Your gaming legacy - share your favorites from growing up
These threads pop up on 4Chan frequently, so I thought it might be fun to do one here.
Download the attached blank image and add in your gaming legacy. How old are you, and what games have inspired you throughout your life? Here's mine:
A few notables: Q*Bert was the first NES game I ever played (yes, even before Super Mario Bros). Adolescence defining game HAD to be Half-Life and its various mods, but the other two games that are deserving of notoriety during that time of my life was Civilization II and Command and Conquer: Red Alert and its expansions. Both games saw hundreds and hundreds of play hours from me.
I list TF2 as my current favorite, but really, it could be Half-Life 2 and any of its related titles or mods. League of Legends is a notable current favorite, but still not at the caliber of HL2.
Download the attached blank image and add in your gaming legacy. How old are you, and what games have inspired you throughout your life? Here's mine:
A few notables: Q*Bert was the first NES game I ever played (yes, even before Super Mario Bros). Adolescence defining game HAD to be Half-Life and its various mods, but the other two games that are deserving of notoriety during that time of my life was Civilization II and Command and Conquer: Red Alert and its expansions. Both games saw hundreds and hundreds of play hours from me.
I list TF2 as my current favorite, but really, it could be Half-Life 2 and any of its related titles or mods. League of Legends is a notable current favorite, but still not at the caliber of HL2.
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Yes its true the first game I've ever played (Or remember I suppose) was the first Pajama Sam game, I loved that so much as a kid even if, at 3 I don't think I was able to play the game (well) but I had a blast playing it. Matter of fact I replayed it recently for shits and giggles, still about as entertaining as when I was little even if I can play through the whole thing in ten minutes.
Age of Empires 2 was really what started me on video games, and history to some extent I loved every minute of it and I still find myself playing it on occasion for nostalgia.
Thief 2 The Metal Age, is perhaps one of the greatest games I've ever played and its impact on me was massive, it made me appreciate older games and I can easily say is entirely responsible for the large variety of games I own today. Furthermore its the only game I play on a regular basis almost 12 years after I first got it the Thief series is the only game that ever imo did stealth properly and I doubt anyone will ever make a stealth game of this quality again.
The last one was incredibly hard to do I've never found it easy to name a 'favourite' game in the end I went with League of Legends simply because it's the game I've lost the greatest amount of time to in the past years. That and the ability to play it with friends is amazing.
I can still remember the day that kid rang our door bell asking if anyone wanted to buy his Sega Genesis and games. Greatest thing ever.
As for my childhood game, that would be Ocarina of Time without question. Beat it close to 10 times.
I spent my last two year in grade school and all of high school playing TF2. It's that awesome of a game.
It was hard to choose just one current favorite. I've been playing four games regularly lately. Fifa 12, Dungeon Defenders, TF2, and Hidden: Source. All great games.
I think my family got an NES in 1988. I still have it.
I am pretty sure I have more hours playing FF3 and its ports than any other game I've ever played.
I played Xenogears to completion in a single 48-hour gaming session.
I don't really have a favorite game anymore, at least not anything modern. I played Neptunia recently though and found it hilarious. I haven't laughed as much in any other game.
Other contenders for this image included Goldeneye 007, Super Mario 3, Pokemon Red and Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Fourth and Inches was played very thoroughly on the Commodore 64 my dad had, as well as a few others like SpyHunter, some game about being a spy and invading Russian warehouses for info, and Elmo's Bathtime (that's right).
Sega Genesis was the first console I owned. I played the everloving crap out of Sonic the Hedgehog, Aladdin, The Lion King, 7Up Cool Spot's Adventure, and a few others. Up Down Left Right A B Start was the first code I ever memorized (level select in Sonic) and the only code I'll never forget.
Half Life was the first game that really dove into the idea of a narrative based gameplay objective. I was hooked - it was like playing in my own movie. From there, I stumbled across multiplay games, namely Day of Defeat, which used the same engine. I played that game every night for most of high school, and was the first shooter that I got competitively good at. Honorable mention here goes to my Sony Playstation, which saw a lot of playtime. I was lucky enough to have a friend buy a chipped one for me during a trip to the Phillipines, so games came frequently, cheap, and by the caseload once he made his monthly trips.
Green Hill Zone theme is burned forever into my memory. Sonic 4lyf, mario got nuthin.
Spent so many hours in Tiberium Dawn, Red Alert and the expansions but Pokemon Red/Yellow and Crash Team Racing were also close contenders
Deus Ex was just, Deus Ex. The best game I'd played at that point and really got me interested in gaming beyond just the usual Medal Of Honour/Call of Duty stuff. Also played a ton of battlefront, still love that game.
Current favourite is Fallout NV, just so much content with the DLC and mods (including one that lets you travel back to the capital wasteland and play Fallout 3).
P.S. I spell my 'favourite' with a 'u' and play my Sonic on a Mega Drive. The right way.
My love for the way Command and Conquer works is why I can't really get into the StarCraft universe - I'm used to a slower, more pre-planning strategy than what SCII calls for.
My parents tell me stories of being a three year old playing SMB or Duck Hunt, I hardly remember them. I remember the game just fine as I've revisited it plenty over the years, but the initial experience is lost to my memory.
I recall many waking hours in elementary school where I would wake up at 5am and sneak downstairs to play Faxanadu or Blaster Master. My dad used to get pissed because Faxanadu was his game and I would keep advancing his save points which would totally mess him up. Blaster Master you were a car! Or maybe a frog! Or sometimes a soldier resembling Hello Kitty! The combo of platforming and shooter with the massive worlds is what pulled me in for years.
Escape Velocity was originally on our Mac, but it was the first game to really introduce the concept of modding, and learning how to do it. By the time I kicked the habit, I had modded out an entire galaxy complete with custom skinning, races, missions, and epic story lines that ended up with you controlling a faction. It was 8th grade or so. I had no business doing any of that at such a young age, but for some reason EV took off like mad in our school. I had a couple other kids from school that would pass things back and forth over a simple message board. It was the beginning of the internet as well.
I would be remiss to mention the hundreds of hours spent punching, kicking, and fireballing my friends in SFA2. It was way more mainstream, but I can't think of any other game in my adolescent years that got more play time.
Great thread btw.
Faxanadu didn't have saves. It used a convoluted, horrible password system. Confused
Great thread so far
So regarding "favourite", totally ripped the image from 4Chan, so blame those crazy Europeans.
@tiberiuslazarus - I totally forgot about Dizzy. Oh man, I used to rent that piece over and over again. Sweet game.
@drasnor - how did Xenogears age? I've never played it, but would really like to. I heard about it near the end of the PS1's life, and that game was nearly impossible to find at any regular store, or at a reasonable price online.
@thrax - I find myself in a similar situation where it's hard for me to peg a favorite game at the moment. I like a lot of games, but none in particular say "YES! I AM YOUR FAVORITE!" It's one of the reasons why after all these years, TF2 still sits at the top. I dunno, weird.
It's really interesting to see what platforms define a person based on their generation. I knew we'd get youngsters posting and older members feeling, well, old... but it's cool to see some titles defying generation, and interesting to see when certain platforms mattered to different people.
So I'm an idiot and left out the Sonic the Hedgehog series, which is really embarrassing because I'm a HUGE Sonic fan. I didn't own many games for my Genesis, but I had the Sonic series and Street Fighter II (All you need, really). MegaMan X still needs to be on there, so I've amended my image to represent this:
Also LOL youngster I'm not that young damn it! I'm an adult just like you and I expect to be treated as such, so there. XD