Definitely minecraft. It is still my favorite game after a decade of playing it. But aside from that, Spirit Tracks/Phantom Hourglass, Kirby Superstar Ultra and Jak and Daxter.
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I'm showing my age here, but:
- Scorched Earth
- Commander Keen
- Zoombinis
- Encarta maze game
- Old Windows hovercraft game
- Doom II (got a copy from a friend on floppy disk)
Old Windows hovercraft game
Which one's that?
Oh man, fogot about Commander Keen, that game was so much fun :)
Especially Keen Dreams, so fucking trippy
a classic :)
I religiously played back in the day Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland on my ps2 for hours. I'd also play Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and AoE II.
For me it would have to be a whole list of nostalgic games:
Heroes of Might and Magic 2&3 (1996/1999), Might and Magic 6, 7&8 (1998/1999/2000), Day of the Tentacle (1993), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992), Age of Empires 1&2 (1997/1999), Master of Orion 1 (1993), Warcraft 2 (1995), StarCraft 1 (1998), Anno 1602 (1998), Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000), Empire Earth (2001), Gothic 1&2 (2001/2002), Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (1999), Little Big Adventure 2 (1997), Rayman 2: The Great Escape (1999), Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (1998), Fantasy General (1996), Age of Wonders 1 (1999), Incubation: Battle Isle (1997), The Incredible Machine (1993)
I would be very surprised if there is anyone here who knows/has played all of them, some are fairly obscure, others not so much. Some of these are still among my favorite games to this day, others i have not even touched in a very long time. There are plenty of later games that i like more than some on this list but they just don't trigger the same nostalgia. I'm also not including games from this time period that i like but only discovered later such as Baldur's Gate.
But if i had to pick just one i would say it has to be HoMM2. The MIDI soundtrack in that one is my favorite game soundtrack of all time.
Oh man Infernal Machine was my first Indy game as a tiny sprout, picked it up on sake a couple years ago and it still holds up. This was the game that first instilled in me a lust for comically large gems
flashgames mostly, idk if the ones i played on miniclip are even still playable.
On PC, Lego star wars, Simpson's hit and run, NFS Underground.
My cousin had a SNES and N64 and we used to play smash bros 64, mariokart 64, and take turns on Super Mario World.
I completely forgot about flash games. I tried to revisit coolmath games recently, but all of the originals on the site are unaccessible I think, which is very saddening.
Ghosts'N Goblins 🤘
That music always gives me goosebumps.
I bet every comment is going to be so different, and will date each user haha. For me...
- Mortal Kombat II in the arcade, insanely difficult, I can almost taste the strawberry milkshake I'd always be drinking there
- Zelda - A Link To The Past on Gameboy
- an odd one, but the free demo that you got with the original PS, I remember my stepbro and I marvelling at the 3D t-rex / mantaray that we could spin around and zoom in / out of at will. How far we've come
- also for PS, the very first Tekken, and Tekken 2
- going way back, Horace Goes Skiing on my trusty ZX Spectrum. My first console and first game. You had to load it via a tape, and it sounded like an old modem!
MK2 on Arcade is one of the best games ever. Kinda crazy to think of how many secrets and Easter Eggs are hidden throughout such a basic seeming game
Master of Orion 1, still have that one more turn effect, 27 years later.
I still play it occasionally to this day. MoO2 is probably the better (certainly more complex) game but for some reason doesn't have the same charm as the first. The first one really sparked my imagination in a way that almost no other space scifi game has since...
The only one that gave me a similar feeling, albeit decades later, was Mass Effect. Though of course it's a completely different type of game but it triggered some of the same kinds of emotions for me, something i can only describe as "space wonder".
Good question. I'm a sucker for games from my younger days anyway, so picking just one is hard. Perhaps something like Dangerous Dave
Roller Coaster Tycoon
I would design crazy coasters only to be told that it will cause 8000 gigatons of G-force on riders and turn them into pudding
BioShock baby! It has story, killer environment, lore....everything
Quake, C&C, SimCity, and Civilization for me
First ones for each, right?
yup
Glorious! Quake and Civ especially. I remember being so impressed with Civ after seeing it at a neighbor's, that I've started making unit tiles to play at home
Yeah, Civ really sucked me in as a kid, I spent countless hours on it. And Quake was amazing at lan parties, still one of the best FPS games to date in my opinion. It's way more fun than vast majority of FPS that come out today.
Quake was weird for me to comprehend as a kid, I thought it was Doom and no amount of arguing would tell me otherwise, I was like “it’s not a different game it’s a different level of Doom smh”
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Super Mario RPG (SNES) loved it so much. My buddy and I left our Earth Science final early just to finish the game (still passed with a 79 and 80 respectively).
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Street Fighter II World Warriors (Arcade) can still taste the pizza I ate right before I played. My grandpa would take me out to pizza every Friday and gave me 2 quarters to play.
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The original TMNT (NES) I still get anxiety just from hearing the music from the swimming level. But then again I get a great burst of joy from hearing the overworld music. Such an emotionally taxing game.
The Jak and Daxter games.
ARK: Survival Evolved
Project IGI , Desert Storm , Vice city !
Metal Gear Solid
For some reason its NBA street vol. 2, funny because i dont even like basketball. Chrono trigger too.
SSX3 and Tony Hawks 1-4ish
I feel mild nostalgia for a lot of games, but I've got a specific place for Starcraft.
See, I must've watched my brother play Brood War quite a lot, because I had 6 images imprinted in my mind: the in-game sprites and portraits of Zealots, Dragoons, and Dark Templar. I didn't really have the wherewithal to process that these imahes were from a game. It was probably a few years later, when I came across my brother playing it again. I spent an absurd amount of time on that game and the sequel.
Anyway. Hate the game now. I haven't got the energy to spend hours every day honing my reflexes for that ludicrous sack of shit engine. I only ever watch compilations of Artosis getting furious these days.
The final Timesplitters game, almost everything about it's visuals, aesthetic, feel and banger soundtrack hits that perfect nostalgia center.
Unfortunately it was very "of it's time" in it's depiction of female characters, with only the barest fig leaf of early 2000s irony running cover for the objectification.
Oh, and just the entire soundscape of Jedi Knight:Dark Forces 2
Has to be Mario Sunshine (Via Wii) , Mario Galaxy, Kirby's Epic Yarn, or really any Wii game my grandma got us. I still tear up just by hearing the main menu ambience. Mario Sunshine was wild, cause I never really played it as a kid, but my dad did and the imprint was still nostalgic so when I did play it a few years ago in that definitely a scam Mario 3D Allstars it scratched an itch of nostalgia and new experience.
Minecraft, GTA V and ARK Survival Evolved, those were the times!
I like minecraft, can't enjoy it now, but it makes me nostalgic whenever I play with my 7 year old brother.
Final Fantasy (NES) for consoles.
Virtua Fighter for arcade cabinets.
halo: CE. my first game and one of my favorites to this day. the pillar of autumn level gives me a rush of nostalgia every time.
i'd say that tenchu: silent assasin 2..the best game ever for psx (tatsumaru best boy)