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Street Fighter anyone???? Yoga Fire!!!
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.
Don't forget Skate or Die!
Love roller coaster tycoon. The best was either trapping everyone into one square block or dropping people into water.
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
TONY HAWK OR DIE.
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
No mention of Double Dragon. Damn I am old
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!
Although Musberger seems to be getting easily distracted in his old age...
This is something that I don't think exists outside of Lane, but game video with Roth and Burnop doing the game would be ideal. Quite frankly, I think we have one of the best radio duos out there. I'd replace most anyone on TV with them if I could, with perhaps the exception of Musberger. I don't think we ever had Keith Jackson do one of our games (I think his Mussness did the 99 NCG?), but that would have been a classic. Jackson was the best ever.
I always remembered the Konami code as ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA Select Start. But only if you wanted two player. For one player, remove the Select.
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....
It's been done, and done well by Michigan for #LOLTREDAME, but some fast paced video footage of #UVAFAIL set to "Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill theme song) would be so choice. Perhaps with some extra emphasis on London running out the clock on his own team at the end of the Commonwealth Cup.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NBA street - goaltending was so fun, that was my defensive strategy
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
I'll tell you this, every time a Hokie game completes, win or lose, I want to see the highlights. The complete highlights. I appreciate to no end the 'every play'-type video, with commercials and the like cut out, but when I go for the highlight tape (on any website, whether it be ESPN, SI, Yahoo, whatever), there are always critical and/or awesome plays that get left on the cutting room floor. Or some announcer lines that should live on, but get lost because they aren't during the actual plays. So I guess my request is a comprehensive highlight tape for games.
Let's not forget, though, that part of documenting the team and season isn't just the thrill of victory. Whether we win or lose, there are tension-filled moments throughout the game that make the ending what it was (I think back to Miami LoganSneak. We were up in that game, Miami came back, then we won, but that is lost on the highlight reel. Or when we lost at home to Matt Ryan. The final toss, or even the TD-OnSide-TD sequence loses the impact of the entire game).
Don't get me wrong, a highlight tape of each time Logan laid someone out would be epic. But a narrative of the game/team/season in the way it felt at the time is something that only YOU, BillDozer, can deliver.
Oh, and an everybody-since-Torrian-Gray-15-year-long-summary-of-DBU would be money. With all the guys.
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.
I was wondering how long I'd have to go before someone said this... It basically consumed my entire 6th-8th grade
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.