I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!
The Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge for the Nintendo Entertainment System was my first big console game (I played some crappy DOS games on Windows 3.11 before that), but I remember getting a SEGA Genesis with Sonic 2 when I was around 10 years old and being blown away by the graphics and game quality.
I had played Sonic 2 on the SEGA Game Gear since my 9th birthday, but I became a lifelong fan of Sonic the Hedgehog ever since I got to play the Genesis version (I’m 39 now).
I replayed that game so much, it’s one of my core memories of my summer vacations as a kid.
The end of Twilight Princess is permanently embedded into my mind. Just the silence of Ganondorf standing with the sword plunged through his chest is incredible and a little haunting at the end of that game.
That, and when my dad showed me DOOM. That was a good day.
so cool. when i found the romero head in doom 2 it was insane :O
Twilight Princess is still my favorite Zelda game. Time to dust off that Wii.
Late to the party, but probably playing Battlefield 1942 for actual HOURS. Such a great game
There was nothing better than 4 player split screen for Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64
edit: seconded only by 16 player Halo LAN parties in the early 2000s
Playing Super Mario World on the SNES as a kid.
Not sure if I can pick one:
- 4-player Mario Kart 64 with siblings
- Command and Conquer Red Alert, Red Alert 2, and Generals with my dad and brother
- Halo 1 and 2 co-op campaigns with my brother
- 007 Nightfire multiplayer with my brother
i played so much generals with my friends multiplayer
Going to Toys R Us with my friend just to play the SNES Donkey Kong demo.
Man, I have such vivid memories of going to Toys R Us for the first time (and subsequent times after that, honestly) and being in total awe that the entire store was dedicated to kids’ stuff. It’s really sad that kids won’t get to experience that anymore… I know tech is at the forefront of entertainment, regardless of age, but I would wager any kid would love the same kind of toys we had just as much.
so cool hahaha i loved going to the supermarket just to play the free terminator game, but there were other kids there too so i never playe4d too much
Sneeking into my brother’s room when he was not at home, playing Super Mario World, Secret of Evermore and Metal Warriors on his SNES. Lovely memories!
This will make me sound young but beating KOTOR on Xbox. It was literally years in the making because I was 6 when I started it and maybe 9 when I finally figured out how to progress to the end and defeat Malak with grenade spam of every single one I saved the whole campaign. Man I was in heaven
The Legend of Zelda. So many amazing, visceral memories associated with that game- cracking open the package and gawping at the golden cartridge, leafing through the manual, looking at the paper map while running around in game, exploring, sweating through the labyrinthine later dungeons, hacking my way out of a like-a-like, braving the graveyard for the magic sword, the music… It was like 35 years ago and it’s still a helluva thing.
so cool… unfortunately i didnt play it growing up, i missed out
It’s not a good one but the first time I felt existential dread was playing Missile Command in the Atari 2600. I was about 8 and realized that the game only ends when all of your cities are destroyed and life is extinguished. No matter how I tried or how good I got the game would end in a devastation.
On a good note, I remember skipping a party to play ocarina of time. I thought I would regret skipping the party, nah. OoT was and is still better.
yeah i loved skipping forced things to play games as a kid haha
Playing Final Fantasy VII as a kid and realizing that video games had reached a level of storytelling on par with film or books.
My cousin and I were playing Monopoly on NES. The computer player offered us a trade. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but it wanted Boardwalk from some other property we had no use for. We declined the trade and console immediately reset. It still makes me laugh realizing the game rage quit on us.
haahhaha its my way or the highway!
Playing Dungeon Master, and Eye of the Beholder series on my Amiga.
Staying up late at my friends house on a school night, trying to finish Kingdom Hearts while eating WAY to many cheese puffs and root beer. Ended up asking her older brother for help on one part of the final boss but we got it eventually.
