Games you played as a kid that you wish you could play again

[Jack Brickman]

How could I forget Final Fantasy tactics??? All those hours grinding to stack my team with dual wielding Knights :chuckles:

Oh man! That and the GBA version both sucked an ungodly amount of hours from my life. Such great games.

 

[MoneyMP3]

I know I can still play this game because I have it on Steam but I'll never forget my first playthrough.

 

[Simmy]

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Pretty cool video from ESPN, documenting the evolution of sports games.

 

[Nathan S]

Anyone? :chuckles:

 

[Snarly]

Thanks to emulators this makes this list hard. That said I think the one game I miss that I feel I have no chance to ever play again is. The original SMB game on an Arcade machine. I remember going into this store and asked my mom for coins and played what would become my favorite platforming series ever, (Rayman) is catch up though. However the feeling I when I went to a friends and played it at their home was amazing. A year later on Christmass I had my own Nintendo with Zelda and Mario and thus my life was forever changed for the better.

 

[Simmy]

Thanks to emulators this makes this list hard. That said I think the one game I miss that I feel I have no chance to ever play again is. The original SMB game on an Arcade machine. I remember going into this store and asked my mom for coins and played what would become my favorite platforming series ever, (Rayman) is catch up though. However the feeling I when I went to a friends and played it at their home was amazing. A year later on Christmass I had my own Nintendo with Zelda and Mario and thus my life was forever changed for the better.

Emulators are the best invention in gaming history. My SNES and GBA library is enormous. Can't go wrong with classic Pokemon, Mario and Donkey Kong though.

 

[gourimoko]

Phantasy Star on the Master System

 

[OptimusPrime]

Aerobiz Supersonic for SNES. I go back to it at least once a year, even though I don't play games as much anymore.

 

[Ruken]

I played a game way back when, I've been trying for years to figure out the name. It was for SNES and all I remember bout it was you were different animals in a sort of fantasy setting. Always wanted to play again but I have been unable to figure out the na,e

 

[Simmy]

As a huge Peter Pan fan, this game was a classic:

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Just thinking about the moment we first were able to play as our favourite characters in video games. In retrospect, it's actually pretty amazing. Especially to see how immersed we all are now in custom character creation this far down the video game evolution chain, just playing as a character from a TV show or movie was a heck of a good time in the 90s.

 

[aspivey]

I played a game way back when, I've been trying for years to figure out the name. It was for SNES and all I remember bout it was you were different animals in a sort of fantasy setting. Always wanted to play again but I have been unable to figure out the na,e

Maybe "E.V.O.: Search For Eden"? In any case, that's an under-appreciated classic, and fits your description.

 

[Nicky]

16 Bit Bar and Arcade has about 30 or 40 games. Not sure when it opens, but I know they should have more than a few games that were mentioned on here.

 

[Akron330]

Loved these games

My friends and I would play Royal Rumble on this game for hours

I was also a huge fan of NBA Live 95

 

[AuxiliaryPie]

16 Bit Bar and Arcade has about 30 or 40 games. Not sure when it opens, but I know they should have more than a few games that were mentioned on here.

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holy shit the temper tantrums i would throw because of this game. my mom wont let me live it down... i just remember being the definition of rage, but still coming back for more. I came back to it in highschool and got far as fuck with my buddy but we still got stumped on a puzzle.

 

[Nicky]

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Drinking with Punky Brewster. Hanging with Ms. Pacman. Partying with a bunch of goonies.

This might sound like an acquired taste. To Troy Allen, however, it’s a part of fine-tuned branding strategy that will land in Lakewood in July.

The owner of Columbus-based 16-Bit Bar+Arcade will open a second location in the old Five Guys location, on Detroit Avenue. The “barcade” concept brings together classic video games and a variety of specialty beers and cocktails.

“We see it as more than a barcade,” says Allen, a Stow native who moved to Columbus 12 years ago. “It’s about stepping back to that era -- to the ‘80s and ‘90s.”

The bar will feature 50 classic arcade games, like Galaga and Teenage Ninja Turtles. No quarters needed; the games are free. There will also be themed evenings, appealing to retro gamers and movie fans -- like Mortal Mondays and Way Back Wednesdays.

“Our Wednesdays will have movies from the ‘80s and ‘90s,” says Allen. “We will also be doing old-school, craft cocktails with names that recall that era.”

Like the Dolph Lundgren, a Moscow Mule-like elixir named after the actor that played Ivan Drago in the cartoonish 1985 flick, “Rocky IV.” Or the Kevin Bacon, which comes with bourbon and, yes, bacon. Or something called a Punky Brewster.

The “barcade” concept started in 2004, with a Brooklyn, N.Y., bar called, yup, Barcade. It has since spread around the country. Last year, the B-Side Liquor Lounge in Cleveland transformed itself into a barcade.

Allen, a marketing and branding specialist by day, thinks it’s far from game over for the concept.

“We’re doing something more upscale than Barcade in Brooklyn or some of the other places,” says Allen, who runs Columbus-based ad agency Elevate Thinking. “We had a five-market strategy and we always figured that Cleveland would be location number two, but we had no idea it would happen so quickly.”

The first location opened six months ago and exceeded expectations, says Allen. He had considered Ohio City, downtown and Tremont, but settled on Lakewood – close to Melt Bar and Grilled and World of Beer, which opened in May.

“We’re not doing food, but there are a number of places in the area like Melt that do,” says Allen. “Having them in the area was one of the draws, but we aren’t relying on foot traffic – we see ourselves as a destination because we appeal to a broad but particular audience.”

It all comes down to the concept.

“It doesn’t matter how old you are,” he adds. “You’re still going to want to kill your opponent in a game of Mortal Kombat.”

source: http://www.cleveland.com/bars/index.ssf/2014/03/columbus-based_16-bit_bararcad.html