What games do you remember from your childhood?

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There are a few that I remember playing on for hours. Which heightens that sence of being gutted that these games have either had successors that weren't as good, or no successor at all.

Transport Tycoon- Whilst everybody was gawking at Railroad Tycoon, I was constantly immersed in one of Chris Sawyer's (of Rollercoaster Tycoon Fame) earlier creations. This game was much more immersive and atmospheric than Chris's Spritual Successor, Locomotion

Fragile Alligiance- A Real-time x4 game where you had to mine a asteroid field without getting destroyed. Customizable Ships (out fit your Armada manually with different weapons and shields), and Inter-Spacial Missiles, and the weapons system to counter them.

Ascendency- A Pseudo-Turn/Real Time Based x4 game whereby you have different powers, depending on species you are. I think there was a race who could summon a black hole to destroy a ship, regardless of size. There was supposed to be a successor, but the development team are kind of in a hiatus.

Were there any games you miss?
 
Wolf3d, Math Blaster, Reader Rabbit, Seven Cities of Gold, Dark Forces, Outlaws, X-COM: UFO Defense, Heroes of Might and Magic
 
Theme Hospital (loved that game! Completed 7 levels in one night once!)
Tuneland (musical game for 2-5 year olds. I remember some of the songs so well!)
Fun House (only remember a little bit of this game; wish I could remember more!)
Zoombinis (still love this game. Unfortunately I can't play it on my computer any more. I wish I could though, I miss it!)
 
Wolf3d, Transport Tycoon, X-Wing *the original*, a game for DOS called Mars, or something like that, Police Quest, and of course, Mario Brothers.
 
Top Gun (by Spectrum Holobyte, a now defunct developer. For its time, it had awesome graphics and very good gameplay).
Jazz Jackrabbit
Tomcat Alley
 
Donkey Kong mother****ers.

edit: With co-op bitches.
 
Bubsy and close encnounters of the furred kind.

Contra at this arcade. Turtles in Time at another Arcade. Mace, Glover, and Mario 64.

Pokemon, probably 200+ hours
 
Pokemon, Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart, Golden Eye, Duck Hunt.
 
N64: SSB, GoldenEye, Zelda
Sega: Sonic, Echo (Ecco?), + others that i've forgotten the names of
PC: Duke Nukem
 
The very first videgame I played was Duckhunt for the NES. The very first FPS for PC(fav genre) was Rise of the Triad , drunken missiles and god mode with the god hand. He made funny noises in god mode like a martial arts monk of some sort.

Oh yah I remember this silly time where I wanted Chex Mix so badly just to get the videogame.
 
NHL(Genesis)
Duck Hunt(NES)
James Pond(Genesis)
ToeJam and Earl(Genesis)
Earthworm Jim(Genesis too I think?)

many many more for SNES and GameBoy and GameGear.
 
Sonic the hedgehog 2
Super Mario Bros
Terminator 2 the arcade game (I bet no one expecte that :p )
Half Life (my first PC game :) )
Goldeneye
Tekken 2

EDIT: forgot doom
 
Mostly old arcade games. Outrun, Wonderboy, Chase HQ, Operation Wolf, Space Harrier, Afterburner, SF2. I'd save up all my pocket money, look under sofa cushions for pennies, beg and steal, then spunk it all down the local arcade.
 
Doom
Flashback
Fade to Black (No idea why I remember these last two)
StarWing
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
C&C: Red Alert
Theme Hospital
Sim City 2000
The Need for Speed
Street Fighter :)laugh: Pissed off everyone with my button-mashing)

A lot of those games I just remember playing with my older brothers, or watching them play when I was a wee lad. I didn't really play many games until the N64 came around.
 
The Immortal on Sega MegaDrive/Genesis was a great game for the time (also downloadable as freeware now from that link). I also loved Rings of Power, which was an old RPG for the MegaDrive that ruled and had an enormous game world, but which no one I knew had ever played. And who could forget Road Rash 1 and Road Rash 2, simply superb games back in the day... All the abovementioned games are freeware from those links, if you want to check them out (Rings of Power especially).

...hang on a minute, just what the hell is this Game Fabrique site that I've been linking to? I just googled for a place that would provide some background info for my namedropping, but this place is AWESOME! I can't believe I'm finally able to play Rings of Power again!
 
Wolf3D, Commander Keen, Operation: Wolf, Sonic the Hedgehog (on master system for me), Olympic Gold, etc...
 
I loved the Master System version of Sonic. I completed it with something like 29 extra lives to spare one time.
 
007 Goldeneye, Cruise-n-the world, Pong, Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Vigilante 8,Pac-Man
 
Adventure Island
Duck Hunt
Doom
Hexen
Dark Forces
Donkey Kong Country
SMB 3
Super Mario RPG
X-wing Vs. Tie Fighter
Sim City and Sim City 2000.


Gosh we have some youngin's here if "Goldeneye" were from your childhood.
 
Space Quest 3, watching a neighbor play Mechwarrior (2?)... Something Sam?

Wolfenstein 3d, as well.

Later on, Dark Forces 2, Age of Empires and sequels, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance...
 
Twisted Metal series
Mega Man Legends
Resident Evil
Metal Gear Solid
Counter-Strike beta
Command and Conquer series
Deus Ex for the 1st time!!!!!!!


Man only i can go back and play those games like i did before.
 
Atari2600:
Donkey Kong
Frogger
A bunch of others I forgot the names of that weren't worth remembering. :|

NES:
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros2
Super Mario Bros3
Double DragonII
Ninja GaidenII
ZeldaII (believe it or not, I've never played the first Zelda. :| )
Crystalis (An action/rpg title by SNK similar to Zelda. My favorite NES game too.)
Dr. Mario
MegaMan 1,2,3,4,and 5. (I got MM6 for my birthday, but my NES died before I could ever play it. I was sad.) ;(
Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout

SNES:
Super Mario World
Zelda:A Link To The Past
Super Mario RPG:The Legend Of The Seven Stars (My first traditional turn-based RPG):)
Super Scope 6 and the 6 games that came with it in one pak.
Chrono Trigger
Final FantasyIII
MegaMan X, X2, and X3

Sega Genesis:
All Sonic games including Sonic Spinball
Comix Zone
WonderBoy in Monster World
Shadowrun
Steets of Rage 2 & 3

^There were a bunch of other too, but these are the ones I remember most. I got bored of all the typing. :p
Many of the other games during the PS1/N64 era the younger generation gamers have mentioned I've played too.

@ Asuka:Mega Man Legends 1 & 2 was awesome!
 
Doom (when I was like 3-5 I played this non-stop)
Boogerman (for the SEGA)
NARC (NES)
Cyborg Justice (SEGA)
Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
Abe's Odyssey (PS1)
Vectorman 1 and 2 (SEGA)
Twisted Metal series (PS1)
Resident Evil (PS1)
Crash Bandicoot up to Warped (PS1)
Sonic 1 and 2 (SEGA)
Sonic and Knuckles (SEGA, I loved playing as Knuckles)
Dynamite Headdy (SEGA)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Duck Hunt (NES, with light gun, too!)
The first game with Mario ever made.. I forget what it's called, Donkey Kong or something.. It's where you have to climb up to DK as he throws barrels down at you.. For the NES.

Those were my main gaming focuses when I was a young little rapscallion..
 
EverQuest, that was pretty much the only game I played as a little kid
 
I was just rummaging through my cupboard and I had just found my old Raptor CD. It brings back good memories :D
 
For the Sonic fans, who remembers Sonic CD? That was my favourite ever Sonic game, what with all it's time-travelling frippery and hilarious Japanese rap music.
 
Elite, Carrier Command, Starglider 2, Silent Service 2, F/A-18 Interceptor, Populous, The Ultima series, and many others...
 
My very first memory was playing Wolfenstein 3D. Then playing Doom. Then Duck Hunt. Those are my first three memories of games.
 
Double Dragon
Afterburner
Zelda
Donkey Kong
Woldenstein 3d
Blues Brother platformer
 
Laivasse said:
For the Sonic fans, who remembers Sonic CD? That was my favourite ever Sonic game, what with all it's time-travelling frippery and hilarious Japanese rap music.
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Only the rich kids ever had the Mega CD, and now I finally have Sonic CD, I have to make-do with the American soundtrack version.

Woe is me, Woe is you; A-Ha!

My Childhood of games started somewhere around Haunted Hedges on the Amstrad CPC. So basically Pac-Man, but done wrong.

I remember that my Uncles both had 8-bit systems, one had the SEGA, the other the NES. For some reason we sided with the losing team and it was Alex the Kidd (sic) and Sonic for the rest of my Primary School years. The 8-bit Sonic the Hedgehog is a surprisingly good game, I think I still enjoy it more than the flashy but geriatrically slow-paced Mega Drive version. I spent most of my childhood thinking Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the best in the series, but I was wrong (Sonic 3 is. Everything after scrapes the barrel). It's amazing playing them now to see how much of a difference the Spin-Dash move made to the Sonic series. The original just feels horrendously tedious.

My family never had many games when I was young, but I think we largely made the right choices even if most of them were Sonic titles (even Doctor Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. Though a properly localised Puyo Puyo would have kicked a fraction more bottom). Dynamite Headdy is a great game I recently revisited. Batshit insanity abounds.

Being a kid wasn't just about owning the games though, it was about playing the best of the rest round someone else's house. Every Donkey Kong Country game had some great co-op fun, Super Mario World was a good time killer at my Cousin's and Super Mario Kart was pretty much the ultimate in Multiplayer gaming back then (a friend once had a Mario Kart tournament at his party. How he got away with this without becoming a social pariah remains a mystery). I never 'got' Street Fighter or any fighting game. I think it's because choosing Chun Li once is a comic turn, whilst always choosing her just makes people uncomfortable. I also have fond memories of playing split-screen Amiga sessions (one screen, two mice? Insane!) of The Settlers to the sounds of REM, though it was always kind of hard to outwit someone sitting right next to you. Worms has a similar resonance, though I think I may be getting out of the bounds of my 'childhood' by then.
 
...maybe I'm dating myself, but the first games I remember playing are pong systems at friends house and the code samples at the end of the VIC-20 manual (Killer Comet, Tank v. Ufo, etc.) at my house. We also had a Cosmic Cruncher cartridge.

Console (Atari 2600): Combat, Adventure
PC: Chex Quest, Quake II
Arcade: Centipede, Asteroids

There was a standing challenge at the arcade I went to: beat the high score on Contra and you got a free dinner for two at the restaurant of your choice in town. I got all the free games I could play to keep the high score up where nobody would get it. I really really miss arcades. Games I played enough to beat on one quater with regularity: Toki, Black Tiger, Shinobi, Side Arms, Street Fighter II, Contra, Vampire Savior and Night Striker.
 
Super Nintendo -

Super Mario World (1 & 2), Zelda: Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Super Mario RPG, Act Raiser, Kirby's Avalanche, Mega Man X, Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Battletoads Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby's Dream Course, Secret of Mana (though I don't think I ever beat it until I was a bit older :p I think I might have cried at that first tiger boss!), Mario Paint, Super Mario Kart, Starfox (never beaten!), Super Scope, and finally Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (never could get very far, ended up spitting in the cartridge I think).

PC -

Duke Nukem 3d, SimCity 2000, BOB (utility thing that came with Windows 95 that I used as a sort of primitive Sims game), Doom or Quake (I remember playing one of 'em I just can't remember which one it was :p), Reader Rabbit (my dad's early 90's laptop haha)

Atari -

Centipede, some space strategy game thing, some sidescroller with crocodiles and an annoying "you died" sound

Game Gear -

Sonic!
 
Adabiviak said:
...maybe I'm dating myself, but the first games I remember playing are pong systems at friends house and the code samples at the end of the VIC-20 manual (Killer Comet, Tank v. Ufo, etc.) at my house. We also had a Cosmic Cruncher cartridge.

Console (Atari 2600): Combat, Adventure
PC: Chex Quest, Quake II
Arcade: Centipede, Asteroids

There was a standing challenge at the arcade I went to: beat the high score on Contra and you got a free dinner for two at the restaurant of your choice in town. I got all the free games I could play to keep the high score up where nobody would get it. I really really miss arcades. Games I played enough to beat on one quater with regularity: Toki, Black Tiger, Shinobi, Side Arms, Street Fighter II, Contra, Vampire Savior and Night Striker.
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Oh god, I remember getting Chex Quest in the box of cereal one day. I was the happiest kid EVER.
 
I was a HUGE Mischief Makers fan. Still am, actually.
 
ailevation said:
Oh yah I remember this silly time where I wanted Chex Mix so badly just to get the videogame.
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Dude, I remember that promotion. I got the game in a box of Chex Mix but it didn't run properly on my computer. My five or six year old self was PISSED.

edit: Yeah, it was called Chex Quest, I'm glad we all shared that experience :D
 
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