Most Important Games in my History
This list is not in order of importance, but in a semi-chronological order (at least the first part), in order of when I played the game.
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First game that was mine (well, shared within family, but still...). We never owned an NES, but we got an SNES the fall it debuted. At the time I liked it because it was Mario on a new system. With 20/20 hindsight, I can appreciate it a little more, but it's definitely not my favorite game that we owned. That would go to either of the next 2 games.
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My family got this for Christmas right after getting the SNES. The sense of speed was amazing for the time. Still have fond memories of this game.
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My favorite game for many years, and still preferred over Mario Kart 64 - not sure what it is, but I just don't like the N64 version as much as the SNES one. Maybe it's the amount of time I've put into the SNES one, plus the younger age I was when I started playing. The SNES one is still fun to this day.
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Never played this on my own computer, but definitely got me hooked on the FPS genre. The "realism" of viewing the game from the character's point of view - it just seemed genius at the time.
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Looked better than Wolfenstein, more weapons, more blood - what more could a 14-year-old boy want?
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The reason to buy an N64 at launch. There were several half days of school that my friends and I would congregate at someone's house and play this until dinner time. Those were some fun times. Obviously, the best Bond game out there - sure, it was the first (at least in a long time), but it set the bar very high. Also was the first good FPS on a console.
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Amazing. My favorite N64 game, by far. Better than GoldenEye in every way. Not sure why it's not remembered as fondly or memorably as GoldenEye. The addition of multiplayer bots was a godsend - I spent hours memorizing the maps while playing alone, massacring sims.
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First game I really remember for its humor. Borrowed this from a friend, did the FULL installation, and LOVED it.
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The Game of the Year version of UT was the first PC game I ever bought for my own computer, and got me started on the road as a PC gamer (not quite fanboy, but preferred platform). Fast-paced, fun weapons, great maps, and since this was the first PC I owned, and had a decent 3D card for the time (ATi Rage 128 Pro), the graphics were a huge leap forward to me.
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This was an alright racing game, but what got me were the graphics. I still remember playing this with my roommate, and we had it set to software rendering. I switched it to the hardware rendering mode, and my eyes popped out! The difference was AMAZING.
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First PC game I received as a gift. Wasn't really interested before I got it, but impressed with the gameplay. I liked the different pace - slow, deliberate, calculated. LOVED setting up ambushes, coordinated attacks on groups of enemies... lots of fun. Got both expansion packs for this game.
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The start of the WWII shooter craze (at least to me), and I still have the fondest memories of this game. The storming of Normandy level is still a lot of fun - often repeated, but never as good.
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Never finished the first game, but LOVE this game. I didn't pick it up until a year after release, but I knew about it's protracted development - I would say "troubled", but the end product is anything but.
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