Games from my childhood/adolescence
These are all games I have fond memories of playing during my growing years. No real order. Let's put on some rose-shaded glasses!
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I was such a dick to Weird Ed. Finding Ed's brother, Ned, mummified in the shower was scary to me as a kid.
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This game and Maniac Mansion were my first LucasArts adventure games. I remember having to get copies made of the early DRM code book, for both this and Maniac Mansion. Also, PRO-TIP: Don't take off your helmet on Mars. You will die horribly. Really funny script and I loved the SCUMM interface.
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I never made it to the top rank of the Emporer's Secret Circle. I kept letting the Emporer's personal transport get destroyed in a hail of proton torpedoes. ;_;
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I love this game! It's my favorite in the quadrilogy. The animation and voice acting were superb! (it still looks great too!) It still makes me laugh so much. Dinghy Dog, Murray the Talking Skull, and the flea circus at that pirate barbershop (the Barbery Coast, ofc). I still have this on CD somewhere, maybe I'll replay it some time.
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This is one of my favorite adventure games. It was so funny and looked so good. I could quote a million lines from this game. Insult-swordfighting was lots of fun. Being a jerk to the shopkeeper was also amazing. Ahhh! Grog-o-mint! And calling Meathook cannonball head and running was pretty great too.
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No Dr. Who joke, NO SALE! Not as fun as Hugo 2, but I actually beat this one. The ending was also lackluster.
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There's a decent Dr. Who cameo/gag in this game. I was mainly just a jerk to Penelope though. I don't think I ever rescued Hugo. Death was frequent and this game really trained me on how important saving every 30 seconds can be.
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Hugo 2 was a better game. As a text parser game, this was pretty ok. This game came on 3.5" hard diskettes! Man, diskettes were pretty neat, and twice as much storage space as 5 1/4 floppies. Floppy is much more fun to say though.
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TFC defined my college multiplaying experience. My buddies from high school and I went to the same college and would play countless hours of this on a then super fast t1 land line. I was amazing as a medic and engineer. Once when one of my TFC crew members caught a cold, I ran over to his dorm with chicken noodle soup and made medkit noises in hopes of making him feel better. So much better than CS where I'd spend the vast majority of the time waiting to respawn. I also miss grenades in TF2.
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Really amazing 3rd person shooter. Really neat level design and terrific magic effects. My high school friends would LAN party this and Half-Life deathmatch constantly. Chasing each other around as giant chickens that have an insta-gib peck attack was incredible!
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A little less of a classic, but still pretty great.
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Classic. This one was from my PC speaker, 33 mhz days. The jump to a 100 mhz processor years later was mindblowing.
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This was more of my thing than Doom was. I used to do Dial-up Co-op this with my middle school chums. 56k was the way. There were quite a few disconnects due to parents wanting to use the phone or mistaking the phone call as people, instead of computers wanting to make a handshake. :)
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My parents also totally hated this. This was super fun to LAN too. Oh, DWANGO and DM.exe. I can pick this soundtrack out anywhere.
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I think this was the first PC game I'd ever seen. It was on demo at a wal-mart. I think I was like 9 or so at the time. I loved it! I was totally entranced with the 2.5d first person viewpoint. I'd have to be sneaky about playing it because my parents hated all the violence in it. I surreptitiously installed the shareware version on my Dad's work PC. Mom wasn't pleased when she busted me playing it with friends at the house.
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Incredible storyline and a really great combat space shooter. I still come back to this every once in awhile.
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I used to be really good at playing this game on keyboard. Sadly, I forget the keybindings I had. Still a great game. Not fun to play multiplayer on dialup though.
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THE THIEF BOT CAN GO SUCK MY SPACESHIP'S DICK!!!
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Could never figure this game out enough to beat it. I played it so many times though. I chose it as a gift during thanksgiving at this outlet mall near my grandma's house. I sorta screwed myself on that deal.
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Showbiz Pizza (yeah, that's right! I'm that old!)
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I didn't have a SNES, but my brother and I did share a Genesis and I would argue that this is a better game than Turtles in Time on the SNES.
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Showbiz Pizza/Pizza Hut
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Pizza Hut
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Pizza Hut
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Pizza Hut
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This entire franchise was huge to me in my early PC gaming years. Great early platformers from ID, who went on to do Doom and Wolfenstein 3d. Keen Dreams was done by different company and while not awful, it's definitely a step down from what the ID guys did.
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Pizza Hut
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Pizza Hut
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Pizza Hut
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Showbiz Pizza
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