NFT: Video games you loved when you were a teen

I had a friend growing up and he could literally make portraits of people and landscapes meanwhile I’m trying to make a straight line.
He could also solve a Rubik’s cube in like a minute damn that would piss me off lol.

In comment 15710154 Route 9 said:

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In comment 15710132 arcarsenal said: Quote: During my teen years, Goldeneye for N64 was one of the staples. Played a lot of Wrestlemania 2000. Sports wise, I played the absolute crap out of NFL2K, 2K1 and 2K2 on Dreamcast. 2005 was just outside of my teenage years, but NFL 2k5 for Xbox and MVP baseball 2005 for PS2 were all-timers. Dreamcast was a pretty decent system. It's a shame it didn't do too hot. If I remember correctly, it came out too late with Ps1 and N64 already out there for a lengthy amount of time.

Yep, it came out at a weird time and was sort of sandwiched between gens so it never quite took off as much as maybe it seemed it would initially.

I thought the VCU memory units that went into the controllers were cool at the time - they were like mini Game Boys that had tiny control pads on them and a little screen.

But, NFL2K was next level at the time. The gameplay was unlike anything we'd seen before on older consoles. 2K1 was much better and more refined, but the series didn't go too much further on DC before it moved to Xbox and PS2 IIRC.

The first football game I was obsessed with was actually NFL 94 with Montana on the cover for Genesis. I played that game nonstop.

"What a mistake!"

In comment 15710010 Straw Hat said:

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Morrowind Best game of all time.

I agree. I also loved FF7, FF8, and Zelda Ocarina of Time.

In comment 15710202 cactus said:

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In comment 15710198 Amtoft said: Quote: Baseball Stars for sure. This game was awesome and one of the first I remember with a cheat. I can't remember exactly how to do it but like you did some and it asked a question like when isn't it and the answer was when it was or something like that. The making building of players was a lot of fun. All the Tecmo Bowls were awesome, I mean do I have to say more. I also loved Aerobiz which I had a blast on... when and where are the olympics and how fast can I get a flight there!! what is a wren?

That was the other one for like a girls team or something? The answer a bird. Man I am going to look it up.

Woman's Team: Edit "WHAT IS A WREN?" to read "A BIRD." then edit "WHEN ISN'T IT?" to read "WHEN IT IS." Include periods.

Down, Right, Left, Down, Down, Right, Up, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up. Select ''Veterans'' using the A button.

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Powered Up Team: A message will pop up saying ''WHEN ISN'T IT?'' Edit that message to say ''WHEN IT IS.'' Note: Don't forget to add the period.

Down, Right, Left, Down, Down, Right, Up. Select ''Balanced Team'' and press A

SNES just blew away Genesis IMO, so there was really no reason to invest my time in them. Saturn was so expensive and had no games, and then Dreamcast, their best system, just didn't have any marketshare anymore.

tecmo bowl
contra
double dribble
hockey(the one with the skinny, fat and medium guy)

it was so good

Madden
RBI Baseball
NBA Jam
Street Fighter II
Mortal Kombat
Doom

In the guilty pleasure category, Ecco the Dolphin and MJ Moonwalker were more fun than they're usually given credit for.

From a bit earlier in childhood:

Tecmo Bowl
Ice Hockey
Blades of Steel
Baseball Stars
Little League Baseball
Zelda
Contra
Rampage
Metroid

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start

In comment 15710251 Gatorade Dunk said:

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Madden RBI Baseball NBA Jam Street Fighter II Mortal Kombat Doom In the guilty pleasure category, Ecco the Dolphin and MJ Moonwalker were more fun than they're usually given credit for. From a bit earlier in childhood: Tecmo Bowl Ice Hockey Blades of Steel Baseball Stars Little League Baseball Zelda Contra Rampage Metroid

You may be riding around in a gold limousine now but I beat The Lion King on Sega genesis back in the day

In comment 15710251 Gatorade Dunk said:

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Madden In the guilty pleasure category, Ecco the Dolphin and MJ Moonwalker were more fun than they're usually given credit for.

Ecco was impossible. I spent quite a few quarters on Moonalker. Like you said, it was fun.

What was that one game that was soooo horrible because you would chop someone in half and his guts would spill out lol

and Final Fantasy 4and 6 were my favorites.

In comment 15710248 Kmed6000 said:

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hockey(the one with the skinny, fat and medium guy)

the super speed code for NES hockey took a great game and made it even more enjoyable.

In comment 15710227 cactus said:

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Woman's Team: Edit "WHAT IS A WREN?" to read "A BIRD." then edit "WHEN ISN'T IT?" to read "WHEN IT IS." Include periods. Down, Right, Left, Down, Down, Right, Up, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up. Select ''Veterans'' using the A button. --- Powered Up Team: A message will pop up saying ''WHEN ISN'T IT?'' Edit that message to say ''WHEN IT IS.'' Note: Don't forget to add the period. Down, Right, Left, Down, Down, Right, Up. Select ''Balanced Team'' and press A

YES! thank you that was driving me crazy

the usual suspects so I'll throw out some random games that were fun both at home and in the arcade:
Final Fight, Pit Fighter, Ninja Turtles (playing with 3 friends was a blast), Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Terminator 2, WWF Wrestlefest.

On the mainframe

and then Ultima V

I remember spending way too much time playing those games, writing down all kinds of clues from conversations and drawing maps of underworlds.

In comment 15710031 Jints in Carolina said:

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Loved Micro League. I never had the Commodore 64, so I had to wait until hanging with one of a few friends to play. Loved that game. 78 Yankees all the way.

As a teen, the game pickings were a little slim compared to my 20's and certainly now.

PC - Ultima series, Wizardry, Interactive Fiction - both Infocom and Scott Adams. MS Flight Simulator. Any and all platformers.

Home console - All 2600 Atari. Later Intellivision esp. B-17, and Hockey. We used to be able to rent cartridges from the library.

Arcade - All of the classics, but esp. Marble Madness, Track and field, Super Sprint, Gyruss, tail end of my teens was Road Blasters, XY Bots, 720 and Hard Drivin. If I had back all the money I spent on those last three, I could buy a new laptop.

'PIX' from WPIX.

I totally knew back then that there was just some guy with a finger on the joystick button and he hit it each time some kid said PIX.

I never got on myself, not for lack of trying, but nonetheless my sisters and I would all call out "PIX PIX PIX PIXPIXPIXPIX"

In comment 15710377 Eric from BBI said:

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Not to most here. I wanted to be good at that game, but I sucked at it.

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The goat for me.

alot of these titles are definite blasts from the past. I go all the way back to the Atari 2600. My favorite game for that was Tank. But all time faves? In no particular order:

Space Invaders
Galaxian
Galaga
Xevious
Time Pilot
Crystal Castles
All the Pole Positions
All the Shinobis
All the Contras (especially Super C)
Space Harrier
Altered Beast

Loved pinball as a kid for those on Long Island Nunleys was great.
I was able to find a 1986 Tomcat pinball and 1987 high speed recently so been playing them again in the basement. My kids and nieces and nephews love it brings back memories of watching them play by standing around the game

Nintendo and Atari i refurbished and the kids are playing techno ball, carnival frogged donkey Kong.

They don’t get as much play as pinball but fun to watch them. Hopefully the 4th of July weekend when the family is together again we can do mini 80 game tournament.

In comment 15710100 HMunster said:

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In comment 15710010 Straw Hat said: Quote: Morrowind Best game of all time. I'll second that, although I was in my 30's when it came out.

It's actually very rare I play these types of games, but I did have Skyrim and I got totally sucked in. Unfathomable amounts of time would pass while I played that game.

Also liked the Playboy pinball machine…

Only game I'd go straight home after school to play instead of hanging out with friends. That game consumed me.

very many as a teen is high school. N64 was big in Jr high ; duck hunt mario bros. Even first couple of years in college. Early 20 s with Madden was huge with many players gathering around to play ...roommates parties etc.

in high school were huge

In comment 15710375 D HOS said:

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As a teen, the game pickings were a little slim compared to my 20's and certainly now. PC - Ultima series, Wizardry, Interactive Fiction - both Infocom and Scott Adams. MS Flight Simulator. Any and all platformers. Home console - All 2600 Atari. Later Intellivision esp. B-17, and Hockey. We used to be able to rent cartridges from the library. Arcade - All of the classics, but esp. Marble Madness, Track and field, Super Sprint, Gyruss, tail end of my teens was Road Blasters, XY Bots, 720 and Hard Drivin. If I had back all the money I spent on those last three, I could buy a new laptop.

RE: Arcade games we have similar tastes. I still official world world records on 2 of the ones you mentioned.

But I dumped countless quarters into X-Men, TMNT, and Sunset Riders...

...SNES/Genesis and the early days of PS1 and N64 for me as well as dragging out the NES occasionally:



- Early Madden years on Genesis
- Final Fantasy IV (II in US), VI (III in US)
- Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Twisted Metal
- Castlevania IV
- Mario 64
- Wave Race
- Mario Kart 64
- For NES I'd still drag out Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, Tecmo Super Bowl, Metal Gear, SMB2 and Mega Man 2&3.


Favorite arcade game was The Main Event which was a wrestling game by Konami with knock off characters very closely resembling WWF stars. Game play was far in advance of anything that was available at the time. The was a box in the foyer of the Ames in my town within bike riding distance and we spent god knows how much $ on it.

In comment 15710466 Danny Kanell said:

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The goat for me.

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In comment 15710251 Gatorade Dunk said:

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Madden RBI Baseball NBA Jam Street Fighter II Mortal Kombat Doom In the guilty pleasure category, Ecco the Dolphin and MJ Moonwalker were more fun than they're usually given credit for. From a bit earlier in childhood: Tecmo Bowl Ice Hockey Blades of Steel Baseball Stars Little League Baseball Zelda Contra Rampage Metroid

Good choices. I’ll add Top Gun and Jaws to the NES list.

After burner

In comment 15710615 j_rud said:

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Only game I'd go straight home after school to play instead of hanging out with friends. That game consumed me.

It made RPGs “cool”. Easily one of the most important games ever made.

In comment 15710031 Jints in Carolina said:

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Great call, loved Micro League baseball for a few years!

So many already covered. Ones I haven't seen...

Teenage years:
metal gear solid.
Jedi knight

Earlier:
Maniac mansion

Perfect Dark
FF 7
Parasite Eve
FF 9
Tenchu
Leisure Suit Larry 7
Diablo 1&2
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Metal Gear Solid
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
WCW/NWO Revenge
WWF Wrestlemania 2000
WWF No Mercy
Any All Star Baseball on N64

Gran Turismo 1 & 2

Star Raiders on my Atari 8
The best Space combat simulator at the time.
It was during the Star Wars time

Atari 800 that is.

was in my late teens - early 20s at the time but I loved the X-Men and Simpsons arcade games. Blew so much money trying to finish both. Honorable mention to the WWF arcade games. They were fun too. Especially Royal Rumble

Wrestle Mania, Tecmo Bowl, RBI Baseball, Castlevania, Contra

Pool of Radiance
Knights of Kyrnn
etc

And speaking of Spy hunter and Outrun ; anyone remember pre covid there was a bar on Essex street that had those games and many others like a full 80s style arcade