Favorite video game of all time

fish · Post by **fish** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:59 pm

For me, it's the Nintendo Super Mario Bros. 3 that has me playing for years.

Why

Because it is fun!

I don't care about the score.

Never mind about getting every single coin.

It's fun strategizing how I'm going to play each game.

I never cheat by using the warp whistle either, I play every single level.

I've had it since the Super Nintendo came out with Super Mario All Stars and now have it with my GameBoy Advance SP.
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cho · Post by **cho** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:57 pm

1)Legend of Zelda II Link's Adventure

followed closely behind by Final Fantasy 6 and then 4.

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:58 am

Wow hard question. I have to go with Super Mario Brother though. Followed closely by NBA Jam Tournament Edition. I played that games till Morning alot. More recently I would have to say Ghost Recon. The original not A.W. Me and my cousin would play co-op mode all night for a year or two on the weekends. Good Times

cho · Post by **cho** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:59 am

64bit wrote:Wow hard question. I have to go with Super Mario Brother though. Followed closely by NBA Jam Tournament Edition. I played that games till Morning alot. More recently I would have to say Ghost Recon. The original not A.W. Me and my cousin would play co-op mode all night for a year or two on the weekends. Good Times

NBA Jam was about one of the only b-ball games I would play. Being on fire was cool, samewith playing as a mascott.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:36 am

Close call between
Quake 1 with Requiem mod
or
Quake 2 with Lithium mod

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:06 am

Medal of Honor Allied Assault

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:38 pm

Chrono Trigger

ive played this game so meny times I still love it like the first time i played it

RoscoPColtrane · Post by **RoscoPColtrane** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:07 pm

too many to pick for me.

Jungle Strike (sega genesis)
Super Star wars tril ( i know its three games! SNES)
R6: Rogue Spear (PC)
BF1942 (1st is best!)
NHL 94 (genesis)

meh i give up....too many games to pick just one!

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:20 pm

Playing Rogue Spear (and the expansions like Urban Operations) with my buddy. We owned a lot of big clans on Zone. I use to play that game everyday and sometimes 6 hours straight. I've played a lot of good games since then, but none came close to RS.

fish · Post by **fish** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:49 pm

There are many great games out there.

But how many games have you so hooked, you refused to give them up

Like I said, I won't miss any of the other great games.

Oh sure, there was Space Ace, Dragon's Lair, Cliff Hanger, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Quake I + II, Unreal, Sonic the Hedgehog... who cares!

If I had to pick the one game that I play today that I refuse to give up, it is Super Mario Bros. 3, hands down winner as far as I'm concerned!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:45 am

fish wrote:There are many great games out there.

But how many games have you so hooked, you refused to give them up

I don't think any game would do that for me. Esp not in the summertime, when beach, cookouts, friends, and the boat, are calling me to go hit the water or cookup some good food and drinks.

For a game to sink its hooks into me..it has to be online..against other people. Ever since first person shooters went online in the early dial up days...there was no turning back for me. I prefer first person shooters, combat style games, can toss flight simulators in there. Prefer World War 2 to current times style instead of spacey type...so currently, Battlefield 1942, and Battlefield Vietnam are my favorite games today.

But to the title.."favorite of all time"...the ground breaking game that hooked me onto computer gaming was Quake 1. The first true 3D game engine...where your environment was built 3 dimensionally. And it pretty much started the big online gaming community..with public game servers cropping up all over the place. I could play against a friend living across town, or against people across the world. It was mind boggling, to me at least, to see a player character on my screen, controlled by another person. Never mind 10 or 20 or more other human players on my screen....so you could get many of your friends together doing this.

Ever since that..games have to be multi player to catch my interest.

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:15 am

For console games mortal combat and twisted metal were my favorites. For the computer Q2 and bf2.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:19 am

KINGoFOOLS wrote:For the computer Q2 ...

Z-Bot !

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:21 am

Doom! Played on a Toshiba Satellite lappy and loaded via floppy disc's back in 1995.

The X-Files video game

RTCW (on-line)

BF Vietnam/Desert Combat...used to ditch work at times while on the road to rush back to my hotel room to play all night. I miss those days with the SG guys (and Meggie).

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:55 pm

I rember the X files pc game I jumped a few types.. like Fireing the gun on acciddnt

and the 7 cds

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:40 pm

Desert Combat

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:12 pm

Final Fantasy 1
Zelda 1
Carmaggedon

RoscoPColtrane · Post by **RoscoPColtrane** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:53 pm

CoolJ wrote:Playing Rogue Spear (and the expansions like Urban Operations) with my buddy. We owned a lot of big clans on Zone. I use to play that game everyday and sometimes 6 hours straight. I've played a lot of good games since then, but none came close to RS.

Yup the only other game that has come close to that for me was the first bf42. I honestly used to play RS for 10+ hours on the weekends. I think my max was 14 hours in one day.... WTF!!

Summer with no car....whatcha expect?!

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:20 am

Eh, I've got a little time to waste (and the caffeine high will be wearing off shortly), and since there's no possible way for me to narrow it down to just one (or ten, or twenty...), I might as well just rattle off a few (in no particular order) that I've spent more than a little time playing over the years (while skipping over dozens of other gems to keep this post from being longer than it already is). These are ones that I'll consider to be just as much of a classic 40 years from now as I do now or when I first played them.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert (PC)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (SNES)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time (Nintendo 64)

Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

TIE Fighter (PC)

Shenmue (Sega Dreamcast)

Half-Life (PC)

River City Ransom (NES)

Final Fantasy VI (SNES)

Civilization 2 (PC)

Mega Man 2 (NES)

The Secret Of Monkey Island (PC)

Ninja Gaiden (NES/XBOX)

Advance Wars (GBA/DS)

Tetris (GB, NES, 20 other systems)

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (PC)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)

Yeah, I should stop before I just keep babbling. Sorry for the thread crap

TheyCallMe____b · Post by **TheyCallMe____b** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:02 pm

I 2nd TIE Fighter (wasted way too many hours of my youth)

also Super Punch Out was the bomb(yup he just said 'the bomb')

Oh and then there was that time when NBA Live '95 was my crack

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:32 pm

half-life

x-wing vs. tie-fighter

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:34 pm

Blisster wrote:half-life

ditto

RoscoPColtrane · Post by **RoscoPColtrane** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:36 pm

oh my god, can't believe i left out Tie Fighter. That game was AMAZING! so much fun it wasn't hard to believe. Graphics were amazing too. they need to make a new one of those games.

fish · Post by **fish** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:18 am

Cliff Hanger was such a game! It was laserdisc animation - Ninja fighting, truely remarkable game. Arcade only.

But seriously, every night I am playing Super Mario 3.

And I mean, just about every night.

I never bought a strategy guide either!

I am still finding more secrets.

None of the new Mario games have what Super Mario 3 has (Inventory, mini-games that add items to your inventory, so many ways of winning extra lives, the ability to fly, many suits, unbelievable levels that are just so much fun, airships!!)

Now do you understand why I can't even think of playing any other game?

Does anyone here have a game that they just can't stop because it is too much fun?

The only things that can keep me from playing are: Work, driving, phone calls, dating, eating & sleeping.

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:32 am

UOD wrote:Desert Combat

i agree I remember playing dc on bridge or lost village map and there would be about 10 of us on teamspeak meggie, 64 bit ( deadly snipin SOB), ace, scotte IRS, buttman blisste , jackal, YOSC, bouncer.

I loved to wait with xpack at the top of the stairs. I could throw xpack thru 2nd floor windows. or loading enemy chopper with xpack and blowing it in mid flight<<<<* (not for sig material Brian!))) *ahh sigh*

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:49 pm

Impossible to narrow down, but to name a handful that I put in way too many hours:

Mortal Kombat (ARCADE)
NBA Jam Tournament Edition (ARCADE)
Super Off-Road (ARCADE)
Space Invaders (ATARI)
Contra (NES)
Street Fighter II (SNES)
Final Fantasy II (SNES)
007: Goldeneye (N64)
Elder Scrolls series - Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind (PC)
Sid Meir's Civilization series (PC)
Battlefield 1942 (PC)
Command & Conquer series (PC)
Doom I & II (PC)
Sid Meir's Pirates! - newer version (PC)
Halo (XBOX)
Brothers in Arms series (XBOX)

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:03 pm

koldchillah wrote: Contra (NES)

Yeah..the hours spent on that one too.

Double Dragon was another huge fave

And Yi Ar Kung Fu (I'm sure I spelt that one wrong)

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:15 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote: Double Dragon was another huge fave

Double Dragon was awesome, but that was another one that I liked on the arcade a lot better than on console.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:40 pm

koldchillah wrote: Double Dragon was awesome, but that was another one that I liked on the arcade a lot better than on console.

Agreed....the arcade version. One of the bars on campus up at UCONN, after Phych class my roomie and I'd hit that place...around 4-ish or so..proceed with pitchers of beer..and play that game for hours. Playing that 2x player as a team was a riot. Or get pissed at your teammate..grab him by the head and do those knee shots into the face..then flip them over yer shoulder.

cchooper · Post by **cchooper** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:35 pm

Console: Mario Bros. 3
PC: Quake I. Killed alot of time playing Doom 2 as well, I think I cheated alot though. IDKFA, IDDQD!!!

IRS · Post by **IRS** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:12 pm

Doom or Duke tuff call

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:33 am

C&C (every one of them), Ultima Online, MOHAA, Desert Combat, Quake 2.

Then for the console I got Super Mario 3 & 4, Chrono Trigger, FF7, and too many for the NES to list.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:17 pm

too many:
Adventure - Atari 2600 ( was about 9 years old...played till the sun came up some saturdays at a friends house)
RBI Baseball - nintendo (unbeatable, I am )
Super Metroid - SNES
Zelda - Ocarina of Time - N64
Quake 3 for the pc - So many mods and still has very populated servers.

I've probably logged/wasted the most hours playing Q3, so that would have to get the nod if i could only pick 1.

triniwasp · Post by **triniwasp** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:19 am

loop2kil wrote:too many:
Adventure - Atari 2600 ( was about 9 years old...played till the sun came up some saturdays at a friends house)
RBI Baseball - nintendo (unbeatable, I am )
Super Metroid - SNES
Zelda - Ocarina of Time - N64
Quake 3 for the pc - So many mods and still has very populated servers.

I've probably logged/wasted the most hours playing Q3, so that would have to get the nod if i could only pick 1.

the OG Sid Meier's Pirates! for Comm 64, also loved Barbarians for Comm 64

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:02 pm

If talkin' about console / home type games..

Back in the 80's.. On the Commodore 64 "micro computer".. the Gateway to Apshai (the begining to the Temple of Apshai series) by Epxy.. was awesome..

"High Res" graphics! lol

Back in the Atari 2006 days..
The Swordquest series really drove me mad.. plus other gammers back then

Way too many more for me to comment on.. for Nintendo 8 bit system, Sega Master System and Genesis, ECT..
DOOM for the regular pc.. have a lot of great memories of playing that for hours and hours..
and Quake 1.. miss Dos games like that..

SiDeWiNdEr · Post by **SiDeWiNdEr** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:00 pm

Q2 as Cat said seeing someone right in front of me being controlled from another place was wild

UT 99 Great game great graphics fast paced

Twisted Metal 1
Gran Turismo 1
Tekken 1
Ridge Racer
Resident Evil

RoscoPColtrane · Post by **RoscoPColtrane** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:43 pm

Metal Gear Solid for psx is probobly on my top list as well. Gran Turismo 1, Resident Evil was amazing when it came out as well.....

Final Fantasy 7....

TOO MANY TO PICK!

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:08 am

Contra

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:10 am

Dune 2

Mr King · Post by **Mr King** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:03 pm

Tecmo Super Bowl!
Day of Defeat (Half Life mod)
Age of Mythology

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