What's your favorite videogame ever?
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Championship Manager 2 from about 3 years ago, before it got too
complex and took an hour to play a day in it. I played for insane
periods of time. And it paid off with me getting 1.4 million
performance points once. at the time I was dead proud.
― Ronan, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Righty, you buggers. I am going to see if I can download this NetHack
thing. What else would I do anyway. Work?
― Sarah, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Aw chiz, perhaps I won't because either the interweb 'ere or the
interweb 'THERE' is buggered. Waaaaaaaaaaah.
― Sarah, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Correct Will, the aim had something to do with collecting puzzle
pieces, only once managed to solve one to have time run out. At the
time it was quite revolutionary, graphic-wise and you could well get
lost in that bloody maze with that big bastard magnet ball following
you around in some rooms.
Footie games rock.
― Omar, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Sarah, you have extra luck today. Don't do it! Save yourself.
― felicity, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Chrono Trigger. God I wish I owned it. Super Smash Bros. for
multiplayer. I've gone NES (yay!) -> Super NES (yay!!) -> Nintendo 64
(um, yay) -> Playstation 2 (yay, even though I don't own any games
for it :P)
― Vinnie, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
See
http://natural-metrics.freeserve.co.uk/impact!
― Stuart Woodward, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I spent the first 3 nights of the New Year, from about 11pm till 3am,
playing "James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire" on PS2 with my 17yr old
step-nephew-in-law. And eating handfuls of m&ms. Man, was that ever
fun. I'm not being sarcastic, either.
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
dragon warriors 1-4 on nes. the original metal gear on nes as well
as metal gear solid for the psx. the third zelda on snes and shenmue
for dc.
by the way, those lucky people in europe, is anybody playing shenmue
2 for dc? how is it? i'm not going to succumb to xbox to play it.
― ernest, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
No-one has mentioned Sensible Soccer (PC or Amiga). Let it be known
that henceforth I shall sulk.
― David H, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
one month passes...
I've been playing games since my hands were capable of holding a
joystick. My favourites by platform:
Philips P2000: Ancalagon (A dutch translation of Rogue)
Philips P2000: PacMan (but not a clone of the 'real' pacman, this one
was better, with bigger levels and more features)
Commodore 64: H.E.R.O.
Commodore 64: Labyrinth
Commodore 64: Blue Max
Atari Lynx: Xenophobe
Atari Lynx: Chip's Challenge
Amiga: Leisure Suit Larry I
Amiga: Kings Quest I
Amiga: The Secret of Monkey Island (I & II)
Amiga: Flashback
Amiga: Pinball Fantasies
Amiga: Speedball II
Amiga: Zool
Amiga: Eye of the Beholder (I & II)
PC: Command & Conquer
PC: Day of the Tentacle
PC: Operation Flashpoint
N64: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
N64: Donkey Kong 64
N64: GoldenEye
N64: Perfect Dark
N64: 1080 Snowboarding
N64: Mario 64
GBC: Tetris
GBC: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
GBA: Advance Wars
GBA: Golden Sun
GBA: Sonic Advance
GBA: Mario Kart: Super Circuit
GBA: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
PS2: SSX Tricky
PS2: Jak & Daxter
PS2: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
Current favourites: Golden Sun (Gameboy Advance), Rez (Playstation 2)
― Napole0n, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Eye Of The Beholder II for the Amiga was a WONDERFUL game.
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
one month passes...
i loved (love) sensible soccer mega drive version, cant stand snes
controller, best game ever along witht goldeneye ;o)
― baldie, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like the ones where you shoot an arrow to pop bubbles, and tetris,
and ones where you have to sort things into columns before they clog
up the whole screen and it gets faster and faster. Also there was
this great game on our family's Amiga 500, that you went along trying
to get to new levels and you had to set explosions off then get out
of the way so you'd blow the scary monster guards up instead of
yourself, and you had to jump over secret spring-up lethal spikes and
avoid fall-down metal spikes slicing you to death from above and this
game I can't remember the name but it was truly frightening getting
killed in it. The Amiga 500 Batman game's sounds really appealed to
me, there was the repition of acid dripping sound and "I'm Batman"
and other dialogue snippets, and the great sounds when you (Batman)
sends out your thing to abseil on. I love joystick games yes. Also
like this one with physically separate guns on a cord and you have to
shoot the zombie creatures and reload your gun. And Pacman I quite
like, and the Space Invaders the original one,.
― haloist, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Zelda Ocarina Of Time by nintendo 64
― jean, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Llamatron
― Matt, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
one month passes...
oops, slipped
― davidh(owie), Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
How's about Double Dribble for NES and even better, Alex Kidd in
Miracle World for the old Sega Master System. That game used to eat
Mario Alive. On the flip side for worst game ever had to me Alex's and
Mario's nemesis over on the Turbo Grafix 16, Bonk, and all his stupid
ass adventures.
― CThomas, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Just finished playing my first game in ages - found out a friend had
Warcraft III & just spent 40-odd hours glued to his computer this
week finishing it single player.
& Final Fantasy VII was a HUGE part of my adolescence (& under all my
kulturedness is still one of my favourite pieces of art, swoon). Dug
out the soundtrack (one of the first pieces of musik I owned) & have
been listening to it heaps & being all clogged up with emotions,
(cry).
As a kid - any shareware from Apogee & Epic was URGENT & KEY, esp.
Paganitzu, One Must Fall : 2097, & Solar Winds.
Dune 2, Warcraft I & II & Starcraft were heaps better than the C&C
games, both Diablo games were great, & Master of Magic/Master of
Orion II were great timesuckers. & the obligatory
Civilisation/Lemmings (& Cannon Fodder!) classix.
& in my first year of high school I set up an organisation charging
people to play networked Doom/Doom2 on the school computers during
lunchtime (& charging them 20c - unfortunately I had to give the
money to the computer teacher, curses) & I warmed to Quake, but
haven't really played/enjoyed an FPS since apart from Counterstrike
(in moderation) & American McGee's Alice (which has the best concept
EVAH!)
On the Playstation - FFVII & FFVIII were great, the Tekken series
could do no wrong, Soul Blade was good (& I almost saved up for a
Dreamcast for the, uh, sole purpose of Soul Calibur but instead hired
one - best fighting game ever), Bust-A-Groove & VIB RIBBON! were
laced with addictive fun.
Sadly university life has also meant no computers & no consoles,
other than sporadic lurking around better-off friends.
― Ess Kay, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
ooh & emulation! Pokémon Blue/Gold & Chrono Trigger!
― Ess Kay, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh MANG! Soul Calibre! I was BLUDDY GRATE at that! Dreamcast also
grebt for Space Channel 5! Oh I almost wish I was friends enough with
my friend (who I used to be friends enough with) to go round his
house and play his Dreamcast, oh sob, oh alas and alack.
Vib-Ribbon - currently there is a potential BLACK MARKET SWAP going
on in trendy London town with Vib-Ribbon swapsies for Pokémon Snap
and accompanying N64.
AND SOON I SHALL BE ENTERING THE REALM OF PS2!!! I won't be
getting Timesplitters though, that's too bloody difficult! I just
can't get the hang of Doom style perspective. I shout "where am I how
do I turn round where are you" "I am standing behind you" "oh hang on
a bit whilst I try to turn round, oh no I am stuck against a well" -
you don't have that kind of nonsense with Chuckie Egg.
I just finished the Pokémon trading card game btw, it certainly
didn't take me very long and I wouldn't have said that my deck was
invincible.
― Sarah, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
First Person shooters/sneakers DUD or SPECTACULARY DUD!
Starry -- i am thinking that the swap of Vib Ribbon for N64 and
pokemong snap (and aything else you fancy) is a GO! but
when?? maybe when the nice weather starts to go again,
hmmm?
― Alan T, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Golden Sun, though I'm using the walk through now, as I just want to
finish it. I'm the world's worst videogame player, I've never
finished a game.
― jel --, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
three weeks pass...
Nethack is superb. I've just started playing it again.
Other games which should not be missed - Ocarina of Time, Alex Kidd
in Miracle World, Wonderboy in Monster Land, Rescue (on the old
Speccy), Tetris on Gameboy (or Ltris for unix), Zelda III, Serious
Sam, Wizball, The Two Towers (on MUD, ha ha).
and finally for comic value - 'Benny Hills madcap chase'.
― Fozhack, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Centipede is the only game I have ever been good at.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
favorite games: Hitchiker's Guide for PC (Infocom, 1983ish), NFL Football for Intellivision (ca 1979), Legend of Zelda for NES (ca 1988?), Super Tecmo Bowl, all John Madden Football, EA Sports College Football titles, and NHL Hockey titles for Sega Genesis. Been out of the loop since then (7 yrs at least).
I want to try out Everquest, Starcraft, Civ II, Counterstrike, GTA3 because I've heard all of these are insanely addictive.
Favorite standup arcade game ever: Karate Champ!!!
― Aaron A., Sunday, 13 October 2002 18:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Super Metroid and
Legend Of Zelda for SuperNintendo
― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 13 October 2002 19:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
pc: civilization, tongue of the fatman, simcity (OG), journeyman project.
nintendo: contra, blades of steel.
n64: perfect dark, the james bond games.
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 13 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
non-computer: A Boy and His Blob, all Sonic the Hedgehog
Commadore 64: ULTIMATE WIZARD, Trolls and Tribulations,
Mac: Willy Beamish, Space Quest, other sierra games
2 or more player games: Doom 2, Warcraft 2, Quake, Descent, loads of shareware games (Beam Wars, Puyo Poyu, Galactic Frontiers, Spaceward Ho!, Robosport, all the Spectre games)
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also like the second to first generation of first person shooters like:
Rise of the Triad, Hexen, Heretic, Dark Forces, Doom2, Pathways into Darkness, etc
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
Please explain in more detail what flashback was about.
I have a very distant memory of it. Do you start running away from some cat and you have to jump?
Video game nostalgia is the best.
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually i looked it up, and I'm thinking of Out Of This World. that game was great. (feeling loads of nostalgia)
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
flashback: this dude is working on some shit so he can see the aliens who are infiltrating everyday civilization (like they are doing with us airports now) and he gets kidnapped and has to make his way back to earth and then destroy the alien planet. starts off with the guy running away from the aliens and hopping on this hovercraft thing.
actually i think it was his friend that was working on the alien x-ray glasses stuff. i think his friend's name was ian. i think his name was conrad. i think i need to get laid real soon.
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
i loved (love) sensible soccer mega drive version, cant stand snes controller, best game ever along witht goldeneye ;o) I loved it too, but my Amiga owning friend used to moan about the star player system, and the fact that you could just press the 'shoot' button and it would do the goalscoring for you. I agreed that it was more satisfying to score on the Amiga. You had to work every angle.
My other favourite games:
Spectrum: Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy, Match Point (still fantastically playable, with great intuitive controls), Gauntlet (spectacularly quick and always underrated. I've got the emulated arcade version on my PC now, as well as the Spectrum one, and its the latter that is most fun to play).
Megadrive: Sonic 1 & 2, the Shinobi games, NHL hockey.
Playstation 2: I just bought one of these a week ago - continuing my habit of buying the populist platform over the more technically advanced one (Spectrum vs C64; Megadrive vs SNES; PS2 vs X-box and Gamecube). Only have two games so far. This is Football 2003, which I bought because I love football games and didn't want to get Pro Evolution now when the sequel is coming out in a couple of weeks. It's decent if simplistic game, but I'm still aware when I'm playing it that I would have wet my pants when I was 9 to know I would one day have games that were this much more advanced than Match Day. The other game I have is Gran Turismo 3, which knocks me out. The graphics are pretty much indistinguishable from TV. Last Tuesday, I'm ashamed to say, I played it for 17 hours straight.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 14 October 2002 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Damn you guys are old.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
pacman is good!
-- Julio Desouza (julio@d...), October 13th, 2002.Try this site: PacMan
― Lek Dukagjin, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link