Best childhood game?

[NixXSkate]

Super Mario RPG, FF3, FF7, FF8, Parappa the Rapper, Legend of Zelda

[ninjaKIWI]

Commander Keen, Skifree.

[samurai7694]

Rayman 1 (PC), Mortal Kombat II (Sega Genesis), Super Mario/Duck Hunt combo (NES includding Zapper), Stitch Experiment 626 (PS2), Super Mario Bros Deluxe (GBC) and Pokemon Red (GBC)

[Betsy7Cat]

Kirby 64, Pokemon Stadium, Super Smash Bros., Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask.
And did I mention Kirby 64? (Spark + Cutter = Light Saber = AWESOME!)

Edit (18 hours later): I forgot to mention Pokémon Snap and Hey You, Pikachu!

[kommisar]

If you didn't play Pokemon as a child, chances are you didn't have a childhood.

[JuggaloShows]

best game growing up huh???
lets go by console
Gameboy-Poke'mon Yellow
SNES-Final Fantasy III (one two and three combined)
Playstation-Crash Bandicoot
Nintendo 64-Super Smah Brothers
Playstation 2-Kingdom Hearts
Xbox-Halo
Xbox 360-Call Of Duty 5
Ps3-Flower
PC-Original Sims City

all done

[DarknessXoXLight]

Originally Posted by Hurleyisgod

chrono trigger, snes.

and the best cheat i remember is: heart, heart, cookie, cookie, fish. if anyone knows what game that is from ill let them have my babies.

Is that from Harvest Moon?! It's been so many years. T_T

[SpookG]

Nemo motha****in' dreamland!

[Kage_No_Shi]

Well, Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt on the NES are what really got me into gaming. They were games my cousins had. They also showed me the Game Genie XD

My first game of my own was Sonic 2, which came with my Genesis. After that, I got Super Mario World + the SNES from my dad. I played Mario and Megaman X to death TBH. I actually bought the Megaman X Collection for the PS2 recently (because I only recently heard it existed). I'm so bad at it now XD

I'd say that aside from those introductory games, the ones that changed my gaming path the most are:

Final Fantasy VIII, and X, which got me into the the RPG genre where I stayed primarily for a good while.

Resistance: Fall of Man which is the first game to really get me into FPS (shame I can't play Resistance 2, since between getting the first and the second, I got into PC gaming and using Mouse+Keyboard for FPS games. Made console FPS seem really clunky and unplayable for me ~_~).

GTA III - Gritty introduction to open world games! Though I HAD played Driver 2 before that.

TES IV: Oblivion. Open world fantasy game.....It was just ace. I ended up buying it 3 times XD The 360 version (first time playing it), standard PC edition which was sans DLC (Disc copy), and then the GOTY edition via Steam (cheaper than buying the DLC separate, and much more convenient).

Then I got into the indie scene a bit, and it started with Braid I think. That game had pretty visuals, interesting gameplay, and great music to boot.

Last but not least, years ago I got into Disgaea by picking up the PS2 game Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. I was getting into anime around then, and the graphics appealed to me, and I thought I'd give the game a go, since it seemed interesting....I played that game for something like 250+ hours on the PS2 alone, plus another like 140 on the PSP port....This isn't counting times I've reloaded saves so I can try get an item over and over again and such. I played the Disgaea 2 games about half as much, and D3 about 150 hours or something? I also got into their spin-offs (Phantom Brave and Makai Kingdom). I have two different versions of Phantom Brave (PS2 and PSP copy). If Makai Kingdom got a PSP port, I'd be all over it since I liked it way more than Phantom Brave.

[LongGone]

[NekoGon]

^yes

also pokemon R/Y/B probably

[dAnceguy117]

Originally Posted by DarknessXoXLight

Sonic 3 was my childhood. I'll never forget that damn Carnival Zone music ... or the barrel.

I'm a little late on this, but holy shit the barrel. I first got stuck on it when I was in 2nd grade, and even though I came back to Sonic 3 once in a while, I didn't end up figuring it out until I was in 9th or 10th. I was so relieved once I discovered that everyone else had the same problem. I don't think I've ever felt dumber than when I pushed down and saw the infernal thing start to move.

anyway, Sonic 2 is really more my childhood. haha.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Originally Posted by Betsy7Cat

Kirby 64, Pokemon Stadium, Super Smash Bros., Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask.

Add Pokemon Yellow and Gold and victory is yours.

[RB_Quackies]

I love how as this thread has gone on, people post more and more games each time.. I'll stick to the way it originated and just say the one game that changed my life, OCARINA OF TIME.

[Cavernio]

**** I'm too old for this, all you kids and your new-fangled games. I can't even ****ing find half the PC games I played on the internet, they were some crap some random person made in their basement, and I curse everyday I let my sister throw out the boxes of 5x5 floppies.
We initially had an Apple, then an Apple II I believe. I think the apple had only green as a color.

I liked Evolution first. I started playing that thing before I was even in school. (no, not the gamespot version).
lv 1: Ameoba. You started out as an ameoba and had to collect all these little things while avoiding other moving things. If you hit spacebar, you used a shield that was represented by a bar on the screen.
lvl 2: Tadpole. You were stuck as a frog thingy on the ground inside a lake. You had to jump to collect flies, while avoiding the fish swimming above you.
lvl 3: Rodent. You were a mouse. You had to collet the pieces of cheese while avoiding snakes. The entire screen was covered in 'dirt' that took time to dig through. Only 1 cheese was ever up at a time.
lv 4: Beaver. You were a beaver collecting sticks to put in your dam. you had to avoid the crocodiles.
lvl 5: orangutan. You were an ape at the bottom of the screen throwing rocks at monkeys who were stealing your oranges. I forget how you won that level.
lvl 6: man. You were a man and robots were attacking you. If you beat this lvl, which was very hard for me at the time, you cycled back to amoeba, but this time everything was faster.

I also liked Serpentine (pacman combined with nibbles sorta), Hero, Crisis Mountain (I did find info about that game online...I had a hacked version, a copy of it apparently, another unique game for the era,) and, of course, we had a version of Frogger.
Had tons of shmups too. I liked Wavy Navy the best. Basically it was space invaders, but the ground wasn't flat, it was all wavy, and you were shooting planes and helicopters, not aliens. Each level was named for a rank in the navy, and you rewarded with a different sea chanty as you progressed.

We also had an Atari my uncle brought us one day. California games was awesome, as was Xevious, and Food Fight. Man, I played the real Food Fight in an arcade at PAX east this year, and boy did I suck. I used to be able to get to lvl 50 on the the Atari, and I was lucky to get to lvl 10 a few months ago. We also had ET. ET was not a good game, but my sister got pretty freaking close to beating it. I'm sure she completed the phone multiple times.

I got a Nintendo second hand, so was already, like, 10 when I played a bunch of it. Zelda and Dragon Warrior were faves.

Oh, and i can't forget the text adventures. Those_were_awesome! Unforutnately most of those we had were semi-corrupted disks, but we did have a Treasure Island one that worked well, we had Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (which I could never seem to get anywhere in because I could spell 'analgesic'), and we had *THE* original Castle Wolfenstein. There was like a 1 and a 2, and they were text adventures too. I didn't play them much, but my brother beat them. Then we also had Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, where you were actually someone walking around, and you had a gun. That game was tough as nails.
Ah, I forget, we also had a game that terrified me called Aztec. You had to escape this place, but it was a maze whose map didn't stay the same from one play to the next. Every second room was a trap, like the ceiling would slowly come down and kill you, or you'd slowly drown as water rose. There were Aztec's weilding machetes, and man-eating plants, and all the high-pitched sounds were terrifying, I liked to watch my brother and sister play.

[Sakish]

Shadow warrior anyone?

[VarleyisDance]

Golden Axe, Sonic 1 through Spinball, Knuckles, and 3D...and of course NHL 94 all Sega

[sakura080789]

meh pokemanz 1st and 2nd gen

[zadkiel91]

super mario rpg or legend of zelda. I really don't know which one to choose. Those games defined my taste in adventures and rpgs like no other games have.

[twitchywindowbreaker]

Pokemon, All Mario Games and Banjo Kazooie