When you travel on the road or highway you use landmarks (street signs, buildings, bridges ) to navigate to you destination. In life you use important events to judge progress and growth. These games are the few that proved so big, so influential, that they act as landmarks in my personal history.
This game is not what you would call 'Good' but it is the first game I remember saving up money to buy. Ghostbusters was the first time I personally invested in the gaming hobby.
My first time sink. I spent hours in front of my old PC switching disks and slowly moving my army forward to save Middle Earth.
Still one hell of a fun game. After playing this once at a friend's house I needed a Sega Genesis.
Well after the curtain had been pulled on the NES I spent one summer with a friend slowly questing day after day in Square's wonderful RPG.
The summer of '97 was all about Dark Wizard as far as I was concerned. Still ear marked as a personal "Best Game Ever Made" Dark Wizard is a rare breed.
After the Sega 32X I stepped back from console gaming and played almost exclusively on my PC. Half-Life's sense of place and environment kept me hooked through multiple playthroughs.
Dungeon and Dragons was a huge influence on me in middle school and Baldur's Gate was the best PC version of D&D in the late 90s.
After Sega had closed the book on its CD add-on you could find most games really cheap. I bought Lunar at a garage sale for $5. Lunar: The Silver Star is the JRPG distilled, refined and perfected.
For my 15th birthday a friend gave me a PlayStation and Metal Gear Solid. I still can't thank him enough.
This is why I am a Sony fan. I've never had more fun only playing one map than I've had with the demo of this game.
I bought a PS2 to play the Two Towers video game, but this game was the reason I loved my PS2. Marrying the platforming of Mario 64 with the action of a Mega Man title. I never got the hang of playing a platformer in 3D until Ratchet met Clank.
Un-abashedly adult is the only way I can describe this masterpiece. I played GoW a lot my senior year of high school.
