What is your "Back in my day" game?

Playing Revenge of Shinobi and fighting bosses like the Terminator and Spider-man. Also Splatterhouse 2 and chainsawing demon fetuses lynched on a rope and that was just a slice of what that game was like.

If you're asking "what games do you remember from when you were a kid?", then I guess that'd mostly be Mrs. Pac-Man, Robotron 2084, Star Wars, Zaxxon, and so on. If you're asking "what games were popular or a big part of your life when you first started getting into gaming?" then I'd have to say Counter-Strike, Quake, and Unreal (I didn't start playing videogames until I was in my early twenties, in the late 90s).

Rogue Squadron, back on the N64. That game was the motherfucking shit.

The original Sims, fuck these madmen who say The Sins 3 is better than The Sims. Back in my day we didn't 't need a silly acing process or fancy DNA systems, you got a Sim and you liked it!

Ghost Recon on the Xbox :)

No auto aim, having to line up long range kills with binoculars...amazing

So many back in the day memories to choose from...one of the best was when I first reserved Street Fighter 2 to rent on SNES at Game Trader and then rode my bike the 10K down to the store to get it...maybe that or hours spent playing Final Fantasy 2 or Lost Vikings with my step-mom (the latter forcing us to call the Nintendo hotline to get the solution to one of the puzzles)

@Hizang said:

The original Sims, fuck these madmen who say The Sins 3 is better than The Sims. Back in my day we didn't 't need a silly acing process or fancy DNA systems, you got a Sim and you liked it!

FUCK YEAH, SIMS! Drew carey would come over and party likme a motherfuckerer!

@ShaggE said:

@Hizang said:

The original Sims, fuck these madmen who say The Sins 3 is better than The Sims. Back in my day we didn't 't need a silly acing process or fancy DNA systems, you got a Sim and you liked it!

FUCK YEAH, SIMS! Drew carey would come over and party likme a motherfuckerer!

I always got that sad depressing clown, god that game was amazing. It's heartbreaking that the last update for my Mac stops me from being able to play The Sims Complete Collection. I hope it goes on GOG or something, I really want to play it again.

@Hizang Agreed, so much cheaper through GOG, too. Also, I'm coming down, so yay for embarrassment at my previous post.

I don't know why but a batman game for the snes I don't even remember the name

Blades of Steel.  Now that is a goddamn motherfucking hockey game.  
 
back in my day you loaded your games on to your computer via several floppy disks.  you crossed you fingers once everything installed that it would work.  the odds of everything working correctly on first attempt was, or seemed to be, less than 20%.  if it booted and you got a framerate in excess of 10fps, you dug in and you liked it.  D:
 
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Also if you wanted to know which games were coming out in the future, you had to go to a store and buy a magazine for that information.  or stand there and browse until the shopkeep shooed you away. 
 

@cky4890

I don't know why but a batman game for the snes I don't even remember the name 

Well back in my day we didn't have the internet or the ability to go online and whine and then have "Ok, let's hold your hand you inbred imbecile"-dlc released for our games. 
Patches for games weren't a thing either. 
 
And we liked it! 
 
(So I guess, a lot of games are like that, to me?

Hmm. I've got some stories here for sure.

Back in my day, we've had games on tapes. TAPES. Loading them up would take a solid hour, and any rapid movement would totally crap-up the loading process. I remember piles, and PILES of tapes. When you played them back on a radio, the noise was almost like the one made by the 56k modems. Only, like, 30 minutes long.

Later on, when we've had our first PC, it had a black n' white monitor. Yeah, those were a thing. I remember the change to a color one was mind blowing. Playing Stunts on that monitor was AWESOME.

When we've had a 386, there was this HI LO button on the tower. I think most people here know what I'm talking about. A button next to a digital display, when pressed, it would change the speed of the CPU, from high to low and back again. The digital display had those cool green letters on it HI or LO. It didn't look like it changed much, but we kept it on HI anyhow.

Later on, I was bummed out about our monitor not having the necessary resolution to play Sims. It was all like, "You have to have a monitor that can display a 1024x768 resolution." You HAVE to be kidding me. No other game placed this stupid-ass requirement. Screw you Sims.

I also remember when I downloaded a bootleg copy of Forrest Gump. It was unwatchable, it looked absolutely horrible. The pixels were the size of coins. We watched it anyway. We downloaded it from Kazaa. Heh. We were lucky it wasn't a virus infested file, or some gay porn.

@TwoLines said:

We downloaded it from Kazaa. Heh. We were lucky it wasn't a virus infested file, or some gay porn.

Ah man, P2P back in the day, post-Napster was a wild wasteland. I was late to the whole torrent scene.

Back in my day, "social gaming" was me trying to figure out how to network lab computers to play Doom multiplayer at school. I think I pulled it off once with ample time to teach one of my friends how to get on doom and actually start playing. Closest I ever got to a LAN party.

My earliest memory were old school DOS games, a golf game specifically, but my first real gateway drug into gaming was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 when I got a genesis for my birthday when I was 6.

Back in my day we had nothing but two rectangles and a ball on the screen.

@Slay3r1583 said:

Damn kids. Back in my day this way the epitome of gaming.

Now get off my lawn.

This, but I'll add another...

Back in my day we didn't have your fancy graphics. Hell, some of the best games didn't have any graphics at all.

And that's the way we liked it!

Brian Lara Cricket for the Mega Drive. It's certainly not the oldest game I played, or the first, but god damn if I don't have vivid memories of trekking barefoot through the snow for five miles every day just to get to Brian Lara Cricket.

Wait, wrong story.

My point is: that game is now old as sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

I was a Castlevania kid. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse was a defining moment for me, though I never did have the talent to finish it--and neither do you guys, for that matter.

Back in my day (high school), me and some friends would co-opt the local YMCA's network of 386s and play us some Doom I death match. We had to down the resolution, which back then actually made the game much smaller on screen - no upscaling - to get it to run up to speed. Mouselook, what's that? We'd all be sitting there faces inches from our giant CRTs for hours at a time. Probably gave me cancer. Those were the days.

Spyro, Sonic, Jak'n'Daxter and Ratchet'n'Clank. So basically cute mascots, exploration, collecting and platforming. I wasn't a Mario 64 kid though, which is crazy in retrospect. That's if we are talking about the "I'm really young and games are kind of like magic" age.

Otherwise I would probably just ramble incoherently about Jrpgs, Devil May Cry and Quake.

Back in my day the arcade scene was relishing the Mortal Kombat series was on top of the world people wrote and brought move list to the arcade seeing some one pull off a fatality for the first time was a holy shit moment everybody would smile or laughed out of enjoyment.

@Demoskinos said:

Defender. Shoot all the peoples and watch them aliens FLIP THE FUCK OUT.

Good choice. For me it's probably some Commodore 64 stuff like that. I'd probably pick Defender, Commando and The Great Giana Sisters. After that, it's some stuff from the NES and SNES era like The Adventure of Link and Super Mario World.

Probably Doom along with Super Mario Bros.

Back in my day player one was blue and player two was red, we dealt with punks using sticks and knives

The SNES era. Zelda, Mario, and all the JRPGs like Secret of Mana or Terranigma. Hell, nostalgia... ._.

A Link to the Past was the first game I thought of. Followed by Shining Force II. But, really, just the whole SNES/Genesis era.

Vectorman! Such a great game

Fuggin monster rancher 2, COURSE

PC: Fallout 2

Console: Super Mario World or maybe Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Arcade: Area 51

PC - Atlantica and the Monkey Islands.

Console - Shining in the darkness and Alex Kidd.

Playing Super Mario Bros over and over again on my NES got me hooked. Then moving onto the Mega Drive and playing a whole lot of Sonic 2.

Grandia is my game. I believe I've bought this gem...four different times over the course of my life. I have no regrets.

well im 33 so, take your pick. Amiga shit hits the nostalgia bad for me, and Megadrive / Genesis particulary. Ill never forget being a kid, being at the store where my mom worked at (she worked in a bookstore that also owned a toystore right next door) and trying out all the new games... until this whore of a retarded employee, old broad, didnt let me play any more Streets Of Rage because, and I quote, it would use up the game... she thought games worked like batteries. Good lord...

Now where did I put my walker?

TIE Fighter.

The game that got me hooked was Super Mario World. My older brothers got it and a SNES for Christmas and I decided to play some of it while everybody else was asleep. They woke up the next day with a game file that had about 15 goals completed on it.

They let me have their NES after that, since they were too busy not letting me use the SNES for about a year. So I guess a combination of being passed down a collection of NES games and playing Super Mario World.

Hugo's House of Horrors. If you wanted to do something, you better well know how to spell it.

Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. Headshots kill, you could only take up to 3 bullets and you were dead, no perks or killstreaks or ridiculous storylines, they don't make real fun tactical games like that anymore.

Fallout 2 for me. They just don't make RPG's like they used to.

pokemon yellow.

yup.

NES ports on the grey GB carts. 

The Legend of Zelda, SuperMarioBros/Duck Hunt.

I wanna say Goldeneye for N64, but it just doesn't feel right. Maybe Duke Nukem 3D?

My "back in the day" games would be:

• The classic beat-em up stuff. It was not about profanity or grotesque violence. It was all about innocent fun, having colorful graphics, beating up baddies, encountering impressive bosses and playing with friends. Aside from the classic lineups (ie. TMNT IV, Final Fight, Captain Commando and Batman Returns), the underrated ones are pretty fun too like Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, Disney's Aladdin, and the Mickey Mouse stuff.
• Point and click games ie. King's Quest series, Day of The Tentacle and Jones In The Fast Lane. Back then, we had all the time in the world to talk to every single NPC and explore every nook and cranny of the game.
• Cartridge games that need blowing every now and then. My lungs' XP points increased every time I played the SNES and Game Boy games.

I'm not a particularly nostalgic person, and the majority of my favourite games ever have come out in the last 5 years. However, I do have an answer to this question: back in my day, Pokemon games were better than the games the kids get today. It just seems like they've piled too much unnecessary bullshit on top of these games, and the number of Pokemon now is just silly. Pokemon Red/Blue was an amazing pure RPG experience and laid a great foundation for the series, and Gold/Silver refined the formula perfectly. I played those games for hundreds of hours during my childhood, and I've not actually finished any Pokemon game since Gen 2.

Sonic the Hedgehog or Alex Kidd on the Master System ... can't split the two in my head.

Probably Rollercoaster Tycoon.

WWF No Mercy

I usually got videogame consoles late, so my childhood memories of Mario and Crash Bandicoot doesn't count, i guess. But that doesn't matter, because my "Back in my day" game will eternally be The Warriors. Red Dead Revolver is really great too, but since i can only pick one, i'll stay with The Warriors.