When I was a kid, I felt pretty confident no video game would ever top Dragon Quest 4 (known as Dragon Warrior 4 to me, at the time).

It has been since surpassed, but I do still think it's pretty damn excellent.

Other big games for me were Ultima Online, later World of Warcraft.

Prior to those MMOs though, I was a big MUD (multi-user dungeon) player. I used to connect to Arythia.org via zMUD or old telnet and spend hours at a time playing and chatting with people in the entirely text-based proto-MMO

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Baldur's Gate 1 & 2. The open-world gameplay melted my adolescent brain after growing up on NES games. I haven't stopped playing such games since, and I still go back and play them again occasionally.

Go for the eyes Boo!!

X-COM: UFO Defense (1993) Fallout 2

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, 2, and 3 when I was quite young. In my teens it was Minecraft.

• Contact Sam Cruise
• Robin O The Wood
• Kokotoni Wolf
• Back to School
• Killed Until Dead
• Head Over Heels
• Batman

and about a hundred more, probably. These are all on the ZX Spectrum. No one else start out in the early 80s with a Spectrum or Commodore 64 or Dragon or whatever?!

Looks like I'm one of the oldest here (Pacman guy presumably older)...

Ooh, there were a couple of them.

• Pokemon Blue/Yellow/Gold

• Theme Park World (never see this mentioned anywhere??)

• Diablo II

• Warcraft 3

• Mario Kart Double Dash

• Super Smash Melee

• XG2 (Extreme G 2)

• Screamer 2

• F-Zero GX

• Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit

These are the ones I can remember right off the bat, might add some more if I remember them.

Lasting impression top 5:

Great Gianna Sisters, Last Ninja 2, Castles, Loom, Moraff's World

• Battlefront & battlefront 2 first and foremost for sure. Classic battles for socializing, space battles for crash fun, single player galactic conquest

• Battle for Middle Earth 2. Big improvement over 1 and you could play as anyone, although Men was outrageously overpowered

• Unreal Tournament 1999

• Starcraft: Broodwar. We were shitty turtle players, but so much fun

• Warcraft 3 (mostly dota, twilight's eve, and TD)

• CS 1.6 and CS:S

• Mario kart double dash

• super smash Bros melee

• Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones

• Pokemon Emerald

They don't make games like that anymore, but then again, it is definitely 75% nostalgia and the good times with friends that I had during those years instead of the actual games.

Now we are stuck playing CS2 online getting rolled by kids on shitty comp servers with 100+ ping 1 day per month or so because there is a 7 hour time difference now. Because online games without sweaty, toxic communities are pretty far in between. Miss the days when video games were fun lol

Two games on the C64: "The Castles of Dr. Creep" and "Elite". The first was a jump-and-run platform game with incredibly simple and lowres graphics, but perfect for two cooperating players. The second was the absolute classic space game by Braben and Bell.

Not really my favorite, but I never see these games listed in places like this, so I'm going to be the change I want to see in the thread.

Check out Lufia and Lufia II for the Super Nintendo. It's crazy how underrated these ended up being, and how good they were. I've played them semi recently, as SNES games go, and the second one still holds up well. The first is good, but feels a little more dated.

Mario RPG, half life 2, and Halo 1, those are easily my top 3 games.

As a kid, probably Lode Runner. It ran on my pc. Some arcade games were fun. I enjoyed Asteroids. Colossal Cave, and the Infocom games like Planetfall were fun too. Though what really hooked me was Doom. It was the first real 3d FPS game and it blew my mind. It's been my favorite genre ever since.

Super Mario Bros., Balloon Fight, that one Robocop game for the NES, Sonic The Hedgehog and a top-down strategy shooter for the Genesis/Mega Drive that I can't remember the name of.

• Prince of Persia
• Contra III
• Blackthorne (by blizzard)
• Freelancer

• Wings of Fury
• Populous
• F/A18 Interceptor
• Pool of Radiance
• International Karate+
• Jetset Willy (also Blagger, Monty Mole series and other similar games)

PS2 really had the bangers.

FFX, Devil May Cry series, and MGS3 were awesome.

Moved over to the 360 and played MW2 / Halo 3 with the bros in highschool.

Awesome (psygnosis on the Amiga) and probably Parsec on the ti 99 4/a. Yes i’m old

Spyro. Hard stop. Beat over 100% several times. Loved the platform mechanics, the visuals, the humor, and the sense of wonder. Lovely games that basically scratches that itch of a mobile collecting game but with a story to follow and purpose for doing it.

The Halo franchise is also up there but i actually was just one of the people that just built maps in forge for custom game modes and think that was super fun, limits that made me more creative with how i built the maps. Then to see them get played and filled with people was always so fun.

syphon filter and syphon filter 2. The multiplayer against my cousin where we just ran around and throw grenades at each other was just pure fun.

Think Quick! immediately comes to mind as the an early one I played a lot of, followed by Mines of Titan.

I am not sure I could go through the 90's games that left lasting impressions on me. I guess Homeworld, Sacrifice, Marathon, Alpha Centauri, and Chrono Trigger have occupied a massive amount of my mind for ages now, haha.

golden sun, pokemon, fat princess, time commander,