The Nostalgic gaming thread.

[PontiacFiero84 109]

Hello all , this is a topic where you can discuss what console games you liked/played as a kid , discuss what games you would like to see return as a modernized version or anything else with older games/systems

  Edited June 30, 2011 by PontiacFiero84  

[Djohaal 121]

The incredible machine III. Oh the joys. I think I had over 300 contraptions built in it, I recall were so many it busted it's savegame manager and it lost a dozen of them.

[jim 546 43]

I started off on the Playstation and Gameboy Color with a few PC games here and there. Memorable games are the original Pokemon (Red/Blue), Crash Bandicoot, Rayman and Spyro games. Most of those characters have become very popular these days. I also remember some arcade-style wrestling games, sports games like FIFA and quite a few racing games. Those were times when my mates all crammed in front of a small CRT screen helping each other out with levels and having knock-out style rounds in sports games.

Surprisingly not many FPS or RPG games come to mind, I just wasn't a fan of them back then.

[PontiacFiero84 109]

Well im 16 years old at the moment , so im still kinda in my childhood , I started off with a Sega Genesis , then when I visited my grandfather in Florida he would have a Super Nintendo in the guest room so all of us can play it , later in the late 90s I received a Playstation from my uncle and I played the living daylight out of that thing , A Nintendo 64 from my Father , A Sega Portable gaming system ( With Sonic the hedgehog) from my Dad at a Garage sale as well. Im going to have to provide a time line with my systems lol.

Around year 2000 - Nintendo 64 Pokemon edition

Early 2001 - Sega Dreamcast ( One of my favorite game systems still to this day if I can buy one)

Christmas 2001 - Playstation 2 with Tony Hawk ( I wanted Gran Turismo 3 but the store only had Tonyhawk)

My birthday in 2003 - XBOX gaming system with Midtown Madness 3

My birthday in 2004 - Sony Playstation portable(PSP)

Summer of 2006 - XBOX 360

Spring of 2010 - Sony PSP GO system( I sold my old system in 2007)

December 2010 - Playstation 3 with Gran Tursimo 5

So you can say I was kinda spoiled in my childhood , but nowadays times have changed , my parents are divorced( 2001) , Moved around alot , and the economy is taking it's toll on us.

[_marsh_ 1,117]

First gaming system I had was a PSone. Constantly played Crash Bandicoot: Warped and Hot wheel racing. (best game evar) And also my gameboy of course with pokemon leaf green.

[Terring 6,473]

Sega Master System 2 (1990)

Plenty of hours playing Alex Kid, Pacman e.t.c.

My very first P.C. game was "The 3rd Millennium" (1998) by Cryo Interactive, a futuristic strategy game

[GMT 389]

I'll give that 3rd. millenium game a try looks promissing.

well I started off on dosgames and clasic gameboy aswell as classic NES so I'm pretty much oldschool gamer.

except nintendo the classics (super mario bros, tetris et al) I pretty much fell in love with the SNES version of Sim City.

PC wise I can remember playing the day of the tentacle and maniac mansion up and down, but also remember playing some space based games back then, but not all the names unfortunately.

aaaand last but not least, times I am still sentimental for, the wide offer of business-based simulation games in the late 80s, early 90s.

Later on I came to strategy games like CnC and with SC2000 for pc my first pc-based SC title came to the collection.

on a sidenote: fun to see how some of you started on playstation. Not just you missed the real growth of digital gaming, you also show me how old I am already...

[Duke87 1,070]

I was playing Duke Nukem before Duke Nukem 3D came out! </snob>

Incidentally, the original Duke Nukem came out 20 years ago yesterday.

Oh, also, I played Simcity 2000 with DOS off of floppy disks. Not quite as snobby since more people did that but still worth something!

[PontiacFiero84 109]

I can see why your Name is Duke lol , I enjoyed playing Crazy Taxi the first and second for the SEGA Dreamcast . That was fun as hell.

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Some games I played as a kid (and I rediscovered lately again):

• Lemmings: A classic puzzle game! I recently solved all 120 levels of the original game and with an emulator I found on the internet I create a whole new level set of my own, including a custom tileset (Lego). I got over 50 levels so far...
  
  
• The good old SC2K and SC3K: Don't need to mention anything else, you obviously know what I'm talking about.
  
• Transport Tycoon Deluxe: a DOS game where you can build your own transport company. I played the original DOS game and it's sequel (Chris Sawyer's Locomotion), and recently I discovered the Open Source version OpenTTD, which is still in ongoing development...
  
  
• Terminal Velocity: A full 3D combat flight simulator game... FOR DOS!
  
  
• A2 Racer: A dutch racing game series, which looks now outdated (compared to Need For Speed Underground 2 for example). Especially Part 1 looks bad.
  
  

[Apollowalker 1]

I loved Pitfall. The music is still stuck in my head...

[TekindusT 3,809]

I had five Sega Mega Drive games, but this one is the one I played the most and shocked me the most. Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe, published in 1992, I discovered it several years later when my cousin still owned the Mega Drive.

This "sport" is like a crossover between handball and rugby, but with very few rules regarding the game violence. I spent hundreds of hours playing this game and I recently spent some more when I downloaded the game to emulate it in my computer (as it is considered abandonware, it is legal to do so).

  Edited July 3, 2011 by TekindusT  

[suomi2005 52]

Ah all the good memories!

My first game console was the Sega Megadrive 2 among the best games I played on that system was without doubt Sreets of Rage 1-3, Shinobi 2-3, Castlevania Bloodlines and Sonic 1-3 and many more. The 2nd console I got was a PSone and after that I has stayed with playstation consoles. If you like Sega Megadrive games I suggest buying Sonics ultimate (megadrive/Genesis collection) for PS3 or Xbox360 which includes over 40 old megadrive classics by sega. It has some of the biggest sega titles in it and some that you might not played and also less known titles.

  Edited August 7, 2011 by suomi2005  

[Misaka_Mikoto 4]

Some Games that I grew up with:

London Racer:

Gran Turismo 1:

Test Drive 4:

Test Drive 6:

Vigilante 8 2nd Offense:

SimCity 2000:

SimCity 3000:

Good old times...

  Edited July 23, 2011 by Misaka_Mikoto  

[Ocram's Razr 963]

My first computer games were from the SimMania Pack for Windows 95, though they worked on 98 also. The only console I bought was a Game Cube though I was gifted an XBox when the XBox 360 came out.

[The Avatar 1,088]

I sometimes wish that I was born earlier, so that I could've played the classic old games like the Sonic Series and the entire SimCity Saga. But luckily I grew up with great games like RCT, RCT 2, and RCT 3, Locomotion, and SC3000.

Locomotion:

RCT:

And of course we all know about SC3!

(Not my screenshots)

[Timmystwin 201]

Cheers guys. Gotta crack open SC3000 now.

[Dirktator 2,308]

The first time I launched RCT1 when it came out, I didn't stop for about 30 hours. Those were the good ole days.

This was my favourite racer:

[TekindusT 3,809]

Carmaggeddon! I never was able to get through the 100th race, then I've never finished the game... Seriously, those cars had a serious handling problem!

[chicah 20]

Pardon me for copying parts of my post in the "favourite games"-thread. I had to. There was no other way. I'll quote myself.

If I'm to count in hours spent, and the time I put into it, I'd go with The Sims 2 I suppose, which was the only game I played, basically, for years. I loved that game so much. The Sims 3 never got to me, could be I'm too old to play house (and it's so much more fun to practice getting babies someday IRL than in Sim World. )

My all-time favourite game though is probably The Longest Journey, which was truly a journey of discovery and the best game in it's genre when it came out. Hell, it's good even by today's standards, if you ignore the graphics. I replayed it just a few months ago, so I know what I'm talking about. The best part is that the developers, or at least the main developer, Ragnar Tørnquist, is Norwegian.

It's sequel "Dreamfall" is a great game, too, and the only game I've played which story was so heartbreaking it made me cry. Truly. It was very sad. The ending was open, though, and rumours have it they're still working on sequels, although dirtier rumours have it they gave up because of all the pirating of their games - TLJ and Dreamfall were evidently very much pirated games. Could be because Scandinavians pirate a lot. (It's our viking blood, if we can't pillage IRL we do it online instead. )

Oh, and this is probably silly, but I had lots of fun with the first two Harry Potter games. I usually hate games trying to squeeze money of out good books, but these games were kind of charming. Anyone remember the chocolate frog cards? And the chase of Malfoy on a broom? Or the cute litte gnomes that dropped all-flavour beans when you threw them? Good times, good times.

And, of course, Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Let's add Pokemon: Fire Red to the list too, shall we.

Oh, and I also had a fondness for Commander Keene and the Super Mario games.

  Edited November 21, 2011 by chicah  

[suomi2005 52]

I used to have a bunch of good games for the PS one back in the days but I cant remember the names of some. But I do remember Crash Bandicoot, Syphon Filter, Gran Turismo, MGS, old NFS games, driver and Tomb Raider. That is only because many of those series keep going even to this day. I really would like a remake of Syphon Filter trilogy to be released and it should be bundled with the original PS one games

  Edited November 22, 2011 by suomi2005  

[wblake50 2]

All right this is going back to the '80s, on my old Macintosh SE. (I still have a working Mac SE!)

Anybody remember "Dark Castle" and "Beyond Dark Castle?" Throwing rocks at the little tin men...

Crystal Quest with the weird voice it would make when you completed a level... female "ahhhhhhh"

OK now there was this game, it was a vector rendered side scroller type of game. The premise was that you were on the moon and there were all these bases, and to get between the bases you had to fly a little lunar lander type ship through "canyons" that were heavily guarded. You could drop bombs only and the gravity/thrust physics of it were pretty good/realistic. The thing is it was a trading game, there were all kinds of different goods at each station and each good fetched a different price at a different station so you had to arbitrage your way through the game making a profit. If your ship was empty it would behave differently than if it were fully loaded. The reason I go on and on about that game is I want to find out what it is called... it was SO ahead of its time and really engaging. Does anybody else remember this game? Again it was mid-late 80s on the Mac platform.

Of course the original Sim City... I pulled an all-nighter the day I bought this game, I was so immersed / obsessed with it.

Then there was MYST which blew me away at the time, so engaging.

More recently - relatively speaking - on PC - Battlezone by Activision and Total Annihilation by CaveDog. Fantastic gameplay.

Going way back - Rogue on DOS! How in the world did we spend hours and hours playing this game? Staying up half the night guiding a little "@" battling "p" and "s" and "R"s!

  Edited November 23, 2011 by wblake50  

[Larks2242 251]

Goldeneye 64!

Perfect Dark

Monkey Island

Pokemon Red, Gold & Ruby

Mario 64

Army Men Sarge's Heroes

24: The Game

Oregon Trail

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Age of Empires II

Thats all i can really think of atm.

[masochist 111]

NOTE - I'm going to warn you, this is going to be a LONG and IMAGE-FILLED post .

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THE BEGINNING (Windows '98 PC)

Video games have always been a rather large part of my life. From elementary school all the way up to today, they've been a way for me to escape, or the main way to interact with other people. I'm lucky enough to have watched them evolve from colorful-but-flat 2D arcade-style games to the ultrarealistic cinematic experiences they are now...but you know, it's always the oldest ones that I remember most fondly.

When I first discovered video games way, WAY back in the days before I ever got my first system (a Game Boy Color), I was playing them at a computer lab run by the school district, and so my earliest video game memories are all of educational value. There was the whole suite of "Trail" games by MECC:

The Oregon Trail II

The Amazon Trail

The Yukon Trail

...as well as a few others, such as...

The Logical Journey of the Zoombini's

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain

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LATE ELEMENTARY/EARLY MIDDLE SCHOOL (Nintendo/Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis)

Now mind you, those were the games I played in elementary school, back when the internet was just a kernel of what we know it as today (Netscape Navigator was still the big browser of the day :-P). I never owned a Super Nintendo or a Sega Genesis myself; as I said before, I'd have to go to someone's house to play those. But despite the minor setback of not having one readily available to play, I managed to sample a huge variety of games on those consoles, some of which rank among the best I've ever played even to this day--games like:

Super Mario World

PGA Tour Golf

Final Fight

Sonic 2

Road Rash

World Series Baseball

NBA Jam

But NES hadn't quite gone out of style yet. And whenever we decided to fire it up, it was guaranteed that we'd be playing one of these game:

Super Mario 3

Track and Field

Ninja Turtles

Ninja Guiden

Mega Man 3

Tecmo Bowl

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LATE MIDDLE SCHOOL/EARLY HIGH SCHOOL (Playstation/Nintendo 64/Game Boy Advanced)

In the middle of middle school, I moved in with my cousin, who was always up-to-date on the latest consoles. It is during this time that I discovered some of the absolute greatest and most important games in my entire video-gaming history:

Jet Moto 2

Tekken 2

Metal Gear Solid

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Command and Conquer - Red Alert: Retaliation

NFL Blitz

Super Mario 64

Mario Kart 64

Perfect Dark

Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA

Around the exact same time, I received my first console ever: a Game Boy Advanced. And there's only one game I played on it:

Pokemon Gold

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HIGH SCHOOL (Super Nintendo revisited)

While I was living with my cousin, I also re-discovered SNES, and went on to play some games that I initially missed (that ended up being some of the most memorable ones I played for SNES). Games like:

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Chrono Trigger

SimCity

Troy Aikmen Football

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HIGH SCHOOL/EARLY COLLEGE (PC)

And to nicely round things out, I also managed to re-discovered computer games after discovering a $10.00 SC2K/Streets of SimCity two-pack. That kicked off a very influential computer-gaming era for me that lasted from just before I was about to finish middle school, all the way through high school until the end of my freshman year of college, and which included:

SimCity 2000

SimCity 3000 Unlimited

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Ages of Empires II

Civilization III

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And from their, it gets into the modern age, starting with SimCity 4 and various GameCube games all the way up until The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3...but that's a post for another thread . I hope you enjoyed this little trip down memory lane...or, at the very least, enjoyed the pictures!

P.S. - All of the pictures of SimCity titles are from my own personally-built cities

[Lemon 1]

Thanks alot, now i want to play RCT 1 all over again. But heres the problem, i only have RCT3 which we all now sucks a big one compared to the first two. i used to have both, but i lost the first one; I had RCT2 triple thrill pack, but that got messed up. so now im stuck with RCT3 Platinum.

Future to-do list

1. Meet will wright

2. Convince Chris Sawer to make a RCT4 ASAP!

3. Jizz my pants :3

oh and my oldest favorite game is probably RCT 1 by-far to follow up that story.

[Larks2242 251]

Funny how the AOE2 screenshot can still pass for a new 2011 game.

[DazzaDazza 29]

Simcity

Mario + duck hunt

Dr Mario

contra

NBA Jam

SC2000

Warcarft 2. the only good warcraft game made(in my opion)

Red Alart

CIV 1 and 2

and many many more i can't think off right now

[nuyokcity 22]

I played the original Rayman and Earthworm Jim for pc when I was younger and those classic 2d platformer games were very creative, artistic, wacky and so much fun and still are. In recent years there have been some 2d remakes as some have mentioned here so it's great to see some classic 2d styled games still being made.

I got Rayman Origins when it came out last year in 2011 and it a really fun game to play with family and friends. It reminds me of the first classic Rayman but with multiplayer it's so much more fun. Earthworm Jim also got a HD remake in 2010 with multiplayer so if you played the classic 2d games you will love the new ones!

Rayman Origins just came out for the pc in March 2012, you can download a pc demo here as well as get the full game.

There are tons of videos on youtube of playthroughs which are fun to watch, it's good to see that quality 2d games can still be made and you can have so much fun playing them.

walkthrough,

walkthrough,

[iEatRazorz 24]

I started out watching my dad play on the Atari and Coleco Vision. I started playing on the NES and DOS3.1 which I still have the manuals for =P

NES: Mario (DUH!), Zelda and

Star Tropics 1 & 2:

DOS: Police Quest, SimEarth, and Warcraft 2

I moved on to the SNES and the only game I would go back to play now would be Gaia:

An amazing game for it's time. I think it could survive a remake. Star Tropics not so much. I also use to play Commander Keen on my grandparents computer and a doom on a friends. Primal Rage was also played a lot.

[zuesian 4]

My favorite games were:

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Zoo Tycoon (I still play this)

Age of Empires I-II

Age of Mythology (I still play this)

I loved these types of games, and still play them often.