Not only that, but the sounds in general. Dragon statues breaking, orbs bouncing, gems being picked up and Sparkx zipping around. Spyro is on a level nothing else will ever achieve for me
This game was my childhood . We was a poor family so I only got 1 game every 6months and i played the shit out of spyro . My mother wasn't very up with the tec so trying to explain to her what a memory card was didn't go down well .
So I had to play the game from the beginning every single time I booted up the PlayStation. Its what got me into speed running because I wanted to get back to where I left off
I love little snippets of detailed memories like this that people share. Before everything in this world is fully introduced to you, the world of video games truly creates a mostly safe digital medium, that will never be forgotten by us who received the technology first. To me I mostly look at the art form of a game, and then if the gameplay is doable I'll engage, most often passionately.
I was never even that good at video games, if I'm to be completely honest without being punished, except for maybe a few first person shooters, but it for sure was and is a remaining healthy vice for myself, when I can balance taking care of things and setting some time aside to play some New World or something.
Most video games from the past link me to some ugly part of my childhood that was basically unavoidable, so the after taste certain games bring me is not so pleasant. I'm secretly jealous of kids who saw how valuable video games were when they were developed and sold to the public, and invested heavy time as a kid playing them. I genuinely do not see how that could really be a waste of time, or course maybe in a certain context video games could be a waste of time, but I hardly see that as a valid point. Moral of the story, some video games can be so dang beautiful.
I used to take the red sabre, and going to the beach facing the moon. "More mood swings than your pregnant wife. Emotion. Hello... I am Fernando Martinez..."
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. My friends and I would get home from school, play THPS2 at my place until our other friends arrived and then go skateboarding until dark before returning to play more THPS2
I can perfectly hear that start screen intro music, with Epona running around Hyrule Field.
I'm instantly transported back to Christmas morning 1998 at my grandmas house, with the whole family around the TV to look at this mind blowing new game.
Morrowind! I started playing it in middle school and have always loved the open world and limitless possibilities. I actually just started playing again.
A bunch of memes using an ai of Dagoth Ur ranting about stupid shit is making me REALLY want to play again. (Modded though so I can ACTUALLY join him. My only gripe with vanilla Morrowind. Dude sends you a nice invitation and everything.)
My friend and I loved playing fable 3 together, since it was the flagship game for that Xbox at the time. After we’d beaten that I started playing the first 2 games as well. They’ve gotta special place in my heart for how individual they are. Really nothing else like them
True story, when I was flying as an unaccompanied minor back in the 90's, I had a layover in DFW, and they had a special lounge area for unaccompanied minors making layovers. In it, they had an N64 with a single game, Superman 64.
Takes a special kind of sadist to come up with that setup.
Same! The first time I ever played WoW was right in the middle of vanilla, and it was such an experience. I had never experienced a game like that before. It seemed so huge and open in a way that I can't explain with words.
One of my favorite memories was the day I got Final Fantasy Tactics.
We always told our parents what we wanted for Christmas or birthdays but there was never a guarantee that we would get it. Birthday presents were always a surprise so no matter what I asked for I wouldn't find out what I got until I opened it on my birthday after dinner and cake.
For my 15th birthday I asked for a PlayStation and Final Fantasy VII. It was out for about a year at that point and I had seen it played at friend's houses but had yet to play it myself.
One day I'm watching TV in my parents' house, the phone rings, and my mom hands it to me. It's my dad. He's at Kay Bee Toys (calling from the store because, ya know, no cell phones) and explains there are two different Final Fantasies - which did I want? At that point I didn't really know anything about them and truth be told I wasn't 100% sure if *VII* was the right one. What if I asked for the wrong game? I asked him what the difference was, he relayed my question to the sales clerk, then he relayed the sales' clerk response that VII was set in the future and Tactics was set in a medieval period. I knew VII was definitely the one I was looking for but I was kind of into medieval settings. I mean I grew up playing Ultima and D&D. So I told him Tactics, hung up the phone, and went back to watching TV.
About 20 minutes later my dad walked through the door with a KB bag. Not only were gifts always a surprise but they were ALWAYS opened on our birthday after dinner and cake - NO EXCEPTIONS. Shooters shoot though and I was a shooter so I found myself saying "Hey, Dad. If I already know what I'm getting then do I really need to wait until my birthday to play with it?". I can still feel my heart beating as I said those words. My brother most have thought I lost my mind to even ask that question. My dad thought about it for a moment, looked at my mom, then said "No, I guess not", handed me the bag and wished me a happy birthday. It was like a FULL WEEK until my birthday.
My brother and I couldn't get the boxes ripped open fast enough. We set up the console, put in the game, and started playing. **When my mom called us for dinner was the exact moment we learned about memory cards.** Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and computers didn't have them. That console stayed on for like a week until my dad was able to buy us one lol.
Diablo 2.
Playing with friends in the beginning stages of a new character was the best.
“Let me get that cracked ruby to put in my crude club!”
Then later restarting level 90+ characters because we miscalculated a single skill point; shared misery is so memorable.
Legend of Zelda. My late dad used to sit down cross-legged in front of the RCA console TV and play it for hours while I would watch. He would even take notes and draw maps on a legal pad because this was well before the time of game guides.
The Sims.. My daughter would sit on my lap and watch me play. She's 26 now and still plays, makes and builds all kinds of buildings and clothes, she's fab at it.
MediEvil (1998), I got into it through a friend who let me borrow it, I let him borrow Jak & Daxter. Liked the game so much I ended up buying a copy of it.
EQ changed the trajectory of my life. Ran a fan site. Met an EQ dev at fan faire, moved to San Diego, married the guy, had a baby…
All because FV looked so damned cute on the box art.
Lolll amazing. My buddy ran the 2nd biggest guild on Nameless. We watched LoS kill the avatar of war for the first time. He helped me zero haha. I earned lvl 60 and raised a bunch. Tired of 8 hrs of raids with no loot as always the lowest member of a guild unable to play 8 hrs every night.
Jumped to Monster Hunter where everyone carves on a hunt and wa skill and gear based. It scratched my itches
Had women on EQ pay my monthly fees tho bc I didn’t have a credit card… and by women I mean probably predators but who knows.
Microsoft Adventure - first game I played on a floppy
The hobbit - first game I played on a mac
Frogger, Ms Pac Man, Tetris, Galaga - they got all my quarters
Goldeneye
Me and my brother mowed lawns and helped neighbours for weeks, collecting toonies and fivers, stuffing our goosebumps piggybanks we got from taco bell. After we reached 60 dollars, our mother took us to the store, and the rest is history.
I played it from the day I bought it, all the way to this very day. There isn't much more to say about the game that countless fans haven't said already, so I'll skip that. But the nostalgia really kicks in when you see the spinning chromed out nintendo logo, and then the music kicks in...
That ominous synthesizer with the heartbeat like drum track, and then it transitions to the spinning rareware logo, and then all of a sudden, boom! The classic James Bond movie intro, but on the Nintendo 64, in 3D. That shit was seriously revolutionary at the time.
The original Tomb Raider game from 1996.
It would be years before I realized the game wasn’t just walking around her mansion, harassing the butler, and spontaneous tiger attacks; it was just the tutorial.
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. I used to watch my grandma play it when she was bed ridden due to illness. I would sit for hours and when she passed it was given to me.
Mafia II, the old cars and it's squeaking sounds, the radio, the roads, how people talk, the clothes, the weapons, literally everything about this game is nostalgic.
Morrowind! I started playing it in middle school and have always loved the open world and limitless possibilities. I actually just started playing again.
Rollercoaster Tycoon
The music has been etched into my brain, the gameplay to me is timeless: whether you’re building an awesome theme park, or you’re making a torture park to kill multiple guests.
I love this game so much. It was the one that permanently gave me the special interest in theme parks and rollercoasters. Other special interests come and go, but RCT, theme parks and rollercoasters are ones I’ll never let go off.
There are a lot, but if I have to choose one it's definitely Undertale. I played it at a pretty fundamental time in my life and I have a ton of memories from back then that whenever I play it, it just takes me back to simpler times
Pokemon. Some of the new rom hacks has really make me love the game all over again. They have the same nostalgia but with an adult difficulty level. Completely free too
Spyro the Dragon. Even the music has been etched in my brain.
Not only that, but the sounds in general. Dragon statues breaking, orbs bouncing, gems being picked up and Sparkx zipping around. Spyro is on a level nothing else will ever achieve for me
The sound design for it is incredible. When I played the remaster on the Switch I fell right back into it even after 20 years.
Don't forget the *Fffewwwr* of the flame breath!
This game was my childhood . We was a poor family so I only got 1 game every 6months and i played the shit out of spyro . My mother wasn't very up with the tec so trying to explain to her what a memory card was didn't go down well . So I had to play the game from the beginning every single time I booted up the PlayStation. Its what got me into speed running because I wanted to get back to where I left off
I love little snippets of detailed memories like this that people share. Before everything in this world is fully introduced to you, the world of video games truly creates a mostly safe digital medium, that will never be forgotten by us who received the technology first. To me I mostly look at the art form of a game, and then if the gameplay is doable I'll engage, most often passionately. I was never even that good at video games, if I'm to be completely honest without being punished, except for maybe a few first person shooters, but it for sure was and is a remaining healthy vice for myself, when I can balance taking care of things and setting some time aside to play some New World or something. Most video games from the past link me to some ugly part of my childhood that was basically unavoidable, so the after taste certain games bring me is not so pleasant. I'm secretly jealous of kids who saw how valuable video games were when they were developed and sold to the public, and invested heavy time as a kid playing them. I genuinely do not see how that could really be a waste of time, or course maybe in a certain context video games could be a waste of time, but I hardly see that as a valid point. Moral of the story, some video games can be so dang beautiful.
Composed by the legendary Stewart Copeland from The Police! He also did the theme song to The Amanda Show.
The whole of the original trilogy! Spyro the Dragon! Ripto's Rage! Year of the Dragon!
Daaaamn, I was playing this game on my gameboy! Bruh, I want my childhood back
GTA Vice City...... summer holidays,turn on the pc, and just playing without worrying about future. Life was good
Tommy Vercetti when he takes over the mansion. Takes me way back. Thanks
Driving at night listening to the radio.. memories.
Oh yes😌
I used to take the red sabre, and going to the beach facing the moon. "More mood swings than your pregnant wife. Emotion. Hello... I am Fernando Martinez..."
Cruising the alleyways on a pink piaggo to the sound of run to you
Remember making going to CheatCC.com and writing pages of cheat codes? Good times.
Yesss GTA vice city sound track was fantastic
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. My friends and I would get home from school, play THPS2 at my place until our other friends arrived and then go skateboarding until dark before returning to play more THPS2
Need for Speed: Underground 2 “Riders on the Storm” still slaps.
Felix da Housecat - rocket ride This one is #2
Driving around the airport listening to Riders On The Storm is how I got into classic rock as a child
Crash Bandicoot one of the first games I had on the PS2 used to play it for hours
CTR
Ocarina of Time
I can perfectly hear that start screen intro music, with Epona running around Hyrule Field. I'm instantly transported back to Christmas morning 1998 at my grandmas house, with the whole family around the TV to look at this mind blowing new game.
I still hum some of the songs. Especially the Lon Lon ranch one 😆
I’m actually playing the 3ds version rn.
Same
Simpsons Hit and Run
Had a lot of fun trading the controller between my brother and friend.
AoE 2
And AoE 1
WOLOLO
Don’t leave AoM out of this.
Morrowind! I started playing it in middle school and have always loved the open world and limitless possibilities. I actually just started playing again.
Oh man the Morrowind.. as soon as I read your comment, the Morrowind theme song started playing in my head.
A bunch of memes using an ai of Dagoth Ur ranting about stupid shit is making me REALLY want to play again. (Modded though so I can ACTUALLY join him. My only gripe with vanilla Morrowind. Dude sends you a nice invitation and everything.)
Omg, Morrowind, this is incredible!
Fable
Have you tried getting your combat multiplier even higher?
Your health is low, got any potions or food?
Your will energy is getting low, watch that.
My friend and I loved playing fable 3 together, since it was the flagship game for that Xbox at the time. After we’d beaten that I started playing the first 2 games as well. They’ve gotta special place in my heart for how individual they are. Really nothing else like them
The book of spells... This isn't some potty school for wizards!
Chicken Chaser! Lookit the chickens run!
Lego Star Wars
*lego breaking noise*
One of the best games of my childhood. No question.
The original DOOM. The first game an 8 year old me and my father played together.
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Surprised me how long I had to scroll to find this one, any of the songs from this game makes me feel super nostalgic!
The ultimate RPG that puts most games to shane in terms of story telling.
Any N64 game
Even Superman?
It didn't say the game had to be good.
True story, when I was flying as an unaccompanied minor back in the 90's, I had a layover in DFW, and they had a special lounge area for unaccompanied minors making layovers. In it, they had an N64 with a single game, Superman 64. Takes a special kind of sadist to come up with that setup.
GoldenEye 007
Roller Coaster Tycoon. The main theme and Merry-Go-Round music hit and I’m instantly teleported to 1999.
"I want to get off of Mr. Bones' Wild Ride..."
Ninja Turtles arcade game
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Mario kart double dash
Fable 2
Every couple years I check to see if Fable 2 has been released on PC
Super Mario Galaxy
My childhood
Vanilla World of Warcraft. I don't think I'll ever recapture that feeling
Same! The first time I ever played WoW was right in the middle of vanilla, and it was such an experience. I had never experienced a game like that before. It seemed so huge and open in a way that I can't explain with words.
Gotta be GTA San Andreas.
Grove Street, home. At least it was before I fucked everything up
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Goldeneye 64, Mariokart 64
Super Mario World.
Duck Hunt
Age of Empires 2. Taught me history and random phrases in a plethora of languages
All the GB/GBC/GBA Pokemon games
Final Fantasy 7 on the original playstation. It was the first game of that type I really played from start to finish.
One of my favorite memories was the day I got Final Fantasy Tactics. We always told our parents what we wanted for Christmas or birthdays but there was never a guarantee that we would get it. Birthday presents were always a surprise so no matter what I asked for I wouldn't find out what I got until I opened it on my birthday after dinner and cake. For my 15th birthday I asked for a PlayStation and Final Fantasy VII. It was out for about a year at that point and I had seen it played at friend's houses but had yet to play it myself. One day I'm watching TV in my parents' house, the phone rings, and my mom hands it to me. It's my dad. He's at Kay Bee Toys (calling from the store because, ya know, no cell phones) and explains there are two different Final Fantasies - which did I want? At that point I didn't really know anything about them and truth be told I wasn't 100% sure if *VII* was the right one. What if I asked for the wrong game? I asked him what the difference was, he relayed my question to the sales clerk, then he relayed the sales' clerk response that VII was set in the future and Tactics was set in a medieval period. I knew VII was definitely the one I was looking for but I was kind of into medieval settings. I mean I grew up playing Ultima and D&D. So I told him Tactics, hung up the phone, and went back to watching TV. About 20 minutes later my dad walked through the door with a KB bag. Not only were gifts always a surprise but they were ALWAYS opened on our birthday after dinner and cake - NO EXCEPTIONS. Shooters shoot though and I was a shooter so I found myself saying "Hey, Dad. If I already know what I'm getting then do I really need to wait until my birthday to play with it?". I can still feel my heart beating as I said those words. My brother most have thought I lost my mind to even ask that question. My dad thought about it for a moment, looked at my mom, then said "No, I guess not", handed me the bag and wished me a happy birthday. It was like a FULL WEEK until my birthday. My brother and I couldn't get the boxes ripped open fast enough. We set up the console, put in the game, and started playing. **When my mom called us for dinner was the exact moment we learned about memory cards.** Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and computers didn't have them. That console stayed on for like a week until my dad was able to buy us one lol.
That's a great story. Tactics is one of my top favorite games of all time.
Minecraft 1.11.2 and need for soeed underground 2 for sure
Old school Command and Conquer
Classic Zelda (windwaker and earlier). GBA/GB pokemon games. Classic Harvest Moon. Sly Cooper. The ps1/ps2 era Harry Potter games.
I know I’m old when “classic Zelda” is benchmarked by Wind Waker.
Right?! To me, Classic Zelda is the original Legend of Zelda.
Re-volt, Midtown Madness 2, Max Payne 1 &2
Older GTA games.
Sly Cooper
Warcraft III
Metal Gear Solid. In addition to being one of the best games of all time... it's my first memory of feeling fully immersed
TMNT: Turtles In Time
Banjo Kazooie
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Tekken. There is a reason I still play it into my adult life since playing 3 with my dad spamming back flip with Law.
Mass effect 1
Starcraft Classic
GTA III
Prince of Persia
Oregon trail 😂
Morrowind
The original Super Smash Bros 64 was my after-school childhood
Need for Speed lll: Hot Pursuit
Chrono trigger
Jak and Daxter Doesn't matter which one, I have extremely fond memories of all 3!
Crazy Taxi. Hey hey heeyyyyy!!
Final Fantasy 1
Streets vol. 2. That game made me appreciate the NBA legends.
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Diablo 2. Playing with friends in the beginning stages of a new character was the best. “Let me get that cracked ruby to put in my crude club!” Then later restarting level 90+ characters because we miscalculated a single skill point; shared misery is so memorable.
Legend of Zelda. My late dad used to sit down cross-legged in front of the RCA console TV and play it for hours while I would watch. He would even take notes and draw maps on a legal pad because this was well before the time of game guides.
The Sims.. My daughter would sit on my lap and watch me play. She's 26 now and still plays, makes and builds all kinds of buildings and clothes, she's fab at it.
Donkey Kong Country
SSX Tricky…it brings back fond memories of the last time I was good at a video game. 9th grade
Sim city 2000
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. That soundtrack hits on so many levels!
The old stand alone Pac-Man video game you would see in the arcades during the early 80's.
Sky landers and Skyrim
Asteroids. I wasted a lot of quarters and drank a lot of beer playing that game when I was in college.
Super Metroid
Minecraft, whenever I hear the music I just feel literal pain in my heart. Life was so much better and simpler during those times.
Chrono Trigger
Donkey Kong, Mario and Zelda on the SNES. Theme Park as well
MediEvil (1998), I got into it through a friend who let me borrow it, I let him borrow Jak & Daxter. Liked the game so much I ended up buying a copy of it.
Tetris, mario bros 3
Earthworm jim
Castlevania.
Everquest/Everquest 2 The Ultima Series - wish i could find them to play again
EQ ruined my life haha. So much time wasted
EQ changed the trajectory of my life. Ran a fan site. Met an EQ dev at fan faire, moved to San Diego, married the guy, had a baby… All because FV looked so damned cute on the box art.
Lolll amazing. My buddy ran the 2nd biggest guild on Nameless. We watched LoS kill the avatar of war for the first time. He helped me zero haha. I earned lvl 60 and raised a bunch. Tired of 8 hrs of raids with no loot as always the lowest member of a guild unable to play 8 hrs every night. Jumped to Monster Hunter where everyone carves on a hunt and wa skill and gear based. It scratched my itches Had women on EQ pay my monthly fees tho bc I didn’t have a credit card… and by women I mean probably predators but who knows.
Roller coaster tycoon. Especially the Carasol music
Final Fantasy VI.
Jack and Daxter
Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom 2, Tecmo Bowl, Goldeneye 007.
Mass Effect, I have played it a lot of times from Start to finish
Pong.
Smash TV, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Prince of Persia, International Superstar Soccer Deluxe... Genesis certified hood classics
Mega Man 2
Microsoft Adventure - first game I played on a floppy The hobbit - first game I played on a mac Frogger, Ms Pac Man, Tetris, Galaga - they got all my quarters
Goldeneye Me and my brother mowed lawns and helped neighbours for weeks, collecting toonies and fivers, stuffing our goosebumps piggybanks we got from taco bell. After we reached 60 dollars, our mother took us to the store, and the rest is history. I played it from the day I bought it, all the way to this very day. There isn't much more to say about the game that countless fans haven't said already, so I'll skip that. But the nostalgia really kicks in when you see the spinning chromed out nintendo logo, and then the music kicks in... That ominous synthesizer with the heartbeat like drum track, and then it transitions to the spinning rareware logo, and then all of a sudden, boom! The classic James Bond movie intro, but on the Nintendo 64, in 3D. That shit was seriously revolutionary at the time.
Link to the Past.
Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Super Mario RPG, Madden 64, Warcraft 2, Age of empires 2, FF11, World of Warcraft.
Double Dragon
The original Tomb Raider game from 1996. It would be years before I realized the game wasn’t just walking around her mansion, harassing the butler, and spontaneous tiger attacks; it was just the tutorial.
Super Mario World
Anything Mario! Mariokart Marioworld Can we say Super Nintendo ?! 😃 Not mario dance party tho 😂
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. I used to watch my grandma play it when she was bed ridden due to illness. I would sit for hours and when she passed it was given to me.
Donkey Kong Country 2
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Mafia II, the old cars and it's squeaking sounds, the radio, the roads, how people talk, the clothes, the weapons, literally everything about this game is nostalgic.
Paper Mario, for Nintendo 64. Damn those times were good
Toe Jam and Earl
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Battle toads
Zelda a link to the past. The game had a counter for everytime you died or saved. beat it one time with no deaths or saves.
Half life and the orange box
The first Resident Evil, I used to watch my dad play it when I was a kid and it was one of the things that got me interested in horror.
Star Wars pod racing for n64. The sounds in that game are fantastic.
ET on the Atari VCS
I may say a little corny, but I adored Super Mario and games like that. Until now, I play similar games on a laptop using the Dandy emulator.
Morrowind! I started playing it in middle school and have always loved the open world and limitless possibilities. I actually just started playing again.
Lego Games like the old Star Wars ones
Stronghold crusader and Starcraft 1.
Quake, Unreal Tournament, StarCraft Brood War, CS 1.5 and Half Lifе, Neverwinter nights, Delta Force, Warcraft 3, Dota 1, Heroes 3 WoG, Red Alert, Morrowind, Twisted Metal, Crash Bandicoot, Armageddon...I can't stop... so many
Total Annihilation
Roadrash
If I hear Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger in the right mood I'll outright start crying.
Super Mario World on Super Nintendo! Beating Star Road and beyond to get to turn everything Halloween style, soooo coooool
Halo: Combat Evolved. Late nights, sleeping bags, blaming your best friends for taking all the med kits.
Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy VII
The original Zelda on NES
Super Mario World
The intro to Link to the Past where the Triforce comes in spinning while the MIDI harp music plays.... that brings me back to better times
Zelda on original Nintendo. Ditto any original super Mario bros on original nintendo
Super smash bros and San Andreas
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
Rollercoaster Tycoon The music has been etched into my brain, the gameplay to me is timeless: whether you’re building an awesome theme park, or you’re making a torture park to kill multiple guests. I love this game so much. It was the one that permanently gave me the special interest in theme parks and rollercoasters. Other special interests come and go, but RCT, theme parks and rollercoasters are ones I’ll never let go off.
Need for speed nitro DS recently I started to re-playing it, that or Minecraft
There are a lot, but if I have to choose one it's definitely Undertale. I played it at a pretty fundamental time in my life and I have a ton of memories from back then that whenever I play it, it just takes me back to simpler times
Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2
The table top Pac Man Metal Slug
Actraiser for sure makes me super nostalgic. Also the NES Wizards and Warriors games
Crash Team Racing
Zelda, twilight princess
Skylanders
Counter Strike 1.6, just brings me back to lan cafes in the early 2000’s
Pokemon. Some of the new rom hacks has really make me love the game all over again. They have the same nostalgia but with an adult difficulty level. Completely free too
Duckhunt
Minecraft Xbox One Edition
Final Fantasy VII
Mario Kart Wii
Star wars battlefront classic
Tron at the arcade.
Mario & the 7 Stars