Xtincthed Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 As a kid from the 80's and 90's I didn't have internet or magazines to see what games were worth playing. I just played the games that I got from friends and family. Sometimes these games were horrible, but you had nothing else to play so you just played them. I made a video to showcase the games that shaped my childhood, and I'm curious to see what games shaped yours. You can be totally honest with your picks, noone will laugh at you for loving a **** game, we understand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tr3vor Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 1: Pokemon Gold 2: Link to the Past 3: Kirby's Adventure 4: Frogger Hop to It (PC) 5: Bugs Buny Lost in Time (PC) That was the awesome stuff I used to play when I was 6 or 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sega_SHARK Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Frogger 2600 Empire Strikes Back 2600 Zelda NES Zelda 2 NES / Mario 2 NES (tied) Nobunga's Ambition NES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kombalar Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Consoles: 1. Vectrex Scramble 2. Atari 2600 Raiders of the Lost Ark 3. Vectrex Mine Storm 4. Atari 2600 Phoenix 5. Atari 2600 Ms. Pacman Computers 1. C64 Elite 2. C64 Impossible Mission 3. C64 Spelunker 4. PC Wing Commander 5. PC Monkey Island Arcades Check my .signature. Also Xevious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska_music_fan83 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Taz - Atari 2600 NHL Open Ice - Sony Playstation Twisted Metal 2 - Sony Playstation Action Quake 2 (a mod of Quake 2) - PC Starcraft - PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 noone will laugh at you for loving a **** game... Who is this "noone" person & why would he laugh at me? Console: Atari 2600 (VCS) games: Crystal Castles, Seaquest, Video Checkers Computer: Atari 800XL games: Ms Pac Man, numerous type-in ANTIC & COMPUTE! programs Arcade: almost any Atari game (hey, tried & true!) especially Xevious 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) But should we laugh at your (Game Boy) games, I mean Game Boy........ 1: Major Matt Mason 2: Mattel Hot Wheels 3: Mattel Tingmaker (with oven) 4: Drum kit 4: Home Pong (home video games arrived when I was almost grown up) Edited February 10, 2013 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 In chronological order, from middle school to college: 1: Adventure (2600) 2: Star Raiders (5200, then 400, then 1200XL) 3: Ultima III (Atari 1200XL) 4: Wizard's Crown (Apple //c) 5: Trade Wars 2002 (WWIV) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwalla Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Electronic Quarterback Mattel Football II 2600 River Raid 2600 Starmaster 2600 Super Breakout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic George 2K3 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Back in the age where we didn't have the horrifying contradictory term "handheld console" and two-player games were NOT called "multiplayer", because this current system generation's getting dumber... 1. Space Invaders 2. Galaxian 3. Pac-Man 4. Berzerk 5. Missile Command 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Well I'm going to have to split this up in to first decade and second decade since games have been a part of my life since I was 4. First Decade: K.C. Munchkin (OD2) Buck Rogers (Adam computer) Monkey Academy (Colecovision) Missile Command (2600) Baby Pac-Man (Arcade) Honorable Mention: Bowling (OD2) Second Decade: Commando (7800) Double Dragon 2 (NES) Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis / Game Gear / Sega CD) Toe Jam and Earl (Genesis) Side Arms (TG16) Honorable Mention: League Bowling (Neo Geo AES) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybingo Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 2600- Pitfall II Phoenix Adventure Dragonfire Hero C64- Telengard Ultima II Ultima IV Bard's Tale Wasteland Arcade- Tempest Dragon's Lair Berzerk Robotron 2084 Mr. Do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kombalar Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Baby Pac-Man (Arcade) Yeah... I should have named that. Awesome & very underrated masterpiece. How far did you get? I think I emptied 11-12 mazes... I went quite far to those that had black walls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Space Invaders Pac-Man Crazy Climber Gauntlet Adventure (2600) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akator Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I Am So Sick Of Meaningless And Arbitrary Numbered Lists 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 OK... rather 12 than 5 for me, spanning all systems, but I tried to consolidate it by grouping versions of the same game together... 1. Galaxian (mostly Arcade version, then spread to Entex handheld and eventually the Atari 2600) 2. Space Invaders including variants (e.g. TI Invaders), starting in the arcade 3. Pac Man (starting in the arcade, spreading to handheld by Tomy, consoles and computers, including variants like TI-99 Munch man) 4. Donkey Kong (actually starting with the Game&Watch game, then spreading to arcade, Coleco handheld and the TI-99 version) 5. Turtles (starting in the arcade, spreading to handheld, G-7000 and a BASIC version on the TI-99, although I don't know how I named it and where I put it :-) 6. Missile Command (starting in the arcade, spreading to the Atari 2600, and an attempted TI-99 port) 7. Pole Position (starting in the arcade, spreading to BASIC version on the TI-99, later to professional versions on Atari 2600, TI-99 and C-64) 8. Centipede (starting with a typed-in BASIC program on the TI-99, then spreading to Atari 2600 and Arcade) 9. Decathlon / Track & Field / Summer Games and similar (actually starting with MS Decathlon seen on an early IBM PC, then spreading to Atari 2600 (Decathlon), Arcade, TI-99 BASIC programs and C-64 (Atarisoft) 10. Q*bert (starting on Atari 2600, spreading to Arcade, another BASIC TI-99 port, then the C-64) 11. Gyruss (starting on C-64, spreading to Arcade) 12. Marble Madness (starting on Arcade, spreading to Amiga and C-64, and another BASIC version on the TI-99) I think those are the absolute highlights, those games I also tried to write ports of (except for Galaxian) or imagined how they would look on different, partly non-existent systems, or drew fake screenshots of etc. etc. So you could really say they "defined" at least part of my living back then. I do not, and have not owned all those games. Some of them only were borrowed from friends or relatives. But I could tell you several stories about what I have done to, or with these games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 All arcade machines, since home TV games weren't really mainstream yet (except pong clones). I thought the VCS was cool, but not in the same league as the arcade machines. - Various pinball machines - Space Invaders - Gypsi Juggler - Avalanche - Breakout, Super Breakout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) Space Encounters (Arcade) = First game I was addicted to. Missile Command (arcade and 2600) = First favorite game. Star Raiders (Atari 5200) = First game I lusted after beyond all others and was even better than I imagined when I finally got it. Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Apple II and C64) = THE electronic RPG, even nearly 30 years later there is no better electronic RPG. Adventure (2600), Pac-Man (2600), Defender (2600 and 5200), Qix (5200), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (5200), Joust (arcade) = Games I spent HUGE amounts of time with, and which tend to come to mind whenever I think of gaming during my Junior High and High School years. Honorable Mentions: Phoenix (arcade), Space Duel (arcade), Mad Planets (arcade), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (arcade), Cinematronics Space War (arcade) = Beloved games in the arcades I wish I had been able to spend more quarters on. but which were nevertheless foremost in my mind. Edited February 11, 2013 by Gabriel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keoma Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 01) Berzerk [Atari 2600 & 5200] 02) RASTAN SAGA [Arcade] 03) Super Contra [Arcade] 04) Bare Knuckle 2 (Streets of Rage 2) [sEGA Mega Drive / Genesis] 05) Ninja Gaiden (Famicom/NES) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Mario all the way. Oh and zelda was fun also. And one of my friends really liked ikari warriors nes. Oh and 76 games in 1 even though it was illegal-ish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satoshi Matrix Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 The ones I played ungodly amounts of when I was a kid? easy. Tetris (GB) Megaman X (SNES) Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES) Super Mario Bros. 3 Pokemon Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) Oh I guess if we're naming the old handhelds as well, Mattel Electronic Baseball. Played a full game under the covers secretly almost every night at bedtime. Double headers on Friday & Saturday nights. Oh, & add Gauntlet to my arcade list. Edited February 11, 2013 by RJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Video games didn't define my childhood, but they were a part of other things that did: Atari VCS/2600 Legos Star Wars & GI Joe Transformers Playing outside, building forts n'shit Plus, my family only had 9 Atari games, hardly a childhood-defining quantity. Now, if you want to talk teen years, I'll have to get back to you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+grips03 Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 M.U.L.E Ms. Pac-Man D&D on C64 Archon Shinobi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 1. Adventure (2600) 2. AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin (Intellivision) 3. Golden Axe (Genesis) 4. Kid Icarus (NES) 5. Dungeon Master (Amiga) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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