Here's something that I thought would shine some light for what past gaming was like for the kids who only grew up playing Halo 2/3 & CoD.
I've been thinking a lot about game designing these days, and how there are so many short lived games on the market. There's really only about 1/10 games that players actually accrue a comfortable feel with, and can clock in some serious playtime, (yes, WoW is one of them).
But what were the ultimate games you grew up with that, no matter what ANYONE said about it, you just couldn't say any negative thing about?
to start it off for me, it was definitely playing Risk on my SEGA Genesis with my dad. It really got me into the concept of a larger scale for everything at a young age, and to think with a larger perspective. I think playing Risk allowed me to start playing RTS games at a young age. Ever since we had the SEGA version, our family has made into a family "must play" when we all get together again. It's just too bad that we don't have the old Genesis that we grew up with anymore.
The Sonic games we're also a family favorite on the SEGA, I loved the Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2 and 3, and when Sonic & Knuckles came out, it was my new favorite.
We had an old Windows 98 computer, and I've clocked countless hours into Beachhead, Mech-Warrior, Tomb Raider 1 & 2, and a Star Wars ship fighter game, (we had the COOLEST Joystick for it) also there was a certain 3rd person over the head sci-fi shooter that I could never find the name of, but was like rated M or was really gory or something, so I couldn't play it very much.
But Lego Rockraiders... OMG. Best game I ever played on the computer, and I think I clocked in way too many hours than I should have. I definitely stayed up past my bedtime playing this game way too many times. This had to be my first REAL RTS game, and I've been trying to run it with Windows 7 for years, but even in compatibility mode it won't start for me.
I'm going to skip the Nintendo 64 stage, since mostly all of the cliche N64 games will show up. However, there was Extreme-G, a futuristic motorcycle game. It seems like nobody has heard of it, but I loved spending hours split screening the battle mode with my older brother.
Cover if anyone's ever played it.
When we finally moved up to a Playstation, (we actually rented a Playstation 1 for a few months before we actually bought one, when you could still rent game consoles from Blockbuster) and I fell in love with Syphon Filter as my first game. Played it SO much, but it was so hard to figure out sometimes, and I remember getting stuck for hours in certain places in it. That wasn't a downside to me though, since it was such a fun challenge.
But absolutely NOTHING beats Spyro the Dragon 2 - Rypto's Rage.
I seriously have clocked at least 1000 hours into replaying that game over the past decade. It's been my all time favorite storyline game, and I don't think I will ever retire from it until I die.
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So, my question to you MMO-Champion, what games did you play on older systems, (PS2/Xbox is the cutoff) that defined your childhood?
I wanna make a list so I can go to my local Pawn Shop and see what I should pick up.