What were your top favorite video games as a kid?

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Secret of Mana on the SNES and Mario brothers 3.

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  • Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A man of culture.

    Secret of Evermore is also grossly underrated.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Finally found my people :)

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• Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doom, wolfenstein, golden axe, warcraft 2, day of the tentacle

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  • TehBamski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you meant to say ‘relatively based.’ All of these are strong games.

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    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are. And I forgot the original prince of Persia. Masterpiece

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• simonced@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • Diablo 2
  • Starcraft broodwar
  • Warcraft 2
  • Quake 2 (with a ton of mods!)
  • Need for speed 2

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  • Thassodar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • simonced@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I played Nox as well, but not so much. All those are great classics!

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• constnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • cyd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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• omnomed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Kata1yst@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • omnomed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All hail Retroarch, All hail mobile emulation!

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  • skybreaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We need more Golden Sun in the world today

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  • boblin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alley Cat, Dukem Nukem 3D, Ultima (4, 5, and 7), Daytona, Day of the Tentacle, Zack McCracken…

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    • Durandal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

      https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/

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    • omnomed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As if I wasn’t making myself feel old enough man you had to mention Ultima…

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    • yeah@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How did I forget about Alley Cat?

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• blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Merwyn@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Without a doubt Morrowind for me.

  Halo and Diablo also, in different genre.

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• dan_the_accountant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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  • skybreaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Golden sun games are so good. I wish that series would get a revival

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  • JAWNEHBOY@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• shrugal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Freelancer

  Transport Tycoon

  The Guild (Europa 1400)

  Anno 1602

  Star Wars Jedi Knight

  Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat + Vietnam

  World of Warcraft

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  • neilrodgers75@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh how could I forget Transport Tycoon! What a classic. I will fire it up occasionally to this day.

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• GenesisJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m gonna guess 37-39 depending on if you have older siblings or not.

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    • GenesisJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only child, but my best friend growing up was 3 years older than me. Surprisingly, I’m 33.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • GenesisJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m 33.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Redoomed@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  3D Pinball Space Cadet

  Pokémon Blue

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• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Morrowind

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• TheOgreChef@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• jacobaaron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pokemon gold and silver + smash bros

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• Mamertine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Command and conquer.

  Super Mario 3

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• Brkdncr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maniac mansion

  NES Spider-Man.

  NES TMNT 2

  Arcade Simpsons

  Sim City and Sim City 2000, on the school’s Apple Macintosh computers.

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  • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    SC 2000 was amazing!

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• TheMinions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pokémon Colosseum, Super Mario Sunshine, Ratchet and Clank, Mass Effect

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• Sabakodgo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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• LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  StarCraft

  Super Mario world

  Body harvest

  Super smash brothers

  Halo

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• s3rvant@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hell yeah Contra! I can still hear the restart screen! Image

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• skybreaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • boblin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was Arkanoid for me.

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    • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jak and Daxter, Crash, and the Lego Star Wars games for sure.

  I also loved Wii Sports, Pokemon, and Mario Kart.

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• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyone said Worms 2 yet?

  Fuckin hell, that was hilarious while stoned as fuck.

  Don’t think they ever surpassed that one

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  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Armageddon and World Party were pretty decent.

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• Astaroth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Warcraft 3, Age Series (AoE, AoE2, AoM, AoE3), Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005)

  I played the first age of empires when I was 6 or 7 y/o and I’ve played all of the games besides AoE4 (including Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds).

  As a kid we had few crappy dell computers connected to just a hub (LAN without internet) and would play a lot of Age of Empires 2 and C&C Red Alert 1 & 2 multiplayer.

  Age of Empires and Red Alert were also games I would frequently play at LAN parties (although everyone was really bad)

   

  I played a bit of online AoE2 when AoE2 HD came out on steam but it was pretty bad so I stopped playing it. When DE came out I started watching AoE2 content but I’ll never play it because I’ve come to greatly dislike Microsoft over the years.

   

  I’ve replayed Need for Speed Most Wanted (and also Carbon) tens of times over the years, and I still play it every now and then (with mods now)

   

  The game I’ve played the most is probably Warcraft 3, I’ve played a ton of custom games on Battle.net (RIP) and it’s what got me a bit into programming since I liked making custom maps and making triggers eventually led me to learn JASS (Just Another Scripting Language)

  If Blizzard didn’t completely ruin Warcraft 3 with WC3 Reforged I’d probably still be playing it and making custom maps every so often.

  I have played a bit on private servers but it’s just not the same anymore.

   

  There’s a pretty cool Warcraft 3 open source project called Warsmash though so maybe one day I’ll start playing again.

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  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I forgot all about Age of Empires. I used to play the shit out of AoE 1 and 2 and also cossacks European wars and rise of nations.

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