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Let's all delve into our childhoods and talk about the epic games we played.

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I'll try to think of a few here...

2600: When I was only 4 or 5, i used to play Frogger all the time, which I'd call my first video game.

NES: Finally old enough to understand games, I immediately was hooked on adventure and RPG games. Final Fantasy, Zelda, and Blaster Master were my favorites.

SNES: I finally reached the point where I was actually good at games. Zelda was still a favorite, but I developed a love for fighters. This mixed with DBZ made me a very hyper child.

N64: Actually one of my least favorite consoles, the N64 only produced a single game that influenced me at all, that being Smash 64.

Gameboy/GB Color: This pocket device truly influenced my taste in games quite a bit. I found that I enjoyed Mario more than I thought when I play Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. This console also founded my love for Pokemon, which was a bit embarassing, as when R/B/Y came out, I was in college.

PS1: In the transition from teenager to young adult, I finally learned to play darker games. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night sparked my interest in the Castlevania series. Final Fantasy VII also reintroduced me to the RPG genre, which I had abandoned with the N64. Soul Calibur also proved to me that 3D fighters could be good. On the highest note of all however, was Ape Escape. That game is so underappreciated.

That's where my childhood ends.
 

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I'm pretty sure gamers are harder to get that "wow" feeling that they used to get as kids because they've more than likely experienced so much more "wow" before through video games and other stuff I guess.

I really don't get that feeling anymore myself. At all. Even through games that deserve it.. like pretty much the entire Metroid Prime series.. but still, it's all good.

Actually, I did feel an epic video game moment thinking about it. Super Metroid. Seriously -- played this baby for my first time on the virtual console. Just wow this game. Music is so epic too. Also PMD: EOT is good too. Kind of gave me more of a sad feeling at the end but actually finishing the game after getting through Temporal Tower was epic in a sense ('cause the only item i knew existed back then was oran berry).

Ok,


Epic video game moment: Pokemon Crystal.

Ok, Lance. I got this, I got this.
3 Dragonites? Ice beam 'em. I GOT THIS. BAM! Lance is dead.


Well, that was a good game.. but it's too bad Johto wasn't all that speci--- hhhhhh--HOOOLY ****, kanto too? WTF



Hell

Yes.




...and that pretty much sums up one of my most epic video game moments. (seriously though, johto wasn't all that special by itself. Too small. The inclusion of kanto just completed the game)


and that list thing seems pretty cool too.


-LoZ: Ocarina of Time
-LoZ: Windwaker
-LoZ: Four Swords Adventure
-Super Mario World (only SNES game I played as a kid really since I didn't own one)
-Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles
-Ninja Boy (or some game like that.. can't remember it's exact name but it was NES..)
-Duck Tales (C'MON MOON PLACE THINGY)
-Super Smash Bros. Melee
-Super Mario 64
-Goldeneye 007
-Banjo Kazooie
-FFX
-Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
-Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald (Derp, Emerald most definetly. The Battle Frontier was just as surprisingly good as Kanto remake)
-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team

and i dunno. there's a lot more actually i'm just not all wanting to think of them and stuff.
 

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Epic video game moment: Pokemon Crystal.

Ok, Lance. I got this, I got this.
3 Dragonites? Ice beam 'em. I GOT THIS. BAM! Lance is dead.


Well, that was a good game.. but it's too bad Johto wasn't all that speci--- hhhhhh--HOOOLY ****, kanto too? WTF



Hell

Yes.
Holy crap, I just remembered the first time I beat the Elite Four in Gold...

I think I already knew about Kanto, but I vividly recall it being late at night, and I was staying in a hotel...and I had to go to bed soon, but I just barely finished the Elite Four. I remember seeing the Bellossom dancing in the credits to that music, which will forever be remembered by me as epic, true victory music.

I went to bed that night so freaking psyched to go to Kanto the next day.
 

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Holy crap, I just remembered the first time I beat the Elite Four in Gold...

I think I already knew about Kanto, but I vividly recall it being late at night, and I was staying in a hotel...and I had to go to bed soon, but I just barely finished the Elite Four. I remember seeing the Bellossom dancing in the credits to that music, which will forever be remembered by me as epic, true victory music.

I went to bed that night so freaking psyched to go to Kanto the next day.
Now that you remind me another thing that made video games more epic for me was the element of surprise. I really didn't have internet (or at least never used it) before I started playing WoW (which I add to the list as another epic game btw) so I couldn't go online and get info about games.. and like nobody around me had a gamecube or n64 and I mean I was young lol.

Anyways, over the past times being spoiled about games has really ruined some of the experience for me. Especially actually knowing about the game. No joke, I put so much hype into a game if I know about it before release date. Used to as a kid I would just notice them in the store and be like "WTF" and get the game. Lol. So good.

Also, the staff roll theme from g/s/c is pretty much my favorite vg song :p I concur on that true victory music thing.
 

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Yeah...I think it was my guide that did it. But, still...it was so epic.
I agree, though, this new age where everything is spoiled so easily...it sucks. Then again, I have my friend to blame for spoiling Brawl's roster since he was all "HEY LOOK ISN'T THIS TOTALLY FAKE" and I was like "...That might actually be real. BLAKJFALKDFJALK I WAS GOING TO NOT SPOIL THE ROSTER FOR BRAWL!"

Now that I've remembered that one instance, beating Gold...so many memories are flooding back to me.
I want to go back. =(

I guess I'm not a Smash Nostalgist for nothing...
 

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I disagree that gamers can't get the same excitment.
I can go back and play Yoshi's Island, and be more afraid of dying then when I play most modern games, despite the difference there being that I'm a dragon/dinosaur/frog and not a human being. It should be the other way around, I should be more connected to it.
Perhaps its the fact that its not me dying, but Baby Mario being captured, that horrible sense of letting someone down or causing someone you were attached to harm. In this, I can point to the Free ware game Don't Look Back. Great example. the game is not only ataria graphics, but atari style gameplay as well. Despite this, the pain I felt when I 'looked back' and killed the spirit of the person I was suppose to be guiding out of hell, it was a painful experience.
But, when I play Resident Evil 4, I either get a sense of "Glad that ***** is dead" or "**** ***** learn too run." I think the difference here is trying to expand on the person you are protecting in the wrong ways. I don't feel responsible for the *****. I feel she died for reasons somewhat outside of my habits. In Don't Look Back, if she does die, it is 100 percent my fault. In fact, at one moment I had no choice but to look back, and the pain in doing so was fairly large. These kinds of game play mechanics are being addressed in the wrong way. When the gamer feels frustrated and out of power, that his decisions did not influence the action, that is bad game design.

I could keep going, expanding on this, diving into other examples of things that have become misused in modern day game design, but that would be derailing this thread.
Let me just assure people that there are games out there that still have wonderious things going on, you just have to search for them. Here is one example:
http://machinarium.net/demo/
 

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God, N64 games were the ****.

I miss the original Mario Party games for the N64, 1-3. I would play those every day, for the most part.

Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong 64? Happy childhood memories.

F-Zero? My Mute City music blaring? Happy childhood memories.

PLAYING MELEE AT HOME WITH MY FRIENDS, MY REAL FRIENDS, IN MY REAL HOME? PLAYING LUIGI'S MANSION AT NIGHTIME IN THE DARK WHEN I WAS 10?

:(

*Feels sad now*
 

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I can't really delve to deeply in many retro games. I fear that'd take too long. Instead, I'll just list off some several emotions and name the games I feel exhibited this emotion best when I was a child.

Fear: Resident Evil 2 (I didn't play RE1, and a friend brought over RE2 for the Playstation) was the first game I ever played that truly gave me the sensation of fear. There were points were I'd stay on the same screen for ten to twenty minutes because I didn't want to run into another zombie, dog, crow, or whatever the game decided to dish out. Now, the game makes me chuckle, but back when I was a kid...dear god I had nightmares of that game.

An honorable mention would be Out of This World. That very first section always just scared me because of how barren it seemed to be.

Sadness: It has to be Ecco the Dolphin. The music, the storyline, everything about it is just strange. Not much to say here :p

Runner up would have to be The Lion King. Ri~ght after the second level, at least. Probably only because of the movie. I'm another tally on the list of people who cried when Mufasa died.

Loneliness: Hard to think of a game that really portrayed this that I played pre-PS2/DC/GC/Xbox era. As such, I'd have to give the nod to Galaga. A lone fighter in space, the only person you can rely on is yourself. The lack of music beyond the intro and the perfected bonus stages really made me feel like I was all by myself in those deep recesses of space.

Honorable mention goes to Eternal Darkness. No comment. :p

Happy: Too many to list, but I'll try just throwing out a few. Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures I found to be hilarious, and couldn't get enough of it. The entire Super Mario Bros. series seems to run on happy, and Earthbound hid all the insanity within it behind a thick veil of bliss.

Others would be Pokemon RBY/GSC and the entirety of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

Angry: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (& Knuckles). All for one reason, and 60% of you reading this should have figured it out by now. **** that red barrel.

Honorable mention goes to the Laughing Dog in Duck Hunt, for obvious reasons.

Funny/Uplifting/Joy(?): Pigskin Footbrawl is definitely one of the greatest sports games I've ever played that no one else seems to remember. It's football, without the 1st downs, without the hiking, without the penalties, and without restraint. Two teams enter, with one pigskin football, and two goals for either team. Weapons were scattered all about the field. You fill in the rest. I mean, it is called FootBRAWL.

Honorable mention goes to Smash Bros. for the N64. That game was just euphoria incarnate.

Confident: Sonic Adventure 2. It HAD to be the **** soundtrack. Everything was either upbeat (City Escape), awesome (White Jungle), or just **** insane (Cosmic Wall/Crazy Gadget). The music for these and pretty much all the levels was like the game telling me, "There's *** to be kicked, and you're the only one who can do it."

Honorable mention goes to Contra. Once you get that Scatter-shot power-up, you feel invinicble.

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Last category is the "Holy ****, did that JUST HAPPEN?"/"Oh my god, THIS IS HAPPENING!" one, and I just HAD to get these three off my chest:

1. Sonic Adventure 1: Aside from being an incredible bad-*** 3D Sonic Adventure, the WTH factor was on the very first playable level: Emerald Coast.

"Did...did Sonic just OUTRUN a ****ing WHALE!?"

2. Pokemon GSC: When you get to Mt. Silver, you see a lone trainer at the top. He looks kinda familiar. I wonder w-

"IS THAT WHO I THINK IT IS!?"

As a kid, I faintly remember saying "That's ME from the OTHER game!" A quick glance at his Pikachu's level almost made ME faint.

3. Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Death Egg Zone. The moment I saw that large robot rise from the ground, with that "final showdown" music, I knew **** was about to go down.

Honorable mention would be yet another Sonic game (I'm such a tool :D), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles.

Why? The Super-Gauntlet you go through starting at Hidden Palace Zone, through Sky Sanctuary, across the Death Egg, and plowing through four separate boss battles, only to end up at the Doomsday Zone as Hyper Sonic (for me, anyways) for a final space-chase-showdown with Robotnik.

Holy ****.

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Long post. :p
 

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Also, I remember an obscure puzzle game named Zoop. It was so good, but so hard. I think I never got past level 27, and there were 99 of them.
No way, haha, I loved Zoop. One of the first games I can remember.

Funny thing happened. My brother works at Gamestop. A guy comes in with a pile of old SNES and Genesis games. He couldn't sell them, so he gave them to us.

Zoop was in there.
It made me so happy.
 

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Oldest game I can remember playing is Rampage on the NES, and I was four then...
Although I've been told stories that my brother and family have been letting me play Duck Hunt since I was two.
 

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Croc: The Legend of the Gobbos, Spyro the Dragon trilogy and Pokemon GSC. That's all there is to have a childhood.

EDIT: Lol at Espy's +1 post.
 
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Croc: The Legend of the Gobbos, Spyro the Dragon trilogy and Pokemon GSC. That's all there is to have a childhood.

EDIT: Lol at Espy's +1 post.
I thought posts in the User Blogs didn't count?

Anyway, I forgot to mention that my experience with Silver was so great.
After defeating the Elite Four by an inch, I almost freaked out.
I had actually discovered for the first time that the man in the building before Victory Road had moved, and I had access to Kanto! So then I wondered what Kanto was like 3 years after the events of Pokemon Red.
 

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I used to play Kirby 64 all the time at this daycare center my parents sent me to a long time ago. Like someone else said, I have the god **** "video games are bad" parents. I was cheated out of so many good memories, but I guess it makes the ones I do have all the more special. I remember playing one of the Mario games on SNES, this one godzilla game on the 64, melee and smash 64 of course, Tales of Symphonia, DK Country, uuhhh... Oh yeah, I had the portable sega (the huge black brick that devoured like 6 batteries at a time), and I remember playing something with sonic and tails. Then I remember Rayman on the GBC, and pokemon, don't remember which one. Double dash was great, Super Monkey Ball, all the Mario Parties, Nightfire, the other Bond GC game. Haha, I must have never been at home, everyone I knew had all these great games, while I could only play on long trips. I remember frequently sneaking in my friend's GC (that thing is pretty small for a console) to my house though. Snap, good times.
 

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I'm still a child but i still played a lot of old games... Like pokemon silver, pokemon red, pokemon yellow, pokemon emerald, melee, that dk bongo game, contra on the snes, mario allstar on the snes, super mario64, star fox, OoT, ape escape, guardian crusade, and lots i have a LARGE collection of snes games..
 

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My first game was Super Mario Bros. 1 <3
Duck Hunt: I miss it :( I have no idea why people hate the dog =/
Sonic the Hedgehog: T'was alright

and some other games I LOVED but never remembered there name, I remember a driving game, I used to love it :O but my memory is so bad, I can't even remember the system =/
I think it was a sega or something.

Now the rest...

I got an N64 and PS1 when I came too England and it was completly new to me :O
Super Mario 64: (N64)
Yoshi's Story: (N64)
Mario Kart 64: (N64)
Tekken 3 (PS1)
Spyro, I think, but I didn't enjoy it...

I've had some games that sucked, but this isn't the thread for that...

I've bought a lot of retro games on wiiware that are quite fun, as well:
Super Mario bros. 1 (Clearly <33333333)
Super Mario bros. 2
Super Mario bros. 3
Super Smash Bros. 64
Metroid (It's addicting, but hard T.T)
Castlevania
Sonic the Hedgehog (=/ It was alright, I guess...)
Alex Kidd and the enchanted castle (OMG, I love it <3)
Mario Kart 64
Adventure island, or something like that (It's AMAZING, the graphics are adorable, the stroyline is somewhat cute, the game is sort of easy though)
Donkey Kong
Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario
Some other stuff

I wanted Super Mario World, but I remebered I already have that...

It was a tough coice between Metroid and DK country, but I bought Metriod since then I had enough money too buy another game...

I still have my N64 games...well, some of them, so I didn't Super Mario 64.


I love/like/somewhat kinda sorta like all of these game.

I actually remembered finishing Super Mario Bros. 1 once, it's my favorite game. Ever. This was the first game I ever played and the only game my whole family played together, once I came into my bedroom to see mum and dad playing it o_O
We took too Sanna (sp?) to visit my uncle, he liked it soo much he bought one for himself.
My sisters obviously played, my aunts did too, everyone did.
I actually tried a speed run not too long ago, I went to world 8-1 in 5-7 minutes, and that's where I started sucking :(.
Took me 15 minutes to get to the last level and die =(

The ONLY other game any part of my family connected too was Mario Power Tennis on the Gamecube, and even then it was only my sisters =(

I remember SUCKING at Duck Hunt! You needed the Super Scope for this, right? Or some kind of gun, anyway, I couldn't aim AT ALL, I was awful at that game ='( but it was short lived and I didn't play it much :cry:

I adorded Super Mario 64! I loved a lot about it, there was one thing I DEEPLY hated about this game. The flying cap. I had to finish the game without it! And then I couldn't unlock the canon! I few years ago I found out what to do by going on a walkthrough.....I cried >.> (not really :p) then soon after I couldn't find the game >.>, luckily, I had Super Mario 64 DS.

I don't know about anyone else but Yoshi's Story scared me, the background, the music, the art (kind of) but mainly in enemy places, I don't remember playing this game at night, at all, some might say it had a childish charm or something, but I found it a bit creepy, fun game though.
That was the scariest game I ever played as a kid, even now, actually, I hate scary things most of the time, I have Fatal Frame (3, I think, the one on PS2) and some other game like that but I never played them. I went through Rule of Rose, but I didn't find it scary, actually...

Mario Kart 64 was fun.

Tekken 3 was AMAZING! not as amazing as the rest except probably MAYBE Mario Kart and PROBABLY, EVER SO SLIGHTLY, Yoshis story, I loved how Xiaoyu played! I do in all the Tekken games! But she was ugly >.>, not in the game, but in her picture, I loved doing the Sunset fan(?), I also loved Gon! He farted and I was easily amused by that, still am.
Oh and who DOESN'T love Yoshimitsu, I like that move that takes away like 70% unless someone is behind him!

But really the only game I'll ever cry for is a racing game I played in yemen and Duck Hunt, I had loved those games, but I forgot ones name and I don't think it would Duck hunt would be as good without the Zapper (Thank, Firus!) T_T
I'll still try too find it.
Super Mario Bros. 1 too, but I already have that.

I want to cry right now V.V
 

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Oh yeah, I had the portable sega (the huge black brick that devoured like 6 batteries at a time), and I remember playing something with sonic and tails.
Which one?

I assume you mean the Game Gear, but there's also the lesser-known Nomad.

The Game Gear was 8-bit, and had its own games.

The Nomad was 16-bit, and was a portable Genesis.

(I really want a Nomad...though, granted, a home-made Genesis portable would definitely be more efficient, since it could use a more efficient lighting system and suck up less battery life needlessly.)

I remember SUCKING at Duck Hunt! You needed the Super Scope for this, right? Or some kind of gun, anyway, yeah, I couldn't aim AT ALL, I was awful at that game ='( but it was short lived and I didn't play it much :cry:
The Super Scope is for SNES (thus the "Super"). It was the Zapper.

/random, useless knowledge
 

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I PLAYED KIRBY64 EVERYDAY AFTER SCHOOL FOR 2 YEARS. Im STILL missing...hmm...1 shard. And my N64.
...I should go through the many unknown boxes...i want to play now.
 
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Oh, how could I forget Communist Mutants from Space?! No one ever believes me when I mention it. The game isn't actually that good, but the hilarious box art has made me keep it all these years.
 

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Oh, how could I forget Communist Mutants from Space?! No one ever believes me when I mention it. The game isn't actually that good, but the hilarious box art has made me keep it all these years.
The name itself makes me want to buy the game.
 

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Gosh, it's been awhile since I played some of those epic games of my childhood.
I remember the day we got our Coleco Gemini, yeah, not an atari 2600, cause it was still like 500 bucks and the coleco spinoff was only 150 or so... I got the Pitfall patch, River Raid, Chopper Command, haha, I couldn't get enough of the activision titles. My dad ended up playing an Imagic game called Demon Attack for 6 straight hours. He finally just gave up cause he wasn't ever going to lose theoretically and he had to get up for work the next day, lol

After the 2600 games, came the Colecovision, which was a definite upgrade. Pitfall 2, Zaxxon (remember that in the arcades? heh) Q-bert, god that was annoying but fun... Centipede...

That was in 1986. A bit later Nintendo would drop, but my folks suffered from that Parent Disease You-already-have-a-video-game-why-do-you-need-a-new-one syndrome. So, actually I didn't get to have an NES, I ended up being THAT guy, the one that just makes friends w/you so he can play nintendo, lol! You know the ones.

During the next few years, we got Game Gear so we could play portables while on long drives. Awesome hand held, if not the best ever. Sonic, Mickey's Castle of Illusion... Mortal Kombat... all awesome.

Then, finally, in 1993 I created an elaborate way to explain my possession of a Nintendo. "He just gave it to me, ma." heh... and it was on! LoZ, Megaman.. Castlevania. Easily 3 of the best games of all time. I actually beat Megaman legit, w/o the pause/resume trick... very tough. I also managed to beat Castlevania but only once. I've since gotten it for virtual console, and it's been save-stated on the final battle for months, cause I can't beat him now, lol

1995 Graduated HS and being 18 and able to spend money however the F I wanted, got me an SNES, 2 controllers, and MK2. Mk3, UMK3 SF2 Turbo and KI all followed, though MK2 remained my favorite fighter. SNES also introduced me to the Super Star Wars series, which kicked ***, as well as Ken Griffey Jr Baseball, I enjoyed, just for the incredible gameplay, it'd have been better though with real rosters but I didn't really follow baseball (still don't) so I didn't miss out on much there. Strangely enough it'd be years later before playing other epic games, like ALTTP, Secret of Mana, and FF 2 and FF 3 (US releases). But FF3 would eventually overtake all preceding SNES titles as the most played and most liked. I still like it better than Any FF that has come since.

Fall 1997 I bought my Playstation, and Resident Evil. Playstation ended up becoming my favorite system, with dozens of titles that would span thousands of gaming hours. RE, RE2, RE3, Tekken 1-3, Chrono Cross (awesome F'ing game), and my favorite title, arguably my fav of all time, Castlevania: SOTN. Until I lost it I was playing it right up until a year ago, and the last run through I'd maxed out the librarian's monstrous compendium, a never-before-attempted-by-me accomplishment. Lastly, and many years after its release, I would delve into Metal Gear Solid, and never look back. Easily another of my best-of-all-time titles.

N64... paled for me. I hated it, hated the controller, the games, I was a definite sony fanboy by that time and this just seemed like a way for nintendo to not just go out of business, always felt they'd waited too long to recoup their losses. Then Goldeneye came, and salvaged the system. It remains to this day the only cart I have left for it that I play. OoT and Starfox 64 being the other 2, but I play OoT on the collector's edition for gc, and I don't play starfox 64, that'd be my wife's cart. Goldeneye though, thank you Rare. Thank you for bringing me a FPS I didn't want to hurl at. A very competitive multiplayer, just the darn bestest game for that system, and another best of all time title.

Enter PS2. This would bring me the famed MGS2: Sons of Liberty. I even went and bought the substance version even though I'd played the first one umpteen million times, I wanted the virtual missions. I'd nearly 100% it when some F stole my memory card. God that still makes me mad just thinking about it, and that was in 2003, lol! Other than that though, I hate to say it, PS2 kinda was lame to me. I didn't care for any of the series follow ups for this system save MGS2, I didn't like (and still don't like) Snake eater, I'd long since given up on FF and Tekken... and by this time, my wife had gotten me into... Gamecube.

Now argue all you like, but for me, Gamecube won that generation war. Better graphics, no load screens-for-load screens BS, awesome titles up the wazoo, just so many... MGS The Twin Snakes, Eternal Darkness, Wind Waker, Soul Caliber 2, Star Fox Adventures, and my favorite title for this system, and another best-of-all-time winner... Resident Evil 4. I think I'll play that tonight now that it's been mentioned. Just... wow. SO good, so much fun, so many dozens of replays, and even more to come. Haven't tried it on Wii, but meh, don't really care to.

Speaking of which, that brings us to This generation. The Wii, brought me Smash. Brawl is all, the only title on this system I play over and over. Metroid Prime: Corruption was technically the first title we bought, and I did like it, but I can't even play it now, cause all I can think of is "i could be brawling right now."

Ok so yeah this was supposed to be a review of early childhood gaming, but I tend to ramble ^^
 

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I remember first getting SMB and Kirby's Adventure. I was acting like the N64 kid when I got it lol. Never beat Kirby's Adventure, got stuck at DDD. Only my cousin i think beat the final castle.

Now to the PS1. There was Crash Team Racing, still superior to all Mario Karts IMO. Hot Shots Golf 2 wasted 100s of hours for me. GT1 and 2 I will never forget. Nascar 99 was my first game, but I'm not a fan anymore. Crash Bash was one of my favorite party games of all time.

Gcube. SSBM was the reason I got it. ToS, Paper Mario, Mario Sports, Party 4 and 5. Oh yeah, F-Zero GX... you're looking at one of the best in the world in that game haha.

Wii. Brawl, Galaxy, Metroid (for gcube as well). I'm missing some from here and I didn't bother with hand helds... theres tetris, pokemon, advanced wars, so many more.
 

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Banjo-Kazooie (Oh god you guys don't know the half of it, so many memories)
Banjo-Tooie (not as much, but still good.)
Yesssssssssssss. Those are my two favorite games of all time. The humor, the music, the epic adventure, simply perfection. :)
 

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Yesssssssssssss. Those are my two favorite games of all time. The humor, the music, the epic adventure, simply perfection. :)
And I came here thinking I'd unique and say Banjo-Kazooie. :(

You have no idea how much I loved that game. When you're 5, flying around as bee, fighting a witch, and going in a giant shark is pretty much the most epic thing ever.
 

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And I came here thinking I'd unique and say Banjo-Kazooie. :(

You have no idea how much I loved that game. When you're 5, flying around as bee, fighting a witch, and going in a giant shark is pretty much the most epic thing ever.
Let's be best friends fore-- wait a minute <__< giant shark...
I don't recall and I just played the game yesterday :mad: !!!

You talking about Clanker?
 

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Super Mario Bros. 1 2 & 3
Duck Hunt
Kid Icarus
The Legend of Zelda
Adventures of Link
Metroid
XEXYZ

I've got more, but that'll be it for now.
 

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Let's be best friends fore-- wait a minute <__< giant shark...
I don't recall and I just played the game yesterday :mad: !!!

You talking about Clanker?
I swear there was a giant metal shark. :embarrass
 
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