What's your favorite videogame ever?

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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

But there's Millipede as well. And they're both fine games. :-)

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...
I'm not sure if any of the people here used to use BBS systems before the internet came around - but there was one game that i would frequent - L.O.R.D. (legend of the red dragon) - you only could play for about 5 minutes a day. I must've had about 20 different games going on, on the various bbs's i frequented.. LOL

Scott, Saturday, 12 October 2002 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Half- Life

Lek Dukagjin, Saturday, 12 October 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link


RIVER CITY RANSOM BY TIM

River City Ransom.

TIM@KFC.EDU, Saturday, 12 October 2002 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

574rcr4f7!

mbosa, Sunday, 13 October 2002 17:54 (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

pacman is good!

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 13 October 2002 18:38 (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


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