This started as a Twitter discussion, but 150 characters do not do it justice. I am probably a little older on average than most of the people posting here at TheKeyPlay, but my interests cover a wide range in the gaming sense. Here are my criteria
1) Addictiveness of play
2) Ease of play
3) Cultural impact
4) Shared positive memories
So, here are some of my favorites
1) Goldeneye-N64
For any college student in the late 90's, a highlight was the four player kill all mode of Golden Eye. If you get killed, you take a drink. Who didn't get pissed at your buddy when they picked Oddjob, whose diminutive height made for a tough target. We all screamed when the guy who stunk at the game picked Proximity Mines as the target.
2) NHL95- Sega Genesis
Without a doubt the easiest hockey video game to play. The 1995 version featured my favorite sports team of all time, the 94 Cup champion Rangers. I could play for days without a break. And, Sega NHL hockey has the iconic pop culture moment of the guys in Swingers making Gretzky's head bleed before a night on the town. That scene repeated itself many a night in the French biosphere.
3) Oregon Trail- DOS
Choose the oxen over the mules. Float the Columbia River. Shoot bears and bison, and don't waste ammo on rabbits. And die of diarrhea. Education was never so fun.
4) Bases Loaded- NES
If you beaned Paste twice, he would charge the mound and get kicked out of the game. Enough said.
5) NCAA 98- Playstation 1
Bragging rights. Most picked athletic QB's and threw to throwback go routes down the seam. I ran the fullback, milked the clock, and waited for mistakes. Cold blooded.
6) Outrun- Arcade
Still the best money making scheme Pizza Hut ever came up with. Outrun was a state of the art racing game for the mid-80's that we fed quarters to, even though it was almost impossible to get past more than 2-3 minutes of game time. I'd load it up with a pocket full of quarters right now.
7) NCAA Football 2011- PS2
Virginia Tech career, with Tyrod as my first QB. Glorious.
8) SimCity- DOS
Damn you polution!!!
9) Call of Duty WWII games- M1 Garrand. The realism is spectacular, even though aiming is a nightmare.
10) Tecmo Super Bowl
I liked the Bills, with the off tackle left power play to Thurman Thomas and trips right double slant with a curl on the outside. Others took the low road and picked Bo Jackson on the sweep or Barry Sanders on a sprint draw. Take the Giants with LT coming off the edge as a sleeper pick.
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N64 Mario Kart or GTFO!!!!
So much childhood anger stems from Mario Kart. It's where I learned how to use the curse words my father would say. I still hate those damn blue shells...
WARIO IS BETTER THAN MARIO, but I preferred Starfox to MarioKart
Drunk Driver anyone? Only two rules:
1) You can't drink and drive.
2) You have to finish your beer before you cross the finish line.
As a wee tot I liked to drop acid and do the Special Cup. RaiIIinnBOooWW roOoaDDDdd wOOoahhHHH.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Super smash bros! So easy for someone to pick up, but takes a lifetime to master!
I may be downvoted to oblivion for this, but I love SSBB. I still play that often, and have turned it into a great drinking game. Drink after you die until you respawn (you can't press "A" to respawn faster), and then every KO you end the match with is seconds you get to give to your friends.
It is amazing how these games come full circle. @MsSusieCue's son and my nephew are in love with some game called Minecraft, which appears to have no point other than to dig holes with pre-NES graphics. I don't get it.
Looking at my list, I am not sure how Mike Tyson's Punchout didn't make the list. I could beat every fighter (King Hippo took the longest to figure out) except for Super Macho Man. If I used the code to skip Super Macho Man, I could beat Tyson maybe one out of 20 times. But, there was something about Super Macho Man's timing that just completely threw me.
MVP Baseball '05. 'Nuff Said.
I'm going mostly with games that are about 10+ years old. In no particular order
Mario Bro.
Mortal Kombat 2
Halo
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Ocarina of Time
Some personal Favorites are the X-Wing Series (X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, & X-Wing: Alliance) from LucasArts and the first 3 Wing Commander games, though I don't think they meet all of your critereia. I still play all of them off and on though.
Now all I want to do is play Oregon Trail.
Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES will always be my favorite game.
And NCAA Football 2011 is probably still the best one I've played.
I'd play Oregon Trail and the original Sim City all day in my office if given the opportunity.
I pull out the Oregon Trail references all the time at work. New feature has dysentery. New code has typhoid. It also taught me the value of knowing how deep a river was before trying to ford it. And to value your oxen and wagon wheels.
Found a site that had the original version and played it 3 or 4 times this weekend. And now Atari Breakout on Google images has ruined productivity for the rest of the day.
Just checking this thread for the first time... I'm disappointed I had to scroll this far to see Super Mario 3 (also my fav game of all time)
I haven't played Oregon Trail in probably 15 years. I might need to go find a flash remake somewhere, I'm sure someone's done it.
Considering how much I played it as a kid, and in college, it's a sin I didn't include Super Mario 3 on my list. Freshman year, we kept the NES running and beat it straight through a couple of times during finals week. Also, Starcraft Brood War was a poor omission on my part too.
I credit SC & SC: BW for getting me into PC gaming in the first place.
The Cut-scenes and CGI work are still epic.
Did the same on my NES in my dorm room too, sit down and play it through. Still do, every couple months, in fact. And I also got my hands on a NES emulator where you can control the speed of the emulation, and I beat it at super speed, all the way up to 4x (but only with tons of practice and timing).
Longest play time in my Steam list is the original Mass Effect at 145 hours, but I'm sure I have more than doubled that with SMB3.
As an aside, I am disappointed with my generation. In 2006, I went to a residential summer program called the "Governor's School for Math, Science and Technology" for high school juniors and seniors all across Virginia (essentially Nerd Camp). One day, there was an NES in the lounge with SMB/Duck Hunt. I picked up a controller and started playing, and the crowd that accumulated was amazed by all the "secrets" I knew about, like the hidden 1-UP early in the 1st level and the warps in worlds 1-2 and 4-2.
Duck Hunt Super Nintendo w/shotgun, along with the original Super Mario Brothers.
NBA Jam! Would play that for hours with my friends. BOOM SHAKA LAKA
NFL Blitz was always one of my favorite. But I played a ton of NBA Jam too. HE'S HEATING UP!!
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
Math Blaster
Where on earth is Carmen Sandiego?
That game was the only reason why I liked math in elementary school. One time my dad brought home a color monitor (we usually had a black&white one) from work and it blew my mind.
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA
Finish him.
Leisure Suit Larry FTW.
Halo 1, before XBox Live, and my neighbor knew how to hook up the XBox to his computer and play people online.
And, GTA III.
Super Smash Bros. is definitely my favorite. I grew up on NHL Hitz 2004 though. Team Sweden with Mats Sundin and Tommy Salo were pretty untouchable (unless you were the traitor that played with Canada (Chris Pronger is a god in that game)).
Little League Baseball for NES. Canada. Albert. FTW!
Ahaha, YES - I am so happy someone said this. I loved that game!
Speaking of baseball games for the NES, I also played a lot of Baseball Stars. The first game that I knew of where you could create your team, play seasons and hire/fire/trade players:
Star Craft. The best RTS ever made.
I was wondering how long I'd have to go before someone said this... It basically consumed my entire 6th-8th grade
LT was completely unblockable in TSB. I don't know if the computer's QB EVER got a pass off.
"reddy-dow-huthuthuthuthuthuthut" [.3 seconds of music] ---
I am going to fully admit I'm a Tecmo snob. He is rather unblockable blitzing, but if you have a good QB (or are a really good player) you can still complete passes. I very rarely blitz the player I'm controlling unless I'm Derrick Thomas. Anyways, if you're playing the Giants, you need to have your Run 2 be this:
That will automatically put the frontside guard and tackle on the OLB (LT), and put him on his ass. I will not explain how to defend the play though.
Christian "The Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye
Super Mario Brothers 3 for the old Nintendo
The Tony Hawk series on the first playstation (personal favorite is 4, but 2 is also fantastic)
Final Fantasy 7 (considered by many as the best RPG of all time)
Madden 2004 for PS2 where MV7 and Randy Moss were the most overpowered players in the history of the madden franchise. Also, they had the sweet minigames like rushing attack which were played more than actual games of football.
Mario 3 was great. Mario World was epic too. I totally forgot about the THPS series. Ridiculously good games, I got addicted to THPS1 more than anything, although I think it wasn't until 3 or 4 until they really figured it all out.
Tony Hawk - the key was: grinding into a manual into grinding into a manual into a ramp into a manual into a grind into a manual into a ramp into a grind
Yeah, but you couldn't manual in the first one, which, I think, made it the biggest challenge. I remember almost getting to a million points in the warehouse (first level, if I remember correctly), but only because Elissa Steamer was so easy to control.
Backflip over the half pipe, to the HOLY SHIT grind. THPS is singularly responsible for my academic suspension from VT. Ahh, the good old days.
Hell yeah. Back flip over the half pipe, through the glass-enclosed (but not for long!) suspended platform, holy shit grind around the hairpin turn, wall ride to kick flip off at the end. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Not sure which Tony Hawk it was, but I'd destroy any level as long as "Superman" by Goldfinger or "Here and Now" by The Ernie's was playing.
And, am I the only guy here old enough to have played Rampage or T&C Surf Design? Classics!
Don't forget Skate or Die!
Nah, I definitely played those, too. Those are really old school. "Back in my day..."
T&C Surf Design, Skate or Die, California games... yeah, I played them all.
I know it's not that old, and it caught a lot of flak, but there were some GREAT games on Gamecube. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is probably my all time favorite game. I've played it over and over at least 5 times. Super Mario Sunshine was also really fun and I loved Luigi's Mansion.
I'll catch some flak for this, but Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a classic. After that they lost their touch.
It's brand new, but did anyone else love Bioshock Infinite?
Wind Waker was an awesome game. It is the only game I can recall that felt serene. Sailing around the world was fun and calming in itself.
It was fun at first until you had to sail from Windfall Island all the way to Outset in storm and rain for that one part haha.
I don't believe y'all.
1) Legend of Zelda. The original. Best game ever created. It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!
2) Super Mario Kart on Super Nintendo. The original. Best replay value and best multiplayer game ever. Rainbow Road, son. Koopa in race mode, Donkey Kong in battle mode.
3) Super Smash Bothers for GameCube. Also best replay value and also best multiplayer game ever. Mewtwo FTW.
I am so disappointed in all of you.
Dino Park.
Definitely have to include SSX Tricky, NBA street, and roller coaster tycoon
NBA street - goaltending was so fun, that was my defensive strategy
Ah, I forgot about SSX Tricky. Even the newest SSX wasn't bad. As a matter of fact, I may have to play that here today.
Never was super into NBA Street, but hell yes to the other two. I swear, roller coaster tycoon is half the reason I decided to study engineering.
Love roller coaster tycoon. The best was either trapping everyone into one square block or dropping people into water.
You're forgetting the best one! Making one of those coasters where it launches you up a diagonal track until you slow down and come back down. Except you would design it way too short and the car would go flying into the distance and explode.
I may be the odd man out on this, but I absolutely enjoyed Super Mario RPG on SNES. Of any Mario RPG type games, the first is definitely the best.
But I think a lot of LucasArts much earlier work is really good, nothing really recent. I'm talking like Dark Forces or Jedi Knight old.
And for some slightly older, but not Jedi Knight old, multiplayer goodness, can't forget Unreal Tournament.
Probably my favorite game ever was NFL Street. The 1st edition was so legit. It's a shame that they tried too hard on the subsequent versions and ruined it.
NHL Hitz 2003 was also freaking awesome. I'd just skate around leveling everyone for hours on end.
Up up down down left right left right a b a b select start....cant believe no one said Contra....and how about Ken Griffey Jr. baseball? My brother and I would spend days changing the names of the players based on the score baseball cards....classics....
I always remembered the Konami code as ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA Select Start. But only if you wanted two player. For one player, remove the Select.
Yes, Contra! My vote also for music most likely to get stuck in your head for hours.
Madden '98 reminds me on freshman year in Lee Hall
No mention of Double Dragon. Damn I am old
For my generation (class of 2007) I'll say that I'm appalled that Halo and Mario Kart 64 aren't in the top 5.. very appalled sir
Most of the post 2002 games that were super compliacted shoot em up affairs like Halo never really stuck to me. I thought the complexity of many of those games was tedious. I think that the overkill is why simple games are having a bit of a comeback.
TONY HAWK OR DIE.
I grew up on the N64 games and the NES that we still have.
Mario Kart: "I'm a Wario, imma gonna win"
Goldeneye: Slappers only and DK mode
LoZ OoT: I still hate navi
Banjo Kazooie
Dr. Mario on NES
DUCK HUNT
Street Fighter anyone???? Yoga Fire!!!
EHONDA
chun li was my girl. i hated when people picked e honda and just smacked the shit out of you the whole time.
Tiger Knee... Tiger Knee... Sagat was the BEST.
I never was a really into video games, but based on my very limited experience:
GoldenEye on N64 is indeed the best.
Oregon Trail is awesome. Although, I disregarded the whole "don't your waste your ammo on rabbits" thing, and pretty much just indiscriminately killed every animal between Independence, MO and wherever I ended up dying.
My list would have to include the first Halo. I have some great Middle/High School memories of playing CTF in Blood Gulch.
Also, Saturday Night Slam Masters on Super Nintendo.
I cant believe there is no mention of any of the pokemon games, those were and still are fantastic games that I put countless hours into.
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on GameBoy. One of my all time favorites and I can still remember some of the dialogue!
- Assassin Creed II, never did finish the game, but had an awesome time. My biggest gripe was how tedious and linear the game became as the chapters went on and on and on...
-NCAA Football 2011 and 2012. I love the fact I could customize the playbook and for two seasons, I ran a pure Air Raid offense with LT3 as the quarterback. He was pretty good, of course I tweaked with his settings.... Who have not done that, honestly?
-Ace Combat on the original PlayStation console.
-Conflict: Desert Storm I and II on PlayStation II I believe.
-Splinter Cell: Choas Theory, which was far better than the first one, and Pandora Tomorrow lost my interest from within the first 15 minutes of playing.
-Marvel's Ultimate Alliance I. Hands down the BEST superhero game I ever played although the next game was a major flop, IMO. Captain America FOREVER!
I HATED any Kart games I played...nothing got my blood pressure shooting through the roof than playing that game, and then seeing the go kart running off rainbow road...GRRR...
My first computer game I played back when Apple was the mainframe computer before Bill Gates got greedy...the original Sim City in black and white...back when the Apple computer looked like this!
Later, when my dad bought a Packard computer running Windows 3.1.11, he installed Microsoft Flight Simulator...which was the most realistic thing back then and he bought a joystick that came with it too!
Jeez, this thread brings back memories.
Did anyone else play Super Batter Up for SNES? I still play that game. Growing up, we had a league and kept stats in a spiral binder. I think the last player in that game finally retired.
YES. Loved that game and it basically taught me the rules of baseball
Unlike French my only criteria are the best games on consoles up to Game Cube.
Pong, anyone?
How has nobody mentioned the original Doom????????
Also, Super Smash Bros and Super Smash Bros Melee. (And Brawl, but that isn't classic.)
NFL/NBA/NHL 2K on the Dreamcast
Zelda Ocarina of Time
GOLDENEYE - License to Kill with pistols only. So good.
ToeJam and Earl anybody????
I could go on for days...
the mario baseball game for game cube holds a special place in my heart as well. the game was designed to produce offense-heavy, high-scoring games. but everytime my roommate mike and i played, the games were 1-0 or 2-1. one time we tied 0-0 because the game ran out of innings. we didn't know that was a thing. we are probably the only people in the history of that game to sac bunt. every game was a chess match and it was insane, because i mean, it was fucking mario characters playing baseball.
GAME OVER
Is that... SKI Free?! Win 95 represent!
NES- Dragon Warrior, Super Volleyball
SNES- Street Fighter 2 Turbo / MK 1 & 2
64- Goldeneye
old PC- Quake 2
Tecmo Super Bowl,Asteroids,NCAA Football 95,Contra,Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball and Nascar 2004.
WOW... No Gran Turismo yet? well.... consider it done!
So when did you quit buying the latest and greatest video game system? My latest investment was a PS2. I find it easy to stop by ebay or Game Stop to pick up a HOT new title for $2.00. I think I might have to go get NCAA 2011 now.
I totally forgot about some old computer games I used to play. The King's Quest series killed it. I think KQ4 was the one I liked the most. Back in the day when you'd come to a new screen and all you'd have to do it type "Look around" and it would tell you everything you needed to know. The first Hero's Quest was a long term addiction for me, too, although I think they changed the name of the series to Quest for Glory after that one game. Keapon Laffin was the shopkeeper. Predecessor to Hakuna Matata.
Anyone ever play Descent for DOS? Decent II was even better because you got twice the guns and missiles...
The entire strategy: fly around a mine and kill whatever robots you see, find the reactor, blow it up, then run away before you explode too...
One of the missiles even created a black hole right in front of you...
The good old days!!
my all time favorites
fps: goldeneye-so many late nights with my buddies. RCP-90 bitches!!
battlefield 3-so many late nights with people i dont know. i will shoot your stupid chopper right out of the sky with my tank
rpg: fallout 3-i had never seen anything like it. i played so much wandering the wastes felt like home
skyrim-played even more than fallout. my level 51 redguard will fuck your whole shit up legendary dragons!
sports: fifa 99-we used to put it on 45 min halves and have like 15-12 finishes.
ncaa 02? maybe 03. either way deangelo hall was faster than anybody else on the field. 100 yd int return for td ftw!!!
gta san andreas-it was just so massive and ambitious. i loved just cruising through the wilderness on a dirtbike or atv in between shootouts with the po-po. plus cj was the shit.
resident evil 2-truly scary in its day. i remember playing for like 10 hours one day and walking to my bedroom and as i approached the door i thought to myself, "will you open the door? -yes"
the best game ever made: the ocarina of time. everything was perfect, the story, the sandbox map, the soundtrack, the gameplay, the sense of wonder and adventure. that game changed my life and actually brought my then girlfriend now wife closer together.
honorable mentions:
tekken 2, mortal combat 3, rogue squadron, resident evil 4, megaman 2, the original legend of zelda
BF3 FTW. I've sunk a depressingly unmentionable amount of hours on that game.
After this someone will have to come up with a Super Smash Bros character power rankings/seeded tournament. Pikachu #1 overall in my mind.
i know this ones newer but fallout 3 anyone?! i put so many hours into that game, but super smash is still the most time consuming game, to this day me and my roommates still play it. We'll always say one more game which winds up being another hour or two...so addicting
war never changes
fuckin fallout 3. i remember the first time i walked over the ridge and saw downtown dc in the distance for the first time. it wasnt definitely a keanu level "whoooa" moment. that game just. . . wow. played through all the way twice. my second character was named tyrod and i did my best to make him look like t-mobile, but with a scraggly beard. probably about 300 hours of my life sunk into that game.
I have to give some input here, this has to be one of my favorite topics. No particular order just some I really seem to remember.
1.) Dragon Warrior. It was first true RPG I ever played and set the standard for all other RPGs moving forward.
2.) Final Fantasy II, VII, and FF Tactics. FF II was easy enough for a 10 year old but complicated for the older crowd. FF VII was great and the chocobo races were some of the best mini games ever. And final fantasy tactics was just amazing.
3.) Goldeneye of course. The 4 way play was great, and the varying tasks based on difficulty level was superb.
4.) Madden 93?94? on the genesis where you could just spin move emmitt smith for a touchdown ever time he ran the ball.
5.) Ncaa basketball for snes. It was back when the Big 12 was the Big 8 and Byron Houston was totally unstoppable for OSU. 3's, inside, outside, defense. Dominant.
6.) X-com Ufo defense for the PC. Real time strat. Turn based, i really hated the mind controlling Aliens bunch of pansy ass jerks.
7.) Contra, it got to the point where my and my brother would see how many times we could beat it without dying. Mother Brain really hated us.
8.) Zelda Ocarina of Time and Mario 64. Truly great sequels for the new system when it came out.
9.) World Series Baseball for the Dreamcast. yep i did the 162 game season baby!
10.) Double Dragon the Arcade version, elbow the crap out of the big dudes, if you tried to fight them straight up forget about it.
Man I could go on forever. Great thread.
World Series Baseball 2k1 on Dreamcast was TERRIBLE, but I sunk a crazy amount of time into that game. You couldn't even control the fielders!!!
I loved playing as Arvydas Sabonis in NBA98. Pump fake, up and under.
1. contra
2. NHL 94 for gensis - while no fighting, when you hurt the player for a short time they would lay on the ice and wiggle for a second. when you hurt them for the game, they would lay there motionless
3. mario kart for SNES
4. halo
5. nBA jam
what was the game where you're a spaceship and some levels is a side view and some where from overhead? you'd gain weapons like missiles that would follow the terrain of the map, but the real deal was when you'd get one or two little orbs that would also shoot your primary weapon.
1. Goldeneye 64. I am, to this day, undefeated in this game.
2. ...three way tie for me with Super Mario 3, Super Mario World: Yoshi's Island 1 & 2.
3. Chrono Cross/Trigger
4. GTA 3
5. Doom
honorable mentions: Streets of Rage, Double Dragons/Battletoads crossover, any Mario Kart, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Super Mario 64, Skyrim, Kingdom Hearts, THPS, Twilight Princess, Tekken, Halo CE... I could go on forever
I was always a big fan of Galaga at arcades, stores, etc.
Not actually a video game but I loved the game at the Tilt where you knock the clown's teeth out with a ball shooting air cannon.
This?
Not quite, more like this:
GTA III is about 95% of the reason my caffeine tolerance is so high. It was so addictive, you didn't notice you'd been playing for 8 hours and that you had single-handedly killed a case of Mountain Dew. The biggest problem with that game was that it taught kids terrible things, like that hookers help your health.
As a kid at Grandma's house during the summer with no school, I could sit on the computer from the time my mom dropped me off at like 830 until she picked me up at 6 with very few breaks that couldn't have totaled more than an hour and a half playing Humungous Entertainment's Backyard sports games...soccer baseball hockey football basketball...all of em. Too good
Backyard Football was the tits. Barry Sanders was ridiculous in that game.
Who needed the NFL stars when you had Pablo Sanchez? Kid did damn near everything.
Though Sanders was beast. Elway was also one of the better QBs
Bro, FUCK Pablo Sanchez. That little bastard was a nightmare.
And that's why you always had to make sure to get him early. Better you than the computer/other player
Goldeneye (n64)
Sim City 2000 (Windows)
Counter-Strike 1.6 (windows)
Super Mario World (snes)
Earthbound (snes)
Gran Turismo 3 (ps2)
NBA Jam (snes)
GTA 3 (ps2)
Red Alert (windows)
Double Dragon (snes)
Tecmo Super Bowl (NES)
Blades of Steel (NES)
Golden Eye
Halo
Super Smash Brothers (64)
Mario Kart (64)
Populous (sega)
The End
I can't believe no one has mentioned Sid Meier's Civilization II yet. My God that was addictive. My parents went out of town for a long weekend and I SLEPT in the computer chair, getting up only to pee and get food (to eat in front of the computer, naturally). The addictiveness of Sim City but on a GRAND scale. I can't play it or the sequels anymore for fear of child neglect.
Oh, and Goldeneye is the greatest dorm room game in the history of anything ever. And anyone who has gotten into FIFA can attest to it's versatility attributing to addictiveness. Want to play online? Boom, 15 minute games. Want to create a player and follow him for years? Start now and in two months, holy shit it's 2018 and your player is old. Want to manage a team from the 4th English division to European Champions? It can MAKE THAT HAPPEN, all in 15 minute chunks.
ohhhhhh FIFA... how much of my soul youve consumed in the past few years
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey 98
It had 3D in the title, that's how awesome it was.
I am really surprised nobody mentioned the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the SEGA Genesis console. I still get dizzy remembering Sonic navigating the loop-de-loop and collecting coins at a dizzying pace.
Does anyone remember the original Virtua Fighter? I seem to vaguely remember playing it in a department store and it was on an obscure gaming console that was the first to use disc before it took off. I think the name of the console was Saturn or something like that.
I'm also very disappointed nobody mentioned the arcade powerhouse Pac-Man or Galga. Very disappointed.
Sega Saturn!
I mentioned Galaga
My apologies, you did! +1.
is no one else on the crash bandicoot bandwagon? took me an entire week of nothing but playing to beat it perfectly and collect all the gems. I didn't have a memory card for my playstation, so I had to make a book of all the level passwords so I could keep my place.
Also Tiger Woods PGA tour is a Fantastic drinking game:
-loser(s) of each hole has to drink the diffrence in strokes off the winner
-hit it in the rough 1 drink
-hit it in the sand/water/out of bounds 2 drinks
its gets real hard when you get to the back nine and you've already had 5 beers... its not easy to hit the fairway when you've got a buzz going
We use to play Tiger Woods on the Wii in college when Joose first came out as a pregame. Our rules were simple you had to finish a Joose on the front nine and the back nine. 2 jooses' in 20-30 minutes always led to a good night.
Worst games of all time:
1) Friday the 13th- NES
2) Gradius- NES
3) Ghosts and Goblins (impossible to beat)- NES
4) Legend of Zelda- Huge waste of time.
5) RBI Baseball. Nothing but split fingers in the dirt. No hitting.- NES
My sleeper for the good list? Blades of Steel.
The only Legend of Zelda I ever played was on Game Boy. I have found Super Mario Bros to be the worst game because nothing was more frustrating than to miss a jump, fall down, and die. Touch a turtle and he dies. He is the worst plumber there ever was!
I believe he was talking about the original Legend of Zelda for the NES, where there was very little direction for anything and it was quite difficult to pick up. Now personally, I hate Zelda II much more, but that might just be me. Something about having a side-scrolling Zelda just doesn't jive well with me.
And come on, the threat of danger is what made those Mario games fun! Though finding Toad 7 times before finally reaching the princess would really piss me off... but that's what they made the warp pipes for.
i mentioned Blades of Steel above. I loved that game. Played it so much. What a classic
LEGEND OF ZELDA IS THE GREATEST GAME EVER CREATED
I like you, french, but you're overcookin' my grits.
This is all I can think of since this thread started.
This makes me want to watch "The King of Kong" so badly.
"But in the world of competetive gaming, when you wanna attach your name to a world-record, when you want your name written into history, you have to pay the price!"- Billy Mitchell
Can we have a separate thread for Game Flop of All Time?