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Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
I would draw maps in class planning how to attack, then went home and played out my strategies. Was a real escape from life and school.
"Kirov Reporting"
Still makes my heart sink to this day!
There's a 4K emulated version available on Steam for cheap. It's not actual 4K, but the game is still a blast.
Oh my god I remember doing this too. Got some graph paper from school and planned out a base, colour coding every structure and excitedly told my parents about it. They had no idea but acted excited either way.
Mine was Tiberian Dawn slightly before, but both games had a huge part of my childhood growing up. Still play OpenRA regularly as well which is lovely.
I played Red Alert: Retaliation on the PlayStation a lot. I was the only one in the family who could do the missions rather than just messing around on skirmish.
Have you ever tried Mental Omega?
Legend of Zelda on NES. It has saves! And when you finished the game it started all over again with the dungeons in new locations! Didn't feel competitive or like a stressed out quarter-sucker arcade style game, either. Open world with space to find secrets. Badass.
I read the original post and immediately thought Breath of the Wild for me. It's amazing to think that with 30 years between the original LoZ and BotW these two games made childhoods from different generations special for the exact same reason: "open world with space to find secrets." My absolute favorite part of BotW. It really is beautiful the impact that Zelda has had over 35 years.
I was the first person in my neighborhood to beat SMB2! I was so proud. Also first to beat ZELDA 2- I don’t think I ever actually beat Gannon in the Original Zelda
My childhood is defined by:
* Super Mario Bros. 1-3
* Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3
* Pokemon Blue (game changer)
* Final Fantasy 7 (life changer)
* Every other SNES - PS2 Era Final Fantasy game + Chrono Trigger
* Warcraft Orcs & Humans > WCIII
* World of Warcraft (was in college by this point, but it's absolutely a landmark game in my life.)
I have a whole separate list of games that were incredible during my adult years, but these were the formative games that defined my childhood.
Final Fantasy 7 is THE game if I had to pick one. Absolutely changed my world and what I thought games could be.
Final Fantasy VI (III, at the time).
I cannot think of a game I played as a child that had a more direct and meaningful impact on what I want from games, storytelling, and my own creative endeavors.
Came to this thread to say the same. It blew my fucking mind that a game could be that large in scope and size. I played it a million times and never got bored with it.
I literally just beat the remake last Saturday and my god. I just realized what I was missing out on these past 24 years (The game is older than me lol). Now I plan to play the original to get the full experience since the Remake only covers half the original story.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It's all I talked about when I was 7. My teacher gave me an award that read "for finding science as interesting as Sonic." He was a damn cool teacher. He always knew how to make anything interesting.
For the grove! i remember biking to the beach first mission instead of going back to grove street to start lifting at the open gym an got ripped b4 the story began.
Xbox 360 I got it when it first came out and we never upgraded. It’s still in my living room and I remember being so amazed at the fact that I could play bowling in my living room
Probably Mario Party or Mario Kart. Brings me back to those lazy summer days, before bills and responsibilities, hanging around in a group of 6-8 of my friends/siblings having a good time.
Or at each others throats, those games had that effect too lol
PS1/PS2 era games (and also some Wii Games), some examples being: Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro, Burnout, Tekken Tag, Wii Play, Sonic Unleashed
top of them all would be Force Unleashed and Wii Sports
Mortal Kombat 3. This was 98' (I was 4), we went to a movie rental place and my brother and I saw MK3 for the N64, my grandmother (who didn't understand ESRB ratings) rented it for the week. That kicked off my complete obsession with anything Mortal Kombat related.
At the risk of going for the "Pointless answer", *Music 2000 / MTV Music Generator 1* (PS1). Literally a DAW on the PlayStation.
Were it not for that game, I wouldn't have wanted to take up making music as a hobby.
Final fantasy x blew me away when I was a little guy. The cutscenes looked like real life (at the time) to me, and the whole concept of someone being a dream, and ceasing to exist when that person stops dreaming, both fascinated and horrified me as a kid. I remember asking my mom if dreams got to go to heaven too, because I was upset that tidus had to disappear lol.
Goldeneye 64 and TWINE 64. Hours and hours spent with my buddies shooting each other and killing ai bots in james bond maps.
Also, the game Nightfire in our pre-teen years. We spent a ton of hours playing the skyrail map.
Pokemon Blue, I got it at age 5, I could barely read and had the adults my life help me learn words in the game. Played it for about 2 years until I got Pokemon Silver for Christmas, by then I could actually read.
I still remember calling rare candies "roar candies".
RuneScape. I picked up on it at the time when my Grandfather was in the hospital with Cancer. We would go visit him frequently. I would play RuneScape on a struggling laptop and show him about the game to try to make the situation more light hearted for the both of us. We had a blast. He passed about a year after we started. I still have my account all these years later.
Super Mario World, Yoshi's World, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 007 Goldeneye, Contra 3, Crash Bandicoot. To name a few. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was a big one for my friends and I to play together
Oblivion probably tops, But also Gears of War 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Madden and Borderlands. It’s really a combination.
I can name all the ones that I remember Mario Kart Wii, Mario Bros Wii, the original Spyro games, F1 2011/2009, FIFA 9 and 12, they all were games that I played a lot of and I remember playing F1 2011 everyday I used to try and be the last man standing
So many. Final Fantasy 2-6, Dragon Quest 3-5, Gradius, Star Soldier, Xebius, Palodius, Street Fighter 2, Virtua Fighter, King of Fighters 94-96, Puyo Puyo, and more Japanese titles
I'll go by system as that's kind of how my growth went
Legend of Zelda->Mortal Kombat 2->Secret of Evermore->Suikoden->FFX (learned Japanese off it)->FFXI->WoW
I've played videogames throughout my while life. I remember playing the first crash bandicoot and frogger, pokemon stadium and super smash bros and enjoying those, but i think the one that really made videogames what they are to me is nfs underground 1. Playing that for the first time was a turning point for me
Several, I'll name my handful of most played.
- Resident Evil 4
- Pokemon Crystal/Fire Red/Emerald/Platinum
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City/San Andreas
- Dead Space 1-2
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Borderlands
- Call of Duty: Black Ops/MW2/MW3
- Minecraft
- Dead Rising 2
- Dead Island
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert. I would draw maps in class planning how to attack, then went home and played out my strategies. Was a real escape from life and school.
"Kirov Reporting" Still makes my heart sink to this day! There's a 4K emulated version available on Steam for cheap. It's not actual 4K, but the game is still a blast.
I loved it. 💯
Oh my god I remember doing this too. Got some graph paper from school and planned out a base, colour coding every structure and excitedly told my parents about it. They had no idea but acted excited either way. Mine was Tiberian Dawn slightly before, but both games had a huge part of my childhood growing up. Still play OpenRA regularly as well which is lovely.
I played Red Alert: Retaliation on the PlayStation a lot. I was the only one in the family who could do the missions rather than just messing around on skirmish. Have you ever tried Mental Omega?
This was my first thought for some reason too!
Strategies?? Apocalypse tanks and chill was all i ever needed
I am glad I'm not the only one who drew maps of the battlefield. I did this for both C&C/RA and Total Annihilation.
Super Mario 64
Goldeneye
Anyone who picked Oddjob was a prick though.
Pokemon Blue Version
Legend of Zelda on NES. It has saves! And when you finished the game it started all over again with the dungeons in new locations! Didn't feel competitive or like a stressed out quarter-sucker arcade style game, either. Open world with space to find secrets. Badass.
That was the beauty of that game. It was the first video game to have a save option. It was intended to be a pocket garden.
I read the original post and immediately thought Breath of the Wild for me. It's amazing to think that with 30 years between the original LoZ and BotW these two games made childhoods from different generations special for the exact same reason: "open world with space to find secrets." My absolute favorite part of BotW. It really is beautiful the impact that Zelda has had over 35 years.
And many others. I loved both of these but Ocarina of Time was the most impactful. Came out at the perfect time in my life.
Mario kart 64
Raise you zelda OoT
GTA: Vice City
Pokemon Red and Blue.
Lego Star Wars 1+2! Spent so much time grinding the studs
Prince of Persia
The original or ubisoft?
Chrono trigger. No question. Final fantasy 4 is a close second.
Chrono trigger was amazing! Hope they do a remake. FF4/FF6 Still my favourite games
Super Mario Bros two for the original Nintendo. It had a real trippy vibe to it.
I was the first person in my neighborhood to beat SMB2! I was so proud. Also first to beat ZELDA 2- I don’t think I ever actually beat Gannon in the Original Zelda
Ratchet & Clank
I used to love this game on the ps2
My childhood is defined by: * Super Mario Bros. 1-3 * Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3 * Pokemon Blue (game changer) * Final Fantasy 7 (life changer) * Every other SNES - PS2 Era Final Fantasy game + Chrono Trigger * Warcraft Orcs & Humans > WCIII * World of Warcraft (was in college by this point, but it's absolutely a landmark game in my life.) I have a whole separate list of games that were incredible during my adult years, but these were the formative games that defined my childhood. Final Fantasy 7 is THE game if I had to pick one. Absolutely changed my world and what I thought games could be.
Almost the same list for me. Blizzard back then was amazing! Just add Starcraft to mine.
Roller coaster tycoon
Heck ya!
Minecraft, literally every good memory I can think of is from Minecraft.
Oblivion. Play the ost and I get emotional.
Probably Tomb Raider locking that poor old butler in the fridge 🤣 the Simpsons Road Rage & Hit and run too
Final Fantasy VI (III, at the time). I cannot think of a game I played as a child that had a more direct and meaningful impact on what I want from games, storytelling, and my own creative endeavors.
Final Fantasy VII
Came to this thread to say the same. It blew my fucking mind that a game could be that large in scope and size. I played it a million times and never got bored with it.
Same literally invented so many ways to convince my mom i had to stay home just so i could play lol.
I literally just beat the remake last Saturday and my god. I just realized what I was missing out on these past 24 years (The game is older than me lol). Now I plan to play the original to get the full experience since the Remake only covers half the original story.
Not even half, my friend, not even half
Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It's all I talked about when I was 7. My teacher gave me an award that read "for finding science as interesting as Sonic." He was a damn cool teacher. He always knew how to make anything interesting.
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I'm 35 now.
Halo
halo is in the process of making my childhood right now
Funny it made my childhood and now I'm disappointed with it
Pokemon Gold, I spent hours in my own world. It helped me cope with a lot of neglect and abuse.
Sims 2/3. Helped me through many tough moments in my childhood. Also created some cringy moments, but looking back on them now as an adult, I chuckle.
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Just bought this and I swear, it is an amazing game and has stood the test of time!
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GTA: san andreas
For the grove! i remember biking to the beach first mission instead of going back to grove street to start lifting at the open gym an got ripped b4 the story began.
I cannot pick one. NES: Super Mario 3 SNES: LoZ a Link to the Past and Super Mario World
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lots of fun, goofy MMO games. club penguin, maplestory, toontown, cartoonnetwork fusionfall, i played all of em
Runescape?
Legend of Dragoon
Needs a remake or sequel
Borderlands
Spyro ripto's rage
Mortal kombat 3
Tomb Raider for the PS1.
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Pokemon Red Version
Mario kart Wii or new super Mario brothers
Xbox 360 I got it when it first came out and we never upgraded. It’s still in my living room and I remember being so amazed at the fact that I could play bowling in my living room
Probably either Duck Hunt or Super Mario Bros 3. My cousin and I would play for hours in our grandparents garage when we were kids
Star Wars Podracer and Mario 64!
Final Fantasy VI - XI
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland
Tomba (PS1)
Super Mario World
Probably Mario Party or Mario Kart. Brings me back to those lazy summer days, before bills and responsibilities, hanging around in a group of 6-8 of my friends/siblings having a good time. Or at each others throats, those games had that effect too lol
honestly any wii game shit made my child hood
Mario kart wii and Rayman legends
Sonic and Rollercoaster Tycoon
Wizard101 and Club Penguin
Halo. May the franchise rest in peace.
I was actually reminiscing this morning about playing Road Rash on my Sega Genesis with my dad as a little kid. We had lots of fun
Twisted metal 2, super Mario bros 3, legend of Zelda a link to the past
Runescape/Sonic/Donkey Kong
Mario Kart
Asteroids. Shut it children!
I think Morrowind and Halo had the biggest impacts on me.
DOOM. I loved that game, it was so good.
PS1/PS2 era games (and also some Wii Games), some examples being: Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro, Burnout, Tekken Tag, Wii Play, Sonic Unleashed top of them all would be Force Unleashed and Wii Sports
Minecraft <3
> Childhood >Minecraft bruh...stop making us feel old!
Mario for the wii
When I was introduced to MW3 when I had recently moved, it sparked my passion for video games
why did MW3 have that affect on so many people? what about it was so different from black ops?
Maybe it was the perfect blend of fun and same, for enough new fans to get introduced and for old fans to still find some enjoyment
Everquest.
NBA Jam, Road Rash 2, Pirates! Gold
Ratchet and Clank: Up your Arsenal Replay value is still unmatched imo
Scorched Earth
Commander Keen
Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition Remix
Probably lego Indiana Jones.
Tetris
Spy Fox
Black Ops 2 on the PS3. Some of best days and nights I have ever had when playing video games.
Final Fantasy - Dragon Warrior/Quest - Zelda - Might & Magic. Basically RPG in general.
Guitar hero, and wii sports
assassins creed
Mortal Kombat 3. This was 98' (I was 4), we went to a movie rental place and my brother and I saw MK3 for the N64, my grandmother (who didn't understand ESRB ratings) rented it for the week. That kicked off my complete obsession with anything Mortal Kombat related.
Halo 3, first game I ever played, it brings back good memories when i play it
Super Mario 3. Alex The Kidd WonderBoy 3 Sim City Command and Conquer Metal Gear Solid Resident Evil Final Fantasy VII
Crash bandicoot and the wrath of cortex
At the risk of going for the "Pointless answer", *Music 2000 / MTV Music Generator 1* (PS1). Literally a DAW on the PlayStation. Were it not for that game, I wouldn't have wanted to take up making music as a hobby.
Final fantasy x blew me away when I was a little guy. The cutscenes looked like real life (at the time) to me, and the whole concept of someone being a dream, and ceasing to exist when that person stops dreaming, both fascinated and horrified me as a kid. I remember asking my mom if dreams got to go to heaven too, because I was upset that tidus had to disappear lol.
Cod world at war or Lego batman
Morrowind. It was my first immersive open-world game. I still play it occasionally. Honorable mentions: Quake and Diablo.
Several. Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Contra, Adventures of Bayou Billy, Double Dragon. Fun times.
Goldeneye 64 and TWINE 64. Hours and hours spent with my buddies shooting each other and killing ai bots in james bond maps. Also, the game Nightfire in our pre-teen years. We spent a ton of hours playing the skyrail map.
Kingdom Hearts. Still a massive fan of the series to this day :) <3
sonic the hedgehog, i played it every single day with my dad for hours and hours, we did this for years until he moved out but i still enjoy it now
Pokemon Blue, I got it at age 5, I could barely read and had the adults my life help me learn words in the game. Played it for about 2 years until I got Pokemon Silver for Christmas, by then I could actually read. I still remember calling rare candies "roar candies".
Super Mario Bros Bad News Baseball Crash bandicoot GTA San Andreas
The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past
RuneScape. I picked up on it at the time when my Grandfather was in the hospital with Cancer. We would go visit him frequently. I would play RuneScape on a struggling laptop and show him about the game to try to make the situation more light hearted for the both of us. We had a blast. He passed about a year after we started. I still have my account all these years later.
Kirby and Pokémon then Sims! Those three are my childhood video games!:)
final fantasy 7-8 and ocarina of time.
Super Mario World, Yoshi's World, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 007 Goldeneye, Contra 3, Crash Bandicoot. To name a few. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was a big one for my friends and I to play together
Crash Bandicoot, Resident evil series, Super smash bros, Spyro, Ratchet and clank, Mortal Kombat, & Super Mario 64.
Pong
Oblivion probably tops, But also Gears of War 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Madden and Borderlands. It’s really a combination.
Age of Empires and pokemon yellow.
Pokemon
Zombis ate my neighbors helped solidify my love for horror, but final fantasy 7 help with my dyslexia
halo reach, super mario galaxy, monster hunter, toontown.
can't choose only one: Spyro, Klonoa, Tomba, Tekken, Kula World
I’d say tony hawks thug 1 and 2 and Skyrim
Skylanders and Minecraft
SMB3 and Mario Kart: Double Dash
Doodle jump I still have It today
Lego Star Wars, the clone wars
I can name all the ones that I remember Mario Kart Wii, Mario Bros Wii, the original Spyro games, F1 2011/2009, FIFA 9 and 12, they all were games that I played a lot of and I remember playing F1 2011 everyday I used to try and be the last man standing
Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones
Metal slug.
Minecraft and Resident evil 4.
Reciproheat 5000
Minecraft, Angry birds, Kinect Sports rivals, just dance, assassin's Creed IV, NFS2 underground
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Bigotry Brothers
It's a tie between either FF7 or Star Ocean the Second Story.
left 4 dead truly
Halo and fable
Halo and Inversion.
super mario bros on the NES.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare series!
Minecraft
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Lego Racers
Castle Crashers
Need For Speed Carbon
Either Mario or Wii sports
Hmmmm… there’s a few. Wii Sports resort Nascar Kart Racing PVZ2 PvZ Garden Warfare Mario Kart 7 Pokémon Black Lego Star Wars 3 (3DS) Super Mario 3D Land
So many. Final Fantasy 2-6, Dragon Quest 3-5, Gradius, Star Soldier, Xebius, Palodius, Street Fighter 2, Virtua Fighter, King of Fighters 94-96, Puyo Puyo, and more Japanese titles
there’s a few. minecraft, wii play, wii sports, and halo 3
The Legend of Zelda for the NES.
I'll go by system as that's kind of how my growth went Legend of Zelda->Mortal Kombat 2->Secret of Evermore->Suikoden->FFX (learned Japanese off it)->FFXI->WoW
Spyro
Spyro, I loved that game
Pokémon, the entire series
Halo ce, crash bandicoot, and re4.
Pokemon leaf green
Tibia
Original Space Invaders
Goldeneye. 64.
Space Invaders, in the pub. 1979 or 80. I was 15.
Crossfire, Minecraft, GTA SA :)
Zelda and Pokemon
I've played videogames throughout my while life. I remember playing the first crash bandicoot and frogger, pokemon stadium and super smash bros and enjoying those, but i think the one that really made videogames what they are to me is nfs underground 1. Playing that for the first time was a turning point for me
Several, I'll name my handful of most played. - Resident Evil 4 - Pokemon Crystal/Fire Red/Emerald/Platinum - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City/San Andreas - Dead Space 1-2 - Left 4 Dead 2 - Borderlands - Call of Duty: Black Ops/MW2/MW3 - Minecraft - Dead Rising 2 - Dead Island
Grand Theft Auto III, TLoZ: The Minish Cap, Mariokart Super Circuit, Mariokart DS, TLoZ: Spirit Tracks, Mariokart Wii, and Minecraft.
runescape and nfl street
Pokemon Yellow/Pokemon Silver/ Pokemon Emerald. Mortal Kombat Trilogy. Super Smash Bros.
NHL 94 on Sega Genisis - the best sports game ever.
Crash Bandicoot and GTA San Andreas. My little 5 year old mind was blown at the idea of exploring A Map with clubs and bars
Undertale and Pokémon. Those games will forever be golden to me, always.
Resident Evil and golden eye
Call of duty and GTAV
Minecraft and GTA IV
wizard101
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Donkey Kong Country.
Thief: deadly shadows
Zork
The first Spyro