THE Game That Defined Your Childhood

[AyreonMaiden]

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, though OoT3D has usurped it as my favorite game of all time.

Lo-fi or 3D, though, there is still no other game world I'd rather live in. Certain music such as Queen reminds me of it because it was what I was listening to the most while playing it. If the sun sits a certain way in the sky, it'll remind me of it. Lazy sundays make me wanna play it. If the sunset looks a certain way, I'll wanna boot it up. I had a lapse of depression upon beating it as a kid. I had a crush on Zelda as a kid. It defined me not just as a gamer, but as someone who is inclined towards stories. I owe a lot of happiness to that game.

To this day I've never beaten it 100%, and I might not ever do so for fear of ending it.

I have a combination fuck-around-do-nothing/3-heart-run file going right now in OoT3D. I've been playing that game in SOME fashion ever since I bought it. How am I not done playing this game?! I'll probably never be done with it!

 

[ResonanceGames]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I was fortunate enough to play a lot of really high-quality PC games as a kid (I wasn't allowed to have a console until I was 14 and got a PS1), but this is the one that really sticks out to me as eating up tons of time. We didn't have internet access or any hints for the game, so it was just my eight-year-old little brother and I plowing our way through, trying to figure the game out.

And I don't think I've ever beaten it to this day. I still have it, I should finish that shit.

 

[Terminate421]

I want them to remake this on the 360.....with XBL matchmaking

 

[EeveeElectro]

Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and Rayman on the PS1.
I was too poor to afford any more consoles so I always went to my cousins/friends houses to play their Pokemon or Mario.

 

[MrShowerHead]

I wasn't actually that into gaming when I was young. Yeah, I got a Playstation 1 for christmas and the first Colin McRae Rally on it. I liked playing it, but...just didn't feel like a gamer at that point.

Until I played Spyro.

Hoooooooly damn that was awesome. That feeling when I completed the first time... I remember running around, my parents wondering what got into me. Was so happy...

Also, Metal Gear Solid to some degree.Played it many, many years ago. Didn't complete it till last year. I swear, I was crying during the credits... With The Best Is Yet To Come (My favorite videogame song of all time, along with Father And Son) playing on the background. It was perfect.

 

[Rule Britannia]

RAYMAN!!!!!
<3 Rayman!

I never beat the original one though :'( I was only 8 or maybe even younger when i had it on my PS1

 

[drag00n3r]

Tekken 3! Heh takes me back for when i was 5 i actually defeated my uncle in that game when i was 7 good times..good times.

 

[liquidsolid]

Spyro the Dragon was the defining game of my childhood. An adventure game with eclectic levels made me the gamer I am today. It also indirectly led to me discovering Sly Cooper when I was a little older that got me into my favorite type of game: Stealth.

Kingdom Hearts was also a big one and it got me into Final Fantasy and really made story one of the most important elements I look for in a game.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

Age Of Mythology: Wrath Of The Titans.
I can still remember the main battle music...and all of the ridiculously silly cheats.

Lazer bears and chicken meteors.

 

[scorptatious]

That would probably be Crash Bandicoot 2. It was my very first video game as a child, and it along with games like Spyro, Oddworld, Klonoa, and Rayman helped me become the gamer I am today.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Sonic the Hedgehog was the first game I can remember playing on the good old Sega Mega Drive. That and the old EA sports titles such as FIFA and NHL 94. I used to play NHL solely for the fights which at that age I found hilarious.

 

[Lord_Jaroh]

Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior. Those got me into gaming, and continue to influence me today.

 

[lord.jeff]

Sonic and Rocket Knight Adventures are the two most played games from my childhood.

 

[chuckey]

Sonic the hedgehog, crash bandicoot, and spyro

and the Simpsons arcade game, on an actual cabinet.

 

[Rheinmetall]

I think it would be "Cauldron." (ZX Spectrum), a mid 80's game.

 

[Joshimodo]

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Also Super Metroid, Mario Bros. 3, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Tetris and Pitfall.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Civilization III and Shining Force. Both of which I'm currently replaying. Pokemon and Rome Total War also make it up there, although they're a bit more recent.

I'm still playing Civilization III. Timeless and addictive games like Civ III appear in the video games landscape once in a decade I think.

 

[Jorec]

Christ that's a hard one. I would have to say Pokemon Yellow, never have I put more hours into anything else before or since getting that game. Not even the newer Pokemon games.

 

[Guffe]

Pokemon Red. It has to be Red, Blue was such a bad game, Red was so much better!

 

[redisforever]

Well, umm, this is a bit different from most that I see here, but Command & Conquer, and Command & Conquer Red Alert.

I still love that *squish* sound you hear when running a soldier over!