Favorite Childhood Game

[Lars Ulrika]

That's a pretty funny name for a game.

Actually it's a game in-game in Doom 3 you can play before things go wrong. 

 

[senpoRiot]

brave fencer musashi!! (ps1)
this was the best hack and slash game i've played when i was still young

 

[Lava Breath]

Let's see.... I think these following games count as my childhood games since I played them during my elementary school days... grades K-6.

Doom 2 ...or was it 1? - PC - First game I ever played and I think I was 2nd or 3rd grade... don't really remember bit it was SOOOOOO long ago and full of so much win.

Star Wars Shadows of the Empire - N64. Didn't hear anything about this game when I saw it in a store. I ended up playing this one to death. And it is easily my favorite game of all time.

Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland - PC - This will always be a classic. And the first time the werewolf bursts into the room you're in and scared the sh*t outta me, my brother, and our friend. The ensuing chase is one of the most vivid gaming memories I have.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - N64 - 'Nuff said.

Mario Party 1/2; Super Smash Bros.; Goldeneye 007; Mario Cart - N64 - All of these games were time wasters from me and my friends. Excellent party games and spent hours playing them.

Dragon Warrior Monsters - Game Boy Color - Played this more than the Pokemon games at the time even though I spent hours playing them... Dragon Warrior Monsters just always stands out to me.

Oh my! I almost forgot!!

Sid Meier's Gettysburg - PC - An amazing strategy game that got me into strategy gaming in the first place. I played this more than any other game at the time and is one of the best (or most memorable) strategy games I've played.

and Midnight Rescue - PC - Oooh how much I played this game. It was very enjoyable at the time.

Games that could easily be on this list: Red Alert 2, Kessen, Fifa 98, Police Quest: SWAT 2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (N64), Super Mario 64, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (64), and Oregon Trail.

 

[wildwes]

Pokémon Firered, Pokémon Ruby, Super Mario Sunshine. I still have SMS. I wish I had the others though...

Edit: Forgot the best of them all! Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles! I still have it! It da best. =)

 

[Vox Novus]

I first started playing video games when I was about seven and the first game I played was Ocarina of Time, for me when I think of video games from my "younger years" I can't help but to think of that one and how much fun it was. If I ever get a 3ds it would be great to replay it through the 3ds version and try and re-live the experience I had with it.

 

[arekpowalan]

My tops 3:

1) Lufia 3: The Legend Returns, I remember that right after I beated the game on my Gameboy Color, the game cart died.

2) Super Contra, played it with my mom all the times using cheat modes.

3) Blaster Master, though I played the Japanese version.

 

[Rockman]

All the ps1 Mega Man games.

 

[JohnnyR]

Shadow The Hedgehog (Xbox version... Loved that thing)

Pokémon (All of them)

Zelda

Metroid

Grand Chase (I still play it  )

Star Fox 64

AAAAAAAAND Final Fantasy 7! (PS1)  BD

 

[Reisen]

Spyrooooooo for the winnnn~

 

[Animus]

Zombies Ate my Neighbors

Sonic1-3

Shining Force 1-2

Phantasy star 2-3

Puggsy (Helped start my love of puzzles; I used to play this like no other)

Streets of Rage 1 & 3 (never got to play 2 until I hit my teens)

Bonanza Bros

Joust (Joust, oh how I loved you)

Golden Axe

Battletoads

Altered Beast

Shinobi 1 & 3

TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist (rented it more than 20 times; probably should have bought it instead)

There are a good many others, but I either didn't own the game to play it too much (Link to the Past) or I just don't remember their names anymore (One with dinosaur mercenaries). I also want to stop before I clutter the hell out of this thread with a slew of beat-em-ups.

 

[Skimoman]

Pokemon Crystal

Super Smash Bros*

Universal Studios

Crash

... I'm young...

 

[RitoJS]

Crash Team racing

Spyro

Captain Tsubasa 4

Final Fantasy Mystic quest

Sonic Advance 2

 

[JJK_42]

Pokemon up to and including Emerald. After that, I became too old for it (though now I play the old ones again on an emulator on my phone )

Except for crystal. I didn't like crystal.

And all kinds of mario games of course.

 

[Hororo]

suikoden II all the way good memories...

 

[JJK_42]

Pokemon Blue:

- ... Okay who wasn't obsessed with this franchise when they were kids!?

Pff... Pokemon red was much more awesome

 

[SLEEP]

Old dos games Jill of the Jungle was a pretty strong staple for kid me, and there were lots, I don't even fricking remember all of them it was so long ago. DOS rocked/still rocks.

Pokemon ALL OF THEM EVERY POKEMON even pokemon SNAP Pokemon Snap was boss I was little and getting used to a games controller for the first time and Pokemon Snap was at just the right pace to teach an 8 year old how to use the controller and where everything is and pass the knowledge onto harder games omg. Yellow was cool, Crystal was 100% cool I could play as a girl A HUNDRED PERCENT COOL.

 

[sai]

I like to pretend Earthbound was my favorite childhood game, but I never played it til I was 18? Haha. But I was really into Ristar and Shinobi and some other Game Gear titles when I was a kid. Pokemon was most likely my first RPG, but I can't really remember for sure...

 

[Seacliff]

Any sonic platformer for the Genesis

Super Mario World

Pokemon Sapphire

Yoshi's Island

and a lot more... these are like, my favorites of my favorites in my childhood.

 

[monkeynohito]

Most of my childhood experience with gaming was being stuck at the local jackass' house watching -them- play, but I busted ass and saved up to get some of my own lucked out a few times with gifts and game rental was prolly the only reason I played more than, like, 10. :3 Lengthy RPGs were a real commodity in those circumstances.

My favorites:

Castlevania 1, 2 and 3

Phantasy Star 2 and 3 (4 came out when I was a teenager, lol)

Dragon Warrior 3 and 4

Strider

River City Ransom

and thanks to scraping the bargain bin:

Crystalis - Oh my Godess, get this music stuck in your head!

Faxanadu - Like Zelda 2 on drugs

Clash at Demonhead - This game was drugs

Destiny of an Emperor - Three Kingdoms RPG on NES, lol

Rolling Thunder - Kinda Rally Vincent and some dude vs. Sentai enemies in cover-based Shinobi action

Golgo 13 - Golgo is an incredible badass in a couple NES games that were bad in a weird relaxing kind of way

 

[Chaos Avian]

Pokemon Yellow

Pokemon Silver

Pokemon Snap (N64)

Rayman 2: The Great Escape (N64, not the plethora of ports they have nowadays xD)

Silicon Valley (N64)

Sonic 1-3 & Knuckles