Gaming

Minecraft. I've been playing since Beta and host Minecraft servers in my homelab for my friends. I don't think I've gone a whole year without playing it in a very long time.

I'm playing another run of chronotrigger right now. played it on SNES (natively, believe it or not!), Playstation, mobile, pc, Nintendo DS, it's just a fun game with characters I like.

My current meta is to make it to the first time you can travel with the gate key, grind in 65M BC until I've got full screen magic attacks, then happily cruise through most of the rest of the game spamming attacks I have no business having. Later on I get charm and use double charm to get all kinds of nice goodies, finish up all the quests and lavos never saw it coming. Usually by the time I hit lavos I'll have gone through all 3 black omens.

Oh man every now and then I’ll break out a classic for nostalgias sake. In no particular order

1. Super BomberMan
2. MinerVGA
3. Warcraft II
4. Super Mario World
5. City Connection

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I replay Final Fantasy 7 in its entirety (including Gold Chocobo and both WEAPONs) every few years. Other than that, I pull out the old NES and fire up some Tecmo Bowl every once in a while, too.

Spyro the Dragon
Playing the reignited trilogy nowadays, but always played them on ps1 here and there.

Smash Brawl. Nothing gets you in the holiday spirit like a ragequitting sister

Commenting because I want to be the change I want to see on the internet.

I try to revisit Kingdom Hearts every few years. Same goes for Metal Gear Solid 3. I play F Zero GX pretty frequently (on Dolphin emulator now, self ripped from a modded Wii). I’ve almost completed every challenge there is on there, only a few staff ghosts left. The speedrun tech in it is pretty compelling. I also “”””speedrun”””” Super Metroid on my laptop in hotel rooms late at night when I’m traveling. I’m not very fast 😥. I’ve been playing versions of Minecraft for most of my life now, I started on version 1.3 ish. My mind was blown when they invented the hopper, so many features in one block. I’ve played vanilla and heavily modded, java and bedrock, alone and with my girlfriend. It’s a special game that will never get old.

Whenever I'm having a bad mental health week I'll do a run through of Psychonauts. Psychonauts 2 was amazing and I've got 103% on it but the original just scratches that itch. Especially Black Velvetopia.

Master of Orion 2…. At least once a year when I’m traveling, I fire up the Good Old Games version of MOO2 on my MacBook. First off, it’s amazingly fun. Second, I can play it on the m1 MacBook for 20-30 hours with music muted and brightness down to 20%.

It’s the perfect game to cross the pacific with, to get over jet lag with.. to forget about crazy meetings in remote places with….

MEKLAR FOREVER!

I always return to Zelda 2 even though it's ridiculously difficult. I also airways replay Super Mario Bros. 3, Final Fantasy 6, and Castle Crashers.

Super Mario 64! I still have a functioning Nintendo64, but I also have the official switch version!

There's not one specific game but every year I revisit at least one game from my childhood. Crash team racing, tony hawk 4, resident evil 4, metal gear solid 3, crash twinsanity, guitar hero 3, cold winter, medal of honor vanguard. I'm thinking of revisiting croc, mercenaries 2, prince of persia, or marvel ultimate alliance this year.

Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask. Was the first console game I ever played, and it holds a very special place for me.

Baulder's Gate Dark Alliance, but it's not a childhood tradition as I'm far too old for that. My wife and I play it every new years eve.

I always used to replay golden sun and the lost age over and over again.

Shinobi III, I still play it often, I played it for a while last week actually. Also Final Fantasy VII, I was 12 when it came out, so it's technically not a childhood game, but I'll name it anyway because I was almost a kid and I still play it every 2-3 years.

Every year I try to revisit some game from yesteryear that I played as a youngster

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1-4, Final Fantasy X, Halo 1, Oblivion, Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey 98', Tekken Tag Tournament, and WCW vs NWO: World Tour are some of my go-tos!

Every system I have had had Tetris on it, even my old flip phone. It’s not as good a phone game as you’d think. I still greatly prefer to play it with a proper controller.

The Secret of Monkey Island!

During a year I will probably replay one of these games: Harry Potter 2 (on PC) Jak & daxter 1 Portal 2 Kotor Gonna have to add Jedi academy to that list too

Every year I do a playthrough of F.E.A.R., the first 4 THPS games, and Silent Hill 1 and 4!

I grew up with WoW and never quit :) playing classic era rn

I like to replay Pokemon Emerald version sometimes! It's fun to make up new challenges in one of the first games I played of the franchise. Those sprites and music are like a mental health cleanser for me

Portal 2! I really wish valve would make make a portal 3, fortunately community mod like portal reloaded exist

I don't think this is what you meant, but I remember the night a friend of my dad's came over and installed Doom (shareware) on our computer with floppy disks. I remember not being allowed to play it at first and then, when I finally was, being mesmerised by it. Up until that point I'd been playing Wolfenstein 3D and thought that was as good as it gets. Textured floors, ceilings, stairs and exploading barrels blew my little mind.

So my tradition is that some version of Doom I or Doom II is on basically everything I have. Android (Delta Touch as I love the voxel mod), Switch, Steam Deck - whenever I have a free moment and want to play something but I don't know what it is, I probably bash out a few levels of Doom.

It's perfect to just pick up and play and for some reason I never grow tired of it... which is weird as I generally don't replay games unless I really like them.

Mario Party and Bomberman are the go-to's anytime me and my out-of-state friends meet up, I would see them at specific fighting game tournaments every year but I've fallen out of FGs so I don't know if they keep it going.
Also not quite tradition but every couple years I replay Xenoblade 1. Just did my 4th playthrough last year.

There's a few too many to name a specific game, but every few months I do try to do a run of one of the NES Mega Man games. Or, for slightly later on, ever since the remastered Quake came out for the Switch I do the occasional run through one of the singleplayer episodes (particularly if I need some semi-mindless distraction and can't be at my comp)

Most times when a friend comes over I play some fighting games usually Street fighter 3.

Used to do the original Ninja Gaiden. 6-2 reminds me why I hate birds.

Around Christmas it's always Quake. Brings me back to my favorite Christmas memories. It was 1996 and playing that on my HP with Intel I processor was magical after playing Wolf3D with PC speaker sounds.

Super Mario World, for me. Donkey Country and Ocarina of Time are probably both close seconds.

I make it a point to play mario 64 ds at least once a year

Master of Magic, Baldur's Gate...

A lot of my childhood favorites are getting remasters.