What games do you remember playing as a kid?

[anhedonia]

I was thinking about the Commander Keen series the other day, and am now googling it to download again. So I thought I'd post a related topic..

I think the first video game I ever played was Commander Keen. I'm not sure which title from the series, but I remember liking Commander Keen 4, 5 and 6 best, and finding 1, 2, and 3 quite difficult. Also a really old (probably the original) Indiana Jones game.

The funniest thing I remember, is having to go through and choose games to keep and games to delete due to running out of harddrive space.. And those games are tiny in file size!!

Then of course I had a NES, and I remember the Mario titles, a Disney World game I had, Kid Icarus and a weird little game called Uforia which I had a real fascination with. Then a SNES, on which one of my favourites was Donkey Kong Country 2. Then a GameBoy, and my first games were Super Mario Land, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Donkey Kong Land 2.

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As for board games, I have always loved Monopoly obsessively and I remember always wanting to play the Game of Life. When I got a bit older, I loved a game called Greed.

My favourite card games are Kent, Cheat, Hearts and of course Blackjack is an alltime favourite. Frustration is pretty good, too.

What about everyone else? :classic2:

[madmatt911]

lets see. im still a kid. i like to play socom online. clue is alot of fun. in elementary school we would play kill the carrier and dodgeball. does anybody else like that way the playground balls sound when the bounce? the oned with that small checkered line pattern? oh well.

[niv]

Duke Nukem and the original Wolfenstein...I was scarred back then by the pixelation and everything and I stayed away from FPSs for so long D:

[Conscript]

Duke Nukem - the first side scroller as well as the sequel to it. Crystal Caves! That looked very similar to Duke Nukem.

I didn't get serious about gaming until the first WarCraft game, and then WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness! Oh man, those are awesome. After WarCraft my big game was C&C Red Alert.

I also remember during my Windows 3.1 days playing Mad Dog, which was a live-action (like a movie, not drawn) game where you had to shoot at people randomly coming out.

[LeX]

I remember playing Keen 4... and some really weird dos games whose titles I've already forgotten. I loved playing C&C with my friend when it first came out. I think I played StarCraft a bit too...

Ah! Mortal Kombat.... those fatality and babitality moves were the thing back then. And Mario Kart 64 when it came out, it was hot. One kid buys an N64 and three other people get to save their money. Maybe that's why it never sold too well. :p

Oh yeah, Doom too. I can still remember some of the codes... iddqd ... idkfa or something like that. Very happy ammos. lol

[link92]

I can remember playing Gran Tourismo 4... About 5 minutes ago :D

[Gayowulf]

I still play commander keen.

I played the original duke nukem as well. Crystal caves too, and the Hugo games. Doom and ZZT and elastomania too.

I havent really played anything since.

[Archbob]

You guys aren't old-school enough, well maybe commander Keen. I was hard-core back in the days of Mario III and The Megaman 3 era.

[Robert]

I remember when I was a kid, we'd always play hide-n-seek. We prefer to playoutside vs a gaming system. Since we lived on an Army base, when a family would move out, we'd go into the emtpy house at night and play hide-n-seek in the house. I wish i was a kid agian.

[jmiller]

My favourite games as a kid were Mortal Kombat and Yoshi's Island for SNES. And my favourite computer games was Rise of the Triad.

I didn't play games when I was any younger. :/

[Hoth]

I grew up on Jungle Hunt, Final Legacy, Pac Man, Centipede... all the good Atari 400 games. Or later on once we had a real computer, Wolfenstein was my first. Always liked Commander Keen, Hugo was good for variety. Lightspeed (a sort of galactic exploration/conquest game) was one of my favorites, and then there was an odd factory one... Night Shift I think it was. Plus there were some fun primative ones I made in qbasic that I still go back and try every few years.

[Wojtek]

First viedo games I played were the mario series on the NES at my cousin's

Then for christmas me and my friend got a SNES and Genesis.
But our parents mixed up the boxes and wrote my name on the snes and his on the genesis.

We opened the boxes but were dissapointed, but the parents rescued christmas by saying good ol santa mixed up the boxes and we were happy ever since :p

I was a Sonic fan. Owned every Sonic game on the genesis
Then got a computer. On the PC I owned SonicCD, NFS1, NFS2SE, NFS3, NFS4 and NFS5.
Also played Starcraft and GTA and GTA2 and thats about the only games I played.

/me not a gamer


also got a Dreamcast for my sister, with Sonic 1 & 2 :p

I always loved speed

Wait, I also had a GameBoy (those grey bricks :p) with mario something 2. cool game, but I lost it.

[rhianna]

I loved playing a game called "Headache" -- it had dice in the "pop-o-matic" :classic2:

I used to play a lot of card games with neighbor kids. We played a game called "I Doubt It."

I played Parchesi & Monopoly a lot.

I remember when "Pong" first came out as a video game :biggrin2:

[Nick]

For NES Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Dizzy the Adventurer, and Micro Machines Racing were my favorites. I also used to be addicted to Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Tetris, and Super Mario Land 2 for Game Boy.

[Wojtek]

Super Mario Land 2 for Game Boy.
yea, that was it :classic2:

[notnamed]

I was an oldschool Mac gamer. Castles - Siege and Conquest, The Hunt for the Red October, some jetfighter game, etc. The only one I was halfway decent at was Castles. In Red October, I didn't know what I was doing, so I'd just go towards the USA. Then crash and die. It was fun.
Oh, I loved destroying the prebuilt cities in SimCity, and the cities other kids built on the SC2k installation at the public library. :D

[niv]

The little red monster...

[bozley05]

PC: Commander Keen, Sam & Max, Day of the Tenticle, Duke 3D, Sim City 2000
Mac: Where in the world in Carmen Sandiego?
NES: Mario series, Duck Hunt, California Games, some Simpsons game

[tandoc]

keen, duke3d, doom 1/2, solitaire, minesweeper...

on snes it'd be mario, mario 2 and 3, mario kart, mario paint.. i had mostly mario games.. donkey kong (not oldskoooool one though) 1-3 we're also good...

then i had an n64...

outside.. we'd play hide 'n' seek in this HUUUUGEEE apartment complex when i used to live in the states... easily 200mx200m with ----loads of places to hide.. and marco polo and such in the pool during summer vacation.. those were the days..

now i just wake up at midday and go on here to talk to you guys :(

[Blank Verse]

I mean, yeah, we rocked Mario and Duck Hunt when we got our Nintendo, but it didn't deter us from playing Capture the Flag in the streets all summer.

[tandoc]

!!! ctf.. i forgot all about that.. way too much ut and q3 for me...

[anhedonia]

Haha, I remember that old original Duke Nukem. And Crystal Caves. And Jazz Jackrabbit. Monster Bash. Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure.

But nothing beats the great Mario 1 memories. I lived in front of my SNES forever, mostly playing Super Mario World. Yoshi used to be the coolest. :classic2:

Has anyone played Kent or Cheat? (card games)

And I loved dodgeball. What a great game.

[Gayowulf]

YES!! JAZZ JACKRABBIT. that game ruled.

And I remember playing Odell Lake and Cross Country Canada, and Oregon Trail on the old apples in elementary school.

I've never owned a gaming console, and have never really used one for more than 5 minutes at a time. it's all i can do to beat any given level in any given super mario game.

[Blank Verse]

I managed to download Cross Country Canada last year after months of trying. That game was so cool in computer class in Grade 5.

[Gayowulf]

I managed to download Cross Country Canada last year after months of trying. That game was so cool in computer class in Grade 5.

I remember always crashing because I was ravenous. I didn't know what it meant.

I also remember rapeseed being my favourite cargo because it sounded dirty.


And I only have one thing to say about Oregon Trail: "Jed has Cholera"

[bozley05]

Hide 'n' seek, hell yeah... we used to have kick --- games, especially during one period, where houses were being built on either side of my block, so 3 time 1 acre blocks with lots of trees, shrubs and a valley with lots of inconsistent terrain, and probably snakes. One game would last for like 30 minutes.

Riding bikes around was also a favourite pastime, especially considering I live on a mountain and my street back then was on a 30-40 degree angle.. got some killer speeds, measured like 65km/h on my speedo.

[anhedonia]

[QUOTE=Gayowulf]YES!! JAZZ JACKRABBIT. that game ruled.
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Jazz Jackrabbit is coming out/is out on gameboy, apparently.

Hey, has anyone played that REALLY old computer game, Sleuth? You wander around a pretty much-text based world searching for the killer and examining objects and stuff.. When you find the murder weapon it says the donkey has blood on it in all creepy red and stuff :p. (Obviously, the murder weapon is very obviously a donkey).

I love riding bikes! I always have. I still do. I love my bike ;).

In the last year of high school, we played this massive game of hide and seek through the streets. I remember sneaking into a block of flats and hiding in there. Crazy fun.

[tandoc]

30 minutes? you guys must've really sucked at hiding. i was managed to evade being found for 3 hours.. then it occured to me they just ditched me... well, not really..

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on the topic of bikes.. mine was stolen from my train station a few weeks ago.. if i ever see someone riding it, i'll chase them down, kick them off, and shove my backpack up their ---, sideways... however, the joke's on them, it was a crappy bike :bandit2:

[bozley05]

yeh, well i've hidden for about 90 minutes once, I was just giving an average.. You can have my bike if you, but I think it's rusted over, haven't used it since I have lived near public transport, which was like in 2000.. It's a goofy mountain bike (21 gear???) with front suspension thats jammed.

i never got into the whole "cool kid" bmx thing..

[anhedonia]

Who can hide for more than 30 minutes? zz..I only lasted 30mins because someone else was hiding in the flats, too. :p

[tandoc]

i can, because it usually involves me going to the pool, and they don't realise that i have... then several others join me, and we forget about the game and end up playing marco polo.. so really.. I WAS NEVER ACTUALLY CAUGHT!!!

(apartment complex, not vertical, big space, had a pool)

[niv]

Wacky Wheels, anyone?

[Robert]

Oregon trail anyone? Must have been played in uhhh ~2nd/~3rd grade (1992-1993).

[Blank Verse]

Yeah man...like Gayo said...Jed has cholera. I shot so many buffalo in that game...it ended up killing me because the herd was spread too thin.

[jmiller]

Hah, how did I forget Oregon Trail? That one was also a classic.

Not really a game, but did anyone ever have to use 'Hypercard' as a kid in school? That program was _awesome_.

[Bruce]

I was never much into video games growing up... the first game I can remember playing is SimCity 2000 on the lovely Mac Performa 5210s at school.

I never had any game consoles or computers of my own 'til I was older.

[Robert]

I just d/led Oregon Trail.. man.. lol i love this game.

[bozley05]

What about.....

Gorillas (Q-Basic)?????

I had great fun with that..


And stunts.. the racing game where you could make your own course, go DOS!!!!

[jmiller]

haha, Gorillas was alot of fun.

I still have Gorillas.bas on my Tandy.

[tandoc]

haha, i loved that.. and nibbles too...

[niv]

And...MONEY.BAS

I never quite understood why that was there.

[jmiller]

Money.BAS was some simple accounting program, wasn't it?

I mean, it served no real purposes. All the included .BAS files were just example of what you _could_ do.

[niv]

True...did anyone get that QBASIC+ game pack? There was one addictive game with barrels...

[Blank Verse]

man, you could change the settings to absolutely ridiculous in Gorillas...the explosions could take up the entire screen sometimes.

[jmiller]

yeah, i remember modifying Gorillas.BAS to do the craziest things.

Oh man, those were the good old days.

[Gayowulf]

how about scorched earth?


Robert: where did you find a download of Oregon Trail? I wouldn't mind playing that game again.

[niv]

I have the Oregon Trail PC game...don't ask why. It was made near the end of the 90s or later, but it has updated graphics and fishing and plant gathering...wow.

[Gayowulf]

I have the Oregon Trail PC game...don't ask why. It was made near the end of the 90s or later, but it has updated graphics and fishing and plant gathering...wow.

I must have this.

[Toefur]

The Underdogs has Oregon Trail. It's a pretty cool game.

I started off on games like Kings Quest & Monkey Island.

Actually we had all this Qbasic stuff too. Half of it didn't make any sense to me. But there was lots of stuff.

[Blank Verse]

I must have this.


nah, it's gotta be the original or nothing.

[Jan]

Cowboys and Indians and hide and seek :p 18acres was good for games :)

[Blank Verse]

yeah, I could do a lot with that much space. That was awesome. I usually did well enough with your standard backyard.

[niv]

18 acres would make a nice server farm. :p

And Gayo, it's 4 CDs (3 game CDs, 1 install)

[Hoth]

Oregon trail anyone? Must have been played in uhhh ~2nd/~3rd grade (1992-1993).

That's a memory I've been trying to repress for a long time. They could not have designed a more boring game to try to zap computer interest out of me than that one, and we were constantly being forced to play it in school. Yes, ford the river again... shudder. Perhaps I wouldn't hate it as much now, but it annoyed me then.


What about.....

Gorillas (Q-Basic)?????

Don't forget qbasic's Nibbles. I miss qbasic. (Actually I've got a copy of it, but it won't run through wine in linux and the games run way too fast on modern computers anyhow).

[Gayowulf]

Cowboys and Indians and hide and seek :p 18acres was good for games :)

wouldn't it be Cowboys and Abos in Australia?

[bozley05]

Cowboys and Indians... Is that anything like cops and robbers?

[tandoc]

wouldn't it be Cowboys and Abos in Australia?

more like government and abos :eek2:

i also remember spending the summer (when i was in america) playing n64, monopoly and having bombing contests in the pool, just to piss off the (teenagers and adults) people that were trying to get it on...

[Fuzzylogic]

not very potically correct :rolleyes2 ...

these games are way to new, does anyone remember digger? (a remake can be found at www.digger.org) or alleycat ?. These are the games i remember playing back in teh day on our 8088. fanastic games that could be played for hours and i could never got bored of. oldman2

[anhedonia]

Are you talking about Digger T. Rock? That came out on the NES at some stage.

[Toefur]

not very potically correct :rolleyes2 ...

these games are way to new, does anyone remember digger? (a remake can be found at www.digger.org) or alleycat ?. These are the games i remember playing back in teh day on our 8088. fanastic games that could be played for hours and i could never got bored of. oldman2

Dude! We used to play alley cat in the 80's! Man, I even rescued that game from old 5 inch floppies and I have it on this computer! Totally awesome game!

Pity I can't attach it here... it's only like 57kb.

[Dragonlordgod]

Pac Man. It was so fun. :eek2: But now...It doesn't seem fun anymore. :wink2:

[anhedonia]

Space Invaders. Mm, invaders. :classic2:

[Fuzzylogic]

Dude! We used to play alley cat in the 80's! Man, I even rescued that game from old 5 inch floppies and I have it on this computer! Totally awesome game!

Pity I can't attach it here... it's only like 57kb.

80's that era of great classic gaming, where no matter how many different times you played something you could never got bored of it. i can't think how many hours i spend playing those games and never really getting bored with them.

[Webdude]

I have many of the NES/SNES games on my forums. PM, DK, etc, etc. Between one and two hundred games. Thats where I play them all now.

I remember when you had to go to the mall to play video games. Then came pong, then Atari. I loved some of those games. Games like space invaders, star wars, tank. Oh yeah, that tank game was so the coolest. Others like missile commander and yars revenge.