Your Most Nostalgic Gaming Memories?

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For me it's FFII (IV) on SNES. I played that game so much and it was the first game I beat. I love the DS port of it too. FFIII (VI) as well (wish they'd do some kind of remake with it), Breath of Fire 3, Illusion of Gaia, Chrono Trigger.. I remember how excited I was too to see the commercials on TV for FFVII.

And I'm very fond of the old point-and-click adventure games I used to play on PC: Quest for Glory 3, King's Quest 6, Monkey Island 2...

Ah yes, point-and-click adventure games. I wasn't able to read English when I was young. My dad used to play those and I would just watch. Monkey Island 1 and 2, Beneath a Steel Sky, Space quest and Broken Sword, I watched all of those. I remember being very proud of myself when I beat a point-and-click adventure for the first time on my own which was The Road to El Dorado. It's too bad you rarely see new point-and-click adventure games nowadays.

I just mentioned this in another thread; The Walking Dead and Sword & Sworcery are two recent ones I really liked. TWD had good characters and the decisions you made mattered in the outcome of the endgame. S&S is a really beautiful game despite its pixel graphics and has a great soundtrack.

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My first exposure to Space Harrier... I'll always hear the theme in that gloriously-awful 3-tone sound chip (which was also in my Tandy 1000 computer.)

This is such a worthy remake! I wish I could find it for PS3!
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"For a brick, he flies pretty good!"
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Behold a Pale Horse
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As a child my favourites were Sonic the Hedgehog, Lucas Arts, Electronic Arts and Sierra Games. I spent hours alone at the playground playing the Game and Watch games too, I still have them

I remember that the first time I played this one I thank it was very "advanced"

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As a teen my favourite was the first Resident Evil game, but my Sega Saturn broke down so... PC games! Civilization, Cryo games.

I had a Simcity in black and white that was very entertaining too, but only because you could destroy the city using Godzilla.

I bought a PS2 after my Sega Saturn, but I'm not very nostalgic with games of 2004 .

Wizardry on the Apple II+

Pathways into Darkness and Marathon on the Mac.

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metal gear solid series

Today on Facebook someone posted something about how 9-year-old kids now have all these expensive, complicated ipads, iphones, laptops and whatever, and when that they were 9, they felt cool just having a new set of markers! I replied that when I was 9 it was cool having an Atari 2600, which my brother and I one year got for Easter along with the usual chocolate and stuff. But it was when we got the NES when we were teens where I really have fond memories. Super Mario Bros. 2 is the first game I remember beating on my own (back then I had no clue about the Doki-doki Panic game or that The Japanese version of SMB2 wasn't released because supposedly it was too hard for "wimpy Americans" or whatever, I just thought it looked too much like SMB1). And then we got Super Mario 3, which took FOREVER to be released but was totally worth it. And then there was the not so happy memory of seeing my brother or my cousins play Bionic Commando and seeing Hitlers head explode in a bloody mess. (This was okay, especially for Nintendo, but the Nazi propaganda from the Japanese version wasn't??), and being afraid to sleep that night. Even before there was even an NES I was amazed by the arcade versions of Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. And Pac-Man. When I owned the PS1 I played Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, the first HM game I'd ever played, and I was hopelessly obsessed. I still watch a lot of videos of old games on YT, including a lot I've seen or heard of before, it's just so awesome.

One of the first games I truly loved was Warcraft II. I remember devouring the game manuals for the lore and facts as well as the illustrations. I still have them stashed somewhere.

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The music!! !

Strider at a fish and chip shop near a beach on Bribie Island. When we went there (was a kid), I'd always have a game. It was awesome.

Resident Evil 2. It was just great fun.

Deus Ex (original). Ditto.

Really Anything I had for Gameboy Color gives me some very good Nostalgic Memories. Like from about 1999 or 2000. Maybe even 2001.

Uh, got a few actually. I grew up with Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Digimon World. Just hearing the music from these games is enough to get me pumped.

A few years back when I finally gave Kingdom Hearts a chance. I couldn't believe what I was missing out on.

As I've said before... (I did a web search on it, and got a bunch of hits from an earlier post here...)

"That's the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel!" (as the heroic pilot, voiced by Bruce Campbell, watches said relic carted off to an evil space-baron's private collection)

I remember Tachyon as a much better game than it really is. Same with Vampire: Redemption (not Bloodlines, which is genuinely one of teh best games evar); I couldn't be arsed playing it again, but I remember it fondly.

Oh, and flying the Thargoid warship back to civilised parts from Miacke, or wherever the hell it is that you end up going for that one.

Oh! And an Arc. game called Carnage Inc., which very few people will've heard of. An isometric adventure thing loosely in the style of Knight Lore. Which prolly noone will've heard of either, 'cause you're all higgerant young whippersnappers who weren't around in the dawn of time.

And a game called Locomotion which was too big and difficult to map (for a child) but which I went back to as an adult armed with blazing zeal and a pause-able, state-save-able emulator and mapped the s**t out of. Ha!