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[tornjaw]

Definitely a toss up. I was in Second grade in 1992. I'd seen my uncle play the original Legend of Zelda and Zelda II and tried it myself. But this game was really what I would say made me a "gamer".

However, little over a year later this game came out:

Spoiler

"Want some rye? Course you do!"

I used to play the original Zorks with my father on a Commodore 64, so the evolution of a text based adventure to one with sounds and VIDEO blew my mind.

 

[-Stranger-]

I was about 8 or 9 years old when this came out, my mind was blown.

 

[Pat]

Look at that virgin Conker. So happy. So proud to drive a racing car. A good self-esteem before having sex for the first time... And then,

Seriously, Zelda: ALTTP and OoT would be my choice.

 

[insane0hflex]

Ah, the memories.

Scrounging up 70$ to buy a gameboy with my brother at age 7 (he was 8)...best of times. We bought the yellow pokemon version with the gameboy that had a pikachu on it.

It took us like two months (and like all of our savings) to get that money, we were pretty poor growing up =)

OP is the worst person in the world, thanks for the nostalgia.

 

[JimmyRustler]

Assassins Creed II

(not srs)

Unfortunately not that young any more. Not that I regret anything. Because otherwise I wouldn't have lived through the 90s. What gets me nostalgic is this:

I fell in love with this game the first time I laid eyes on it. I was 10 years old. Had to bother my mom for months until she eventually bought me the DC. Playing this game at night, getting stuck and then discussing how to proceed next day in school.... wouldn't want to miss these memories.

 

[George Claw M.D.]

Best game of all-time. I can listen to the music of this game anytime, anyday and it makes me feel warm and tingly. The boxart alone stirs emotions.

Oh, that's good! Very good!


Digging back a little further...

Get off my lawn!

 

[Blablurn]

Final Fantasy VII and MGS1

 

[Black_Stride]

lol adult. I feel bad that your nostalgia consist of games like Galaxy.

Hahaha this has to be one of the funniest mean post ive read on GAF.
Well done.

 

[BeekleMatter]

*whimpers*

 

[BasilZero]

Super Mario World

My first game

 

[Persona86]

Sonic
Alex The Kid(my first Master System game)
Cool Spot
Streets of Rage
OCARINA OF TIME!!! (read every magazine I could to get info for like a year before it came out, I was like "You can ride a horse!? BEST GAME EVER!)
Diddy Kong Racing(my first N64 game)
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Super Mario 64
Resident Evil 1-3
Bomberman 64
Final Fantasy 6-10
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (so weird especially the ending, yet so right)
Revenge Of Shinobi
MGS
Banjo Kazooie
Donkey Kong 64

Etc

 

[Melfice7]

Gain Ground - Mega Drive

Goldeneye - N64

 

[sublimit]

Tomb Raider 2
It was the game that got me back in this hobby and i have some great memories playing it together with someone i knew back then.

 

[Anuxinamoon]

This! So much this!

And of course always pokemans <3

 

[AZ Greg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2xnWT7W8sY

 

[Grief.exe]

*whimpers*

I think you are confusing liking a game and nostalgia.

That game literally came out exactly 8 years ago, no way you are already nostalgic about that.

Just choosing some examples from 2004, I really enjoyed Half Life 2, MGS3, Fable, GTA:SA, Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and Doom 3, but that doesn't make me nostalgic about them.
I know this is a very subjective statement, but only 8 years ago?

Serious answer. Has to be Pokemon Blue, I remember being completely sucked in by that game when it originally came out.
I remember we had some kind of family dinner at my grandparent's house and I kept saying that my stomach hurt. I would just go to the bathroom and play on my original gameboy.

 

[Risette]

I think you are confusing liking a game and nostalgia.

That game literally came out exactly 8 years ago, no way you are already nostalgic about that.

Just choosing some examples from 2004, I really enjoyed Half Life 2, MGS3, Fable, GTA:SA, Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and Doom 3, but that doesn't make me nostalgic about them.
I know this is a very subjective statement, but only 8 years ago?

Serious answer. Has to be Pokemon Blue, I remember being completely sucked in by that game when it originally came out.
I remember we had some kind of family dinner at my grandparent's house and I kept saying that my stomach hurt. I would just go to the bathroom and play on my original gameboy.

8 years is a long time.

Pokemon Blue would've been 8 years old in 2006, 2007 in Europe. 2004 for the Japanese version, though. Would you not have been nostalgic back then?

 

[widgetraf]

Easily the classic SNES RPGs for me.

Final Fantasy 3 (6)
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Illusions of Gaia
etc, etc, etc

Born 1985 here.


On a separate note, there needs to be an exclusive forum for those born in the 1980s. NO KIDS ALLOWED.

 

[kittens]

No game makes me more nostalgic than:

I still adore it so much. It's not my favorite game, or even my favorite Zelda. But there's something about it that feels so genuine and personal. It oozes personality and charm.

 

[Anuxinamoon]

Serious answer. Has to be Pokemon Blue, I remember being completely sucked in by that game when it originally came out.
I remember we had some kind of family dinner at my grandparent's house and I kept saying that my stomach hurt. I would just go to the bathroom and play on my original gameboy.

LOL so good!
I used to wake up at like 4am to sneak in a few hours before school.

 

[AlexSmash]

I was 11 years old when this was announced at E3 2006, and started to beg my mom for it. Because of this game, I googled and found so many forums (such as Nintendo's NSider Forums, which ultimately led me here). I created my first mega-thread at 12 a few months before the release of the game. I made so many online friends because of this game. It's what got me interested in Nintendo's corporate culture and watching E3s. It also reminds me the good old days of middle school.

Today, I am an adult awaiting the release of Wii's successor. Wow.

I like how this is an example how Nintendo just always seems to amaze new gamers with the same franchise for 25 years

 

[Fjordson]

My answer would be World of Warcraft. Not very old compared to a lot of other answers in here, but my memories associated with it simply resonate stronger than my memories of any other game. Even though I've been playing games since I got a NES back in '88

That initial 3-4 year period of vanilla WoW is possibly the most fun I've ever had with a video game. It was a great game, but more importantly it was my first MMO so that social element elevated it all to another level. I played with my brother and a close group of friends and it was pure magic. Even made some new friends who live in Montreal, Canada that I still talk to. Every single day whenever we could we'd be on, hanging out in Ventrilo, talking about anything and everything and literally playing all day. The addiction was especially crazy in the summer. There'd be a whole group of us on vent playing until like 4 AM. And then I'd sleep until 2 in the afternoon, wake, and do it all over again.

Very nostalgic for me I think because of the people and because I was still in college at the time. I've lost contact with some of those friends, and I'm sadly not as close with my brother these days as I was back then. Thinking back on it all is very bittersweet. Definitely one of those things where you wish you could go back.

I think you are confusing liking a game and nostalgia.

That game literally came out exactly 8 years ago, no way you are already nostalgic about that.

Just choosing some examples from 2004, I really enjoyed Half Life 2, MGS3, Fable, GTA:SA, Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and Doom 3, but that doesn't make me nostalgic about them.
I know this is a very subjective statement, but only 8 years ago?

If nostalgia is a certain longing for the past, or more specifically a period of time associated with happiness, then I don't see why eight years isn't far enough back.

 

[goldensun]

(see username, lol)

(man, this game kicked all kinds of ass)

Edit; since the topic asks for just one, then Golden Sun will forever be the one game that gets me the most nostalgic.

I've beaten it countless times over the span of my thus short lived life (I'm only 21), and it never gets old.

 

[Canis lupus]

2006 gets you nostalgic?

 

[Nosgoroth]

Psycho Fox for the Master System would do that to me. Or Ristar for MD, or Shinobi GG. Thinking about the Sonic games just make me feel sad deep down, though, the nostalgia there has been killed.

I had a friend that had a SNES, but he lived far from me. Once, I went to his house and he showed me SMW, and it was amazing. Years later, when I had retreated to PC gaming because, eh, Sega CD, 32X and all that were expensive, he showed me SM64 and I think my mind broke then and there. A friend closer to me bought a N64 and SSB and we would play for hours every day, and then my next console a few years later was a GBA. So those three titles also have a lot of nostalgia value for me.

And Jet Force Gemini. Rare

 

[PKrockin]

Most of the games I played when I was young have been used and abused by other games and media for nostalgia appeal that nothing gets me nostalgic anymore.

 

[Izayoi]

WHY AM I SO OLD

WHAT HAPPENED

 

[Jawmuncher]

Doesn't get much more nostalgic than Metal Gear Solid on PS1.
I can play that game today and it always feels like the first time I played it.

Aside from that my other game would be Resident Evil 3.
I love the evolution I had with the game, from being to scared to play it.
To playing the hell out of it. Which was a lot of fun.

 

[Typhoon_Ex]

Every time I hear a reference or see a screen shot, I get very nostalgic. I played that game like there was no tomorrow.

 

[Soodanim]

The instant answers are Streets of Rage 2 and Sonic 2, as they were my most played games. But super nostalgia comes from my first Master System games: Shinobi, Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, and R-Type. No wonder I love ninjas. Notable mention: Croc for PS1. It was the first game I had for it, and it was awesome.

 

[cartman414]

The second wave ('88-'90) of NES gets me super nostalgic. Contra, Life Force, Zelda 2, SMB 2/3, Mega Man 2...

 

[Myriadis]

I hooked up my N64 recently just to play Diddy Kong Racing again. It took me over 10 years to accumulate enough nostalgia to hook my system up.

David Wise is my idol.

So catchy. I wish I was a genius composer :/

EDIT:

LOOK AT THESE GUYS. Best cast and best kart racer ever. Mario Kart, Sonic and Sega All-Stars, LBP Karting, UnKarted, Crash Team Racing all have nothing on this game.

I played this game with a friend a week ago. The ice pyramid battle stage. It was one of the most intense deathmatches I ever had.

For me, it is Ocarina of Time. But to be honest, playing it today really shows the flaws the game has.

 

[evil_ash_xero]

Probably A Link To The Past and Sonic 3. I had some pretty important stuff happen around those time frames, so they're always bringing back memories.

 

[Hanmik]

Not a game.. but a name..

ohh the memories from my childhood.. I can shed manly tears only by thinking of the good old days in my room with my old 24" CRT TV (it had text TV) and my Commodore 64... damn I´m old...damn..

 

[ChackanKun]

Panzer Dragoon Saga

Others put me in nostalgia-mode, but none like this little beast!

 

[ScreenSplitter]

The year was 2000. My Mum was probably the only parent around that hadn't bought me a Gameboy, as she wanted me to do regular things like play with toys and play outside (she didn't let me play outside...). Anyway, Christmas 2000 she caved and I got a Purple Gameboy Color with Pokemon Yellow & Rayman. I watched the home movie recently, and it was pretty heart-warming/embarrassing to see me collectively lose my shit over it.

Before I got the aforementioned Gameboy, one of the only ways I could play video games was my neighbour's Sega Megadrive. Whenever my parents went around for drinks, I'd tag along and he'd put this on for me, except he'd use a Game Genie so I could just basically play through unhindered. And looking back, that was a good choice, because when I got the game on PS1 years later, it was hard as fuck. For a game built around Mickey Mouse, it was absolutely brutal.

You'd be playing through a creepy castle level, a skeleton would jump out. You had to kill it using marbles or jumping on it, but it wasn't just that. The skeleton would then explode into a shower of flying bones, each of which could damage you and take one of your precious five hit points. And that was just the second level. I've still never managed to complete it fully. But I still love it so much. The graphics, the levels, the music.

 

[Laughing Banana]

The fuck you OP responses are really funny, hahahah.

This game, I am playing it all the time through college:

So many memories..........

 

[SmokyDave]

Nostalgia for a current generation game?

What?

My pick would be Jack The Nipper II: Coconut Capers on C64 I reckon.

 

[ScreenSplitter]

A sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

No mention of the span of time that needs to have passed for nostalgia to set in. My last game that evokes those sort of feelings would probably be Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. That was only 9 years ago, but in context I was only 10.

 

[Sviatoslav]

Shenmue, baby. Still nothing like it.

 

[Canis lupus]

Tekken 3 gets me all nostalgic, matter of fact, everything from the late 90s lol.

 

[IrishNinja]

i remember back when pokemon black/white 2 was first announced, it was a really exciting time then

 

[Jockel]

Man, those were the days.

They don't even make them like that anymore.

Spoiler

Serious answer:

 

[HiiiLife]

Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

 

[hertog]

A lot to choose from but if I need to narrow it down to one.

Just listening to a single track from the OST gets me all emotional.

wanted to post his.... well then this as a bonus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOv3tmcJnQ

*snif*

 

[Footos22]

YOU CANNOT BE NOSTALGIC ABOUT ....LIKE.. FUCKING..YESTERDAY.

This, im playing mario Galaxy now! TMNT or Super Mario 3 is nostalgia.
Not a 6 year old game lol

Actually Robo Warrior <3 that music.

 

[Dictator93]

I remember seeing The Witcher for the first time. I was 9.

I am now a man.

All that plowing

 

[TheLastFantasy]

Always.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

It's not just one game, but Silent Hill 2/3 make me feel nostalgic about my first semester at college. They were also the games that got me interested in titles not named Final Fantasy. I had to go out of my way to get both games because at the time they were incredibly hard to find used, and were expensive. Silent Hill 3 was $30 and because it was used, no soundtrack was included. Regardless, it was worth it. I love those games, and experiencing them for the first time was incredible.

 

[Newblade]

King Quest VI

I didn't even understand what was going on due to my low level of english at the time, so I kept dying in horrible ways. It made it all the more fascinating.