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
http://www.wargamer.com/articles/y2k_awards/aoe2-2.jpg
― 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
stop that
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
people with worst top votes: Mordechai Shinefield Lois Jagger HI DERE (tentative)
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
RONG.
― Mordy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Catsup is just jealous that Aeris never wanted to hook up with him.
― Mordy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
uh to this: Catsup is just jealous that Aeris never wanted to hook up with him.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
FFVII, at the end of the day, was a big bag of dicks.
http://ff.munkyisland.com/images/ff7/aeris_tifa_yuffie2.jpg
This kind of thing also a part of my cold distance from FF7.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
in terms of aeris hooking up with Catsup, i mean.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
-- HI DERE, Sunday, May 4, 2008 2:57 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
OTM. I think we have like identical tastes for games.
― bnw, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d70/McDagger041/SephirothAeris.jpg
― Mordy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I always thought it was total bullshit when people actually FOR REAL, DRAMATICALLY died in those games, given that every five minutes you bring party members back from the dead with potions they sell at the corner store!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Phoenix Downs aren't the answer to everything. :(
― Mordy, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Shit I forgot to vote in this. Oh well.
― Trayce, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
later FF games have the among the most boring combat systems ever.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't believe I missed this whole thing until now. Thought it was a resurrected thread.
why is there a cassette tape with this game So young, so young...
― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 4 May 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i really wanted to vote in this, but every time i thought about it i got really lazy.
― Creeztophair, Sunday, 4 May 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't vote in this since my board participation has been way down lately thanks to non-desk-job, and I'm the guy who started up the game subboard. More of you need to visit ILG.
Also, the fact that Grim Fandango and Planescape are so far low on the list means that it has issues.
― kingfish, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I daresay that ILG has not been as fun as it once was, with Gzeus and Darramous not around. I gave Tombot mod privs specifically to fuck with those two, and much entertainment resulted.
― kingfish, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
For what it's worth, my faves:
Ultima IV/V/VII Grim Fandango Planescape: Torment Baldur's Gate 2 Gyruss Legend of Zelda / Link to the Past / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Jet Grind Radio Tie Fighter/Xwing Bionic Commando Rez Psychonauts Civ 1 / 2 / 4 NHL 94 (whatever the last year they had fighting) Earthbound Monkey Island 1 / 2 Fallout 1 / 2
― kingfish, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link
This is my mantra.
Kingfish I think the list gains some interesting perspectives from being on ILE. I'm gonna end up disagreeing with three quarters of it, but that's the point of polls really. I'm confident some of today's placing are gonna be COMPLETELY EFFING NUTS.
Third point, Britishes: the NES never really did any serious business over here, did it?
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Kingfish I think the list gains some interesting perspectives from being on ILE.
I agree. I just wish we could go back to having bookmarked boards as I personally found that that feature far better facilitated board-surfing than the current set-up.
― kingfish, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I just use site new answers 99 percent of the time now, but it does affect how you use ILX.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
why is there a cassette tape with this game
-- cankles, Sunday, 4 May 2008 00:38 (8 hours ago) Link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Commodore-Datassette.jpg
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link
people calling each other out for being bigger nerds on the
oh fuck it I'll have more fun with the end of that sentence tomorrow
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 4 May 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
http://retrograde.trustno1.org/pics/WIZ1_1.GIF http://retrograde.trustno1.org/pics/WIZ1_2.GIF
This was the first home game to really suck me in deeply. Wizardry also was the first fantasy RPG computer game to use mock 3d graphics.
It's still fun too.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 4 May 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
If Trayce forgot to vote, were there any other girls aside from me who voted? Not saying that it'd have any impact on the results (I highly doubt that it would, tbh), just interested as the thread is entirely male.
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 May 2008 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm just as god made me, ma'am.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 May 2008 10:56 (sixteen years ago) link
#51: Gran Turismo series (1997-) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Gran_Turismo_4.jpg http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/ps2/granturismo3/gt3_0322_screen001.jpg Developer:Polyphony Digital Publisher:Sony Computer Entertainment Original format:PlayStation Highest position:#5, Upt0eleven
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
*#50, not #51
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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'
Hell yeah. I remember what a dissappointment this was after weeks, if not months, of playing this game with my friends, and when we finally, finally make it through the last level, then we get this message?! Did anyone actually complete the game properly?
Still, alongside Mario 3 it's one of the greatest platform games ever.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
#49: Chuckie Egg (1983) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Electron_Chuckie_Egg_inlay.jpg http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/screenshots/chuckie-egg1.gif Developer:A&F Software Publisher:A&F Software Original format:ZX Spectrum Highest position:#2, Thomas, Raw Patrick
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
now there's one of the greatest platformers ever
― ledge, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought pretty hard about voting for Jet Set Radio #1, actually - in the I put it behind four games that I enjoyed less, loved less, but thought were 'better' in some way.
Things I love about it: it hits this amazing blend between allowing mad improvisation and being really really hard, loads of learning-by-dying that gets you free to make it up and feel so fly? The soundtrack! From the radio station to the voice that says "Mmmmembers of the golden rhino" on the last level & is the best sound in videogames. The stages on the American version, with cube and combo and that grind square level and the park where you could do that insane 200-plus combo across the whole zone. The way, like GTA, it changes the whole way you look at a city when you blink into daylight.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
It's the best and last and most Sega game ever.
#48: Marble Madness (1984) http://www.gamechoiceclub.com/image/md_g_marble_mads.gif http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/Images/Screenshots_OSX/MarbleMadness.png Developer:Atari Games Publisher:Atari Games Original format:Arcade Highest position:
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
No highest position?
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
#1, Zach Scott. I've not got back into the rhythm of this thing yet.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I have... 5? games on here so far.
Marble Madness was the SHIT. Remember when the soundtrack mp3s were posted on ILM several years ago?
― HI DERE, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
#47: Pac-Man (1980) http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/pacman.jpg http://www.pocketpcmag.com/newsl_NPR/images_05_05/5770-PAC-MAN.jpg Developer:Namco Publisher:Namco Original format:Arcade Highest position:#2, Alex In Baltimore
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
love the Pacmania graphics http://games.mattsarrel.com/images/PAC-MANIA.jpg
but it just wasn't the same somehow
i got to play Pacman on a topdown system in the Northwood Hills pub (Elton's first gig) in the mid 80s. g'times.
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
also fond memories of Commodore 16 Pacman clone 'Exorcist'
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link