Space Invaders and Phoenix. We had the cabinets in our movie theater
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the patrician's 4X.
It's just so ideologically diverse and deep, and so quotable too. Plus, you can use how much you agree with Miriam as a litmus test for maturity, lol.
Alpha Centauri is a masterpiece that has never been matched, let alone topped. It’s a shame that rights issues have doomed the franchise.
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Handheld Zelda link's awakening for the Gameboy hits me the hardest as it was the first I owned myself bought with my first jobs mowing lawns and delivering papers.
Console, NES contra watching my older brothers get way further than I could at the time & teach me the Konami code
PC xwing, I had a f16 flight stick and my siblings would play splitting weapons/shield/engines distribution to a copilot and the pilot flying and aiming. That mission where you have to fly back and forth protecting the Corvette from imperial attacks from both sides jumping in and out of the area was peak retro space combat gaming.
Might and Magic 7: For blood and honor
Super Mario Bros 3. It was the first video game I'd ever played. That was my gateway drug.
I used to know that game like the back of my hand. Any time I pick it back up, it feels like visiting an old, childhood home.
Mancala. omg I still remember learning how to play in Kindergarten and I'm almost 30 now. This game was probably my very first addiction.
I discovered Mancala as a minigame in a shareware demo of Quest for Glory III, for a long time I thought they made it up for that game lol
Ghostbusters on C64. Love that game to this day.
I suppose monopoly. It was the only game we really played. We also played trivial pursuit, but it was questions for my parents mostly.
I did get the question once of "What company was snoopy a mascot for" and answered "get met" which they were shocked and asked how I knew, and it was a brief appearance in a Bloom County comic, which they had the anthologies of so I read them all.
Stronghold, the isometric one
Sonic the Hedgehog 3. I wish I could say Sonic 3 & Knuckles but we weren't swimming in money so I very rarely got a new game (and just to add, I never threw controllers or punched TVs either because mommy wouldn't just buy me a new one if I did that).
I did rent out Sonic & Knuckles occasionally though. But I can practically picture the early level layouts of Sonic 3 in my mind like they're familiar streets that I grew up in.
Secret of Mana. Played it with friends like crazy. One even had the extension thing to connect 3 controllers - guess where we hung out most of the time.
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The Star Wars arcade game.
Ultima 7
Sunset Riders SNES.
Legend of Mana and Megaman Legend. Can we get a legend 3, capcom?
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#BringRockHome
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Megaman 2
Any of the cluefinders games, or gizmos and gadgets. Plenty of other edutainment classics do it too. Outside of edutainment, only NHL2000 and Halo: CE come to mind.
Spore
Blake Stone aliens of Gold
Master of magic
Final Fantasy 8 and Crash Bandicoot.
Minecraft, it will always be minecraft. Its the only game I can't help but come back to every year atleast
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on the SNES. The opening music alone is magical in my memory
At the risk of sounding ancient: Lifeforce on the NES.
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Beyond Good and Evil for me it was a very unexpected good game with fantastic music and atmosphere.
Super Mario Galaxy
Aaaaaand now I feel old.
There are so many good memories. Its hard to choose.
On PC it's Atlantis, by Cryo Games. It was a point and click, like Myst. I liked the story telling.
On snes it's Terranigma. Also because of the story. But the most played game for me was Super Metroid.
A special mention needs to go out to the entire GTA series, because I grew up with them.
I played Tenchu recently, and it was just as good as it was the first time I played it. Those controls are jank, but it's really a fun game regardless. It has a wonderful soundtrack, and it feels foreboding which is lovely for a ninja game. I feel the same sense of dread that I do as if I were playing a horror game or something. It's quite good!
Lion King on the SNES.
I played. And played. And played. I took that game and system with me when I left home and I took it with me all across the country. And then I finally beat it on a 12 hour graveyard shift with a friend. We were on our last life and were going to be dead. And it happened. The only time in my life I ever beat the game was after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts.
Classic Concentration, based on the TV game show!
Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team
Hungry hungry hippos
Broken telephone