OT - Your most memorable video games of all time?

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OT - Your most memorable video games of all time?

Just been having a "trip down virtual memory lane" by playing Ecco the Dolphin on my Megadrive emulator.

That brings back memories... completely incredible game, just that the difficulty is a sick joke at times (really, its THAT hard), and it used to completely scare the crap out of me at points (I was about 6-7 when I first played it, and the atmosphere that game creates is just a bit TOO much at times).

The story was incredible though... to summarise: Huge storm sweeps away Ecco's family, Ecco goes looking for them. Gets sent around a few places to sea creatures who could help him. Eventually gets sent to the 'asterite', a DNA shaped thing made out of globes, that tells Ecco to go west to Atlantis and use the time machine to go back 55 million years, and retrieve the asterite's missing globe.

Ecco finds the globe, but its part of an evil asterite which he must fight. Ecco gets the globe, goes forward to the present and gives the globe to the good asterite, gets granted the power to breathe underwater and told how to save his family.

Ecco has to go back in time again to the time of the storm and follow his family up into it... only to get sucked up into the machine of an alien race feeding off of Earth's oceans because the alien planet is dead and cannot grow food...

And as some proof of how the atmosphere got a bit too intense at times, listen to this music from the machine level, scarily named "Welcome to the Machine", since the machine was a digestion machine for the alien queen... and instead of controlling the screen, IT controls YOU, causing you to have to avoid the walls as it moves you around, and you have to work out where its going to go so you don't get squashed (and it was VERY hard to do that since it splits at some points, causing you to guess, and even doubled back on itself sometimes too) - http://web10.orcaserver.de/ecco/music/ecco1_genesis/Ecco_the_Dolphin_-_12_Welcome_To_The_Machine.mp3 (thats not a MIDI or anything - thats how it really sounded in-game... so cold and evil...).

So... thats one of my most memorable games of all time. My others would have to be the Megadrive Sonic the Hedgehog series (damn I love those games), and Toejam and Earl.
 
-Tron
Intellivision was my first game system and this was the first game I got that didnt come with it (it had blackjack and horse racing). It had the disc fight from the movie but you were in a square arena with about 8 doors that enemies came through and tried to kill you with. Then every once in a while that big red flying thingamajigger came in and you had to aim one in his eye

-Jumpman

Yea bay-bee. King of the early 80's PC games. Basically there were infinite levels where jumpman climbed up and down ladders collecting dots and had to jump between them to get around. If you missed you fell and died.

-Gauntlet

Greatest arcade game ever (though Joust was a close 2nd) Fou chars - Mage, Warrior, Ranger and Valkyre worked their way through endless levels collecting treasure. I can still hear it saying "Valkyre needs food badly."

-Dungeons and Dragons

No not the pencil and dice one but the Intellivision version. You worked your way across the map, chossing between different caves to be able to ... save someone? Ok so its not memorable enough to remember the end goal but it was 25 years ago. Cut me a little slack.

Ok enough showing my age...

-Civilization

If I even have to describe it :uhhuh:
 
The game that got me hooked on gaming has to be Civilization. Then Civ 2 solidified that. But the game that had the most influence on me with regards to gaming, or the one that made me think of gaming as a hobby is Telengard. This was a game in the early 80's for the Commodore 64. It was an awesome RPG at that time. All saves were made onto tape! I had an uber character who pwned the monsters!

Check it out here:

Telengard :thumbsup:

Of course, Diablo Classic has a place in my heart as well.
 
Hmm, lets see old games, why would I have ever played a game apart from D2 :innocent:

Actually the one game I really remember more than others is Secret of Mana. I loved that game, I could play it all day (Actually I did I think...). It had a great story, involving all the usual RPG cheese, you know the stuff, normal guy finds out hes this big important bloke, goes to stop the big evil thing happenening, meets some weird people and saves the world, (have I just summed up a lot of average quality fantasy novels in 1 sentence?). The sequel to it was really good as well, but just didnt have that classic quality.

Another great game was Bomberman. 4 player games in the days when consoles only had 2 controller ports:drool: . Other quality games include Street Fighter 2, Mario 3 and Mario World.

Hmm, can you tell I still have a SNES??
 
colony said:
Hmm, can you tell I still have a SNES??
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you say that like it's an old system!! :p

I've got mine set up next to me.. it's a nice way to kill off the depression I get from D2.

FATALITY! :D
 
Alex the Kid, Wonderboy in Monsterland (I,II and III) and Castle of the Winds were the 3 games that got me into gaming. I stopped playing games for 2 or so years, but then FFVII came out and I played that until DII came out and here we are.
 
Tenaka: Don't forget Gauntlet's other immortal line "Warrior is about to die". I remember those words more than the game itself. :) Jumpman is a classic though. While I was back in NZ over Christmas I downloaded Jumpman Lives from TheUnderdogs site, which had all the Jumpman and Jumpman Jr levels. They changed the funeral dirge music when you died though.

Let's see now. My computer progression went from Commodore64 to Amiga to PC. What can I remember?

- Legacy of the Ancients. About the first RPG game I ever beat, and still pretty cool even today. Other RPGs I remember playing: Bard's Tale, Alternate Reality, Curse of the Azure Bonds.

- Ghostbusters. Best movie tie-in game ever. Drive around town sucking up ghosts, trying to earn enough money to break into the final building (you had to sneak under the feet of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man).

- Spellbound - Remembered spending a lot of time playing this without ever completing it. Damn puzzles. (This was before Internet spoilers).

- Cinemaware games. Graphically great Amiga games from the late 80s: It Came From The Desert, Defender of the Crown, TV Sports Football, Rocket Ranger, Three Stooges.

- Half-Life - The first person shooter that ate a few weeks of my life a few years ago.

- Final Fantasy VIII - Highly addictive RPG. Really have to find VII sometime.

- Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - Best game I've played since I purchased Diablo. Acrobatic puzzles and cool fights in one of the best designed game environments. Simple to learn controls with lots of flexibility. Highly recommended.

Chris
 
Aw wow old games, definetly my cup of tea! :D
Here's a short list of all the games that will always stay with me:
( quite litteraly, i still have most of em :lol )

Ahhh too many games to name. But there are 3 that just rocked my world :lol:

On third: Dune!
On second: Death Rally
And on first place, Sonic the freaking hedgehog! JEEEEEEEEEEHAW!!!!
 
Hmm.. favourite game of all time?

Frontier: Elite 2

I still play that game now, on my rather twinked Amiga 1200, think I've accumulated about 2-3 years of game-time on that one.

First C64 game I ever played and completed though, was Rick Dangerous, awesome platform game, and the sequel was just as good.

After that, came the *legendary* Turrican series, T1 & T2 ate so much of my youth it's unbelievable, and that final battle in T2.. ohhhh the memories.

And who could forget Mortal Kombat 2.. y'know, if I played that now, I bet I could still pull off each and every fatality/babality/friendship move..
 
Ash Housewares said:
I forgot Altered Beast!
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o god i can still remember playing that game on my genesis.

old games i can remember are wolfenstein, the first game i ever played, and second favorite of all time. Then played doom, then switched to console (N64 woot) and played goldeneye like forever.
Then there was diablo, which i think was better in many ways than diabo ii ( i mean...playing that thing with the lights out when you are like 8 can be scary; really left an impression)
Then c&c and its gazillion incarnations
Then there was half-life and counter-strike still sucking up what time im not playing d2
Then there was deus ex the unquestionable number one game i have ever played

So ya a lot of games i can remember that have left a big impression on me.
 
Heh I remember pretty much all of these games. The first games I played arn't all that memorable to me. Things like pitfall, frogger and other things I don't even know the name of on my atari 2600 and c64. While these games always amused me as a kid there not very impressive really. The first games that really got me into playing games were mortal kombat, street fighter 2, super mario bros and sonic. My doom came about with suikoden and ff7 on the playstation though.
 
Most of mine would be for the SNES, except for one:

Tecmo Super Bowl
Such an awesome NES game, I played it until the internal battery was shot to hell. I was hooked on video games ever since.

Super Smash TV
The most mindless fun possible on the SNES, IMO. So much fun, find this on an emulator and get a buddy! :beers:


The rest would be like Mario Kart, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III.... The only other computer game to hook me was Age of Empires II: TC. exp. If anyone wondered where I went after the great forum crash of 2002/3, let it be known that this game is what stole me away... it took Diablo over a year and a half to get me back :)
 
The Ancient Art of War At Sea

Kings Quest

Defender of the Crown

Arcade:

R-Type

SNES

Tecmo Super Bowl for days and days and days and, well you get the picture
 
On that note, does anyone know of a good site to d/l Snes/Nes Emulators and Roms? I did a Google search and tried a few sites but they were either full of cartoon pr0n, didn't work or were in a foreign language and normally a combination of all 3.
 
Played LOTS and LOTS of Atari, mainly Spider-Man

Phantasy Star (the first, to master system, first RPG I ever played)

SNES:
Rock´n´Roll Racing

The Lost Vikings

and PC, besides the mentioned the best Turn Based EVAR

MASTER OF MAGIC

EDIT: damn my post took forever to load...

@Diamond Soul: I still play it too! even multiplay with some friends from time to time (last turn that got back to me was 2 months ago :D)
11 blacks rule
 
Rogue.exe (the original game diablo, diablo II was based on... still on my desktop)
Wing Commander
X-Com: UFO Defence
Civilization
Railroad Tycoon
Privateer
Ceasar III
System Shock II
Thief

geez... there's so many.

remember MULE? We played that for years.

If you want to go way way back... Trek... on the PDP-1170 running unix... think the year was 1969... maybe 1970.
 
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