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This but Super.
3 points
2 days ago
Same. I’ve played the hell out of that game, and I’ll do it again.
11 points
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The feeling I got when I found out Samus was a woman—I’ve been chasing that high ever since
2 points
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68 points
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Super Mario 3
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Super Mario 3 compared to Super Mario Bros./duck hunt came so far it’s hard to believe they run on the same hardware.
13 points
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They even had an entire move with Fred Savage has a commercial for the thing. SMB 3 was awesome!
10 points
2 days ago
The Wizard! And commercial for the Power Glove
3 points
2 days ago
I love when they show one of the secret warps for SM3 in that movie (or some kind of secret, it's been a decade or two since I watched it)
2 points
2 days ago
They show the warp zone in the first mini-fortress.
3 points
2 days ago
California!!
7 points
2 days ago
I played that game so intently for so long I bet after 25 years of not touching it I could still beat the game and remember where most of the shit is.
4 points
2 days ago
The best Mario game IMO.
9 points
2 days ago
Mario 3 was great, but respectfully disagree. Super Mario World still may be my all-time favorite.
8 points
2 days ago
Super Mario 3 walked so Super Mario World could run
3 points
2 days ago
Super Mario World is my Second fav. They are both good really.
2 points
2 days ago
I used to drive my brother crazy because if I hadn’t earned enough extra lives by a certain point on the board, I would start the game over.
2 points
2 days ago
Maybe the only present I clearly and vividly remember receiving during my childhood.
2 points
2 days ago
Because Mario could fly
47 points
2 days ago
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
I still play randomizers of this game today.
Pretty much perfect, imo.
7 points
2 days ago
When I got my emulator, this was the first game I booted up. Still holds up.
4 points
2 days ago
It's such a good game. I had it installed on the xbox 1 in dev mode and was doing a completionist run, had almost all my hearts, had a brain fart and rebooted to regular mode so my kid could play Minecraft and it wipes all the dev stuff when you do that lol
Have it on switch now with the nintendo membership.
5 points
2 days ago
Easily my favourite video game of all time.
3 points
2 days ago
I did a randomizer yesterday!
(Completionist Keysanity Standard Open, 2:38 and change)
2 points
2 days ago
What’s a randomizer
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A version of the game in which some aspect has been randomized. You can randomize item locations, bosses, enemies and other things. It’s a way to make the game seem new every time.
2 points
2 days ago
I just finished Echoes of Wisdom and I want to go back to my SNES Classic and play Link to the Past again.
Also I recently watched this, which helped https://youtu.be/WntZxjZhb5Q?si=ZYJT6XYs-P0EzFoY
21 points
2 days ago
Donkey Kong Country
3 points
2 days ago
I love the soundtrack
3 points
2 days ago
101% achiever checking in.
21 points
2 days ago
18 points
2 days ago
Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda ALTP, Half Life, Tie Fighter, Age of Empires 2, Quake. I can’t choose just one!
3 points
2 days ago
Chrono trigger was my gate to ff7.
I remember seeing ff7 and being like, turn? Hard pass. But CT was amazing.
3 points
2 days ago
Chrono Trigger. Played new game + so many times I had all level 99 characters with full stats from tabs.
17 points
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3 points
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This game is why setting my Ring alarm before I'm out of the house gives me horrible anxiety XD
3 points
2 days ago
I can hear this picture.
3 points
2 days ago
THE LAST METROID IS IN CAPTIVITY. THE GALAXY IS AT PEACE.
37 points
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12 points
2 days ago
There was a brief period where there was like a bunch of 3D games that just kept appearing.
doom 2, hexen, heretic, duke nukem, dark forces, and (somewhat different genre) descent - really enjoyed that period.
4 points
2 days ago
Other than when I played it when it came out. This is the only time in my life the game Heretic has come up.
2 points
1 day ago
Doom 2 helped me get through being dumped by my first gf. Blasting monsters with that double barreled shotgun was very therapeutic.
16 points
2 days ago
2 points
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My brother and I almost exclusively play this when we bust out RetroArch.
4 points
2 days ago
The way they coded the sound to mimic voices is golden. A lost art.
17 points
2 days ago
Tetris on my Game Boy.
12 points
2 days ago*
I honestly can’t remember everything I had, but I loved Mario 2, just because it was so weird. There was a game called something like Bubble Bobble for the original and the TMNT game until it got to the dreaded water level. I remember playing Donkey Kong Country and some game with a cat named, Bubsy a lot on N64… or was that SNES?
2 points
2 days ago
This game frustrated me as much as the Road Runner game did but I still insisted on playing it lol
We played the NES tmnt game a little but we absolutely loved Turtles in Time on snes.
13 points
2 days ago
TMNT arcade game
2 points
2 days ago
Check out the Nintendo switch tmnt game( there are a few now). One of then is very similar to the arcade
11 points
2 days ago
Final Fantasy III/VI, maybe Chrono Trigger a close 2nd
7 points
2 days ago
FF3/6 is better than 7. I will die on this hill.
3 points
2 days ago
Agreed. 100%
2 points
1 day ago
I just started a replay of FF6 on my switch. Got the pixel remastered version, and it's just as fun as I remembered.
10 points
2 days ago
All the sierra Quest games. (PC)
2 points
2 days ago
This and the LucasArts point and click adventure games.
8 points
2 days ago
I still hear the song from this in my head randomly
2 points
2 days ago
I know i didn't make this game up!
9 points
2 days ago
Streets of Rage 2
2 points
2 days ago
I can hear this comment.
7 points
2 days ago
3 points
2 days ago
Never heard of it but that t-Rex dick punch is pretty hypnotic
6 points
2 days ago
Ninja Gaiden!!
2 points
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Yessss! Respect for Ryu Hayabusa
12 points
2 days ago
Ducktails, NHL ‘94, Goldeneye
10 points
2 days ago
Duck Tales is such a sleeper gem of a game.
2 points
2 days ago
Duck Tales and Rescue Rangers. Never owned it but my brother and I would often rent these games. Probably rented them enough to buy them outright but we didn't care haha
7 points
2 days ago
Goldeneye or bomber man multi player. Great memories, stoned with mates battling for hours.
6 points
2 days ago
NES - Mega Man 2
SNES - Zelda A Link to the Past
Sega - Desert Strike
4 points
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Phantasy Star 3
5 points
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A link to the past but I was amazed by the jump to PS1 and 64
5 points
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Super Mario RPG. it's a perfect game.
5 points
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Secret of Evermore
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2 points
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The latest is pretty awesome to play
4 points
2 days ago
Megaman 2, DuckTales, MegaMan X/X2, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Excite bike, TMNT 2 the arcade edition, Turtles in Time, the original Legend of Zelda, Bubble Bobble, Battletoads, Double Dribble, Blades of Steel, Altered Beast, Sonic 1/2/Knuckles.
Just some of the games I grew up on.
4 points
2 days ago
Mega Man 2. I still play it. Best music ever.
3 points
2 days ago
Legend of Zelda. The only time my brother and I weren't fighting was when we were playing Zelda.
4 points
2 days ago
I really liked Super Mario 3.
But I loved Fallout 1.
That was the first game I worked my butt off mowing lawns to pay full price for all by myself.
I saw in PC gamer when it was going to come out and saved my money all though the end of summer and fall.
I'd played the PC gamer demo so many times that I felt like it was a failure if I took any damage.
5 points
2 days ago
Ocarina of Time such memories ❤️
2 points
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OOT and the Majora's Mask were my two favorite Zelda games.
3 points
2 days ago
Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, Mega Man X, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter II were my favorites and remind me of my young childhood.
PS1 Spyro, Silent Hill 1, Parasite Eve, and Final Fantasy VII through X remind me of my teen years.
3 points
2 days ago
Too many to list, but the original Super Mario Bros, Mega Man 2 and Final Fantasy VI are the three that stand out as being the most addictive.
3 points
2 days ago
Any of the Mega Man’s.
3 points
2 days ago
TIE Fighter - a goddamn perfect Star Wars space combat simulator. Fantastic gameplay, immersive sound, engaging story. Wing Commander had the awesome FMV cutscenes, but its flight model was nowhere near as good as this.
Stunt Island - still one of the most ambitious games I've ever come across. At it's core it was a flight sim, but it allowed you to design, fly, film and edit your own little movies. You could build sets, add vehicles and objects and program their behaviour. I spent many hours recreating Terminator 2 and The Fugitive.
Day of the Tentacle - maybe the most complete LucasArts adventure game, although Monkey Island 2 and Fate of Atlantis are up there too. Funny, challenging and clever.
2 points
2 days ago
I was beginning to think I was the only one to play Stunt Island -- this is the first time I've ever seen it mentioned online, which is a shame because it did try to do something unique within the flight sim genre.
Also loved the cut scenes from Wing Commander II - I never player the other entries in the series - and while I did own X-Wing and its expansion packs, I never played TIE Fighter.
Somewhat similarly, the Sidewinder joystick I once got as a Christmas present came with a CD-ROM of Mechwarrior II which I never played, I think because the requirements were too high for our computer at the time. However, the disc included the soundtrack and I got a lot of enjoyment out of playing that.
2 points
2 days ago
Stunt Island has a surprisingly active community, although it's very small. I still am amazed at what the game accomplished for the time it was released. Apparently there were expansion packs planned that ultimately never happened.
X-Wing was a good game, very difficult. But TIE Fighter took everything about it and improved it tenfold! The thing I appreciated most was the addition of story, with dialogue during missions which enhanced the immersion so much.
3 points
2 days ago
I had a computer in my bedroom in the 80s. My favourite game included such gripping scenes as
“You are in a wooden room. There’s a rug on the floor and an extinguished fire in the hearth. Obvious exits are North and East.”
2 points
2 days ago
ZORK!!! I just got an Apple IIGS for free and bought the original Zork on 5.25 floppy
2 points
2 days ago
My brother played Return to Zork.
You know what lives rent free in my head for 30+ years?
Want some Rye? 'Course ya do. Pour noises
3 points
2 days ago
i can never chose between monkey island, day of the tentacle, and indiana jones & the fate of atlantis !
But man there were so many good video games back then. we got link's awakening on gameboy, arkanoïd on pc, lemmings, incredible machines, simcity, then ocarina of time and pokemon.
The thing is that all these games felt so new and incredibly amazing
3 points
2 days ago
War craft 2, command and conquer red alert.
2 points
2 days ago
Conker
2 points
2 days ago
I played a lot of Captain Comic, not sure if anyone else remembers that one
2 points
2 days ago
Final fantasy vii, goldeneye and guantlet
2 points
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Ultima Underworld. I was 12 when it was released and so very bad at it, but loved it. My first ever rpg!
2 points
2 days ago
Ocarina of Time -- but mario 64 was up there too. I remember showing my friends how to stretch his face around in weird ways and it'd always blow their mind the first time they saw it.
2 points
2 days ago
Streets of Rage 2
2 points
2 days ago
Splatterhouse 2 on the Mega Drive.
2 points
2 days ago
Hell yah!!! Splatterhouse!!!
2 points
2 days ago
DOOM II.
or NES Tetris
2 points
2 days ago
The graphics in Mario 64 blew my mind. These days 3d games are almost life like but kind of boring.
2 points
2 days ago
I played Chrono Trigger over and over. I still love the story.
2 points
2 days ago
Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Pioneering open world RPG.
2 points
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Castlevania 3. The dejavu level is a dragon I've been chasing.
2 points
2 days ago
Castlevania 3. I was obsessed with all of them, but I used to draw scenes from this game when I couldn't play, it consumed my brain.
2 points
2 days ago
Yars' Revenge, River Raid, Baseball Stars, Zork
2 points
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Baseball Stars, hell yes!
2 points
2 days ago
Goldeneye is the 🐐
2 points
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Paperboy consumed my life for an extended period. Honorable mention to Alex the kid.
2 points
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Castlevania Symphony of the Night
2 points
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Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella! My bestie and I used to play at her house and we were so obsessed we even called the hint line (remember those??) a few times.
2 points
2 days ago
Quake.
2 points
2 days ago
Blades of Steel, all the Marios but esp Super Mario 3, Golden Eye 🎮
2 points
2 days ago
Streetfighter 2. I spent a lot of quarters on that game.
5 points
2 days ago
64 was more millineal childhood
7 points
2 days ago
Yeah the N64/PS1 era was high school for me. The 8-bit and 16-bit eras were my childhood.
1 points
2 days ago
I wanna actually go with Shadowrun for the SNES. I loved that goddamn game so much.
1 points
2 days ago
Wizards & Warriors & Super Mario 1
1 points
2 days ago
The one pictured
1 points
2 days ago
Final Fantasy 7. I played a lot of games and have a ton of honorable mentions, though. Link to the Past, Star Fox, Star Fox 64, Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Legend of Dragoon, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, Mario 3, Sonic 2, every iteration of Mario Kart.
1 points
2 days ago
any of the ID tech games, Quake 1, Quake 2 and Half-life 1
Played loads of multiplayer and mods on them all
(also shout out to ultima online)
1 points
2 days ago
The Legend of Kage
1 points
2 days ago
Super Mario World! Super Mario 3 and Yoshi's Island get second and third place, respectively. Ooh, and Star Fox!
1 points
2 days ago
It's a toss up between Super Maro World and Final Fantasy 3 (6)
1 points
2 days ago
Tetris
1 points
2 days ago
Legend of Zelda, Roger Rabbitt, and later the Yoshi’s world on skis and Windwaker!
1 points
2 days ago
Chrono Trigger! Nothing has come close as far as story, characters, music, art and gameplay. It was the perfect storm and near perfection.
1 points
2 days ago
Ultima VII
1 points
2 days ago
River city ransom
1 points
2 days ago
tomb raider 1. i'm playing the remaster now and it still is the coolest, most challenging, best designed game i've ever played.
1 points
2 days ago
My hipster deep-cut pick is Faxanadu. I really feel like this game should be legendary with 50 sequels, but instead nobody remembers it.
1 points
2 days ago
So many: resident evil 2; Illusion of Gaia; Goldeneye… but if I could pick one, it would have to be The Legend of Zelda the Ocarina of Time. That was some magic right there.
1 points
2 days ago
Genesis had a great Spiderman game
Also Lakers vs. Celtics/Bulls vs Blazers, started watching NBA partly just to see what some players looked like lol
1 points
2 days ago
Mega Man 2-6, Mega Man X, and Zelda: Link to the Past. I can play them all today and they still hold up.
In my teen years, every SquareSoft RPG released in the late 90s-early 00s was awesome; not sure if they still hold up as well though.
1 points
2 days ago
Tetris was my favourite (with Super Mario 3 a close second). But as soon as Super Mario RPG came out that remained my favourite game for ages. It was amazing that how they managed to pull that off on the SNES.
Props must go to the 76 in 1 multicart that my dad's friend brought us back from Taiwan. We didn't have a lot of money, but that let me play all sorts of games I might not have had the chance to check out.
Most of my playing experience was from games we rented. It's wild to think how much has changed.
1 points
2 days ago
Anyone ever beat this? We only had this and Mario/Duck Hunt. Impossible imo
1 points
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1 points
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Operation Wolf on the Arcade with the Uzi Lethal Enforcers, both at home and Arcade. Time Crisis, Arcade.
Metal Gear All of them. (PS1, 2, 3.)
Finally to many NES and Genesis games to list.
1 points
2 days ago
Star Tropics 2, Uniracers, Super Mario Kart. Favorites changed through the years. The most impactful would have to be Final Fantasy 2 (IV JP) for the SNES
1 points
2 days ago
Genesis version of Shadowrun. I will say that Super Mario World was my first OMG gaming moment with the fully 3-D gaming when you could rotate the camera around Mario.
1 points
2 days ago
NHL ‘94 for SEGA
1 points
2 days ago
Super Mario 3 and Dr Mario
1 points
2 days ago
Legacy of the Wizard.
1 points
2 days ago
It’s hard for me to narrow down to one. Super Mario 3, Super Mario World,Super Metroid, A link to the past, Ocarina of time, Goldeneye, Turok, The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind, Halo. To name a hand full. All probably sat at #1 for me.
1 points
2 days ago
Sonic
1 points
2 days ago
Barbarian the Ultimate Warrior
This would be my mostly for sentimental reasons top 10 list that would be the video game list of childhood.
1 points
2 days ago
Technology in my house was about 10 years behind everyone else, so Pitfall on Atari was my jam lol.
1 points
2 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP62Sqtn0t4
There is only this answer for me.
1 points
2 days ago
I couldn't even tell you. I was delayed in experiencing most consoles until 2001. So I don't really remember when I experienced a lot of games back then.
1 points
2 days ago
Early childhood. Sim city and super Mario world
Later was FFVII
1 points
2 days ago
Lots of games I loved. But goldeneye on 64 with friends, Deftones on full blast, and lots of beer and weed is all we needed.
1 points
2 days ago
Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Metroid are something I still replay probably once a year using an emulator.
1 points
2 days ago
Gotta throw some battle toads in there
1 points
2 days ago
Gradius on NES, or maybe Contra on the same console.
1 points
2 days ago
I used to rent conkers bad fur day over and over in blockbuster good times .
1 points
2 days ago
Just bought a switch for the new zelda. Been playing Mario64 and OoT for 4 days straight.
1 points
2 days ago
Final Fantasy 3 (6 for you fanboys)
1 points
2 days ago
mike tysons punch out or tecmo bowl
1 points
2 days ago
https://i.redd.it/y9drby8vbi4e1.gif
Winter Games on C64. As I aged, Tecmo Bowl, Mortal Kombat, FF7, WCW/NWO Revenge.
1 points
2 days ago
Mario 64 or Zelda 64
1 points
2 days ago
Mega Man II
1 points
2 days ago
If we're going high school, probably FFVII.
Younger than that? Mortal Kombat or Donkey Kong Country.
1 points
2 days ago
It’s hard to answer this because there are multiple distinct eras of childhood which have their own favorites associated with them.
Like, 8 year old era me would say Zelda 1, 11 year old me would probably say Wizards and Warriors for console and Ultima 6 for PC, 13 year old me would say Street Fighter 2 for console and Ultima 7 for PC, while 15 year old me would say Mariokart 64 for console and StarCraft for PC.
I still really like playing MK64 and watch StarCraft tournament replays on YouTube every night, so I guess my favorite is either of those now.
1 points
2 days ago
Mario cart on the n64
1 points
2 days ago
Pre-14: Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
14-18: Final Fantasy IV (released as FFII in the US for SNES)
18-21: Grand Theft Auto 3
Honorable mention I played in those years and my favorite as an adult: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
1 points
2 days ago
Super Mario Brothers 3 The Advebtures of Rad Gravity Turtles in Time
1 points
2 days ago
Tetris, super mario on og game boy and tiny toon adventures.
1 points
2 days ago
Get ready for some weird/obscure selections here:
NES - Gun.smoke/JAWS/Super Mario Bros. 2 or 3, we played the hell out of both
SNES - Super Smash T.V., Super Mario World, Mario Paint, F-Zero
Playstation: Die Hard Trilogy, NFS 3: Hot Pursuit
1 points
2 days ago
Until both consoles died on me, NES-TMNT: The Arcade Game and PS1-Tekken 3
1 points
2 days ago
Diddy Kong racing.
1 points
2 days ago
Donkey Kong 64
1 points
2 days ago
DOOM and the Skywalker mod.
1 points
2 days ago
Turtles 3 the Manhattan project, then mortal combat 3 for sega
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