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

gourimoko said:

Did you ever get a chance to play Xenogears or FFXII, I feel like we've talked about that before.

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Loved FFXII, probably not as much as you but I liked it a lot. Xenogears is one of those games I always meant to play and never got around to it. I've been told I'd love it.

Maniac Mansion baby!

I never did finish the game. Don't know if I had a glitched copy or what, but the radiation suit was never under the slab of concrete in the garage. Grr.

Forgot Timesplitters. Discovered this in late high school and used to smoke weed and play as a group. There would be extended periods of time where nobody's character was moving because we'd laugh so hard at the characters for God knows what reason.

Somebody find me monkey island and broken sword emulators and I'll throw out OS rep. I'm at work and tomorrow is my day off.

Since you brought up TimeSplitters, I'll bring up the game that TimeSplitters was basically a less-memorable (albeit still quite fun) clone of:



Now this was a game that occupied a lot of my time as a kid. I remember constantly having four friends over just to play this damn game. I was freaking incredible at it. Probably one of the GOAT. You give me proximity mines and I could make the world my bitch. :chuckles:

Obviously GoldenEye doesn't hold up as well as a lot of older games due to the archaic controls, but damn if it wasn't one of my favorite games growing up.

Yanni Football said:

Somebody find me monkey island and broken sword emulators and I'll throw out OS rep. I'm at work and tomorrow is my day off.

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You shouldn't need emulators for the first two Monkey Island games. They were re-released on the PC with voice acting and new graphics (although you could swap to the original version and turn off voice acting if you wanted). The third game does require an emulator of a sort. If you google it you should be able to find a download location. I'd look but I'm also at work.

Jack Brickman said:

Since you brought up TimeSplitters, I'll bring up the game that TimeSplitters was basically a less-memorable (albeit still quite fun) clone of:

Now this was a game that occupied a lot of my time as a kid. I remember constantly having four friends over just to play this damn game. I was freaking incredible at it. Probably one of the GOAT. You give me proximity mines and I could make the world my bitch. :chuckles:

Obviously GoldenEye doesn't hold up as well as a lot of older games due to the archaic controls, but damn if it wasn't one of my favorite games growing up.



You shouldn't need emulators for the first two Monkey Island games. They were re-released on the PC with voice acting and new graphics (although you could swap to the original version and turn off voice acting if you wanted). The third game does require an emulator of a sort. If you google it you should be able to find a download location. I'd look but I'm also at work.

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I just love the first 5 mins shooting the guy in the toilet. Right up teenage street that game

Same re: Goldeneye. But fuck you for using prox mines. Those were the worst.

How friggin incredible were the Goldeneye maps at that time?

I was absolutely awful at that game and could never understand why. Especially because years later, I was fantastic at Halo. I used to play as Dan Rather in case anyone ever ran into me. :chuckles:

The Oi said:

There's a game I flat out cannot figure out the name of that I used to love. I'm pretty sketchy on details, but I'd be pumped if someone can remember this.

It was a battle game for, I think, Sega. You and a friend would create an army of maybe like 4-5 characters and play against each other. I think i recall the colors of each army being red and blue, but could be wrong. You could pick from a guy that hurled dynamite, and if you paused the game while he was throwing it, it would automatically it. Then there was a flamethrower guy and I believe a machine gun guy and some others.

It was basically just a one on one battle game, very cartoony looking.

This sound familiar to anyone??

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If this is the one you are talking about, I'm speechless. I used to LOVE this game. I came into this thread to post it!




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General Chaos was the one!!!

Did you ever figure out the glitch where if you paused in the middle of a dynamite toss it would automatically hit with full damage?

Did anyone ever play that shitfucked game Boy and His Blob? That shit was impossible.

I still host an awesome Half-Life server... you can still play it I play from time to time.

I miss web games like Acrophobia. that was fun as hell. I'd still play if there were a good option out there.

Oh, and Mike Tyson's punch out.

Yanni Football said:

Somebody find me monkey island and broken sword emulators and I'll throw out OS rep. I'm at work and tomorrow is my day off.

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The original Monkey Island games can be played in ScummVM:
http://scummvm.org/

It's easily done. Here's a link to a page describing how to convert the special edition into a Scumm compatible build: http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html

Also the original Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast was amazing. Longest period of time I've ever played a game straight .. Think I went about 35 hours. I was crippled for a day after that.. shivering.

gourimoko said:

The original Monkey Island games can be played in ScummVM:
http://scummvm.org/

It's easily done. Here's a link to a page describing how to convert the special edition into a Scumm compatible build: http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html

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ScummVM! Yes, that's how I played Curse through several times after upgrading my PC past the point where the original Curse was compatible.

I'd highly recommend buying the remakes of the first two games, though (available on Steam as far as I know...I got both on the 360). The added voice acting is awesome, and perhaps with enough support someone will finally greenlight a proper Curse of Monkey Island HD remake.

I also can't forget to mention how much of my life I spent playing civilization 2. Me and the Zulu's had a war which literally last weeks in real life. I owned half the planet, they owed the other half, both nuked up to the gills.