These could be games that left a lasting impression on you, games that had stellar gameplay mechanics, characters that captivated you, games that you played tons of hours on, etc.
Doom, wolfenstein, golden axe, warcraft 2, day of the tentacle
What were your top favorite video games as a kid?
Submitted 11 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Zeth0s@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TehBamski@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you meant to say ‘relatively based.’ All of these are strong games.
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter series, Ratcher and Clank series mostly. Most people usually associate childhood with Nintendo games but they’re super rare in my country, I only ever got around to playing series like Zelda and Mario in the mid-2010s. For what it’s worth the playstation 2 really was the console to have at the time, the games were amazing. Pretty sad Sony is reluctant to make good ports of them for the new generation.
Oh, and everyone I knew had House of the Dead 2 on the computer. Now that’s a classic.
simonced@lemmy.one 11 months ago
- Diablo 2
- Starcraft broodwar
- Warcraft 2
- Quake 2 (with a ton of mods!)
- Need for speed 2
Thassodar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Replace Warcraft 2 and Quake 2 (Counterstrike 1.3 was my Quake) with Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Nox, and I was you.
simonced@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I played Nox as well, but not so much. All those are great classics!
constnt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I was a kid I used to walk to the movie store to rent games. I would go back every time I had money and rent Chrono Trigger, but some one would always erase my save, so I would have to start over.
Until on my birthday I got a check from my grandma that was for 50 dollars. I walked right up to the game store and slammed my check on the counter for one copy of Chrono Trigger. I didn’t know how money, checks, or sales tax worked.
Luckily, my mom bailed me out. But I played that game for years. I still have such fond memories of that game.
cyd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s amazing that CT never spawned an ongoing franchise. Aside from the controversial CC, there have been no other followups or even remakes, only a remaster. It’s like the platonic ideal of a JRPG, sitting alone and unsullied in the timestream.
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly though, how do you even follow it up? That game had a ridiculous dev team. Akira Toriyama - creator/Artist of Dragon Ball Nobuo Uematsu - Writer of (many) Final Fantasy scores Yūji Horii - game designer and scenario writer from Dragon Quest Hironobu Sakaguchi - Game director/designer/producer of Final Fantasy Kazuhiko Aoki - (Getting this whole gang together)
omnomed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Breath of Fire: 1 + 2 - Capcom
Contra: Hard Corps - Konami
DOOM 3 - id Software
Fable - Lionhead Studios
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - Square Enix
Golden Sun: 1 + 2(The Lost Age) - Camelot Software
Oni - Bungie
Prince of Persian: Sands of Time + Warrior Within + Two Thrones - Ubisoft
Red Alert 2 - Westwood Studios
Silent Hill: The Room - Team Silent
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis - Quest Corporation
Zeus: Master of Olympus - Impressions Games
I miss having enough time to play more games… Thanks for the nostalgia trip though OP.
Kata1yst@kbin.social 11 months ago
Fuckin Golden Sun was super legit. I even loaded up an emulator and replayed just a few years ago. It holds up perfectly well.
TheEntity@kbin.social 11 months ago
If you'd be interested in a kind of spiritual successor, try CrossCode. Not exactly the same, the combat is very different, but the general exploration reminds me of Golden Sun a lot.
omnomed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All hail Retroarch, All hail mobile emulation!
skybreaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We need more Golden Sun in the world today
boblin@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Alley Cat, Dukem Nukem 3D, Ultima (4, 5, and 7), Daytona, Day of the Tentacle, Zack McCracken…
Durandal@kbin.social 11 months ago
I mentioned this in another comment as well.. but...
Ultima IV is free on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultima_4
Also have you seen MoonRing? It's a very recently released game, very Ultima inspired game from one of the original devs on Fable.
omnomed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yeah@feddit.uk 11 months ago
How did I forget about Alley Cat?
blazera@kbin.social 11 months ago
Mario RPG was my favorite (yes Im eating good right now). I like describing it as a toy, there are so many things to be done for no other reason than to have fun, enabled by the fact you're a platformer character in a 3D fantasy world. You cant jump onto the store's counter in other RPG's of the time, but you get to in this game, and you're rewarded with being scolded by the shopkeep. You can jump on all the NPC's, on wedding cake, pianos, hyperactive kids, all the beds, catapults. Jumping is often times your response to NPC dialogue.
Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Without a doubt Morrowind for me.
Halo and Diablo also, in different genre.
dan_the_accountant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past Super Mario Sunshine Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages Golden Sun 1 and 2
These are the games that made my childhood great!
skybreaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Golden sun games are so good. I wish that series would get a revival
JAWNEHBOY@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Oh golden sun was such a gem. My parents bought it used for cheap and I had such low expectations - spent so many hours playing through the storyline as a kid it has to be the best playtime/$ investment in my lifetime so far.
Definitely going to go hunt down Golden Sun 2 now
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Freelancer
Transport Tycoon
The Guild (Europa 1400)
Anno 1602
Star Wars Jedi Knight
Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat + Vietnam
World of Warcraft
neilrodgers75@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Oh how could I forget Transport Tycoon! What a classic. I will fire it up occasionally to this day.
GenesisJones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Halo 1
Rollercoaster tycoon 1 and 2 (never 3)
Vigilante 8 second offense (twisted metal alternative)
Desert Strike for the Sega Genesis as wells the sequels urban strike and jungle strike. Badass attack helicopter saves the day.
Need for speed underground 2
Space cadet 3d pinball
T.H.U.G. 1 and 2
Monster Truck Madness for windows 95
Croc 1 and 2
Metal gear solid
Okay, how old am I? Lol
okamiueru@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m gonna guess 37-39 depending on if you have older siblings or not.
GenesisJones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Only child, but my best friend growing up was 3 years older than me. Surprisingly, I’m 33.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mid thirties, cause you’re younger than me. I was already in my sophomore year of university by the time halo came out, and I’m 43.
GenesisJones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I’m 33.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Heh, pacman and centipede.
I had the high score at the gas station nearest my house on the pacman machine until the place closed. Nobody could even get close in the local area. I would usually be in the top three at the arcade on both games, depending on whether or not I had access to time and money. None of my scores were high enough to be some kind of record, but I was the king of those two games in two counties. I’m not saying I could never get out-scored, I could. But I never had bad games, only less good, where the other players around would have way more bad than great games.
But I fucking loved pacman. The entire sensory assault of it was so damn satisfying. I was good at centipede (largely because of the trackball being very intuitive for me), but I liked it more because I was good at it than for the game itself.
Pacman though? Fuck, I’d spend hours playing it. I even had one of those old coleco mini versions that I got for Christmas one year. Which, I was not as good at, what with the difference in controls, but I still loved playing it until it died maybe ten years ago (seriously, that fucking thing lasted decades).
I was so fucking bummed when I couldn’t find any place to play the real version. Later console versions didn’t have the same joy for me. I’ve managed to luck into some time on restored machines here and there, though.
Past that, mario cart was big in our house when it came out. My sister was better at it on average, but we’d have some killer weekends playing it with our mom and friends. I never liked consoles much. The controls just didn’t work for me.
So it wasn’t until this century that I got back into harmony gaming at all. Mmorpgs are my thing, when I can do it (disability makes pc gaming sporadic). The first game I found that sucked me in was shaiya. It wasn’t that great of a game overall. Heavily pay to win. But the story was good, and I had a great guild.
Then it was on to war and battle of the immortals. Mid tier games, but I liked the world setting.
Then, I found neverwinter and that was my game. I haven’t been happy with anything else since. I don’t really play any more, but that was the perfect mmo for me. The d&d world, with an intuitive and fun control setup. The classes and races were fairly well balanced. The graphics were fucking bonkers for the era too. It just made me happy. It still kinda does, but I don’t have the time or stamina these days.
Redoomed@lemm.ee 11 months ago
3D Pinball Space Cadet
Pokémon Blue
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Morrowind
TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Intellivision (Intelligang REPRESENT):
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: cloudy Mountain
- Lock ‘N Chase
- Astrosmash
NES:
- Megaman 2
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo, BRING BACK WART YOU COWARDS)
- Castlevania 3
Mamertine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Command and conquer.
Super Mario 3
LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
StarCraft
Super Mario world
Body harvest
Super smash brothers
Halo
Brkdncr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Maniac mansion
NES Spider-Man.
NES TMNT 2
Arcade Simpsons
Sim City and Sim City 2000, on the school’s Apple Macintosh computers.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
SC 2000 was amazing!
skybreaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Smash Bros N64. Every day at lunchtime, we would inhale our food as fast as possible so we had a chance to play a few rounds
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can’t believe that this is the first and only mention of Goldeneye. Though it was eclipsed by Perfect Dark, those two were the best console fps games until Halo came out and finally figured out the controls.
jacobaaron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pokemon gold and silver + smash bros
TheMinions@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pokémon Colosseum, Super Mario Sunshine, Ratchet and Clank, Mass Effect
Sabakodgo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
- Age of Empires I
- Stronghold
- Dune 2000
- RollerCoaster Tycoon
- Warcraft 3
- World of Warcraft
Since WoW, I didn’t play much strategy games I used to play, but it changed this year when I started play a lot of TFT.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Super Metroid (SNES) Final Fantasy VI (aka III in US on SNES) Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) Eternal Darkness (GameCube)
deus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On PC I must’ve spent thousands of hours playing The Sims, the first and second ones. They had fantastic soundtracks and were very chill experiences where you couldn’t really lose and didn’t rely on reflexes or strategy. Above all else I’ve always enjoyed being able to build cool houses. I would barely even play with the Sims themselves, I was mostly just creating families to not leave my houses empty. I had entire neighbourhoods made from scratch, all with wildly different houses with wildly different people living in them. I lost all my data a couple of times but I always kept the CD around with the key code written on it so I’d just reinstall and start rebuilding from scratch (that disc is probably still in my bedroom somewhere). Just selecting an empty lot and spending an entire afternoon building a cool house on it, then making a family to live there and putting all the furniture in place. Rinse and repeat, life was good.
I’d later go on to play other games that allowed me to build stuff trying to scratch that same creative itch. Mostly other Maxis games such as SimCity 3000 and Spore (never got into Sims 3 as it didn’t run well on my PC) but also Minecraft, which was all the rage and would go on to consume countless hours of my life. A few years later I also tried Sims 4, which did run well (on a newer computer tbf), but also felt so limited with the small fixed-view non-customizable neighbourhoods. It’s baffling to me that 4 couldn’t have the same features 2 had a decade earlier. Oh well, at least the building tools are much better than 2’s, so there was that.
Tl;dr: I like The Sims. The first couple ones, not the last couple ones.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
My understanding is the The Sims 4 was originally going to be a Sims MMO style game. After Sim City flopped they scrapped that idea and turned it into a single player game, but the foundation had already been set up in a way the critically limited it. Even graphically it was only a side-grade (I think downgrade personally) from The Sims 3, but 3 could do so much more since it was designed to be a single player game. If you haven’t played 3, I’d give it a go. It’s so much better than what 4 can ever be. I’d say hoist the black flag though, because fuck supporting that company. Your money is better given to someone else who cares about their workers and their passions.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One that never really took off for the N64 almost surely because the controls were so fucked - Jetforce Gemini.
Those who took the time to tolerate and master the janky controls were rewarded with a shooter that was otherwise second to none. AND YES THAT INCLUDES 007!
Hearing the music cranks the nostalgia up to 10 immediately.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We grew up poor but my parents managed to get us an nes. We had a half a dozen games we’d trade back and forth with friends.
Megaman 3, Jackal, fist of the north star, Batman, street fighter 2010, TMNT, are some of the great games I grew up on
Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I was a beast at Jackal. Could play that game without dying easily, and made up my own lyrics to the music. (I remember one song was about Colgate Jr.)
I think I loved how in so many games getting hit by any enemy meant death. But here you could run over guys. Fun game.
s3rvant@kbin.social 11 months ago
NES: Super Mario Bros 1 and 3, TMNT 2, Galaga and Contra (with Konami code)
SMB1 was my first game ever
Last 2 I played with my dad while friends played SMB3 and TMNT
_lilith@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nacktmull@lemm.ee 11 months ago
PC: Dune 2, Prince of Persia, Doom
Amiga 500: Turrican, Turrican II, Lemmings, Lemmings II
Arcade: R-Type, R-Type 2, Street fighter 2
ares35@kbin.social 11 months ago
super breakout on the 2600 was the game in our house when i was a kid. mom was the champ, though, forever and always. aided by the weeks of practice she got ahead of everyone else as she'd get it out and play at night before santa brought it
boblin@infosec.pub 11 months ago
It was Arkanoid for me.
ares35@kbin.social 11 months ago
i wanted to like arkanoid and its variants on the c64, but all the ones i uh.. 'acquired'.. used joysticks, not paddles; and joysticks are just wrong for that type of game.
CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Jak and Daxter, Crash, and the Lego Star Wars games for sure.
I also loved Wii Sports, Pokemon, and Mario Kart.
Duenan@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Secret of Mana on the SNES and Mario brothers 3.
Glide@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
A man of culture.
Secret of Evermore is also grossly underrated.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Finally found my people :)