when you were young 5-10 what was your favorite game mine was Duck hunt on the NES i loved shoting them crazy ducks and got so upset when the dog laughed at me

Castle Wolfenstien, Aztec, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Paratroopers. Oh Apple II how I loved thee...

Final Fantasy Legends, or something like that, on Gameboy. It was hard as balls, there was a ton to explore, and the spell 'Exit' was absolutely the greatest spell in the entire game because it took you out of dungeons immediately.

Contra because it was awesome though myself, my brother and our neighbor never managed to beat it.

EDIT: Holy crap, how could I forget these.

Sim City, Sim Tower, Sim Copter, Oregon Trail (I loved Oregon Trail and still pick it up every once in a while), Amazon Trail and Descent.

Descent was just a great game and I remember at one time it was installed on just about every computer in my middle school.

sonic 1 on the master system.
Mario Kart
Ranger X
Captain Keen
Duke Nukem 1 and 2
And Bio Menace. great games. XD

I have very fond memories about some of the games on my old BBC Micro-computer. The Repton series was very good, and there was a nearly pointless game called 'Pod' where you would type in commands in the form of 'Pod Can...' and the character on the screen would follow them. It was always fun typing in 'Pod Can Pop' and watching the tubby bugger explode.

I loved a game called "Hero" on the C64. You had a jetpack and a gun, which pretty much made for the best combo ever as far as my youthful mind was concerned.

- J

I always had a fascination with the game King's Quest VI when I was younger. It was a point & click adventure game with some of the funniest humor I remember as a kid. I even saw it on sale at Gamestop the other day, but it had all 7 games in the series on one cd, so I was totally overjoyed, having only played two of them myself.

Kirby Super Star
Age of Empires
Oregon Trail (I loved hacking the game and making headstones for people I didn't like :D)
And some others I can't remember.

As a preschooler, I absolutely adored Lemmings. Still do, but I was unable to play it for a few years -- which seemed like a very long time back then -- because we switched from DOS to Windows and it took a while before we found the appropriate port.

When I was (probably) 7, my entire family except for Mom fell in love with a now-thoroughly-obscure (apparently it got good reviews at the time but sold poorly) TPS RPG adventure-game thingy (I suck at classification) by the name of Outcast. I was terrible at it and needed help all the time, but it was fun, and it provided more family in-jokes than any game before or since.

I don't count most of the edutainment games I used to play (although I did play a lot of Magic School Bus and Math/Reading Blaster games), but the original Zoombinis will always have a special place in my heart. I loved that game when I was in second grade, missed it for years when they took it off the school computers, and got more enjoyment out of it than I should really admit to when I finally got the chance to buy it for myself six years later. I was always a fan of the Oregon Trail, too, although I played... I think it was the fourth edition, rather than the original.

The old Spyro and Crash games were fun, I still play the new ones because I like to do more with videogame than shoot people all the time.

NOTE: Can't wait for Far Cry 2, Turok 4, Left 4 Dead, and Resident Evil 5.

Oh man, Sonic 2 and Sonic and Knuckles take the cake. It's always been a sore point that sonic never properly made the transition to 3d, and that my allegiance with sega had to die with the genesis. But oh well, I still love the hell out the old games.

I miss the old Genesis

Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Streets of Rage
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. This is one of my favorite rpg's of all time, next to Final Fantasy VII. I wish Nintendo and Square would get together again and make another one. I do like the Paper Mario series, but not as much as Mario RPG.

hands down.... Pitfall for the 2600....

The game that sucked me in as a gamer 4 life was METROID for the NES. I loved how you didn't know were to go but could go anywhere, finding secret upgrades in the corners. Contra was another b/c co-op was just so great, and so was the weapon selection. And Rygar too. I don't know why, I just loved it.

Metroid (the original)Megaman 2 and The Guardian legend.

Said it before and I'll say it again:
Crusader:No remorse
Wing Commander series
Privateer
Origin was awesome, and there might be a new WC game on the way.

DOOM and Duke Nukem from the age of 3 =]
then Unreal Tournament when it came out =]

It's funny to read this thread.. you can tell who the older folks (like me) are. The original question asks what you played when you were 5-10 years old and some of the posts were for Sonic, Duck Hunt, etc.. lol Damn I feel old..
My 1st system was the 2600 and that was after it was out for a little while (we weren't rich). My favorites back then were Kaboom and Megamania(single player) and Warlords (multi player).
I played Kaboom so much that the bombs were just a string coming at insane speeds. No one I knew could touch me at that game.
A whole lot of time was invested in Megamania also. I STILL play that one sometimes, and my 6 year old daughter loves it too. (thanks gametap!)
lol who else remembers that before you had the 'gamer's thumb', you had the 'Atari hand'?

Fury3
Age of Empires

twisted_ideas:
I miss the old Genesis

Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Streets of Rage
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

What he said.

streets of rage/ bare knuckle series
also, nibbles (aka snake) on PC.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (me and my sisters would constantly play that, and because I was older, it was my system and I was better, the honor of not playing as Tails went to me.)

Also, Golden Axe 2 was inexplicibly popular for the same reason. Me playing the stubby green little dwarf, whoever was playing with me playing as the magic-user who'd pick up the bottles and summon dragons when we needed it.

Good times. Good times.

Anyone remember Mech Warrior 2? Man that was epic

Any game for the N64. I miss the 90s'.

Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were my first real games as a child, and probably had some horrible effect on my young, 5 year old mind, but it wasn't worse than watching Full Metal Jacket or Heavy Metal so I can't reall complain about that.

I also have fond memories of watching my brother play Resident Evil and RE2 on our tiny, 16" TV that resembled something from Fallout. To me, Chris Redfield was gaming's first badass, his grizzled, slightly crazed image graced our copy of the game's director's cut and at the time seemed to be the epitome of manliness.

Finally, I remember my first forays into the world of RTS games with Starcraft and Homeworld. The latter probably being my favorite game of all time. It's expansive maps and halfway decent storyline grabbed me by my prepubescent mind and would not let go until I was spending hours trying to get past the Gardens of Kadesh.

Cameoflage:
but the original Zoombinis will always have a special place in my heart. I loved that game when I was in second grade, missed it for years when they took it off the school computers, and got more enjoyment out of it than I should really admit to when I finally got the chance to buy it for myself six years later.

ZOOMBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIVILLE!

Ah, good times.

I also forgot to mention "Jazz Jackrabbit." Surprising to learn 10 years later that those who made Jazz also made Unreal Tournament.

I didn't play video games as a child; heck, I was twelve the first time I saw a Trash-80 in a store window and Dad (despite working at a Fortune 50 tech company at the time) didn't see much point in getting home electronics. And I had to walk six miles to school through the snow, wind in my face both ways...

In my 'tweens/teens, though, arcade games like Spy Hunter, Defender (I sucked at that one), Battlezone, Zaxxon, Bosconian, Qbert, and the like kept me quarter-poor. Later on we got a C=64c (Dad won it as a door prize at a company Christmas dinner) and that led to Impossible Mission, Space Taxi, Gunship, and Red Storm Rising binges.

-- Steve

Pokemon Stadium....

Earliest games I played were some old hockey games on the PC, and duck hunt and mario on Nintendo...

my other childhood favorites were (i don't recall exactly when these all existed, so they might also be early teenager):
Sonic games
Mech Warrior 2 (mentioned previously)
Star Con 2 (had star con 1 also but it sucked except for melee)
Lands of Lore
Doom
Wolfenstein 3d
Duke Nukem
Monkey Island 1
Wing Commander 1

B.O.B., for snes.

Game's goddamn IMPOSSIBLE.

Vigilante 8 - Playstation 1.

I fell in love with that game.

Or
Running Wild - Playstation 1.

So many.
Sonic the hedgehog
Splatter house
Streets of rage
HL1
Metal Gear Solid
Every wrestling game
Lots more.

Dynamite Headdy.

This sucks. There WEREN'T any video games when I was a child!