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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] Midnight_Ice 4 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't say too many hours. More like the right amount of hours. But for me it was Super Mario World, DK 64, and Donkey Kong Country.

[–] mikoto 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceCowboy 2 points 2 years ago

Just one more turn and I'll go to bed...

Hmmm.... what's that light outside the window? Oh... that's the sun rising.

[–] blunderworld 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chrono Trigger. I couldn't even tell you the number of hours I spent playing and replaying that game over and over as a kid.

[–] cyborganism 1 points 2 years ago

This game has a special place in my heart. It's like my Lord of the Rings of video games. I'll play it again from time to time just to indulge myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Childhood….uh….. Oregon trail? Anything on the OG Nintendo system, or Atari. I loved the original Mario and Zelda games. Spent a lot of time in front of them for sure.

[–] uhmbah 3 points 2 years ago

Frogger. 1 quarter at a time. My part time job as a young teen paid for 1000's of hours...

[–] NotJustClarkKent 2 points 2 years ago

A strategy game called Dark Colony. I have yet to meet someone who has heard of it but I spent many nights weekends and mornings before school playing that game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Colony

[–] Vampiric_Luma 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Starcraft Brood War.

UMS was crazy with how many games people would make for it. Cat and mouse... zergbound... The craziest one I played was a Hyrule war map where everyone picked a race and held back a player controlled Ganon army while Link runs around completing actual dungeons and prepping for the final showdown. Anything and everything was in UMS.

[–] SpaceCowboy 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah there were some awesome custom maps for that. The Battle for Helm's Deep one was really cool too. Insane how well balanced that was. There were many times the Orcs (Zerg natch) broke through and we'd be fighting in the caves when Gandalf would show up.

Even though they were obviously marines, zealots, zerglings, etc, I'd get into it and could imagine them all as human archers, elves, and orcs.

I also liked to start games on "fastest possible map ever" and call it "7v1 comp stomp bsers welcome". It would be a crazy game of diplomacy everyone BSing (back stabbing) each other as soon as the computer player was eliminated. Sometimes before. And of course someone stays allied but unchecks "allied victory" so everyone sitting on ridiculous amounts of resources (it was FPME) accusing each other, forming alliances, killing off a player suspected to be the one (based on nothing LOL) then finding out we didn't get the right one. It was so hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Diablo 2, counter strike source, world of warcraft

Plenty more but these are probably the most serious offenders when it comes to overplaying them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Dungeon Keeper. It's old now, and basically just a pixel on modern hardware, but I LOVED that game. Still do. I bought it on GOG and still play it even though it's almost 30 years old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

During my childhood i had a commodore64 and My favorite games were boulder dash and oils well. In my early teens i just had a gameboy. Adventure island and darkwing duck were my two go to games. In my teen years during the mid 90s i was all about lucas arts adventure games… special mention for sam n max and day of the tentacle

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[–] huiccewudu 3 points 2 years ago

I loved this game, but gosh was it difficult...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Many lol. But the first that came to mind was Smash Melee. That game was my entire 8th grade.

[–] HappyExodus 1 points 2 years ago

Grand tourismo 1

[–] corsicanguppy 1 points 2 years ago
[–] alsimoneau 1 points 2 years ago

In highschool, definitely WoW. It's probably my most played game of all time by a huge margin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

GoldenEye 64 single and multiplayer modes. So many hours in four players mode, so much fun.

[–] timidgoat 1 points 2 years ago

Halo 2, Call of Duty 2. CoD2 was the reason my parents gave me a limit on my computer time..

[–] BCsven 1 points 2 years ago

C64 flight simulator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Metroid Prime Hunters, Pokemon games and Animal Crossing I guess !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There were a lot, but the one that stands out is Halo 2. I bought an Xbox 360 not for any games on it, but to play Halo 2 in HD.