Favorite Old School Game

Ahh! Parappa!

"chop, kick, block!"

Great game.


Recently I've downloaded PSX emulator and few games for my laptop, and among my favourites :

Chrono Cross - I'm playing it for the third time, one of the best RPG's I've ever played and definiately best jRPG that I had the pleasure to play.

Metal Gear Solid - plot. I can only say four words for one that has not experienced the awsomness of the MGS plot - "I pitty da foo!"

Bushido Blade - battle system provides a lot of suspense. One hit and you or either your rival dies. A great atmosphere of samurai spirit. No health bars. That is why Kengo : Zero, wich claims to be succesor of the title, failed - it had health bars.

HALF LIFE <---The game changer, 'nuff said

Brave Fencer Musashi almost for got about this one. lol

Streets of Rage, Golden Axe (side scroller, not unlike Streets of Rage), Sonic 2, Lost Vikings, Fury of the Furries (multi-abilitied escape puzzler, not unlike Lost Vikings) and Street Fighter

Let me see, some of the favorites I can think of:

NES: Mega Man 2, Bionic Commando, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest and Shadowgate

SNES: Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Castlevania 4, Actraiser, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Secret of Mana

Gameboy: Metroid 2, Kirby's Dream Land and Pokemon

N64(Yes, I was a Nintendo fan back in the day): Super Mario 64, Starfox 64, Extreme G and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Playstation: Final Fantasy 7 and Brave Fencer Musashi

PC: Pilgrim Quest (ooh, an obscure one), Civilization (oh man, the hours I lost to this!) Doom and Everquest (not sure if this counts as old school)

so I'll be the Final fantasy geek here and say Favorite SNES game is Final Fantasy II/IV - which ever way you tend to look at it

Favorite old school game would probably have to be either Donkey Kong Country for the SNES or Clay Fighter 2.

<old fart mode>

I remember when the ultimate games were the ones you COULDN'T play at home. Yeah, the coin-ops in the arcade. I particularly liked the ones from Williams and Bally/Midway.

Personal fave of all time? NARC. Great graphics, music and sound effects at the time, and for a good cause, too! "Winners Don't Use Drugs!"

Smash TV and Rampage were also pretty good.

</old fart mode>

<videogames-free guy mode>

Monopolia.

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marvel vs. capcom

good times

I never really got into video games until the X-Box.

Best of the old School from Nintendo
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario RPG
Super Metroid
Secret of Mana
Fire Emblem (if your a fan of Shining force you'll like just no character revials)
Sin and Punishment

Best of the old School from Sega
Shining Force 1 & 2
Sonic the Hedgehog(before Sega got on drugs)
Streets of Rage 1-3
Guardian Heroes
Gun Star Heroes
Land Stalker
Panzer Dragoon(The reason why Sin and punishment even exist)
Phantasy Star


Best Series not by exclusive to Nintendo or Sega (Some keep on some not so lucky)
Breath of Fire 1-3 (that series went down hill after 3)
Castlevania
Suikoden
Ninja Gaiden
Strider(Not so Lucky it got to the PS1)
Sparkster/ Rocket Knight

Go go gadget Old-School-Gaming!

Commander Keen was great, and I lost days of my life playing Castle of the Winds. Then along came Quake which became a time trials based competition with a few friends to see who could beat levels fastest on Nightmare. Happy, care-free days...

Maple_Fish wrote:Commander Keen

YES.

YES.

YEEEEESSSS.

I remember when I still had a PS1 and I played Chocobo Dungeon. I didnt have a memory card. So when my room was cleaned and the PS1 got turned off when I was so far off. I kid-raged.

Fallout 1\2
I was a f46 of this game. A %46 .

Oh wow... feeling quite nostalgic now. Lessee if I can name off the ones I really liked...

ANY of the Mario Bros. games
Final Fantasy
just about any of the Zelda games
DOOM
Quake
Mortal Kombat (won out against street fighter for me, haha)
Joe&Mac on the SNES(my brother and I had endless amounts of fun with that one)
The TICK!!!
Asterix (huge fan of the game, the comics and the cartoons)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a classic, imho
Tiny Toons
Tetris
Myst
Megaman!
Gauntlet
Metroid
Qix (endlessly hard, but still fun)
The Power Rangers game for SNES (don't judge XD)
Star Fox
Duck Hunt
...
And I won't go into N64 games for fear of taking up too much more space XD

But as you can tell, I was very much a Nintendo girl. (and still am for that matter XD) though now I go for XBOX and Playstation too, lol... never really liked Sega that much... *dodges thrown objects*