Most Influential Game??

hussey · 08-01-2003 3:12pm #1

What game do people think had the most influence on THEM (ie not games industry but them as players)

I think mine was Street Fighter 2, I remember going to an arcade in spain and playing it for nearly 2 weeks!!

Mr. Fancypants · 08-01-2003 3:14pm

Double Dragon was the first arcade game i played to death in the arcades. Remember being amazed at the graphics.

Rolo Tomasi · 08-01-2003 3:25pm

arcade game was final fight and console ......................it has to be asteroids

^CwAzY^ · 08-01-2003 3:32pm

Most influential game.. hmm probably mario kart for the super nintendo, I played that game for hours on end

Big Chief · 08-01-2003 3:48pm

donkey kong in the arcades

although street fighter 2 also had a great influence "aaaaiiii ueeeeee keeen", had a arcade close to where i stayed so spent most days up there playing it, ryu/ken = ownage

donkey kong was prolly one of the first i played though, apart from pong where all you had was that "rollerball" thingy to move about.

And lets not forget about space invaders omg

so many to choose from

[edit: yes double dragon was also class

]

Mark · 08-01-2003 4:25pm

Im going for the old stand by Street Fighter 2 (It was better than Mortal Kombat and you know it!) if only for the nostalgia whenever I see Ken pull off a dragon punch or Bison Imbalance Crusher.
Also Donkey Kong and Super Mario Kart get the vote for insanely obvious reasons, Grim Fandango for its humour and Warcraft 3 for its Play-me-22-hours-a-day-and-is-sleep-really-that-important-anyway? addictiveness

drrnwbb · 08-01-2003 4:51pm

commander keen 1, 4 and civ 1

dw

*edit*
i really should look at the thread topic more, i thought it said "first game played" or something.. obviousily commander keen 1+4 isnt the most influencial game ever.

dw

Mr E · 08-01-2003 5:02pm

Arcade:

Flying Shark/Twin Cobra/Raiden (I'm a sucker for a good shooter, and they were rock hard -- but beatable !!). The newer Psyiko shooters just throw millions of bullets at you and say "avoid those!", but the earlier games were all about skill and sharp shooting.

PC:

The original Wolf 3D (I remember getting 100% in every level in all 6 episodes a long time ago!)

Ultima Underworld 1 and System Shock (totally absorbing where-did-the-time-go sort of games!)

Console:

Zelda IV (SNES): Same as UW and SS on the PC. Totally absorbing. Finished it 3 times and loved every minute.

- Dave.

TheDuke · 08-01-2003 5:18pm

It has to be Doom I and II. This was my very first taste of "on-line" gaming - could ring one buddy via modem and bash...

what a ground breaking game...

The Duke : ))

Superfurry · 08-01-2003 5:50pm

Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. It was the first game I ever played and had me totally captivated. It's still good for a quick blast every now and then.

Lemming · 08-01-2003 6:04pm

Platoon (C64), Sonic the HedgeHog, Shadowrun (Snes), Fallout, Half-life, and the ubitqious "Doom".

Funky · 08-01-2003 6:12pm

Quakeworld

CivilServant · 08-01-2003 6:28pm

I think it'd have to be the first computer game I ever played on the atari st in my friends house. I was nine at the time. I can't even remember what it was called maybe you could help me name it. You control a bug on a spaceship and had to collect things (a dime a dozen back then I know!) it had a top down view.

Anyways long story short it lead me to wizball, dungeon master,sonic, mario, kart, streetfighter 2, colonisation, quake, civilisation 2, quake 2, quake3, civilistation 3.... and hopefully doom3 anytime soon.

Placebo · 08-01-2003 6:54pm

Street fighter 2 (arcade)
Street fighter 2 rainbow edition (arcade)
Street fighter 3 [thirdstrike] (arcade)

Super Mario World (Snes)
Super Mario Cart (Snes)
Street fighter 2 turbo (Snes)

Zelda [oricain of time] (N64)

Counter Strike [Pc]

Placebo · 08-01-2003 6:58pm

It has to be Doom I and II. This was my very first taste of "on-line" gaming - could ring one buddy via modem and bash...

ah , i didnt know that , how do u play online ? i didnt know DOOM for pc has ne multiplayer capabilities

Pugsley · 08-01-2003 7:35pm

Doom definatly, then Half life in second place

Slutmonkey57b · 08-01-2003 10:42pm

has to be Spy Hunter

spooky donkey · 09-01-2003 12:10am

Doom did change the way i looked at games alright but the game that did it for me was shaddow of the beast on the òl amiga. Such a suprise to see arcade type graphics and sound on a home computer. Well at the time anyway.

StarScream · 09-01-2003 1:57am

Id say streets of rage on the megadrive (good ol mega games 1 cartridge) and second to that rock n roll racing - the best racing game ever
while were on the subject does anyone remember a game called technician ted, it came with one of the amstrads, it had the best music ever

Chaos-Engine · 09-01-2003 2:04am

There was an arcade game in the airport about 13 years ago. I loved it. Everytime i went to pick my dad up I'd play it for ages. I can't remember the name but it had something to do with fantasy and demons and dragons... I was a Zelda like Knight..

Also DOOM... i played it on a PC around the same time and that is what changed me for ever more

Karl Hungus · 09-01-2003 2:08am

I say Elite.
Either that or Syndicate.

Wook · 09-01-2003 7:53am

LLamatron for it hooked me up to my LSD trips..very influential

Snaggle · 09-01-2003 8:03am

Originally posted by Chaos-Engine
There was an arcade game in the airport about 13 years ago. I loved it. Everytime i went to pick my dad up I'd play it for ages. I can't remember the name but it had something to do with fantasy and demons and dragons... I was a Zelda like Knight..

I remember they had rastan in the airport, was that it?

conor-mr2 · 09-01-2003 9:30am

First ever computer game i played was centipede on the good ol Spectrum ZX. What a game!! And the loading sequence.
ON the Commodore there was this legendary game called Buggy Boy. But so many really on the Commodore!!

Arcade: has to be Wonderboy..no other game made me pour as many 10p pieces into it. Ah remenisce!

Console well it has to be the mario bros on the nintendo!!
Mariokart on the Snes. Was never into fighting games!!
Shadowrun was another legend. Play that every now and then on the pc (snes emulator) for nostalgia reasons!!!

On the PC well it was 688 Attack Sub on the old 286 I had!! Super addictive game!!

Ah fond memories.. I think I feel a tear in my eye!!!

TheDuke · 09-01-2003 9:33am

Doom has an option to play via COM ports (I think that is what it was) - or it may have even given the option of MODEM. It's been a while.

Just needed to enter the mate tel no and off it went with 14.4 modems by the way. The worst lag was from our crap machines 486SX with 4MB.

The Duke : ))

Praetorian · 09-01-2003 12:29pm

PC

Wolfenstein, Then Doom, Quake, Half life

Consoles

Streets of Rage 1, Street Fighter 2, MK2

I played Doom Multiplayer via Com Ports aswell, I was speechless for the first 5 minutes...then i remember thinking this is the future

boogie man · 09-01-2003 1:34pm

No ones mentioned Road Rash yet! What an ace game. Spent months of my life on my big brothers 386pc with that stupid game. Must re-install it :cool:

hussey · 09-01-2003 1:56pm

Road Rash ... now taht brings back memorys!!

I should give a mention to tetris .. I still play that game
I bought it in 6th class .. that was nearly 11 years ago now

I remember Bryan McFadden (from westlife) had it and he used to have the best score in the school .. then I total kicked his ass on it

TomTom · 09-01-2003 2:25pm

First games on PC were Granp Prix and lynx golf.
Loved Cannon Fodder on my amiga. The intro was class.
Also streets of rage on Mega drive.

amp · 09-01-2003 2:50pm

Pong and Space Invaders. Before that there was very little in the way of games...

I'm so old

deadl0ck · 09-01-2003 3:03pm

Double Dragon was one of the first games I played on a regualr Basis....

Star Wars also was pretty influential - you know th old one you used to sit in (Vector graphics) and it would say "Use the force Luke"

Other games include:
Choplifter (I remeber Peter Cetera "Glory of Love" was always on the radio when I played this game)...
Wonderboy in Monster Land
Bubble Bobble
Street Fighter II

Placebo · 09-01-2003 6:23pm

ah i totally forgot

Samurai shodown 4 (arcade)
Caddilacs and dinasours (arcade) <

brilliant
There wa sthis peter pan game , i loved it , then it disapeared .

Doom has an option to play via COM ports (I think that is what it was) - or it may have even given the option of MODEM. It's been a while.

right , thanks duke .

Greenbean · 09-01-2003 9:20pm

Toss up between Indy Jones Fate of atlantis, Fontier Elite and a game called Exile, for which I'd only the cover demo for, and for which I could never find a full copy of. You played as this little spaceman, in a side on 2d environment with l33t physics. Required so much skill and patience to do anything, I must have pushed that demo to its limits, getting in nooks and crannies I wasn't supposed to. Like Frontier Elite it taught me that simulations rather than scripted events were so much more interesting in the long run (also taught me you have to be a patient bastard and put alot of effort into things to get joy).

Ryo Hazuki · 09-01-2003 10:31pm

First Game Owned? Centipide on A2600

Most Influental Game, FF7.
I had no experience of the other Final Fantasy Games.

Now Squaresoft games take up the largest portion of my Game-book shelf

ykt0di9url7bc3 · 09-01-2003 11:50pm

fighting games; Street fighter 2

racing games; mario kart

space gaming; elite

rpg; FF7...(what else comes close!)

fps; Doom

Adventure; Tomb Raider I

ground breaking games

AI; TOCA, Half-Life, Medievil Total War
Graphics; Quake, Gran Turismo,
Level Design; Tomb Raider, Half Life

imho...:p

Shinji · 10-01-2003 9:59am

Doom showed me that games could be scary and introduced me to online multiplayer (outside of MUDs).

Final Fantasy VII showed me that games could induce emotions other than fear, could tell stories better than films and introduced me properly to Japanese RPGs.

Soul Calibur showed me that the beat'em'up could move into 3D and actually be better rather than worse for it.

ICO showed me the games haven't lost their magic or ability to amaze, even in the middle of multi-million pound blockbuster titles being churned off the production line.

BioHazRd · 10-01-2003 11:15am

From an arcade standpoint, it's gotta be Rygar (anyone remember that

- I'm old) - I still remember the euphoria when I actually finished the game. It must have cost me a fortune now that I look back on it.
On PC, the most influential game for me was Doom II - It was the first pc game that ever made me "pull a sicky" to play it. (Not that I still do that - hehe)

Bio

^CwAzY^ · 10-01-2003 1:23pm

Ahh the memories, I just remembered the amount of time/money I wasted on golden axe in the arcade many many years ago. Such an addictive game. The mortal kombat series were good too, and let's not forget virtua fighter!

Retr0gamer · 11-01-2003 11:31pm

It has to be FF7. It made me look at life differently. Also it really affected my Leaving Cert results. At the moment Xenogears is doing the same to my 3rd year 1st semester results.

monument · 12-01-2003 2:46pm

The Secret of Monkey Island
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis
Wolfenstein
Doom

Greenbean · 12-01-2003 2:58pm

http://www.nemmelheim.de/exile/exile-mission.html

L33t, a fansite on exile.

Even better:
http://www.back2roots.org/
lets you download it, ecs (better) or aga (fancier graphics). They have it legally up until June of this year. Use WinUAE to play it. Requires a bit of dicking about with the settings to get running fast, but it works no problem for me now. I'm in reto heaven. Thanks to Kairo for the link.

seamus · 12-01-2003 3:08pm

Shadow of the Beast on A500. Nothing big now, but spectacular graphics at the time.

Chaos Engine
Indy and the last crusade.
Championship Manager - first game that wasted hours of my life

Wipeout 2097 - Introduced me to the wonders of the Playstation

TinCool · 12-01-2003 4:30pm

Elite on the C64

DeVore · 12-01-2003 5:33pm

Pacman/Space Invaders... the start of it all. Yes, I'm that old

Elite.... changed the way I thought about 3d worlds in "cyberspace"

Gauntlet... one of the first really multi-user games (as opposed to head to head).... God I rocked at that game

If anyone wonders where the Gauntlet machine from Eden Quay went to... I bought it.

Doom... nuff said though not as big a shock to me as some because I'd been playing Elite... still, it was a seismic event!

Quakeworld... first time we really started to see multiplayer net-play. Also a sense of community. If I had to be entirely honest this was the biggest game for me because Boards.ie wouldnt exist if it hadnt been made.

DeV.

DeVore · 12-01-2003 5:36pm

Oh yes, almost forgot Descent!

Descent was doing full 3d gaming when Doom was still in 2.5d... unfortunately not many people could handle the vomit-inducing freedom of it...

I loved it, played it for days on end... great while you are feeling um, relaxed...

DeV.

francie brady · 12-01-2003 8:36pm

GTA3 was the most influential game for me, it influcance me to go on killing sprees and to get involved with organised crime

tman · 13-01-2003 9:21am

wolf 3d, kickstarted my love affair with fps's:)

super mario kart, best 2 player game ever, bar none!

super metroid, best singleplayer game ever (imho)

oh yeah, honourable mentions to speedball 2 & the chaos engine

TheDuke · 13-01-2003 10:26am

Hi guys,

if it is pre PC and early 80's then it must be:
* F14 (or was it F19 - flight sym on C64)
* Apache Gunship (Sinclair ZX 128 +2)
* Start Glider (Sinclair ZX 128 +2)

Both ZX games used the vector graphic engine to its limits. In gun ship you could fly right up to a tank and see it... now that was cool and all with 8.33Hrz (yes, Hrz no MHrs!!) and 128kb (and again, KB not MB) - now the guys in those days, they could code.

The Duke : ))

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