Inspired by FamicomFreak and his Mario 8 quest, I created this thread so you can tell what games have sentimental value to you, and if you already have it, or you're still looking for it ;D.
Myself first, I'm looking for an old PC game called Matemáticas: El Rescate (English title: Math Rescue Plus). It's an old EGA platformer/educational game from the early 90s I used to play on my elementary school's computer labs. The most memorable thing I can remember is the music. It's simply awesome and I still have it stuck in my head after all these years. About 10 years later I got the nostalgia and wanted to play it again, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I contacted my old school and they didn't have it anymore :'(. The internets just provided with a demo version of a different game with different music :'(. Turns out there's a difference between Math Rescue and Math Rescue Plus.
Good news is that I recently contacted the main developer of the game and she's looking for it in her old boxes o' stuff lying in her garage so I can revive those memories and listen to that awesome music again! I can't wait ;D ;D ;D!!!
Now, how about you? ;)
Well, I have two games that have A LOT of sentimental value to me. Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia for the Sega Dreamcast. These both came out within days of each other so when I got both, they really struck a chord with me.
I was ten years old at the time and I thought my Dreamcast was the most amazing thing ever. I was playing games like Evolution, Soul Calibur, and Sonic Adventure. Then I remember one day reading a game article in some magazine about this new game coming out called "Shenmue". I was estatic for the release after seeing it. I was (and still am) so interested in Japanese culture and language so this game was perfect. I remember when I first played it, it was like nothing I had ever played. More than anything it was a good learning experience for me. If it weren't for that game I probably wouldn't have been so involved in Martial Arts as I am now. It even introduced me to some of Yu Suzuki's arcade classics via the arcade in-game. Oh, how I wish to see the day Shenmue 3 is in development. It needs to happen, or else the series will have the biggest cliffhanger ending of ALL TIME.
With Skies of Arcadia, which I obtained not too long after, it made me love RPG's even more. I can go on and on about this game, although I will not. The game, in my eyes, is flawless. It's Jules Verne-esque story, pristine music, and awesome battle system made the 10 year old me filled with glee. If you haven't already played it, you really should. I can relate to 133MHz with this game, I still have the battle theme stuck in my head. :)
Baby Boomer, A boy and his Blob, Snow Bros, Bubble Bobble, and Balloon Fight for NES.
They were my favorite games when I was little.
Also, Lion king for SNES. I loved that one, too.
Mario Paint! I love it to pieces and can spend hours playing around in the composer.
Also Final Fantasy VII... but that's another story altogether. ;)
An old DOS game called Seahunt that I discovered on my grandparents' PC when I was about 8. It came in a little package with:
Sopwith. Nifty little game.
Mines, which is kinda like minesweeper, except you try to reach the other corner of a grid, and you're told the number of mines adjacent to your square.
Secret agent, which was pure awesome.
Commander keen, the original.
I have tonnes of crappy NES wrestling games for no reason other than sentimentality. My brothers and I were proper WWF fanatics back in the day, and we must have spent hours beating each-other to a virtual pulp on those games.
WWF Wrestlemania Challenge is probably the best because it is actually quite fun to play and has all the classic wrestlers like Ultimate Warrior, Big Boss Man, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Jake the Snake etc. The cage fighting one is really poor though.
To me TMNT pirate cart has a lot of sentimental value because I used to play it a lot as a kid. Also, this 3 in 1 NES cart with SMB, Duck Hunt, and Track Meet because it's the first ever video game I got.
hmm a cart with sentimental value to me......
probably yoshi's island for the GBA
it was my one of my first games and man i played that game for sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long its just very special to me :)
ExciteBike - we traded a friend a small bottle of lucas for it. Our friend moved to LA back when e-mailing wasn't so big with us. We probably won't ever see him again - we still have the game.
Recently I found out it is one of those games with a converter in it. But I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Bottle of Lucas?
Mappy Land for the NES. I played the crap out of this game as a kid and still love it!
Also, Bustout and Centipede for the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer. I played both of these several times a week for years; I don't own a TRS-80 anymore, but from time to time want to try and locate one.
Congo Bongo, Alpine Climber, A-Maze-ing!
Damn, I'm old....
:(
And even though it wasn't a game, my brother and I spent large amounts of time programming code to make Mr. Bojangles. May he forever dance!
All the NES games I grew up with, like SMB Excitebike etc. Also, TMNT 4 on the SNES. I absolutely loved that game in the arcades and hated that it didn't come out on the Genesis, I didn't have a SNES as a kid. I used to go to the arcade and play all the greats like Street Fighter 2, The Simpsons, and so on, but I used to make my mom or dad play TMNT with me because it didn't make any snese to have only one turtle. They always worked together! Great memories.
Quote from: thegreatgonzo on June 11, 2008, 08:09:21 am
And even though it wasn't a game, my brother and I spent large amounts of time programming code to make Mr. Bojangles. May he forever dance!
What's that?
Gasp! Wisconsin!
Mr. Bojangles was a dancing stick figure after you put about a million minutes worth of code into your C. 64 system.
Wisconsin? Oh yes, I'm from Wisconsin!
Uninvited, it was a game that I played alot when I was younger and I have fond memories of all the attempts at beating it. I eventually figured it out on my own, and it was hard.
Pokemon Red. I played it so much that the cart label wore almost completely out.
and Missingno. is still the best Pokémon.
Final fantasy IX for PS1 and of course Mr. Gimmick :)
What's so great about Gimmick, I've never played it.
Quote from: satoshi_matrix on June 18, 2008, 09:31:04 pm
Pokemon Red. I played it so much that the cart label wore almost completely out.
and Missingno. is still the best Pokémon.
It's good until you run in to M and screw everything up. :P
I liked the fact that the Missingno glitch enabled you to get other Pokemon up to level 255(depending on your ID number and name.)
Quote from: satoshi_matrix on June 18, 2008, 09:31:04 pm
Pokemon Red. I played it so much that the cart label wore almost completely out.
and Missingno. is still the best Pokémon.
Best game glitch ever found in my opinion. I was freaked out by some of the things you could do with that glitch :P
The magic door glitch in Pokemon Green is the best Pokemon glitch imo. It enables you to go to many different places in the game, including the hall of fame, within minutes of a new save file start. The glitch is activated by switching an item with a pokemon using select. The glitch was fixed in every other Pokemon game. :P
I have pokemon green, and I never heard of that glitch! :o Is it a walk through walls kind of glitch? What are the steps to do it?
Quote from: son_ov_hades on June 19, 2008, 01:40:29 pm
What's so great about Gimmick, I've never played it.
Its an awsome game! Its challanging, has absolutely amazing graphics and smooth animation - some of the best graphics on the NES and Famicom. Also, I just love the wierdness of the game, and its unique characters and bosses, its a very original platformer. Its a game that also requires you think out the solution to each situation, especially when trying to get the secret items. The music for me is 10/10, it has enhanced sound on the fami, and is some of the best NSF music I've heard. Plus, who can't help but to love a green star throwing blob for a main character :P
I highly recommend you pick up a copy if you see it and play it.
Eh it seems a bit too rich for my blood, but I'll at least download the rom. ;)
well, the cart usually isn't too bad in price. If your lucky you can pick up the fami cart for $20 or so. But yeah, definatly download the Rom to play it :)
Quote from: son_ov_hades on June 19, 2008, 01:40:29 pm
What's so great about Gimmick, I've never played it.
Gimmick is kind of like Kirby but green and with a hat. He has this neat star weapon also, and the gameplay is also similar to Kirby.
Does anyone remember the old California Games for the C64? It had biking, surfing.. not sure about some of the others.
My brother and I always played the biking segment... its always funny to wipe out and go spinning down the hill..
Quote from: The Uninvited Gremlin on June 24, 2008, 11:50:47 am
Quote from: son_ov_hades on June 19, 2008, 01:40:29 pm
What's so great about Gimmick, I've never played it.
Gimmick is kind of like Kirby but green and with a hat. He has this neat star weapon also, and the gameplay is also similar to Kirby.
Its not a hat, its actually a yellow-orange horn, just throwing that out there :P
Wow, I had never even known about Mr. Gimmick until now. I guess I should go check it out.
Quote from: Kuvio on June 24, 2008, 04:16:03 pm
Wow, I had never even known about Mr. Gimmick until now. I guess I should go check it out.
Its a fun game. I recommend playing it, for sure.
Chrono Trigger was a mind blowing game of my youth... and now I just found out its coming out for the DS! :D
Gotta find a way to transfer over my save files... :P
I love Final Fantasy VI.
friday the 13th, i boorowed that game(pirate) as a little kid from a old friend of mine.
i hated it, it was not a fair game. and damn, i was a scary game.. especially when jason encounters you in the lake, when you are in the boat.
but because i played the game, i wanted to see the movie when i saw it in the videostore.
phew, many nightmares when i was a youngster :D
Quote from: thegreatgonzo on July 02, 2008, 07:40:38 am
Chrono Trigger was a mind blowing game of my youth... and now I just found out its coming out for the DS! :D
GASP! I need to check that out! Tis a favorite of mine too.
Mario 8 just in case anyone forgot !
Remember my youth, the first game that comes in my mind is Little Nemo: The Dream Master, those were the days :'( The only concern was school :'(
Quote from: FamicomFreak on July 08, 2008, 04:28:45 pm
Mario 8 just in case anyone forgot !
We sure did not forget, oh and hows it playing? I remember you finally got it, was the wait worth it? I bet it was.
While I had an atari and an NES growing up, it was the Genny that really cemented itself with me - mainly because I'm (one of the few) people that were introduced to RPGs with it. Shining in the Darkness was my first ever video game rpg and I obsessed over it - spilling over into Landstalker and Phantasy Star IV in succession. The summer before grade 9 I pretty much spent all my time with those three games. I'll always have a special place in my heart for those.
Of course after that came a re-connection to the nes - Final Fantasy... which led to getting a snes with FF 3/6. And then I was hopelessly lost.
I'm actually in elfland again in FF1 on my famicom - in japanese. I'm getting an eprom programmer off a friend and I have a uv eraser so I'm thinking of converting a couple rpgs to english (and scratching my tinkering itch) but FF1 will stay in nihongo - because hell, I can play it blind, I should be able to do it in japanese.
I played FF1 back when I first started learning Japanese. It thrilled me to be able to actually understand what was being said. It fueled my desire to learn Japanese, and was a great stepping stone considering there was no Kanji in that game. Good times.
Quote from: The Uninvited Gremlin on July 12, 2008, 09:27:26 am
Quote from: FamicomFreak on July 08, 2008, 04:28:45 pm
Mario 8 just in case anyone forgot !
We sure did not forget, oh and hows it playing? I remember you finally got it, was the wait worth it? I bet it was.
Yeah all my childhood memories when playing that game returned.....I beat the games many times and don't get tired awaaaaaaaaa!
Super Mario Land for the GameBoy...
very first video game that I owned... after that- complete addiction to all video games...
Quote from: zombiepowder on July 26, 2008, 01:18:20 pm
Super Mario Land for the GameBoy...
very first video game that I owned... after that- complete addiction to all video games...
It wasn't my first game but I have pretty fond memories of playing it during long, boring trips and such. Great music, and also the first Mario game done by Gunpei Yokoi (the inventor of the Game Boy) and not Shigeru Miyamoto (not counting SMB2 USA).
Pretty weird compared to other Mario games but I quickly got the hang of it and since it's kind of short it was always good for killing some time.
I had great memories with mario land as well especially the weird way the shells exploded and the egyptian monsters.....so kewl!
The first Time I played Mario Land it was a rom hack called Pika Land.
It was SO COOLS
A friend of mine had Pika Land on his 60MHz Power Macintosh. The Gameboy emulator was the only one that ran at decent speed. That was the first time I saw it and yeah it's a really cool hack ;D
When I was young, my older brother's friend had a bunch of computer games. I used to play Scorched Earth a whole hell of a lot, and I still love that game. It was great, until you could afford nukes, and then you could just repeatedly nuke your enemies in the remaining levels.
There's a clone of Scorched Earth for the Mac called Dome Wars, which I used to play on my friend's Mac and later on a small B&W Mac laptop that I've got. It's pretty much the same as Scorched Earth, just with the graphical and sound enhancements the Mac had over the PC in that time.
Part of the fun was buying powerful nukes and saving them for the last round ;D
Quote from: nurd on July 27, 2008, 10:17:42 am
The first Time I played Mario Land it was a rom hack called Pika Land.
It was SO COOLS
Oh I played that game. It wasn't bad at all.