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

[Jack Brickman]

Okay, another game that sucked away countless hours of my youth (well, I guess I was in high school, but still) was Team Fortress Classic.

Just look at these cutting edge graphics:

I played this game on a damn dial-up when I was younger. I became an elite sniper by conquering my ping and predicting where someone would be like two seconds later. :chuckles:

Seriously, though...this game was amazing. I wish I could go back and play it, but I'm so used to Team Fortress 2 now that playing TFC is borderline impossible.

 

[SixPACK]

The Karate Kid game.

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??

Knowing you, you were already eating paint chips and it is probably Connect 4.

 

[kosis]

I take it no one had Turbo Grafx 16? I remember getting the system when it came out and being completely surprised and blown away that my parents (foreign, hated video games, felt it hurt my studies) actually went out and bought it for my birthday. It was just released. My first system. No one on the block/school/city? had it at the time and I was king of video games... until Genesis came out a few months later and wiped the floor with TG16. Poor NEC.

Anyways, some TG16 classics that I'd like to revisit:

Bonk's Adventure
Air Zonk
Legendary Axe
R-Type
Splatterhouse (OG version. You could beat it in 10 minutes)
TV Sports Baseball (The Singapore team had a guy named Phuqu :chuckles
Alien Crush

 

[MoneyMP3]

The orginal Star Wars Battlefront.

All the Backyard Sports games.

Kurt Warner's Arena Football.

MLB Slugfest.

Toy Story.

 

[OptimusPrime]

I was never really into the long RPG type games, but when I was a kid we got Might and Magic 2 for the Genesis and that game ate up hundreds of hours of my life, especially since it was like 1992 and we didn't have the internet, so I had no help on how to get through the game.

I also remember being in like 9th grade and taking my computer over to a buddy's house to network our computers and play Doom and Duke Nukem 3D and get high.

But as for the title of the thread, you can still play all of these games now, so you don't have to wish you could play them again.

 

[gourimoko]

I take it no one had Turbo Grafx 16? I remember getting the system when it came out and being completely surprised and blown away that my parents (foreign, hated video games, felt it hurt my studies) actually went out and bought it for my birthday. It was just released. My first system. No one on the block/school/city? had it at the time and I was king of video games... until Genesis came out a few months later and wiped the floor with TG16. Poor NEC.

Anyways, some TG16 classics that I'd like to revisit:

Bonk's Adventure
Air Zonk
Legendary Axe
R-Type
Splatterhouse (OG version. You could beat it in 10 minutes)
TV Sports Baseball (The Singapore team had a guy named Phuqu :chuckles
Alien Crush

I had one later in life (we were dirt poor). I got mine at 16 years old.. Best game on the platform is Castlevania: Dracula X: Rondo of Blood! Also, FIGHTING STREET is a classic..

"Drii Agin Ki. Der rr gray fi-ughs ie you Ahh oba da woud!"

 

[gourimoko]

From my childhood i remember playing hours on streetfighter 2 black market edition in the local arcade.

Before then on my zx spectrum 48k used to love jet set willy and willy vs the taxman

syndicate on the amiga was awesome too.

The one game that will mean more to me than any is C+C generals. I was living is a 1 bed studio flat with my ex-fiance for 4 months. we had no telly, i just had a laptop and some headphones, literally saved my life.

YES

 

[Shakalu M.D.]

Gouri reminding me of my love for the Wing Commander games. Damn you! :chuckles:

I don't get the "wish you could play again" part of this topic, though. Pretty much any game you want to play from when you were a kid you can probably download and play with an emulator.

Anyway, I'll throw out The Curse of Monkey Island.

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Great animation, perfect voice acting, hilarious script, and very challenging. It's an old-school adventure game, so most of the puzzles use adventure game logic which, if you're familiar with the term, has very little to do with actual logic. I highly recommend anyone who likes point and click adventure games give the Monkey Island series a try, though. Awesome games.

Fucking insult sword fighting. :chuckles: lucasarts had a lot of my favorite games and basically none had to do with Star Wars.

I'd also throw out the Broken Sword series. It's not as well known but very similar to Monkey Island. An adventure game with a lot of humor built in, not quite as over the top as monkey island though. One of them is available on the DS, the rest are computer with one on the old xbox I think.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Another classic from my high school days...Unreal Tournament.

Morpheus is still one of the greatest maps in the history of gaming:

I mean, this game has a gun that shot a miniature nuclear warhead!

 

[gourimoko]

Jack, no mention of Half-Life?

Also, LucasArts' best game to date is Tie Fighter for MS-DOS!

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[Pyro]

RollerCoaster Tycoon for PC and all of it's iterations are/were awesome.

http://www.gog.com/game/rollercoaster_tycoon_deluxe
$6 for the original and all expansions.

http://www.gog.com/game/rollercoaster_tycoon_2
$10 for RCT2 and all expansions.

http://www.gog.com/game/rollercoaster_tycoon_3
$20 for RCT3 and all expansions.

You're welcome. Still play all 3 once in a while to this day.

 

[Pyro]

And I mean, since we are mentioning Unreal Tournament games...

Unreal Tournament 2004? My first FPS ever. Thing was a blast.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Jack, no mention of Half-Life?

I feel like Half-Life should go without saying. It's one of the best shooters of all-time. But everyone knows (or should know) that. Plus, my second post in this topic was about a Half-Life mod! :chuckles:

And I mean, since we are mentioning Unreal Tournament games...

Unreal Tournament 2004? My first FPS ever. Thing was a blast.

Unreal Tournament 2004 was an amazing game. Onslaught remains one of my favorite game modes of all-time. I always considered UT2k4 to basically be a better, faster version of Halo 2's multi-player. Better online multi-player. More players. Much more badass weapons and vehicles. But really, what set UT aside was the relentless pace. I loved how quick you moved, the double-jumping, the speed with which you could get across the maps. It was just all around an awesome shooter. In Halo I always felt like I was wading through a river of caramel. In Unreal, I felt like I was in the middle of a giant shitstorm of chaos and had to keep moving to survive. It was pure adrenaline.

 

[pr26]

I sank wayyy too much time into these games:

DOS:
Treaure Island
Pole Position Racing
Kings Quest
Space Quest

NES:
Ice Hockey
Maniac Mansion
Tecmo Bowl
Battle Toads

SNES:
Super Mario RPG
Earthbound
Legend of Gaia
Sunset Riders

PS1:
Final Fantasy VII
Legends of Dragoon

 

[gourimoko]

I sank wayyy too much time into these games:

DOS:
Treaure Island
Pole Position Racing
Kings Quest
Space Quest

NES:
Ice Hockey
Maniac Mansion
Tecmo Bowl
Battle Toads

SNES:
Super Mario RPG
Earthbound
Legend of Gaia
Sunset Riders

PS1:
Final Fantasy VII
Legends of Dragoon

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