Fondest memories of gaming (non-MMO)
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Descent was hardcore.
I really liked those early book games. Nine princes, rendezvous with rama, Fahrenheit 451, there were a few others. F451 was the best I think, it had absolutely nothing to do with the book. Lol. Which was neat because that made it an actual game. It was like zork with pictures.
It is very dark.
You have been eaten by a grue.
Honorable shout out to tropico. That game is one of the better train set games I've played.
I really liked those early book games. Nine princes, rendezvous with rama, Fahrenheit 451, there were a few others. F451 was the best I think, it had absolutely nothing to do with the book. Lol. Which was neat because that made it an actual game. It was like zork with pictures.
It is very dark.
You have been eaten by a grue.
Honorable shout out to tropico. That game is one of the better train set games I've played.
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PC side it was building my first rig from scratch with my Dad (an intel 4x86dx 100) and playing Ultima 7 and Daggerfall and so much shareware for God knows how many hours. A close second was building my first system myself with my own money. An overclocked Intel Celeron 300A to 450 with a Matrix 2d card and 2 SLI 12 meg Voodoo 2s in a full tower case with an ultra SCSI controller for the hard drive and cd burner on a 20in flat CRT. This was mainly for Quake, Unreal and all the games that came out on those two engines (not to mention the Glide version of EQ).
Console side was getting to play an early version of Mario 64 at either Comdex or CES. I think I was 14 at the time and realized that games would never be the same after that and I immediately started saving for the at the time Ultra 64. It finally came out a week or so after I had gotten my drivers license and I remember getting a lot of dirty looks from the people who didn't preorder it and was actually nervous walking to the car with the system and games in a fairly shitty part of town. My brother still won't let me forget he got all 120 stars a month before I could beat that damn clock tower 100 coin star.
Console side was getting to play an early version of Mario 64 at either Comdex or CES. I think I was 14 at the time and realized that games would never be the same after that and I immediately started saving for the at the time Ultra 64. It finally came out a week or so after I had gotten my drivers license and I remember getting a lot of dirty looks from the people who didn't preorder it and was actually nervous walking to the car with the system and games in a fairly shitty part of town. My brother still won't let me forget he got all 120 stars a month before I could beat that damn clock tower 100 coin star.
Vandyn
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A big part of my childhood back then was reading gaming magazines, specifically Game Players and Video Games/Computer Entertainment and then later on, Game Informer. Game players was great because they had guides (with screenshots) for many games in the early nineties. The VGCE reviews were (to me at the time) pretty in-depth from stuff like PC adventure games to NES games (I remember a pretty scathing one for Back to the Future 2&3 for the NES). I wish I had kept some because you really can't find any of that stuff anymore. I was strictly a console player at the time (although I did own a C64) but reading those magazines really got me into wanting to play PC games although there was no way we could afford one at the time. I really didn't get my first PC (piece of garbarge Compaq machine) until around 1998.
Mures
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Yeah, I can remember the first time I played Mario 64 at Toys R Us and was just completely blown away. Game truly was revolutionary.
Woefully Inept
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Haha same here. There was a Toys R Us right across the street from the community college I was going to at the time. Yeah I spent a lot of time in that Toys R Us. lol
bixxby
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Nothing gay about a young man in a bathhouse full of nude men.
Working designs rpgs. Why hasn't someone bought up those licenses and rereleased them, i wanna play some dragonforce.
Vandyn
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I remember the first time I played an NES game. It was in this store in the NY area called Crazy Eddie (which has since gone out of business and owner went to jail I think) and they had this setup where you could play a number of early NES games. I remember going over there every couple of days and playing balloon fight and duck hunt. I thought it was the most amazing thing ever (since all we had to go on at the time was atari 2600 graphics) and wanted one so bad but wound up getting a SMS first because it was cheaper. I didn't get an NES to about a year after that.
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Yeah buddy. BF 1942 was the most adrenaline pumping pure extacy of fun you could ever hope to find in a game.
Big shout to Battlefield Vietnam also. Going 64 and 2 with the Russian helicopter was good times.
FINALLY beating TMNT on the NES. I had every level but the last one memorized. Those fucking flying ghost guys at the end were such a bitch.
Adebisi
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Staying upallnight playing 4-player Golden Eye on the 64 with friends. Second TV for FF7 or for an R-rated movie playing in the background. Eating so much junk food you thought you were going to puke.
If there was a computer with internets, someone would be on MIRC downloading porn.
If there was a computer with internets, someone would be on MIRC downloading porn.
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I think the last FF game I played was 3/4? It was still very much out of the way of what I wanted to do. All I remember is getting lost and some cococococobos. I would guess the next that I remeber is 7? The dude with the big sword. I recall a subway or something in it.
Even though it was a pile of shit, I always wanted that solar flare red nintendo thing that they came out with. The first game was Mario tennis or some shit. It was "3d" and you looked in the view goggles.
My basic weekend/sunday was watching "Koz Zone" or wrestling and trying to beat some random ass game for countless hours. Even with all the previous memories of shit and video games... trying to figure out Jurassic Park on snes (I think).
Raptors, bolas as weapons, tranq darts, night vision in the sheds... I would play that game for ten hours and not have 1 fucking clue what do to next. Ohh you died... restart. Tough shit. What was I doing? I had no idea but I had an egg after five hours.
Later finding out that someone can speed run it in 17 minutes or whatever it was a realization of not knowing what the fuck was going on for years.
Just like everyone else in this thread, I can kick your ass in mario cart AND golden eye. Don't even try to pretend to beat me, it won't happen.
Even though it was a pile of shit, I always wanted that solar flare red nintendo thing that they came out with. The first game was Mario tennis or some shit. It was "3d" and you looked in the view goggles.
My basic weekend/sunday was watching "Koz Zone" or wrestling and trying to beat some random ass game for countless hours. Even with all the previous memories of shit and video games... trying to figure out Jurassic Park on snes (I think).
Raptors, bolas as weapons, tranq darts, night vision in the sheds... I would play that game for ten hours and not have 1 fucking clue what do to next. Ohh you died... restart. Tough shit. What was I doing? I had no idea but I had an egg after five hours.
Later finding out that someone can speed run it in 17 minutes or whatever it was a realization of not knowing what the fuck was going on for years.
Just like everyone else in this thread, I can kick your ass in mario cart AND golden eye. Don't even try to pretend to beat me, it won't happen.
Playing Final Fantasy 3 and 7 for the first time.
Discovering Ogre Battle.
Mario Kart
Golden Eye
Playing Battlefield 1942 at an internet cafe with my brother for the first time
Discovering Ogre Battle.
Mario Kart
Golden Eye
Playing Battlefield 1942 at an internet cafe with my brother for the first time