The nostalgia thread (games you grew up with).

Do we already have something like this? If not, this is a thread about games you grew up with.

For me, my system of choice was the Game Boy Color.

The games I grew up with were Super Mario Bros Deluxe, Super Mario Land 2, Pokemon Red and later, Gold, and Wario Land 2 and 3.

I didn't have a Nintendo64 at the time, but I did regularly go to the nearby barber shop, which had a working console and a copy of Super Mario 64. I played the hell out of Bob-bomb Battlefield, though I never got very far.

My Christmas of being...8 was it? Replayed in a similar fashion to the Nintendo Kid's.

I got Poke'mon Snap for my first game.

...I still play Super Smash Bros from time to time.

I still thank hours watching Dad play Ecco The Dolphin for my undying love of weird, quirky, experimental games.

Anyone else remember Alisha Dragoon? I don't think I ever beat it, but damn was that some fine music.

Muppet Racemania. Oh what fun I had! I could never unlock any of the characters and vehicles properly so I always used cheats but it was and still is a fun game. The music's quite catchy as well.

I know Super Mario World inside out, it being the first video game I ever played. Donkey Kong Country came shortly afterward. And when I was about 7 or 8 I got Super Mario All-Stars, making the NES Mario games a part of my childhood, and me into a Super Mario Bros fan for life.

I wasn't much of a gamer when I was a kid.

Pokemon is basically the only game that I grew up with. Mario (64 and Kart) and smash bros though were games that I played whenever I went over to my friend's house so maybe those were games I grew up with too.

Ah yes, in my day we would all gather around the Apple II in our public school classroom and fight over who got to play Prince of Persia next. In 1995, yeah, funding was weird.

The very first video game I ever played was the adaption of Disney's version of Hercules when I was about 6 or so years old. Some say it was the beginning of the end for me.

I say yeah, it was. I didn't even know what a video game was back then, much less what a Playstation was.

edited 1st Nov '10 10:20:00 PM by Legionnaire

I remember the excitement of having just enough birthday/Christmas/allowance money to buy a new Game Boy game. To this day, I still regret selling my copy of the first Kirby's Dreamland. I also remember getting Donkey Kong Land and squeeing about it.

I kept all my game manuals on a little shelf in my room. I still have them, including manuals for games I don't even OWN anymore.

The first game I remember playing was Alley Cat for PC. Fun game. I was terrified of the dog.

I was so obsessed with Kirby when I was in 6th grade that people used to make fun of it. I still haven't grown out of the games yet, and I don't think I ever could.

Oh and Tetris is always fun.

My first game was Donkey Kong. Good times.

Blaster Master, The Guardian Legend and River City Ransom are all games that defined my childhood. Also, the first four Dragon Warrior games (except for II, which I never was able to find because my local rental store didn't carry it).

edited 2nd Nov '10 3:03:42 AM by WillyFourEyes

I'm from the Game Boy Advance/ Game Cube generation. The first game I actually played Ocarina of Time... For 5 seconds, because I was scared of the Deku Baba's.

My early games were on Amstrad CPC. I'm talking Jet Set Willy, Arkanoid 1 & 2, Fruity Frank, Mission Elevator, Bomb Jack, Prohibition, Infernal Runner, and a pinball game by Ère Informatique.

edited 2nd Nov '10 3:26:37 AM by Medinoc

My first ever owned videogame was Donkey Kong 64 when I was 7, but I had played Pac-Man before. I started really getting into gaming as I started to enter 4th grade. Majora's Mask did interesting things to a nine year old's head, but it did hook me fairly into the Zelda series, though I had wanted to play Ocarina of Time first after watching my cousins play it.

This thread's making me feel old.

You know the first game I remember playing? Burger Time. Problem is I was so young (four or five) I'm not sure if it was on the Colecovision or the Atari. Definitely not NES. The first NES game I remember beholding belonged to my bro-in-law and it was the original Legend of Zelda.

Burger Time was the shit, man.

edited 2nd Nov '10 7:25:45 AM by Bur

LJN's Back To The Future for NES.

Okay, now for games that don't suck, mostly Super Mario Bros 1, 3, and 64. Yeah, I thought the "64" at the end was weird when I was a kid too.

Not to mention SimCity 3000 was a pretty big one. I remember before I hit the age of 11 that I didn't even know how to play it, so I constantly ended up losing by going way too far into debt. Of course, eventually I learned how to get the Gold Towers and Space Shuttle, but before then, I kept destroying the built-in Metropolis city out of envy.

edited 2nd Nov '10 7:29:05 AM by Cliche

To my regret, I skipped the NES, and the first real gaming console I bought was the SNES. The console I was introduced to was my neighbor's Master System: Shinobi, Ghostbusters (it was better than the NES version), Wonder Boy III... (I was surprised by the latter's long password system)

edited 2nd Nov '10 7:30:34 AM by Medinoc

The first video game I saw played was either Sonic The Hedgehog or Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

The first ones I remember playing are Super Mario Bros 1-3, and I grew to like all three main console competitors as I grew older as long as the games were fun.

Super Monkey Ball. It's a shame that the new installments aren't what 1 and 2 were.

@Matt: I remember making my friend Ashley play Kirbies with me. She had no idea what it was, but she knew we had friends who were a hamster, a fish, and an owl, and we could magically copy things. So we were Kirby Princesses who defended our kingdom from King Dedede.

Really? Nobody's said it?

Golden Eye

Well I did make a thread for this earlier, but what the hell.

Anyways, I grew up with all those early Epic Games, like Jill Of The Jungle and Jazz Jackrabbit, as well as Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Chex Quest, and some others.

Well, my first games where Nintendo 64 games: Turok 2, Mario Kart, Super Mario 64. And then came the gameboy, with Pokemon red and many third-party crappy games. Which was all followed by the computer with Swat 3, Star Wars racing and that weird game of which I don't remember the name which was in an alternate timeline in which Soviets and Americans fight over the moon with starships and stuff.Also,Aliens. Aaaand, last but not least, the games that initiated me to online multiplayer: Call of Duty (boy was 1.0 buggy 0_o) and Battlefield 2.