Post your favorite videogame from your childhood.

My childhood was largely dominated by the PlayStation and the early PlayStation 2 back in the day, though our mall also had a decent arcade back then. Here are some select games I remember fondly from my childhood.

Crash Bandicoot (The original Naughty Dog games)
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Resident Evil (the first three games, plus Survivor and Code Veronica)
Dino Crisis 2
The House of the Dead
Time Crisis
CarnEvil
Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore
Grand Theft Auto III
Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi
X-Men: Mutant Academy
Spider-Man (the PS1 video game)
Army Men series (Yes, I enjoyed these games unironically)
Lethal Enforcers (both the original and the Western-themed sequel)

 

Majora's mask is still my all time favorite game.

 

Shining Force for the Sega Genesis.

 

It's a tossup between Pokemon Stadium, Banjo Kazooie, and Smash Bros. I remember strictly scheduling my mornings so I could get in one playthrough of the Smash singleplayer before leaving for school.

 

It's been over a decade since I lost track of how many times I've beaten that magical bastard. I even have a copy on my 3DS XL because I imported my Ambassador's Pass. If anyone is to blame for me being a raging Metroid fangirl it's the uncle who gave this to me for Christmas in 2002. Damn him.

Starcraft was fun too, but I never really "played" it considering I relied on cheats to win. RTS games have never been my cup of tea. I just liked the story.

 

I didn't play video games as a "kid" but when I was around 16 I got really into Super Metroid, Ganbare Goemon, Megaman X, Morrowind, and The Sims.

 

i really really liked gex (gex 2 for n64) as a kid (and gex 3 a lot). but it was a million times better when you turned the voice off.

... you know, if they didn't include the obnoxious voicing, they could have put in loads of cut stuff from the ps1 version, but noooo.

but n64 had a titanic level that was kind of cool.

 

I played a lot of video games as a kid cuz I didn't have any other kids around, and my family was dysfunctional as all hell.

So I have quite a few that fit this criteria, and still have my old Nintendo and all my games.

Zelda oot and major as (I got majoras like the second day it came out, and I remember a cool cut out of the skull kid and the mask at the gamestop)

Pokemon snap

Pokemon stadium 1 (still remember riding in the car after my dad bought it for me at the old game stop store in town, unable to control my excitement to play it once I got home)

Kirby 64 (recently played through it again)

Yoshis story (rented that game from the movie store all the time)

Harvest moon 64

Super smash bros 64

Banjo kazooie and tooie

Pokemon blue, red, yellow, and diamond

Tetris for gameboy color (I remember my now grandpa commenting how he was happy his little grandkid was playing such an intellectual game)

Gameboy color camera (I brought this to school and fucked around with it on the bus, recording my friends and making weird songs)

Pokemon pinball (played that shit on road trips while it poured rain onto our car)

Animal crossing for the game cube (got it on Christmas and stayed up 'til like 3 am playing it in our living room that night)

Wind waker (got crazy sick in 8th grade and played through the whole game during that two weeks of bronchitis)

Omg the nostalgiaaaaaahhhhh

 

I can't really remember what my favourite childhood game was. In fact, I barely remember what the fuck I used to play growing up, I just wasn't invested in vidya like I am now. If I was to guess, I'd say either Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom, or Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (even though I never owned it until a few years ago, and I just rented it all the time).

 

One of my favorite on-rail arcade shooters aside from Time Crisis.

 

I don't care what anyone else says, Typing of the Dead is the shit.

 

Never got to play it but the very least, HOTD: Overkill has it's own Typing of the Dead game. It may be inferior though if I ever did manage to get my hands on the original Typing of the Dead.

 

I think my laptop has a safety mechanism that causes it to shut off if it (or the table its on) is hit hard enough. When things got heated in Typing of the Dead I started hitting the keys harder until the mechanism triggered.

 

first pokemon game I ever played and it was magical:

 

Y'all young af.

 

metroid prime 1 and 2 were mine

 

The sims 1 and 2 were my childhood loves. Later on, Diablo 2 came into play
*Edit* I also played Black and White a lot

 

First I enjoyed more so than mario

 

I remember way back in my childhood during which time I still had my Playstation 1, but I didn't yet have the Playstation 2. I had grown tired of the original few games I had (a Rugrats game, the first three Spyro games, and a game which I forget) and I was looking to play something else. Rather than get me more games for the Playstation, my dad introduced me to the games on his computer. I remember dad being a big PC gamer when he was younger, particularly shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem, but he eventually stopped playing games once they became too story-focused. His mindset was that a game should be something you booted up and played for a few minutes to kill some time, rather than something with an in-depth story. Even Spyro had too much story for him.

Anyways, back on track, I played through Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem, as well as Deus Ex, Quake and I played a little bit of a game called System Shock 2. Once I had played a little bit of all of them, dad started bringing home some cheap bargain bin pc games. I remember playing those a lot more than any other game on the pc.

Magic Carpet was my favourite for a long time, followed by a game called The Black Mirror, and one weird shooter-thing called Art Is Dead. I imagine that most people don't talk about them because they are so ridiculously obscure.

Looking back, Magic Carpet was a wonderful action game with a lot of potential. Maybe someone could reboot the game, or use the mechanics in the game to create something truly special.

 

The only strategy game I ever liked.