Your Favorite Game as a Kid?

[cvga]

1 hour ago, VectorGamer said:

Omega Race on the C64 is really really good

Can't wait for your review lol

[derFunkenstein]

4 hours ago, VectorGamer said:

Omega Race on the C64 is really really good

Didn't realize it was on the C64 too. Definitely have to fire it up!

[+adamchevy]

My favorite game was Spy Hunter.

[derFunkenstein]

16 hours ago, VectorGamer said:

Omega Race on the C64 is really really good

Checked it out via MiSTer last night. It plays alright, but the sound is off compared to what I'm used to on the VIC20. Even graphically it's not as good - in game graphics are identical, but the title screen on the VIC looks cooler.

[Atarian7]

Pac-Man for the Atari 2600

 

I didn't care that it wasn't arcade quality.  I loved playing it and never really noticed how bad the flickering was.

[dj_convoy]

Very little kid, probably a toss up between Dig Dug , Centipede and Pitfall II, all on the mighty 5200.

 

Older kid, Govellius and probably R-Type on the venerable SMS. 

 

 

[mbd30]

I was obsessed with the arcade game Yie Ar Kung Fu as a kid. I played it so much, but I could never beat the last guy. I still can't.

 

[+pboland]

It depends on the time frame.

Our first system was Odyssey2. My favorite game would have been "UFO".

Once I was old enough to walk to the local arcade it was "Yie Ar Kung Fu".

On my SMS it was "Phantasy Star".

Genesis it was "Sword of Vermillion".

[lushgirl_80]

Super Mario World!

 

If there's a game I put the most hours in,it's probably that one. Also loved Gauntlet 2 whenever I saw it in the arcades.

[covertagenda]

3D Monster Maze on the ZX81.

 

Thought it was so amazing at the time.

[+GoldLeader]

I know I should probably answer the question with one game but...

 

In arcades Star Castle, Red Baron, and Astro Blaster...

 

So many for early Atari starting with Space Invaders...I'd later end up with Super Breakout and Yar's Revenge as seemingly all time favorites until it would shift again to Dark Cavern and Midnight Magic...With lots of fond nostalgia for Adventure and Pitfall! despite not owning them, but only borrowing them back in the day...

 

Then for some reason there was a time when all we did was play Omega Race on ColecoVision  (Right before NES came on the scene);  Something to do, perhaps, with my friend's strategy of just shooting the mines while running from the Death Ships.  It should be noted that this strategy will Not work on the arcade game.  Also, this is another one of those early examples where the home version offers up something different, even as we always had wanted absolute arcade perfection...Sometimes the home versions were really fun for different reasons.

[+GoldLeader]

However if I were to pick just one to answer the question,  I'd like to say Deadly Towers for the NES.   Truly,  it'd be a tie with Faxanadu on NES, and some Dragon Warrior thrown in for good measure, because there was a period of time as a college kid (see..."kid"? haha) where we played the Hell out of those games!

 

The only reason I give Deadly Towers a slight edge, is because there seems to be no love for it and despite loving it myself,  some other people don't like it.  All right, many Hate it.   But it's exactly like the thing with E.T. on Atari.  Sure some ROM player with an Everdrive (not hating here, I have one too) is gonna give Deadly Towers 5 seconds before he/she cries mercy and moves on to something else, and even YouTube players (who can "beat it") are rushing through it to show off an ending and are doing it wrong, in my opinion, ...Never soaking up the feel of the adventure, and in fact skipping some of the cool screens with the best music, so they don't die or accidentally fall into a dungeon.  Yeah, it's hard, but I fought through it because I owned it,  and it was fun!... Plus the music and certain screens give a sense of atmosphere missing from many games.  The set pieces are larger and more interesting than those in Zelda and you never lose the ability to throw your sword.  It's weird, especially the first time you just drop into a Dungeon because you stepped in a certain area, or you find a parallel dimension, which is all explained in the instructions which, of course, no ROMHunter bothered to read. 

 

Many have forgotten, but moving up from ColecoVision and Atari to a game like Deadly Towers was mind blowing at the time.  The same type of quantum leap that was playing Galaxian the first time after being used to Space Invaders.   It's in Color!   And the invaders are Diving!!      (I know...It's kinda hard to fathom in today's day and age.  Hell, even I could barely remember that haha!)

 

Anyhow,   Deadly Towers was a pretty cool adventure game on the NES.   People that don't like it are just dumbfuc people I probably like and respect but lightly disagree with from time to time.

 

 

[chuckwalla]

Was a tie between Atari 2600 River Raid and Defender and still love them today.

Edited December 29, 2019 by chuckwalla
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[bluejay]

6 hours ago, chuckwalla said:

Was a tie between Atari 2600 River Raid and Defender and still love them today.

Before I had my real 2600, my favorite game on the Atari FB8 was river raid. But Defender is not really my game.

[homerhomer]

I'm going with Donkey Kong.  Always played it at the arcades and when getting pizza with my family.

It was the console benchmark that showed who could do what. I never had a Coleco but I was really impressed by it's Donkey Kong.  It looked exactly like the arcade game, back in the day. We had a intellivision and it was pretty good on that.  Hell, it's the only video game that I can remember my Dad playing.

I had it for the 2600 somehow.  Even years later, I thought the NES version of donkey Kong was fun. 

 

BTW - this is a fun thread and I'm going to buy Deadly Towers now, LOL.

 

[eddhell]

On 12/18/2019 at 10:48 PM, bluejay said:

 As for me, my uncle gave me a Nintendo DS lite when I was little

that statement made me feel so old I coughed up some dust....

 

Pac-Man and Tempest.  Arcade cabinets, decent home versions did not exist yet.  And no console version of Tempest will ever feel like the arcade controls on the original cabinet.

[+Trebor]

Arcade [Golden Age] - Donkey Kong

Atari 2600 - Masters of the Universe - The Power of He-Man
ColecoVision - Gorf
VIC-20 - Alien
Vectrex - Spike
C64 - Defender of the Crown
Atari 7800 - Joust
NES - Rygar
PC DOS - Starflight

Arcade [Silver Age] - Ghosts 'n Goblins

[bluejay]

3 hours ago, eddhell said:

that statement made me feel so old I coughed up some dust....

Lemme make you cough some more dust:

I got it in 2014, after my uncle had used it for a while.