Best/Worst video games you have played?

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El_K

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I am not a huge video gamer, but they were a big part of our lives I am guessing.

What arcade game did you spend a stack of quarters on?
Which game system(s) did you own? Which games were all timers? Which games were crap?

I never spent a ton of money at arcades, but my go to game was Pole Position. I went to the video game museum in Frisco a few weeks back as we had free passes. They had the earliest version of Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey that kind of started it all. And of course they had everything else. it was pretty cool to see. I also didn't spend a ton of money on games like cartridges and discs. The most I ever had was like 10. We did lots of trades here and there for

Back in 1980 we got an Atari 2600 because I had a good report card. We had it on the 19" Sony Trinitron TV. After a few weeks the picture tube went out on it and my dad never allowed us to play the Atari on it. So we had to play on a 10" b/w Emerson TV. But during the day, we would hook it up to the color TV during when the parents were gone.

For Atari, the Activision games were far superior to the stuff Atari was putting out. Pitfall and River Raid were great. Ice Hockey and Skiing were good too. Space Invaders and Asteroids weren't hard to mess up and played just like the arcade version. But the other games kind of sucked, but at the time they were great. PacMan sucked. E.T. sucked. Raiders of the Lost Ark sucked. But the shittiest game I ever owned was called Riddle of the Sphinx. I think I got it as a gift. Had no idea how to play it.

In between 1982 and 1987 I didn't buy a system. A friend had a Coleco vision and Donkey Kong was just like the arcade.

I ended up buying an NES Original in 1987 after a friend had one. We played the shit out of RBI 1, Punch Out, 10 Yard Fight and Tennis. Then we got into Tecmo and Super Tecmo. The games were great. In college we would draw a team out of a hat and we played that team the whole season. Great times. They were easy to play as compared to todays games. Of course there was a ton of slop out there for NES. The shittiest game I ever spent money on was T&C Surf Country. Dumb. I bought a NES mini with over 700+ games loaded onto it. I made sure it had all three versions of RBI Baseball. My one mistake was to make sure the version of Super Tecmo had Eric Dickerson and not Albert Bentley. I made a spreadsheet of all the games on this thing and there is some slop. Like some games I wonder how thyere were made and licensed.

Fast forward to 1997ish. My uncle rented a Playsation1 and brought it over for Thanksgiving. The graphics were incredible for the time. the sound too. We played some fighting game that was a total button masher. I ended up getting one later. Tomb Raider and PGA 98 were my jams. I did shoot a 59 once in PGA 98. I had a Madden game. I just remember players kept getting injured all the time. The shittiest game I think I bought was WWF Raw is War wrestling game.

Later I bought a PS2 because Madden was way better. And it was a BluRay Player too. Tomb Raider and a game called Bully. Where you are a kid at a private school and you work your way up. you can kiss the hott girls and beat up kids. Madden 2007 was a great game. It was the first time I played Madden where you could draft players and develop them. It was at this time I didn't buy a lot of games at all. just like maybe one or two and played the shit out of them.

I bought a PS3 as the PS2 died. Used it more as a Blu Ray player, but still had some games. FIFA 2012 was my first into to soccer games. and this was when you could play online with other people for free. The chirping that went on with the people who had headsets was pretty funny. the big games for the PS3 was Red Dead Redemption and Uncharted. Loved those games and still do. GTA was huge as well. I still have GTA V, but now that you have to pay for the online open world, it just isn't as fun. NCAA 2013 was the last college football game for a while. recruiting and going for Nattys was always fun.

When the PS3 died, bought a PS4. It wasnt backwards compatible so didnt play too much on it. Uncharted 4 and Madden 2019 was about it.

I have a PS5 in the movie room. It is used a Bluray player, but I have Red Dead Redmeption2 and some game named FarCry. I am not very good with games where you just see a barrel of a gun. I am better when I can see the person running. the games of today are super complicated. I just started up a new season on Super Tecmo. so far i am 11-2 as the NES computer is starting to screw me over.

Sorry for the long post, but what are your memories of video games?
 
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Friend bought me a ps5 3 years ago and I have kids, so there's no avoiding it.

Best: Alan Wake II, Silent Hill II remake. Resident Evil 4 remake. Wyld Bastards. The new X-Men arcade game that mimics the old 90's arcade machine is also amazing to play with friends, I don't know why my kids hate it, might be time to drop off at orphanage on that one.

I also have Twisted Metal Black which I bought while watching the TV show.

Most overrated: Pacific Drive was supposed to be right up my alley as a doog, especially since it takes place in Gorst, but it's fucking terrible. Supremely boring run around and pick up shit, put it together, fix up your dumbass shitty car over and over. Terrible game loop. Really popular though.

Resident Evil II Remake/Resident Evil 8. Silent Hill f. Terribly overrated, hard coded sections everywhere, just don't get the hype at all.
 
I pissed away a lot of quarters playing Astroids and Donkey Kong at the local grocery store. I also played Karate Champ every chance I got. As an early teen I had a friend who's parents would drop us off at the nickel arcade in the Gateway district in Portland while they went shopping. The nickel arcade was the ultimate treat at that time. There was a track and field game where you'd tap the buttons as fast as you could then control trajectory of your throw or jump by how long you mashed the action button. We played that for hours trying to get the best all of the high scores. You had to nail that 45* angle.

We had original pong as little kids but were young and had to watch our parents play it with their friends. I remember using that game but not much. We played a lot more Atari at friends. One of my friends also had a Colecovision (sp?) that had some fun games. The first system for us kids was Intellevision. We played a lot of baseball and Sea Battle on that.

I had NES and super NES. Mainly remember the Mario Bros games. I also had a modernized Pitfall for super NES that was great. On original PlayStation I had a game called Siphon Filter that occupied me for a long time. Someone actually gave me a guide book that allowed me to defeat that game. K

That was about the end of it for me. I couldn't handle the visuals of the Xbox 360 and Xbox One games and never got interested. I tried playing Halo and Call Of Duty games with my son but couldn't get into it. Just too busy and almost seizure inducing for this old man.
 
Had the original Atari - pong and doubles pong was about all I remember playing. And a stupid fucking bowling game.

Centipede was my go-to bowling alley game. Loved that fucking game. Still do. Was shitty at Asteroids. OK at Pac-Man.

Got the OG Nintendo and played the shit out of that. Baseball, Duck Hunt, Donkey Kong in the first go around. Bought a shitload of stupid games too Slalom and Burger Time were ass. Othello was pretty decent. Obviously Mike Tyson Punch Out which was awesome until Iron Mike always kicked my ass.

Lived on the NES for quite awhile. Then when I became single again, got a Gamecube which opened up a whole different world. Loved Metroid. EA Sports NCAA games every year. Mario Cart. Kids started playing Monkeyball which gave me motion sickness.

Got the Wii when it came out but maybe played it half a dozen times. Just not interested. Kids didn't even like it.

Still have the Gamecube and hook it up every once in a while at the lake place.
 
I started with Nintendo. Mario 3 and Contra were my favorite games.

Sega - Sonic 2 was the best game. I played NHL 95 a lot too.

PS1 - NCAA football, Crash Bandicoot, Gran Turismo.

N64 - Mario Kart, Donky Kong, the Wave Runner Game

XBox - Call of Duty, FIFA, NHL Hitz, Madden, NCAA

PS2 - same

I haven’t had a system in years now, but think I will eventually start back up. I’m still good at all the sports games because they don’t change that much. If you play them a few times, it all comes back.
 
NCAA 26 is probably the last iteration for me. It's as lazy as I thought it would be and barely an evolution over 25. 25 is actually more fun/arcadey. The only good thing about 26 is how ridiculous the coaches look. Jedd looks like Copilot drew him up.
 
I couldn't remember the PlayStation driving game that I played a ton but it just came to me. Need For Speed. Great racer game. I dominated with the standard 911 as you could just floor it and the handling was crisp enough to stay on the road. Little tougher with the faster cars.
 
There is/was a Super Nintendo that has 20 classic games loaded up. It was cheap, less than $100. I liked playing Super Punch Out on it.
 
Intellivision - Battle Tanks (or whatever it was called) was cool. Also, Dig Dug. Can't remember much else other than those two games.

NES - probably the same games most here would cite. Did not really ever get into RPG games or fighting games.

Sega Master System - Great Golf, Great Baseball, Fantasy Zone, Out Run, After Burner

Sega Genesis - Sonic games, Madden games

N64 - WCW vs NWO was the GOAT for a group of teenage guys hanging out after school. MarioKart, Madden, NBA Hangtime, Blitz. Basically all the great arcade games that were brought onto the console.

Dreamcast - only played racing games, for the most part.

The last system I bought was an Xbox 360 probably 17 years ago by now just to play Madden online with friends. That lasted maybe 6 months before I got bored with it. My brother got me a Nintendo Classic that I plug in once every few months for an afternoon to play some Zelda or Tecmo Bowl. Modern games and controllers are too complicated for me. Give me a controller with a d-pad and two buttons.
 
I used to get some of the highest scores on Galaga at the arcades. Star Wars too...a long time ago.


My siblings and I never wanted my parents to buy a gaming console. But we would have my parents rent them for us at various VCR/videotape stores, which rented them out. We'd usually rent them for a week during Thanksgiving and Christmas and then rent about 3 games with it. Then we'd play until there were blisters on our thumbs.
My family never really got attached to the idea of gaming consoles, we knew we'd stop playing the console after a few weeks.

We evolved into PC gaming. My older brother would pirate games off of file-sharing sites. My brother was one of the first users of the worldwide web in the late 80s...
I mostly like strategy games on Steam now.

I forced my father to play Civilization 2 and its tutorial a long time ago, because I knew he'd love it, then 2 weeks later he got addicted to that game for a decade.

I like Civilization 5 and Sins of a Solar Empire.

I have a backlist of about 50 games on Steam to play. I mostly only buy highly-rated, cheap games on sale. I wait a handful of years, until after a game is released to get it cheap. I'm very interested in playing Cyberpunk 2077. My nephews really like and have encouraged me to play that game. I have to finish a handful of games before I buy any more tho.
 
Also, the newest versions of the fighting games, Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, mostly suck. You can complete all the content in a couple hours. Although the last level of Tekken when you're on this Japanese beach/island in the middle of a storm with warships in the background was great.

Sifu definitely lived up to the hype, insanely hard Bruce Lee inspired game, if you can tolerate the lazy internationally inspired art style. It's approaching Fred Meyer COVID commercials levels of cringe.
 
The most fun I ever had was at the wizards of the coast gaming studio in the U district in the 96 or so period… this was KOOL.
On the first floor they had Megatron Booths where you and your buddies each got a booth and inside was the controller
Panel for your megatron warrior ~ the idea was the same search and destroy concept of later games. I took my son there
For his 8th birthday party and proceeded to murder his little buddies with my mech warrior ~ my call sign was Mother Theresa.
Good times.
 
Baseball games always lended themselves well to consoles because the buttons are in a diamond pattern and it's really not a team sport when you are either pitching or hitting so you don't need to have your team help that much like Madden or FIFA or what have you. My son and I play the Show during baseball season.

I solved Tetris on the Gameboy in the 80s on a family road trip.
 
We had Pong when I was like 5. My cousin had something a little more advanced in the mid-80s. The 2 of us also used up a ton of quarters at the Alaska Junction 7-11 in West Seattle playing Ms PAC-Man and a game called Commando.

My oldest brother had a Nintendo with Punch Out and I spent way too many hours on that.

I bought a Sega in the mid-90s and that was the only console I ever bought for myself.

Bought the kids a Wii around 2010; played it a few times and even they lost interest.

Video games are pretty meh for me.
 
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