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Most of us probably grew up playing video games, some of them we forgot or our gaming system ain’t what it used to be. What games bring you back to the good ol’ days when you didn’t know what politics were and couldn’t be bothered to watch the news bc the new ep of Spongebob is on? For me I have to say the Simpsons Game (PS2), the Billy & Mandy Fighting Game (PS2) DK Country (SNES) and NBA 2k14 (PS3, please whatever Deity is out there bring me back to 2013 so I can cheat in 2k again and make my MyPlayer basically just Michael Jordan 😭) and probably Infamous for PS3, I probably played the first game like 18 times fr. What are your faves?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Old Windows hovercraft game

Which one's that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, fogot about Commander Keen, that game was so much fun :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

a classic :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ghosts'N Goblins 🤘

That music always gives me goosebumps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Master of Orion 1, still have that one more turn effect, 27 years later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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".

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Good question. I'm a sucker for games from my younger days anyway, so picking just one is hard. Perhaps something like Dangerous Dave

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BioShock baby! It has story, killer environment, lore....everything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Quake, C&C, SimCity, and Civilization for me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quake, Civ 3 and Serious Sam for me. So glad I grew up on PC games

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First ones for each, right?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The Jak and Daxter games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ARK: Survival Evolved

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Project IGI , Desert Storm , Vice city !

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Metal Gear Solid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For some reason its NBA street vol. 2, funny because i dont even like basketball. Chrono trigger too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

SSX3 and Tony Hawks 1-4ish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Age of Empires 2. I listen to the soundtrack several times a year.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Minecraft, GTA V and ARK Survival Evolved, those were the times!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like minecraft, can't enjoy it now, but it makes me nostalgic whenever I play with my 7 year old brother.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Final Fantasy (NES) for consoles.

Virtua Fighter for arcade cabinets.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i'd say that tenchu: silent assasin 2..the best game ever for psx (tatsumaru best boy)

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