What's your favorite video game, all time, any platform?

[Webbed]

It was a volleyball simulation game that I played many years ago on an arcade machine. Can't find it again ever since. Any one knows where I can find on for the PS1????

 

[warcleric]

Kings of the Beach or Super V-Ball?

 

[js1973]

Twisted Metal 2 on the playstation. My brother and I wasted 3 or 4 holidays away playing that game. It just never got boring in the co-op mode.

 

[Boogak]

Damn, no mention of Everquest yet? I played that game on a daily basis at least a few hours each day for close to 2 years. Although looking back on it now that I've kicked the habit... WHAT WAS I THINKING???

 

[weshuang]

warcleric,

Ah, the c64. What are you doing communing with all these young 'uns, oldtimer? I guess with regard to the Apple, I would have to say, that on a price/gaming performance basis, the Amiga would have blown the IIe, if that was the competition (I think my timing is off) away. Basically, the Amiga was purely a gaming and graphics machine. And the software available for it, which for a non-techie like myself is part and parcel with the gaming platform itself, was unparalleled.

RTS originated on Amiga. Populous. Powermonger. As I said, any Bitmap Brothers game. Don't you think there is an argument that it represented something of a renaissance in gaming?

 

[Cerebus451]

Let's see, topping the list would probably be the original X-Com trilogy. I still can't believe they would go an ruin a great thing by moving away from the turn-based squad tactics that made the games so great.

As far as playing time invested, that would be either Beyond Dark Castle on the Mac, or StarRaiders on the Atari (at least I think it was Star Raiders, it was Star something).

 

[DainBrammage]

Arcade Old School - Discs of Tron

Arcade Pepsi Generation - TEKKEN

PC Old School - Space Taxi, Lode Runner, F-15 Strike Eagle or just about any old C64 game I used to own.

PC now - THE entrie Rainbow 6 / Rogue Spear series

Console Atari - COMBAT. Hours upon hours of TANK PONG

Console SNES Bomberman and Bomberman 2 (w/ 4 Players)

Console PS Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2

 

[warcleric]

Weshuang: yes it has its place in history, and it was the Apple IIGS that competed with the Original Amiga, and the Macs that competed with the later Amiga's. Werent Populous and Power Monger both turn based? BTW, I have many C64's, C128's, an SX-64, and an Atari 2600 still up and running at the house, they get regular use too.

 

[hammer01]

The Legend of Zelda, on the original NES.

 

[BDawg]

My 2 favorite, of all time are the following:

The Guardian Legend (NES)
Crystalis (NES)

It's worth it to find an NES and buy these games. They're still great compared to modern games!

 

[MrAnderson]

Final Fantasy, couldn't stop playing that game 'till I finished it!

 

[js1973]

Hey DainBrammage, I had forgotten about Combat on the 2600! That, at the time, was the ultimate. Tank games rule. There. Got that out of my system. I'll get back to being a mature 28 year old. Carry on then.

 

[weshuang]

Warcleric,

Don't know why this is such a fun conversation, but it is.

Powermonger and Populous were true RTS, not turn-based. As far as I know, they were only made for the Amiga platform. I think, actually, that Populous was ported to another platform several years later. Anyway, these two games were truly ahead of their time. Settlers, which someone mentioned as their favorite game early on, was a watered down version of Powermonger that came out years later.

Anyway, when I think back to those games, I really do get nostalgic. I'm not kidding, Populous as playable as it was on the Amiga would be a strong seller on the PC today. It was just incredibly addictive and a beautiful game to boot. It ran off of 2 floppies.

I think the thing that was to me amazing about the Amiga was the arcade-iness of it. I still have a hard time believing that any of the more versatile machines such as the Apple 2G had games that were anywhere near the sheer fun of Speedball 2.

I'm jealous of you for keeping your old equipment. This conversation has made me wish I still had Speedball 2 and could fire it up this weekend.

Cheers,
Wes Huang

 

[iamwiz82]

i have populus installed on my 900mhz PC. That game never gets old.


I have to say my favorite games are:

1. Daggerfall, RPG about 3 years ago. It was a MASSIVE game, just huge. 700meg install 3 years ago was pushing it.

2. Colinization, a turn based game set on searching for the new world in the 1400's, sid meier at his best

3. Civilization, does anyone else love watching the power struggle when you beat the game? After you win, that synopsis of how you conquered is so cool.

 

[weshuang]

You know, there was a gap there in my gaming when the Amiga was on its last legs and I didn't own a home PC. So I never bought Civilization. When I finally got around to it, the graphics seemed so dated that I never played it.

Is Colonization a good game? I really do love conventional turn-based strategy as well. I remember it getting alot of pre-release press based on Sid Meier's reputation, but I don't remember seeing it generating much pub since then.

Railroad Tycoon, another Sid Meier game, was one of my favorite games on the Amiga as well. Although I think it originated on the PC.

 

[weshuang]

This wouldn't qualify as my favorite game, but there are two console games that were strangely addictive. Baseball Stars, I think on the original NES, and Bubble-something, a game on the PSX.

Hmm, short term memory...

 

[Pastore]

Super Mario (NES)

 

[Phil21]

Hrm.. Total Annihilation. Multiplayer RTS at it's absolute peak.

-Phil

 

[PassatVR6]

Descent1 is what got me started into the whole multiplayer gaming. i used to rush hmoe after school and play my friends over the modem. 486 25MHZ power ohhh yeah! S3 Virge the ultimate 3d jimmy kicker!

Then Kali came about, played Descent1 on there all the time then Descent2 came about...

Then my friend got me into Quake1 .. Quake1 CTF was the sh1t!

 

[iamwiz82]

weshuang, yes, it is an excellent game. Many poeple thought it was below sid meier, but i played it for many many many nights =].

 

[ratkil]

The game Hack on the Amiga......ah,the memories of hours and hours =D

 

[weshuang]

Sorry, Iamwiz, I take it you are talking about Colonization, or were you talking about Railroad Tycoon?

 

[Biggs]

Well the 3 original SSI series(Pool of Radiance, Secret of the Silver Blades, I forgot the 3rd one )

 

[dANt3R]

I'd have to agree with Biggs. We used to play Pool of Radiance until 3 in the morning on Friday nights. Best game ever.

 

[hovenas]

Elite had me submerged forever, I also recall playing Dune 2 on my amiga like there was no tomorrow.