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Favorite Old Video Game?

It has to be Mario :) Today also in my free time i play it with my nephew...lovely game:D
 
UMadBro said:
Streetfighter II for me on the Super NES.

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I remember having a cheater controller where I'd just have to hold down a button to do repeated punches or kicks :laughing
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Game shark. That was the only thing that allowed me to beat any of those games!

My favorite was Mariokart for the SNES.
I noticed that when playing a solo game, there was always one (not always the same one) opponent who would be your toughest competition throughout the series of races. I used to try to blindside that opponent with a red shell (or a banana peel if he was behind me) just before the finish line so that several other opponents would pass him, and knock him out of the series competition.
My kid and I could play that game for hours.
Since then, whenever a new Nintendo console came out, we'd get the latest version of Mariokart, but somehow, even with the improved graphics and animation, the newer versions were never quite the same.
Oh, one interesting side effect we discovered using the game shark with SNES Mariokart was that you could escape the racetrack with one setting, and if you kept driving in a straight line, you'd circumnavigate the gameworld, and eventually see the track reappear in the distance ahead of you.
 

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Aluisious said:
When I got to college I told my room mate there was no way he could beat me at Doom 2 DM and he challenged me. Somewhere around 32-0 after I had just grabbed the supersphere and invulnerability for the tenth time in a row and double barreled him at point blank range from behind while he waited for the BFG to spawn, he broke his keyboard with his elbow. I considered this a forfeit.
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Old thread with recent participation, but DAMN this one cracked me up.

There are a jillion games from the past, and a jillion "local heroes" who really can't handle it when someone new and better just totally rocks their world. :laughing

For me it was Karate Champ, king of my hood then I did a trip a couple hours away and stumbled into the local king of that game, he ruled that arcade roost....til he played me. It's interesting to study your opponent as they go from stage one, arrogance, while thinking "ok just one bad game" then 5 games later when the result is the same they finally submit to reality. The last thing he said was "nobody ever beat me like that before." :teeth
 
goldeneye was one of those groundbreaking, game changing events. it was a masterpiece at the time. my friend lindsey lived right behind our high school, every single day like 20 of us went to his house for lunch to play. we all chipped in to buy a second system and game so we could pay 8 at a time
 
kevin 714 said:
goldeneye was one of those groundbreaking, game changing events. it was a masterpiece at the time. my friend lindsey lived right behind our high school, every single day like 20 of us went to his house for lunch to play. we all chipped in to buy a second system and game so we could pay 8 at a time
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:hand

goldeneye was outdated the day it came out. sure, for you console geeks it was a big deal - but PC computer guys had been playing Quake for a good year or so BEFORE goldeneye came out. while quake didnt quite have the gizmos and gagets that GoldenEye had (proximity mines for example), it still was a 1st person, 3D shooter, multiplayer.
 
kevin 714 said:
goldeneye was one of those groundbreaking, game changing events. it was a masterpiece at the time. my friend lindsey lived right behind our high school, every single day like 20 of us went to his house for lunch to play. we all chipped in to buy a second system and game so we could pay 8 at a time
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Even after Xbox came out with the double joysticks. My best friend and I made sure we packed N64 and Goldeneye when we went away to college. We played it almost daily. Only multi player man with the golden gun rules. We knew were all the guns were and where the person would spawn so we made a rule once you die the other person has to stop moving....be far to unfair if we didnt :laughing

Before college we would have 4 player matches. It helped my parents had a 61" toshiba projections. We spun the couch around, damn that was awesome!

SpeedyCorky said:
:hand

goldeneye was outdated the day it came out. sure, for you console geeks it was a big deal - but PC computer guys had been playing Quake for a good year or so BEFORE goldeneye came out. while quake didnt quite have the gizmos and gagets that GoldenEye had (proximity mines for example), it still was a 1st person, 3D shooter, multiplayer.
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Outdated? Not for a gaming system....you can have your keyboard and up down left right arrows and small computer monitor. I never got into Quake or Doom or Duke Nukem.
 
SpeedyCorky said:
:hand

goldeneye was outdated the day it came out. sure, for you console geeks it was a big deal - but PC computer guys had been playing Quake for a good year or so BEFORE goldeneye came out. while quake didnt quite have the gizmos and gagets that GoldenEye had (proximity mines for example), it still was a 1st person, 3D shooter, multiplayer.
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SpeedyCorky said:
:hand

goldeneye was outdated the day it came out. sure, for you console geeks it was a big deal - but PC computer guys had been playing Quake for a good year or so BEFORE goldeneye came out. while quake didnt quite have the gizmos and gagets that GoldenEye had (proximity mines for example), it still was a 1st person, 3D shooter, multiplayer.
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More pc faggorty :laughing

Don't you guys ever get tired of this crap. May as well tell me about the cool new band you've been listening to anyhow you saw nirvana before they sold out, and mudhoney was way better anyway
 
GLQuakeworld changed my life. Actually it helped shape my career.

My favorite arcade game would have to be 720. Too bad you can't really port this to any home console correctly as you don't have that funky spinning joystick.
 
SpeedyCorky said:
:hand

goldeneye was outdated the day it came out. sure, for you console geeks it was a big deal - but PC computer guys had been playing Quake for a good year or so BEFORE goldeneye came out. while quake didnt quite have the gizmos and gagets that GoldenEye had (proximity mines for example), it still was a 1st person, 3D shooter, multiplayer.
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Quake was bad-ass. I played that with Secret Samadhi by Live in the cd-rom so that was the soundtrack. It actually matched up really well, lol.
 
stan23 said:
GLQuakeworld changed my life. Actually it helped shape my career.

My favorite arcade game would have to be 720. Too bad you can't really port this to any home console correctly as you don't have that funky spinning joystick.
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Skate or Die!

how the hell did anyone get into the second or even third skate park with enough money is beyond me....didn't stop me from plunking massive amounts of quarters into it though :laughing
 
You have to gold or silver every event. If halfway through the game you don't have all silver and gold, then all is lost.
 
Anybody who likes arcade style video games from the 90's should go see Wreck-It Ralph. It was well done for a Disney movie and quite funny.
 
^ my wife took the boy to see it over the weekend while I took my girl to cheerleading practice. How unfair is that?!
 
oh darn you had to go watch cheerleading practice - that musta been rough :rofl
 
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