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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Very first favorite that I played over and over would have to be Defender of the Crown for the Commodore 64, 25+ years ago for me. After that would be the very first PC game I bought with my own money: Legacy of the Ancients.

Defender of the crown... Loved that game, but could never get the hang of the jousting!

Probably Fable the original version, I was hooked on that for years.

Has to be Project Stealth Fighter by Microprose for the C64;the size of the manual alone was like 'WOW' and the overlay for the keyboard; now that brings back memories.Come to think of it I had most of the simulators by Microprose.

Forgot Airborne Ranger,the original COD!!

Spyro the Dragon, Soul Reaver and Tomb Raider, all on the PS1, hard to pick an exact favourite, especially as I played all these games about the same time, so not sure which was first.

Was expecting Crash Bandicoot to me mentioned, now that going a ways back. Heck I got into gaming when the PS1 was released, must have been about 4 or 5 years old though. Hmm so thats where my life changed and I was hooked on gaming

Easy faves tho, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Tomb Raider, Timesplitters 2, The Sims and Fable....oh the nostalgia lol.

A commodore 64 game that I can't remember the name of at all but it was a guy flying along like superman going under and over various obstacles. Played it non stop for months can vividly picture it well over 20 years later! Would love to have a go on that beast now. Kung Fu on the NES is my other standout from ages past.

War of the Monsters.
That game was fun and the levels were so great!

Adventure on the Atari 2600

and on PC (c64 if I remember correctly) Bard's tale and XCOM, plus the pool of radiance D&D games were a lot of fun.

Probably Pirates Gold on my dad's old 386, even had a turbo button on the case so you could do some silly overclock crap when you didn't want to sail around at the speed of smell.

Great game.

Wayback, probably the Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins game for Gameboy Color. That was mostly because it was one of like four games that I owned, though, so I'm a bit biased there. Once I had access to a lot more and the playing fields were leveled, I went through a long obsession with Mardek: RPG. It's a Flash RPG with similar combat to Final Fantasy, but with a bit more strategy involved, and less pressure. (You can actually see your opponent's weaknesses, total health, and stats. Also, there's no pressure to move really quick, since it's completely turn-based, so you can take your time with inventory and attack selection. Which is really useful, when you have a dozen attacks and 20 or 30 items.) It's still an incomplete series, unfortunately. :(

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion

 Laughing Man wrote:
King's Quest.

Good call. That and Space Quest.


My first love was Scarab of Ra, which I played on my best fiend's Mac Classic. I can't believe there isn't a port for this absolute beauty.

Elite and Lemmings.

When I could teal some time on my brother's Acorn Electron, game of choice was Elite - a revolutionary game for the time (mid 80s)

Then I eventually got my Amiga 500 - how I loved that machine...

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge; Championship Manager; PowerMonger & Speedball - all played to death...

Speedball was an awesome game!

If you haven't already, you should try Dreadball - closest representation of that computer game in a board game!

 Pacific wrote:
Speedball was an awesome game!

If you haven't already, you should try Dreadball - closest representation of that computer game in a board game!

Might not be advisable, I got so frustrated with Speedball in the end that I ended up throwing the disk out the window of my bedroom. It didn't work again after that

 FirePainter wrote:
Diablo 1 as a monk. Thats right the monk with graphics so bad everything was grey with dial-up internet and a computer so slow I could leave to get food during loading between levels. So many good times in that game

Going to counter that and say.
Diablo 1 with the Warrior. Sorry but demons feared my weapon that could do 500 damage per a hit, that goatmen quest was too funny. (Please realize I was 5 years old when I played that game)

When I was really little, I loved this:
http://www.retrogames.co.uk/more/on/details/015965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXoBuQZfd1g

It was a game where you played a caveman, and you had to steal eggs from a dinosaur and kill pterodactyls.

When I was older, I loved Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I remember the day my brother and I finally finished it!

Parsec was my first. My brothers, my Dad, and I spent hours crouching over that green monitor flying that spaceship through the tunnels.

Doom of course, I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet. never failed to scare me out of my chair when I was little.

Wolfenstein 3D

I remember it felt like I was actually in WW2 at the time, which was unique back in '92

Easily mine was Kirby's adventure on the N.E.S. I played that game so much as a kid it was crazy, I must of beaten it 15 times.

A500 :

Sensible World of Soccer ( simply brilliant )

Cannon Fodder ( loved that game, hated it when my high ranking fire team got shot to bits )

SNES :

Star Fox ( cracking game )

Pedro Kantor wrote:


Cannon Fodder ( loved that game, hated it when my high ranking fire team got shot to bits )

Ah yes, the end of that game where you had the role-call of the fallen

Chrome Hounds. Funnest mech game I ever played, I especially loved being able to customize your mech in crazy, obviously broken ways, like a chicken-leg with a double double. and the cockpit somewhere behind the right knee.

Older would be Iggy's wreck balls(or something like that) on the N64, or this one game with a gecko with a bad sense of humor. I can't remember the name of it.

 KingCracker wrote:
Easily mine was Kirby's adventure on the N.E.S. I played that game so much as a kid it was crazy, I must of beaten it 15 times.

Oh. My. GOD. Nostalgia explosion! So many hours spent in front of a gakky old TV my parents didn't want and this game...oh the simple times.


If after Pirates I had to choose a game, I'd hazard to say Command and Conquer Red Alert. Pretty sure 30% of my childhood is wrapped up on that game.

Megaman X or Super Metroid for the SNES.

These are two of my favourite games of all time, I still regularly re-play them 1-2 times a year at minimum.

They were defining moments in my childhood.

MechWarrior 2

I played this thing time and time again when I was small. It was my first introduction to Battletech, and mechs.
I am eternally grateful to it.

Red Alert 2 and Medal of Honor Allied Assault comes to mind as my first 2 favorite games

 Frankenberry wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Easily mine was Kirby's adventure on the N.E.S. I played that game so much as a kid it was crazy, I must of beaten it 15 times.

Oh. My. GOD. Nostalgia explosion! So many hours spent in front of a gakky old TV my parents didn't want and this game...oh the simple times.


If after Pirates I had to choose a game, I'd hazard to say Command and Conquer Red Alert. Pretty sure 30% of my childhood is wrapped up on that game.

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