It's amazing how many people are listing almost entirely Nintendo titles. I guess most of us spent our formative days playing Nintendo.
Anyway,
DDR Extreme - First rhythm game I really got into. Looking back it sucked but it's the game that got me into that genre, which I adore. It also got me good at DDR which got me laid on less than one occasion
Super Mario 64 - My brother, dad, and I spent so much time playing this. We spent three months getting the 70 stars to save Peach. It was that perfect difficulty level for someone six years old and his two cohorts who were all video game virgins.
Super Smash Brothers Melee - Wow. Most amazing fighting game ever, I'll tell you what. It combined the simplicity of the original with a cast that more than doubled in size (sure, it was
just one over twice as much, but come on). I remember working on a paper about Cyrano de Bergerac in the seventh grade with this game playing in the background. I think someone was Mewtwo on the Fourside stage. Whatever.
Pokemon Blue - Sure, I'm not much of a fan anymore, but this game consumed my youth. I remember seeing that it cost $50 at Toys 'r' Us. Something about it just made me happy. I couldn't figure out what it is, but this game had a way about it that just put me at ease. I never really got into link battling, even though I remember being annoyed by people calling the Link Cable a "cable cord." Now that I know a bit more about video games, I recognize how amazing the use of cartridge space is in this game. Each of the 151 monsters has a front-facing and back-facing sprite, a list of attacks, and a list of stats, not to mention the relatively huge game world and all the music, text, and art that had to go into this game. If I had to program this, I don't know if I'd be able to fit it all in half a meg.
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle - Say what you will, my brother and I loved the crap out of this game. We knew how horrible the voice acting, script, story, and lyrics were, but that only gave the game its charm. "TERIAAAH" is still an in-joke between us, and we haven't played this game since half our lives ago.
Honorable mention: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, if only for leaving the game world and putting on the infinite grind cheat and leaving the game on overnight with Kelly Slater going in circles. If it had to kick one game out, I'd probably pick Pokemon, but I won't <3
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