What is the game you'll always remember?

Uriel.

Resident Evil 1 - PS1. Never forget getting the PS for Christmas with this game. Nearly wetting myself playing it for the first time... oh the excitement.

Platoon - C64. Loved it. recently downloaded an emulator for it and got it going again.

Rambo - C64

Match Day 2 - C64

Carmaggedon - PC what a game!! it was like being part of "Death Race"

Empire Earth - PC

Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Shinobi and Alien Invasion - Mega Drive

kellso81

kellso81 wrote: »

Not one mention of Tomb Raider on the whole thread. Groundbreaking at time, memory prob sullied by so many crap sequels but 1 and 2 were awesome!

+1 for this. I was going to mention it in my earlier post but there were too many games on the tip of my tongue already.

Just like you said, millions of sh1t sequels destroyed the franchise, but at the time 1 and in particular 2 were excellent, groundbreaking games. Played them for ages on PS1 and PC.

Having said that, i did load up TR2 a while back on the PC just for laughs, and i was surprised how much the genre had moved on since then, not just in terms of graphics, but in control mechanics, and in general innovation, as well as because of the larger scope that was possible on later generations of consoles. While i remember lara's first couple of adventures as being fantastic, i think that it's one of those titles that was known for being so groundbreaking at the time that it was often copied, and occasionally bettered here and there by other developers, and over the years the genre just got pushed so far bit by bit that it left the originator way behind.

Meh, its still worthy of a mention. Her boobies get bigger the farther you advance in the game for feck's sake. If you don't think that's awesome, then you need awesome lessons!!:D

iPlop

Double dragon 2 on the C64, best game ever!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GifJe-ccUS8

Cianos

This was our introduction to metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sPrZW2wXP4

"The stage is set the green flag DROPS!"

antodeco

Daly Thompson Olympics! Always ended up breaking your joystick going left and right really hard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QOgvN6wC8

Boulderdash on the C64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeoWLB8ifYc

Beamrider!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMc86qtKgp8

Deuteros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I9l9tyRgrE

Carrier Command

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_BlO1CJn34

Metal Masters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMxsfIRua8

Funglegunk

Loved me some Amstrad gaming. If there's one Amstrad game that almost everyone remembers (because it came with most models), its this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixXYnw58KA

And for me personally, Rainbow Islands!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJguT5R32do

Tipsy McSwagger

jive wrote: »

Blows my mind how few people know about it!! Graphics were class at the time too but the gameplay was soooo good. One of the few games that actually had good single player and multiplayer.

The first game I bought for the Dreamcast. I bought a used DC a while back and a brand new copy of Toy Commander for around 5 euro.

Krusader

Sensible Soccer
Sonic
Mortal Kombat II
Street Fighter II
Tekken
Shinobi
Abe's Odyssey
Final Fantasy VII
Doom
International Superstar Soccer
GTA Vice City

watna

I was always more of a fan of PC games more than anything else. My favourite were thw Quest games - Police Quest, Space Quest and King's Quest - made by the same people as Leisure Suit Larry - which was also awesome! The first two or three of each series were the best, you had to type in what you wanted to do, like "'open door"" etc. They don't make em like that any more.

I'm going to a 30th birthday in a few weeks and the theme is old school video games. I need to think of a costume, any suggestions? My OH is going as Prince of Persia, we're just going to cut up a shirt and get baggy white pants and I was thinking making a slicer out of cardboard and tin foil so we could get him to jump through them and pretend to cut him in half. I don't want to go as something really obvious, like sonic or a tetris brick. I was thinking of going as Cosmo from this game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo%27s_Cosmic_Adventure which is my all time favourite but can I be bothered making myself that green?

Any suggestions welcome

Rick Deckard

watna wrote: »

I don't want to go as something really obvious, like sonic or a tetris brick.

LMFAO!!!!

murrayp4

Metal Gear Solid

TPD

Alex Kidd on the Master System, Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the N64, GTA: Vice City and Elder Scrolls: Morrowind on the PC. Smash Bros Melee on the gamecube as well.

johnmcdnl

tony007 wrote: »

I'm trying to remember a pirate pc game. It mainly involved controlling ships. It had the distinct line ''A message from the governor has just arrived'', which was said a couple of times throughout the game. You started off with one port and one ship and you could capture pirate ships or merchant ships. It'd be great if I could get the name of it.

Corsairs: Conquest at Sea??

Jayo11780

Kenny Dalglish soccer manager for commodore 64... once when i was 12 i spent 14 hours playing 20 seasons in a row! :eek:

Chris Martin

Streets of Rage
Golden Age

2 Player...
A nostalgic tear to my eye, it brings.

keano_afc

problemchimp wrote: »

Leinster v Northampton
Ireland v Italy USA '94
Dennis Taylor v Steve Davis world championship final
Liverpool v Milan, Istanbul
Oh, and yore Ma ON the game!

Fail.

steve_

All the usual suspects have been named but two games i fondly remember were Kickle Cubicle and Kid Chameleon, both bring memories of my childhood flooding back. Good ol times.

Kickle Cubicle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLCXAqMqp-k

Kid Chameleon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZr0m2Gn1zE

Oranage2

anyone remember Duke Nukem - what a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JcZv3wPuU

steve_

GrizzlyMan wrote: »

Solstice on the NES, best 8-bit intro music ever, give a few seconds, quality:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0

One intro theme i always loved!!! fair play for posting!!

always loved this too

Carl Sagan

Pokemon Red/Blue. Got Blue and a gameboy colour for Christmas one year and it's probably the best Christmas present I've ever gotten.

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Played it a lot and never had any idea what I was doing.

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (The gamecube remake of the original.) First time I was really into the story of a game.

I loved Red Alert, Vice City and Total Annihilation a lot when I was a kid too.

Vicxas

Rambo on the Commador 64, or Final fantasy 7 when i was 9, love that game

kfallon

Remember "Platoon" on the C64 and those pesky trip wires :rolleyes:

Also there is a game I can't remember the name of for the life of me. It was on the Amiga, kind of a role playing game where there had been a murder on a cruise ship and you were the detective (Poirot type character) trying to solve it. It was one of those games that came on about 12 disks and it was set in around the 1920-1930's I think!

It's doing my head in not being able to remember the name!

Susannahmia

Manic Miner on the Old Spectrum my uncle gave me when I was 7. Many hours of loading tapes.

Sim City on the PC

Crash Bandicoot and Dark Cloud on the Ps1/2

Vicxas

Ah the PS1, so many fond memories

Ruu_Old

I only had a Master System II (blocky control pads!) and we rented a Megadrive for ages until we got one of our own. Loved the Sonics of course, then Road Rash. Italia' 90 was good as well. Shinobi and that cheat for infinite shurikens!

Barna77

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1MXlvTSBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIh4SSGaK5o

markesmith

Gotta be either Pro Evo 6 on the PS2, Age of Empires 3, or Napoleon: Total War.

ChopShop

Mortal Kombat on the Megadrive.

IIRC it was inferior to the SNES version is just about every way...except the BLOOD.

It didn't even have a pause, i think.

scheister

Absurdum wrote: »

Paperboy!

i always loved this game must have had it on 2 r 3 different consoles.let me down when i got a job as a paper boy to realised it was not as fun in real life

silvervixen84

Some of mine have been mentioned already:

Grannys Garden
Rainbow Island
Mummies
Sonic 2
Zombies Ate My Neighbours
Columns
Streets of Rage 2
Micro Machines V3
Goldeneye
Spyro The Dragon
Tekken 2
Metal Gear Solid

holystungun9

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. Always a favourite in the playground back in the day. When I moved on to video games I had a great game, Xenophobia I think it was called on the Atari Lynx.

Rick Deckard

www.playnintendo.org/page/6%253Fs

Tigger

http://www.benwaysworld.co.uk/computersnconsoles/BinatoneMK6.jpg

i've been here from the start thevlink shows analouge controllers that you rotate to move the sprites

one of the original game systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cHE_Y-uEDU

Temptamperu

Fiendish Freddys big top o fun was a great game along with Flimbos Quest, Klax and International football for the comodore 64. All on one cartrige no less.

huey1975

double dragon was a great game in the arcade

Mad_Dave

Haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if it's been done but Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening on Gameboy is probally my favourite game of all time.

jimthemental

Time Crisis. Quality so it was.

geetar

the first spyro the dragon. :cool:

Al Capwned

Ghosts n Goblins (Arcade)
10p used to last about 40 mins.....

Sonic the Headghog.
Mario Brothers.

Good aul sega!

Oh, and Doom.

kfallon

kfallon wrote: »

Also there is a game I can't remember the name of for the life of me. It was on the Amiga, kind of a role playing game where there had been a murder on a cruise ship and you were the detective (Poirot type character) trying to solve it. It was one of those games that came on about 12 disks and it was set in around the 1920-1930's I think!

It's doing my head in not being able to remember the name!

Cruise for a Corpse!!! My bro remembered it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3PtCmCDym4

tan11ie

Chucky egg ...tWas on atari ...

Marcus_Crassus

Heroes of Might and Magic 3.. Anyone? Seriously, put the cans away, forget the bank holiday and get this game asap. It may change your life.

Goldeneye was amazing too. The laugh you could have playing that game was unreal. Actually, now that I say "unreal"; Unreal Tournament and Halflife consumed my teenage years.

I remember all the older games posted in this thread too even though I must have been only a babog at the time. My memory is terrible and computer games are all I remember from my first few years. They must have warped my mind. I suppose that's what happens when you're just plonked in front of Commodore and told to play at such an early age.

bobbytables

C64
Way of the exploding fist, IK+
Dragon Slayer
Double Dragon
Last Ninja
Gauntlet

Early DOS
Space Commander
Jump Joe
QBert
Digger
Frogger

Amiga
Shadow of the beast2
Turrican2
Lemmings
Alien Breed
Monkey Island 2 (12 disks FTW)
Nightbreed
Final Fight
Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
Another World
Rainbow Island
Newzealand Story

GameBoy
Marioland 1&2
Navy Seals
Tetris

SNES
Mortal Kombat 2
Mario Kart (battles)
Street Fighter 2

Mega Drive
Streets of Rage

DOS 6.22
Commander Keen
Alone in the Dark
7th Guest
Phantasmagoria
Ripper
Doom (making WADs with DoomEd)
Doom2
Quake (Quakeworld later ;-)
Star Trek - a Final Unity
Duke Nukem 3D

PsOne
Wipeout & 2097
Resident Evil 1&2
Crash Bandicoot
Ridge Racer
Gran Tourismo
Abe's Odyssey
Metal Gear Solid

Gamecube
Resident Evil

N64
Mario64
Goldeneye

PS2
Metal Gear Solid 2

PC Win32+
Quake 3
Half Life
Splinter Cell
Deus Ex
Max Payne & 2
Half Life 2 (walking out of the train station at the very start OMG!)
Portal
Unreal Tournament
Crysis

Xbox360
Need for speed Underground
COD4
Modern Warfare 2 (airport level)
Black Ops
Portal 2

WoollyRedHat

The sims

Paully D

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

paddy kerins

Goldeneye on Nintendo 64

policarp

Bing Bing tennis on the really old TV sets.
Long long before most of the AH nouveau Whizz Kids...

Adamantium

Final Fantasy VII, VIII And IX- The greatest gaming trilogy ever all on the PS1!

This isn't rose tinted glasses either, how could you listen to this and honestly say that gaming is better,more evolved now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzz5cVt70j8

what a winning streak SquareSoft was on and I'll include FFX as well before the whole company slid off to nowhere and got their head stuck up their behind

paulosham

Kerbs, it was in the real world.