Video Games of the past

I entered the gaming world when I was young, around the time the Nintendo 64 first came out so my oldest games are 'Harvest Moon 64' and 'Diddy Kong Racing', 'Zelda: Ocarina of Time', some real classics. I didn't stick with Nintendo for good, though. My next console was Playstation 2, which I had for many years and still play to this day, and presently, I have my Playstation 3.

I did play the Sega Genesis in my childhood a fair few times, some Power Ranger game or other, but never owned it.

Tell me about your gaming life and personal development with gaming and consoles. What's your favorite 'old' game?

I started back in the time of the BBC's and Amiga 500's.

Some of my fondest memories playing great games on the Amiga such as:

Moonstone
Settlers
Syndicate (A personal favourite)
Turrican
Alien Breed
Speed Ball
Cannon Fodder

Could go on for an age.

Did my time through all the consoles, Sonic's, Mario's and Final Fantasies and finally moved onto PC and Baldurs Gate. That changed my view of what a game should be like forever.

I started on a TRS-80 Model I with 16K RAM and I think the first game I ever played was a game I programmed myself out of the Level I BASIC book that came with the machine. It was called Fire When Ready Gridley and consisted of a solid wall of blocks on one side of the screen in the shape of a tower, a far smaller stack on the other side that I assumed was a small shack, and the object was to input an integer each for velocity, and angle and attempt to hit the shack with another block that was fired from the tower and could only have been a cannonball. 500 lines of code for that.

After that, I think the next game and still a really cool favorite was a hybrid text and graphical trading game called Santa Paravia that was probably a very earlier predecessor of the world building genre. After that, my best friend got an Atari 400 and a game called Thrax Lair, followed by Ali Baba and Loderunner. Meanwhile, back at my house, I had moved up to cutting edge gaming with Zork.

Another friend got an Apple II or something and so everyone crammed his bedroom to play Wizardy day after day as well. But this was when arcades were huge so we actually spent far more time on coin-op stuff and then the Atari 2600 came out and it was all about Combat, Warlords, Air-Sea Battle and Pitfall.

Somewhere in there I managed to never actually play a game of Pong until long after it became legendary. Saw it at the arcade, but by the time I really noticed those machines, they were usually sitting between games like Space Invaders, Wizard of Wor, or Berserk. So needless to say, too little too late.

Went from 2600 Atari to Vectrex (still a fave), to Intellivision, to Colecovision, and then stayed on PCs until Playstation came out. Playstation 2 is the latest and last console I bought, and I bought it for only two games: Gran Turismo and Resident Evil. Also cause I needed a DVD player but since I have BlueRay now it sort of just sits there. I traded the games years ago for a Metal Zone footpedal for my guitars, lol.

My favorite old games? Probably the original Doom with one of the Miller's Crossing/Army of Darkness .wad files added in later. Or TES Arena. Both of which I bought off the shareware rack in some one off computer store and came on something like 5 floppies for $10 each.

I know this is a bit late but I figured I'd post anyways

I started with Sega and played Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe for many years before I moved onto Playstation then Playstation 2 and now finally I have an Xbox 360 and have had it for a couple years now.

I started with the PC- Halo Combat Evolved. Still have it to this day, and experiment with it too. It's amazing because they still have running multiplayer and campaign.

I started on atari,calico vision,, nintendo,sega, turbo graffix 16 wich was awesome cause it used little credit card size games I've always been a gamer and will always be!!!!!

I had and played a nes in the early 90s, but other than mario3, i didn't really get into gaming until I started on the pc in '97 or so. I loved Quake2, I spent a lot of time playing ctf and a mod called "Weapons Factory" (similar to team fortress...it's class based ctf) on my 28.8k modem haha with like 500 ping every match. Been hooked ever since and I still get all warm and fuzzy thinking about playing Tribes or Quake2 online and being a part of those two big, awesome communities in their hey-day. I play on a console now and miss playing on a pc for the most part, but consoles are fine for single player games like Skyrim. Besides, the once huge Quake2 and Tribes communities are long dead and things seem different in online gaming now a days...more and more idiots. so even if I started playing on the PC again, I wouldn't know what new game to start with or if I'd just end up frustrated since it didn't live up to my memories.

Wooo, memories!

I cut my teeth on my sister's Intellivision (if anyone can remember that gem of a console) back when I was about six. I played the HECK out of some Pitfall, it was gorgeous!

Then we got an NES, Mario brothers and Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash. That's about when I realized that I wanted to play games for myself and insisted on my own console. So my parents got me a Sega, and the whole Sonic lineup (plus Streets of Rage, and Bugsy because... wow). And a Game Gear! Oh, the memories.

We came late to the Super NES table, but I eventually worked my way through the Donkey Kong and Mario series, then I sold that for an N64, which was totally worth it because it introduced me to Ocarina of Time!

After that, I discovered how amazing PC Gaming could be, and I leapt into puzzle games, "Wizards of Might and Magic," and the Doom/Quake series. I even attended QuakeCon a couple years in a row. I played the Sims games as well, and joined online communities with Dice Bots so I could play Vampire: The Masquerade online (this was before the actual PC game came out).

When City of Heroes came out I was totally hooked on that, and I still play CoH/CoV/Rogue Isles even now. I worked a few summers in college at Gamestop, which is where I bought my refurbed PS2 and any RPG game I could possibly find (plus most Final Fantasies, ICO, Silent Hill, and the Soul Caliber series).

I primarily PC Gamed my way through college/grad school, playing Guild Wars and CoH, then when the PS3 came out I saved up for it.

Since then it's been all Zombie Games and Historical RPGs. And Superhero RPGs. Ok, basically ANY RPG.

Sweet Lord, I am such a nerd.

Started on Colecovision w/ Atari plug-in (damn I feel old now). Following with every system I owned:

NES, SNES, Genesis, TG16, N64, PS1, GC, PS2, Wii, PS3. Never have and never will own an Xbox.

Also, I still own every single system listed above...never got rid of any of them, and my NES is still to this day ALWAYS hooked up to my TV.

A5ko said:

I started back in the time of the BBC's and Amiga 500's.

Some of my fondest memories playing great games on the Amiga such as:

Moonstone
Settlers
Syndicate (A personal favourite)
Turrican
Alien Breed
Speed Ball
Cannon Fodder

Could go on for an age.

Did my time through all the consoles, Sonic's, Mario's and Final Fantasies and finally moved onto PC and Baldurs Gate. That changed my view of what a game should be like forever.

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Ah yes the Amiga. Although I started on an Atari XE (Encounter, Bridge Raider, Boulder Dash), the good old Amiga was truly awesome. I had both a 500 and a 1200 with a 1.7gb HD and a CD drive (which was epic for the time). Both of my miggies still work, but I also recently (last year sometime) downloaded WinUAE and revisited my old favourite games, all those listed above and many more, Shadow of the Beast, K240, UFO etc etc.

You know that the original boxed Moonstone with discs and manual is worth... like.... lots of dosh, right? The last one I saw on E-bay went for £300.