gnemmi, 3 months ago

@gpowerf I grew up on the #Atari2600 and played the hell out of a lot of games, but non of them blew me away in the way that the next gen consoles did .. so.

2. Willow #NES
3. Aladdin #SegaGenesis
4. Zelda ALTTP #Snes
5. F1 #PSOne

... and the undisputed champion ...

1. Quake III Arena #PC

Honorable mentions, because this are the ones I played the most:

• Yar's Revenge #Atari2600
• Haunted House #Atari2600
• Missile Command #Atari2600
• River Raid #Atari2600

gpowerf, 3 months ago

@gnemmi Yar's Revenge is PHENOMENAL! So is River Raid, both are amazing games.

In terms of Zelda the one that most blew me away was Minish Cap. WOW! To this day one of the most memorable games I've played.

gnemmi, 3 months ago

@gpowerf Yar's Revenge is an "out of this world" game. It's impecable no matter where you look it from. Definitely one of the games I play the most in my life 😄

In re Minish Cap, I enjoyed it a lot .. but it didn't blew my mind like ALTTP did when I first popped the game in and turned the #Snes on.

Those are the games the left me in awe ..

Aladdin? I had never seen anything like that! Maybe Rocket Knight's Adventure .. but the animation in Aladdin was so smooth .. the music, the controls ..

sourdust, 3 months ago

@gpowerf "Four games that blew me away when I first played them: and the systems where I experienced them. "

1. Elite - #ZXSpectrum (1985)
2. X-Wing - PC (1993)
3. WipeOut 2097 - #PS1 (1997)
4. Fallout 3 - PC (2010)

#RetroGaming #OldSkool

X-Wing - PC. Cockpit view as an W-Wing blasts a TIE fighter with orange laser bolts.
WipeOut 2097 - PS1. 3rd-person view of futuristic antigrav racecar on an industrial-themed racetrack
Fallout 3 - PC. 3rd-person view of player character in a blue jumpsuit and carrying a drum-magazine submachine gun over her back. She crouches to survey a post-apocalyptic township made of scrap metal and old vehicles.

gnemmi, 3 months ago

@sourdust

#ZXSpectrum the computer I never had and to this day I wish I did 😭 ( I actually never had a computer until 96 or 97 .. a pentium @120 )

Elite: the game I always wanted to play but never crossed my way. Not even the #NES version!

WipeOut 2097 ( was WipeOut XL when it first came out ) was 1 of the 2 games I bought with my #PSOne .. and it was impressive. I almost added it to my list but ultimately didn't because the original Wipeout had me prepared for what was coming.

Solid list!