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I had been through four consoles and five jobs before most of the games in the notes had come out.
My top five were virtually chiselled on stone tablets by comparison :)
Super Mario Galaxy
Red Alert 2
Age of Empires 2
Fallout New Vegas
TES Oblivion
FF VII
Ocarina of Time
Ghost & goblins
Galaga '88
Ninja Spirit
By pure numbers, mine has got to be GTA San Andreas since I only had a PS2 for the longest time. I think that might be why I kinda hate games now? Buying a new game and you get maybe a couple dozen hours if you're lucky kinda sucks. Oh it's just a campaign of like 9 missions? And the missions are pretty linear? idk man, might be worth like $10 but definitely not fullprice $60 or even half off $30.
Lemmings. Prince of Persia. Doom. Tomb Raider 1. Gran Turismo.
Pretty much every Sierra franchise.
Warcraft, C&C, Street fighter two turbo, and final fantasy!
Super Mario 64
Pilot Wings 64
Balloons Tower Defense
Portal 2
Banjo Kazooie: nuts and bolts (I dont care if it killed the franchise, I really enjoyed this game)
Commander keen
Wingnuts
Burn:Cycle
Myst
Duke Nukem (the first one but also 3D)
Wingnuts was a dumb fmv 'dog fighting' game, but when you beat it you could play it again with silly dialogue. I also remember when setting up the sound card the test audio was a guy saying 'ah veiners, just ze vay I like zem!' In a bad German accent.
Burn:Cycle was an fmv adventure game that I adored, it also came with a sound track cd and a little packet of leaflets based on in game stuff that was really cool. I still listen to the ost on occasion
Civ 1. So many happy memories.
Sims 3
Skyrim
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Cities: Skyline
Sims 2
So I don't really feel that old when reading the notes, I do however apologise to anyone having an age crisis reading this.
Baulders gate on ps2 was my introduction into RPG and a bonding experience with my aunts ex.
GTA 1 was my escape from an abusive house
Tony hawk kept me from getting picked on for my gaming choices
Smash bros had me bonding with my closest friends
NBA street helped me and my brother escape from our parents.
Man, it's hard stratifying games you care about, especially when you have a massive log of them that all impacted you in one way or another. There were a bunch of free Linux games that I have very fond memories of too, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Abuse, etc. Also a bunch of weird niche games and demos, like One Must Fall and Food Fight and Fur Fighters. It's an impossible task, honestly.
Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!!
Murray how did you get all the way up there?
Sheer force of will!!
Zelda II The Adventure of Link
Super Metroid
Another World / Out of This World
Myst
Doom
Honorable mention goes to Super Mario Land.
My top 5 were (in no particular order):
- Pokemon Diamond
- Star Wars Battlefront: Rogue Squadron (PSP)
- Fossil Fighters
- Skyrim
- FTL: Faster Than Light
Halo >!because I played it with my older sister!<
Skyrim >!because it reminded me that I like RPGs!<
RuneScape >!because it taught me that I like RPGs!<
Minecraft >!because I played it with my little brother!<
DOOM >!because I was young and too scared to play it myself, but my mom enjoyed gaming sometimes, and watching her play are happy memories!<
Just five is so limiting:
Mario Kart
Mega Man 3
Donkey Kong Country
Jet Moto
Final Fantasy VII
Even expanding to ten feels restrictive, alas:
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
The Neverhood
Perfect Dark
Seventh Guest
Earthworm Jim
The instructions are contradictory. I’m not sure how it’s possible to comply.
• Pac-Man (Atari 400)
• Pole Position (Arcade)
• Parsec (TI-99/4A)
• The Legend of Zelda (NES)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (PC)
Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Space Invaders (on an Atari 2600), Tempest and Pitfall!
Bro, it's on the play store. You can get it on a tablet, and is very much playable.
Boulders Gate? I know And I have it, along with a few other editions. I’ve just never get past the first tavern without losing interest. Which is strange because I was hooked when I first played it.
Homm3 is GOAT. I still play that with friends and relatives to this day.
It really was the best out of all the homms. I still play it too. Absolute perfection of a game.
While it didn't make my list, I played a crazy amount of NFSMW
In chronological order
There are so many more but these were all big moments. Ugh I didn't even mention the IBM golf game or Carmen San Diego, I think I need to do this list based on the systems we had.
Bold choices with both Spinball and Final Fantasy 8. You're set to have some interesting fandoms with very deep chips on their shoulders -- not to mention cosplay buster swords -- arriving at your doorstep shortly.
Eep.
Bro, I almost forgot about Sonic spinball! What an acid trip of a take on Sonic.
xenogears
final fantasy 7
final fantasy 10
super smash Bros melee
Diablo 2
Man, this is hard to narrow down.
Very similar to mine except I had Link's Awakening (instead of LttP) and FF7
I really miss Ragnarok Online. Some friends and I played on iRO while that was free for a bit and then later on euRO. The monthly fee was a significant fraction of my pocket money as a highschool kid but totally worth it
One of the reasons I put RO here is that I actually forced myself to learn how to host a personal Ragnarok Online server because I had no money as a teen and I wanted to play with my friend. That involved learning a lot about computers and hosting that I wouldn't have otherwise bothered with.
I eventually became a computer engineer but it did take me a while because even though I was smart enough to do something like this I never fully believed I was intelligent enough to become an engineer so I spent half a decade working grocery store jobs and being a middle school teacher instead.
-Pokemon Gold (OG)
-Metroid: Zero Mission/Fusion
-SSBM
-Battlefront II (The OG one)
-The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
-Copy Kitty
-Undertale
-Super Smash Bros. (4 & Ultimate)
-Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
-Fantasy Life
Have you played the new Fantasy Life? It's great
I have, and i like it very much :)
Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask
Super Smash Bros Melee
Halo: Reach
RuneScape
Guildwars 2
In no particular order and with limited time thinking about it:
My first console was a NES I inherited, but the first console gotten for me was a SNES, and the first console I received new in box was a GameCube. PS2 underrepresented in this list although Guitar Hero was on there and that game was wildly important for getting me more interested in music in general.
Moo2
FFT
Golden Eye
Red Alert
Mariokart 64
This list could also be alternatively titled: "Why I flunked out of college the first time."
True. For me it was counter strike source 😄
GTA: San Andreas and NFSU2. But not for the reasons you think. They were the first games that I could play on my school laptop. It was super slow (amd A6 1450 Apu, 4 gb ram) and those ran perfectly fine.
Heh I played NFSUG2 on a laptop with 2 GB RAM. It shipped with Vista but ran great with XP.
2 GB was a ton back then! You could fit a whole OS into that, twice!
I actually have a pentium M laptop that I played NFSU2 on during that time. My sister would use my school laptop (we weren't allowed to use my home computer) and I'd use the pentium m machine. I wouldn't be surprised if the pentium m had better single core performance than the A6.
Edit: I found a few benchmarks and the 735 is somewhat faster in single core performance provided that the instruction set is supported.
I can't limit it to 5.
I keep trying to, and it doesn't work, I end up leaving out something that I spent a massive amount of time on and also very strongly impacted my conception of what a game can be.
In rough chronological order:
Starflyers
Mario Kart
Shadow cities
COD zombies (ios app version)
Minecraft
I'm stopping this list before high school, as I built my first PC and figured out emulation, so I started playing a lot more games.
In no particular order
Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
Caesar III
Spyro
Metal Gear Solid
Gauntlet
Half life/2 should probably be on there, but it still doesn't feel like an "old" game, especially since I play them every year or two, they haven't left my computer since 2010, and honestly I can't see myself not playing it when I'm 60.
Sopwith
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Super Mario 1 & 3.
688 Attack Sub
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Halo:CE would probably be the single most important, but it just missed my teenage years.
Morrowind
Ocarina of Time
Donkey Kong Country
The Sonic chaos game on dreamcast
Time splitters
Oh man, I remember playing time splitters at my buddies place. We spent so much time building custom maps
I played a lot of Atari and Collecovision as a kid, but games didn’t feel “important” until my family bought our first PC. After that, game consoles in general stopped being important. It was a new world of possibility.
Journeyman was amazing! Great story and pretty amazing 3D rendered graphics for the time.
Lego Star Wars
Discworld
Unreal Tournament
Doom
Halo
Minecraft, Team Fortress 2, Apex Legends, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (1 and 2) and Terraria. I'm not very old X)
Commodore Vic 20/Commodore64: Clowns, Omega Race, a space station game, Ghosts and Goblins, Zork, there was a Transformers game (looked fan made), Lode Runner, and about a dozen more
I was in high school when I bought my first console, so it's pretty much just Landstalker and Phantasy Star IV.
Am I young or everyone else old?
What an interesting way to look at demographics!
No order:
I m old.
You really aren't.
The first one on my list was a game in the arcade, then a game on the Atari 2600 :)
Listing ff8 hurts, my list didn't have a number attached to ff.
Damn, Atari 2600 looks so old. The oldest I have is nes kungfu. The sound effects are classic.
Commander Keen
Neverhood
Earthbound
Super Mario World
Secret of Mana
california games.
Flowers of crystal.
Tetris.
Daedelian opus.
Tetris.
ET because fuck me and fuck that game
Atari 2600 ET?
Yeah. Not the best game ever made :)
Given i was like, five at the time i did not find out that game was so shite it murdered the console industry for decades. I spent .years thinking I was just horrible at videogames. So mad about that.
California games takes me back. That was a classic!
Right there with ya OP!
with a bonus mention for "The Empire Strikes Back" on Atari 2600.
So yeah -- all these games people played as "teenagers" are games I started playing last year, relatively speaking :)
Off the top of my head:
* Karate Champ II (arcade)
* Pac-Land (arcade)
* Gryzor aka Contra (Amstrad CPC)
* Sorcery (Amstrad CPC)
* Xenon (Atari ST)
Oh wait, Elite (BBC, Amstrad, and ST) — probably more so than Xenon.
Twisted Metal 2
Final Fantasy 7
Legend of Dragoon
Final Fantasy 8
Hydro Thunder
Legend of Dragoon. ❤️
I never finished it, as the fourth disc was scratched on the copy I bought used. ☹️
It would definitely be worth downloading and running on an emulator, that last stretch is pretty baller.
Games that i bonded with my siblings playing growing up. Our lives would have not been the same without them.
Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, Xena Warrior Princess, Going Quackers, Pokémon Stadium
I can't believe I left Fallout 1/2 off my list.
Pokémon Red, Pokémon Gold/Silver, Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Call of Duty 4.
I played a lot of games and can list many more, however those are the ones off the top of my head.
Sly cooper
Cod 4
Burnout 3
||| Child Youth gap |||
New Vegas
Borderlands 2
Going to date myself very specifically. 🙃
And here I am trying to figure out what Child Youth Gap is lol
I played through burnout 3 a year ago, it is soooo good still ❤️
The gap between child and teen. Distinct time frames.
It so holds up. Blame that game for the pop punk flavor I love in music lol
That's usually the case for me too, but these games in the screenshot are older than the ones I tend to see in other posts like this so this one doesn't make me feel as old.
Cytus
Pokémon Platinum
Diablo 1
Mabinogi
Yume Nikki
Cytus is pretty much the core of my whole personality (and music taste) so it is The Most Defining game for me. Platinum is special since it was my first game instead of a family game or whatever. Diablo scared the crap out of baby me but I really liked playing it! It was something my entire family played, everyone had a character save.
I always was interested in MMOs but Mabinogi is The One that works for me. I reminded me a lot of Runescape when I played it but didn't have an egregious pay wall behind half the content (when I got to playing mabi, ik they had some pay walled stuff that they've gotten rid of over the years). I play any tab target MMO and I'll just have 'damn I'd rather be playing mabinogi rn' in the back of my head most of the time.
And Yume Nikki was my first real foray into horror. I'm a wimp and hate playing horror games but I loved how vague everything was that I learned everything I could about the game. Enough to guide a friend through it over a phonecall.
Super Mario Bros 3 (on GBA)
Runescape
Pokemon Diamond
Skyrim
COD4
The Secret of Monkey Island
Master of Orion
Dune
Strike Commander
Privateer
The DS wasn't the first gaming machine I ever had, but it was the one I had from ages 13-18 and the one where I cut my teeth.
Don't remember which game specifically, but the moment when you're escaping out if the bowels of a living planet is unforgettable. Also the game is overall kinda creepy, I had hard time playing it lol.
More towards my mid-teens, found about borderlands. Played it through and through, found great people in borderlands forums, it introduced me to so many good songs that are at the top of my playlists to this day. Two very great games.
Speaks for itself. There will never be a game remotely close to how good TF2 was. Even TF2 itself.
Also some honorable mentions:
- A strategy game where you play as a mech that goes nuclear when destroyed, name is long forgotten sadly
- I'm Going In 2
- Hitman Silent Assassin
- Counter Strike 1.6/Source
And only recently I discovered World of Warcraft, specifically Wrath of the Lich King. Don't really have anyone to play with, but sometimes it's fun tanking for the entire group of randoms. I really enjoy tanking, when I know where to lead the group to lol.
Supreme commander?
Definitely supreme commander
Based on the dates of the other games listed, I think it's more likely Total Annihilation. In fairness, Supreme Commander is a spiritual successor; there's also Planetary Annihilation. And I'll just leave this here in case it's of interest...
Yea :D I played both total annihilation and supreme commander, so they blend in my memory a bit
Total Annihilation.
Supreme Commander as mentioned by others was the spiritual successor but I recall it didn't fill the shoes of TA.
I haven't played this yet, but I've heard Beyond All Reason is a very good Total Annihilation-like: https://www.beyondallreason.info/
Omg yes, it's actually both, I played both of them. Thank you!
Listed in reverse order of importance to me. Usually one of these was in my life at any given time, obsessions taking turns.
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F19
Commander Keen
Wolfenstein
Gaïa
As a young adult
Morrowind
Command and conquer -red alert
Fallout3
Patapon 2
Wizard101
Minecraft
Skyrim
in roughly chronological order:
to this day, Titanfall 2 is by far my favorite FPS game. nothing comes even remotely close
It's so hard picking 5 but:
Super mario bros
Half life
Metal gear solid
Driver
Grand theft auto 3
I could just make the list all Pokemon games, but that seems like cheating...
Elite, Hanse, Pirates, Castles of Dr. Creep, Lode Runner.
Bonus points if you know any of them...
Elite was the first "proper" video game I played on a computer. Before that it was all games in the arcade, and on the Atari 2600.
Also (from a certain point of view) the first RPG I played (excluding D&D obviously -- I'm not an animal!).
Well, I'm not as old as some people, but here goes.
• Sonic Mega Collection
• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 ( w/ all expansions )
• Borderlands 1
• Worms Armageddon ( the xbox360 version )
• Destroy All Humans 2
All of these were SNES/genesis other than dominion which was pc.
Whatever hockey game I had on genesis gets an honorable mention. It’s the only purely sports game I’ve ever played and liked.
Hmm definitely Minecraft, Skyrim, and Sa2b. As for the other two… probably Town of Salem and Fantasy Life for the 3ds
I still play Minecraft, I played some modded skyrim last year (and got the oblivion remaster) and I literally got a steam deck primarily so I could play sa2b on it whenever I want. I’ve been loving the fantasy life sequel that just came out too. The only thing I don’t really play anymore is town of Salem bc the servers suck even worse now. So few players that you’re always stuck with racist trolls and shit
Basically, teen me had pretty good taste
super smash bros melee
tomodachi life
sonic adventure 2
will add last 2 if i can think of any
Half Life
Team Fortress Classic
Mecharrior 4: Vengeance
Ocarina of Time
Diddy Kong Racing
Those are the ones where I'd be a different person now without.
Starfox 64
Pokemon Snap
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
Age of Empires 2
Halo (1-3)
Megaman 4
Donkey Kong 64
Paper Mario 64
Assassin's Creed II
Guitar Hero (a lot of them but mostly World Tour)
Super Mario Bros 3
Dark Reign
Unreal Tournament
Homeworld
Gears of War
Counter-Strike 1.4
Counter-Strike 1.5
Counter-Strike 1.6
Call of Duty: United Offensive
Day of Defeat
Pokémon, wow, final fantasy tactic advanced, harvest moon, civilization I guess ?
Lots of honourable mentions though.
And then there were games like Pizza Connection (my mother loved playing all parts except for the action sequences, which were my obligation), Aces over the Pacific, Lands of Lore, One Must Fall: 2097, Mortal Kombat, Stars!, Sinistar, Master of Orion 2, M.A.X., Z, Gender Wars (lol the story was utter trash but the gameplay was fun), Metal Marines (I just loved shooting rockets between windows on my desktop)...
And the longer i think, the longer the list gets because i start to remember more, like Syndicate, Alley Cat (i just found out that there is a Remeow Edition for free!, Abuse, Mechwarrior 2, ...
Damn, gotta look into my old archives and go on a retro rampage this weekend
Most important?
Morrowind.
I was already playing it, when a pack of dogs killed my two geese. One had a broken neck, the other had its guts spilling out.
I'm convinced that Morrowind helped me through my depression, and prevented me from becoming suicidal.
But I also like Drakan: Order of the Flame, Little Big Adventure 2, Dune 2, and Warcraft 1.
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Star Ocean 2, FFVII, Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, Resident Evil 2.
Honorary mention for literal every ps1 game.
I think at least. Mario Kart DS also ranks highly of course, so does Team Fortress 2 and Supreme Commander Forged Alliance. GTA SA/IV, Pokémon Diamond, Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy. I gamed a lot as a kid/teenager so there's plenty that influenced me.
Haven’t thought about populous in a long time!!
Loved the hell out of that game when I was a kid.
I can only think of 4 big ones.
HellMOO, based on LambdaMOO, a text based game/roleplay/sandbox engine.
Blockland, a Lego kind of game about building with much more on top (like how Minecraft is a building game with more to it)
Zelda Majora's Mask / Twilight Princess.
GTA San Andreas (Multi Theft Auto / SA multiplayer mods)
Maybe something like Creatures. I still think of those games.