Fluttershy11
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Location: Southern Maine, USA
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| Forgive me if I'm dating myself, but I loved playing the Apple II version of Oregon Trail when I was 12. Ahh, where does the time go? |
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MakaylaTheAspie
Zodai's girl
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Location: Aus den USA
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I can vividly remember playing Celebrity Death Match for most of my early childhood. xD
(And the first Ratchet and Clank game when I was 5.  )
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SabbraCadabra
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Age: 29
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Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| Fluttershy11 wrote: | | Forgive me if I'm dating myself, but I loved playing the Apple II version of Oregon Trail when I was 12. Ahh, where does the time go? |
Yeah, it's weird to see people naming games that came out when I was in middle/high school, and I'm not even that old =/ My friends and I were in 9th grade when Pokemon Red/Blue hit.
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Gazelle
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Joined: Mar 09, 2012
Posts: 1641
Location: Tropical island
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:51 pm Post subject: Favorite Games |
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(Atari) Space Invaders, Asteroids, (Wii) Dance off, and Golf game.
Board Games:
UNO, Monopoly, Go Fish, Apples to Apples and Legos building game
Card Games: Black Jack, Texas Hold Em Poker, Go Fish
Puzzles: crossword puzzles
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SyphonFilter
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Joined: Feb 08, 2011
Posts: 2072
Location: Seattle, WA
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| TheFerretHadToGo wrote: | What comes to mind are the following (no coherent order, sorry):
Adventure games: Maniac Mansion (C64/NES), Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders (Amiga), The Secret Of Money Island (Amiga), Kingīs Quest series (Amiga), Space Quest 2 (Amiga), Deja Vu (Amiga), It Came From The Desert (Amiga), King Of Chicago (Amiga).
Platform games: Buble Bobble (C64/NES), Mario series (NES), Megaman 2 (NES), Wonderboy In Monsterland (Amiga), New Zealand Story (C64/Amiga), Duck Tales (both NES & Amiga versions, which were completely different), Frogger 1 & 2 (C64), The Great Giana Sisters (C64), Moon Patrol (C64).
Action games: Shinobi (C64), Contra (C64), Gryzor (C64), Ikari Warriors (Amiga), Cabal (Amiga), Gauntlet 1 & 2 (C64), Hysteria (C64), Aaargh! (C64), Rampage (Amiga), Golden Axe (Amiga), Aaargh (C64), Rampage (Amiga), Space Harrier (C64)
Fighting games: Double Dragon (C64), Street Fighter II (Amiga)
Shoot 'em ups: 1943 (C64), Silkworm (Amiga)
Strategy: Defender Of The Crown (C64/Amiga), Pirates (Amiga), Civilization (Amiga)
Simulation: Wings (Amiga), Destroyer (C64), Silent Service (Amiga)
Racing: Pit Stop 2 (C64), Lotus Challenge 1 & 2 (Amiga), Buggy Boy (Amiga), Turbo Outrun (Amiga)
Puzzle/Skill: Boulder Dash series (C64), Krakout (C64), Pang (C64/Amiga)
Other: Law Of The West (C64), Impossible Mission 1 & 2, (C64) H.E.R.O. (C64), Paperboy (Amiga), Typhoon Thompson In Search Of The Sea Child (Amiga), Spy vs. Spy 1 (C64) & 3 (NES)
Wow, it really brought back a lot of memories trying to remember the games of the past. What struck me is how much time I wasted on games that I didnīt actually enjoy. Some games, like The Last Ninja, I thought were cool and so I wanted to like them but they were mostly irritating since I was bad at them and didnīt understand how they worked (you know, effective fighting strategy, enemies' weak points, which order to do stuff). The manuals back then were sparse at best and no internet to get tips from (I had few friends and they were even worse than me at games so they couldnīt help). |
Gryzor? Do you live in Europe? Isn't the European arcade version of Contra called Gryzor? |
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Bun
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TAKI, but again, it's not so much childhood as it's junior high. And I still played hide and seek around that age as well.  |
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Ecl713
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Joined: Mar 07, 2012
Posts: 1413
Location: Salem, Oregon
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| Fluttershy11 wrote: | | Forgive me if I'm dating myself, but I loved playing the Apple II version of Oregon Trail when I was 12. Ahh, where does the time go? |
Are elementary school had some old computers with that game on it. I liked that game a lot but my favorite games as a kid was
Mortal Combat!
All the SimCity games except SimCity Societies.
All the Civilization games although the last one is not so good.
Any Flight Simulator game.
Tribes.
Counter Strike Source.
Chess.
Checkers.
Risk for the PS2 & PC also love the board game. I still play this game all the time although the PC is too easy and I have no one to play.  |
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Pyrite
Sealion
Joined: Mar 28, 2012
Age: 27
Posts: 1247
Location: Mid-Atlantic United States
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NES
Mario 3
Shadowgate
Bubble Bobble
Startropics
Genesis(megadrive)
Sonic 2-3(and Knuckles)
Streets of Rage
Game Boy
Final Fantasy Legend 3
Kirby's Dream Land 2
SNES
FF 6 (3)
PC
Warcraft 2
PSX
FF 7 (less so than 6)
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DeXo
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Joined: Dec 30, 2011
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Definitely Mario :D
I also enjoyed playing Pokemon a lot............ Actually, I still do. |
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Colinn
Majestic Phoenix
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Location: Scotland
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I could go on forever about console games of my childhood. So I will go for Arcade machines instead. The Simpsons Arcade, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Time Crisis 2, House of the Dead, Radikal Bikers, and Sega Rally. Used to have great fun with all these machines at arcades when I was younger. Pity I never came across a Crazy Taxi arcade machine as I loved the game on my Gamecube. I also enjoyed playing Air Hockey and Pinball at the arcades, I remember the Addams Family Pinball Machine in particular to be quite fun  Quite a pricey machine to buy now though! |
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SabbraCadabra
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Age: 29
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Location: Michigan
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| Colinn wrote: | | Pity I never came across a Crazy Taxi arcade machine as I loved the game on my Gamecube. |
I found one once. I told myself I was going to have to go home and practice it a heck of a lot, and go back and try it out.
It's probably gone by now.
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Colinn
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| SabbraCadabra wrote: | | Colinn wrote: | | Pity I never came across a Crazy Taxi arcade machine as I loved the game on my Gamecube. |
I found one once. I told myself I was going to have to go home and practice it a heck of a lot, and go back and try it out.
It's probably gone by now. |
Really, when did you find it? If my local arcade is anything to go by it may still be there as it still had Time Crisis 2 last time I went and that is an even older game. |
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edgewaters
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Age: 40
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Location: Ontario
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There were no PC games when I was a kid, but I did have an Atari. I liked Space Invaders and Missile Command.
Also had a Commodore 64, and my favourite game on it was Zaxxon, which was this game where you fly a little plane and blow stuff up. Way ahead of its time, imho, as it featured isometric projection and seemed "3D" at the time.
But, video games weren't what they are today so they didn't really hold my attention much. More typically, I'd play cards, chess, dominoes, backgammon, that sort of thing. For a while I played D&D every week with some friends, but then I moved.
But my absolute favourite was playing hex-and-chit wargames with my uncle. These were incredibly complex board games - probably the most complex games to have ever existed before computer games - that were very popular in the 1970s and 80s among university students. My uncle had a collection of Avalon Hill titles, and in the summer, which we spent at the cottage, we'd play Anzio, Rise and Decline of the Third Reich, AfrikaKorps, D-Day, etc. |
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SanityTheorist
Wandering Artist
Joined: Feb 14, 2012
Posts: 2097
Location: The Akuma Afterglow
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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Gran Turismo 2, Mario Kart 64, Dune 2000, Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Incidentally that taste in games is better than most teenagers' haha. First person shooters are crappy.
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dorain_grey
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Age: 22
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| erm would have to be crash bandi coot and spyro lara croft tomb raider and before the playstation it was sega all the way with streets of rage and sonic and more i use have a sega hand held which had the first ever prince of persia game ohhh yah bad boy o yeah cant forget theme hospital and creatures and worms :} |
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