Games growing up

[pyrosaw]

(Phew, don't mess this up, you can only get suspended one more time)When you grew up, what games did you play as a kid? Whether they hold up today. I would have to say The donkey Kong country series, and Star Wars Battlefront 1, and 2. Oh, and Lego Star Wars. Do they hold up today?

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

I still love Morrowind, NWN, Battlefront, Azurik, and FUUUUUUSION FREEEEEEENZYYYYY!

 

[Cheesepower5]

I fluctuated between Old School Nintendo and Sonic for a few years, which is also pretty much directly related to which friends I would see most at the time. Then Sonic Heroes came and it was all Zelda.

Then I discovered RPGs.

 

[Prof.Wood]

altered beast on sega If i could plug my sega into my new tv I would play it all the time.
also sonic,crash and spiro.....Dammit Nostalgia.

 

[Talshere]

(Phew, don't mess this up, you can only get suspended one more time)When you grew up, what games did you play as a kid? Whether they hold up today. I would have to say The donkey Kong country series, and Star Wars Batllefrnt 1, and 2. Oh, and Lego Star Wars. Do they hold up today?

Ah kids a baby

Spoiler: Sonic, the mastersystem version that was always in the game

Spoiler: Probotector for the NES

Spoiler: The original C&C

Spoiler: Mario is missing for the Mac

You get the idea

 

[blankedboy]

As a kid, I had a disc called '100 Great Games' that contained a bunch of shareware games, most were shit but some were awesome...

Some of them hold up today, I can't say the same for Crazy Gravity though.

 

[ninja555]

Baldur's Gate and Myst were the biggest games as I was growing up. Played Baldur's Gate more times then I can count and earlier this year I finally beat Myst.

 

[pyrosaw]

Baldur's Gate and Myst were the biggest games as I was growing up. Played Baldur's Gate more times then I can count and earlier this year I finally beat Myst.

Is Myst free, or can you download it free? I kinda want to check it out.

 

[Comando96]

The first game I ever played was Spyro 2: Gate way to glimmer! Then I got the first Spyro and when it came out I got the third!

I loved them. Also when I got rid of my PS1 they were the only 3 games i kept... I still have them now

Would it hold up today? Well the 4th game killed the series for me as they ruined the feel of the game by making it slower, the art style was different and it was actually harder for me even though I was a veteran of the previous 3. (The long loading times didn't help it :| )

The final game to be released was the end of a trilogy in 2008 so it might be the end of the purple dragon...

 

[ninja555]

Baldur's Gate and Myst were the biggest games as I was growing up. Played Baldur's Gate more times then I can count and earlier this year I finally beat Myst.

Is Myst free, or can you download it free? I kinda want to check it out.

I don't know where you could get it for free or any place where you could get it. GOG is closing down so you can't get it there. Check for a torrent somewhere.

 

[radioactive lemur]

I grew up playing Smash with friends. I also still hold that the Donkey Kong for N64 was one of the best single player games ever made. It's really too bad they never made a decent next gen DK. Other than that, the best games were (and still are) Zelda, Mario, and Pokemon. Nintendo is still decent, but it's gone way downhill. It was where it was at when I was a kid with Sony weak and Microsoft nonexistent.

 

[Hateren47]

I played Super Mario bros. and SMB3 when I was a kid, and while the first does show its age, I still think SMB3 holds up. It has a world map and special items and is still very playable though a lot harder than newer games.

 

[Good morning blues]

When I was a kid I played the old Sierra adventures, which generally don't hold up today. I still love Quest for Glory and Space Quest III, though, even if they are a bit too aimless for a modern audience to enjoy very much.

 

[CpnBeef]

The earliest games i can remember playing were Sonic and Knuckles, some game on the commodore 64 where i was apparently hunting jack the ripper in a waxwork museum.

Then there was Dynamite Heady on the Megadrive which i still have today and after that my Playstation with a ton of classic platformers (like Crash, Spyro and Gex) RPGs (FF 7,8,9. Digimon world 2003) and Tombi

Handheld my childhood gaming belonged to Warioworld 2: The quest for the golden coins, the first game i ever 100% completed. every treasure, alternate quest-path the lot.

After that it went Gamecube, Wii, Xbox 360 and i'm all grown up. damn, there is of course games like Pokemon, Tetris and Point Blank....too many to remember.

 

[Yarpie]

Oh wow, so many of them. Most Mario games for the NES and SNES, the original Sonic games for the Mega Drive, Gunstar Heroes, Turtles in Time, Age of Empiers 1 and 2, Warcraft 3, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 and the list goes on and on. It's damn near impossible to remember all the ones I played growing (must be in the hundreds) but there you have a few examples.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Final Fantasy VII.

Still a favorite from 5th grade.

 

[gamer_parent]

I still go back on occasion to play my old 16 bit era games whenever the fancy strikes. In fact, I still play TMNT: Turtles in Time on my DS whenever I just need to burn 15 minutes.

to be fair, plenty of games don't really hold up after such a long time. The prime example for me was the Legend of Kage. It was fun when I was kid, and in it's own way it's still a lot of fun, but there wasn't enough there that really warranted a remake. (Which they did make, and it tanked)

In some games cases though, the flaws of the system become far more glaring when you can actually see the designers use old design practices that just weren't very good even durin it's time. i.e. the transformer game on the NES was REALLY awful.