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

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• JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yoshis island
  Super mario world
  DKC 1, 2 & 3 Pokemon gen 1&2
  Banjo kazooie & tooiee TLoZ A link to the Past, Ocarina of time & Majoras mask
  Warcraft 3 + frozen throne
  Command & conquer 2 + yuris revenge

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve still got my Nintendo 64, and I sometimes boot up Goldeneye for old time’s sake.

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• Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Currently replaying the Sly Cooper series, it will always be a favorite of mine

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nfs hot pursuit 2 holds up insanely well. Ahead of its time. Gt2, ff12, musashi, crash bandicoot. Lot of ps2. Still play all my 2600 and nes and n64 games too

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• EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Less Pokémon here than I thought there would be, though it does make a showing. I do gen 2 and 3 now and again. Gen 1, I think I’ve wrung out completely, and gen 4+ (DS and onward) just doesn’t emulate as cleanly in my experience.

  And I guess I’m approaching my 2nd decade of still playing certain MUDs: Achaea/Aetolia, Discworld, Lost Souls.

  I don’t really game much these days, though; certainly not like I used to.

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• razzazzika@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every final fantasy game i seem to play over and over again on loop, bunch of different iterations. Played the nes ff1, then the ps1 remake, then the GBA remake, and then the pixel remaster. Currently playing thr pixel remaster of 2. GBA was the only other version I played of that.

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• CaptainCancel@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every time Final Fantasy Tactics comes out again, I’m all over it.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Hate it or love it, I still think it’s an amazing game.

  • Chuzzle Deluxe. Recently got back into it after purchasing it a few months ago.

  • Zuma Deluxe. Same thing applies.

  • Sonic Unleashed. Went from playing on PS2 to 360 to now Steam Deck. The 360/PS3 version is absolutely superior, though.

  Any others I can think of are all things I started playing closer to when I was a teen, so I’m not counting them.

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• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dungeon master and Dungeon master chaos strikes back

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• kratoz29@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quite a bunch, but the ones I come more often to my mind (and that are not DS titles, if not it would be Jump Ultimate Stars, Metroid Prime Hunters or Mario Kart DS) are:

  Jackie Chan Stutmaster and Toy Story 2, both PS1 games (among other PS1 titles).

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Still playing Call of Duty: United Offensive multiplayer on PC nearly every day

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m midway through Oblivion Remastered and holy shit is inner 20s me ever happy about this raytracing thing

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• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Final Fantasy 6 but, back in my day, it was call Final Fantasy 3.

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• So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Morrowind, Shenmue, Earthbound, all the the Mega Mans

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  • Coelacanth@aggregatet.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m interested in trying Shenmue after it was (to me rather surprisingly) awarded the “Most Influential Game of All Time” award by BAFTA.

    How do you play it there’s days? Physical Dreamcast? Can you play it on PC? Emulator?

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    • So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have my Dreamcast still so I could theoretically boot it up any time and get the “authentic” experience. However they released it digitally for playstation and I think Xbox, along with the sequel.

      I will say, it might be less accessible if you haven’t played anything like it previously. Game design sensibilities were different back then and it was the first real attempt at an open world game, to say nothing of the awkward English voice acting. But the narrative is still fantastic and I can’t think of many games that have ever been so ambitious in their scope. It’s part Virtua Fighter, part RPG, and part narrative walking simulator. I discovered it by chance at a formative time in my life and those first awkward steps into it with no idea what I was about to experience are still a core memory from my teenage years.

      Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I guess haha

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• sonalder@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rayman’s saga Especially Rayman 3 and Rayman 2, I am so excited for the upcomming fan-remake Rayman 2: Redreamed

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• Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Master of Orion.

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  • jnarical@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MOO2

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• dil@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Age of Empires

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Age of Mythology too <3

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does chess count?

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

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• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite

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• BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• GentlePulpy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Heroes of Might and Magic III

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worms Armageddon was a classic

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• picnicolas@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quest for Glory series! Betrayal at Krondor

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Half-Life 1 was the peak of this genre for me

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  • truxnell@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you tried playing on a lower difficulty level?

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• DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• villainy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • HorseFD@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you think of the other Zeldas in the same style, like Link’s Awakening, the Oracle games or Minnish Cap?

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    • villainy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All good to great games that build on the foundation set by ALttP. I’d gladly play any of them if you put it in front of me but nostalgia demands that I push the one I played when I was like 9 years old or whatever.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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