Best Video game of all time?
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Oh, a dilemma. Mario (NES) or Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX).
California Games was an addictive lil game back in the day on the Commodore 64.
BUT.
Super Smash Bros on the N64 stole the lives of many of my friends and I during college. And after college. And kept us awake when we had to be in to work at 3am to fix broken computers. To this day, someone offers up a game and you had better set aside a few hours to get the tourney sorted out.
Grand Theft Auto, from the first one to San Andreas 
Well in terms of modern gaming...
For golden oldies I'd go for Elite or Sabre Wolf on the BBC Micro!
twist wrote: Ms Pac Man (fast)
or Defender --ultimate pound the button game
Back in the day I used to consider myself a bit of a gun with games, but Defender was the one game that I found almost unplayable - all those goddamn buttons (7 if I remember correctly) and really tough gameplay.
all those goddamn buttons
Defender (arcade) had two buttons and a joystik. Maybe four.
fire smart bomb thrust reverse
Never did adapt well for consoles.
twist wrote: Ms Pac Man (fast)
or Defender --ultimate pound the button game
Hyper Olympics beat that, especially on the sprint and long jump!
Llamatron
Frontier (Elite2....same basic idea...but better physics than any FILM has ever had, you could actually orbit the earth for real)
But without doubt the greatest game in history.....because I have an attention spam of 14seconds and I been playing this for 7.5years now.....
GPL, that's
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Legends
no slick, no wings, no FUCKING ARCADE HELP LIKE SCHUMACHER AND ALL HAVE THESE DAYS.
And 20 cars wheel to wheel in online play....what more do you need?
Either;
Jet Pac (ZX Spectrum), Ratchet & Clank 2, Burnout:Revenge or Star Wars Battlefront2.
from the arcade in the early '80s: TRON galaga frogger centipede galaxian q-bert
from my nintendo 64: tetris (damn annoying, though) super mario brothers
(relatively) modern: legend of zelda series lufia raygun 2 final fantasy goldeneye tekken 3
out of all of these i'd have to go with the zelda series.
Resident Evil 4 on the gamecube. The ps2 version is utter, utter shite, they've turned what looks like a labour of love, on the cube, to a low res jittery pile of wankfest garbage! It's only saving grace is the extra levels and 1 extra weapon 
The old sonic games, so mint. Back on the Sega Megadrive. James Pond (the fish) was also quality.
Classics.
ok, I'm pretty bored at work so..
atari 2600 combat (using those dial pads were fun) raiders of the lost ark (just cuz that themesong was awesome)
commodore 64 g.i. joe (theme song and variety of game play.. not because it took 30 minutes to load the damn game)
apple IIe Little computer people (pre-Sims) Ultima 1-4 Bard's tale 1-3
nintendo entertainment system Legend of Zelda Super Mario Bros. Castlevania Contra Metroid
super nintendo Super Castlevania Legend of Zelda Super Metroid Final Fantasy 3-4
n64 Super Mario 64
80's arcade: Yie ar kung fu (defined the pre-street fighter genre) Centipede Double dragon Gyruss
90's arcade: street fighter 2 golden axe Daytona USA
PS1 Final Fantasy 7 Ridge Racer Resident Evil 1-3
PS2 Resident Evil 4
PC Doom 1-3 World of Warcraft America's Army
Damn, I play a lot of games. ;)
duroc wrote: Resident Evil 4 on the gamecube. The ps2 version is utter, utter shite, they've turned what looks like a labour of love, on the cube, to a low res jittery pile of wankfest garbage! It's only saving grace is the extra levels and 1 extra weapon
I play the PS2 version with progressive scan and widescreen on.. it's not that bad. Granted, I never played the Gamecube version.
Janezki wrote: Tomb Raider Zelda
Could never get in to Zelda. Dunno why, just not my cup of tea. Same with Tomb Raider really.
my favorite of all time is "techmo super bowl" (techmo bowl was awesome too). my other favorites include, baseball stars, rbi baseball, road rash, contra, mike tysons punch out, & the madden football games.
nmc wrote: commodore 64 g.i. joe (theme song and variety of game play.. not because it took 30 minutes to load the damn game)
i had a commodore 24. it had no hard drive and everything was saved on cassette; our TV was the monitor. i remember flipping back and forth between playing space invaders and watching the 1984 olympics in LA.
commodore 64 ws too advanced for the wood family.
HOW much did pheonix piss on space invaders
Still play it all the time.
Forgot 1942 as well.
AgentWood wrote:
nmc wrote: commodore 64 g.i. joe (theme song and variety of game play.. not because it took 30 minutes to load the damn game)
i had a commodore 24. it had no hard drive and everything was saved on cassette; our TV was the monitor. i remember flipping back and forth between playing space invaders and watching the 1984 olympics in LA.
commodore 64 ws too advanced for the wood family.
Always had to go my friend's house to play the C64 at the time. Always hated that typically when the game was done loading, I had to start heading home.
Ah, the '84 Olympics in LA. My first Olympics experience. My mom had us record the entire series on VHS for memorabilia. That was a wonderous technology, the VHS.
DOOM !!
Bloody scary if you've got the sound right up.Got Ultimate Doom with 1 & 2,with the Doom 3 trailer.
we also had pong from radio shack. you could play tennis (green screen), handball (orange?) screen, and something else i can't remember (blue screen). the joystick was this long handle with a thing you'd slide up and down, thus sliding the 'I' up and down the screen.
pong was a game of strategy and wit. they should bring it back--i think today's kids would just love it.
Did anyone have an intelevision Console?There was a great primitive football manager on it..Out the same time as Atari(on which defender was shit-hot)Intelevision kind of lost the war to Atari,like Betamax did to vhs..There was only one other lad to trade games with at the time,but games like Tron were far better than Atari offerings,save the sublime Defender
i don't remember intelvision, but i remember colecovision. i was convinced it was going to drive atari out of the market. this is why i do not work in the business world.
Legend of Zelda for SNES... i was so obsessed with that silly game
Mario 64 the first game for Nintendo64 was so trippy
Half-Life was hella cool
Starcraft is near perfection for that type of game
Quake 2 was just fun trying to make my video card work, a game in itself
many old sports games, so unrealistic, but often captured the fun of the sport much better than "improved" games
pumped full of drugs wrote: Legend of Zelda for SNES... i was so obsessed with that silly game
You weren't the only one!
ah the good old days. i had a vic2o with plug in games and cassette drive. i remember spending hours typing in the program for tron.
Emma Peel wrote:
pumped full of drugs wrote: Legend of Zelda for SNES... i was so obsessed with that silly game
You weren't the only one!
Before i got all the command and conquer games for my PC, i completed it on my SNES emulator. Absolutely brilliant game.
Uncle Liam wrote: Yes but how shit was Final Doom?
Definitley Red Alert for me.
I couldn't get past Level 30 on Doom 2.That level where you have to go to the top to pull a lever,then jump down into this green shit.Then elevate to where there should be an exit,stand in molten lava,and get shot by all an sundry.Absolutely no way out.
Ms. Pac-Man Galaga Arkanoid Dig Dug
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Atari 2600: Adventure Asteroids Defender Breakout Bezerk
AgentWood wrote: we also had pong from radio shack. you could play tennis (green screen), handball (orange?) screen, and something else i can't remember (blue screen). the joystick was this long handle with a thing you'd slide up and down, thus sliding the 'I' up and down the screen.
pong was a game of strategy and wit. they should bring it back--i think today's kids would just love it.
Was it squash? I remember that on my pong system.
Boatraceface wrote: Did anyone have an intelevision Console?There was a great primitive football manager on it..Out the same time as Atari(on which defender was shit-hot)Intelevision kind of lost the war to Atari,like Betamax did to vhs..There was only one other lad to trade games with at the time,but games like Tron were far better than Atari offerings,save the sublime Defender
I do indeed remember having this! 
Predated my Nintendo, still remember Lock and Key, Astrosmash, Space Invaders and Night Stalker.
Other top choices (in chronological order)...Mario 1-3 (NES), Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3 (Genesis), Ghouls and Ghosts (Genesis), Hard Drivin (Genesis), GoldenEye (N64), Metal Gear Solid (PS1), Syphon Filter 1&2 (PS1), Grand Theft Auto III-San Andreas (PS2), Max Payne (PC), Warcraft III (PC), Worms World Party (PC), Counterstrike (PC), SSX Tricky (PS2), any of the Wipeout titles from XL (PS1) through Fusion (PS2)
Uncle Liam wrote: Command and Conquer. Probably the original Red Alert. Even though they are all fantastic.
One of my best friends and I would plan entire days around Red Alert. I had purchased the cable that connected the PlayStations together which allowed us to play against each other. The catch was each player needed their own television set. So I would haul the 17" set out the guest room and take it to his house and we's set up on either end of his dining room table.
During one game we built our bases for so long that when we went to battle the game slowed down so much we couldn't play. So, we set time limits for building after that.
Tesla Coils, baby!!!
To me the best videoof all time is Anarchy In The UK nby the Sep Pistold (taped bvy Granfda TV, ?)
Other than that, maybe TF?
By the way, I never seen Happy Mondays videos, ha ha. Did they ever maeke them?
Please, nO Peter Gabriel or Michael Jacksob, U thrwo up.
Oh by the way, Pet Shop Boys are quite good!! Atr least worth watching. Too many to recsall. Watch Videography.
Peache V!!!
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: To me the best videoof all time is Anarchy In The UK nby the Sep Pistold (taped bvy Granfda TV, ?)
Other than that, maybe TF?
By the way, I never seen Happy Mondays videos, ha ha. Did they ever maeke them?
Please, nO Peter Gabriel or Michael Jacksob, U thrwo up.
Oh by the way, Pet Shop Boys are quite good!! Atr least worth watching. Too many to recsall. Watch Videography.
Peache V!!!
game ian, game. not a good idea to post too much after a bottle of red.
NOOLigan wrote:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: To me the best videoof all time is Anarchy In The UK nby the Sep Pistold (taped bvy Granfda TV, ?)
Other than that, maybe TF?
By the way, I never seen Happy Mondays videos, ha ha. Did they ever maeke them?
Please, nO Peter Gabriel or Michael Jacksob, U thrwo up.
Oh by the way, Pet Shop Boys are quite good!! Atr least worth watching. Too many to recsall. Watch Videography.
Peache V!!!
game ian, game. not a good idea to post too much after a bottle of red.
Jeez, I'm sorry!! I only now see it's video GAME, not a video clip... How stupid :(
Emma Peel wrote: The old school games are the best.
Asteroids PacMan Frogger Zelda Leisure Suit Larry
i love those oldies.
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NOOLigan wrote:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: To me the best videoof all time is Anarchy In The UK nby the Sep Pistold (taped bvy Granfda TV, ?)
Other than that, maybe TF?
By the way, I never seen Happy Mondays videos, ha ha. Did they ever maeke them?
Please, nO Peter Gabriel or Michael Jacksob, U thrwo up.
Oh by the way, Pet Shop Boys are quite good!! Atr least worth watching. Too many to recsall. Watch Videography.
Peache V!!!
game ian, game. not a good idea to post too much after a bottle of red.
Jeez, I'm sorry!! I only now see it's video GAME, not a video clip... How stupid :(
Don't worry about it, this is all a figment of your imagination anyway....!
WHAT? NO SPY HUNTER?? That game is AWESOME!!!!!
asteroids, rampart, galaga, and paperboy were pretty fun too... r.c. pro-am, top gun, jaws... damn. i need another NES.
i used to love "Stryder" on the original NES... you traveled the globe, picking up floppies and you had to kill your best friend because he became a "bad guy" at sometime before the storyline in the game. does anyone remember this??
