Favorite old Video Games and their Systems

[FriarCrazy]

Alright everybody, what are your favorite old video games and the systems that you played them on? I'll start this out with mine, let's see if we can bring back some memories!

River City Ransom - NES - This was my favorite side scrolling action game of all time. I still play it with RockNES

Super Mario Bros 3 - NES - Two Words: Warp Whistle

Road Rash - Sega Genesis - The most hardcore motorcycle racing game EVER. This game has my all time favorite video game music, and, you can club people. It dosen't get much better than that

Chrono Trigger - Super Nintendo - Yeah, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about that game

Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Super Nintendo - You kill zombies with water pistols and soda cans, all while rescuing your zany neighbors. I spent way too much time on that game

Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Playstation - My favorite video game of all time. This one takes the cake. Beautiful graphics, sweet story, oh man, memories...

Starcraft - PC - Battle.net Use Map Settings > Me :D

I've got TONS more favs, but those are the ones that came right to my mind

[friarbayliff]

Extra mad props to Super Mario Bros 3. That was probably the first game I was ever really in to. Warp Whistles rule :D

[brap]

Alright everybody, what are your favorite old video games and the systems that you played them on?
Sonic the Hedgehog (anything before the pinball one) on the Megadrive - Genesis for you US folks. Spent hours playing on that. Come to mention it, I played the Master System/Game Gear versions, and thought they were better, graphics allowing.

PGA Tour golf, again Megadrive. It had built in flash memory and everything.

Micro Machines, Megadrive... that had no flash memory, but the military version had extra joypad ports on it, man! Woah!

Clayfighter - Super Nintendo. I was best with the blobby guy.

Alex Kidd/Miracle world, Master system. This was built into the console, so I played it loads. It was kinda crappy, but in a charming way.

Lemmings - played this on MS, MD, Acorn and Amiga! Loved the theme tunes.

Super Mario Land on the Game Boy (original) rocked my world, too.

Back in the day I played lots of Centipede and Millipede on the Atari 2600. Defender was also awesome, although I always ended up shooting the humans... oops... Battlezone was also pretty scary for a 6-year old...

[emw]

Man when I think of old video games, my mind drifts back to playing Pong and some tank battle game on our B&W TV. That was back when video game "consoles" were one-trick ponies. Okay, maybe two- or three- trick ponies, since you could play a few variations of Pong.

From there I think of the old Atari game consoles. Asteroids, etc.

Oh, and you can't forget Intellivision - Tron was a good one.

Ah, those were the days! :D

[Veldek]

Didn't own any consoles way back, but I remember some old computer games that I loved to play.

Maniac Mansion, Giana Sisters, Turrican, Hostages, TV Sports Basketball, Wings and many more.

[vraxtus]

Guardian Legend - NES

[Lotring]

soul reaver: legacy of kane for playstation 1....hands down best game I've ever played.

[friarbayliff]

I don't remember the exact name of it, but the first game I ever played (when I was about two years old) was this crazy WWF wrestling game for PC. It came on a 5.5" floppy disc and everything, launched directly out of DOS. Oh yes, the good times of old games...

[kgarner]

Atari 2600 - Pitfall (Play with Stella on my Mac now)
NES - Excitebike - The create your course was hours and hours of fun for me
SNES - Earthworm Jim - Just really like this one, but there were lots of others
DOS - Stunt - again the create your own course was awesome
DOS - Scorched Earth - Wasted many days with that one
Mac - Lemmings - especially the Christmas one. I loved the little bobbing Santa hats.

[Jovian9]

NES 8-Bit
Sega Genesis
Sega Dreamcast
SNES
Gamecube
Atari
Commodore 64
Playstation 2
N64
Playstation

-In order of how much I've enjoyed these systems over the years

[Jovian9]

The 8-Bit NES is still my favorite system of all time:
Metroid
Zelda 1-2
Kid Icarus
Super Mario Bros 1-3
Mike Tysons Punchout
Castlevania 1-3
Contra
Kung Fu
Russn' Attack
Gunsmoke
Rygar
Megaman
Bases Loaded
Double Dragon
Excitebike
Ikari Warriors
Blades of Steel
Tecmo Bowl
Metal Gear
Ninja Gaiden
Shinobi
RC Pro Am
Skate or Die
Tetris

Sega Genesis:
Altered Beast
Sonic the Hedgehog
Castlevania Bloodlines
Golden Axe
X-Men 2: Clone Wars
Mortal Kombat


Super NES:
Super Metroid
Zelda: A Link to the Past
F-Zero
Super Mario World

Playstation:
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Tekken

N64:
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
Zelda Ocarina of Time


Dreamcast:
Star Wars Jedi Power Battles
Seaman

PS2:
Castlevania
DDR Max

Gamecube:
Metroid Prime
Zelda Windwaker
Monopoly Party
Gauntlet Dark Legacy

Atari:
Kaboom
Jordan vs Bird
Asteroids
Pitfall
Defender
DigDug
Q-Bert
Frogger
Joust
PacMan
Space Invaders
Vanguard

Commodore 64/Other Computer Games:
World Games
Oregon Trail
Civ 1-2
Warcraft
Project Journeyman
The Sims
Sim City 1-4

[yellow]

Final Fantasy 1 - NES. Awesome.

Wizardry 1 - Apple IIe. Awesomer.

[kaltsasa]

Final Fantasy 1 - NES
Castlevainia 1-3 - NES
Sonic 1 - Genesis
Phantasy Star - Master System

[seamuskrat]

I go back a ways.

Atari 2600 ANY it was so unique back then. But Space Invaders was mesmerizing....
Intellivision. Utopia. I played that game for days straight. Also Astrosmash a new take on Asteroids.
NES:Tyson's punch out and Castlevania
Sega Genesis: Zombie's ate my neighbors. How awesome is smacking zombies with soda cans?!?
Ecco the Dolphin - cause I am a marine biologist

took a bit of a break
PS2: I like the multiplayer RPG type games, and online games but I find PC/Mac to be better platform for the types of games I enjoy now.

PC/Mac
Starcraft, WarCraft, Diablo franchises, CIV2, aCIV3, Age of Mythology, Empires. Plus, I like the simple stuff like Maelstrom, and Aperion.

[seamuskrat]

Final Fantasy 1 - NES. Awesome.

Wizardry 1 - Apple IIe. Awesomer.

I totally forgot about those. Wiz 1 to whatever and Bard's Tale on the old Apple 2. I played for months in school. Good thing the computer teacher liked me, I got away with installing Castle Wolfenstein, Bard's Tale and Wizardry on the IIe's.

Early Mac games, I liked Dark Castle, Balance of Power, Uninvited, Deja Vu, and Leisuresuit larry because I truly believed if I played long enough I would get past the bikini in the hot tub.....

[Mike Teezie]

NES
Captain Skyhawk
Mega Man 2
Ninja Turtles 1 (hardest game ever)
Ninja Turtles 2
Excite Bike
Tecmo Bowl
Metroid

SNES
Shadowrun
Super Metroid
Super Mario World
Donkey Kong Country
Super Smash TV
Street Fighter 2

Many more Im sure I'm forgetting.

[blackfox]

STAR WARS - Colecovision

720 and Galaga - Arcade

[vollspacken]

Didn't own any consoles way back, but I remember some old computer games that I loved to play.

Maniac Mansion, Giana Sisters, Turrican, Hostages, TV Sports Basketball, Wings and many more.

hehe, do I smell a little C=64 and AMIGA 500..?

sweet memories and no wack Atari *****..! :D

my favorites:
- Last Ninja I (C=64)
- Pirates! & Pirates! Gold (C=64 & Amiga)
- Lotus Challange I (Amiga)
- Bundesliga Manager Hattrick (PeeCee)
- Ultima VII pts. 1 & 2 (PeeCee)
- Super Mario World (SNES)
- Missile Command (Arcarde)

vSpacken

[evil_santa]

http://www.atari.st/data/shots/403.gif
Atari: Mercenary

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Megadrive: Landstalker

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MacMame: Starwars

[Dr. Dastardly]

Contra!!!!

up up down down A B Select Start BABY! :eek:

[craigdawg]

I go back a ways...

Intellivision. Utopia. I played that game for days straight. Also Astrosmash a new take on Asteroids.
You're not the only one. Utopia was tight. Plant some crops and hope the hurricane didn't destroy them. I had the voice synthesizer thing and bombed the heck out of the Nazis in B-17 Bomber.

[Abstract]

NES was tiiiiight!

MegaMan 1
MegaMan 2
Double Dragon 2
Street Fighter 2
Castlevania
Gradius 1
Gradius 2
RType
Excite Bike - Create your own course ruled!! :cool:
Tyson's PunchOut
Super Mario 3
Ninja Gaiden
Final Fantasy 4
Contra 1
Contra 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

Super Mario World
Many many more for this system. :)

[rhpenguin]

On the intellivision. i would say my favourite game was.... Lock and chase. That game was hella fun and i could play it for hours.. Other than that, auto racing was cool too :)

On NES my favourite game was Rad Racer or Who Framed Roger Rabbit! those two games provided hours of entertainment.

[kanker]

Atari 2600 - Pitfall

Apple ][+ - Cannonball Blitz, especially after entering some hexidecimal cheat codes that I can't remember - hey, it's been over 20 years.

[stromie952]

In order of hours logged (estimated) only on old school system/computers:

NHL 97 - Genesis (when it came out and a couple years back freshman year of college)
Tecmo Super Bowl - NES (on both the NES and updated versions for emulators)
NHL 95 - Genesis
Joe Montana Footbal 94 - Genesis
Tecmo Bowl - NES
Sim City 2000 - Mac 6500
Oregon Trail - Old school Macs galore
Wolfenstein 3D - mostly on our Mac 6500
Pro Wrestling - NES (as long back as I can remember)
Super Mario 1 + 3 - NES
Ice Hockey - NES
Carmen Sandiego - Apple ][e

Only a small list but pretty representative

[Roger1]

We used to have a console called "Fairchild". It had a neat lunar lander game where you were supposed to land it without touching ground too hard.

However, my addictions were Space invaders, and Asteroids, at the local 7-11. That got expensive. However, I became friends with the assistant manager of the local arcade, and got most of my games free :D

[jsw]

From the '90s: AvP on the Jaguar. Scared the crap out of me. Runner-up: Doom. Come on, it made everyone realize 3D games on a PC were possible...

From the 80's: Star Trek arcade game. "Welcome aboard, Captain."

From the 70's: Crappy tank game mentioned by emw. Crappy, yes. Fun as hell then? Yes.

[Apple Hobo]

Apple IIe
Conan: Hall of Volta <--one of my all-time favorites of any platform
http://www.the-underdogs.org/games/c/conanhall/conanhall.jpg
I love those 1984 graphics!

Oregon Trail
Choplifter
Number Munchers

I can still play these on an Apple IIe emulator.

Atari
Pitfall
I have this for SNES, which includes the Atari version in a secret level.

SNES
Super Mario World
I also play old Game Boy games and certain NES games on the SNES.

[Hoef]

Coleco Vision - Zaxxon
Old PC - Warlord

[yellow]

bombed the heck out of the Nazis in B-17 Bomber.

Oh that game was dooope! I can't remember the system though. It had that weird controller pseudo touch pad that always wore out...

Intellivision!! (Thanks Google)

Great call!

[yellow]

Mines of Moria on the VAX?

[comictimes]

Goldeneye on n64, uni-racer (I think that was the name) on super nintendo, Sonic on sega genesis, Starcraft, Carmageddon 2... I think that's about it for the old games...

edit: ooh, and I forgot, from when I was quite young, specter, gobbler, and shufflepuck cafe. I' not sure if anyone else has heard of them, but they were all on one of my older macs...

[homerjward]

simcity for pc. the original.




does that qualify as old? its what, like 7 or 8 years or something...

[Veldek]

hehe, do I smell a little C=64 and AMIGA 500..?

You have a good nose. These things did rock!

[Mord]

sonic 2&3
sonic & knuckles
streets of rage II


my favorite game of all time is skys of arcadia on the dreamcast that was the best rpg i ever played, it was complete with flying pirate ships floating islands a starwars rip off plot it was the greatest game

[Mord]

edit: ooh, and I forgot, from when I was quite young, specter, gobbler, and shufflepuck cafe. I' not sure if anyone else has heard of them, but they were all on one of my older macs...

dude i has that on my powerbook 100 could you beat that alien dude with one eye? i could beat mystic woman and that crap dude but everyone elce was imposible

[Lyle]

Saw several of us old-timers mention "Pitfall" on the Atari 2600, but didn't see "River Raid" mentioned yet. Those two were probably my early favorites. Also liked the ColecoVision version of "Donkey Kong".

[FriarCrazy]

uni-racer (I think that was the name) on super nintendo

Oh man that game was so TIGHT! My friends and I used to hack that so much. You could do all those CRAZY tricks. Remember the "Z-flip?" Oh yeah. Watch out for that purple gooey stuff!

A few more favorites:
Bubble Bobble - NES (That music gets into your brain and you have to play)
Dome Wars - Mac (Scorched Earth was a ripoff of this game)
Escape Velocity - Mac (Captain Hector says "Don't forget to register!")
NBA Jam - Genesis/Megadrive (HE'S ON FIRE!)
Kid Chamelion - Genesis/Megadrive (OMG this game was so long, but it was amazing none-the-less)

[Mord]

Escape Velocity - Mac (Captain Hector says "Don't forget to register!")

that game freaked me out i was like "how the *%@! dose it know what my name is!?!?!!?!?!?!?

so who did you side with the feds or the rebels and don't tell me you never downloaded hat plug in that let you buy the alien cruiser.

[comictimes]

dude i has that on my powerbook 100 could you beat that alien dude with one eye? i could beat mystic woman and that crap dude but everyone elce was imposible

I haven't played in years.... but if I remember correctly, I got past the weird short guy who moved really fast (easy), then the weird wine- drinking guy, and the... was it a vampire? I remember some weird tiny guy coming out of his clothes if he got a point... but anyways, and I beat the creepy mystic woman a couple of times... I don't remember anything past that... I wonder if I still have a compy of that game somewhere...