Metal Storm, Super Mario 3, Street Fighter 2, Tomb Raider, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Jet Moto, Final Fantasy Tactics

Mario RPG, half life 2, and Halo 1, those are easily my top 3 games.

As a kid, probably Lode Runner. It ran on my pc. Some arcade games were fun. I enjoyed Asteroids. Colossal Cave, and the Infocom games like Planetfall were fun too. Though what really hooked me was Doom. It was the first real 3d FPS game and it blew my mind. It's been my favorite genre ever since.

• Prince of Persia
• Contra III
• Blackthorne (by blizzard)
• Freelancer

Pokemon Blue

Baldur's Gate 1 & 2. The open-world gameplay melted my adolescent brain after growing up on NES games. I haven't stopped playing such games since, and I still go back and play them again occasionally.

Go for the eyes Boo!!

Jumpman and Loom (Commodore 64) really stand out.

When I was a kid, I felt pretty confident no video game would ever top Dragon Quest 4 (known as Dragon Warrior 4 to me, at the time).

It has been since surpassed, but I do still think it's pretty damn excellent.

Other big games for me were Ultima Online, later World of Warcraft.

Prior to those MMOs though, I was a big MUD (multi-user dungeon) player. I used to connect to Arythia.org via zMUD or old telnet and spend hours at a time playing and chatting with people in the entirely text-based proto-MMO

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X-COM: UFO Defense (1993) Fallout 2

Two games on the C64: "The Castles of Dr. Creep" and "Elite". The first was a jump-and-run platform game with incredibly simple and lowres graphics, but perfect for two cooperating players. The second was the absolute classic space game by Braben and Bell.

• Contact Sam Cruise
• Robin O The Wood
• Kokotoni Wolf
• Back to School
• Killed Until Dead
• Head Over Heels
• Batman

and about a hundred more, probably. These are all on the ZX Spectrum. No one else start out in the early 80s with a Spectrum or Commodore 64 or Dragon or whatever?!

Looks like I'm one of the oldest here (Pacman guy presumably older)...

The game that had the single biggest effect on my current taste has to be Another World.

Not really my favorite, but I never see these games listed in places like this, so I'm going to be the change I want to see in the thread.

Check out Lufia and Lufia II for the Super Nintendo. It's crazy how underrated these ended up being, and how good they were. I've played them semi recently, as SNES games go, and the second one still holds up well. The first is good, but feels a little more dated.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, 2, and 3 when I was quite young. In my teens it was Minecraft.

Lasting impression top 5:

Great Gianna Sisters, Last Ninja 2, Castles, Loom, Moraff's World

Pong.

I wasn't able to start gaming until I was around like 12, but when I did, I loved a game called Dungeon Defenders on the Xbox 360. Came out in 2011, so it's not nearly as old as most of the games listed here.

Dungeon Defenders was actually full of modded accounts on the Xbox, and they distributed loot everywhere that did like a billion damage and one shot everything (yet somehow I still sucked at the harder maps lol). I could never enjoy the game now with all the modded shit, but back then it was fucking awesome. It's the game that got me into modding and is the reason I'm as computer savvy as I am today, so it will always be a fond memory in my head.

Crusader: No Remorse and it's sequel. FMV cut scenes, isometric shenanigans. I would love a modern day remake that obviously isn't a shitty cash grab.

Awesome (psygnosis on the Amiga) and probably Parsec on the ti 99 4/a. Yes i’m old

golden sun, pokemon, fat princess, time commander,

Played a lot of games... But the NES didn't really have that many standouts for me. I could write an extensive list of games I played for a lot of hours but out of the raft of games there wasn't many that particularly were a favorite more like a dichotomy of whether each bit of the list enjoyable and not. The SNES was definitely Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country and Chronotrigger but it was the N64 that got me games that I replayed like crazy.

Zelda Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Super Smash Bros, Harvest Moon 64, Snowboard Kid's 2 and Diddy Kong Racing made the top of that list. Those were fucking awesome games.

By the time I got a PS2 I was technically an adult and Nintendo never really recaptured my heart like it did when I was a kid. I have been a playstation loyalist since then but that N64 still has a spot in my basement.

Nox. It's a computer game by Westwood Studios.

Street fighter and Mario kart 64.

Lemmings, AoE, RCT

• Burnout 3: Takedown
• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
• Mario Party DS
• Minecraft: Pocket Edition (The alpha versions)
• Mario Kart DS