Some of my favorite childhood games

DwnWthVwls · 11-30-2014, 12:19 PM

Edit: I won't be discussing any of the big name series like Mario, Sonic, etc. I feel like everyone knows about them. I want to showcase some of the less popular games you may or may not remember.

I'm gonna do a sort of mini series highlighting some of my favorite games from my childhood and each of the early systems up to about the super nintendo/genesis generation. Feel free to contribute some of yours as well. I'd say by age 3-5 I discovered my love for video games. Here are some of the games that I remember most, and sucked at big time.

Sega Master System

Montezuma's Revenge - this game was so freakin hard. I don't think I ever beat level one as a child. This was kind of like Metroid without the shooting. Run back and fourth finding keys to unlock areas and advance through the levels.

Alien Syndrome - I don't remember how far I got but this game kept me busy for hours. It's one of the better shooting games for the system that I can remember, and at the time the graphics were just amazing.

Penguin Land - Ahh, my first puzzle game along with Alex Kidd in High Tech World. Fun childish music, and difficult puzzles + some precision mechanical ability required. Good times. Get the egg to the bottom without breaking it. Watch out for the polar bears!

California Games - I played 2 of the games, Hacky Sack and BMX. The rest I found boring and I sucked at. Surfing was okay. I spent the most time on the BMX track, I remember being pretty amazing at it, but who knows, it was 23 years ago.

**Exo** · 11-30-2014, 12:25 PM

Key · 11-30-2014, 01:03 PM

Oh god, I love this thread already:

Diddy Kong Racing

Banjo Kazooie

I had a Nintendo 64 growing up. Didn't really play much of the other systems, until the Playstation 2 came out.

DwnWthVwls · 11-30-2014, 01:31 PM

As previously mentioned the Alex Kidd series:

in High Tech World - the starting area required you to answer questions about random stuff and solve some puzzles before you could break out into the adventure area/action area. Ohh, the music.

in Miracle World - this game jumps right into the action. Punching bad guys, getting money, and breaking blocks. Hours and hours of fun. I got pretty far in this one. My first experience with Rock, Paper, Scissor.

DwnWthVwls · 12-16-2014, 11:53 AM

Moving along to Nintendo!

X-Men - It was cool that you could play multiple characters. Fun obstacles and monsters to avoid. I was never a huge fan of the overhead games but I put a good chunk of time into this game.

Battletoads - This game was super hard. I loved how you could ride certain things, pick up weapons, and they kept the combat interesting by making consecutive hits build do a combo of sorts. Some level variety was nice as well.

T&C Surf Designs - This game gave California Games a run for it's money. They were different games but based around the same kind of sports and for it's time I think this one did a better job.

DwnWthVwls · 12-16-2014, 12:03 PM

Mario Bros - So a lot of people know Super Mario. But who remembers Mario Bros? Kill the bad guys who come out of the pipes. Co-op mode. This game was awesome, and difficult.

Werewolf: The Last Warrior - One of the lesser known side scrollers. I had fun being able to climb walls and transform. Just the idea of playing a bada$$ werewolf was so awesome to me when I was 7.

EPOCH6 · 12-16-2014, 12:11 PM

Oh lord here we go.

Plankton · 12-16-2014, 12:17 PM

Ok, old fucker coming through here...

On my Commodore 64

...again, on the C64

On my 80386 DOS. Lots of 5.25" diskettes.

On my Atari

Yes, I was around when this came out at the local pizza joint. Many hours, and many quarters.

Plankton · 12-16-2014, 12:23 PM

Awwww ****. I forgot about this one:

ribbons · 12-17-2014, 01:47 AM

We had Atari Pong too.

I remember being fascinated by this U-Drive-It game as a child. It was very high tech.

And playing this board game called Mensch ärgere Dich nicht with my German great-grandmother.

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Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Oh god, I love this thread already: Diddy Kong Racing Banjo Kazooie I had a Nintendo 64 growing up. Didn't really play much of the other systems, until the Playstation 2 came out.

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ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	We had Atari Pong too. I remember being fascinated by this U-Drive-It game as a child. It was very high tech. And playing this board game called Mensch ärgere Dich nicht with my German great-grandmother.