Most of us probably grew up playing video games, some of them we forgot or our gaming system ain’t what it used to be. What games bring you back to the good ol’ days when you didn’t know what politics were and couldn’t be bothered to watch the news bc the new ep of Spongebob is on? For me I have to say the Simpsons Game (PS2), the Billy & Mandy Fighting Game (PS2) DK Country (SNES) and NBA 2k14 (PS3, please whatever Deity is out there bring me back to 2013 so I can cheat in 2k again and make my MyPlayer basically just Michael Jordan 😭) and probably Infamous for PS3, I probably played the first game like 18 times fr. What are your faves?
Definitely minecraft. It is still my favorite game after a decade of playing it. But aside from that, Spirit Tracks/Phantom Hourglass, Kirby Superstar Ultra and Jak and Daxter.
Halo Combat Evolved
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I’m showing my age here, but:
- Scorched Earth
- Commander Keen
- Zoombinis
- Encarta maze game
- Old Windows hovercraft game
- Doom II (got a copy from a friend on floppy disk)
Old Windows hovercraft game
Which one’s that?
Thanks! Apparently I was thinking of a different game
Oh man, fogot about Commander Keen, that game was so much fun :)
Especially Keen Dreams, so fucking trippy
a classic :)
Good question. I’m a sucker for games from my younger days anyway, so picking just one is hard. Perhaps something like Dangerous Dave
BioShock baby! It has story, killer environment, lore…everything
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I religiously played back in the day Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland on my ps2 for hours. I’d also play Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and AoE II.
I bet every comment is going to be so different, and will date each user haha. For me…
- Mortal Kombat II in the arcade, insanely difficult, I can almost taste the strawberry milkshake I’d always be drinking there
- Zelda - A Link To The Past on Gameboy
- an odd one, but the free demo that you got with the original PS, I remember my stepbro and I marvelling at the 3D t-rex / mantaray that we could spin around and zoom in / out of at will. How far we’ve come
- also for PS, the very first Tekken, and Tekken 2
- going way back, Horace Goes Skiing on my trusty ZX Spectrum. My first console and first game. You had to load it via a tape, and it sounded like an old modem!
MK2 on Arcade is one of the best games ever. Kinda crazy to think of how many secrets and Easter Eggs are hidden throughout such a basic seeming game
flashgames mostly, idk if the ones i played on miniclip are even still playable.
On PC, Lego star wars, Simpson’s hit and run, NFS Underground.
My cousin had a SNES and N64 and we used to play smash bros 64, mariokart 64, and take turns on Super Mario World.
I completely forgot about flash games. I tried to revisit coolmath games recently, but all of the originals on the site are unaccessible I think, which is very saddening.
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Oooh, I should try that soon to revisit them.
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Super Mario RPG (SNES) loved it so much. My buddy and I left our Earth Science final early just to finish the game (still passed with a 79 and 80 respectively).
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Street Fighter II World Warriors (Arcade) can still taste the pizza I ate right before I played. My grandpa would take me out to pizza every Friday and gave me 2 quarters to play.
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The original TMNT (NES) I still get anxiety just from hearing the music from the swimming level. But then again I get a great burst of joy from hearing the overworld music. Such an emotionally taxing game.
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Master of Orion 1, still have that one more turn effect, 27 years later.
I still play it occasionally to this day. MoO2 is probably the better (certainly more complex) game but for some reason doesn’t have the same charm as the first. The first one really sparked my imagination in a way that almost no other space scifi game has since…
The only one that gave me a similar feeling, albeit decades later, was Mass Effect. Though of course it’s a completely different type of game but it triggered some of the same kinds of emotions for me, something i can only describe as “space wonder”.
something i can only describe as “space wonder”.
Same, it’s the thing i search for in space games, i call it “whoa, space!” effect. Mass Effect had it too. Except those, Stellaris have it in spades, same as Homeworld series, KotOR 1 had it too. Old Ascendancy game is also worth mentioning. Distant Worlds series. Endless Space 2 fallen a tiny little bit too short, having good graphics and amazing music, but the shitty immersion breaking sterile interface.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Ghosts’N Goblins 🤘
That music always gives me goosebumps.
Age of Empires 2. I listen to the soundtrack several times a year.
I played sooooo much of that game in Pre-K and Kindergarten, I think I beat the first level in like 1st grade bc I was too dumb and stubborn to follow objectives lmao, I really didn’t understand computers for an embarrassing amount of time
Metal Gear Solid
