Video/PC Games you played when you were little.

[the 4th hanson bro]

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

Way better than the Atari.

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

We found our old Pong game in a closet at my mom's house over Christmas.

I also used to play on my sister's old Intellivision... I still remember Pitfall and B-17 Bomber with fondness.

We had the Voice Module or whatever it was called so you had John Wayne's voice on B-17 Bomber.

Mom and Dad had a friend who owned a video store and he would always let us borrow games for the Intellivision.

 

[Misfit Toy]

I played pinball. With real counters, not digital readouts.

Now get off my lawn!

 

[Timby]

One with a gun controller you pointed at the screen with the background photo real and bad guys popping up

Lethal Enforcers would be my guess.

 

[JuanBolio]

PC:
EGA Trek
Road Runner
Yankee Trader
Oregon Trail
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom 1-2
Wing Commander Armada

Mac:
Stunt Copter

Intellivision:
Pitfall
B-17 Bomber

NES:
Super Mario 1-3
Duck Hunt
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters
Godzilla: War of the Monsters
Silent Service
Star Wars

Genesis:
Sonic 1-2
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition
Road Rash
Altered Beast
Mortal Kombat 1-3
Sub Terrania
BioHazard Battle
Primal Rage

 

[Colonel Green]

I used to play Intellivision at my uncle's place when I was really little, Burger Run and Pitfall are the only games I can recall though.

Used to play NES at a friends house, loved Duck Hunt and SMBros 1 & 2. Never had a system of my own until Genesis. Loved Ghouls and Ghosts, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Toejam and Earl and TMNT. I'm sure more will occur to me in a bit.

For PC I enjoyed Wing Commander, Wolfenstein 3D and Sid Mieirs Colonization. I still play that one from time to time. Also played a lot of Space Quest and Oregon Trail.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I remember Oregon Trail...on the Apple ][! I always chose the easiest difficulty level.

 

[Braxton]

Commander Keen - Played endlessly, especially once we got episodes 2-5. I could spend nearly half a day playing it. Some levels were very hard and took a while to get past them. Great games. I still have them on a disk somewhere, but no disk drive!

Oregon Trail - Classic game. If you were born in the 80's you had to have played this game at some point.

Donky Kong - Whenever we rented the SNES, DK and DK2 were games we had to have.

Super Mario Brothers - Can't remember which ones but had to have them when renting the SNES.

SimCity - I've played all four versions. SC2000 was awesome, lost myself in it several times.

Yeah, I wasn't lucky to actually own a SNES. Always asked for one, never got it.

 

[Leroy]

I played a lot of Star Trek games like Judgement Rites, A Final Unity, and Harbinger, anybody play those? I also liked a game called Outpost it was kind of like Sim City except you make a space colony instead of an earth based city.

 

[What's his face]

^ I really like Outpost too, but it was too buggy. A real shame because that game had the potential to be amazing.

 

[Leroy]

What kind of bugs did Outpost have? I didn't remember any that made the game unplayable, maybe I had a newer version?

 

[BigFoot]

I spent so many days on Commander Keen 4 it's not even funny. When I got older I played a ton of Adventure games from Sierra and Lucas Arts (Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Monkey Island series, The Dig, Space Quest series, Leisure Suit Larry series, Phantasmagoria 1&2, Gabriel Knight series, Indiana Jones and the Quest for Atlantis,...). I'm sure I'm missing a ton of games.

 

[auntiehill]

When I was little? Dude, the only game around when I was little was PONG.

By the time I was in Junior High, I had Centipede, Pac Man, Space Invaders, Zaxxon, and the one I totally RULED on---Tempest.

That was a LOT of quarters wasted.

 

[zephramc]

I"ve played lots of games over my life. Lots of old Atari classics, NES, SNES..etc..etc.

There is this one game that i cannot remember for the life of me that came out i'd say somewhere around 95 or 96. A Star Trek game, if i'm remembering correctly that came out on a MAC. I've looked high and low for this game but cannot find it anywhere. All i know is it was a TNG game, and it was pretty much free roam...do what you want... GFX were nice for the time, but i'll be damned if i remember the name of that game!

Argh i wanna play it again.

A Final Unity was a TNG game out around 95-96. I played it on PC, but it may have been released for Mac as well.

I guess I was little during the reign of the Atari 2600 and perhaps the NES. I played alot of games, so I'll just list my favorites.

Atari 2600:
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Adventure
Defender
Ms. Pac Man
Pitfall
Yars Revenge

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES):
Super Mario Bros 1 - 3
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Contra
Final Fantasy
Nobunaga's Ambition
Cobra Triangle

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I recall spending way too much time playing Ghostbusters on the Commodore 64.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Genesis:

-Sonic 1-2
-Doom

PC:

-Myst (and sequels)
-Basically every LucasArts adventure game
-Star Wars: X-Wing
-Tie Fighter, too
-And X-Wing Alliance
-Let's not forget Dark Forces (Plus DF:II and Mysteries of the Sith) for it brought us Star Wars's equivalent to Chuck Norris.
-Star Trek: Birth of The Federation
-Star Trek: Starfleet Command
-Sim City
-Marathon (1, 2 and Infinity)
-System Shock
-Thief
-Baldur's Gate
-Half-Life
-Alpha Centauri
-Homeworld
-Age of Empires

N64:

-Zelda: Ocarina of Time
-Zelda: Majora's Mask
-Donkey Kong 64
-Starfox 64
-Mario 64
-Goldeneye
-Perfect Dark
-Jet Force Gemini
-Super Smash Bros
-Banjo-Kazooie
-Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

I benefitted a lot from my father being rather into PC gaming during the 90s. By coincidence, Homeworld was the conduit through which I learned the F-bomb.

"Fucking Taiidan!"

 

[Bob The Skutter]

On the commodore 64 and Amiga I loved the Dizzy games and the Monkey Island games.

 

[RJDiogenes]

There were no video games when I was a kid. When I was in my 20s, I did enjoy Infocom's Interactive Fiction (and still do); I also enjoyed SSI's Buck Rogers stuff; it's a shame that line didn't catch on.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Are they the "Choose Your Own Adventure" fantasy books?

 

[trekkerguy]

Super Mario Bros. 3 over and over and over and over...
Star Trek The 25th Anniversary game for NES.
And a bit of Sonic The Hedgehog.



And the "Putt Putt" edumacational games on the PC.

 

[Cutter John]

Lord do I feel old. I think you could buy Pong right about the time I graduated from high school.

And being an only child, I didn't play it much.