Nostalgia: Games That Made An Impression On You

First PC game I killed time on was Leisure Suit Larry. After that, long periods of hiatus. Duke Nukem and Doom/Doom 2 were great. Got into Battlefield/ BF2 recently. Had a lot of fun and I should probably get back into gaming for a bit.

 

Myst? MYST!!!!?!?!?!?! ------ > OUT!!!

Most overrated game of all time was Myst. I preferred Return to Zork!

haha.

In the dos thread I decided to count all my favourites then freaked out how many games I actually played haha so I'll only comment on games others have played

Was never into M$ Flight Sim, all the flight sims I liked had guns! haha.

SimCity 2000 was where I started with that series. I played System Shock/2. Doom/II plus Aliens Doom! and who knows how many other mods! I played this via dialup too 1st intro into multiplayer. C&C and GP2 are the other games I recall dialing up to. By the time Quake came out would of been one of the last dialup games b4 playing over net. Also Quake was 1st game I played a 16player LAN match. We installed it on a DEC server @ college during a UNIX class haha.

Of course Duke Nukem was fun. Lots of doom clones at the time. Heretic/Hexen, ROTT etc.

Yeah I have all my boxes stored away as well

Need for Speed series was one of the 1st games that introduced me to 3d cards. My friend had got a Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo card from the states tho I didn't buy a 3d card till the Voodoo2's came out.

Ultima series. I know most didn't like Ultima 8 but I loved it! I reinstalled it again recently, the game hasn't aged well

 

One word "Fatality!" In college all I did besides drink beer was play Mortal Kombat.

 

Wing Commander.

The first game where your performance changed the outcome of the story. I'd fly my fighter back to the mothership just to hear the compliments and praise of the others and watch as the story played out favorably. If i had a bad performance i'd almost be afraid and ashamed to land back into the mothership.

 

Spy Hunter, Bezerk, Sinistar, Battlezone, Joust...

 

Jumpman and Epyx Winter Olympics on my C64.

Castle Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake, Hexen and Descent for PC.

Some of the driving games for PC, too - mostly Grand Prix.

 

I'm afraid this will date me...

http://www.virtualapple.org/decathalondisk.html

 

Geez, you guys are youg-uns...

I can remember hanging out for hours at a 7-11 up the street from where I lived, playing the original Asteroids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_%28video_game%29). IF I remember correctly, the other favorite of the time Space Invaders was right next to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders

And then Defender was my next addiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_%28video_game%29

I remember when my local Putt-Putt arcade received it's "Dragon's Lair" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair) There was always a line to play, and we played for hours. The "laserdisc" video "graphics" were unbelievable for the time - we had never seeen anything like it.

One of my favorite arcade games is Crystal Castles. I'd love to have one in my house.

 

As a kid i wasted most of my allowance on those very games. I just picked up a space invaders cartridge for my atari 2600 this weekend. The first one i'd had since 1980 just died.

 

Quake II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for SNES, Gran Turismo 1. Hmm probably more, but can't remember right now. Played Super Mario Bro's a lot too, but I'm so fed up with them.

 

Same here. The real shocker was when Dragons Lair came out, and it was 2 tokens (or 50 cents) to play! That would eat up my $3-$5 pretty fast!

 

I have a very extensive list with a lot of games you guys have already mentioned. For me, games are a big break from reality and I try to put myself into the character's position. I can't deny that video games have been a big part of my life. Here's some I can remember right off:

Golden Axe, Splatterhouse and MK at the 7-11, Contra, any/all games with the powerpad, Combat (Atari), Dooms/Quakes/Hexen/Heretic (like most of you guys! ), Desert/Jungle/Nuclear Strike, Master Blaster, MS Flight Sim 2k4 and X, Battlefield 1942 and the others, and of course, Tetris.

There are several others but I can't think of them right now...my mind is too excited for finally buying Modern Warfare 2 for PC tonight.

 

My history is here. http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264142

I started hanging out in arcades from the early 80's I remember when Space Invaders was on a black n white tv and they used cellophane colours on the screen to show the different monsters haha

Dragon Lair if you look at it now was pretty crappy and everything that should be avoided in making games, ie: quicktime events it did have awesome graphics for it's time which suckered alot of ppl in but at the end of the day there wasn't much gameplay just choosing the correct direction at the correct time.

 

Hah, I wasn't even BORN yet when those were popular. It is truly amazing how my friends and I can complain about bad graphics when only twenty years ago, young people went to places called "Arr-Cades" to use huge boxes called "Arr-Cade Games" which had only a few colorful buttons and a tiny display in what appeared to be 160x140 resolution, covered with cellophane to give the appearance of color.


Recently I've gotten back into the classic Nintendo 64 games with their availability on other platforms including the P.C. My favorites:

Super Mario 64
Mario Kart
Super Smash Bros.

 

As bad as the arcade graphics were the video game systems of the time (atari 2600, intellivision, NES etc.) would all brag how their games have arcade like graphics. Those awful graphics were the standard the consoles were reaching for.

 

sigh...

 

Wolfenstein 3D was awesome. Had the map printed out with all the secret areas, probably still do in the basement somewhere.

 

You missed out.

 

This is classic Nintendo. I still have this under the house somewhere!
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Almost forgot about this... circa 1977. I remember only a few "lucky" kids had on of these in junior high - we used to fight to play it.

Nothing like the excitement of little red "-"'s moving across the screen, with accompanying blips and bleeps!
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Ah, after reading the posts after mine I noticed a mistake. When referring to the "Classic Nintendo 64 Games" I was referring to the original popular games as classic, not the classic nintendo. Just to clear that up

 

Goodtimes..goodtimes


The battle of the minus signs

 

They're still available new (or at least the Football 2)

http://www.amazon.com/Arco-Toys-Ltd-43567-Football/dp/B00007MIBZ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1262659042&sr=8-2