I still have most of the games that I used to own, but here are a few exceptions that I still played a ton of.
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes: I played a ton of this with my brothers, and a whole lot of the campaign with cheats.
Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions: Totally never finished the second level of this game, and I'm totally okay with that.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3: Ahh, the days when my dad came home on break...then we'd sit around the SNES for 15-20 minutes playing UMK3. He turned the blood and fatalities off....honest.
I used to play the crap out of that on my mom's old computer, but now the disc is way too scratched to install anywhere.
Oh, and this was totally my favorite game when I was 7. Turned me to gaming (and writing; I have so many elementary school fanfictions of this) for the first time.
Certain multiplayer games I miss. There are lots of old single player games I really enjoy but nothing stops me from replaying them and enjoying them because I still have them in some form. But with older multiplayer games with dead or near dead community's you can never really get the same experience again. R6/Rogue Spear/Raven Shield, Counter-strike (non 24/7 dust only servers), Battlefield 2 (non 24/7 karkand only servers), Intersate '76 multiplayer etc.
Original Halo LAN games, Clockwork Knight, The Lost World Jurassic Park for the Genesis. I think that's about it. Also I agree with the Metal Arms thing, that game is totally awesome. Better than most Transformers games, actually.
Castlevania: Dracula X Rondo of Blood for the Turbografx-16 cd-rom. I was obsessed with getting that game when I was a kid. Was a huge Castlevania fan, but that one only came out in Japan, so you had to import it. There used to be these shady importers who would advertise in EGM, so I got it from them. They kept jacking up the price on me before they'd send it to me, using the "prices are subject to change without notice" line as a veil. I ended up paying out the ass for it. And my TurboDuo had already cost a small fortune. And so my parents made me sell the game after I beat it cuz they had determined that my gaming habit was becoming too outrageously expensive. It just made that game all the sweeter to me though.
Now it goes for like $200 on ebay. But I think it came out for Virtual Console? May be time to buy another Wii. Sold that too. Fuck. Need to just keep my games.
Duke Nukem, Doom, Hunter Hunted, All the Lucas Arts classic Adventure Games (I seriously played those a million times*), all the classic Sierra Adventure Games, Unreal Tournament 2004 (I have played them all but this one in particular was my favorite), and tons of others not worth mentioning because no one will know about them.
Although, I still play a lot of these games, so I don't particularly "miss" them.
Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy - Played with a clan for a while years ago, had a ton of fun with the multiplayer and mods. Morrowind - Wish Bethesda would give us an HD Remix. Eternal Champions - Sega Vs. Capcom, get on it devs.
Ultima Online. Though when I left things were pretty much going to shit, not that it was ever a perfect game, anyway. But it was fun. I didn't fight much, I mined ore, smithed and had built my own shop.
Then someone built their tower so close to the front door of my shop that I couldn't get in, so I quit.
Oh yeah, and Planetside. Was fun till the expansion back and those Big FUCKING Robots (BFRs).
Shenmue. Maybe it was the first time I cared about characters in a story, maybe the real world setting, or maybe just how beautiful the game was at the time. Something about it though, I just loved it. I like the Yakuza series, but I just don't get the same feeling playing them as I did Shenmue. I was young, but that game really had a hold on me.
@Burns098356GX: I've an original 1994 Nascar Racing (for DOS) disc &manual sitting on my bookshelf, christ I fucking loved that game. I may have been four years old &hopelessly captivated by 'the rainbow car', but I loved. That. Game.
With the advent portals of Virtual Console, Re-release collections, XBLA/PSN and Emulation I can't really think of any. If I want to play it I either still have it and the means to play it or have a way of getting it.
Though it has been a long while since I played Crash 2. (The first ever game I got for my PSX) May have to play that sometime soon.
Depends how far back you want to go. Mario Kart on SNES was the shit. Midtown Madness 3 over Xbox live is also something I miss a lot. Halo: CE in a LAN setting is also something I haven't gotten since online gaming became a thing.
Really these were the first couple of games I played for an enormous amount since GoldenEye on the N64. I loved multiplayer shooters and as a console player you didn't always get that. These were the first great titles for Xbox Live that I sunk a gross amount of hours into. At one point I was ranked in the top 100 in Wolfenstein on the Xbox.
" Back in those days, I'd play every game constantly, just for the sake of playing the game. It needn't require replay value or anything like that.. I miss those days =( "
Do we not do this anymore? i think i played through Uncharted 2 5 or 6 because it was just fun, same with Infamous and GOW 3. I have always been an advocate for, "If a company makes a game fun then we will play through it multiple times simply because it is fun!"
Rune - Halls of Valhalla. The first game I played properly online, after upgrading from a 56k dial-up connection to DSL. I spent a summer playing the game every night(because that's when the Americans were playing, and I sure as hell didn't want to play with people who didn't speak English), arena mode. Most of the time was spent watching the other fights and chatting. My first truly social online gaming experience.
" Realistically, this game is probably beyond terrible. Never would go back to play it, because that would inevitably ruin my fond childhood memories. Also, I played terrible games when I was a kid. "
oh...... my...... mother..... ******ing..... god !
dude. the nostalgia !!! last time i played that was like, 10 years ago, and it's been long gone and i never thought about it since and didnt even know it's title and now that i saw that picture i fucking froze !!!
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