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What are the games that you played as a child?

I grew up watching my dad play games like Doom and a RPG that I seem to remember being called Underworld.

This led me into a whole world of gaming that has lasted over 30 years. As a child I remember playing lots of point and click games (I was terrible at them because most were notoriously difficult) like Discworld, Simon the Sorcerer, Monkey Island.

The one that for some reason really stuck with me, and I revisit every few years is Full Throttle.

Which games from your childhood do you revisit for that warm and fuzzy nostalgia?

Created at 7:57pm, 7th May, 2024. Page last updated at 2:44pm, 16th May, 2024.

FirestormGamingTeam 5/7/2024, 8:01:33 PM

Literally, the three you listed, Minesweeper and Solitare, then my earliest actual PC game (I owned) was Unreal Tournament (Original version).

NicoleStaff5/7/2024, 8:06:56 PM

Definitely got my dad’s laptop confiscated (from me by him) for stealing it too often to play Doom 😂

Makster 5/8/2024, 6:35:43 AM

Nicole

How many WAD files did he find haha

Makster 5/7/2024, 8:13:18 PM

Super Mario Sunshine for Gamecube always conjure up memories of warm summer holidays even in the UK. That and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town on GBA was like my summer camp to revisit old friends and somewhat familiar locations. And of course, the classic summer romance

Roo 5/8/2024, 12:18:04 PM

Makster

💯 I have strong memories of 100%-ing SMS in the back room of our student house over the sunny summer of 2008 instead of going outside or doing anything a respectable 19-year-old should have been doing 😂

Horror and Cats 5/7/2024, 9:24:16 PM

Wolfenstein 3D and the original Prince of Persia are the earliest things I played in a serious fashion.

Later I was super into the Novalogic military sims like F-16, the Delta Force series, and the Comanche series.

Kane Carnifex 5/7/2024, 9:30:05 PM

Secret of Mana on the SNES and later Diablo 2 via modem. Should a 15 year old play D2, yes ofc very good grind :P

Paul 5/7/2024, 9:44:15 PM

The main games i always come back to are the clasic style pokemon games, in fact im playing through a fan made GBA remake of gold atm.

Iv said before that pokemon blue/ red was the game that got me in to rpg games and gaming magazines etc and I often feel pulled back to them every now and again.

I also love going back to mario 64 and the clasic mario and sonic 2d platformers.

Wadd Enderas 5/7/2024, 9:55:25 PM

Age of Empires II - Age of Kings was my first big one on PC! I did also have a Super Nintendo though and Donkey Kong Country and 007 Goldeneye are two that I have memory playing.

I dont really like going back to games for the nostalgia though because the couple of times that I have, I've been a little disappointed. I am a big fan of the current trend if remastering though.

Makster 5/8/2024, 6:35:07 AM

Wadd Enderas

Agree - too many sleepovers were occupied by GoldenEye and accusations of screen watching. Perfect Dark was also a great expansion of this

ThomasStaff5/8/2024, 8:24:29 AM

The ones that really stand out to me, that I have the fondest memories of are the Game Gear and Mega Drive Sonic games, the Mega Drive version of Theme Park, PaRappa the Rapper, Streets of Rage, Sonic Adventure, and Civilization II for PC.

They're all games I remember super fondly, and with the possible exception of Theme Park (which I later found out had a MUCH better PC version), I think they all hold up when played today.

Martin 5/8/2024, 8:44:08 AM

Going back a few years here, there are so many, just a couple off the top of my head...

ZX Spectrum:

Amiga:

R-Type (link is to the arcade version)
Blood Money

AlpStaff5/8/2024, 9:30:26 AM

The first game I remember playing is Rescue Rover

It was recently republished by Ziggurat.

It's a top-down puzzle game where you have to rescue your dog (Rover) from alien robots that have cunningly hidden him behind a series of impenetrable deadly-laser-mazes. Well... they would be impenetrable if it weren't for the conveniently placed angled mirrors that diffract the deadly lasers (foolish robots).

I think I only ever completed it once.

Roo 5/8/2024, 12:22:42 PM

Halo, Halo and more Halo 😂

I remember occasionally playing Tetris on my Nan's 1989 Game Boy, Road Rash on my cousin's second-hand Mega Drive, or even Kirby's Dream Land on my uncle's Game Boy Colour. My first console was an N64 and I got my fair share of use out of a Goldeneye cartridge and Diddy Kong Racing but my full-time FPS addiction really kicked in with Halo 1 and my first Xbox - once they released the 'S' controller of course. The OG Xbox controller was way too big for my 10-year old hands 🙌