What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?

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• dil@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Technically I played lightbike a variation of armagetron (that imo was honestly superior, it had jumping, boosting, maps that took advantage of that, skins back when they were cheap) but I still play armagettron on ocassion, agains the ai for the most part. Loved that ipod game. I wish it was still popular, think they got scared of licensing disputes with disney and a bit greedy with the microtransactions towards the end, started to effect gameplay through boosts.

  I wish some of the changes like jumping and maps that were more than just one grid made it over to armagettron or another pc version but those stayed simple sadly.

  I would eat up a modern cross platform tron lightbike game with maps like the ipodgame, jumping, boosts, etc. and cosmetics like rocketleague as long as they don’t give you a leg up. It would be all I play.

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• callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Age of Empires

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• bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still love all of the 90s FPS games like Doom and Quake.

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  • truxnell@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. The rise of the boomer shooter was fun but you can’t beat OG.

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    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have you tried playing on a lower difficulty level?

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• Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Master of Orion.

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• Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Half-Life 1 (and expansions)

  SimCity 3000, SimCity 4

  Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

  Deus Ex

  Zoo Tycoon

  Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

  Morrowind

  Industry Giant 2

  Fallout 1/2

  Arcanum

  SimTower

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great list. I think I will replay about half your list at some point over the coming years. And might first time play Love For Sail as well.

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• villainy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still play through The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at least a couple times a year though it’s usually with the randomizer these days. It is objectively the best video game ever made, which helps.

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• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite

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• GentlePulpy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Heroes of Might and Magic III

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  • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Worms Armageddon was a classic

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    HOMM3 is like a warm blanket when you’re sick and tired.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Half-Life 1

  One mod specifically (Sven-Coop). Been playing almost daily since 1999.

  I still fire up Duke 3d and Quake mods from time to time as well. There are lifetimes of user-made content in some of these older games.

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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rogue, Hack, Nethack. Basically nethack, but it built on those before it. Occaisonally Larn. Amiga Larn.

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Angband was my jam for a while, and of course that parlayed directly into Dwarf Fortress

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• picnicolas@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Quest for Glory series! Betrayal at Krondor

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeeeeah! I haven’t played these in forever but Hero’s Quest was my first Sierra adventure and holy shit was it magic. And Krondor - Raymond freakin Feist writing games!!

    Both absolutely epic!

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    • picnicolas@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Love to hear it! I read and reread Feist’s whole series as a kid, I remember always being so excited when a new book came out. I cut my teeth learning to read novels on Magician in 3rd grade!

      You’ll be interested to learn that Feist didn’t write anything for the game, he just licensed the world and the characters. Neal Hallford wrote the story and dialogue which were brilliant, and Feist later adapted the story into a novel.

      I just replayed QfG 1-3 last week on a family vacation and the magic is still strong. Something about these games ignite mythic perspectives in me that nothing else seems to.

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Pokemon games on all of Nintendo’s handheld consoles emulate really cleanly on a smartphone.

  I’m a sucker for the Gen 1 nostalgia every now and then.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re all well-known: Pac-Man (first game I ever played), Super Mario games, Metroid games. Anything past SNES I feel like I was too old to consider it my “youth.”

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• dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  DOOM.
  The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does chess count?

  Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.

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• DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I didn’t have video games in my youth, so I’m just catching up now.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ll still crack open any one of the Age of Empires series from time to time.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You just reminded me I have the first version of that game around somewhere, I might dig it back out one of these days soon.

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    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The original and Rise of Rome are great. If you don’t have Rise of Rome it’s almost mandatory, it runs a lot better and has a lot of quality of life improvements, like a higher population cap.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guild wars 1. I don’t play it often but every once in a while I get the itch. It’s honestly still really compelling.

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fired it back up recently and went to one of the main hubs. There was a few other people running around, but it was pretty dead.

    But yeah, the pre-cataclysm area was gorgeous at the time. The soundtrack is AMAZING. One of my favorite gaming experiences.

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  • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that all online? How is that still going? Ya, I spent a lot of time in guild wars back in the day. Running people to the next stop.

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because they have ai controlled party members (and have since the beginning), it’s actually completely playable solo to this day.

      You might be surprised how many people still play though.

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• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I could I’d still be playing wow but it’s just not the same without the plentiful free time for it.

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Private servers with boosted rates can scratch that itch while severely reducing the grind. Every couple years I’ll poke my head into one, level to endgame in like a week, do some raids, do some PVP, then completely forget it exists. Couple years later, rinse and repeat.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I tried retail again last year in a similar way, they’ve actually built so much mechanics now to catch up. But it still felt like a massive task to catch up to actual active players. Private server is a good shout, I’ll take a look next time I get the itch.

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• BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.

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• washbasin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best way to play this these days? I have a disk from the early 2000s, but iirc the last time I tried to use it, it just prompted an update that led to a blizzard launcher… idr if it wanted me to buy a new digital copy or what, but I ultimately decided it was more work than it’s worth and gave up.

    …these days I don’t think I even have a CD drive lol.

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    • Redkey@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apparently the original game and Brood War expansion are free to install through the Battle.Net launcher these days.

      If you have the original discs, the later official patches added the ability to copy the “mpq” files from the CD into the game’s directory, so you no longer need the disc in the drive. Of course, you’re still going to need a drive for the initial installation. That should work for single player (it’s been a few years since I last did it) but I don’t know about online multiplayer.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Solitaire.

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• catty@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here goes:

  pc:

  • duke nukem 3d pc version
  • blood
  • redneck rampage (so funny!)

  megadrive:

  • streets of rage 2
  • road rash 2
  • ea hockey

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  • Peasley@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s special about EA hockey 2?

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  • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow Cannon Fodder. I felt so bad for the guys that got wounded and just stayed there suffering.

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    • catty@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I actually felt real sadness when I’d been progressing with a name for several levels and then they get blown up by my own doing. Actual sadness when their name appears in the roll of honour!

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• thedaemon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Quake. Still hold up, modding community makes tons of maps to play so it stays fresh.

  Dungeon Keeper - keeperfx is a modern update of the engine / bug fix that makes it easy to play on a modern system.

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• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Super Nintendo:

  • Megaman X. I was never a fan of classic Megaman, but the faster, more action-oriented sequel/spinoff X series rates amongst my favorites. It has tight controls, good music, varied stages, and memorable bosses and combat encounters. I must have beaten the first game dozens of times over the years.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It and Link’s Awakening on the Game Boy were so close to perfect that decades later they’re still the basis of comparison for any new 2D Zelda-like.

  PC:

  • Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn. it was the game that introduced Bioware’s trademark party banter and focus on interesting and likeable characters. The systems are a little rough but it still mostly holds up. Though it’s been a while since my last playthrough, and I usually stop once I hit the Underdark and the open world structure constricts for a few hours.

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  • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The music in the SNES Megaman X series is magic.

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are a lot of great mods for BG2 as well to keep the game feeling fresh. Even moreso if you don’t mind adding some fanfiction material, though I typically don’t.

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• makatwork@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tales of Maj’Eyal; all the old scumm games, daggerfall, toejam & earl.

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• Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Major mix of eras and platforms, but here is my list.

  AoE2 NFSU2 Halo MCC Sim City 2000 Streets of Sim City Roller Coaster Tycoon Mario Kart 64 Perfect Dark Goldeneye Battlefield 3 Super Mario Bros Deluxe Mario 64 Overwatch Half Life 2 +eps Gary’s Mod

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  • catty@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I forgot simcity 2000 - that is one hell of a classic!

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it’s just not the same. I’ll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it’s not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.

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  • catty@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.

    That’s the biggie that the young kids of today just will never experience!

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• ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Syndicate Wars. I honestly haven’t seen anyone emulate that gameplay as well as SW did it since then.

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have replayed Baldur’s Gate 2 more than any other narrative game, and will probably do another playthrough in the coming years. So it’s most likely that. Oh, and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven multiplayer on the PS2 whenever I am over at one specific friend’s place. That was our go-to couch game growing up and it’s still nostalgic.

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