Favourite Childhood Games

[Tratorix]

For me it would have to be Pokemon. I was at just the right age to get swept up in that fad and it was great. There were good times, like finally beating the elite four, and bad times, like launching my gameboy across the room because I couldn't catch a frickin chansey, but I must have sunk over a hundred hours into the original red version alone.

What games do you remember playing to death as a child? Ah, pointless nostalgia!

[Kekvit Irae]

First game I ever played was Zork, when I was around 6. I didn't know what I was doing, but I loved it all the same.

[Togakure]

The first video console we got as kids --long before personal computers--was of course, Pong! It plugged into the TV, had two knobs, displayed two white lines and a bouncing white dot against a black background, and provided hours and hours of fun.

Funny how we could derive so much pleasure then from something that would be utterly, laughably boring now.

[Caius]

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine FTW!

[Martok]

Pitfall.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I second everything about Pokemon!

I also liked FIFA 98, it had a really cool feature where you played 5-a-side indoor games, not seen it in the series since.

Also FIFA Soccer Manager 97, it had a (sort of) 3D match engine, and it took till FM 2009 for them to replicate that, 12 years later! Plus you could design your own stadium and see it as the match played out, fantastic!

Others include the Age of Empires series (so many hours on scenario builder), Red Alert 2, plus quite a few I probably forget.

I was so excited when I found out about MTW as well, it was quite a while after it came out I think, but I had never heard of the TW serious before and I couldn't believe the size of the armies.

Ah, so many memories... :dreaming:

[CountArach]

Age of Empires 2
Pokemon (of course)
Worms

[pevergreen]

If we talk about first games, Rock and Roll Racing (By the company that is now Blizzard) on the SNES.

If we talk about hours drained, warcraft 3. Still playing it, right now even.

[Craterus]

Also FIFA Soccer Manager 97, it had a (sort of) 3D match engine, and it took till FM 2009 for them to replicate that, 12 years later! Plus you could design your own stadium and see it as the match played out, fantastic!

Actually there was a game called "Total Management" or something a few years ago (2000-01 maybe) and that had a 3D match engine.

For me, the list would be something like:

FIFA 99, Pokemon, Worms 2, CM2, some hockey game for the Sega Mega Drive, Eternal Champions (I played this game to death and still get it out now, it's a masterpiece), had a lot of fun with Micro Machines on the Sega Mega Drive as well.

That's all for now.

[PBI]

The original "Elite" on the Acorn Electron. You needed to load it from a cassette tape taking about half an hour, and if you accidentally hit the break key (which being a rather clumsy child I tended to do quite often) you had to start again. Never did manage to get higher than "Deadly" rating.

On the PC, the original Civ and Monkey Island 2 (took my brother and I about a year to complete it).

[Craterus]

Oh, add Tomb Raider. And Theme Hospital.

[Fragony]

Maze of Gallious, SD Snatcher, Metal Gear, msx2 baby.

[Divine Wind]

Cannon Fodder
Syndicate
Sensible World of Soccer
Chaos Engine
Doom
Tomb Raider
Theme Park
Final Fantasy VII
Sim City
Monkey Island
Shogun
Dune
Red Alert
AoE

Great games, great memories

[CrossLOPER]

Lode Runner: The Legend Returns.

[naut]

Civ II
Unreal
Red Alert
Warcraft II
Age of Empires II

Ah, those were the days.

[CrossLOPER]

Unreal

I played that when I was older. What an awesome game.

[Marshal Murat]

Red Alert - I didn't understand it when I was little, but it was a very cool game that I had alot of fun playing with (Tanya, Cruiser, Typhoon sub, Mammoth Tank!)

Pokemon - The best part of my life was sitting with friends taking turns playing Pokemon Red. It was even cooler when the Stadium thing came out, 3-D attacks, awesome.

Age of Empires - This taught me history. It was spectacular. Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, El Cid, William Wallace, Barbarossa, everything. It was my standard for comparison. It was really why I enjoyed Shogun. Shogun gave you a more down-to-earth look, weather, and tactics. Spectacular.

[Veho Nex]

Duke Nukem 64 and Shogun were my starting games

[Decker]

Hide-'N-Seek
Capture the Flag
Red Rover

oh wait haha

Doom2
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda Orciana of Time
Goldeneye
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (for the 64)

[LittleGrizzly]

I remember a few different games over a few consoles...

Paper Boy (impossible!) Dizzy... and some bike racing game for the commodore 64... took 10 minutes to load up a tape for a game... seems like an eternity as a 7/8 year old.....

Golden Axe, Streets of rage I and II, and the fifa's for the meagdrive...

Then the big ones for me.... some of my favourite games/series.... Shogun and Championship manager 97/98... Shogun my first real experience in online play... taking huge armys up against real people in control of thier huge armys... the tactics needed to outwit your opponent and the team tactics, my schooling and social life took a back burner to this game for a while... and then championship manager was just hours of looking for the next big south american talent, or that little eastern european gem that was going to save your season... what a game!

[seireikhaan]

Pokemon.

Goldeneye.

Pokemon.

Mario 64.

Spyro the Dragon.

Oh, and Pokemon.

[Caius]

I would be happy if I could play some of those games.

[TevashSzat]

For me it would be

Civilization II
Red Alert (Don't remember which one, but its an early one)
Homeworld

[drone]

Tunnels of Doom
Rescue Raiders
Ultima III
Wizardry

[Martok]

Red Alert (Don't remember which one, but its an early one)

The original RA came out in 1995, RA2 was released in 2000.

The first Red Alert is another older game of which I have fond memories. Although technically I wasn't a kid anymore by the time I started playing it (I'd turned 18 several months beforehand), it was one of the first titles I played that really got me into computer games.

[Praxil]

Dune II and Red Alert.

[Subedei]

Wizard of War (with an awesome 2 players feature)
Pitfall (endless fun)
Summer- and Winter-Games (so much competition with friends)
Uridium (my first shoot 'em up)

[Ser Clegane]

The childhood favourites would be mainly from my pre-PC time:

- The Bard's Tale
- Dungeonkeeper
- Garrison
- Marble Madness
- Eye of the Beholder
- Archon 1+2
- Speedball

I am pretty sure that I forgot some games...

[Kralizec]

Age of Empires
Sim City 2000
Theme Hospital
Command & Conquer
Worms
GTA original
Super Mario 1-3
The Legend of Zelda

[TevashSzat]

The original RA came out in 1995, RA2 was released in 2000.

The first Red Alert is another older game of which I have fond memories. Although technically I wasn't a kid anymore by the time I started playing it (I'd turned 18 several months beforehand), it was one of the first titles I played that really got me into computer games.

It must have been Red Alert. All I remember that the campaign was just horrendously hard. One allied mission come to mind where you have a time limit to take out a heavily fortified Soviet base that literally covered 3/4 of the map. Never got past that mission....