What is your favorite video game?  
Do you like RPG's, or action, mayeb adventure??
What's your favorite system, what do you think about the new CD-ROM systems,
or the new Ultra 64?

48 responses total.

Given that I haven't played any vidio games for over a year now, I think my
favorite is The Secret of Mana (SuperNintendo).  *shrug*

Space Invaders on the Atari 2600.  Doesn't get any better than that.

Solomans Key for the original Nintendo, I still haven't finished it and it
has been 7 years now.

my faves: Phantasy Star II, III, & IV, Gargoyles, Might & Magic, Warlock.
(Genesis)
NEC: D&D Order of the Griffon, Valis Series, Shapeshifter...
I like shooters, RPG's, action/adventure, strategy/simulation. Never much
cared for any of the sports games (except for the Mutant League series).
I don't have a CD-ROM in my 'puter yet, so I can't play all the new games :(
2600 system, definately a classic in my book, I still play it. 
(Don't get me started on Nintendo, I hate Nintendo, ALL of them: 8, 16, 64)

I spent about two years being totally hooked on Donkey Kong back in the
80's.

Oh NO the Atari 2600.....That was back in the days when just about the only
computer sound effect was "BLIP"

I think the last game I played on a dedicated video game machine was "pong".

   Space Harrier.

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ataria is so old, but I give you credit, for not getting into all the new
fango stuff.,

I can remember yearss ago when my cousin got the very first video game,
Pong!  It was slow and black and white but it was cool.  I think he
still has his pong machine somewhere, doubtless it started
gathering dust when the first Atari came out.

Star Raiders.  It still plays well.

Mortal Kombat of course. Then again, when Independence Day comes out for NU64,
I think I'll be addicted tot hat one more!

I agree with you there adam

I never liked video games.  That's probably why I'm not a better 
programmer.  Give me an old-fashioned pinball game, any day.

The neat thing about pong is that people actually bother to put it onto their
TI-85's.  Some one downloaded a version of tetris off the internet and put
that on a TI-85, too.  My comp teacher said that the first versions of Pac-Man
were written in Basic.  To think that they would use basic for something...

Super Marios Bros., the game that came free with Nintendo.  *Great* game, with
good play action, interesting little sub-plots, etc.  I played it for an hour
or two every morning until, after 3-4 months, I could get all the way thru.

Super Mario was a great game, but I stil can't get all the way through!!!

DAMN!!!!

*chuckle*  I beat SuperMario a looooong time ago...several times, in
fact...still, a looong time  ago.

Re: #16- I've seen games programmed into even TI-81's, my roomie came up with
a really neat blackjack program. Hey! I like Basic. (and still use it) :)

Actually, I generally prefer pinball too.

I'm a pinball fan from waaaayyy back. They're spoiling all the
new pinball machines by putting computers in 'em, though.

I don't do arcade games much anymore but was something of an
addict in the early to mid 1980's. Favorites were Ms. Pacman,
Crazy Climber, Elevator Action, Dig Dug, Pole Position, and
Spy Hunter.

As to PC games, I've become addicted to a few but eventually
recovered. :)  Examples include the old "text adventures"
(Colossal Cave, Zork I, the Scott Adams games), Ultima II/IV/V,
Wizardry I, Wizardry VII, and simulations like SimCity and
Civilization. Civ 2 is something of a current fixation.

I had a good friend who had a real pinball machine in his basement.
We spent a lot of time cleaning relay contacts and such to keep it
going.  I enjoyed both playing (for free) and tweeking aspects.

Oh yeah, pinball.  I've been known to cultivate a machine here and there. 
I really don't like the new ones, since the strategy has gotten too
complicated.  I guess I like the late 80's ones the best.  My last fave was
Bride of Pinbot - great game.

I always enjoy a good pinball game  as well...
For those people who ,like pc sim games try Transport Tycoon...
I picked it up on a mark down rack at Best Buy for $4.99 can you believe that
?
It is a good game too...
There is a new one coming out called.."Deadlock"...You can download a working
demo at 3w.accolade.com
It looks like a space version of SimCity, and Civ..combined together..

 The last pinball game I really enjoyed was Playboy. I like the old 50's
pinball machines as well. Nowadays, the angle of the table is way too severe,
and you only get 3 balls as opposed to 5 in the old days. ;)

I guess I'll have to be the heretic and say how much I love
modern pinball games.  Theater of Magic and Attack from Mars
are wonderful, as is The Addams Family.  (One of the few
media-tie-in games I've ever liked, that and Twilight Zone.)
My current new fave is Tales of the Arabian Nights, the
theming is consistent and well-done, and the goofy spinning
lamp in the middle of the playfield is actually fun, yet
provides an extra new challenge.

I think Pinball has became money to to many Pinball owners/operators.  

RE: 26  Playboy, what was that on about?  EEsh!

  like the late 1970s early 1980's. It wasn't really all that bad, and wasn't
that risque

   i was a video arcade junkie for a while in the early eighties. my
favorites were space invaders, zaxxon, tempest, qbert, battle zone and gorf.
i do like a good game of pinball, but most pinball machines these days are
just plain annoying. i'm with robh, addams family and twilight zone are about
the best current pinball machines.

I always loved the pinball machine called "5 Card Stud"...great machine...I
too was an arcade junkie and was delighted to find a shareware version of
Defender on a CD Rom....My greates achievment was Pac-Man (before all the help
books came out) but was also very good at Moon Patrol..Tempest was my favorite
though.

About a year ago, six Williams arcade games were ported to Windows.  They
use the original machine code from the arcade game, run through an emulator.
I think the sound effects are digitized, since they used special sound 
circuits to produce them.  Games I can recall that are included on the
disc are Joust, Defender, Defender II, Robotron 2048, Bubbles, and Sinistar.
They did an amazingly good job of porting the games.  Not having the original
controls makes Sinistar, and to a lesser extent Robotron, a bit too hard,
but I really enjoyed Joust, which supports two-person play.  The graphics,
sound, and play are reproduced exactly.  The six-game package costs about
$35 or so at Egghead.

Microsoft has also published Windows ports of some old Atari arcade games,
including Tempest, Battlezone, Centipede, and Asteroids.  I think they're
interpreting the original machine code in an emulator, too.  However they
did it, the graphics, sound, and play are very exact reproductions.

I think both packages have some speed problems on slower machines, like 
I'd guess Aseteroids needs a Pentium 90 with 16 megs of RAM to play 
smoothly with a lot of asteroids on screen, but they mostly play quite well.

   I tend to go for in-depth epic adventures.  Among my favorites
series are The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Might and Magic.  I
think computer CD-ROMs will, in the end, help this genre more than it will
hurt it.  I think the CD-based game machines are an unfortunate, but not
entirely unexpected, turn of events.  While, on a computer, you can save
your progress, you can't on CD-only systems.  In essence, the game
designers have declared that nobody purchasing their product will have the
brain capacity to complete a game that requires more than one sitting.
   I also go for the occasional tasteful arcade game.  Arknoid, Centipede,
Qix, and Spectre style games are among my favorites.  By tasteful, I mean
no guns, chainsaws, decapitations, blood, etc.  I don't really care much
for Mortal Kombat, Doom, or any of their countless remakes.

Re #32: Funny how something as simple as Asteroids needs that much power to
run under Windows. Speaking of emulators, I just got an Apple ][ emulator for
the PC. Seems to work okay, but I need to figure out how to get it to read
from a disk so I can pull out all those old games.

Re #33: Er, AFAIK, all CD-only systems *do* have ways for you to save your
progress inn a game. NEC has the backup RAM built into the Turbo-CD add on
unit, Sega Saturn uses RAM carts, Sony PlayStation has little RAM cards.
Game backup capability is common on all platforms. Some cartridge-based games
like _Legend of Zelda_, have RAM backup built into the cart. Other methods
like password backup are used as well, but are quite annoying. (And the reason
I first bought a TurboBooster+ for my NEC system.)

<Unknown loves RPG's>

RE: 35 
ME TOO ME TOO!!!!!!

Microsoft also has a second release of 32bit arcade games, they include
Dig Dug, the original Pac Man, Galaxian (always one of my favorites) and
a racing game I can't remember the name of.

The best game of all time is Finaly Fantasy II for Super Nintendo!  It was
awesome!!!!

does anyone like paintball guns

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