Ask Lemmy

This list is limited to only games I've played legitimately on original hardware.

Arcade: OutRun 2 SP SDX
Atari 2600: Ice Hockey
Atari 5200: Space Dungeon
Vectrex: Scramble
Apple II: The Oregon Trail
NES: Super Mario Bros. 3
Master System: Golvellius
Atari 7800: Food Fight
Commodore 64: Space Taxi
Turbografx-16/PC Engine: Soldier Blade
Genesis/Mega Drive: Rocket Knight Adventures
Game Boy: Donkey Kong (1994)
Neo Geo: Twinkle Star Sprites
PC: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Super NES: Mystery Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer
Game Gear: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
32X: Virtua Racing Deluxe
Saturn: Die Hard Arcade
PlayStation: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Virtual Boy: Teleroboxer
Nintendo 64: Super Mario 64
Game Boy Color: Metal Gear Solid: Ghost Babel
Dreamcast: Marvel vs Capcom 2
Neo Geo Pocket Color: SNK vs Capcom: Match of the Millennium
PlayStation 2: Tony Hawk's Underground
Game Boy Advance: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
GameCube: Soulcalibur II
Xbox: Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
DS: Mario Kart DS
PlayStation Portable: Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
Xbox 360: Eschatos
PlayStation 3: Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
Wii: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
3DS: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
PlayStation Vita: RetroArch
Android: Balatro
Wii U: Super Mario Maker
PlayStation 4: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
Xbox One: Killer Instinct (2013)
Switch: Puyo Puyo Tetris

GBA: I really like the remakes of the first Pokémon releases, being Fire Red and Leaf Green. It just makes me wonder why they never went with Green for the international release of the Game Boy version.

PSP: Patapon 2. It's kind of impressive that they made a rhythm game with an actual storyline, being that you're a god that is guiding a tribe to "Earthend", using a set of drums to give them commands. I thought it was the best game in the series, and even has a remaster on the PS4 if you're interested in that.

Yeah, those are the only consoles I have actually played. It's not fun being in a country where video games are astronomically expensive.

SNES: Fave: Super Mario World

Sega Genesis/Megadrive: Fave: Alien Soldier | Least fave: Ooze

PS1: Fave: Spyro 3

Game Boy Color: Fave: Donkey Kong Country

Game Boy Advance: Fave: Gunstar Super Heroes

Sega Dreamcast: Fave: Sonic Adventure 2

Gamecube: Fave: Pikmin

PS2: Fave: Jak and Daxter | Least fave: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Playstation Portable: Fave: Danganronpa | Least Fave: Ratchet and Clank Size Matters

PS3: Fave: Ratchet And Clank Tools of Destruction

Xbox 360: Fave: Fallout 3 Least fave: Sonic 06

Nintendo DS: Fave: Animal Crossing: Wild World

Nintendo 3DS: Fave: Super Mario 3D Land

Wii: Fave: Super Mario Galaxy

Wii U: Fave: Pikmin 3

PC: Fave: Grand Theft Auto V

Nintendo Switch: Fave: A tie between BOTW/TOTK and Pikmin 4

My fondest memories:

Commodore 64: Jumpman, Bruce Lee, Donald Duck's Playground

Atari: Mario Bros, Joust, Yars' Revenge, Star Raiders

NES: Zelda 1/2, SMB2, Dragon Warrior, Blaster Master, Goonies 2, Mega Man 2

SNES: SimCity, Actraiser, Chrono Trigger, Populous

N64: Zelda OoT/MM, Killer Instinct Gold, Perfect Dark, Gauntlet Legends

PS: Tekken 3, Twisted Metal 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

PS2: Intelligent Qube, Katamari Damacy/We Love Katamari, Jumping Flash, Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland, Okami, GTA: Vice City

Switch: Zelda BoTW, Animal Crossing New Horizons

I left consoles behind after PS2 for PC gaming (until ACNH). Even then, I'm not big on controller games, preferring keyboard and mouse. Not listing least favorites because I've apparently forgotten about them.

Atari 2600, NES, Game boy, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Sega CD, PlayStation, Dreamcast, N64, PlayStation, XBox, PlayStation 2, Wii, PlayStation 3, XBox 360, PlayStation 4, XBox Series S.

Favorite games? Super Smash Brothers and Apex Legends

Least favorite is anything JRPG turn based. Not for me.

Pong, Intellivision, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, NES, TurboGrafix 16, Atari Jaguar, SNES, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, N64, PS1, GameCube, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, PS5, GameBoy, GameGear, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, GameBoy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS.

I might actually have forgotten a couple random ones. I'm pretty sure I've played with some Magnavox POS before but I don't remember what it was called, just that you had to put cellophane things over your TV for it to work because it basically only drew your character and not the backgrounds. And I'm not counting every attachment for the Genesis as a separate console.

I'm not sure I can even remember my favorite and least favorite for each one... A lot of those consoles sucked 🤣

NES: SMB2

GB: Pokémon Blue

SNES: Chrono Trigger

N64: Goldeneye 007

Dreamcast: Soul Calibur

NGC: Pikmin

Xbox: Fable

GBA: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Wii: Twilight Princess

Switch: Tears of the Kingdom

NES: The Legend of Zelda

Sega: Primal Rage

PS1: Vigilante 8 (close second Medal of Honor)

Xbox: Morrowind (my first experience with both this genre and open world), followed by Halo CE

Pretty much stopped with consoles and stuck with PC thereafter.

NES: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

GB: Pokemon Red

SNES: Panel de Pon

GBC: Mario Tennis

N64: Paper Mario

GBA: Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django

GameCube: Kirby Air Ride

DS: The World Ends With You

Wii: Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary

3DS: Kid Icarus Uprising

Wii U: Hyrule Warriors

Switch: Puyo Puyo Champions

Linux: Skullgirls

Android: Simon Tatham's Puzzles

Arcade: Vampire Savior

I don't want to try to pick out a least favorite for every single platform. But I'll name just the two games I detest most: Puyo Puyo Tetris and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, because I blame them for killing the IP today.