by terradelu
These aren't necessarily my favorite games as much as they are games that hold a place in my heart for one reason or another. Some of these games are downright bad, but they are of some importance to me. The games are in no particular order... AT ALL. It's a video game scrapbook of sorts. Remembering and writing all this stuff from my life has proven therapeutic, and I would recommend anyone that feels a emotional attachment to gaming make their own list!
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By far one of my favorite games ever. When I was younger I rented this from Blockbuster and played it through in a few days. I returned it and went back a few weeks later to rent it again and they took it out of their inventory. I was CRUSHED. I spent the next several weeks harassing my local Babbages on a daily basis to see if anyone traded one in. FINALLY I found a copy something like 30 miles away at some mom and pop used game store. I BEGGED my Dad to take me there and once he caved I was the happiest kid EVER. I read that strategy guide in the car ride home cover-to-cover. Also, it was a great memory of me and my Dad hanging out.
I was the first of my friends to beat all the Star Road stages, and they all thought I was so awesome... and I felt awesome too... for about two weeks when everyone else beat them too.
My local Blockbuster was having a tournament and if you owned a SNES the game to play was this one. After picking this one up at a Toys R Us I practiced and practiced until I went in to compete. I NAILED it! I beat all the best scores so far and I stayed there to watch the other kids come in and fail one after another to beat my score. Then the last kid to come in (who was a hunchback, not that it's bad or anything, it just sticks out, ya know?) sat down, got all zen and whooped my score. I was so bummed out. Had I won I would have gone to a state competition in central Illinois. Totally lame.
Not only is this game great (duh) but because of this game I will forever know the old number to Nintendo's Hint Hotline. It is just burned in because my buddy and I were trying to find the cape, and everytime you would dial it would be busy. Of course, my friend's phone didn't have redial on it so I would just hang up, and dial again. Over and over and over. The number you ask? 1 (206) 885-7529. I should try dialing it... 12068857529
I went through this wierd phase where any time I was anywhere and saw this cabinet, I would HAVE to get the high score. I never really played this game much until I was 18 or so, but something hit me. I held the high score at my friend's work (Nero's Pizza in Algonquin, IL if you want some good pizza) for a LONG time. But they moved the machine and along with it my score.
No real story here, I just really like this game. The Zombie Island DLC is 50% off so I bought it, pretty stoked about that.
When I was living in Northern California I bought my first HDTV. I was working at Sears at the time and got a GREAT deal. My girlfriend and I planned a trip to San Fransisco (about 4 hours south of where I was) to see Gogol Bordello play, and I thought to myself, "Hey, this is a great chance to stop at a Best Buy and use my Best Buy credit card to buy a PS3. It took a bit of convising but I was able to stop and scoop one up. So the day after we got back I went down to my Gamestop (we had a Gamestop but no fucking Best Buy) and got this for under $20. I have always been a Mac user (I learned Final Cut in college on a Mac and never looked back) so I never really played any modern PC games. Also, until this point I really haven't played any FPS games since Doom. Half-Life 2 blew my socks right off my ass! I played through all the episodes before even TOUCHING Portal. I sat down to play Portal after dinner one night, and kept telling myself "one more room". Yeah, that was a L-O-N-G night.
I feel at this point that if you had a PSOne then this game effected you somehow. I played the SHIT out of this game. This was one of the elite few games that I would fake sick to stay home and play this. I would wake up in the middle of the night, thinking about this game and I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep, so I would pick up my controller and play through the wee morning hours.
The opening cinematic of this game still gives me goosebumps. The music is so good. This game also has my favorite skill system (Junctioning and GFs) in a FF game. This time around, I didn't have to fake sick to play this, I would just ditch my last few classes and some home.
This game really introduced me to the idea that games can be art. I always could see the art in other games, but this one felt like a watercolor storybook the whole time. Really powerful game.