Your Favorite Video Game

[PhilAlex]

PC: PSI 5 Trading Company. Accolade (The company) was a breakaway from Activision, and for a while, had the BEST games of anyone for the C64.

Red Storm Rising was great too.

Or.. What about MULE? Best, and I mean BEST multi player game on the planet.

 

[webley445]

The FF that came out on the first Sega CD is what got me hooked on RPG's. Me and my buddies would get off on Sega's Dune, fore runner of C&C.

 

[BuddTX]

Joust! Another fun older video game!

 

[WhiteAsSnow]

This will probably generate a mumble or two from any FPS gamers out there, but:

The MYST series, including Myst, Riven, Myst III, and soon to come MystOnline (Codename Mudpie).

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Carmageddon 2 on PC, so long as you could calibrate your steering wheel corectly.

a close second is HALO on xbox, it really a sweet game

 

[mikep]

I have to agree with SFR, there was something really excellent about the original Star Wars arcade game, with vector graphics. I still haven't been able to throw away my Apple IIe, much to the chagrin of my wife, since I feel like someday I will want to show the kids Ultima III, or Autoduel.

Currently I like to play Point Blank on my PS1- it's a shooting gallery game, and I like the fact that you calibrate the light gun so you actually use the sites- they claim it has one pixel precision.

 

[JackBlades]

Anybody remember Asteroids & Zaxxon?

Besides PacMan, those were my faves back in the day........(I'm 42 now and play with much more dangerous things than video games)

 

[x-ray]

Does anyone remember this :

The Vectrex video game system, I've still got one somewhere in the attic

 

[AluminumOvercast]

OMG! That Vectrex sure brings back memories. One of my favorite games is Shinobi in the arcades. Strider is also another one. As far as home games? The last ninja or beach head on the commodore 64.

Shelb

 

[mikep]

I have a friend who still has his Vectrex, and he even used to have the 3D "mask" attachment for it. I think it was the same principle as the 3D Imax movies, where the left and right eye images alternate, but the vectrex version had a 'shutter wheel' thingy instead of the modern LCD eyepieces.

 

[webley445]

I still have a Commodore 64 Like NIB w/ the tape storage and a joystick (I really hated that thing).

 

[Banshee]

Ah yes...My first console:

thence came Atari 2600, Atari 5200, The Radio Shack TRS80, Commodore 64, Vectrex, Sega Genesis,
Sega 64 addon module (DOOM), Playstation, PS2

Guess its time to maybe clean off the dust on some of these classics

 

[V8TOYTRUCK]

Let me add Mechwarrior 2 to my list

 

[Zephyr]

One of my all tmie favorite game would be Street Fighter II from Super Nintendo. Now that game rocks IMO!

ZEPH

 

[SFR]

I have Star Trek: Armada I and II on my laptop. I love zooming in in 3-D mode to watch starships being built in the shipyard, separating my Galaxy class ships into saucer sections, and playing as other races, especially as the Borg with its "tactical fusion cube" -- 8 Borg cubes fused into 1 massive cube!

Ah, the old Commodore 64. I bought only 2 games when I had one (Karateka and Realm of Impossibility). But I had hundreds more copied from my friends. Copy protection couldn't stand a chance against Fast Hack'em and Icepick.

You could even program it with near-high quality games and applications that were published in books and magazines. I spent many an hour typing in programs from "Compute", "Compute's Gazette", "K-Power", "Family Computing", and "Ahoy" magazines. Peeks, pokes, gosubs, CHR$ and SYS49152 hold a special place in my heart.

 

[Kirk]

I was kind of partial to Missile Command way back when. Also thought Quake and Quake II were pretty fun; did a "level" a night just to unwind from work.
Kirk

 

[Ted T]

My kids got me Max Payne for X-Mas last year. It's my favorite so far. Amazing graphics and great game play.
Ted

 

[webley445]

Another aspect that was fun is playing newer versions of games that incorporated more options. For example fighting games. Remember how excited you were when you played that new version that had new moves. Or the first time you tried the game that you could pick up a lead pipe and beat someone with it? I remember how everyone flipped over the first Mortal Combat games, and all the hullabaloo that was raised by "concerned parents" over all the violence.

 

[Light-Headed]

Hey Ted,

You should try Hitman as well. The original is really cool. Also, I think they just released Hitman 2 for the P.C. and for Xbox.

 

[PhilAlex]

Realm of Impossibility was one of THE most underrated 2 player games on the planet.

I should download a C64 emulator and play it again.

Other great 2 player games:

Eliminator (arcade)
Ripoff (arcade)