Classic Games

somebody · 12-13-2006

Can you guys please state your favorite video game back in the day?

Something that is classic.

I will start off: Favorite game was/is/will be "Contra"

pgrmdave · 12-13-2006

Oh classic games, how I love thee

It all depends on how far back something needs to be to be classic - I was born in 1986, grew up with SNES and Sega Genesis - to me, Sonic the Hedgehog is a classic game, however, it is quite far ahead of the classic arcade games from the early eighties. My favorites, in no particular order, are:

pong
space invaders
galaga
Breakout
Tetris
SMB
Bubble Bobble
Punch-Out!
Missle Command
Sonic (the first one)
Mutant League Hockey/Football
Final Fantasy (any)
Castlevania (original)
Shining Force

I'm sure there are others, but that's all I could think of off the top of my head at the moment.

gotpho · 12-21-2006

Chrono Trigger, Frogger, and all the Mario games.

CraigD · 12-21-2006

Back in the day (1982), Sinistar was about my favorite - thought it's hard, and I never got through more than about 1.75 levels of it. Given the game's difficulty, its arcade coinbox's hunger for quarters, and my relative lack of same in those days, mastering it lay beyond my meager ability.

I found its basic game design – competing to “mine” the same “resources” as your enemy – elegant. I found it’s clunky, 8-direction controls infuriating.

maikeru · 01-04-2007

The Mario games, some of the Final Fantasy Games, Chrono Trigger, hmm, and probably more that I've forgotten now. Not so old-school ones: Heroes of Might & Magic 1-3, Fallout 1 & 2, and Baldur's Gate 1 & 2. Sweet memories.

Tormod · 01-04-2007

Galaxians has to be my all-time favorite.

LJP07 · 01-04-2007

Macintosh Garden

All games, All playable, All Classic, All found on the above link!

They have a forum, I wonder if I'll leave here and stay there permanently.

As for my favourite, it has to be Pacman!

Zolgar · 01-11-2007

>.>

Well with me, I'm still known to be playing some old ones. Right now I'm playing a game that's 9 years old..

Long ago, so long ago that I barely remember them..
On the .. Intelivision? (I think), I play Frog Bog.
And on the old PC we had before hard drives were availible for PCs, I was playing this one game that.. good god I can't even remember it's name now. You controlled this little guy and you ran around a top-down view map dodgin and shooting robots while rescuing the girl. (you can find it on an arcade-style machine nowadays)

A few years later came the Sega Genesis and the Nintendo Game Boy.
On the Genesis, I was always playing Bubsy, Bubsy2, and ofcourse the Sonic games. As well I played Shinobi 3 alot.

On the Game Boy, hoo! It was Kirby's Dreamland and Metroid 2.

Then I got my SNES. Earthbound FTW. And ZOOP. .. ZOOP was weird, but fun.

Classics, PC wise.
Fallout series. (10 years for Fallout 1, that makes it a classic in video game terms

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