Most of us probably grew up playing video games, some of them we forgot or our gaming system ain’t what it used to be. What games bring you back to the good ol’ days when you didn’t know what politics were and couldn’t be bothered to watch the news bc the new ep of Spongebob is on? For me I have to say the Simpsons Game (PS2), the Billy & Mandy Fighting Game (PS2) DK Country (SNES) and NBA 2k14 (PS3, please whatever Deity is out there bring me back to 2013 so I can cheat in 2k again and make my MyPlayer basically just Michael Jordan 😭) and probably Infamous for PS3, I probably played the first game like 18 times fr. What are your faves?
Definitely minecraft. It is still my favorite game after a decade of playing it. But aside from that, Spirit Tracks/Phantom Hourglass, Kirby Superstar Ultra and Jak and Daxter.
I religiously played back in the day Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland on my ps2 for hours. I’d also play Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and AoE II.
Halo Combat Evolved
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I’m showing my age here, but:
- Scorched Earth
- Commander Keen
- Zoombinis
- Encarta maze game
- Old Windows hovercraft game
- Doom II (got a copy from a friend on floppy disk)
Old Windows hovercraft game
Which one’s that?
Thanks! Apparently I was thinking of a different game
I bet every comment is going to be so different, and will date each user haha. For me…
- Mortal Kombat II in the arcade, insanely difficult, I can almost taste the strawberry milkshake I’d always be drinking there
- Zelda - A Link To The Past on Gameboy
- an odd one, but the free demo that you got with the original PS, I remember my stepbro and I marvelling at the 3D t-rex / mantaray that we could spin around and zoom in / out of at will. How far we’ve come
- also for PS, the very first Tekken, and Tekken 2
- going way back, Horace Goes Skiing on my trusty ZX Spectrum. My first console and first game. You had to load it via a tape, and it sounded like an old modem!
MK2 on Arcade is one of the best games ever. Kinda crazy to think of how many secrets and Easter Eggs are hidden throughout such a basic seeming game
The only secret I knew about was hitting a combo of buttons after knocking someone into the acid creating a ‘TOASTIE’, which iirc unlocked Smoke… what did I miss?
Idk actually, was Noob Saibot in the arcade version of MK2? Or was that just in remasters? To clarify I mean tht you fight Noob Saibot bc you can’t play as him.
Master of Orion 1, still have that one more turn effect, 27 years later.
Ghosts’N Goblins 🤘
That music always gives me goosebumps.
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Super Mario RPG (SNES) loved it so much. My buddy and I left our Earth Science final early just to finish the game (still passed with a 79 and 80 respectively).
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Street Fighter II World Warriors (Arcade) can still taste the pizza I ate right before I played. My grandpa would take me out to pizza every Friday and gave me 2 quarters to play.
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The original TMNT (NES) I still get anxiety just from hearing the music from the swimming level. But then again I get a great burst of joy from hearing the overworld music. Such an emotionally taxing game.
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Roller Coaster Tycoon
I would design crazy coasters only to be told that it will cause 8000 gigatons of G-force on riders and turn them into pudding
I loved playing the old Roller Coaster and Zoo Tycoon games from the early 2000s
BioShock baby! It has story, killer environment, lore…everything
Metal Gear Solid
ARK: Survival Evolved
Good question. I’m a sucker for games from my younger days anyway, so picking just one is hard. Perhaps something like Dangerous Dave
Project IGI , Desert Storm , Vice city !
Age of Empires 2. I listen to the soundtrack several times a year.
I played sooooo much of that game in Pre-K and Kindergarten, I think I beat the first level in like 1st grade bc I was too dumb and stubborn to follow objectives lmao, I really didn’t understand computers for an embarrassing amount of time
