What Are Your All-Time Favorite Video Games?

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The forum discussion centers around users sharing their all-time favorite video games, highlighting classics across various platforms. Key titles mentioned include "Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings" (PC), "Super Mario World" (SNES), and "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" (N64). Participants express nostalgia for adventure games and discuss their current favorites, such as "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne" and "Counter-Strike." The conversation reveals a strong preference for multiplayer and strategy games, with many users lamenting the decline of adventure games.

PREREQUISITES
  • Familiarity with classic video game consoles like SNES, N64, and PC gaming.
  • Understanding of game genres, particularly adventure, strategy, and multiplayer games.
  • Knowledge of iconic titles such as "Final Fantasy," "Warcraft," and "The Legend of Zelda."
  • Awareness of gaming culture and nostalgia surrounding retro games.
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  • Explore the history and impact of "The Legend of Zelda" series on gaming.
  • Research the evolution of strategy games, focusing on the "Age of Empires" and "Civilization" series.
  • Investigate the development and legacy of adventure games, including titles like "Monkey Island" and "Day of the Tentacle."
  • Learn about the multiplayer dynamics in games like "Counter-Strike" and "Warcraft III."
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Gamers, video game historians, and anyone interested in the evolution of video games and their cultural significance will benefit from this discussion.

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  • #32
I LOVED LEMMINGS! man, and here i thought you guys would be listing off stuff i didn't know! did anyone ever play number cruncher? man i used to love that...
 
  • #33
i didn't know! did anyone ever play number cruncher? man i used to love that...

Hell yeah! I played that all the time back in the day. :biggrin:
 
  • #34
Im not sure about my favourite, but I am going to list a few of the games i have wasted the most time playing;

Super Mario World, SNES
Super Mario Kart, SNES
Zelda a link to the past, SNES (or was it links awakening? has been a while)
Goldeneye, N64
Perfect Dark, N64
Super Mario Kart, N64 (purely for the hours of fun to be had in multiplayer battlemode)
Zelda Ocarina of time, N64
Age of Empires 2, PC
Worms Armegeddon. PC
 
  • #35
Hrm... let's rank them in terms of approximate number of hours sunk.

World of Warcraft. (I just recently managed to extricate myself from this addiction after a year of playing 2 or 3 hours a day at least)
Stars! (Helped contribute to me failing out of my first year of college)
Legend of Zelda: A link to the past (I knew this game so well that my brother and I tagteamed it over a three day period one summer and finished it without dying or saving once)

Those are the top three

Honorable mentions go to:
Final Fantasy VII
Patrician 2/3 (3 is basically an expansion, but they didn't sell enough in the US to justify selling it as such. If you like trading games, give the demo a try)
Gran Turismo 3
Space Empires 4
Baldur's Gate
Bard's Tale 1, 2, & 3

uhm... yeah... I play too many video games.
 
  • #36
Burnout 3. I'm not usually a fan of racing games, but when you get frustrated, you can slam opponents into oncoming traffic or walls & make them crash. Wohoo!

Sonic the hedgehog (various titles). They are classics!

I really want to play lemmings now
 
  • #37
Wow! Thanks, Stats! I can't wait to get home and start loading up my Mac! :smile:
 
  • #38
I have a tough time deciding between
Mary-Kate and Ashley Sweet 16
or
Mary-Kate and Ashley Girls Night out
for the gba
 
  • #39
Frozen Bubble is a very addicting game:

http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
 
  • #40
i couldn't download lemmings... could anyone else?

and trib, everyone knows that Barbies riding adventure is way better than anything mary-kate and ashley have put out.
 
  • #41
lets see in the RPG/MMORPG series;
Fallout
Fallout 2
Everquest 2

In the FPS areana;
Battlefield 1942 and all of the expansions for it
Battlefield 2
Soldner
Alien vs. Preaditor (gold edition)

Thinking on RTS;
All encarnations of Command & Conquer
Lemmings
Worms
Warhammer 40K
Warcraft III and the expansion
Starcraft and the expansion

A flight sim that was great and needs to be updated
TIE fighter
TIE fighter vs X-wing
 
  • #42
Argentum Vulpes said:
Worms

I don't know how I could have forgotton to include this. Worms is fantastic!
 
  • #43
TETRIS!

All this talk about old video games made me dig out my old SNES, doing that i found my gameboy with a copy of tetris in it and haven't put it down since. Whats anyones highest score on Tetris?
 
  • #44
Gale said:
i couldn't download lemmings... could anyone else?

and trib, everyone knows that Barbies riding adventure is way better than anything mary-kate and ashley have put out.
you would know about putting out, so I'll take your word for it
 
  • #45
And the original Pokemon for the game boy.
 
  • #46
Mm, I haven't played games for a while but I do enjoy the Mortal Kombat series. Final Fantasy, X being my favorite. .Hack and probably more I'm forgetting.
 
  • #47
Space Empires 4

Oh, an SE fan. Haven't played that game in quite a while, I have II and III but haven't tried the full verson of IV.
 

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