Video/PC Games you played when you were little.

[What's his face]

Lately I've been remembering the video games I used to play when I was a little kid and I've actually been itching to play a few. I'll have to go rooting around in the basement to find the CDs and google up a way to get those DOS based games to play on Vista (I hear something called DOSBox does the job well)

What games did you used to play when you were little? Which were your favourite?

Here's a few of mine:

1) Mario Paint. Particularly the game with the flies where you use the SNES mouse to swat them. I got pretty good at it and I think I beat it a few times. Not bad for a 7 year old.

2) Super Mario World - Probably the best Mario game. Period.

3) The 7th Guest. Sure, a little 7 or 8 year old like me probably shouldn't have been playing horror games but I loved the puzzles. I remember the one with the cake with the green icing and the little tombstones and skulls. I remember the maze level. I can't remember if I ever beat the game completely though.

4) Phantasmogoria. Even scarier than the 7th Guest. At that age I got too scared to play it. Maybe it's time to dig it up and actually beat it.

5) Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, Overseer: Seriosuly. I want to play these games right now. Too bad the discs are at my dad's. These games are really underrated - WAY better than Myst. There's a new game coming out called Three Cards to Midnight that's along the same lines and it's being made by Chris Jones (who played Tex Murphy). I am SO buying that game. I wish that they'd make another Tex Murphy game.

6) Roger Wilco/Space Quest series. Very funny. Fun too. If only I could find that disk.....

7) Commander Keen: Seriosuly, controlling that damn pogo stick was so hard. MUST GET RED KEY.

I really liked those point and click style games, particularly those ones more like 3) 4) 5) and 6). Are there any modern ones that are alomng the same lines?

What games did you play when you were a little kid?

 

[Garrovick]

In the 1950s - Cowboys and Indians

 

[What's his face]

That's when Old Nintendo (NES) came out, right?

 

[Rii]

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Gumboots
Carrier Command
EGA Trek
Castle of The Winds

 

[The Great Meech]

Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt along with Robocop for the NES.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

Super Mario Bros.
Delta Triangle? I was pretty good with it...
A Star Trek game, which I played maybe once.
Oregon Trail


Wasn't into Video games much and didn't own a computer until I was in my teens anyway.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I had an Intellivision and I thought it was the coolest thing out there at the time.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Repton

 

[Mallory]

I played Pong when it first came out. But I was already in my late teens at that point.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Well the big obsession, especially at school during "freetime" on the computers, was Oregon Trail. There was also DreamWeaver.

I played a lot of N64 games, which I still own and play.

I liked Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland on the computer as well as Myst (with my dad's help). I played a game called Secret Paths in the Forest where you are in this girl's only treehouse and you have to collect things, or something like that. I have always loved playing MahJong and Yahtzee as well.

Most of the games I played when I was younger I still play today.

 

[What's his face]

Well the big obsession, especially at school during "freetime" on the computers, was Oregon Trail.

Ah, yes. Freetime on the computers at school.

I loved Cross Country Canada

http://www.download-full-games.com/pc/educational/cross_country_canada.html

You drove a 18-wheeler and you went from city to city picking up resources and delivered them to a destination.

 

[Chris3123]

PC:
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Ancient Empires
Commander Keen (shareware, first episode only)
Monster Bash (shareware, first episode only)
Crystal Caves (shareware, first episode only)
Major Stryker (shareware, first episode only)
Catacomb Abyss (shareware)
Oregon Trail (I liked to name the group after my family, Trek characters, etc)

NES:
Blades of Steel
Cobra Command
Contra (always used The Code, though )
Duck Tales
Kid Icarus
Mike Tyson's Punch Out!
Pro Wrestling
RBI Baseball
Super Mario Brothers
Super Mario Brothers 2
Super Mario Brothers 3
T&C Surf Designs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

 

[Shaw]

The earliest computer game I played was the Classic Star Trek which I used to play on a friend's parent's computer (which occupied most of a room as I recall) back in 1978. Before that there was Mattel's Football handheld game.

But as for PC or video games... I was already married before I got my first computer, and it was a few years after that before I had any games to speak of... so I doubt that would qualify as when I was little.

 

[JuanBolio]

I remember EGA Trek was the first computer game I ever played. After that there was Wolfenstein 3D, then I got into the NES and Genesis, before Doom came out for the PC. I also used to play on my sister's old Intellivision... I still remember Pitfall and B-17 Bomber with fondness.

I STILL love EGA Trek by the way, though its tough to find the original version where the Klingons and Romulans AREN'T the Mongols and Vandals.

 

[Rii]

Incidentally, EGA Trek is essentially a graphically enhanced version of the game Shaw described above. It was my first contact with the Star Trek universe.

 

[Mallory]

The earliest computer game I played was the Classic Star Trek which I used to play on a friend's parent's computer (which occupied most of a room as I recall) back in 1978.

I wasted far too many hours in college playing that game, along with Hunt the Wumpus.

 

[JuanBolio]

Incidentally, EGA Trek is essentially a graphically enhanced version of the game Shaw described above. It was my first contact with the Star Trek universe.

Yeah, I know. I think EGA Trek was the best version I ever came across of that particular game, though. There were other, later, flashier ones, too, but I still like EGA best.

BTW, if anyone knows where I can find a copy of the original version (no Mongols), please let me know.

 

[Lindley]

I recall a game I used to play on the Apple II in my 4th grade classroom. I don't remember the name, but there were 3 costume parties, and at each of them you had to put together clues to find a key. I remember you had to throw a pie in the face of one of the characters to accuse them.

I also remember being the first one in the class to figure out that the key was in the Pineapple Upside-down cake at the first party.

 

[Rii]

Incidentally, EGA Trek is essentially a graphically enhanced version of the game Shaw described above. It was my first contact with the Star Trek universe.

Yeah, I know. I think EGA Trek was the best version I ever came across of that particular game, though. There were other, later, flashier ones, too, but I still like EGA best.

BTW, if anyone knows where I can find a copy of the original version (no Mongols), please let me know.

Ugh, I'm almost certain Home of the Underdogs had it on file, but apparently they've gone and died in the last month or two.

 

[Canadave]

Incidentally, EGA Trek is essentially a graphically enhanced version of the game Shaw described above. It was my first contact with the Star Trek universe.

Yeah, I know. I think EGA Trek was the best version I ever came across of that particular game, though. There were other, later, flashier ones, too, but I still like EGA best.

BTW, if anyone knows where I can find a copy of the original version (no Mongols), please let me know.

Ugh, I'm almost certain Home of the Underdogs had it on file, but apparently they've gone and died in the last month or two.

I'm still mourning the loss.

Anyway, some I remember playing in my youth...

SimCity 2000
SimFarm
Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0
RailRoad Tycoon (still the best tycoon game, if you ask me!)
Theme Park
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

I also used to love some of those old Knowledge Adventure edutainment titles, like Science Adventure, 3D Dinosaur Adventure, etc. Anyone else remember those?