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[Kazerei]

When I was really young, I mostly remember playing Bubble Bobble, Mario Bros, Rush N Attack, and Stinger on the Famicom. They're all 2-player co-op games, which is important because I sucked at games and my older sister was much better.

 

[that1dude24]

i liked pokemon blue

majoras mask was my next infatuation

 

[Exr]

Little Big Adventure 2. I loved the music, character design, and the full voiceovers. The worlds were so varied and the locations kept changing up. Recently bought it during the GoG sale for 3 dollars so I'll have to revisit it soon.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

Pokemon Red/Blue, then Gold/Silver, and then Ruby/Sapphire. I played an unhealthy amount of Pokemon as a kid. I also liked the Donkey Kong Country games and of course all of the main Mario titles except Sunshine.

 

[Anteater]

I played those handheld games when I was little, but first pc/console game I played was mario bros.

Then it's the nintendo I got. It was Street Fighter 2 arcade that got me really obsessed with gaming.

 

[Coin Return]

Chrono Trigger
Contra III
TMNT IV: Turtles in Time
Dynamite Headdy
Decap Attack
King of the Monsters
Full Throttle
Leisure Suit Larry 7
Day of the Tentacle

Those were favorites of mine before the age of 12, good times.

 

[Seda]

Jazz Jackrabbit
Tyrian
DOOM
Commander Keen
One Must Fall

Basically 90's computer games

 

[Dysun]

Super Mario World
Turtles in Time
Street Fighter 2

 

[Seance]

Pokemon Red, Silver
Crash Bash
CTR
FF7,8
Kotor 1,2
Halo 1,2

 

[Yasawas]

Most of you make me feel really old. I was a Spectrum child so:

Jet Set Willy
Kickstarter 2
Chuckie Egg
Lemmings

I think Lemmings might've been the last game I bought before I got a MegaDrive at some point in the early 90s and was then spoilt with like graphics and stuff.

 

[thefit]

2600

 

[Currygan]

Super Mario World
Syndicate
King's Quest V-VI
Zak McKracken
Alone in the dark
Day of the tentacle
Monkey Island 1-2-3
Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis
Super Mario Land 2
Zelda ALTTP
Street Fighter 2
Wolfenstein 3D
Rebel Assault
Kid Dracula
The hunchback (c64)
Super Turrican

 

[Canis lupus]

Crash, Spyro, Rayman, Croc, Frogger, Mortal Kombat, Driver and Driver 2.

 

[LeadenStride]

Hm, as a small kid I liked Mario Bros and a couple of C64 games like Fast Eddy and Crillion the most. As a ten-year-old my favorites were Banjo Kazooie, Ocarina of Time and especially Secret of Evermore.

 

[BocoDragon]

There's a lot of obvious stuff... Mario 3, Mario World, Zelda:LttP, Final Fantasy VI...

But for an original pick, I loved M.C. Kids. What happens when you take McDonalds propaganda, add a splash of hip-hop, and make a Mario clone? Pure awesome.

 

[SmokedMeat]

I don't think there was any particular game that got me into gaming. Having grown up during Pac-Man fever, and at the height of arcade popularity it was just something that grabbed you and didn't let go.
My favorite games/arcade games as a kid were River Raid, Popeye, Pac-Man, and Q*Bert.

 

[bobeth]

Punchout and Zelda

 

[Bending_Unit_22]

Zelda III was and is my favorite game ever. I also loved Uncharted Waters 2, PTO, and Civilization.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Pokemon

 

[someguyinahat]

Didn't even occur to me until years later that it was strange to be serving Root Beer.

LOVED this game as a kid. Still do. I was introduced to it on my cousin's C64, and later on my PC. Saw two versions of it: one was Budweiser (which made sense) and the other featuring an odd prophecy:

 

[sniperpon]

From ages 4-10, some of my favorite games were:

Joust (Atari 7800)
Rampage (Atari 7800)
Toejam & Earl (Sega Genesis)
Phantasy Star II (Sega Genesis)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis).

In my early teen years (if that counts as childhood):

Wolfenstein 3d (PC)
One Must Fall: 2097 (PC)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo (3DO)
Star Control II (3DO)
Guardian War (3DO)

 

[Chemo]

Kid Icarus and Metroid.

 

[Melchiah]

Born in 1975.

C64:
Racing Destruction Set
Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Boulder Dash

Amiga:
Stunt Car Racer
Shadow of the Beast
Barbarian II
Battle Squadron
Altered Beast
Double Dragon II

That's all I can remember right now.

 

[Myriadis]

89'er here. I remember that we had a NES with the 3 in 1 cartridge (SMB,Tetris and World Soccer) and I remeber playing only World Soccer.
But I really started playing when I was 7 or 8, with Super Mario 64. Finished it several times. Ocarina of Time also counts.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Super Mario World an Illusion of Time (of Gaia for americans), as games that really captured my heart. F-Zero also
Before that you can count Punch-Out on the nes, super mario land on the game boy and that game of the robber that had to scape from the mall from the Atari 2600

 

[Strike]

Super Mario Bros. 3, Sonic, Vectorman, Streets of Rage, Mortal Kombat, Power Stone, Goldeneye, NBA Hang Time, etc.

 

[Rand0m TAG]

my first games:
bubble bobble
commander keen 4
wolfenstein
some dino game
oregon trails

console:
goldeneye and ocarina of time

 

[zsidane]

Donkey Kong Country.

What a fucking slap in my face!

 

[Acquiescence]

I was a Sonic nut as a kid. I had a Mega Drive and a SNES during my childhood, thanks to my elder siblings, and I would always for-go the Mario games in favour of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. I was crazy about them, yet so crap at the same time. I wish we had memory cards back then instead of having to start at the beginning again. I was a huge platforming enthusiast that gen, so while Sonic got most of the attention, I devoted a lot of time to the likes of Ristar, Dynamite Headdy, Earthworm Jim 1 & 2, Toejam & Earl, Donkey Kong Country, a lot of Disney licensed platformers like Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion, etcetera etcetera. Ristar is the one that I think back on most fondly. To this day I still credit it as the greatest platformer I've ever played.

Lots of Street Fighter 2 on the SNES too. Dhalsim was my main because he was piss easy to use and I would just spam his extended limbs over and over, as those moves required no thumb dexterity whatsoever. Dabbled in Mortal Kombat, but mostly just watched with glee as my brother revelled in the gruesome hysteria of fatalities.

I was 10 when I got my Playstation. That's when the nostalgia really began. Truly that was the magic era.

 

[EvilMario]

The Atari 2600 was the system of my childhood and the only system I had until 1990 when we bought a Game Boy and a couple years later, a Super NES. So a lot of my memories are of bad arcade ports (Donkey Kong, gah). But I didn't know any better and enjoyed the hell out of them.

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[Ronian]

GB:
Super Mario Land 1-3
Tetris
Pokemon Blue


Super NES:
Secret of Mana
Super Mario Kart
Terranigma
Zelda III
Donkey Kong Country 2

N64:
Super Mario 64
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Banjo&Kazooie
F-Zero GX
Diddy Kong Racing

Good times!

 

[Chocobro]

Kirby Super Star
Pokemon Gold
Pokemon Crystal
Mega Man Battle Network 3: Blue Version

I missed out on Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow because my younger brother had the first GameBoy in the house and was playing them. I had to wait a few months to get my own translucent GB to play Gold and Crystal. Fun times

 

[c0Zm1c]

Astro Wars (stand alone unit), Star Raiders and Twilight Worlds (Atari 65XE) are three games I remember enjoying back in the mid/late 1980s. But I didn't really get into gaming properly until I bought a Megadrive in the early 1990s, starting with games such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Alien 3, Afterburner 2 and Chuck Rock.

 

[Salsa]

thread's more fun if we post the less remembered games

fuckin loved Bucky O' Hare for the NES.

 

[xelios]

Earliest (NES) favorites, the ones I can vividly remember playing/finishing:

Crystalis
Goonies II
Shadowgate
Mario 2
Guardian Legend
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Zelda II: Link
Dragon Warrior(s)
Metroid
Blaster Master
Willow
Faxanadu


I'm 27 so although you might think SNES would be my first system you'd be wrong; I was playing the above with my older cousins VERY early in life (4+). RPGs quickly became my favorite though and that only grew tenfold when I got an SNES and Secret of Mana, which I finished co-op with my dad.

 

[Despera]

Random choice:

Pepsiman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKHPxpNZ8_s

This game was freaking hilarious and surprisingly good overall.

 

[Paladin CL]

Xwing, Tie Fighter, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Jedi Knight, Wing Commander 1 and 2 ,Stunts, Test Drive the Duel, Carmageddon, Dune 2, Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Eye of the Beholder, Baldurs Gate 1, Fallout 1, Doom 1-2, Mortal Kombat, Wolfenstein.
Edit: Joust and Archon when i was really young.

Those to name a few.

 

[Gustav]

ToeJam & Earl
Road Rash II
Streets of Rage II
WWF Royal Rumble
Sonic 2

 

[SJRB]

High scores in vandalism, rock on! I love how the neighborhood ends with an obstacle course and a roaring crowd.

It was hard as balls too from what I remember, I don't think I ever finished it.

But still, great fun throwing newspapers through people's windows and having them chase you down the street.

 

[Stencil]

Earthbound. Link to the Past. Pokemon. Jet Grind Radio. Lunar Eternal Blue. Digimon World.

 

[BosSin]

Sonic 2 and Revenge of Shinobi

 

[Kisaya]

Pokemon Stadium

 

[Dion Blaster]

Pokemon Red/Blue
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
Super Mario World (Advance)
Super Mario 64
Banjo-Kazooie

 

[Ryaaan14]

Super Mario Bros 3
Mortal Kombat II
Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Donkey Kong Country
Primal Rage (lol)
Killer Instinct
Super Mario 64
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Star Fox 64

 

[Muramasa]

SNES: Super Mario World, Zelda - alttp, Donkey Kong Country 2
GB(C): Wario Land 2, Pokemon Yellow, Zelda Oracle of, Zelda links awakening
GBA: Metroid Fusion, Golden Sun (lost age),
PC: MGS1, Sim City 3000, Diablo 1/2, Gothic, Gta 2, Warcraft 1-3


love them all.

 

[mktrOOp]

Giana Sisters
Boulder Dash
Super Mario World
Super Mario Allstars
Super Mario Kart
F-Zero
Yoshis Island

and Lego Island, as a kid this game blew my mind lol

 

[Dark Schala]

Spoiler

Sorry if this thread makes anyone feel old

I can't imagine playing Mega Man games as a kid, how did you guys not break those NES controllers?

I'm not even old and you're making me feel old with this comment alone. :lol

The first game my cousins made me play was Battletoads NES. I'm dead serious. It was awful, and I didn't want to learn how to play video games ever again after that. I cried because all I did was die and die and die and die and die.

Then they let me play Mega Man 2. But even though I was freaking awful at it, I couldn't help but to fall in love with it. I loved the art design. I loved how the levels were designed. I fucking loved the music. Honestly, if it weren't for MM2, I wouldn't have started playing games at all. They followed it up with Super Mario Bros, Zelda 1, and Contra. So... that's how I started playing games. I grew up playing a lot of the stuff my older cousins played so I ended up getting exposed to stuff I wouldn't have played on my own otherwise. Heck, I even went to the arcades with them.

My favourites from when I just started playing games include:
-Sonic games (I loved the colours and the music first and foremost, but shit, I loved going fast and then curling into a ball and then bouncing off enemies to go even higher.)
-Super Mario Bros 3 (again, I liked the colours and the music. The powerups were ridiculously fun to use)
-Mega Man 2,3,5 (I've gushed about Mega Man already)
-Phantasy Star (I ... colours... spritework... first person dungeon crawling... looked awesome, etc. I like the second one better, but since we're talking about stuff I played when I just started out...)
-Dragon Warrior 3 (day/night system blew me away, and it looked fantastic)
-Faxanadu (the music was effing awesome, platforming and attacking was fun)
-Ys: the Vanished Omens (I thought the NPC conversations were interesting to look at, combat system was... something to get used to, but I liked the music a lot)
-TMNT Arcade (Um, I think this had more to do with the fact that I was really into TMNT)
-Bubble Bobble Arcade (always asked for more money to play it, and that music is an earworm)
-Gun Smoke Arcade (I've played both versions of this, and I think both have their merits, but I think I remember being more fond of this version)

Hah, I think most of the games I loved to play the most either had great music or they looked fantastic. Going back and reading what I wrote about MM2, that game is most likely the culprit behind that.

If I talked about the stuff I enjoyed playing a ton around the PS/N64/SNES eras (because because the SNES/PCE/Sonic CD stuff bled into the NES/Genesis/SMS stuff at that time), this list would have been long, so I didn't bother with those.

It's funny. My cousins started me off on Famicom/NES/SMS/Genesis games even though they had a fully-functioning SNES on-hand to use as a teaching tool. Hm.

 

[18-Volt]

That's a hard question. I've got more than 250 games by the time I was 10 (born in 84). Best one? Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past, maybe. Most played? Super Street Fighter II.

 

[Sgblues]

Hmmm like a crapton of favorites but if I had to pick a few it would be:

NES:

Super Mario Bros 1 2 3
Kirby's Adventure
Castlevania 1 and 3
Double Dragon 1 and 2
Legend of Zelda
Contra and Super Contra
River City Ransom

Snes:

Super Mario World
Yoshi's Island
Super Metroid
Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2
Battletoads in Battlemanaics


Sega Genesis:

Sonic 1, 2, 3, sonic and knuckles
Streets of Rage 1 2 3
Gunstar Heroes
Shinobi 3


Arcade:

Street fighter II(plus its many editions)
Final Fight
X-men arcade game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II and turtles in time
NBA Jam
Killer Instinct
King of Fighters
Mortal Kombat 1 2 3 ultimate
Altered Beast
Golden Axe
Ghosts & Goblins


and far,far,far too many to mention

 

[VitalNerve]

FF7, 8, 9 and 10
Kotr 1
Pokemon (started from red and continues.)
Diablo 2, I have probably sunk more time into this game than in any other game.
Zelda: OoT
Street Fighter 2
Perfect Dark
Tekken 3
Half-Life 1&2
CS
and finally the MGS series

I wish I could go back and re experience all of these game for the first time again, these were absolutely incredible.