What You Grew Up Playing

Da Pickle Monsta said:
I wish there was a rating for when somebody makes you feel old. I was an undergrad in college when the Gamecube came out, for Chrissakes.

The very first system I had was an NES, and I pretty much grew up with Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3. I never did get an SNES due to my parents falling on hard economic times, so I really didn't play games that much between 1992-1996, when I was one of the first kids in my town to get an N64. Then I was ripping up Super Mario 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and Goldeneye.
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I'll make you feel a bit younger. I started with one of those video pong machines that you connect up to a TV. Moved on to the Atari 2600 (Missile Command and Defender being favourites), and to Commode 64 and Commodore 16. On to Amiga, then PS1, and then Mac. Played a Vectrex for a while - very nice machines. Scramble was particularly good. Regretted not having an NES. I played Super Mario at a friend's house.
 
-Mario series
-Super Smash Bros. Melee
-Street Fighter series
-Ratchet & Clank series
-Crash Bandicoot series
-Donkey Kong Country trilogy (& DK64)
-Pokemon (gen 1 & 2)
-Sly Cooper series
-Star Fox series

They're all still great after all these years :D
 
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My first consoles were a game boy (the original grey brick) and then a SNES not long after, and the SNES has probably got some of my fondest memories. Donkey Kong Country games (especially the 2nd one), Mario Kart and Mario All Stars are the defining childhood games for that one. Didn't actually own many games for it other than that in the day, had quite a few more gameboy games - the ones I played the shit out of were Wario Land, Pac Attack, Link's Awakening, some weird robot fighting game that I got used, knew nothing about and don't remember the name now lol - and of course Pokemon.
 
Games on the Amiga 500 of varying quality.
Like this one:
Looks great, sounds great, has no gameplay to speak of.
We also had an Odyssey 2 (or the european version of it).
 
We talking playing or playing?

The first game I remember playing, period, is the Sims. Had a N64 as a kid too. It was pretty fun.

The first game I put any real effort into was Morrowind.
 
I do have memories of watching my dad playing his Colecovision when I was 3-ish, but my first console that I actually played was an NES. Loved me some SMB1-3 and Duck Hunt.

Although even as a kid I was more of a PC player. I started out with educational games like Reader Rabbit and Number Munchers, but made the leap to Doom, Descent, and Hexen when they came out.

I didn't get really into console gaming until I got an SNES when I was 8. The console was bundled with Super Mario All-Stars/Super Mario World, and I also had the first DKC. I ended up getting the next two when they came out too. I got a red original Game Boy some time before that, though I didn't really get into playing it until I got Pokemon Red.
 
I can recall some of my games, PC played chronologically-ish, I played a lot of vintage games too during my childhood:

When I was five I recall starting up DOS and playing:
  • Mixed Up Mothergoose
Then afterwards:
  • Baldurs Gate
  • Baldurs Gate II
  • Stuart Little
  • The Sims
  • Dinosaur Game, for years.
  • Freelancer
  • RuneScape
  • Half Life: ALL OF THEM
  • Morrowind
  • KOTOR 1
  • Half-Life 2
  • Black and White 2
  • Oblivion
  • Fable
This is when I realised I was a gamer and started sperging out nerdily.
  • Mass Effect
  • Fable 3
  • Fallout 1, 2
  • Fallout 3
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • Fallout NV
  • Skyrim
  • Dragon Age II
  • ME 3
  • X3
  • KOTOR 2.
And then, I realised: I will be a virgin forever.
 
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When I was 10 I played Oblivion and I thought it was the most hardcore shit in the world.
Then I took off my ladies armor and she had a fur bra and I pissed myself laughing
 
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The ones I remember coming back to the most, both as a child and growing up:

Legacy of Kain
Tomb Raider
Spryo the Dragon
Monster Rancher
Super Mario
Pokemon
Devil May Cry
Gex
007 Golden Eye
Diddy Kong Racing
Ecco the Dolphin
Duck Hunt
Twisted Metal
Tekken
Jet Moto
Quake
Resident Evil
Primal Rage
 
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My favorite.
 
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Whiskey Foxtrot said:
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
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Well, I haven't heard this game in about 13 years so, that was way too nostalgic right now. If memory serves correctly, that world was pretty big. I feel like there were exploding boomerangs? If so, I think that explains my explosive preference for years to come.

Mortal Kombat:Trilogy, Tekken 3, Spyro 1-3 (can we talk about how great Spyro was? Goddamn), Crash Bandicoot 1,2,3, CTR, Crash Bash, Turok:Evolution, Darkwatch, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance/Deception/Armageddon (HATED Shaolin Monks), and when I was younger, Humongous Games, my favorite being Spyfox. The second one with Napoleon LaRoach. Pajama Sam was pretty tits too. And Putt Putt. And Freddy Fish. And all of them.

Edit: how could I forget Digimon World 2, 3 and Rumble Arena? No, I haven't played Pokemon. If I did, I probably wouldn't have played Digimon.
 
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My childhood gaming mostly consisted of action platformers like Crash Bandicoot, Rayman 2, Ratchet and Clank, Spyro, and Jak and Daxter. Didnt start playing major adventure games (Zelda and Elder Scrolls) until my tweens, then I really got into Metal Gear in my mid-teens.
 
Ryebread said:
My childhood gaming mostly consisted of action platformers like Crash Bandicoot, Rayman 2, Ratchet and Clank, Spyro, and Jak and Daxter. Didnt start playing major adventure games (Zelda and Elder Scrolls) until my tweens, then I really got into Metal Gear in my mid-teens.
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Holy fuck I forgot about Rayman.
that game infuriated me but I couldn't give up . The one with the jungle levels. I know I'm being very specific.

Did you play that strange Crash Bash looking Rayman game that came out for ps2/Xbox? Can't remember the name.
 
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I had an NES until I was about 12-13. I think the first Final Fantasy, once put into the console, was never removed once. I ended up so into that game that I wrote a story about it in freshman year of high school.

Once the NES died, I had a decent PC. TIE Fighter was the game I spent the most playing.
 
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