Mine had to be Mystic Marathon. I don't know if anyone remembers it but you were in a race aginst other goblins or orcs IIRC and it just got progressivly harder. Very simple game but I was hooked.

Growing up? Hmmm, hard to answer, I played a lot when I was a kid, but I guess I'd have to go with Sonic, Mario, and the old Mortal Kombat games.

[ 11-05-2004, 04:41 PM: Message edited by: Gangrell ]

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">Final Fantasy (NES)</font>.

[ 11-05-2004, 04:08 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

I had a great time playing Zelda: Link to the Past for the SNES.

Never played vidio games. Is this some new trend?

HAHA Timber, picky are we? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Ehm, probably Sonic, it was fairly addictive back then!

Also, FF1 was quite good too.

[ 11-05-2004, 04:43 PM: Message edited by: RoSs_bg2_rox ]

LOL, I first played a video game in 1976. It was called Pong. But, I was all grown up, a surgical resident.

I guess it's Sonic for me.

Shining Force 2-For the Genesis (Mega-drive)

Not my first, definately not the last.

It blew me away, it was the first time I was engrossed in a story, the first time I genuinely cared about characters. The first time I felt like I played a pivotal role in the storyline.

I felt like I was exploring a new world, not some Mushroom Kingdom or Hedgehog-esque techno nightmare. The battles were exiting, required thought out tactics, they punished poor decisions and rewarded good ones.

I bought the game after 7 years of not playing it this year (I had orignally rented it at least 13 times from my rental store as they didn't have it in any of the stores here), nothing in my gaming experience has come slightly close to this game.

http://www.fantasyanime.com/shiningforce/sf2about.htm

This is my favourite game growing up...and now!

Mario!!!

Uhmm Larry :D All old dos computers I had had this game on it. Don't know why but the introducing questions weren't too hard to guess and the game wasn't very hard. Probably not the game I enjoyed or played most.

Think it'll come down to GTA and some rts like C&C and warcraft 2

Mine were Sonic, California Games, and Alex the Kid in Miracle World.

Sega Master System ROCKED!

Doom!

Came out in '93 (I was ten) and I played that game the college's LAN -- my mom was a professor at the time -- for almost three years!

Yeah, I was 11 at my first LAN party... and I haven't been to one since I turned 16! :D

Ooo I loved Califorina Games too, I used to play it on my Lynx. I also loved Aladin on the Super Nintendo.

Super Mario and Bomberman! I still have the NES Games until now. just incase I feel like playing it again.

games in ps1 .. yes im still not old :D . i still remember those old games like sierra like space quest and quest for glory.. ah classics :D .

Chrono Trigger.

I have just very recently discovered the perfect perfecness of the old ugly games from back when you could count the pixels. Pity you can't find them anywhere anymore (legally, anyway). The console versions were better, it's just impossible to play some games with a keyboard. On the actual topic I might add that I love the original Final Fantasy. And the somewhat later Donkey Kong Country series.

Doom rocked as well. I just downloaded the linux sharewware version but it was really easy. I finished 7/8 levels in under an hour and didn't got killed once. Let;s just say i was unprepared with my shotgin against rockets in the 8th level [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Just about any old Zelda games for me!

*remembers a space invaders type game that I programmed myself on my sinclair computer using 'BASIC'* you young uns ;)

You could buy some of them on ebay... my brother just bought an old atari system on ebay and them one at a garage sale too. I still have my old Lynx and was thinking of going on there to look for some cartarges of some of my favorites.

Double Dragon
Spy Vs. Spy
Pandora

All amazing games.

why... Tetris, doh [img]smile.gif[/img]

That's a good one, a classic that never dies.

Edit: Oh and I also liked Marble Maddness.

[ 11-06-2004, 08:31 PM: Message edited by: Maj ]

Well...It depends greatly upon what you call "growing up"...I feel like the industry grew up at exactly the same pace that I did...

I loved Mario Bros when I was very young...and then I discovered Donkey Kong Country a couple of years later...and then I fell in love with Banjo-Kazooie when I was in my prepubescent years...with my teenage years, I discovered Goldeneye and Rogue Squadron...and Baldur's Gate...and nowadays, I would say that I'm almost "grown up" and like too many games to count...

At the arcade? Centipede! And at Home on the Commodore 128? Crystal Castles, Bruce Lee, Karatika, Zorks, Wishbringer and tons more..


http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/games/cc/

gosh...
well it started with some games on the commodore 64 whose names i've long forgotten.
Then it went to super nes games like diddy kong and such
then we got a pentium 90 and it was games like sim city etc
then at school i played sim city 2000, some forest fire game that was supposed to teach you punctuation, spin doctor something, maths dodger.
then we got out computer upgraded to a pentium 166 with MMX!!!!
and Twinsen's Odyssey remains my favourite game growing up/of all time.

Twinsen's Odyssey? I thought no one else remembered those games. Another staple of my childhood that I loved.

Wow... depends on how far back I go.

Space Invaders on the Commodore PET. That was just fun...

It worked on the Commodore 64, too [img]smile.gif[/img] And my buddy had Strip Poker for it as well [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Might & Magic I on the Apple ][e was my first real CRPG, and remains special for that reason. Lost many hours, there, I did...

Bard's Tale III on the 64... a lot more time was spent.

On the PC, all the MM series and a few others.

In the arcades... Double Dragon chewed up a lot of my quarters in college. Then they kept bumping up the difficulty level 'cause we were too good :D And Galaga remains one of my all-time favorites, too.

Almost forgot... Yar's Revenge on Coleco was another favorite way to kill hours of time... :D

The last ninja and Commando on the C-64. Then when we finally got a PC it was Wizardry 7, Civilization, Colonization.