Just interested to see what everyones favorite games "of all time" are - doesn't matter the system/etc. Here are mine to start Quest/Adventure/RPG type: Sam and Max Hit the Road (PC, talkie version) - a good adventure and the funniest game ever. Phantasy Star (SMS) - I just have plenty of fond memories with this one being my first really long RPG - can't wait for the GBA version! Sierra's Space Quest series Shooters: (man the shooter genre has certainly dissappeared...) R-Type (SMS/arcade) Blood Money (Amiga) Platform: Anything Mario Rayman 2 (DC) Bionic Commando Shinobi Sports: Tony Hawk Pro Skater (any version) NBA Jam (ps) Excitebike (nes) Fighting: Battle Arena Toshinden (PS) Soul Blade/Calibur DOA series I know I'm forgetting and leaving out tons but those were just off the top of my head what about yours?
ATARI _______________ Stampede Pac-Man Frogger Sega Genesis __________________ Sunset Riders Sonic II Lethal Enforcers Sega Saturn _______________ Virtua Cop II Cyberia Virtua Fighter Sony Playstation __________________ Metal Gear Solid Spider-Man Gran Turismo Sega Dreamcast _________________ NFL 2k/1 Sonic Adventure Crazy Taxi Tony Hawk 2 Shenmue Playstation 2 _______________ Metal Gear Solid 2 Grand Theft Auto 3 State of Emergency Tony Hawk 3 Devil May Cry X-Box _____________ Halo Jet Grind Radio NFL 2k2 GameCube ________________ Resident Evil Pikmin Rogue Squadron PC ________________ Half Life Grim Fandango Curse of Monkey Island Return to Castle Wolfenstein Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault The Sims Rainbow Six Full Throttle Outlaws Max Payne Escape from Monkey Island Whew....thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
My top ten of all time(consoles): 1. Castlevania Symphony of the Night (PS1) 2. Legend Of Zelda (NES) 3. Castlevania (NES) 4. Super Mario Bros (NES) 5. Pac-man (Atari) 6. Contra (NES) 7. Super Mario Brothers 64 (N64) 8. Metal Gear Solid (PS1) 9. Silent Hill 2 (PS2/X-box) 10. Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) Personal Favorties that didn't make the list but deserve to be mentioned: 1. The Panzer Dragoon series 2. The Resident Evil series 3. Doom 4. Jet Set Radio (Both games) 5. Rez PC games I would have to REALLY think about....
The only game I will never get tired of playing (AT ALL) is probably Shadowgate for the NES. I can still beat it in under 45 minutes.
Great ones Romier (as usual). My first two consoles: Atari 2600 Adventure (get the invisible dot!) Combat (shoot up the cacti) Defender (better than the arcade IMO) Raiders of the Lost Ark (tse tse flies and time puzzles) NES Castlevania (brilliant atmosphere & gameplay) Kid Icarus (when the lava turns yellow, don't jump in!) The Legend of Zelda (the blue boomerang rocks!) Metroid (Perfection.) Super Mario Bros. (Played this more than any other videgame in my entire life.) Rockman (Megaman) (Outmatches and outclasses every other Megaman in the series) Rygar (bwah bwah bwah!! Kill the Robots in Lapis for quick victory!) Honourable mentions go to: Track and Field, for teaching me how painful blistered fingers can be. Duck Hunt, for teaching me how to shoot a light gun. -j
I will try to stay on-topic with Part 2 of my favorite games, then veer way off topic with some misty eyed memories. Super Famicom Castlevania 4 (Japanese version, blood & nude statues) Street Fighter 2 (the first time I was impressed by an arcade port) Super Mario RPG (go through the secret door to fight the multi-headed beast from a famous RPG) Super Metroid (More Samus goodness) Zombies Ate My Neighbors ("Ants!!") Battletoads (smooth, convincing, flicker-free fight mechanics) Dynamite Headdy (from the makers of the lackluster Stretch Panic? For shame!) Super Bomberman (One morning, after an entire night indoors playing 4-player Super Bomberman, my friend walked outside and his eyeballs literally jumped half an inch forward in his sockets and moved back... he is freaked out to this day.) Yoshi's Island (utterly amazing) Speaking of the lightgun, remember Gumshoe for the NES? I still have that game but I don't have the peripheral. As for R.O.B. -- forget Mario, this Robot was the first real mascot for the NES launch. As for Castlevania 64, what a disappointment. I tried so hard to like this game, I really did. Thank goodness for Symphony of the Night (now OOP) and Circle of the Moon (a game among hundreds I have yet to finish). Joseph
My short-but-sweet favorite list: -Ms. Pac Man (arcade) -Galaga (arcade) -Star Wars (arcade, 1984) -Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES, 1988) -The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES, 1992) -GoldenEye 007 (N64, 1997) -NCAA Football 2002 (PS2, 2001) -Halo (XBox, 2001) There are a bunch of other games I really like (Perfect Dark, and both Star Wars Rogue Leader games, among others), but the ones above are really timeless to me, and are games that I can go back to pretty much any time I want and have as much fun with as I did the first time I ever played them. -mwb-
The game that I have by far lost the most amount of time to: Bard's Tale 3 for the...Commodore 64! An entire summer of 5 hours/day gaming between 7th and 8th grade!
Hummmm... Tough call. Atari 2600 Pitfall I and II (I still pop these cartridges in from time-to-time) Joust Breakout (hopelessly addicting) PC Zork Pool of Radiance/Curse of the Azure Bonds/Secret of the Silver Blades (Gold Box series) Civilization SimCity Doom Xbox Halo As you can see, I took a break from PC/console gaming for a while, but I am back and am loving my new Xbox! Also, one of these days I am going to toss my old PC - currently a P90, 64 meg RAM, 4 meg video card!!! (rocking for it's day) running Windows NT service pack 6 (barely) - and have fun with all the really cool games I have missed out on, so this thread is GREAT! Keep coming with all the good suggestions.
I was always partial to Venture for the Colecovision. Plus all the classic Atari games made by Activision...Pitfall, Freeway, Kaboom, etc. I loved the first Resident Evil for PS1 as well. I did a majority of my gaming as a child on the 2600, Intellivision and Colecovision. I skipped a couple generations before getting back on board recently with an XBox.
1) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - PSX Beat it 14 times and still doesn't get old 2) Doom - PC I still play this game everyday at work 3) Radiant Silvergun - Saturn(Jap) I won's say how much I spent on this game, but it was worth every penny 4) Metal Slug X - Neo Geo Same as RS 5) Sonic The Hedgehog - Genesis Played this game non-stop until Sonic 2 came out, and then after I finished 2 went back and played 1 again 6) Castlevania - NES The one that got me hooked 7) SmashTV - Arcade/PSX Me and my best friend play this until our thumbs go numb, plus you can't beat the Pleasure Dome 8) Dance Dance Revolution MAX - Arcade/PS2 Simple yet challenge 9) Soul Calibur - Dreamcast THE reason to own the Dreamcast 10)WipEout XL - PSX The visuals, the sense of speed, the techno music rolled so perfectly into this game Honorable Mentions: Panzer Dragoon Saga - Saturn The only RPG I can stand to play for any length of time Virtua Fighter 4 - PS2 DEEP and then some Layer Section II - Saturn(Jap) A shooter that I just adore Super Street Fighter II Turbo - CPS2 The KING of the Fighters Dracula X: Rondo of Blood - PC-Engine CDROM You would be in my top 10 if I spoke Japanese and German Contra - NES Step away from the Spread Gun Jet Set Radio Series - DC/XBox These games show you the concept of love and that videogaming is truely an art Halo - XBox Made me a believer in the XBox and that you just might be able to play a FPS on a console Tony Hawk Pro Skater Series - DC/XBox I remember thinking how stupid this game wa going to be, damn I'm glad I was wrong
1. Thief II: The Metal Age (PC) 2. Thief: The Dark Project - Gold Edition (PC) 3. Donkey Kong Jr. (Arcade, Colecovision) 4. Donkey Kong (Arcade, Colecovision) 5. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) 6. Resident Evil 2 (PS) 7. Tomb Raider (PS) 8. Silent Hill(PS) 9. Syphon Filter (PS) 10. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (PS) 11. System Shock 2 (PC) 12. Half-Life (PS2) 13. Ico (PS2) 14. Galaga (Arcade) 15. Ms. Pac Man (Arcade)
-Tetris (NES) -K.C. Munchkin (It was a Pac-Man clone made for Odyssey2, I thought it was better than Pac-Man, It was faster and the dots did not stay still, You had the chase them down while avoiding the ghosts) -Super Mario Bro's (NES) -MegaMan 2 (NES) -Final Fantasy VII (PSX) -NFL2k1 (DC) -Goldeneye (N64) -Resident Evil (PSX) -Kool-Aid Man (Atari 2600) -Asteroids (Arcade)
Brian L. Hey I had (may still have somewhere) an Odyssey2 too. K.C. Munchkin was great We even had the voice module thing where it would talk to you. here are some more to add to my list Burger Time Spy Hunter (nes) Zillion (SMS) Pitfall (atari) Archon
-Day of the Tentacle (PC) -Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past (SNES) -Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) -Turok: Duinosaur Hunter (N64) -Aliens Vs. Predator 2 (PC) -Grand Theft Auto 3 (PC) (I can't believe how awesome this game is!!!) -Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC) -Return to Castle Wolfenstein (PC)
Some of my favorite Console games. Silent Hill (PS) Super Mario 64 (N64) Jet Set Radio/Future (DreamcastC/X-Box) Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS2) Resident Evil (Gamecube) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) Metroid (NES) The Legend of Zelda (NES) Metal Gear Solid (PS) Medal of Honor (PS) Star Wars: Rogue Leader (Gamecube) Panzer Dragoon Series (Saturn) Tony Hawk 3 (PS2/X-Box) Halo (X-Box) UFC (Dreamcast) I have many others, but these are the ones off of the top of my head. -Dean-
Oh man, bad topic for me, I've played way too many games... Intellivision: - Utopia (THE king of RTS games ) - The second D&D game, with the goofy purple minotaur Colecovision: - BurgerTime - MouseTrap - Looping! (This is really a guilty pleasure, and the game wasn't that great, but I have fond memories of flying the plane through the little pipes with dripping water) NES: - Shatterhand - Dragon Warrior - Bubble Bobble - Every MegaMan game except 4, which I will always hate :p) - Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link (yes, I really liked this, there, I said it) SNES: - Final Fantasy IV - Earthworm Jim 2 - TMNT IV: Turtles In Time - Link To The Past - Super Metroid - Mario Kart - Super Mario RPG PSX: - Resident Evil 2 & 3 (Never took to the first one on PSX) - Bubble Bobble (The game so great it gets mentioned twice ) - Castlevania: SotN - Grandia - Lunar - Chrono Cross PC: - Gabriel Knight 1 (My favorite game. Ever. Period.) - Gabriel Knight 2 & 3 - The first three Monkey Islands - Police Quest 2 - Freedom Force - System Shock 1 & 2 - X-Com - Planescape: Torment (Best RPG ever!) - Baldur's Gate 2 - SimGolf - Full Throttle - Day of the Tentacle - Half-Life, Counter-Strike, etc. - Thief: Gold - Circle of Blood - Star Control 2 - Quest For Glory 2, Leisure Suit Larry 3, King's Quest 6, and a ton of other Sierra games that make me lament the decline in adventure games. GameCube: - Super Smash Bros.: Melee (If I had willing participants I would play this daily I'm certain) - Resident Evil - More to come, I'm sure
