I had been through four consoles and five jobs before most of the games in the notes had come out.
My top five were virtually chiselled on stone tablets by comparison :)
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While it didn’t make my list, I played a crazy amount of NFSMW
Off the top of my head:
- Karate Champ II (arcade)
- Pac-Land (arcade)
- Gryzor aka Contra (Amstrad CPC)
- Sorcery (Amstrad CPC)
- Xenon (Atari ST)
Oh wait, Elite (BBC, Amstrad, and ST) — probably more so than Xenon.
- Star Fox 64, for sure
- Half Life was a very big deal for me. Couldn’t finish it when I was 8 because it was too scary, and it felt absolutely amazing coming back at 15 and blowing through it.
- Turok 2 seeds of evil. Didn’t play it outside of using the cheats. It was basically a gore Sim for me.
- LoZ series was a very big deal.
- Much later, Armored Core 4 and 4A would make me obsessed with good mech gameplay.
Man, it’s hard stratifying games you care about, especially when you have a massive log of them that all impacted you in one way or another. There were a bunch of free Linux games that I have very fond memories of too, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Abuse, etc. Also a bunch of weird niche games and demos, like One Must Fall and Food Fight and Fur Fighters. It’s an impossible task, honestly.
- Zork Zero
- Streetfighter II
- Diablo
- GoldenEye
- World of Warcraft
My top 5 were (in no particular order):
- Pokemon Diamond
- Star Wars Battlefront: Rogue Squadron (PSP)
- Fossil Fighters
- Skyrim
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- Pikachu volleyball. Legends, we played it in computer class
- Dota. The OG of moba
- snakes. The only game in our phone
- suikoden
- ff8
I m old.
You really aren’t.
The first one on my list was a game in the arcade, then a game on the Atari 2600 :)
Listing ff8 hurts, my list didn’t have a number attached to ff.
- Unreal Tournament
Don’t remember which game specifically, but the moment when you’re escaping out if the bowels of a living planet is unforgettable. Also the game is overall kinda creepy, I had hard time playing it lol.
- Borderlands 1/2
More towards my mid-teens, found about borderlands. Played it through and through, found great people in borderlands forums, it introduced me to so many good songs that are at the top of my playlists to this day. Two very great games.
- TF2
Speaks for itself. There will never be a game remotely close to how good TF2 was. Even TF2 itself.
Also some honorable mentions:
- A strategy game where you play as a mech that goes nuclear when destroyed, name is long forgotten sadly
- I’m Going In 2
- Hitman Silent Assassin
- Counter Strike 1.6/Source
And only recently I discovered World of Warcraft, specifically Wrath of the Lich King. Don’t really have anyone to play with, but sometimes it’s fun tanking for the entire group of randoms. I really enjoy tanking, when I know where to lead the group to lol.
Supreme commander?
Definitely supreme commander
Based on the dates of the other games listed, I think it’s more likely Total Annihilation. In fairness, Supreme Commander is a spiritual successor; there’s also Planetary Annihilation. And I’ll just leave this here in case it’s of interest…
Yea :D I played both total annihilation and supreme commander, so they blend in my memory a bit
A strategy game where you play as a mech that goes nuclear when destroyed, name is long forgotten sadly
Total Annihilation.
Supreme Commander as mentioned by others was the spiritual successor but I recall it didn’t fill the shoes of TA.
I haven’t played this yet, but I’ve heard Beyond All Reason is a very good Total Annihilation-like: https://www.beyondallreason.info/
Omg yes, it’s actually both, I played both of them. Thank you!
Morrowind Ocarina of Time Donkey Kong Country The Sonic chaos game on dreamcast Time splitters
Oh man, I remember playing time splitters at my buddies place. We spent so much time building custom maps
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Commander keen
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Wingnuts
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Burn:Cycle
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Myst
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Duke Nukem (the first one but also 3D)
Wingnuts was a dumb fmv ‘dog fighting’ game, but when you beat it you could play it again with silly dialogue. I also remember when setting up the sound card the test audio was a guy saying ‘ah veiners, just ze vay I like zem!’ In a bad German accent.
Burn:Cycle was an fmv adventure game that I adored, it also came with a sound track cd and a little packet of leaflets based on in game stuff that was really cool. I still listen to the ost on occasion
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- Super Mario World
- LoZ : Link to the Past / LoZ : Ocarina of Time
- FFVIII
- Super Smash Bros.
- Ragnarok Online
Very similar to mine except I had Link’s Awakening (instead of LttP) and FF7
I really miss Ragnarok Online. Some friends and I played on iRO while that was free for a bit and then later on euRO. The monthly fee was a significant fraction of my pocket money as a highschool kid but totally worth it
- StarCraft
- Heretic
- Diablo
- Quake
- Half Life / Counterstrike
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Super Mario 64
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Pilot Wings 64
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Balloons Tower Defense
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Portal 2
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Banjo Kazooie: nuts and bolts (I dont care if it killed the franchise, I really enjoyed this game)
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- Zork
- Civilization
- Daggerfall
- MechWarrior 2
- The Journeyman Project
I played a lot of Atari and Collecovision as a kid, but games didn’t feel “important” until my family bought our first PC. After that, game consoles in general stopped being important. It was a new world of possibility.
Journeyman was amazing! Great story and pretty amazing 3D rendered graphics for the time.
In rough chronological order:
Starflyers
Mario Kart
Shadow cities
COD zombies (ios app version)
Minecraft
I’m stopping this list before high school, as I built my first PC and figured out emulation, so I started playing a lot more games.
What an interesting way to look at demographics!
