Back to the classics

[quietchat]

I want to know what your gaming experiences are, what you loved, what you hated, what you wish you could still play. By Classics, I'm only counting anything before Playstation, The N64 and the Sega Dreamcast (So people who got the 32x or saturn or whatever else they had, go nuts)

[Raven]

Super Metroid all the way! Best game ever created for the SNES!

[Blooddrunk]

Final Fantasy I was great! ^^

[quietchat]

I didn't get into gaming until the NES (Since I was born in 89). I used to play nothing but Super Mario bros 1/2/3 and digdug.

[Koopaking]

My first systems were basically hand-me-downs from my older sis, the NES and a big, clunky, gray, original Gameboy. My first game I ever had was Super Mario Land 2 for the Gameboy, which I still have to this day.

[leerock89]

Pong, Space Invaders and Worm.

[quietchat]

Has anyone played the arcade classics like frogger and pacman or ms pacman?

[Raven]

Yes quietchat, but those are given ^_^

[quietchat]

Well, not for everyone

[DocHack]

my very first system was the Nintendo, the only game I can remember is Mario and the Duck hunting game. Also I had the original gameboy with one of the best game that I still like to play Tetris.

[quietchat]

Duck hunt always annoyed me a bit so I always had my gun to the screen as a kid. I think there was another light gun game, with paintball.

[analogZero]

oh man, I was watching over the shoulder of this guy I was working with, and he was checking out some random review site and I saw some post about turbo graffix 16 and was like "WHAAAAT!"
my brother got a sega master system when we were little kids and that was our first real video game exposure. I only had one game, alex kid in wonderland (the ninjas always kicked my ass...and I always wondered why there were ninjas), and had to play his games when he wasn't around. california games and bomber raid and golden axe were the sweet ones.

[quietchat]

Golden ax was hard for me, I don't think I ever got farther than the second level

[Sun Tzu]

like the avatar quiet, Legend of Dragoon was a great game.

However my favorite of all time harkens back to the days of my child hood. First real video game I played was X-Com UFO Defense. Got into it late though, sometime in 1997-1998. (Parents didnt exactly "encourage" video games, despite my prevalent interest in them.) That game introduced me to the insides of a Snakeman and the proper method of shooting a plasma rifle.

[quietchat]

I've never heard of that game. Care to teach us about it?

[Sun Tzu]

I've never heard of that game. Care to teach us about it?

It is the year 1998, UFO's have been sited over the earth at random intervals, all individual tasks by governments to get them undercontrol have failed. At a meeting they decide to create a international UFO task force (Thats you!!) called X-Com. Your mission is to build a base, find UFO's Flying around the planet, and send out interceptors to shoot them down. Then you gather your soldiers and land to capture the wreckage.

When you land the game switches to something similar to Final Fantasy Tactics. Every unit has different weapons equipped, as well as different stats which make them ideal to certain jobs. You run around shooting the surviving aliens in a series of awesome turn based moves, and then you take the craft back to one of your bases. You procede to research it, disecting the life forms and researching the weapons, so that you can eventually turn them against the aliens. Things speed up after awhile, the aliens begin attacking cities, planting bases, and assaulting yours. You have to sort of race against the clock to figure out where the aliens are coming from before the world pulls your funding. Though ironically around that point your building all your own weapons and ships, so money isnt really an issue.

Of course the thing was made in the early 90's, and it doesnt really handle well with any operating system beyond windows 95. I havent been able to find a version that plays on XP, or a crappy computer to throw 95' on, so that I can play it again. I havent been looking very hard though :dance:

Edit: Score one for isohunt, found a huge list of oldschool dos games. http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/30778953/x-com+UFO+Defense?tab=summary

[quietchat]

Sounds pretty cool. To solve the computer issue you should check up with individual suppliers, we have a few family friends that run their own computer shops and keep a few old model computers. You're never gonna find anything older than a 2004 model in most stores, or with somthing less than an XP operating system, so independant computer stores are a good start.

[Corwin]

If I had to go back to my classics, well I loved playing Pong on my old Atari, we didn't have a lot of games but it was addictive, Breakout as well on the Atari and Snoopy and the Red Baron, then Duck Hunt was great even though I never had an NES but I played it at friends, then I had the Mario Bro's 3 video game watch, that was fun to play w/ in school, the old Game & Watch games that came out before the Gameboy were great too, first Zelda game was on there, had Donkey Kong II on that as well, and some other great games that never made it to the console as far as I knew, there were a couple of the old PC games that I don't remember the names of, and of course on SNES, Super Metroid, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Earthbound, ChronoTrigger, Super Scope games were fun, and that stupid flyswatter game on Mario Paint, that was addictive, and that's all I can think of right now

[quietchat]

There was alot I wanted to play on the Snes. I only remember the mario paint (didn't own but played) dk countries, mario land, yoshi island, And Loz. I also remember a game that I haven't been able to figure out the name off. It was a birds eye perspective game and you played either a cave boy or a mini t-rex and tried to survive other dinousaurs. Then Another I remember was one taht you played just as a caveman and threw boomerangs and other stuff at dinos in a 2-d platformer.

[quietchat]

Did anyone have a game that you just could not, just was impossible for you to beat? I had alot like that, but specifically, BattleToads, Both Nes and Snes.

[Corwin]

There were a couple that just seemed impossible to beat, specifically Captain America and the Avengers, I could never finish that w/o hooking up my Game Genie and giving myself some more continues, and of course there were others that I just can't think of right now

[quietchat]

I remember playing that. It was fun but I always died the first level. For some reason that's very tightly connected to a gambling game I played whenever I had that. I think somthing my cousin would bring over.

[quietchat]

Was anyone here a fan of puzzle games?

[Koopaking]

Tetris, Dr. Mario, Yoshi's Cookie, Puzzle League...

[quietchat]

I was really big on tetris, so much that I actually had to help friends family and family friends whenever they played. Right now though I'm the only one who's good. Do you have tetris ds?

[Koopaking]

indeed I do, and I am the champion

[Corwin]

Tetris sucked, Megalith was the game to play, there was another one too, began w/ a Q that I can't remember off the top of my head right now

[Koopaking]

hey Tetris doesn't suck

[quietchat]

Which game is megalith?

[Corwin]

it's a puzzle game from Gameboy, I think I still have it around somewhere, I just don't remember exactly what the story on it was

[Itachi]

hmmm well contra for the nintendo was the best lol loved that game for N64 Zelda and Smash Bros lol played that for years and still do hehe

[quietchat]

I keep thinking picross but I know that's not it.

[analogZero]

Golden ax was hard for me, I don't think I ever got farther than the second level

ya, I only remember my brother beating it once. I never really got too far in it myself.


I do remember me and my friend used to rock double dragon all the time. we were an unstoppable team. streets of rage II for genesis (way better than the rest of the series) was another big hitter for me too.

[quietchat]

I played double dragon too, but I don't know which one I actually had. I think it may have been the second. I remember another beat em' up though where you fought in subways and on bikes, I don't remember the name for it.