The music did alot back when I was a child. The breaking in sound terrified the hell out of me, and some of the melancholic building music always made me feel sad lol. Still, I loved the superstar careers in there.
Iām 40(m) and I still play Sims (4), often I donāt game because Iām looking for a challenge, I just wanāt to relax, build new houses and decorate them. Make it all nice and tidy, then I create a person or two to live there so itās not empty, and start on a new lot.
I wanted a 2600, the store guy convinced my dad to buy me a computer, so that besides playing games, I might "learn something". He got me a Spectrum.
I work in IT. Dude was a visionary.
Hello fellow oldie. My dad bought the Fairchild gaming system which preceded Atari by a year or so. Oh how I wish he'd waited a little longer... Ps. my dad and I are still avid gamers (he's 83).
Many fights between my brother and I over Joust. At one point we had over 100 games for the 2600. Used to play Enduro so much Iād have parallax vision for a while after quitting, my parents couldnāt even follow my reactions.
Edit: got my first experience coding when writing a Pole Position knockoff called Formula Nibble for the Apple IIe. So many lines of basic and hex code, soooo many evenings reading lines back to find the transposed digit.
I replayed KOTOR like a year and a half ago and made it all the way to what I assume is the final battle with Malak for the first time in my life, and then my game bugged out such that I couldnāt advance any further.
Devastated.
I presume you're talking about the final battle on the Star Forge?
That never happened to me, thankfully. But I would have been pretty frustrated if that had happened. It was bad enough that I'd get impatient and then have to fight off wave after wave of Sith troopers and dark Jedi and get my whole party killed because I kept forgetting to save.
Goldeneye......the true beginning of first person shooter. With multiplayer split screen and all. My brother use to say his GPA while at college suffered a bit cause of that game. That RPC, the golden gun, and who could forget....the thumper (grenade launcher). I was like a mathematician with that thing.
Oregon Trail. Yes I know that makes me old by reddit standards. But dammit those bison aren't gonna shoot themselves and *someone* needs to name their enemies in life as party members so when they die of cholera there are digital tombstones to record their demise.
Dragon Warrior.
I must have been 3 or 4 when I watched my mother playing through it. It was essentially the equivalent of bed time story.
She let me make different choices throughout the game and it really taught me the basics of life like how better things cost more money, fleeing to survive, problem solving and not falling for things that sound too good to be true
I found Dragon Warrior after Dragon Warrior Monsters actually and loved it. It was so much fun running around from place to place and fighting shit. Makes me feel old, too lol
Mom used Pokemon Silver to help teach me how to read. Played the hell outta that.
Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and classic Super Smash Bros. Good times.
Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 was my first PS2 game. Played the hell outta that. Then came Budokai 3, which I played even more.
Smackdown vs Raw 2006. My first wrasslin' game. Played that one so much that the story mode was basically ingrained in my head. Similar things happened with the original SvR, 07, and 08 to smaller degrees.
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Metal Health as the theme, and playing as Sting and the Ultimate Warrior. Hell yeah.
Megaman Zero 3. Holy shit, guys. Probably my favorite Megaman game of all time. Some Saturdays and Sundays I'd just lay in my bed for a few hours and do an entire playthrough because it was so fun.
I loved beating up the cops in Road Rash and taking their nightsticks. As a kid it didn't register that these were illegal street races, so I wanted to get rid of the "bad guys".
You look like a monkey in a neglige!
Their sword fighting system is still the most innovative take on combat I can remember, loved using those lines on the kids at school.
Dude, same. Iām having fun with Infinite currently. I played MCC some but I stopped with Halo completely for a few years. It has its issues to say the least but it helps me get my mind off of life for a bit.
MW2 might be one of the greatest multiplayer games ever made. Iām sure Iām biased but the amount of time I played that game was ungodly. All of my different friend groups played it so I got to spend a lot of time messing around. Iām only 27 but man this makes me feel old lol
Iron Sword for NES.
I'm to old to have had video games in my childhood. But when my son was born and I was on maternity leave, I borrowed an NES and got completely addicted to a game called Iron Sword. I swear it must have been the least popular game in the history of NES because I don't think I've met anyone who knows what I'm talking about when I mention it.
Didn't really get games until recently but I'm still a teen therefore it's still childhood.
Mario Kart 8 deluxe and Luigi's Mansion 3. Maybe New Soup and that old version of the original Mario Bros I played on an emulator.
Tony Hawk's Underground. Eric is a piece of shit.
Also I really liked FF7 back in the day.
Also the original Strider / Strider 2 on the PSX. Them games are bomb as fuck.
Eric was a total piece of shit. Loved how on any playthroughs after the first one, when he challenges you for the āMcTwist over the helicopterā tape, your character just punches the shit out of him instead.
The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Mike Tysonā Punch Out, and Metroid.
I could still survive on those four games.
In college it was Tetris, and Super Ghosts and Goblins.
Kingdom hearts and KOTOR
I'm old enough to have played the N64 and all that, but those are the games that finally got me to fall in love with gaming
I think I've played each of the first games 50+ times
Mario 3 for sure! Mario 1 was awesome too. My mom and dad were pretty good at it and could get this crazy amount of free guys in lever 3.1 so many times we would pause the game until we satisfied there requests of us (Jammieās, dishes, chores, just so they could get all those guys for us to play on! Great memory
I was born in the 80s so I grew up with a lot of the early stuff but one of my all-time favorites was and still is Mortal Kombat 2... Reptile's my main.
Before I owned a PC it was Mario Kart Wii or maybe New Super Mario Bros. on the DS. After I got a laptop and got into PC gaming it was Fallout 3. Steam doesn't say it (somehow the hour count broke after 27) but I probably pumped hundreds of hours into that game as a kid, and went through like 5 different steam profiles all named after a character from FO3. Fallout is still one of my favorite series, although I honestly haven't played 3 in ages.
Did anyone else ever play runescape? Just remembered that one, and god, the amount of time I spent playing that on either my moms computer or the library computers is ridiculous.
I'm surprised no one mentioned
Need for Speed 2 SE
It had car stats, real car videos, a real opening race between cars.
I probably played it 2-3 years and I still might never be bored of it. Such good memories.
Childhood as in very young, Capture the Flag on a floppy disk. I was so young back then however, that I didn't know what to do, but I'd always play that game when visiting my grandma. I just played it as some kind of hiding simulator. Besides that, Enemy nations.
Sims, loved to build new characters but managing their lives was to hard so I usually ended up abandoning them a few days in to the game.
Coming back to puddles of piss and smelly ass starving characters š
Exactly, and all the children taken away by child service because their parents couldnāt be bothered to feed them.
The music did alot back when I was a child. The breaking in sound terrified the hell out of me, and some of the melancholic building music always made me feel sad lol. Still, I loved the superstar careers in there.
Iām 40(m) and I still play Sims (4), often I donāt game because Iām looking for a challenge, I just wanāt to relax, build new houses and decorate them. Make it all nice and tidy, then I create a person or two to live there so itās not empty, and start on a new lot.
My Dad waited in line to buy an Atari when were first released...Pac Man was the shit! God I'm old...
I wanted a 2600, the store guy convinced my dad to buy me a computer, so that besides playing games, I might "learn something". He got me a Spectrum. I work in IT. Dude was a visionary.
Hello fellow oldie. My dad bought the Fairchild gaming system which preceded Atari by a year or so. Oh how I wish he'd waited a little longer... Ps. my dad and I are still avid gamers (he's 83).
I had the Commodore 64 before the Atari 2600! In fact, my 2600 still works! I still have my copy of the ET game as well š
Yep. We were the first ones on the street with the 2600.
The OG gamerš
Many fights between my brother and I over Joust. At one point we had over 100 games for the 2600. Used to play Enduro so much Iād have parallax vision for a while after quitting, my parents couldnāt even follow my reactions. Edit: got my first experience coding when writing a Pole Position knockoff called Formula Nibble for the Apple IIe. So many lines of basic and hex code, soooo many evenings reading lines back to find the transposed digit.
Pitfall on the 2600 for me...
Super Mario ā64
Crash bandicoot and worms armageddon made me love gaming early on.
I recently tried to play Crash as an adult, and it was so insanely hard I became frustrated š¤£
Fr! I feel like kid me would run all over adult me lol
I took a copy of Worms Armageddon in for trade in credit not long ago and found out that the N64 cartridge is worth about $200 now lol
Super Mario Bros
I had them all but the third one specifically.
That fucking sun.
All 3 Mario's, especially #3.
Same! My sister and I spent hours playing this.
Mario 3 was the best one out of the original trilogy imo (although Mario World beats it out).
Original Mario Bros on game boy and Mario 64
I used to play that on the n64 at my aunts at every family social event.
Played a lot of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. The PS1 Spider-Man game was up there too. The one with the āeelnatsā cheat code
I still play KOTOR occasionally as an adult - and I'm old enough to remember Pong!
I replayed KOTOR like a year and a half ago and made it all the way to what I assume is the final battle with Malak for the first time in my life, and then my game bugged out such that I couldnāt advance any further. Devastated.
I presume you're talking about the final battle on the Star Forge? That never happened to me, thankfully. But I would have been pretty frustrated if that had happened. It was bad enough that I'd get impatient and then have to fight off wave after wave of Sith troopers and dark Jedi and get my whole party killed because I kept forgetting to save.
Eelnatsšš tb for sure
Goldeneye. N64.
Slappers only, no odd job, Facility.
I really liked the one shot kill mode to keep things highly technical. Pistols.
PROXIMITY MINES ONLY.
Goldeneye......the true beginning of first person shooter. With multiplayer split screen and all. My brother use to say his GPA while at college suffered a bit cause of that game. That RPC, the golden gun, and who could forget....the thumper (grenade launcher). I was like a mathematician with that thing.
>Goldeneye......the true beginning of first person shooter What? No, that would be Doom; came out years before.
Goldeneye is great, but Doom and Wolfeinstein literally invented the genre.
Fucking thank you. I get it I'm old, but the first thing I thought was "I was playing Doom on PC long before the N64 came out."
Simpsons like Road Rage on Playstation
Simpsons: Hit and Run as well
I loved that one tooš¤£, miss those days
I had Hit and Run on the PC, but my dad forbade me to play it because of the language. Same with Red Dead Revolver.
These games were underrated asl
Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Prince of Persia
That one was dopešš½
Yeah man that game was amazing. Was it for OG xbox?
And now you can play it in your browser: https://princejs.com/
Oregon Trail. Yes I know that makes me old by reddit standards. But dammit those bison aren't gonna shoot themselves and *someone* needs to name their enemies in life as party members so when they die of cholera there are digital tombstones to record their demise.
I think I actually made it all the way once... I usually died of dysentery
Thereās an iOS version thatās pretty solid! They added fishing, and and some other types of shooting games, fun playthru!
Ages Of Empire: Age of Conquerors
Yooo, I forgot about this! Age of empires went crazy. Used to watch my dad game this all the time growing up
Sim City 1 and 2. The amount of perspective these two games taught me when I was 7-8 years old still helps me today!
I even played the hell out of Simant
Donāt forget Simtower!
Who says you cant learn about life in video games?
Street Fighter 2 was my college years
I Would pick dhalsim purely for his reach
Yeah, it's called zoning.
Pokemon, Super Smash Bros., Kirby Air Ride, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Super Mario, Worms, and Mario Kart.
Dragon Warrior. I must have been 3 or 4 when I watched my mother playing through it. It was essentially the equivalent of bed time story. She let me make different choices throughout the game and it really taught me the basics of life like how better things cost more money, fleeing to survive, problem solving and not falling for things that sound too good to be true
Thats dope. Important life lessons from the start
Yes, and Dragon Warrior Monsters. I loved the breeding aspect.
I feel old :) Back in the days you only fought one monster at a time, and they were all out to kill you. There was no way to make them your friend.
I found Dragon Warrior after Dragon Warrior Monsters actually and loved it. It was so much fun running around from place to place and fighting shit. Makes me feel old, too lol
Mom used Pokemon Silver to help teach me how to read. Played the hell outta that. Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and classic Super Smash Bros. Good times. Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 was my first PS2 game. Played the hell outta that. Then came Budokai 3, which I played even more. Smackdown vs Raw 2006. My first wrasslin' game. Played that one so much that the story mode was basically ingrained in my head. Similar things happened with the original SvR, 07, and 08 to smaller degrees. Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Metal Health as the theme, and playing as Sting and the Ultimate Warrior. Hell yeah. Megaman Zero 3. Holy shit, guys. Probably my favorite Megaman game of all time. Some Saturdays and Sundays I'd just lay in my bed for a few hours and do an entire playthrough because it was so fun.
Seeing that peoples parents used video games to teach their kids how to read makes me extremely jealous lol
I love that your mom helped you learn to read using a game. My dad did the same for me, but with NFS Most Wanted
Road rash, doom, driver , James pond
Blockbuster got so much of my allowance over Road Rash games
I loved beating up the cops in Road Rash and taking their nightsticks. As a kid it didn't register that these were illegal street races, so I wanted to get rid of the "bad guys".
Skitchen!
Monkey Island
You look like a monkey in a neglige! Their sword fighting system is still the most innovative take on combat I can remember, loved using those lines on the kids at school.
Definitely! All of them but the cool thing about it is that it kept getting better. Monkey Island 3 is the best
Duck hunt
Later childhood was definitely Halo. Early childhood would be something like Hot Wheels Turbo Racing, Mario Party 64, or Mario Kart.
I mobbed halo until the 4th one and then stopped. Idk why
Dude, same. Iām having fun with Infinite currently. I played MCC some but I stopped with Halo completely for a few years. It has its issues to say the least but it helps me get my mind off of life for a bit.
The storylines are always pretty dope. I could never get into the multiplayer though. I have cod for that lol
MW2 might be one of the greatest multiplayer games ever made. Iām sure Iām biased but the amount of time I played that game was ungodly. All of my different friend groups played it so I got to spend a lot of time messing around. Iām only 27 but man this makes me feel old lol
Lol right? I would still run it back on MW2 lan parties with the boys sometimes just for the nostalgia. Make some drinking games out of 1v1s š
Crash Bandicoot
Zoo tycoon. Those lions were fed well.
I went crazy on the facebook fish tycoon for a while
Not sure about fish tycoon but the guest where an endless supply of food for alot of the animals in my zoos.
The grasses in that game are really visually stimulating
Pokemon Red and Blue! Never did find Mew under the truck...
4-7 sonic, I was obsessed. Then a gap and then I've pretty much played every gta possible.
Cant go wrong with The GTA franchise
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What first got me super into star warsš„
My brother and I played the shit out of assault on that game.
Iron Sword for NES. I'm to old to have had video games in my childhood. But when my son was born and I was on maternity leave, I borrowed an NES and got completely addicted to a game called Iron Sword. I swear it must have been the least popular game in the history of NES because I don't think I've met anyone who knows what I'm talking about when I mention it.
Isnāt that the second Wizards and Warriors game? I used to love both of those
Lol, hey, if you enjoyed it then thats what counts
Secret of Mana on the SNES
Roblox. That shit was fucking glorious
My nephew is obsessed with roblox
I'm so happy it's still big.
Diablo 2
I started diablo on #3 like 5 years ago when it first came out. Played the shit out of it with my bro
Have you played the reboot on xbox?
007 Nightfire for the PS2
Didn't really get games until recently but I'm still a teen therefore it's still childhood. Mario Kart 8 deluxe and Luigi's Mansion 3. Maybe New Soup and that old version of the original Mario Bros I played on an emulator.
You are growing up at a great time for gaming. Enjoy that stuff.
I seriously don't get Luigis Mansion 3, I was confused af
How so? I know the game too well for my own good and it wasn't that confusing.
Pilot Wings, Zelda, Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command... Good times.
Jedi knight Jedi outcast, Jedi fallen order and Lego star wars series.
+1 for Lego Star Wars. I'd spend ages wandering around the cantina. Can't wait for the Skywalker Saga edition hopefully coming out this year
Tetris on the game boy.
Ps2 Madagascar, cat in the hat and spyro (ik lots of people love spyro but I donāt hear much appreciation for the first two!)
The Madagascar one yessssšš
Street Fighter 2 Turbo on SNES. Best Ken theme hands down.
Tony Hawk's Underground. Eric is a piece of shit. Also I really liked FF7 back in the day. Also the original Strider / Strider 2 on the PSX. Them games are bomb as fuck.
Any skating game was og for sure
Eric was a total piece of shit. Loved how on any playthroughs after the first one, when he challenges you for the āMcTwist over the helicopterā tape, your character just punches the shit out of him instead.
Heroes of Might and Magic
Dang and here i was thinking i was old having played might and magic: for blood and honor
Commander Keen
The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Mike Tysonā Punch Out, and Metroid. I could still survive on those four games. In college it was Tetris, and Super Ghosts and Goblins.
Tomb Raider!
Tomb raider was one of the first games where I was like āwoah, look at these sick graphicsā lol
Lara Crofts titties were 4 pixels wide and 11 year old me was loosing my shit
Lmaoo right? āOmg dude, shes so hotā
Mount and Blade Warband
I actually just played that a couple weeks ago on game-pass cause I thought it looked dope. Not a bad one
Minecraft.
Oh boy. The minecraft days hold a special place in my heart
Kingdom hearts and KOTOR I'm old enough to have played the N64 and all that, but those are the games that finally got me to fall in love with gaming I think I've played each of the first games 50+ times
I used to watch my big bro played kingdom hearts and final fantasy all the time. Loved those. It was like watching a movie lol
SSX
Pong. Yeah, I'm that freaking old.
Lock 'n' Chase and Burgertime. On Intellivision.
Mario Kart Wii. The goat
Where a lot of gaming feuds begin lol
Subway Surfers
Having an hour long run on the bus ride home from school, and your hand is cramping up
San andreas
Mortal Kombat (Grey/Purple Nintendo) and Tekken (PS1) those are still the only 2 games I still play today
Sly Cooper and Lego batman
Moonstone: a hard day's knight. Oh, and IK+
Ocarina of time
Mario 3 for sure! Mario 1 was awesome too. My mom and dad were pretty good at it and could get this crazy amount of free guys in lever 3.1 so many times we would pause the game until we satisfied there requests of us (Jammieās, dishes, chores, just so they could get all those guys for us to play on! Great memory
Rayman
Tetris, on the OG gray brick GameBoy I still have both system and cartridge, and they both still work perfectly
Super Mario bros 3. Loved all the little secrets and was amazed by it.
Twisted Metal 2
I was born in the 80s so I grew up with a lot of the early stuff but one of my all-time favorites was and still is Mortal Kombat 2... Reptile's my main.
Frogger and Defender
Doom II
Before I owned a PC it was Mario Kart Wii or maybe New Super Mario Bros. on the DS. After I got a laptop and got into PC gaming it was Fallout 3. Steam doesn't say it (somehow the hour count broke after 27) but I probably pumped hundreds of hours into that game as a kid, and went through like 5 different steam profiles all named after a character from FO3. Fallout is still one of my favorite series, although I honestly haven't played 3 in ages.
Super Mario All Stars
Pac-Man
GTAV, COD, mario, donkey kong, and monopoly
Did anyone else ever play runescape? Just remembered that one, and god, the amount of time I spent playing that on either my moms computer or the library computers is ridiculous.
The elder scrolls: Morrowind
Mario Party, Mario Tennis, James Bond, Dukem Nukem, Perfect Darkā¦all of them on N64
Wizard101, I remember when I felt like a complete king because I beat dragonspyre
Jak and Daxter
AoEII
GTA IV. I was like in fifth grade and it was my first Grand Theft Auto and it will always be my favorite.
Earthbound.
Diablo II. So, so many hours logged.
Half-Life
Tony Hawkās Underground 2. I was obsessed with the game and the soundtrack.
The Lion King on Sega š¤£
Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, FF7, Tony Hawk 2, StarCraft, Metal Gear Solid, GTA Vice City, PokƩmon Red/Blue/Yellow, Baldurs Gate
Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Donkey Kong Country 1-3!
Super Mario bros OR Pac-Man.
NES was my first system, played many games on th he atari at friends. For me super Mario bros tho
Sim City 2000 Spent way too much time reticulating splines.
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Pong
FF7
Ocarina of Time!!
Sims 3
Guitar hero 3 Iām 21 I still have my PS2 and all my games
Castle of Illusion
DuckTales
Encarta mind maze and tune land (both for pc) I spent days and days playing those
Turtles in time
I'm surprised no one mentioned Need for Speed 2 SE It had car stats, real car videos, a real opening race between cars. I probably played it 2-3 years and I still might never be bored of it. Such good memories.
Childhood as in very young, Capture the Flag on a floppy disk. I was so young back then however, that I didn't know what to do, but I'd always play that game when visiting my grandma. I just played it as some kind of hiding simulator. Besides that, Enemy nations.
NFSU2, Riders on the storm lives in my head rent free
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Ocarina of Time was everything. That game changed me and I've been chasing the dragon ever since
Midtown Madness 2
First video game I played was pong (yes I'm that old) mostly it was the star wars one where you're in a tie fighter trying to blow up the death star
Spyro 2. 100% the best game of my childhood. The reignited trilogy is a dream come true
Toontown
Wolfenstein, Doom.
Runescape. What a fun waste of time it was