At the risk of sounding ancient: Lifeforce on the NES.
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I got a few.
N64 command and conquer I can still hear the commando blowing up logo and saying that was left handed.
Ocarina of Time
Skies of Arcadia
And kotor, but for some reason I remember the pazak mini game more than anything else.
I loved that command and conquer game! It was actually my pivot point into PC gaming, because I picked up Red Alert 2 and there was no going back.
Minecraft, it will always be minecraft. Its the only game I can't help but come back to every year atleast
Final Fantasy 8 and Crash Bandicoot.
Super Mario World
Pikmin 1! To say I'm obsessed is an understatement
Probably all the earlier need for speeds (1 2 and 3, underground) just played em a lot! Also duck hunt of course
There are so many good memories. Its hard to choose.
On PC it's Atlantis, by Cryo Games. It was a point and click, like Myst. I liked the story telling.
On snes it's Terranigma. Also because of the story. But the most played game for me was Super Metroid.
A special mention needs to go out to the entire GTA series, because I grew up with them.
Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team
Lemmings
ToeJam & Earl
New Zealand Story
xenos, interactive fiction from like 30 years ago
45? fuck. no wonder i look like an old leather bag
I played Tenchu recently, and it was just as good as it was the first time I played it. Those controls are jank, but it's really a fun game regardless. It has a wonderful soundtrack, and it feels foreboding which is lovely for a ninja game. I feel the same sense of dread that I do as if I were playing a horror game or something. It's quite good!
Broken telephone
Classic Concentration, based on the TV game show!
Lion King on the SNES.
I played. And played. And played. I took that game and system with me when I left home and I took it with me all across the country. And then I finally beat it on a 12 hour graveyard shift with a friend. We were on our last life and were going to be dead. And it happened. The only time in my life I ever beat the game was after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts.
Frogger.
Yes, I'm old.
Hungry hungry hippos
Super Mario Galaxy
Aaaaaand now I feel old.
Beyond Good and Evil for me it was a very unexpected good game with fantastic music and atmosphere.
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on the SNES. The opening music alone is magical in my memory
That's tough but it'd have to be between Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Mind Maze game in Microsoft Encarta
Master of magic
Megaman 2
And sadly, this game runs too fast on modern hardware. Back then the programmers used CPU cycles as a timing advancement technique. So like a Pentium 4's cyclic operation kept the game playable. Try it under emulation on a modern CPU and the game is unplayably fast. Yes I tried slowing down the processor speed in Virtualbox, can't find the sweet spot % so this game is lost in time. Like the dinos.
Gradius for the NES
Probably Star Wars Battlefront, THPS/THUG, or Ocarina of Time
But Oracle of Seasons was the first game I owned
THUG and THUG2 were great.
Sonic Heroes (most nostalgic)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Minecraft
Glow Hockey (mobile) or a similar game to it but that's the one I saw available for download nowadays
Sonic adventure, honestly most sonic games.
Kingdom hearts would be but I never gave it the chance to be nostalgic because I never stopped playing em lol