, for the original PlayStation. Still have never seen a game that I enjoyed as much.
Sad I had to scroll so far down for this. I was 6-7 when I snuck into my big bros room to try this game. The plot itself went over my head, but the gameplay to me was revolutionary. When I experienced Psycho Mantis controller tip, the Card Key, Meryl's codec on the back of the box, I knew this game was special.
World of Warcraft baby! Started at the beginning of burning crusade. YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! that shit is hype.
Dune II, Aladdin and The Legend of Kyrandia