Who doesn't love to reminesce about the days when video games had those hyper-realistic 8-bit graphics?
Although the definition of "classic" may vary, I'm kind of interested in seeing what games other people loved while growing up. As it is, I live near one of the largest classic arcades in America (possibly even the largest), and I still have my Sega Genesis, so I can still enjoy a ton of classic games.
My personal favorites:
Excitebike
Mortal Kombat
Atari Star Wars
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Super Mario Bros. (I- III)
Pinball (many machines, ranging from Addams Family to Playboy)
Most likely many more that I can't think of at the moment, too. Anybody else?
Megaman 1 all the way to Megaman X3.
Oh, and don't forget Rocket Knight Adventures and Streets of Rage.
NINTENDO:
Megaman 1 - 5
Super Mario 1 - 3
Dragon Warrior 1 - 3
Zelda
Final Fantasy
Jaws
Track and Field (with the running pad)
Quote from: IshmaylTrack and Field (with the running pad)
If real life people ran as fast as you could make that guy run, they would have a heart attack at the finish line. Those were the days. I still have mine. :)
Sonic was fantastic. And Shadowrun on the Genesis was a great game! Played it many many times. Wish I still had Genesis just for that game.
Okay, and now I will show how old I am.
River Raid on the atari
Adventure on the atari
There was a Shadowrun game for Genesis?!
Must....
Avoid.....
E-Bay......
Don't tell me no one's played Rocket Knight Adventures for the Genesis!
EDIT: I believe there's a sequel or something to it for the SNES called Sparkster... but the Sparkster game is a fair bit different from RKA.
I love Rocket Knight Adventures!
Other favorites are Doom, Doom 2: Hell on Earth, Panzer General, Sonic the Hedgehog (2, 3 and Spinball, never played 1), Super Street Fighters, a bunch of other Genesis games that I forget, Super Mario World, Super Smash Bros, Kirby's Dreamland, Pacman.
Sonic and Zelda!!!!!!
I ruled at Space Invaders. F***ing ruled.
Ms. Pacman:
Proof that you could make a new hit game by changing one minor detail of an existing hit game. Tetris designers apparently took note.
Quote from: sdragon1984There was a Shadowrun game for Genesis?!
Must....
Avoid.....
E-Bay......
Yeah it was awesome. You ran around the streets doing missions and then when you found a terminal you could jack in and cruise the net. You bought various programs to hack, defeat ice, download files, etc. It was so flipping cool. It was one of the few video games I actually finished.
This page talks about it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun_(Sega))
Quote from: RavenspathQuote from: sdragon1984There was a Shadowrun game for Genesis?!
Must....
Avoid.....
E-Bay......
Yeah it was awesome. You ran around the streets doing missions and then when you found a terminal you could jack in and cruise the net. You bought various programs to hack, defeat ice, download files, etc. It was so flipping cool. It was one of the few video games I actually finished.
This page talks about it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun_(Sega))
That really
does sound awesome! Are you
trying to get me to spend money I don't have?
And yes, I see that page talks about it. Starting right in the fifth post :p
Megaman 3
Super Mario Brothers 3
Dragon Warrior
(Super Nintendo version of) Sim City
Quote from: sdragon1984Ms. Pacman:
Proof that you could make a new hit game by changing one minor detail of an existing hit game. Tetris designers apparently took note.
It's worth noting that Pac Man kept running the same maze over and over again, while Ms. Pac Man intoroduced the concept of new mazes on different levels to the franchise, or at least that's what I think I remember my dad telling me.
Pac Man, if I remember correctly, did have multiple mazes, although more levels then mazes.
The most innovative aspect of Pac Man, for it's time, was that it actually had a limited number of levels (I believe 500), whereas the games before it simply continued to increase in difficulty, with no set end.
Necromantic powers abound!
I've been playing a lot of Doom lately, as well as mods for Doom II, which I use Freedoom for.
Funny you should mention this. I'm runnign DOSBox right now ( a DOS emulator) and playing through magic carpet. Game gets insanely difficult after the halfway mark, it's like every map now begins with you floating in front of a dragon who will pummel you unless you run away in 2.43 seconds. I'm also playing Baldies, and the computer players totally cheat.
I think I'd be here all day if I started listing old games I liked though. Overall though, I'd say the Ultima series was probably what got me started in World Building.
Lesse... Most of my earliest were gameboy games...
Tetris
Mario
Some sort of racing game, don't remember the name...
Stargate (didn't understand it at the time, and now that I can understand it I can't find it!)
And the only real arcade game I was ever exposed to as a kid, in the local PIzza Hut
Marvel Vs. Capcom
My first games were on my commodore 64.
- Pole Position
- Jupiter Lander
- Seawolf
- Impossible Mission
Ah the good old days. I especially liked impossible mission. That game was a classic among classics.
I just realized - most of these games mentioned are no arcade games.... is that just a thing that younger people are now calling classic console games?
Quote from: IshmaylI just realized - most of these games mentioned are no arcade games.... is that just a thing that younger people are now calling classic console games?
Depends. Is it available strictly as a console game? I know for a fact that Primal Rage-- one of the most under appreciated SNES games-- had an arcade version, so I could see it getting mentioned here. However, even ignoring the term "classic", I sincerely doubt most current games would get mentioned here. Why? Well, can you imagine how much time and money (in quarters, of course) it would take to play, say, Halo 3, in the local arcade?
As a vaguely related sidenote, I consider arcades to be roughly in the same category as drive-in theaters: a cherished relic of a bygone era, which happens to be slowly and sadly falling into extinction.
Quote from: Sdr$g$n1984Necromantic powers abound!
I've been playing a lot of Doom lately, as well as mods for Doom II, which I use Freedoom for.
Nothing compares to Doom 3 man. Reimagining of the original with more up-to-date graphics/story/etc.
I'm still having nightmares, and I want to play again.
With the lights off.
Headphones on.
Cranked.