Need to play Grim Fandango soon.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I put R-Type at #13, although I was really voting for Super R-Type for SNES.
Another really difficult game (although nothing really touches the madness of Life Force, which resorts to cheapness more than just about any other game I've ever played), but again, it rewards your hard work. I'll always associate R-Type with Kraftwerk's Computer World, as I spent the entire summer of 2004 doing nothing but playing and memorizing both.
― Z S, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Grim Fandango looks pretty awesome.
― emil.y, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
#56: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/TurtlesInTimeSNES.jpg/250px-TurtlesInTimeSNES.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/TurtlesInTimeFootSoldiers.png Developer:Konami Publisher:Konami Original format:Arcade Highest position:#1, Mehlt
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
No. Just, no.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
#55: Galaga (1981) http://arcadecontrols.com/images/News/05-15-06-galaga.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Galaga.png Developer:Namco Publisher:Midway Original format:Arcade Highest position:#7, antexit
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"pity vote" because it's not one of my favorite infocom games, but I didn't want it to get shut out.
― abanana, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Galaga is my favorite 80s arcade game.
― abanana, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
o fuck i've just shot my own ship.
― Raw Patrick, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
#54: Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (1987) http://www.retroscene.co.uk/prodimages/c64/m/rainbow-islands.jpg http://www.classicamiga.com/images/stories/jreviews/2999_rainbow_islands_screenshot_3_1169035023.png Developer:Taito Publisher:Taito Original format:Arcade Highest position:#3, Thomas
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
SO BEAUTIFUL. Great mechanics, challenging but doable, but getting 7 crystals in spectrum order is a pig. Not enough platform games go up like this.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably my second favourite C64 platformer, behind New Zealand Story (which, disgracefully, wasn't nominated)
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Spectrum version of Rainbow Islands was great, but playing it on Mame is the real deal.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing ever seems to work properly in MAME :(
how grim fandango is not a top ten game is beyond me ;_;
― DG, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
#53: Guitar Hero (2005) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Guitarhero-cover.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Guitarhero-screen.jpg Developer:Harmonix Music Systems Publisher:RedOctane Original format:PlayStation 2 Highest position:#4, Raw Patrick
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
As I said in one of the other threads, Turtles in Time = representative vote for all 2.5D beat-em-up side-scrollers of that generation. The two-screen X-Men arcade game is unquestionably the god of this quarter-munching, superficial genre, and god was it so much fun. Unless you got stuck playing as Dazzler. Other greats - the TMNT and Simpsons arcade games...Knights of the Round ain't bad in a pinch...etc...
Galaga has probably aged the best of games of its generation, except for Ms. Pac-Man... it's never an unwelcome sight at any bar or pizzeria.
I think I nommed Guitar Hero and immediately regretted not giving my 00's nom to Tony Hawk, which consumed half the hallway in my freshman dorm. But Guitar Hero has a lot of similarities to that title - absolutely made for two-player, but delivering a pretty decent geek wallop when played alone, gradually mastering its rhythms. It's really too soon to tell how it'll age, but its immense crossover appeal as a party game for non-gamers seems a good sign. That said, having to buy new versions of the same game just to get new songs seems like a big dud to me - why not just have you able to buy new batches of songs online and forget about it?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
#52: Worms Armageddon (1999) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Wa-win-cover.jpg http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2001/pc/str/wormsworldparty/wormsworldparty_screen004.jpg Developer:Team17 Publisher:MicroProse Original format:PC Highest position:#5, Dom Passantino
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Didn't vote specifically for Armageddon but hell, it's Worms. I've probably laughed more playing these than any other games, and it's the most fun videogaming with my kids. Except for my daughter thrashing me at Wii Bowling, maybe.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:08 (29 minutes ago) Link
Oh please do not tell me this is about Turtles in Time.
I didn't even have Super Nintendo and it's still my favourite.
― mehlt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
two crude dudes for number 1
― DG, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Just beating out Yie-Ar Kung Fu.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa, what is this rainbow islands game? kawaaiiiiiii!
― phil-two, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
mehlt, the whole poll/thread is about differences of opinion. It's fascinating seeing how different people approach games. But #56??????? NO WAI
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I think we could safely get another good poll out of the worst/most irritating video games.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
#51: Jet Set Radio (2000) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Jgrbox.jpg http://www.ntsc-uk.com/reviews/sdc/JetSetRadio/01.jpg Developer:Smilebit Publisher:Sega Original format:Dreamcast Highest position:#5, stet, Greg Pallis
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Last one of the evening. Next 50 tomorrow. SPOILER: there's a bunch of NES shit on there.
Wonder how much crossover there'd be?
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i found the level 3 vampire the hardest boss in Rainbow Islands - much tougher than any of the subsequent ones. if you didn't have triple rainbow and the red shoe you were fucked.
bullshit reward at the end tho: 'now go play it again and this time collect the jewels in the right order on every island, sucker'
― blueski, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
lol i never even realised you had to collect the jewels in an order!
― Raw Patrick, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Like I said, jewels in the right order is ROCK. I find most bosses on the arcade version want at least double rainbows to beat.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't remember there being that much NES shit on the original list.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
xposts, fair enough.
Either way, this thread + fresh start to <4 months of summer vacation without a job or anything to do. . .
― mehlt, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.retroscene.co.uk/prodimages/c64/m/rainbow-islands.jpg
why is there a cassette tape with this game
also this thread is fucken siccening 2 me
― cankles, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Man. I was top voter on a lot of these, huh? Tho I've probably blown my load at this point. Unless Fallout makes the list (or unless I'm the unlikely highest vote on Monkey Island).
And Casino - FFVII came out when I was 13 and was probably the first kind of massive console JRPG I played. I think I also played Fallout that year, and the two together really stand out in my mind.
― Mordy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah FFVII is a big touchstone for gamers born between 84 and 87 or so
― max, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
in my experience at least
<3 jetset radio, loved the cartoon-type 3d colouring - it's the first game I recall it in. Loved the feel of skating, the grinds and the little speed boosts you could get by bouncing/scraping off vertical surfaces. On the first level you could do an entire loop of grinds and jumps without ever touching the floor and actually skating and i used to just love going round and round and round...
― ledge, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Think it would almost be worth getting a dreamcast again just for that and MSR and chu-chu rocket.
― ledge, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Max. That's pretty deadon IMHO.
― Mordy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Huh - that makes sense actually. I was born in 81 so my peak years of impressionability were just slightly earlier. Funny thing, though, with the exception of Secret of Mana, I hadn't played any of the great 16-bit RPGs by the time FF7 came out, unless you count Shining Force, which is a tactics game and also FUCKING AWESOME. But I didn't play FF7 until I had my own PSX, ie summer of 2000. By that time, I'd caught up on ChronoTrigger and FF6 and so, in a kind of delayed action, I was living out the spirit of '81.
I always loved the look of Jet Set/Grind Radio but never got the chance to play it - did it ever get ported off Dreamcast?
hahha i was singing the chu chu rocket song last night on my walk home!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
But I'd like to flesh out this generational idea more - I guess it depends what really qualifies as a touchstone game. (Our various top tens, maybe?)
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
weirdly, i played tmnt: the arcade game (both in the arcade and on NES) to death but don't think i ever played turtles in time.
― Jordan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
the games i remember most from my most impressionable years (i.e. middle school and first couple years of high school)--goldeneye, FFVII, and super smash bros.
― max, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
and maybe mariokart 64
Mario Kart 64 has been a joy in my life at several different moments - playing it to death with my brother and sister a couple summers after it came out...then again in 03-04 with my roommates and their respective boyfriends and girlfriends. Such a blast.
The most impressionable years games for me from those years (some of which we will hopefully see later on in this poll) - Ultima 7, Ultima Underworld, Civilization, LucasArts games. Slightly later, Duke Nukem 3D... middle school and first couple years of high school are funny for me because it's a period where the NES was sort of in its death throes but except for three games for the Genesis, I didn't have a 16-bit console of my own. PC gaming I was very on top of but the technology slipped completely past me with Quake, and that was it.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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― peter james, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20061208/simcopter.jpg
― peter james, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://minicastle.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/star-fox-64.jpg
― peter james, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pelipaketti.net/kuvat/rogue_spear/rogue_spear_04.jpg
― peter james, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://gen14.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/resident-evil-4-wii-edition-20070517044724284.jpg
― peter james, Sunday, 4 May 2008 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link