“‘Golden Eye’ for the Nintendo 64, because you can be Odd Job and karate chop people below the belt.”
“‘Mario Kart 64.’ I played it a lot against my brother, but he usually beat me.”
“‘FIFA Street’ or ‘NFL Street.’ I like soccer and football games a lot.”
“The ‘Tomb Raider’ series, because it automatically aims at the enemies and they take a lot of thinking.”
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RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
Pong
75x55 (anonymous) says…
R_I - try and FIND an actual Pong arcade machine anywhere. It's an amazing rarity.
H_Lecter (anonymous) says…
Galaxians
tyger_lily (anonymous) says…
Yoshi's Island for the SNES and GBA and Yoshi's Island DS for the GB DS!!!! It doesn't get any better than Yoshi.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…
R_I already stole my thunder. Curses!
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…
I prefer the "little character" games from the Super Nintendo era (as well as the occasional -"64" game). Reserve all those high-end graphics for my (future) HD TV screen.
Galaxian gets a definite honorable mention!
... and forget any "game" that involves following a gun through some virtual landscape.
jonas (anonymous) says…
Gonna go with the Legend of Zelda. Pretty much any of those are perfect.
The Elder Scroll Series is probably just as good, but way more time consuming, so less perfect. Fun games that ruin whole semesters of schooling are less than perfect.
preebo (anonymous) says…
Frogger... Or Pitfall.
I actually still have my Original Atari 5200 somewhere in my attic.
JJE007 (anonymous) says…
Blogger Troll 2010
sunflower_sue (anonymous) says…
RI stole my answer, too. The only video game we have in the house is this litte plug-in joy stick thingie that my bro got for one of my girls. It has Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, Pole Position, Xevious, and Mappy. (I don't even know what the latter two are.) I think I used to like Donkey Kong, Frogger, and that Paper Boy game.
Can we call Spider solitare and Mahjong video games? Probably not. How about the internet version of the daily crossword puzzle?
JerkStore (anonymous) says…
RBI Baseball for the NES
acg (anonymous) says…
My favorite from when I was a kid is Space Invaders. Today, I really like Need for Speed for PS2. The races aren't that important to me, but I really dig running from the cops and crashing into stuff.
JoRight (anonymous) says…
Well, I'll bring these comments up to speed; the Half-Life series (1 & 2)
coolmarv (anonymous) says…
Gauntlet from the mid 80's. It was one where if you kept putting in quarters you could sustain your life. I sure put a lot of money into that machine. Finally started to see how far I could go on one quarter. I once played for 6 hours on one quarter and the bar was closing so I had to quit. Only ever mastered two games. The other was Ms. Pac Man. Must of spent thousands of dollars back then. Never bought a home game system though. Not sure why. I certainly was the type to have one. No money left to buy one probably.
sunshine_noise (anonymous) says…
Still Pac Man
justathought (anonymous) says…
Tetris
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
Sorry that I nicked other's sound of rapidly expanding super-heated air.
It's actually about the only video game I have played.
My parents had bought a Magnavox Odyssey game system.
A few days later the Philco met its demise, ne'er to be replaced.
rooster (anonymous) says…
advance wars and any mario
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
RBI Baseball or Tecmo Bowl. I never got into the role playing/fantasy games, although River City Ransom was quite fun.
Azure_Attitude (anonymous) says…
Tetris, but it's hard to get that old NES to work much so I just faggitabadit.
I have given up on video games. Since Tudedude was little, we've gone from NES, to Sega, to Super NES, Nintendo 64, Playstation, Playstation 2, now Tudedino wants an X-Box. If Mr. Attitude wants him to have it then he can get it for him - and I am sure play it with him. A half dozen different systems in 17 years? By the time they release a system it's obsolete. What a racket!
jonas (anonymous) says…
"acg (Anonymous) says:
The races aren't that important to me, but I really dig running from the cops and crashing into stuff."
You should try Grand Theft Auto sometime. Now that's fun stuff. Just don't play it around kids.
coolmom (anonymous) says…
halo 3
avaholic (anonymous) says…
Gotta go with Tecmo Bowl, Excite Bike, and any hockey game out there
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
I never could afford/had interest in the newer video game models. The last one I bought was the NES and I fell into an old Sega system. You can play all the old games on your computer. Hop on the interwebs and find a NES or Sega or Atari or Whatever Emulator, download, then hunt for the games. Ahhh, memories of being 10 years old. I played RBI baseball this summer and actually was able to download Tecmo Bowl that was somehow updated with 2006 players.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
A_A,
Get Tudedino a copy of "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden instead...
He will also need essential gear any boy should have: a Swiss army knife, a compass, a box of waterproof matches, fish hooks and a handkerchief, a needle and thread among other items.
The book includes much useful information: how to build a treehouse, handy latin phrases, making a bow and arrow, basic grammar, how to hunt, gut, and cook a rabbit, an introduction to Shakespeare, even a chapter on how to talk to girls.
Darth_Vader (anonymous) says…
any of the Tony Hawk skate series, cause I wish I could what my guy does in the game.
That or 720....skate or die!!!
thomgreen (anonymous) says…
Pole Position, the arcade version only.
Agnostick (anonymous) says…
Well, first off, my wife and I went through all the original "Doom" series. We had a lot of fun with those. For those that never played it, or don't remember, each level of the game had a bunch of hidden secrets--you'd push against a wall or a door, and it would open up and let you into another area. I was better at the combat aspects of the game, but my wife was much better at finding the secrets and bonus weapons and so forth.
The year or so before our daughter was born, we used to blow out big chunks of weekend time--three or four hours at a stretch--playing Halo and Halo 2 on the pre-owned XBox system I bought @ four years ago.
We also found a disc of old, old video games ported over to XBox. The disc is called "Namco's Greatest Hits" or something like that, and there's one game on there from @ 1990 called "Total Carnage" that is just hee-larry-us!! It's a sequel to "Smash TV," and has a lot of references to CNN, Gulf War I, even has an "evil dictator" that pops up at several points in the game, cursing at you in some foreign mumbo-jumbo.
I've also been through some of the GTA series. I've beaten Vice City, San Andreas, and am now picking away at GTA III on a used PS2 system I bought back in May. Violent? Yes. Fun? Hell yeah! Do I know better than to try these things in real life? Of course I do!
But the **REAL** reason--and I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it yet--that I bought the old PS2 system earlier this year... was for one game, and one game only:
Guitar Hero.
Yes, I'm a legend in my own mind. Have GH2 and GH '80s, and I'm anxiously awaiting GH3 in November. The whammy bar on my wIreless Frontman controller has already succumbed to the "rubber band fix," which works like a charm. We're newspaper subscribers, so it's like getting a new whammy bar every day! :p
After my daughter pitched several fits because I wouldn't let her push buttons while I played, I finally bought a little electronic pink "Bratz" guitar at WalMart. Best $15 I've spent all year; now, we each have a guitar and we can grind our way through Ratt's "Round and Round" in front of the entertainment center.
Lotta folks may laugh and roll their eyes at Guitar Hero, but after all the concerns about violence and video games, it's nice to see so many people caught up in a game series that has nothing to do with violence.
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Agnostick (anonymous) says…
"A half dozen different systems in 17 years? By the time they release a system it's obsolete. What a racket!"
______________________________________________________
Well, I think some of these folks are waking up and smelling the coffee. Three game systems were released just in time for Christmas last year: PS3, XBox360, and Wii. The biggest seller so far has been Wii, which is also the cheapest of the three.
Sony dropped the PS3 price by $100 earlier this year, and I predict it'll drop another $50 or even $100 for this Christmas.
"Guitar Hero III," due to be released in November, was originally going to be only for PS3 and 360; earlier this year, it was announced that they'd be porting it "down" to PS2, as well.
--Ag
dodger (anonymous) says…
I have to say super mario brothers the original is my favorite....
Azure_Attitude (anonymous) says…
Sounds like a winner R-I and we have that gear on hand. Appears to have a bit more material than his cub scout handbook has. He's only almost 8 I think the talking to girls can wait but can keep the book for future reference.
Agnostick, Tudedude loves, and I mean with a passion, Guitar Hero. He's won a couple competitions so far - I think he needs to learn to play a real guitar. He's gotten Tudedino all worked up about it so bad he wants one for his birthday in a couple of months, but in the meantime he's buggin' me to take him to his big bro's house so he can play Danzig or YYZ, or have me make his bro move back home so he has access to the game all the time - Doubt that. I hear they have one for signing now too. I can dig that.
Agnostick (anonymous) says…
A_A...
Just when you thought you wallet was safe!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_ban...
--Ag
sgtwolverine (anonymous) says…
The first two answers are fantastic; Goldeneye and MarioKart 64 are classics. But I have a Gamecube, so I spend my time on the newer version of MarioKart, which is still a lot of fun. Also, Mario Tennis and Super Mario Strikers (soccer) are worthwhile.
Of course, all those games are better if you're playing them with other people. I never really use the Gamecube unless other people are around. And yes, I will be upgrading to the Wii sooner or later; my friends who have used one have all said it's incredibly fun. That, Ag, is another real reason the Wii is selling well; it's not just cheaper, but it's fun and well-designed. If it weren't a good console, the price would be irrelevant.
Oh, and I grew up playing games on a Commodore (first a C64, then a 128), and there were some amazing games for that system. Still some of my favorites. And still old-school but a little less so, I love some of the old DOS games from the 90s.
Marcus (anonymous) says…
I agree with Andrew and Anna. Mario Kart and Goldeneye for the N64 are two of the most fun multiplayer games I have ever played. I know there are probably better games now but my friends and I just don't have as much time to get addicted to them. But, I will definitely buy a Wii when the new MarioKart comes out next year! The wireless steering wheel is going to be great!!
motomom (anonymous) says…
centipede and tempest....
yea!!!!!
jonas (anonymous) says…
logic: Bah! Talk to me when you've gotten through them on expert.
jonas (anonymous) says…
Oh yeah, and try unlocking Jordan by Buckethead out of the extras. On expert, even in practice mode at the lowest possible speed it's virtually impossible to keep up with the solo.
jonas (anonymous) says…
Holy crap, Agno, that looks awesome. Good thing it comes out around Winter break.
Aiko (anonymous) says…
Bonk!
ms_canada (anonymous) says…
I am not sure what exactly is meant by video games. I did recognize the old Tetris game that I have played in the past. But I do like computer games. In fact I think I am addicted to the Mahjongg games. Especially the 200 level Mahjongg Egyptian Edition. You cannot advance until you complete each level. I have played the whole 200 levels several times and never seem to tire of it.
Does anyone else play this game and is it classed as a video game?
OldEnuf2BYurDad (anonymous) says…
Hitman. Assasinating drug lords and such.
Actually, I got a lot out of the Baulder's Gate games. Too much time committment for me now.
acg (anonymous) says…
I had forgotten all about mario kart for N64. We also have an N64 system and I love that game. Whenever we have large house parties, inevitably people always end up playing mario kart for shots. It can be quite entertaining.
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
OTS.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
I saw one of Buckethead's shows last year at Wakarusa. It was, um, something else.
ohjayhawk (anonymous) says…
sgt - I, too, had some awesome games for the C-64. I believe that the reason the graphics/sound were so good (for the time they were unbelievable) was because it's motherboard was what was used in many of the arcade games of the time. I think my favorite C-64 games were Beachhead and Summer Games.
Paper Boy, that's a game I hadn't thought about in years. That was a great game too. I remember it in the arcades, it had bicycle handlebars.
sgtwolverine (anonymous) says…
Ohjay, Beachhead and Summer Games were both classics; Winter Games was great, too. Another game I loved was Racing Destruction Set; did you ever play that? Oh, and International Karate. And Spy vs. Spy.
There was a Paper Boy for the Commodore, as well. I did enjoy that.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
sgt,
My old VIC-20 still functions as the "brains" of my younger brothers robot tape drive and all. I think it came with a game on a software cartrige? Never played the game.
Didn't play any games on the C-64 either, just word processing and a spreadsheet.
Crispian (Crispian Paul) says…
Old skool Mario Bros and Q-Bert for the old Atari. Oh, yeah, and Tekken....I kill at Tekken.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
Marion,
Yeah, I used to kipe a few nickles from my kindergarten teacher, cut out during naptime and go to the arcade. I missed milk and snack, but sometimes I was able to score some beer, so it was keen.
monkeyspunk (anonymous) says…
Tecmo Super Bowl and RBI Baseball - Many a evening trashtalking and fighting with siblings and friends over who could win that night's tournament.
Bladerunner (anonymous) says…
Roids
I prefer Asteroids over Hemorrhoids.
prospector (anonymous) says…
Marion's Marauders ( A Nick Danger Production), a mad capped nine fingered megalomaniac posing as a double-not* spy that is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other. You driving around in the Packard from gas station to Westport wearing Blue Blockers sunglasses selling a book or gun parts, or anything. Buy drinks as you search for the last girl without a tattoo. Get an education on the subjects of guns, girls, gods, dogs, cars, politics, cops, robber, lawyers, pump and dump, drugs, Lawrence, KCK, and spamming to name a few. Big kicks!
*NOT-I meant to spell it that way
Thanks
prospector
hskrbkr (anonymous) says…
Twisted Metal III
kneejerkreaction (anonymous) says…
After Pong, all the games pale in comparison. Pong graphics were awesome, the rest just look fake.
GretchenJP (anonymous) says…
Burnout on X-Box and bowling on Wii.
Greenbird (anonymous) says…
M.U.L.E!!!! The only problem is when you play against the computer it cheats.
Marcus (anonymous) says…
NHL 93 on sega genesis
do the swerve and watch the goalie take the bait
the fighting was fun too!
gphawk89 (anonymous) says…
Galaga, although it's getting hard to find a Galaga machine in arcades nowadays. Anyone know where there's one in town?
Agnostick (anonymous) says…
prospector: There's a rumor out there that the avatar for "Marion's Marauders" was modeled after Peter Graves and/or George Peppard. You got any more info on that?
Thanks! :)
--Ag
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
sgt,
I'm disappointed you did not mention "Global Thermonuclear War" .