What games did you play as a kid?

[puke_face]

the ones i remember the most are:

super mario bros with duck hunt
super mario 2 & 3
gotcha!
contra
super contra
zelda (didn't really play it all that much)
tetris
jackall
battletoads

super nintendo:
star fox
stunt race FX

the list goes on. my fist console was the 8 bit nintendo, althought, we had a sega genesis for x-mas one year, and just continued on from there. arcade games where always good too. i personally loved the pinball machines as well.

[DuManchu]

Sonic 2 (Genesis)
Gunstar Heroes (Genesis)
Super Mario Bros. (NES)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
Desert Strike (Genesis)
Hockey (NES)
Kangaroo (2600)
Pitfall (2600)
Circus Atari (2600)
Oregon Trail (Apple IIe)
Super Bomberman (SNES) <-- "wasted" almost an entire summer on this

The only system I owned was the Genesis, the rest I played at my friends houses.

[nickfil]

of course the mario games... but zelda really blew my mind and made me play rpgs for most of my childhood. Funny, now i don't have the patience for them unless they are exceptional.

Funny- looking back on it I played through all the zelda games up to Majora's Mask. After that i haven't completed one since except for minish cap. They all look fun, and i've played them all... i just got bored i guess.

maybe that series needs a breath of fresh air.

[Snickerd00dle]

sonic. humans. earthworm jim. lost vikings.

[Hatta]

My childhood gaming was mainly defined by Sierra's graphical adventure games. I remember having Kings Quest 3 before I could touch type, and I had to have my dad type at a few critical points in the game. Even before that, I remember playing Mickey's Space Adventure, and Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood. I was 9 years old when Leisure Suit Larry 3 was released. Got a copy from an older friend, and much fun was had.

I kept playing them as long as they kept making them. At this point, there's hardly a Sierra adventure I haven't played. Kind of makes me sad, but there are still LucasArts, Infocom, Interplay, Legend, etc games I haven't played. Sierra will always hold a special place in my heart though.

[nickfil]

sonic. humans. earthworm jim. lost vikings.

oh yes- how could i forget earthworm jim.

[vgaddict]

had a nes, best times of my life. pro wrestling, zelda, mario, castlevania, mega man 2 and 3 just pausing the game to hear the music from mega man till this day no other game can compete dr. wileys stage music, punch out wow staying up all night just to beat tyson ninja gaiden and one of my favorites double dragon series!!! This is why I'm getting another nes again

[MrPopo]

My childhood was a lot of NES and SNES. I always thought Metroid was a really cool game but I would always get lost. It wasn't until Super Metroid's auto map that I was able to beat a Metroid game. I actually got so into Super Metroid that one time late at night I started hallucinating that there was a couple of Metroids down the hall guarding the bathroom. I had to use my parent's bathroom because I didn't have the ice beam. This all made perfect sense at the time.

[Reverend]

Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Pokémon Yellow Version
Pokémon Gold Version
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
Wario Land 3

[Elwood]

Let's see.

I played bits of my older brother and aunt's NES games, so I played stuff like Terminator 2, TMNT, Super Mario Bros., Faxanadu, and probably a few others. I honestly didn't play much NES as a kid. I watched my older bro and mom play a lot, and when my bro gave his NES to my aunt I'd play it whenever I visited.

When I got a SNES most of my time was poured into the various Mario games via the Super Mario World plus Super Mario All-Stars cart. Beyond that, I played a lot of Mega Man X, Battle Toads/Double Dragon, Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose, and Killer Instinct.

Although I'm more of a Nintendo guy then a Sega guy, a huge chunk of my game playing as a youth was on the Sega Genesis through the Sega Channel service. I remember playing Gunstar Heroes, the Shining Force games (my first RPG's I played to any real extent... never did beat either of them), Comix Zone, Beyond Oasis, Mega Bomberman, Streets of Rage 2 and 3, the Sonic games, Dr. Robotnick's Mean Bean Machine, Mega Man: Wily Wars (Sega Channel comp of the first three Mega Man games), the "Strike" series, Earthworm Jim, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Vectorman, and probably a few I'm forgetting.

Oh, and I played lots of Pokemon, I must admit. Mainly Yellow and Silver versions.

In my middle school days I my younger bro got a N64. I spent my time on quite a lot of crap on the 64, playing Chameleon Twist and those lame 3D Bomberman games, though I do fondly remember playing Mischief Makers. I tried my hand at quite a few of the 64's top titles too, namely Star Fox 64, Mario 64, LOZ: OoT and MM, and Donkey Kong 64. I only beat DK64 and Star Fox 64... which makes me sad.

My bro eventually got a PS1, and aside from playing and failing to beat Final Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid (MGS was a friends game, never owned it long enough to beat... though my friend had a laugh/fanboy moment during the Psycho Mantis stage), I played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Ape Escape, Tekken 2 and 3, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Spyro: Year of the Dragon and MediEvil.

One thing that was pretty constant up until the end of Middle school... I rarely could actually beat a game. It's a bit sad looking back... but it sure did make beating a game a lot more satisfying. As I've gotten older I've tried to go back and beat some of my old faves that eluded me before.