What is the game you'll always remember?

fakearms123 · 25-05-2011 8:30am #1

What is your favourite video game that you played as a child? Your favourite video game could of been played on a PC, Gameboy, Playstation, Nintendo, etc name the console or computer or handheld game device that you played the game on.

For me it was always about the Sega Mega Drive when I was younger and the game that really stuck out for me was a game called Altered Beast where you play a roman soldier who died and is brought back to life by Zeus to save his daughter and you can change into different beasts like a bear or dragon. Class game I will never forget.

deathrider · 25-05-2011 8:32am

"Rise from your grave" Altered Beast was deadly! Mortal Kombat II is probably still my all time favourite video game. Enough blood and guts to keep any 10 year old happy.

Sykk · 25-05-2011 8:33am

Golden Axe...

/thread :pac:

alexa5x5 · 25-05-2011 8:34am

I was addicted to Doom when it came out, cracking monster game.

Absurdum · 25-05-2011 8:35am

Commando on the Atari 2600, Microprose Soccer on teh Commodore 64

macman2010 · 25-05-2011 8:35am

Mario cart, an all time great.

kellso81 · 25-05-2011 8:36am

Turrican 2 on C64

Seachmall · 25-05-2011 8:36am

"Outlaws" was pretty good.

Sanjuro · 25-05-2011 8:38am

For me, it'll always be Star Wars: TIE Fighter. The game was single-player perfection. The story was immersive, the music and voice cast were sublime and the game had hundreds of missions. I absolutely loved it and it remains my favorite single-player game ever.

In terms of multi-player, I'll always have a spot in my heart for Call Of Duty: United Offensive. We played it in work back in 2004 and spent hundreds of hours playing one particular map. Six of us, the same teams each time, and it never, ever got boring. Proper stalemate.

deathrider · 25-05-2011 8:38am

Sykk wrote: »

Golden Axe...

/thread :pac:

I'll see your Golden Axe, and raise you one Streets Of Rage.

Pompey Magnus · 25-05-2011 8:41am

Super Mario Brothers 3 on the NES, back in the good old days when there was no such thing as saving a game so you had to play from start to finish in one go.

bonerm · 25-05-2011 8:41am

Pang. Still very playable today imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBAj4MQG_yo

Sinfonia · 25-05-2011 8:42am

Honestly it kind of has to be the Mario franchise.
It's the absolute balls when it comes to platformers, and I grew up on it, starting with Super Mario Land for the GameBoy, then Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, then going back to Super Mario Bros. 1 & 2, and of course, Super Mario Kart. Even Yoshi's Island and stuff were class.
Mario 64 is still my favourite platformer, and Super Paper Mario for the Wii is a fantastic game imo.

Very honourable mentions go to Grim Fandango (probably my actual favourite game, but..but Mario!), Abe's Oddysee, and GTA Vice City. And maybe Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

krattapopov · 25-05-2011 8:43am

Seachmall wrote: »

"Outlaws" was pretty good.

I f8cking loved that game!

In all honesty there are a million games to be remembered, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, Hezog Zwei (anybody!?), Cossacks, Fifa 94, T2 on C64. Could go on.

Kerrydude1981 · 25-05-2011 8:43am

Colin McRae Rally on the PS1,hours spent playing that game,was probably one of the best games you could get for the PS1 at the time

TheZohanS · 25-05-2011 8:46am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioQ-pORBqM

Brilliant!

token56 · 25-05-2011 8:46am

Crash Bandicoot & Crash Team Racing (Better than Mario Kart imo)

loved that crazy little fecker

Seachmall · 25-05-2011 8:48am

token56 wrote: »

Crash Team Racing

Some game!

Caoimhín · 25-05-2011 8:49am

Wonderboy.

Doublin · 25-05-2011 8:50am

+1 on WC Italia 90. Think I always played with Germany.

Sinfonia · 25-05-2011 8:50am

Ironically enough, given the thread title, I'll always remember Final Fantasy VII too. Dunno how I forgot it earlier..

I'm gonna go with a top 4 of individual games, pretty much of all time, and not really "childhood" as the OP probably means it, but technically I was under 18 for all of these:

1. Grim Fandango
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. GTA Vice City
4. Super Mario 64

Kevin Duffy · 25-05-2011 8:52am

Show me age by fondly remembering Jetboot Jack and Who Dares Wins, from the days when you loaded up games.....from a casette tape! A feckin' tape!

Dravokivich · 25-05-2011 8:53am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDkjtXmuKm0

Outlaw on the C64. Used to play this game all the time.

Micky Dolenz · 25-05-2011 8:57am

Soggy biscuit.

jester77 · 25-05-2011 9:00am

Leisure Suit Larry... the nearest thing to good times back in the pre-internet age

hardCopy · 25-05-2011 9:02am

Flimbo's Quest on the C64 and Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES.

Mario 3 is definitely still playable, class game.

stovelid · 25-05-2011 9:03am

Galaxian or Defender on the old arcade machines.

Also loved the Tank one - the arcade game where you actually had the periscope control with handles.

I also had a game called Galaxy Invader that I played to death.

In more recent times, it was the usual ones: Doom and Duke Nukem but kinda lost interest in games about ten years ago.

Mushy · 25-05-2011 9:10am

Not one mention of Sonic....shameful. Ah the sega mega drive, now I want to play it.

kfallon · 25-05-2011 9:10am

Kick Off 2 on the Amiga! I was fooking brilliant at it, used to love R Shaw down the wing

Honourable mentions also to Sensible Soccer, Emlyn Hughes Football (C64) and Return To Monkey Island

Wibbs · 25-05-2011 9:11am

This on a dragon 32 computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDWuhkHHpw

and this ate a lot of my 10p coins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeX9ryCprs

The first I ever played was the original Space invaders in '79. It was wheeled outside a shop in Dublin on a daily basis. Didn't last long with the rain. Doh!

kfallon · 25-05-2011 9:12am

Anyone remember Leisure Suit Larry? There was a part of the game where if you rode the hooker without a rubber your genital started glowing green and you died

GavRedKing · 25-05-2011 9:13am

Rush N' Attack on the NES.

Used to play it for hours with my Dad on 2player Co-op and we never beat the game until one day he beat it without me, cue my 7 year old self sulking for days that I wasnt good enough to do it, bastard still brings it up. :pac:

suicide_circus · 25-05-2011 9:13am

Ffs op, you just made me lose the game.

sensibleken · 25-05-2011 9:14am

Ghost and Goblins ftw!

Auvers · 25-05-2011 9:18am

80ies Horace goes skiing\Attic Attack
90ies Doom\Half Life
00s Deus Ex\BF1942
10s World of Tanks

Absurdum · 25-05-2011 9:19am

Paperboy!

NoDice · 25-05-2011 9:19am

Zork, Monkey Island & Sam & Max!

Then moved onto the first GTA, Doom and Quake.

Was delighted when Monkey Island & Sam & Max came onto Xbox Live.

GrizzlyMan · 25-05-2011 9:22am

has to be Alex the Kidd, the in built game with the Sega Master System, Manys a Dinner went cold while I punched my way to Victory:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgBxTOeBTY

Blazer · 25-05-2011 9:23am

deathrider wrote: »

"Rise from your grave" Altered Beast was deadly! .

Good god it was crap.....I always thought of Life of Brian with the start of the game "wise from your gwave"

GoldenEye on the N64...classic

dr.bollocko · 25-05-2011 9:23am

Big Money!
Big Prizes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qibK4k18Ry8

Cú Giobach · 25-05-2011 9:25am

Oh happy times, having hours and hours of fun back in the olden days with one of these.

alexa5x5 · 25-05-2011 9:28am

kfallon wrote: »

Anyone remember Leisure Suit Larry? There was a part of the game where if you rode the hooker without a rubber your genital started glowing green and you died

WTF?:eek: is this a game you've dreamed up?

SteelyDanJalapeno · 25-05-2011 9:28am

Hide the sausage

ectoraige · 25-05-2011 9:30am

Elite on the speccy.

Auvers · 25-05-2011 9:33am

ectoraige wrote: »

Elite on the speccy.

oh forgot about Elite, loved that game, those damn Thargoids

MIRMIR82 · 25-05-2011 9:33am

Games I remember as a kid:

California Games(crap, but we thought it was great)
Marble madness ^as above
Anything with Mario in the title were the bomb!!

Anyone remember a game called Dizzy- i remember we used to rent it out of a game shop in town. Dizzy was a little round character - game something along the idea of Mario--LOVED IT!! Oh i remember we needed to get an adapter for it to work in the nintendo!

Oh the fights in our house!!!

ejmaztec · 25-05-2011 9:36am

MIRMIR82 wrote: »

Games I remember as a kid:

California Games(crap, but we thought it was great)
Marble madness ^as above
Anything with Mario in the title were the bomb!!

Anyone remember a game called Dizzy- i remember we used to rent it out of a game shop in town. Dizzy was a little round character - game something along the idea of Mario--LOVED IT!! Oh i remember we needed to get an adapter for it to work in the nintendo!

Oh the fights in our house!!!

That game's always been popular, it never goes out of style.