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Pretty much the first game I ever had. I can't claim that 6-year-old me was great at it, but I loved this game and many subsequent Infocom games.
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Despite being very similar to Zork I, this sequel had a lot of great moments and just felt more fantastic.
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Finally my love of sci-fi met my love of Infocom games. At one point you get to shoot a herd of unicorns with a laser. It certainly won't win you the game, but losing was as much fun in Infocom as it is in Dwarf Fortress.
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My first experience with a space combat game. It was much closer to Star Trek than any of the Star Trek games I had available at the time.
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Easily one of the hardest games I've ever played. An educational game that made you use logic gates to make robots do tasks. Any game where burning ICs is a core mechanic is no push over.
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I'll admit I didn't play this till after college but it still holds up. It's gets MIT and Cthullu just right.
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Not my favorite Sierra title, but my first. It also contains a cameo by Batman.
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Space Quest has always been my favorite Sierra series and this is the game I stared on. It did have one of those hallmarks of Sierra games, an area you can't easily see the entrance too. So you'd spend hours trying to solve a puzzle when the answer was easily found in an unexplored area.
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I absolutely loved the various ways you could die in this game. I filled up my entire save allotment with all the various deaths. So I could revisit each one when I wanted. The game as a whole was also hilarious and great.
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Another really hard game. It's also really depressing if you think about it much. Manage a really buggy factory and if you miss your goals by just 1 a single time it's "game over". To say nothing about the fact that what you are doing is making toys, not even anything useful. I'd call it harder than 'Splosion Man, but not because of the platforming. Just because you had to coordinate a million things while platforming.
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Not my first fighting game(that Karateka), but the only one I played much. It was terrible and broken even then. And I never really went back to the genre. Just a little MK in college, but only for the blood.
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When people speak of PoP, this is always what I think of. The rotoscoped animation was fantastic and for a 2-D game, the sword fighting was really good.
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I didn't game much in college, but when I came back to gaming, D2 was a huge part of it
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Still my favorite GTA on the PS2. I know it's considered heresy, but Vice City had cars that steered like hell and a sun that blinded you ever time it was sunset. And I never got into Hip Hop so San Andreas was not a world that interested me.
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I've been accused (fairly) of being pretty pretentious at times. A "game" like Rez fits in there perfectly.
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as does this. One of the craziest series I've ever played. Katamari is just batshit loco all over. And the sense of scale you get is so satisfying. The feeling of going back and easily rolling up some enemy that plagued you early in the level is awesome.
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The first dual analog game. Beating up crazy monkeys was tight.
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Probably not better than Mario 64, but I certainly played this more.
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I don't know why people want Goldeneye to come back. But Blast Corp is *the* Rare game than needs a current gen remake. Crushing buildings to save the country from a WMD was varied, tense, and fun. Plus you get to drive the A-Team van.
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Not a big hit, but an excellent puzzle game. One of the few skills I'll claim excellence in is spatial perception. This game made full use of that keeping track of things coming from every side.
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Not a particularly fun game, but how many Nintendo games let you: kill, mate, and poop? Just one. This one.
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Whenever I watch people play Farmville, I'm only sad that they aren't playing a better tedious waste of time. Like Animal Crossing. The best tedious game ever.
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My favorite puzzle game of all time. The ostensibly simple gameplay and well integrated soundtrack made this game very absorbing.
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This is why I bought a 360.
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