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Were you into video games growing up? If so, which ones?

posted 4 years ago by M1sterDoct0r (4560)
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Growing up, There weren't any arcades around our area. So we'd just play outside all day. With marbles & stuff. For a time, we were kinda obsessed with cards. We were basically gambling cause we'd use cigarette packets as "money". Not the actual cigarettes, just the unfolded packet/paper. It was fun

Anyways, I didn't get my first console till I was around 12-13 years. It was the Nintendo 64. I had Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, FIFA World Cup '98, Golden Eye, Mario Golf & 2 others that I can't recall

I was obsessed with Golden Eye. As an adult, I don't really care for first person shooter games but back then, I could not put down that game. Would play it for hours & hours. One of the best games I've played in my lifetime

[–] nyctc7 (44105) 4 years ago

My experience was chiefly with coin-operated arcade games. I wasn't a kid, though. When I was a kid in the mid 1960s to early 70s it was quite different. Favorites that I recall (1978 - 1988):

Missile Command
Donkey Kong
Donkey King Jr
Robotron 2084
Joust
Q*bert
Marble Madness
Tempest
Gauntlet
Moon Patrol
Zaxxon
Spy Hunter
Tron

Dragon's Liar (Preferred to watch rather than play)

[–] parkerbot (10724) 2 years ago

Re Dragon's Lair - not sure what it cost in your part of the world but where I am it was $.50 a play and unless you knew what you were doing (I didn't), your game ended before the joystick handle got warm.

I'll never forget Boot Hill and that background - awesome.

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[–] nyctc7 (44105) 2 years ago

Which is why I preferred to watch :)

I asked a guy how on earth he got so far, and he said he and a couple friends would take a stack of quarters and when it wasn't obvious, would try out every direction/button until they hit the one that worked.

[–] parkerbot (10724) 2 years ago

The mini early version of people with coin vs people without much coin ( :

I had to make my quarters last - getting 10 to 15 minutes out of one quarter was the goal.

[–] Stratego (31081) 4 years ago

Tetris. Pretty much the only game I played on my gameboy.

[–] Bateman (607) 4 years ago

Definitely; some of my earliest memories are of playing River Raid, Enduro and Megamania on my parents' Atari 2600.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78597) 4 years ago

We were not especially into video games as kids, there was a fun one on the Commodore 128 about a lost treasure and Duck Hunt was pretty cool on that first Nintendo system

We were Dungeons And Dragons nerds around here

I was 'The Dungeon Master'
I had the modules, texts, tiny pewter figurines and several sets of dice plus large hand made maps...We nerded out on DnD more than video games

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4560) 4 years ago

I've actually never played any DnD in my entire life. None of my childhood or adulthood friends played it. And no one in my family has ever played it. And for some reason, I just never seeked it out

It's just one of those cultural phenomenons that I know almost nothing about. Except for stuff I've seen in films & shows.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78597) 4 years ago

It was fun but super dorky lol😃

You created a character (wizard, thief, warrior or so on) by rolling the dice to determine your prowess and then began a series of pre-plotted and pre-mapped dungeon
adventures with your friends and their characters

Usually you'd have to knock off a bunch of Orcs, a gigantic monster or an evil
Witch or some such nonsense

If you rolled the dice and got a crappy character you could just use one from 'Rogues Gallery,' which was one of the many Dungeon Master's guides available

Damn, I sound like I'm twelve years old again but that DnD was awesome!

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4560) 4 years ago

That genuinely sounds like fun. Wish it was as popular when I was growing up or have literally anyone around me playing it in my childhood.

I would've definitely gotten into it. But I'm not exaggerating when I say that I didn't know of anyone who played DnD growing up.

Was it not as popular around '98 to early 2000s? Cause that's when I grew up.

I know that it was huge in the late 70s to early 80s & made a big comeback this past decade.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78597) 4 years ago

It was a big deal with us early comic book kids in the early to mid 80s , I think DnD faded by the 90s...When I was a kiddo You could walk into the local comic shop with 10 bucks and come out with three new issues of Thor or whatever and a new DnD module for your friends to have a go at

Best of times bud👍

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[–] Rockman4 (1724) 4 years ago

Resident Evil 2 was my favorite growing up

RE 1 and 3 as well

A lot of my other favorites were

GoldenEye
Perfect Dark
Mortal Kombat 1-4
Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol
Final Fantasty 7. FF 8 and 9 as well
Metal Gear Solid
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Silent Hill
Dino Crisis
Twisted Metal 1-3

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4560) 4 years ago

I had Resident Evil 4 on the PS2. A really well made horror, survival game in my opinion

Gave me a few good scares

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I'm going to date myself a bit but most of these I got into when they were new...

Elite
Radar Rat Race
Bard's Tale I
Roadwar 2000
Temple of Apshai
Pitfall
Zaxxon

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 4 years ago

I played Madden all the time. And Resident Evil.