Justus Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Originally posted by Kylilin Tetris for gameboy was pretty cool, in fact its the standard by which all other gameboy games should be measured... anyone remember Toejam and Earl? that was a semi-cool game... Blades of Steel rocked the house... the original Twisted Metal is a classic game... But there is still one area of gaming no one has mentioned yet...ARCADE GAMES!!! Remember the original Street Fighter, and Street Fighter II? Out Run? Operation Wolf? Marvel vs. Capcom? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? those are my most memorable Arcade games... Well my gaming origins are quite different than yours, because I began on an old Apple II+ back in like 1986 or so, I was only 10 at the time and I didn't own a console system until 1990 or 1991, and by that time I was hooked on computer games and nothing could pull me away from my BBS' and various computer games, while some were inferior in graphics compared to the consoles at the time, the whole computer gaming scene was starting to catch up. You'd be hard pressed to try and pull me away from Wing Commander back then, or dare interupt me while I was playing my turns on BBS Door games such as Legends of the Red Dragon, Trade Wars 2002, or Barren Realms Elite. Text adventures with no graphics, I don't know how I ever played those games now (I'm 25 now) I've tried playing some of those games again but I just don't have the patience without graphics there to spoil me. Anyone here play the original Wolfenstein game that was released in 1983? Now there's a trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justus Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Originally posted by Brick I'd love to say Jedi Knight because it's my favorite, but there are two others that were trailblazers for me. 1) Wing Commander. It manages to outweigh Duke Nukem and X-wing in my eyes, even though I also played those and loved them early on. If I didn't feel the need to limit this, I'd add all the WC games. 2) Dark Forces. Because I didn't expect to like it, for some reason. When I played it, it became one of my favorites before I'd even recovered the Death Star plans. I absolutely love the first Wing Commander game, and the 2 special operations expansions that came out afterwards. That game takes me way back, and the entire feeling that game gives you is just awesome. I like Wing Commander 2, and Privateer as well. However they lost me once III came out, for some reason I just couldn't get into it anymore. Maybe it was the fact that I was into the X-Wing and TIE Fighter series immensily, who knows. Dark Forces is probably the best FPS game I ever played, with Jedi Knight a close second. I was never a big fan of Doom, however I did like Wolfenstein 3D. The big plus for this game for me was Star Wars, but once I played it it was much more than that. You could actually JUMP in this FPS, and the level designs were original and very thought out, and VERY Star Wars. The '90's were very kind to us Star Wars fans. The only thing that dissapointed me with Dark Forces, and Jedi Knight was the lack of a Blastech DL-44 heavy blaster... I know that is nitpicking, but that is my favorite weapon in the Star Wars trilogy. It looks like I will have to live without it once again in Jedi Knight Outcast, but atleast I got to use one for a little while in MoTS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sounds Risky Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Originally posted by thrEEpaGe if anyone has ever played pokemon (on gameboy, and not just watched someone else play) and NOT got hooked, please refer me to your psychiatrist please I played it, I didn't get the point of it. Maybe I was a lucky one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylilin Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 I remember playing text only RPG's in school on the old Apple IIe, those were pretty cool, but my gaming origins are in the Arcade, since I never had a nintendo, I played on my friends, the first system I had was Sega Genesis, and not until I was in high school... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justus Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 Sega Genesis had some great games. I played on a friends Sega and loved that thing, almost made me jealous of him. The first console I owned was a Super Nintendo, and then I later bought an NES for really cheap. The games I really liked for both of these were the Zelda series, and Super Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi weren't too bad either for platformers. Once I got a job and started making money I tried the console market again, I bought an PSX but again got bored with it quickly, then later I bought an N64 because a friend "highly" suggested it, and I have to say the only two games I really LOVED on this system was Zelda Orciana of Time and Majora's Mask. Then for some reason I tried the PS2, and I have no idea why. While I like games like Grand Theft Auto 3, the system otherwise just sits there gathering dust. I am not sure why I keep giving the console market a try for, but I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_FinnSon Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 I don't want to choose only one game out of so many excellent products, so I list few of them: Tie Fighter(one of the first and most influential SW games to me) Dark Forces(MUCH better than Doom or Duke Nukem 3D at the time) JK/MotS(those levels, baby, they are huge!) Gabriel Knight series(excellent example of good storytelling) Broken Sword(Circle of Blood in the USA) series(thumbs up to Revolution for still believing in pure adventure gaming) Grim Fandango(has special place in my heart as one of the most distinctive adventure games ever created) No one lives forever(one of the most distinctive FPS shooters which keeps my faith alive that there are developers who have encourage to stand out from the crowd and make games full of humour, 60s groovy style and interesting characters) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imp Destroyer Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 Yuri's Revenge is the only one of the C&C series that i have played Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justus Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 I have to admit that LucasArts does make some of the best adventure games out there. I agree that Grim Fandango is an absolute masterpiece, the Monkey Island series is pretty awesome too. A few other games I cannot get enough of is the Thief series, Deus Ex was pretty fun too. It's too hard to find just ONE memorable game, because there's quite a few out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayfex_twinFC Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 Tie Fighter - got me hooked on space sims and the cutscenes are awesome. Made me buy a soundcard for my dad's pc, and I also broke a joystick (crap one) playing the game. FFVII - didn't get any sleep for two days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherack Nhar Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis First game I played on my then-brand-new 166Mhz PC, that game took me almost a year to finish it without using any walkthroughs or hints of any sort. The "bad" ending REALLY freaked me out too!! Star Wars: Tie Fighter Need I say more? My first time working for the Empire as a Tie Fighter pilot was the best time I had. I can still remember those late night hours playing the game while eating chocolate between missions I had an obsession with the secondary and tertiary mission objectives too - I wanted those cool blue tatoos! Grim Fandango The style of the game blew me away. Mixing art from Aztec civilization, mexican folklore and '50 Film Noir atmosphere was pure genius from Tim Schafer. The artwork was awesome - and the characters were cool! The humor in the game was a nice bonus too! Also, it's a game that helped me learn a bit more of english I nearly cried when I finished the game...I wanted more! Wow, three Lucasarts games. LONG LIVE LUCASARTS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted February 6, 2002 Share Posted February 6, 2002 1. Star Wars Rebellion 2. Sid Meier's Gettysburg/Antietam 3. Rogue Squadron 64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan12R Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Obiviously Sam and Max Hit the Road: I was excited when I heard there was going to be another one, then my head fell in sadness when I heard it was going to be on X-Box and not PC Jedi Knight: I didn't like FPS until this came out and put the twists of light Sabers and force powers in it. That made it more fun and more Chivalrous (sp?) then go around and blow the crap out each other, the one with the bigger gun wins Excite Bike (NES) Who can forget this game? Ep. 1 Racer: When I first heard about it, I thought "DUMB!" but then when I played the demo, I was hooked Wing Commander 2: This was the first CD-ROM game I had. It was classic Pong. This is just something everyone will remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylilin Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 excite bike rocked...so did duck hunt, I mean, you could shoot at the screen!?!? that was awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrEEpaGe Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 since im a youngun round here (maybe not the youngest, but a young person in that im a minor), and anyway, tie fighter was the very first pc game i ever played (with notable exceptions to the elite games on the old macs we had at school) heh.....and that game rocked...i didnt play anything else (i hadnt really gotten into dark forces, but my friend on the bus at school had told me in 97 about a game called jedi knight and a clan he was in.....i was a huge star wars fan, and this guy was my friend for a while, so i went out and downloaded the demo...i was hooked....not short after i was whooping butts on bespin like the best of them (or so i thought hehe) and one day in the demo room i saw someone with the same clan as my friend...i talked to him, found out my friends zone name, and started talking to him....he convinced me how elite the full version was, and i went out and bought it....i was inseparable with that game....i played and played and played it (the only game i played at all until the phantom menace or so, then i played jk mostly)...and till ut came out, it was my favorite game (jk0 has big shoes to fill for me) so im hoping that jk0 will be as good of a game as jk was...that will be an amazing game =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imp Destroyer Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 you can't diss Chrono Trigger!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 Originally posted by Dan12R Obiviously Sam and Max Hit the Road: I was excited when I heard there was going to be another one, then my head fell in sadness when I heard it was going to be on X-Box and not PC THERE IS?!?!?!? When did they anounce that!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan12R Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 I saw something about it at samandmax.net I'm not sure about all the details, but you can check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 I thought they were just joking and dreaming about a new game?!?!?!? I'll have to look at that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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