Games you grew up with

Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Commander Keen are the most vivid in memory.

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Sonic 2, Red and Blue.

edited 10th Dec '10 9:30:04 AM by Electivirus

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• Goldeneye 64
• Starfox 64
• SOCOM II: US Navy SEALS
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Final Fantasy X
• Medal Of Honor
• Halo
• Ghost Recon
• Rainbow Six
• Splinter Cell
• Ace Combat

edited 10th Dec '10 10:54:32 AM by Nimitz

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• Goldeneye
• Toejam And Earl
• Super Mario Bros.
• Zelda
• Insector X (I've not met anyone IRL who's played this, but it was a great shmup)
• Herzog Zwei
• Torins Passage
• Perfect Dark
• Body Harvest (I've never seen another copy of this since I got rid of it... I wish I never got rid of my 64)
• Star Craft
• Diablo
• Sid Meiers Gettysburg
• Age Of Empires
• Phantasy Star
• Eye Of The Beholder
• Ultima

I'm going to stop, because I could go on and on... Boy, this makes me realize how many games I've played in my 25 years...

I regret nothing.

You have nothing too regret

I grew up with Grand theft auto 2. Sandbox mayhem as it's finest. Nuff' said.

Yoshi's Island was the game I played the most as a kid. I'm just lying in wait for it to come out on the virtual console because I refuse to play it on an emulator.

I want flies in on a dragons!

My nostalgia overfloweth with Game Boy and N64 games.

• All the Donkey Kong Land games
• Kirby's Dreamland 1 and 2
• Banjo Kazooie
• Mario Kart 64
• Yoshis Story
• Tetris Attack (my first real game!)
• Pokemon
• And a bunch of PC Edutainment things.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokemon, mainly. But my first video game was Super Mario World.

I am completely, utterly, and thoroughly done with Sola Sonica and 2D

Well, the SNES (with Super Mario Allstars) was my first console, but I didn't really play that one all that much. I consider the GBA my first real console, with games like Pokemon Crystal, Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Ages and Golden Sun. An honorary mention goes to Hype The Time Quest for being the first PC game I ever played.

edited 12th Oct '11 1:37:09 PM by Lemurian

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Let's see... when I was six, my mother bought a GBC and Pokemon for me and my older brother (I received Blue, he had Red). There was also a lot of Super Mario Land, Wario Land, and Bomberman (the GBC one that was single player with an emphasis on platforming and had the story about some Sun Sword) back then as well. Not too long after that, my aunt bought us a PS 1 for Christmas, so the main games we initially played were X-Men vs. Street Fighter (this was back when I absolutely sucked at fighters and could only button mash to pull off supers), Crash Bandicoot (Cortex Strikes Back, Warped, and CTR), and Spyro (the original trilogy), among others. My cousin also had a Sega Genesis, so I played the occasional Sonic, ToeJam & Earl (both the original and the sequel), and Castlevania: Bloodlines. It's a shame my PS 2 isn't with me at college; I'm suddenly feeling nostalgic.

"Oh no, Sanji's Chronic Simprosis!" - Kou The Mad

I grew up with:

• Super Mario 64
• Mario Kart 64
• Mario Party 1-3
• Mario Golf
• Diddy Kong Racing
• The Banjo Kazooie series
• 1080 Snowboarding
• Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time
• Donkey Kong 64
• Conkers Bad Fur Day

...

I grew up with Nintendo and Rare in general.

edited 12th Oct '11 2:17:34 PM by Folt

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• Pokemon Blue and Gold
• Metroid 2
• Crash Bandicoot 2
• Golden Sun The Lost Age
• Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons (but mostly Ages)

I'm typically a generation behind.

So. Let's all pause for a moment to smell what the Rock was, is, and forever will be... cooking.—Cave Johnson

Er... I also forgot to mention that my grandfather had a N64, so I spent my Sundays playing Pilotwings 64, Cruis'n USA, Wipeout 64, and Conker's Bad Fur Day (yeah, it was not a good influence for me seeing as I was only 6-8 back then; he'd later buy other games like Super Mario 64, Super Smash Bros., LoZ: OoT, and other gems from that era).

My word, the music from those first three games are stuck in my head.

"Oh no, Sanji's Chronic Simprosis!" - Kou The Mad

I remember being fascinated by Star Fox 64 as a kid despite rarely playing it back then. I used to always goad my older brother into playing it during road trips because I kept wanting to see Aquas and Area 6. As for games I actually tried my hand at, the second Grand Theft Auto, Streets of Rage and the Pokemon series.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.

Pokemon, Crash Bandicoot, Age of Empires, Kingdom Hearts.

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Donkey Kong 64 springs to mind, and Super Mario World. I also played most of the best Nintendo64 games, though regrettably no Banjo Kazooie. Later on my dad was into Warcraft (remember when that was an RTS?) and Diablo, so I played them as well.

The only big series I played was Kingdom Hearts. Other than that, various GBA games based on movies and books I liked. (One of the Harry Potter games was actually pretty good, though.)

I find it a bit funny how apparently many of you had Conkers Bad Fur Day as kids.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

Fuck yeah Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. So glad to see all the Crash love in here.

edited 12th Oct '11 7:25:14 PM by BetaRay

You are not alone, and you are not strange. You are you, and everyone has damage. Be the better person.

The games that got me started on the path to addiction was the original Star Fox, Super Mario World, and Desert Strike for the SNES. It was all downhill from then on...

• SNES
  • Mortal Kombat 1, 2 & 3
  • Super Mario World
  • Super Mario All Stars
  • Dr Mario
  • Sink Or Swim
  • Killer Instinct (Thank you Joi)
  • Some form of Tetris
  • Street Fighter II Turbo
  • Alladin
  • Mickey Mouse and the Great Circus Mystery

• PS 1
  • Bloody Roar 2
  • Tenchu: Steal Assassins
  • Wu-Tang Shaolin Style
  • Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2 (Thank you Joi)
  • Spyro 1 &2 (THANK YOU JOI OMG)
  • Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22

There are MUCH more, but I can't remember because    A CERTAIN SOMEBODY    thought it'd be a good idea to get rid of my PSX and SNES and all of my games.

edited 13th Oct '11 3:04:44 AM by IWasJustPassingBy

Don't ask what's wrong with me, because I don't know either.

I started at an early age =)

Let's see... (in no real order)

PC DOS (and a bit of Windows, mostly 3.1):

• Doom
• Quake
• Wolfenstein3d
• Dark Forces
• Warcraft and War Craft 2
• XCOMUFO Defense
• Mordor The Depths Of Dejenol
• Space Crusade
• Wasteland
• Rise Of The Triad
• Duke Nukem Shareware, and then 2, followed by 3d a few years later. *
  ^{YES, I AM A PROPER PRE-3d FAN OF DUKE.}
• The Gobliiins series (all of them, yes)
• Quest For Glory 1 and 4
• Full Throttle
• Secret Of Monkey Island
• Diablo
• Lode Runner The Legend Returns
• Shivers
• TIE Fighter

That about covers most of the games that I liked as a kid and PLAYED as a kid that I can recall. But also...

FamiClone (don't ask):

• Kunio Kun No Nekketsu Ike! Ike! Hockey Bu
• Felix The Cat
• Jurassic Park
• Super Mario Bros 2 / Doki Doki Panic
• Super C
• Batman
• Battletoads And Double Dragon

And that covers me and mine until age 10, which I think should suffice for the purposes of this thread =)

edited 13th Oct '11 7:21:01 AM by Noelemahc

Videogames do not make you a worse person... Than you already are.

@Freezair FALT: I'm surprised my mom bought it at all, even with the 18+ only on the box... In retrospect, I was actually kinda lucky that mom bought it and that it didn't influence me as much as it could, besides, it was fun trying to find all the movie references. Me, sis, and my friends always had a blast at the Multiplayer too. (Submachine Guns/Shotguns or Raptor character for the win!) The ending was a Tear Jerker though...

Fantastic Supreme Überkaiser Emperor Folt of The Infinity and Beyond" ... "The First"!

Pokemon was the first ever Video Game I liked. I watched the anime like it was some sort of cult ritual back in those days. And then my Aunt got me Pokemon Blue. I had a Haunter and Kadabra as my top guys. But when I found I couldn't evolve them, I threw a huge tantrum.

My second Video Game love was Resident Evil. Yes, I know that's weird. I didn't play it, though. I watched my 17 year old aunt play the shit out of it. I only stopped when 3 came out. Nemesis traumatized me with his "S.T.A.R.S"

After that I mostly played some Looney Tunes licensed games. I remember one was call "Sheep Raider" and the other was about time or something.

I actually lost interest in playing Video Games until I was 11, and then Kingdom Hearts came out.

I grew up with oldies on Amstrad CPC: Fruity Frank, Prohibition, Jet Set Willy... The next big step was my SNES with Super Scope 6 and The Legend Of Zelda A Link To The Past.

edited 13th Oct '11 7:02:35 AM by Medinoc

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