wow i feel really old now

The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary (DOS)
Duke Nukem 3D
Doom
several more Dos games

Orginal Gameboy game (the big fat gray gameboy)
Zelda links awakening

Jeez, I forgot to mention commander keen and Indiana Jones: the fate of atlantis.

Magic carpet. no doubt, that was my favorite!

I also really liked warcraft 2, red alert... dark reign.. uhh..
Basically any RTS really. I loved building stuff :D.

I wasn't big on platform games.. because i could never win!
I played commander keen, the old duke nukem games and such. Was fun.

I played wolfenstein but i didn't love it. I absolutely loved duke nukem 3d and quake. 't was awesome!

Oh! and little big adventure!

Karnov (nes)

I forgot to add that. Classic game, a fat russian circus strong man that got a new power each level. You could scroll through the powers by pressing select. So much fun, it really opened my imagination. But I'll never forget the hard faught conclusion was nothing but a screen shot that said Congratulations!

A game named Konami World.. Famous Konami characters are here, including Belmont (Castlevania), Donkey Kong and The Goonies..

Old school Smash Bros on the 64, good times.

Despite owning a Genesis during my childhood I spent alot of my time playing my dads old amstrad and atari games. Pacman, digger dan and aztec challenge to name a few. Using a joystick that came out of a plastic beatles back...those were the good old nonsensical days...

The Mario games were a fine example.

Another one was Wing Commander: Privateer.

it was this game on the old ps1 and i cant for the life of me remember what it was called but, well, imagen REZ except it was in space with big robots. i spent about a week on that almost non stop and by the end of the week my head was fucked up. then i while ago i drew on that week in my life to write a novella so it was worth it in the end and with no ill effect *twitch*

Schiggy:
Old school Smash Bros on the 64, good times.

Best one in the series. The newer ones are too damn cluttered in comparison.

Sim City 2000
Super Mario World SNES
Most of the time it seems I still am like a child, so I still play lots of games as one. Teehee.

Spy Fox

Street Fighter II and Puzzle Bubble.

i'll add monopoly and the ultimate game ever made...RISK!!!!!

Definitely the first Crash Racing games and the Lemmings on the comp.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG TRILOGY!!!

Seriously, as a young kid, before the Saturn came along, in the UK if you didn't own a Megadrive and Sonic, you weren't speaking to.

My favourite? I refuse to choose!

Way of the Exploding Fist & to follow IK+

Mercenary

Carrier Command

Uridium

Not to forget Wizball, Bards Tale & sequels (who wouldn't enjoy burning those damn 99 skeletons for major damage? :) Leaderboard, Armalyte, Last Ninja, LN2 and a bit later on came Powermonger, always got a real powertrip out of that one.

oh god there's more :( Commando, Bionic Commando, Ikari Warriors (Ralf & Clark before KoF) & Guerilla War, Street Fighter (1 that is, and all good following scrolling & 1on1 beat-em-ups in the arcades)

wasn't 'legally' a kid anymore when i spent in excess of £800 on Daytona USA but I was loved up like one :)

Stunt Car Racer, Pilotwings, Golden Axe, Chase HQ, Platoon, Op. Wolf, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FF6, Axelay, Biometal(JP) (Probably the only person who thought this game had one of the most effective force devices - must be played on the hardest difficulty), Tatsujin(Truxton), Assault Suit(s) Leynos(Battlefield Earth) & Valken(Cybernator), Rise of the Triads, Shadow Warrior... - oh god I'd better stop :(

ps. oh and Thrust & The Killing Cloud

so sue me for being nostalgic but these were great days even if sometimes it was more 'idea' than execution,
on the other hand though, at least gamers today v. rarely have to deal with contentious collision detection & leaf switches. meh :/

Mixed Up Fairytales and Relentless.

My first video game experience were the NES and shortly after the SNES, my favorite game was Secret of Mana. My first PC game was Might&Magic 3. I still love both :)

i would have to say sonic 1,2,3,a and the final fantasys up to 10

Aight, let's go waaaaaay back... When I was a kid, I was all about Coleco Electronic Quarterback.

Lessee.. Games as a child.. I played a lot, but these are really the games that pulled me in.

Frontier: Elite II (Amiga500+)
Lotus Espirit Turbo challenge II (Amiga 500+)
Monkey island (Amiga 500+)

ohmz:
pokemon red anyone?

i thought blue was better tbh but both are next to perfection when it comes to games
fun, different, childish, annoying to get 100% but hopefully worth it and it was also a game which was never boring to start again as you could choose different pokemon each time, i know its not boring to start over as i still play my pokemon blue to this day ^^

Yargh:
Oh! and little big adventure!

Love it love it love it LOVE IT! I'd love to find a version of it for a modern PC.

GeeseH:
My favourite? I refuse to choose!

Way of the Exploding Fist & to follow IK+

Mercenary

Carrier Command

Uridium

Not to forget Wizball, Bards Tale & sequels (who wouldn't enjoy burning those damn 99 skeletons for major damage? :) Leaderboard, Armalyte, Last Ninja, LN2 and a bit later on came Powermonger, always got a real powertrip out of that one.

oh god there's more :( Commando, Bionic Commando, Ikari Warriors (Ralf & Clark before KoF) & Guerilla War, Street Fighter (1 that is, and all good following scrolling & 1on1 beat-em-ups in the arcades)

wasn't 'legally' a kid anymore when i spent in excess of £800 on Daytona USA but I was loved up like one :)

Stunt Car Racer, Pilotwings, Golden Axe, Chase HQ, Platoon, Op. Wolf, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FF6, Axelay, Biometal(JP) (Probably the only person who thought this game had one of the most effective force devices - must be played on the hardest difficulty), Tatsujin(Truxton), Assault Suit(s) Leynos(Battlefield Earth) & Valken(Cybernator), Rise of the Triads, Shadow Warrior... - oh god I'd better stop :(

ps. oh and Thrust & The Killing Cloud

so sue me for being nostalgic but these were great days even if sometimes it was more 'idea' than execution,
on the other hand though, at least gamers today v. rarely have to deal with contentious collision detection & leaf switches. meh :/

You just summarised my childhood. I read every issue of Zzap64, and Commodore Format as well.

This is why forums like this are great... you occasionally and unexpectedly run into someone who "knows"...

There are so many but I always loved the Dragon Warrior series. This was before Enix joined up with Squaresoft. I remember being awed at how deep they were when I was five or so. My favorite from the series is without question number 4. Anyone else a fan of the series?

First game i have any memory of playing would be on my grandad's PC, which was full throttle, Damn that game was (and still is) Totally awesome, probably one of the best games ever made (certainly has the best characters). Had virtua cop 2 as well

About the same time i got an amiga (or possibly amstrad, i got both at around the same time)
Monkey island
Monkey island 2
Some winter Olympics thing.
a racing game, the name of which i have sadly forgotten.
worms 2
bart vs. the space mutants
blakestone Alien's of Gold
Heretic (creeped me out)
The other game i loved, i can remember so little of, from what i can remember it was all yellow tinted (2d pixel art, in a sort of isometric view) And you where what looked like some kind of martial arts dude, and there where hurricanes, weird as it sound's thats all i can remember. (if anyone knows what it is i will love you forever - possibly in a sexual way)

Monkey island (and 2, all the ones after don't even compare) and Full throttle in my mind are probably the greatest games ever made. I can quote the entire dialogue of Full throttle word for word, including most of the none important stuff (a rather sad talent i know) - I still say "I'm not puttin' my lips on that" quite a lot.

TheMadDoctorsCat:

GeeseH:
My favourite? I refuse to choose!

Way of the Exploding Fist & to follow IK+

Mercenary

Carrier Command

Uridium

Not to forget Wizball, Bards Tale & sequels (who wouldn't enjoy burning those damn 99 skeletons for major damage? :) Leaderboard, Armalyte, Last Ninja, LN2 and a bit later on came Powermonger, always got a real powertrip out of that one.

oh god there's more :( Commando, Bionic Commando, Ikari Warriors (Ralf & Clark before KoF) & Guerilla War, Street Fighter (1 that is, and all good following scrolling & 1on1 beat-em-ups in the arcades)

wasn't 'legally' a kid anymore when i spent in excess of £800 on Daytona USA but I was loved up like one :)

Stunt Car Racer, Pilotwings, Golden Axe, Chase HQ, Platoon, Op. Wolf, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FF6, Axelay, Biometal(JP) (Probably the only person who thought this game had one of the most effective force devices - must be played on the hardest difficulty), Tatsujin(Truxton), Assault Suit(s) Leynos(Battlefield Earth) & Valken(Cybernator), Rise of the Triads, Shadow Warrior... - oh god I'd better stop :(

ps. oh and Thrust & The Killing Cloud

so sue me for being nostalgic but these were great days even if sometimes it was more 'idea' than execution,
on the other hand though, at least gamers today v. rarely have to deal with contentious collision detection & leaf switches. meh :/

You just summarised my childhood. I read every issue of Zzap64, and Commodore Format as well.

This is why forums like this are great... you occasionally and unexpectedly run into someone who "knows"...

Amen!

World Class Leaderboard - I'd forgotten the hours I'd spent on that classic.
I think I forgot to put Paradroid on my list.

METAL SLUG!!!!! all of them

and for the life of me I can't remember what it was called but I had a sonic game for the dreamcast that was pretty shweet. yea I had a dreamcast what of it? >:P

Sry I forgot to go WAY back to my roots with... wait for it... PONG... oh yesh tha triple OG

I was always a Mega Drive guy, so it would be a tie up between Sonic and the epic-to-this-day Alien Storm. Man I miss that game

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: The type of challenge it gave, I loved. Not like Call of Duty, where more difficulty=more enemies. No, it actually made the enemies tougher, and the bosses in that game are really awesome, if somewhat easy to beat the second time playing (although if you ask any of my friends i get really good at game really quickly ;P).

Time Crisis 2 (Arcade): Me and my buddies spent countless evenings (and quarters) playing this.

Street Fighter Alpha II (Arcade): Same as above, we even had mini tournaments amongst our selves.

DOOM WOLF QUAKE SIMCITY DOOM SIMCITY QUAKE WOLF DOOM DOOM SIMCITY QUAKE

Micro Machines 2 on the mega drive. Was never any good at it, but that didn't stop it being fun.

I can't remember why, but my parents got me a car boot sale Atari ST with a bunch of random discs as my first gaming computer heh:

Buggy Boy, Starquake, Supercars 2, Wizball, Marble Madness, Bubble Bobble, IK+, Arkanoid 2, Kickoff 2, Metrocross, Oids, Pac Mania, Zynaps, E-Motion and then some more...

And my friend at the time had an Amiga (gasp, rivalry), so heres a few more:

Transplant, Quickmoney, Base Jumpers

Then eventually PC gaming came around for Worms, Sim City 2000, Micromachines 2 and Psyco Pinball.

I wish I still had my Atari, but it was thrown away in a fit of cleaning without my knowledge. Ah the good old days...