What 3 games define your childhood?

[NZA]

this is at a very young age...

double dribble
bubble bobble
air diver

 

[Point Blank]

Madden 2002
Halo 2
Socom 2

Them 2s was hittin for me

 

[Address_Unknown]

Got it on a whim for Christmas. Didn't know what an RPG was, but at the time I knew Mario could do no wrong, so I circled it in the Jc Penny Catalogue and took a chance on it. This had to had been before I wasted a rare gaming opportunity in asking for Mario is Missing, so I was confident in making guesses like that. I didn't live in America and around the time this came out, we had no Internet, and virtually no media on it, so I was going off of Box art.

Needless to say, I spent all of Christmas Night playing the fukk out of this game well into the morning when all my cousins came over to play MK and I had to reluctantly turn it off and play that. shyt was magical from helping Mallow find out about his heritage to facing off with the Axem Rangers and the secret overpowered character in that fukking Dojo.....let me just stop.

Around the time the Playstation came out, I saved up enough Quarters and dollar bills to pay for my own unit so at this point in time, I was copping shyt for myself, so I had way more freedom. I'd been following up on Final Fantasy 8 for so long and wanted to get down on in the MINUTE it came out since by that time I was already neck deep in Rpgs (Tactics/Saga Frontier/Alundara/Arc The Lad/ Star Ocean 2..not sure of the chronology but still) and knew that whatever this game was, I'd be able to stomach it just for that FF8 Demo.

Turned it on....and had the second best RPG experience of my life behind playing Super Mario Rpg for the first time. From the music, to the characters, the simple yet satisfying gameplay coupled with all that charisma chibi characters like that had back in the day without too much sass. I bought the second one off the strength of the title only to be horribly dissapointed with the art and gameplay style that had none of the charm of the original and couldn't even muster up any of it's own. It's a shame the playstation store in America never had this title. It's an awesome game.

You see the name, right? I fukks with this series HEAVY and would love to see a prequel or a remake of the first two with the new(er) physics engine of 3. Apart from the annoying baby levels, this shyt had it all, black humour, an engaging storyline, memorable characters and locations, narrated beautifully in a Noir York meets twin peaks like style that carried on in the second and was completely omitted in the 3rd one because Rockstar lost their ability to pay proper writers to make funny stuff in their games and just bludgeon you over the head with volume rather than substance and without Remedy's talented team at the creative control helm, we had to endure Kerry King Max Payne which speaks for itself.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal
Turok Evolution
Finding Nemo

 

[Just like bruddas]

Metal Gear Solid
Xenogears
Call of Duty

 

[Just like bruddas]

Got it on a whim for Christmas. Didn't know what an RPG was, but at the time I knew Mario could do no wrong, so I circled it in the Jc Penny Catalogue and took a chance on it. This had to had been before I wasted a rare gaming opportunity in asking for Mario is Missing, so I was confident in making guesses like that. I didn't live in America and around the time this came out, we had no Internet, and virtually no media on it, so I was going off of Box art.

Needless to say, I spent all of Christmas Night playing the fukk out of this game well into the morning when all my cousins came over to play MK and I had to reluctantly turn it off and play that. shyt was magical from helping Mallow find out about his heritage to facing off with the Axem Rangers and the secret overpowered character in that fukking Dojo.....let me just stop.

Around the time the Playstation came out, I saved up enough Quarters and dollar bills to pay for my own unit so at this point in time, I was copping shyt for myself, so I had way more freedom. I'd been following up on Final Fantasy 8 for so long and wanted to get down on in the MINUTE it came out since by that time I was already neck deep in Rpgs (Tactics/Saga Frontier/Alundara/Arc The Lad/ Star Ocean 2..not sure of the chronology but still) and knew that whatever this game was, I'd be able to stomach it just for that FF8 Demo.

Turned it on....and had the second best RPG experience of my life behind playing Super Mario Rpg for the first time. From the music, to the characters, the simple yet satisfying gameplay coupled with all that charisma chibi characters like that had back in the day without too much sass. I bought the second one off the strength of the title only to be horribly dissapointed with the art and gameplay style that had none of the charm of the original and couldn't even muster up any of it's own. It's a shame the playstation store in America never had this title. It's an awesome game.

You see the name, right? I fukks with this series HEAVY and would love to see a prequel or a remake of the first two with the new(er) physics engine of 3. Apart from the annoying baby levels, this shyt had it all, black humour, an engaging storyline, memorable characters and locations, narrated beautifully in a Noir York meets twin peaks like style that carried on in the second and was completely omitted in the 3rd one because Rockstar lost their ability to pay proper writers to make funny stuff in their games and just bludgeon you over the head with volume rather than substance and without Remedy's talented team at the creative control helm, we had to endure Kerry King Max Payne which speaks for itself.

I wanted to say Brave Fencer Musashi but I only played it once. Still one of the best RPGs I have ever played

 

[Grifter]

Mario Bros 3
Turtles in Time
Pokemon Blue/Gold

 

[Rakim Allah]

Childhood 5-12

 

[Mister_DoItNice]

I gotta go with:

Street Fighter Alpha II
Goldeneye
NBA Live 99

 

[Lucky Millionaire]

Super Smash Bros. Melee
Pokemon RBY
Capcom vs SNK 2

Honorable Mentions:
Super Mario World
Metal Gear Solid
Mega Man X
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
NBA Jam
Battletoads
Street Fighter 2

 

[Linc]

SF 2 Champion Edition
Sonic 2
Mortal Kombat 2 Arcade

replace sonic 2 with Mario 1 or the original dragon warrior on nes and that’s my list

used to fukk up the older kids at the arcade in the mall on lunch in junior high

 

[DuncanWebayama]

Chrono trigger, killer instinct, donkey kong

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

jeeeeez thats tough imma have to be a cheating a$$hole and name more than 3 because they are too close to call

tier 1
super mario 3
tyson punch out
toejam and earl
mario kart
goldeneye

tier 2
ken griffey 64
madden 97
pokemon r/b
nba live 95
smash bros

honorable mention to sonic and PAPERBOY

 

[Regular_P]

Breh I saw this on youtube today after watching games that define you on all def digital and almost . I used to put in HOURS on these games. Live '95 was the greatest game ever at the time. That golden state line up of chris webber, latrell sprewell, Tim hardaway, and Chris Mullen .


Coach k in 95. That UNC line up with rasheed Wallace, Jerry Stackhouse and Jeff McGinnis
I really felt like these games couldn't be topped back then.

Only the know bout these classics.

Last one was doom on sega genesis. I remember playing this for hours on Friday and Saturday nights till 2 or 3 in the morning.


What top 3 games took up all of your time as a kid and holds a special place to you?

Used to play Live with the fouls turned off with a friend. It was like Arch Rivals basketball after that.

My top three would probably be:

Super Mario World
Final Fantasy VII
Doom 2 on PC

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

pc honorable mentions

civilization
age of empires
sim city
counterstrike
solitaire