Your Favorite Game as a Kid?

[bluejay]

What was your favorite game as a kid? Doesn't matter how old it is, what system it was on, or whatever reason you thought it didn't qualify for this thread. As for me, my uncle gave me a Nintendo DS lite when I was little, and I enjoyed playing New SMB on it.

[The Usotsuki]

Dragon Warrior.

[Tales from the Game Room]

"Burgertime" for my Mattel Intellivision.  I still play it to this day!

[+GoldenWheels]

8 bit (XE) Atari Joust as a kid

but if I had a 7800 back then it would have been 7800 Joust....

 

 

[VectorGamer]

Probably Mouse Trap on the ColecoVision.

[digdugnate]

I don't know what one game I'd pick. 😰

 

Is it OK if I give one game for several systems?  I'll keep it to systems I played up to my senior year in high school, lol.

 

Arcade -- Burgertime

TI-99 4/A -- Slymoids

C64 -- Lode Runner

PC (80s) -- The Lurking Horror

PC (90s) -- TIE Fighter

2600 -- River Raid

NES -- Super Mario Bros 2

Game Boy -- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

SNES -- Final Fantasy II US

Genesis -- Streets of Rage 2

[high voltage]

As a kid I had Major Matt Mason, but he had a computer in his Moon Base Space Station. Maybe he had Computer Space on it.

Edited December 23, 2019 by high voltage

[Eltigro]

I'll go with DigDugNate's idea...

 

2600 - River Raid

NES - Castlevania

TurboGrafx-16 - The Legendary Axe

[BydoEmpire]

 

[+cjherr]

Astrocade - The Incredible Wizard

Atari 2600 - Adventure / Circus Atari (tie)

Atari 5200 - K-Razy Shootout

Atari 7800 - Asteroids

Intellivision - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain

Colecovision - Zaxxon

 

Honorable Mentions (mostly Atari 8-bit): Star Raiders, Shamus, Montezuma's Revenge

 

[+wongojack]

Maybe this:

 

Or could'a been this:

[VectorGamer]

OK guess I'll flesh out my original response...

 

Atari 2600: I wanted the console in the first place for Space Invaders so I'll go with that game

 

ColecoVision: my brother bought the CV while he was living in my mom's basement. We used to play the piss out of that console every day I got home from school. And Mouse Trap was probably the game I loved the most. Although we also spent a shitload of time playing DK, DK Jr., Smurf and Carnival.

 

Arcade: gotta go with Galaga since I could just ride my bike to the convenience store with friends and play all the time

 

NES: Super Mario

[bluejay]

I also love SMB3 for the NES for an odd reason. A few years ago, I was looking through some old boxes, and found a GBA. It had this wierd Chinese 38 in 1 cartridge with mostly NES games and a few GBA titles. I used to play a lot of SMB3 on that GBA.

I should also mention Gran Turismo Concept Tokyo-Seoul for the PS2, known as Gran Turismo Concept Tokyo-Geneva in the western world. When I dug up my parents' old PS2 out of our apartment's storage room a many years ago, the cable must have went bad, so it displayed a terrible black and white image, and 1 player races didn't work for some reason, along with a controller. I had to play two player races in B&W until I got it fixed. Ah, the memories.

[+davidcalgary29]

On 12/19/2019 at 9:24 AM, GoldenWheels said:

8 bit (XE) Atari Joust as a kid

but if I had a 7800 back then it would have been 7800 Joust....

 

 

I sure did spend a lot of time with this, along with Pooyan, Jumpman Jr., and Gyruss. It’s still the making of an excellent Saturday afternoon.

[Austin]

Super Mario Bros. 3.

[cvga]

Overall, it's probably Galaga coin-op. There was a little dairy (convenience) store a block away from our house that had a Galaga. We used to go there to wait in line to play it. Lots of fun!

 

2600 - for awhile it was Demon Attack, later is was Ms. Pac-man. I was amazed at how much better it was than pac-man.

Intellivision - Major League Baseball - my best friend and I played this nearly everyday for multiple weeks.

Vic 20 - Scott Adams adventure series

C64 - Jumpman (also Zork)

 

Today - Beamrider

[empsolo]

Megaman 3 on NES

[Shawn]

The cart based era of gaming from my youth:

 

2600 - Smurfs

NES - Super Mario & Duck Hunt

FAMICOM - Super Mario Bros 2(j)

SNES - Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

GENESIS - Sonic The Hedgehog

N64 - Goldeneye

 

[HoshiChiri]

I've spent days trying to answer this question- we got the NES when I was in Kindergarten & a Genesis in 4th grade, but I didn't play very much until middle school- so most of my gaming memories are as a teen, not a kid.

 

I finally figured it out though- I think Streets of Rage is my best answer. I played the snot out of that. I learned to play with my feet so I could get the bad endings becuase my siblings wouldn't play that long (a skill I retained throughout my school years- sadly, as an adult my toes are too big for the buttons.)

[MrMaddog]

Since I had a 2600 as a kid, it would have to be Pitfall because there's so many screens to get through in just 20 minutes.  And that's a lot compared to other games of that era.

 

For the Tandy Color Computer which i also had at time, my favorite computer game was Temple of ROM which had a huge scrolling maze to find all the treasures in.

 

And if teenage adolescence also counts, best game I had on the NES was Super Mario Bros. 3 and on the Atari 8-bit computers Temple of Apshai Triology. Again those games have huge sprawling levels to explore for long periods of time.

Edited December 24, 2019 by MrMaddog

[pablum]

So many great old games. Hard to pick just one. I played the absolute hell out of Street Fighter II back then, so I'll say that one.

[derFunkenstein]

Of the earliest games we had in our house when I was a kid (up to age 12, when I started Jr. High), Omega Race on the VIC20 was my very favorite. Shortly behind it were Jr. Pac-Man, Q-Bert, and Vanguard on the Atari 2600. 

 

When I hit Jr. High I got an NES and the favorites that I played over and over became Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, Super C, and TMNT II. 

[cvga]

3 hours ago, derFunkenstein said:

Omega Race on the VIC20 was my very favorite.

Omega Race was the first cart I bought for my Vic-20. Although it wasn't my favorite (well it was when it was the only cart) I really enjoyed it and played it a ton!

[NE146]

Well.. it always changed didn't it? I liked arcade Space Invaders but by the time something like Star Fire came out, I didn't look back. And for home, I liked 2600 Space Invaders but by the time Demon Attack came out, I never looked at SI again... and the parade continued and continued. 

 

It wasn't until I was much older and nostalgic that I started digging the stuff I liked before again.

 

[VectorGamer]

30 minutes ago, cvga said:

Omega Race was the first cart I bought for my Vic-20. Although it wasn't my favorite (well it was when it was the only cart) I really enjoyed it and played it a ton!

Omega Race on the C64 is really really good