What game holds a special place in your heart?

We all have that one game that holds a special place in our hearts. What game is it for you?

For me, it’s Metal Slug. Growing up, every Monday, my parents would drag me to the laundromat after work. As a kid, it was a pretty boring, but I had my toys, origami books, and coloring books to keep me entertained. However, my favorite thing to do was playing the Metal Slug arcade machine with my dad.

My dad was great at the game, and he taught me how to play. Though I improved, I could never keep up. When I’d inevitably die, he’d let me take over his side to let me have a bit more playtime. My favorite part was when he’d share stories from when he lived in another country and would go to the local arcade.

Those moments are cherished memories, and even today, whenever I visit an arcade, Metal Slug is the first game I play, despite still being terrible at it haha

Honorable mention goes to Mario 64, another game that holds a special place in my heart. I got an N64 from a garage sale, and playing Mario 64 while at home, with my mom’s “chore” music in the background ignited my love for gaming

philomory,

I don’t think I could possibly pick just one.

  • Playing Civilzation: Call to Power, together was one of the first shared activities I ever did with the woman who is now my wife.
  • When I was in middle school, my dad made me a text-based game (mildly Roguelike, even, if I recall correctly) set at school centered around going to classes and solving puzzles/collecting school supplies.
  • Years ago, I made a game myself for my then-girlfriend to play that secretly just an elaborate proposal wrapped in a video game.

Honorable mentions would go to Xenogears, Metroid 2, Ur-Quran Masters, and obscurities like Rollin’, Tranquility, and Omega, which collectively ended up defining my taste in games, more or less.

BiggestBulb,
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Wow, I was not expecting to read Civilization: Call to Power in this comment section. There are so few people who even mention the game!

If you're not in there already, there is a Discord for the Call to Power games you should totally join: https://discord.gg/qwe83zjXES

funkless_eck,

Sonic the Hedgehog and Alex Kidd in Miracle World

Super Metroid

Fallout 1 and 2

FF7

Time Crisis

Soul Blade

Quake

Tomb Raider

compact_ravioli,

The Night of the Rabbit by Daedalic was the only video game that made me cry. I never felt like that because of a game ever since.

gaw,

Some Sega Genesis games when i was a kid, Streets of Rage, Sailormoon, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which i have never finished IDK maybe its the game that’s a bit too hard or maybe I’m just too dumb.

Fast Forward to 2009, i played a game called The Mana World. It’s my first and only experience with online game. I made some good friends on and from the game, i think the overall community is very nice and helpful. I got hooked leveling up and reached to level 93 in few months. Unfortunately i have to cut the game because i need to focus on my study. Still its my greatest memories with gaming!

mojo,

Ocarina Time and Kingdom Hearts 2 were really big games that affected me

vivadanang,

Mech Warrior on PC. The first one. Recruit wingmen, salvage mechs, negotiate with those cheap kurita bastards, regain your family’s honor.

16 colors of line-rendered mecha in glorious 386 powered 3d.

Nocuras,

Games that I want my kids to play as soon as they are old enough:

Secret of Mana Ocarina of Time Diablo 2 Minecraft

Thecalicocar,

Crash bandicoot

Grew up playing crash. Helped me connect with my siblings and it is still a comfort game for me despite being hard on players.

Bioshock

I had the wrong perception that fps games were dull and wasn’t good for single player experience until I played bioshock.

Last of Us Had a big impact on me and made me realise writing is an important part in any medium.

Saints Row 2 and 3 I loved saints row because of how much it had to offer with clothes, vehicles and gameplay elements like melee, weapon and ability to taunt. I loved 3rd and liked the tone shift but was slightly disappointed by how much it lacked quality of life features like it’s predecessor.

qyron,

The original Starcraft.

First game I ever bought with my own money. It’s a bargain bin edition I still own to this day, with a bug that prevents one level to be loaded and crashes the game.

Had to discover the cheat codes in a time where the internet was still dial up and not affordable for the average commoner.

Managed to finish the game nonetheless. Made such a great impression in me that cimented my passion for space science fiction.

Still not going to buy Starfield any time soon.

AngryCommieKender,

Check out Mass Recall, if you haven’t already. StarCraft 2 is free, so you can have even more than the full original 6 campaigns with StarCraft 2 mechanics, graphics, and units. Imagine having actual pathing… kinda… mostly.

calypsopub,

Zork

kratoz29,

Ace Attorney trilogy, Hotel Dusk and its sequel and Time Hollow, visual novels are really an underrated genre.

MystikIncarnate,

So many.

Doom, the og, first FPS… we had Wolfenstein 3D before that but it always felt like it was a demo of something to come for me. Doom felt like it stood on its own. I couldn’t play it at home, had to go to a friend’s house to play, for two reasons. 1. I couldn’t run it, and 2. My parents were kinda uptight… they loosened up over the years, but it kept me from a lot of good stuff.

Quake was the next one up really land at least on PC… we had a lab of Pentium computers at school that were all networked with what I now know is called 10Base5 or 10base2 (not sure which)… it was the first “real” network we experienced, and it was great. At the time those premiums were basically brand new, state of the art machines… the teacher was cool enough to let us use the lab to play quake over the lunch hour sometimes… so we had quake LAN parties over lunch.

On PC, there were a lot of greats, but nothing too groundbreaking until half-life… but I’m guessing most people experienced that. I’ll give an honorable mention to unreal and unreal tournament as well (every version). Bluntly, UT was significantly better than quake arena.

We had a short list of consoles over the years. But I have to take my hat off for final Fantasy (either 3 or 6, whatever you want to call it, the one on the SNES)… which I was obsessed with for a while there. We only had three consoles over the years that I recall… the NES, SNES, and genesis. After that, we couldn’t continue to convince my parents to keep buying consoles. I eventually picked up a PlayStation, but that was a long time later.

the16bitgamer,

The Spyro Trilogy. All 3 games are brilliant and technological standouts for the era and has held up very well over the years.

But if we are going weird. Harry Potter 1 + 2 for GBC or PlayStation. They aren’t good games, they are watered down clones of Pokemon and 3d Zelda respectively. But the theming and genera is such a perfect fit that I love them to this day. Plus the Jeremy Soule soundtrack is fantastic.

Pantsofmagic,

The Longest Journey. Wonderful story, great voice acting, beautiful environment.

Whisper06,

Minecraft. I didn’t have the best home life growing up and it was where I was able to escape to.

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