If you ever want to feel old, read the notes on posts like this
If you ever want to feel old, read the notes on posts like this
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 :)
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.
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.
- Space Invaders I feel like I should include one of the classic games I played in the 80s. You never forget your first, and I played this more than any others and it influenced my career as an adult. However I think 10 mile hike, burger time, breakout and pacman are better.
- Heroes of Might and Magic 3 My room mates would hotseat games while watching movies. A lot of fond memories
- Factorio Probably played more than any other game
- Golden Axe Warrior Not to be confused with Golden Axe. This was a Zelda clone on the Sega Master System. One of the best games on that platform IMO.
- Boulders gate 1 Besides golden axe warrior the only other RPG I really got into. Unfortunately I wiped my hard drive with a game that I had been playing for months and I just couldn't get back into it after that.
Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Space Invaders (on an Atari 2600), Tempest and Pitfall!
Mine is:
- Legend of zelda, a link to the past (snes)
- Super mario bros (nes)
- Tetris (nes)
- rock n roll racing (snes)
- street fighter 2 (snes)
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- secret of mana, terranigma, kevin alone at home, there are so many before I even get to the more modern games. I haven't even reached command and conquer 1&2 yet or starcraft or diablo1 or 2.
No order:
•Chrono Trigger •FFVII •Panzer Dragoon Saga •GTA3 •EverQuest •(Street Fighter Alpha 2 is up there too)
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 was in high school when I bought my first console, so it's pretty much just Landstalker and Phantasy Star IV.
In no particular order and with limited time thinking about it:
- Kirby Super Star
- Mario Sunshine
- Sonic Adventure (1 & 2 if I may)
- Guitar Hero
- Zelda: Link to the Past
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.
- Dune 2, C&C and RA
- Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3
- Pokemon gen 1 and 2
- Warcraft 2 and 3
- Diablo 1 and 2
Lots of honourable mentions though.
- Doom, Doom 2 and Hexen
- Sonic 2, 3 and Knuckles
- Wow
- Counterstrike 1.6 and Source
- Half life and all the sequels
- Xmen and Xmen 2 (Sega)
- Gta 1, 2, 3 and Vice City
- FF7
Lemmings. Prince of Persia. Doom. Tomb Raider 1. Gran Turismo.
- Lego Island
- Oregon Trail
- TMNT for the NES
- Mario 64
- Worms Armageddon
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
- Civilization 1
- Wing Commander Privateer
- X-wing
- Hanse
- Eye of the Beholder 2: Darkmoon
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
- Populous - The Beginning
- Command & Conquer - Red Alert 2
- Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
- Super Mario 64 DS
- Europa Universalis III
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.
- LEGO Universe
- Club Penguin
- Minecraft
- Space Engineers
- Skyrim
Counter-Strike 1.4 Counter-Strike 1.5 Counter-Strike 1.6 Call of Duty: United Offensive Day of Defeat
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
Pretty much every Sierra franchise.
Warcraft, C&C, Street fighter two turbo, and final fantasy!
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Super Mario 64
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Pilot Wings 64
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Balloons Tower Defense
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Portal 2
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Banjo Kazooie: nuts and bolts (I dont care if it killed the franchise, I really enjoyed this game)
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- Pacman (bar arcade game with joysticks on the top and bottom, my mom worked there so I was often there during the day)
- Civilization 1
- The Incredible Machine
- Super Mario Bros.
- Duke Nukem 3D (Learned the commands to call a friend on my modem and then boot up duke3d.exe and play multiplayer, all from DOS)
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Commander keen
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Wingnuts
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Burn:Cycle
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Myst
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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
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- Zork Zero
- Streetfighter II
- Diablo
- GoldenEye
- World of Warcraft
- Star Fox 64, for sure
- Half Life was a very big deal for me. Couldn't finish it when I was 8 because it was too scary, and it felt absolutely amazing coming back at 15 and blowing through it.
- Turok 2 seeds of evil. Didn't play it outside of using the cheats. It was basically a gore Sim for me.
- LoZ series was a very big deal.
- Much later, Armored Core 4 and 4A would make me obsessed with good mech gameplay.
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.
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Sims 3
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Skyrim
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Animal Crossing New Leaf
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Cities: Skyline
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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.
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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
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!<
My top 5 were (in no particular order):
- Pokemon Diamond
- Star Wars Battlefront: Rogue Squadron (PSP)
- Fossil Fighters
- Skyrim
- FTL: Faster Than Light
Zelda II The Adventure of Link
Super Metroid
Another World / Out of This World
Myst
Doom
Honorable mention goes to Super Mario Land.
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- Ms. Pacman
- Diablo
- Starcraft
- CS:Source
xenogears final fantasy 7 final fantasy 10 super smash Bros melee Diablo 2
- Pokemon gen 1 and 2 I guess
- Majesty
- aoe 2
- WoW
- gizmos and gadgets
Lego Star Wars
Discworld
Unreal Tournament
Doom
Halo
- super Mario world
- earthbound
- Mario kart 64
- halo 2
- modern warfare
Man, this is hard to narrow down.
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- Dungeon Siege II
- Guild Wars
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Battlefield 3
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.
- StarCraft
- Heretic
- Diablo
- Quake
- Half Life / Counterstrike
Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask
Super Smash Bros Melee
Halo: Reach
RuneScape
Guildwars 2
- Starcraft
- Age of Empires 2
- Freddi Fish
- Pokemon yellow
- Zelda Ocarina of Time
- Super mario bros 3
- RuneScape
- Commander Keen (all of the series)
- Age of Empires
- Grand theft auto
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.
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Baldur's Gate 1 (I think it took me 10 years to actually get to the point where I was able to finish this, but it was still the best advertisement that D&D, and fantasy media in general, could have hoped for)
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DX Ball (breakout clone)
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Minesweeper
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Gothic 1 (Elder Scrolls just fucking sucks compared to this series, especially the melee combat system and the characterization of the NPCs (TES does have better lore))
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Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (to this day, I still haven't finished it. Outstanding multiplayer mode, though!)
I'm not that old, ya old coots!
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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)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.
-Pokemon Gold (OG)
-Metroid: Zero Mission/Fusion
-SSBM
-Battlefront II (The OG one)
-The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Commander Keen
Neverhood
Earthbound
Super Mario World
Secret of Mana
Minecraft, Team Fortress 2, Apex Legends, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (1 and 2) and Terraria. I'm not very old X)
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.
Star Ocean 2, FFVII, Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, Resident Evil 2.
Honorary mention for literal every ps1 game.
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
What an interesting way to look at demographics!
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.
I could just make the list all Pokemon games, but that seems like cheating...
- Pokemon
- Golden Sun
- Warlocked
- Mega Man: Battle Network
- Dragon Warrior 3 (on GBC)
Patapon 2
Wizard101
Minecraft
Skyrim
- Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Chrono Trigger
- Ultima VIII (mostly as a gateway to the others in the series, but still got a soft spot for it)
- Final Fantasy VII
- Xenogears
- Unreal Tournament
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.
- Borderlands 1/2
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.
- TF2
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Super Mario Bros 3 (on GBA)
Runescape
Pokemon Diamond
Skyrim
COD4
F19 Commander Keen Wolfenstein Gaïa
As a young adult Morrowind Command and conquer -red alert Fallout3
- Columns (played with my mom, she fucking loved that game so much she’d leave the console running between playtime to save her progress)
- Sonic spinball
- Golden axe/street fighter (both)
- Comix zone (this one even influenced my music tastes because it came with a CD - the first cd I ever owned. Still have it.)
- Dominion (now abandonware, similar to StarCraft but with laser fences and shit)
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.
- Super Mario Bros
- Zelda
- Zanac
- Golden Axe
- Street Fighter II
- Deus Ex
- Halo CE for PC
- Half Life 2
- FallOut 3 / New Vegas
- CoD2 (The WW2 one)
super smash bros melee
tomodachi life
sonic adventure 2
will add last 2 if i can think of any
- COD MW2+BO1 (Those were a dark few years, I played it almost the entire time without xbox live since I couldn't afford it. Lots of splitscreen zombies with friends on the couch though. Yes I am cheating by rolling them into the same slot)
- Payday 2
- Borderlands
- Terraria (Super happy that i'm actually still playing a decade later, never really stopped.)
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
Listed in reverse order of importance to me. Usually one of these was in my life at any given time, obsessions taking turns.
- 🔸Super Metroid
- 🔸Goof Troop
- 🔸Metal Gear Solid
- 🔸The Legend of Dragoon
- 🔸Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
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.
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Megaman 4
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Donkey Kong 64
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Paper Mario 64
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Assassin's Creed II
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Guitar Hero (a lot of them but mostly World Tour)
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- Zelda: The Minish Cap
- Pokémon Emerald
- Sonic Rush Adventure
- Final Fantasy III (remake)
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
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.
- Morrowind
- Harvest Moon 64
- Pokemon Silver
- Myst
- Super Smash Bros 64/Melee/Brawl (I played what was latest)
The Secret of Monkey Island Master of Orion Dune Strike Commander Privateer
in roughly chronological order:
- Mario Kart Wii
- Pokemon platinum
- Skate 3
- Portal/2
- Titanfall (and Titanfall 2)
to this day, Titanfall 2 is by far my favorite FPS game. nothing comes even remotely close
Super Mario Bros 3 Dark Reign Unreal Tournament Homeworld Gears of War
It's so hard picking 5 but:
Super mario bros Half life Metal gear solid Driver Grand theft auto 3
Starfox 64
Pokemon Snap
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
Age of Empires 2
Halo (1-3)