So I was talking to my brothers yesterday, and we got on the subject of technology. We started to talk about games, and we talked about a game I have not seen in years... MDK! for those of you who don't know this game, it is probably one of the best 3rd person shooters, and a great classic! I remember playing this game when I was 3 or 4, and now I am 18 reliving my childhood! The game is on steam, but you have to get some stupid texture pack in order for it to work. gog.com has it working right off the bat and its $6 instead of $10. Basically, I want to ask you guys, what was your childhood game(s) or games you played that introduced you to the video game realm? Mine were MDK, nanosaur, and E.V Nova.

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Did you have a game you used to play in your childhood?

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Yes, I did
No. I did not get into videogames until later in my life

Hm. Crystal Caves. Tunneler. Scorched Earth. Grand Prix Circuit. Those Summer/Winter Games. Goblins. Doom of course :o)

e - Ski or die. Sokoban. Covert Action. -Oh man, would totally forget Prince of Persia and Golden Axe.

I THINK the first game I ever launched was Scorched Earth. We got our 386 from a friend of father's so it had a plenty of games already on it.
I also watched my father play a lot, he was much better at Prince of Persia and Doom than me.

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until now, I completely forgot about the fact that I played Winter Games to death (except the ice skating ones, I disliked those; but I knew a glitch that caused the skater to pirouette non-stop until time ran out, so it wasn't too bad)

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I guess it was things like Grim Fandango, Broken Sword 1, Age of Empires 1, Need for Speed 3, Commandos. I bought Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle during summer sales because of nostalgic reasons.

Yes and also Sokoban on my first 286 computer.

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I cant really remember the game(3 different region, red/yellow/blue if not wrong and about space battle with air and land units and there is a unit that only stomp the floor with his 3rd stage)... But I remembered B.O.T.S and Warcraft III.

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Another World
Sensible Soccer
Sonic the Hedgehog
Super Mario
Street Fighter II
Mortal Kombat
Prince of Persia
Golden Axe
The Legend Of Zelda
Tetris

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Twilight World for the Atari 800XL

Watch the cover art for the datasette (loading long time) and the in-game screenshot.

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I started playing on my uncle's pc with DOS in early '90s at games like The Winter Challenge, Stunts, Prehistorik 2, Gorilla.
When we got our own pc at home in 1998 I used to play Diablo, Total Annihilation, Worms 2, Little Big Adventure 2, Quake 2, Rayman 2, Doom 2, Age of Empires 2... a lot of 2 :D

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  • F-Zero
  • Super Mario World
  • Super Mario RPG
  • Deus Ex
  • Serious Sam
  • Stronghold
  • Dungeon Siege
  • Myth 2
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When I was really young, the first ever game that I played was Super Mario World on SNES. We had some other games on it, but I pretty much played just SMW. A few years later I was introduced to PC gaming with The Sims. We didn't even have internet access yet, we got it about a year later after Sims.

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1980s Console: Super Mario Bros. Kid Icarus. Zelda. Konami Track & Field 2
1980s Computer: Wizardry I, Dark Castle
Early '90s Console: Sonic. More Sonic. Even more Sonic. I'm sure there were other Genesis/Megadrive games, but, SONIC Mortal Kombat
Early '90s Computer: Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, Pool of Radiance, Might & Magic 2, Wizardry Gold, Dune II, Wolfenstein 3D
Turn of the century Console: Tekken 3, Soul Calibur, Colin McRae Rally,
Turn of the century Computer: Planescape Torment, Heroes of Might & Magic III, Baldur's Gate, Duke Nukem, Carmageddon, Diablo, Escape Velocity, Wizardry 8, Championship Manager, Max Payne

Honorable Mention: Tetris and super mario land, kinda

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Oh gosh, ok, let's see....

Vector Man
Sonic 3D Blast
Slave Zero
Carnivores
Carnivores 2
Canivores Ice Age (never got to play city scape :,()
Super Mario World 2
Super Mario 64
Halo Combat Evolved
Phoenix Wright
Final Fantasy V
Sonic Pinball
Some weird game that had you looting a castle and idk but from win 98 era
Silpheed
Star Fox
Star Soldier
Pokemon Fire Red
Golden Axe II
Phantasy Star II
Altered Beast
Various games from the stickdeath website
Front Mission 4
Ski
Etc etc

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There are too many games I grew up with but my favorite was Bomberman

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My childhood has been erased, so none.

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Thief <3

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Yes, these have been very good, I liked especially Dark Project 2 a lot, however too new for being my childhood experiences.

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I'm pretty young (7th October I will have 21 birthday) and Thief was my first game that I played on my own pc. Probably that's the reason why I love stealth games so much

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Megaman & X Series, Final Fantasy ones, C&C , Doom & expansions , Prehistorik , oh ,the memories!

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Carmageddon 2
NFS Porsche Unleashed
NFS Underground
NFS Underground 2
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas

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Too many to remember :) I grew up inthe 80's so mostly played games at arcades, so I'll list some arcade games I used to like playing:

Pac-Man/Ms Pac-Man
Scramble/Super Cobra
Space Invaders
Gorf
Asteroids
Frogger
Dig Dug
Mr. Do
Robotron
Crazy Climber
Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr
Bubbles
Galaxian/Galaga
Rush 'n Attack
Paperboy
Spy Hunter
Pole Position
Rampage
Punch Out
Burger Time
Gauntlet
Star Wars (the old one with vector graphics)
G-LOC
TMNT Arcade Game
Golden Axe
Hard Drivin'
Double Dragon
Centipede/Millipede
Defender
Joust
Tempest
Operation Wolf
Afterburner
Thunder Blade
Altered Beast
Super Sprint/Super Off Road
Ninja Gaiden
Strider
Ghouls n Ghosts

edit: also a whole bunch of pinball games I won't bother listing :)

I could go on forever... I'm surprised how many I am thinking of :) Thanks for the memories.

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where is metal slug? XD (Digdug and digdug 2 are awesome! :D)

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There are so many more games... don't get me started! :P

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Baldurs Gate (both ot them), GTA 2, Heroes 3, Diablo II , Warcraft II, Broken Sword and Tibia
Funny mix, isn't it :P

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I'm too young to have "games from my childhood"
(hashtag)Being17AintEasyDawg

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Just think, in 20 years you'll be looking back at the games you're playing now as historical relics :P

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Defender (Atari 2600)
Who Dares Wins 1+2 (c64)
Davids Midnight Magic (c64)

Good times ^^

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E.V. Nova was great. Metal Slug was also great fun in arcades. Sonic was a huge part of my childhood (yes, I do die inside when they announce another game, but Generations was good so at least I got some good nostalgia out of it) and Deus Ex (the first one) was when my gaming tastes matured. I'm sure there are more, but for starters, there's those.

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Childhood, huh. Most played:

  • Need for Speed: High Stakes
  • Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
  • Small Soldiers
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert
  • Twisted Metal 3&4
  • Tekken 3
  • Quake 2
  • Half-Life

Don't really remember the others. There were plenty of good PS One games.

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Counter-Strike

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I played a lot of games as a child but my favorite where always Final Fantasy series and i have spent lots and lots of hours in them.
I have finished 4,5,6,Tactics,7,8,9,10 and played 1,X-2,12,Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII.Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII,Dissidia.
I also like a lot Kingdom Hearts 1&2 because they have FF characters in them.
From all those i want to play again 7,8,9,10 because i absolutely love these games but i have a huge backlog and i try to play games i haven't played before.

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Pokemon Sapphire/ Emerald and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team / Explorers of Sky. Played those games so much, and replayed the stories probably a half dozen or more times from beginning to end. Loved those games so much.

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