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Chrono Trigger
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. Played it as a child together with my mom. She had all the worldly knowledge, but at the time I was the only one who could speak/understand English, so teamwork was key. That game meant hours of educational fun for the both of us.
Sid Meier's Pirates!
I played the original when it came out on PC in like 1987. A friend of my dad gave me a copy, but I didn't have the manuals or map or anything that came in the box, so in order to figure out how to get around the Caribbean I had to crack an encyclopedia to a map, and that got me both interested in maps and also in reading the history of all these places I'd been to in the game.
I still play the 2004 remake of that game a few times a year.
Age of Empires 2 is my most played game ever and extremely nostalgic. Conquerors was next to flawless especially with fan made AI that didn't cheat resources. I liked to play sometimes with friends co-op against one brutally hard AI. Most of my time was online pvp matches, or making and scripting custom maps to post on AOE Heaven. MSN Zones first, then GameRanger when that shut down. A little bit (still hundreds of hours) when Forgotten Empires picked it back up too until I got overwhelmed.
While I love all the new expansions except the few mid ones, I think it's too bloated now for PvP. I don't want to memorize so many nations. I had a similar problem with Dead by Daylight and to a smaller extent, TF2. I got filtered I'm just too old to dump so many hours into a game now to keep track of all that shit, and not for a lack of free time actually in my case.
But I love the new SP campaigns!
Can a game be nostalgic if I still play it regularly?
Dune 2. It was the gateway drug that turned me playing computer games into a full blown addiction for a bunch of my family.
Relations camped out waiting for a slot to satisfy the urge for months until they could scrape together the cash to fund an appropriate PC to run it themselves at home.
Elderscrolls 3 Morrowind. Used to play it all day on my 13" black and white tv
If you haven't heard of it yet, look up OpenMW. It's a complete rebuild of Morrowind for modern hardware. They're working on making it fully voiced too.
Black and white 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Zelda - Link to the Past. I had so much fun playing Link Between Worlds.
I still need to play Link Between Worlds. Link To The Past is the best 2D Zelda imo
Might and Magic 7: For blood and honor
Hitting a tree with a good stick.
Space Invaders and Phoenix. We had the cabinets in our movie theater
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the patrician's 4X.
It's just so ideologically diverse and deep, and so quotable too. Plus, you can use how much you agree with Miriam as a litmus test for maturity, lol.
Alpha Centauri is a masterpiece that has never been matched, let alone topped. It’s a shame that rights issues have doomed the franchise.
Super Mario Bros 3. It was the first video game I'd ever played. That was my gateway drug.
I used to know that game like the back of my hand. Any time I pick it back up, it feels like visiting an old, childhood home.
Quest for Glory and Kyrandia!
I loved that Quest for Glory soundtrack.
Is Kyrandia the one where you play a jester in the 3rd game? I remember liking that one a lot.
I did t know you play as Malcolm in the third game! I’ll have to play the second and third once I’m done with a replay of the first one!
I suppose monopoly. It was the only game we really played. We also played trivial pursuit, but it was questions for my parents mostly.
I did get the question once of "What company was snoopy a mascot for" and answered "get met" which they were shocked and asked how I knew, and it was a brief appearance in a Bloom County comic, which they had the anthologies of so I read them all.
Pokemon Blue on Gameboy
The Star Wars arcade game.
I'd say it's a tie between The Curse of Monkey Island and Wing Commander (1 and 2).
Secret of Mana. Played it with friends like crazy. One even had the extension thing to connect 3 controllers - guess where we hung out most of the time.
Mancala. omg I still remember learning how to play in Kindergarten and I'm almost 30 now. This game was probably my very first addiction.
Sunset Riders SNES.
-Operation Wolf Dad would watch me play. He would bring other people to come in and watch how good I was. -Mario Golf Dad would play with us, he even kept a spreadsheet, on grid paper, to track his stats. -Ultima 3 First game on a PC. Mom got it to play with me and my little sister after Dad died. She couldn't figure out how to get it to work. I ended up playing it alone years later, but only after learning enough MS-DOS to figure out how to even get it running. CD..
Hug your parents. Play with your kids.
My earliest memory is peeking over the guard rail of my toddler bed so that I could watch my dad play Gradius. He passed away 2 years ago and I miss him every day.
Spore
Any of the cluefinders games, or gizmos and gadgets. Plenty of other edutainment classics do it too. Outside of edutainment, only NHL2000 and Halo: CE come to mind.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3. I wish I could say Sonic 3 & Knuckles but we weren't swimming in money so I very rarely got a new game (and just to add, I never threw controllers or punched TVs either because mommy wouldn't just buy me a new one if I did that).
I did rent out Sonic & Knuckles occasionally though. But I can practically picture the early level layouts of Sonic 3 in my mind like they're familiar streets that I grew up in.
Ultima 7
Stronghold, the isometric one
Final fantasy 7, Donkey Kong 64, Goldeneye 007, Final Fantasy 10, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1, Digimon World all bring a nostalgia factor. But probably, final fantasy 7 brings the most nostalgia. I have played that game again every 3-4 years since I was 12.
Ghostbusters on C64. Love that game to this day.
You know you’re old when most of the answers involve video games from one era or another.
The first video game we owned was a Coleco Telstar, which came out in 1976. It had a whopping 3 games:
- hockey
- handball
- tennis
Basically all were just variations of Pong…
Yep I naively expected to see board games and what not. Cos I keep forgetting I'm ooolllddd
X-Wing
TIE fighter
Secret of Mana
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Super Mario Sunshine and Pac Man 2
Handheld Zelda link's awakening for the Gameboy hits me the hardest as it was the first I owned myself bought with my first jobs mowing lawns and delivering papers.
Console, NES contra watching my older brothers get way further than I could at the time & teach me the Konami code
PC xwing, I had a f16 flight stick and my siblings would play splitting weapons/shield/engines distribution to a copilot and the pilot flying and aiming. That mission where you have to fly back and forth protecting the Corvette from imperial attacks from both sides jumping in and out of the area was peak retro space combat gaming.
Blake Stone aliens of Gold