Nostalgic video games from your childhood

Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Centipede. Ah, youth.

Alex the kidd

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Centipede was the best.

Asteroids. I was the champion Where I worked. Great game.

CREATURES 1 through 3 from the late ‘90s, which I played on Windows PC on a borrowed disc because I was a poor kid and also kind of a dork that way.

I just rewatched the intro tutorial and now realise how ahead of its time this series was as one of the world’s first AI games. Every feature is fine-tuned to alter th me playing experience, and the simulation algorithms are as graceful as some you see in games released today. There’s an incredible poignancy and maturity in how the game progress won’t let the player shy away from Death. It’s beautifully designed and conceptualised, too, boasting an entire alien world in captivating detail (I would compare it to RAYMAN in this respect).

Of course all that went over my head as a gradeschooler who just thought Norns were the cutest most realistic virtual pets (though I secretly liked Ettins better), and who never got a Tamagotchi for Xmas. I must have been a big fan of the virtual pet genre in general as I also remember having an active Neopets account back then.

This is the closest thing we had to a video game.

R6 I remember that!

I was so addicted to Donkey Kong in middle school! I would steal change from my father’s stash and go down to the local pizza parlor and hang out there all day with my quarters in a row above the game. One time my friend Suzy wanted to come with me but didn’t have any money. I told her to go into her mothers coin purse and take a few quarters. Then she told her mother on me. I didn’t like her so much after that.

What is video game?

Fail, imposter at R10. If you must to do it, do it right. And you apparently can't, so don't.

I liked Marble Madness & Addams Family. Used to rent them from Video Junction.

PaRappa the Rapper for PlayStation 1.

I couldn't wait to get home from school to play it!

When I was a little kid and I got an Atari 2600 my favorite game was Pitfall and then I stopped playing videogames until I got a PS1 and my favorite game then was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night recently an independent game company ran a kick starter campaign for a game in a similar style but with much better graphics called Blood Stained and it is a really good game and because it's modern there will soon be DLC to make it replayable.

Video games didn't appear until I was 19. These were the first:

Pong

Pac Man

K C Munchkin

Donkey Kong

They didn’t have video games when u were a child! Only the RCA Victoria you had to crank .

Wolfenstein 3D. Killing Nazis and finding treasure and secret passages.

My two favs were Joust and Defender. I was really good at both of them. Oh, the time I killed at the local arcade, back in the early 80s!

[quote] Only the RCA Victoria you had to crank .

Oh, DEAR!

R17, I was horrible at Joust, though still played it.

R17 r18. I thought JOUST was really hard! You had to have the higher sword when you collided, then you had the get the eggs before they hatched, then the lava troll, and that invincible pterodactyl! It was way too much.

Trivia: I noticed that Defender, Joust, and Robotron all had the same catalog of sounds because they were made by Williams entertainment.

Street Fighter 2. My older brother always beat my ass but I kept coming back.

On Nintendo NES I loved Castlevania, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. This one we could play with a plastic orange gun! It was fun.

On Super Nintendo: Zelda, Street Fighter 2, Super Bomberman (the one thing I could beat my brother at by playing like a maniac with a death wish), Starwing and Pilotwing. My all time favorite was Secret of Mana. I loved the story, the universe, the characters and the creatures. But someone stole our cartridge, and honestly I'm still mad about it.

Starfox for SNES

Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask

Crash Bandicoot

FFVII

R23 Damn, this took me back! Especially the soundtrack/sound effects!

I also spent an ungodly number of hours playing 'Banjo-Kazooie'. Click Clock Wood remains one of my favourite levels of any game - I remember loving the silent desolation of the winter section.

But yeah, I was a big Nintendo fan boy (and still am, although I have less to time to indulge these days). Just hearing the music from Ocarina of Time makes me feel nostalgic. I recently replayed the first Resident Evil on the Switch, having not played it since my GameCube days. It has not aged well.

I always found BEYOND GOOD & EVIL a lovely game to play. Gameplay was way too hard & tiring and some thought the ending was bullshit, but the game was universally praised for its beauty and characterisation as well as imaginative world-building. Jade was my crush as a kid, I loved how cool she acted in tough situations and how she could kick ass with that double Bo Staff (the dream-Dyke cyberpunk look helped too).

I have never played or watched the sequel (not into games as an adult) so I don’t know what the outcome of the ‘Jade is the Domz/Pey’j is infected with Spore’ plot was, and I’m afraid to find out given how much of a decline Ubisoft have been in since...

And I forgot how gorgeous the music is. Christophe & Patrice Heral composed it.

i loved playing Castlevania on the Nintendo, also Tetris, Super Mario 2

On playstation i liked playing Cool Boarders and Crash Bandicoot

As far as arcade games my favorite was Centipede it was the only one I played when I saw a machine somewhere.

I was a Galaga fiend!

Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Eternal Champions, Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown

Anyone remember colecovision? That's what I had. Sorta like choosing beta over vhs.

There was an underwater game that was fun. Can't remember the name.

Donkey Kong Jr was cool.

The best

Dig Dug was my jam.

Does Merlin count?

r35 I had one of those!

I got an original Game Boy at age 10 when it first came out in '89. I was obsessed with the Final Fantasy games for that platform. The first one in particular had a great story.

Sea Quest, R32?

Nevermind, that was Atari.

Pong.

Computer games anyone?

This thread got me thinking of Paperboy. I swore there was a completely separate game for SuperNintendo called Papergirl that someone I knew had. Looking it up all I can find is that you can select to be a paperboy or papergirl.

The legend of Kage and Paperboy.

FF (all the numbers!) Silent Hill Resident Evil Parasite Eve Tales of... series Star Ocean Chrono Cross Tekken Soulcalibur Spyro Mostly Japanese, PS1 and PS2 games (except for Spyro) Ohh to be a kid again!

No name. Just a green screen, central white line, a white ball and 2 small white lines as racquets.

Defender rocked. I used to kill all the people so I could just fight it out in space.

We had a defender game in the garage. Pops used to put em around town as his "side gig"

But before that, Football!

Sonic, Altered Beast, Terminator 2, Xena, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken, Medievil and Aliens vs Predator.

Yes, this was real.

Pong!

My mom was an expert at Home Alone. I'd play for hours with my brother and friends. When we got stuck at the end, trying to hide valuables in the basement, my mom could come in and get us to the next level in two minutes.

Diablo I and II. I still play them!

Pitfall

Angry birds kept my little fingers occupied.

Q*bert was one of my faves. Donkey Kong Jr. was also the bomb.

I was obsessed with Paperboy. I liked that so much more than all those dark games set in outer space. On Atari, Jungle Hunt, Haunted House, and River Raid were a few of my favorites. Later on when we got a Nintendo, it was Super Mario, Castlevania, Mega Man, & Rad Racer.

N64 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire!

Frogger. My commute to work is very similar to the game.

My li'l gay ass loved playing Ms. Pac-Man on the tabletop console that you could sit at.

A Boy and His Blob

R59 - We had one of those. I posted earlier that Dad used to buy those games and put them in small businesses around town (gas station, laundromat..) Whenever that Pac Man showed up at the house, it would be a party.