Your Favorite Video Game Ever - Any Format

Who was the toughest guy on Mike Tyson's Punch Out?

My vote is Super Macho Man -- his spin punch was hard to time, and it had two different versions.

The second Don Flamenco was hard in that it always takes three rounds to knock him out.

Oh yeah, and I didn't like Tempest.

 

Blades of Steel
RBI Baseball
Tecmo Bowl
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Super Dodgeball
NHL '94
Hardball 3 (with Al Michaels doing play-by-play)
Madden '95
Super Mario Bros. 3
Goldeneye

I'd rank them, but I haven't felt this nerdy since I crawled out of my bunker following the Y2K scare.

 

I think I just shed a tear.

 

Blades of Steel. Greatest hockey game ever. Many a night in the dorms were wasted on that awesome game.

Same with the first Doom.

 

-Tecmo Bowl--the one where the Bears had Payton and Gault

-RBI Baseball

-Mario Kart 64: great memories of massive tournaments with the college guys and gals

-Goldeneye 64: Lots of fun. Had a roommate who would play the early flashback level where you have to save the scientists... except he'd hunt them down. Bad days became known as "Scientist Days."

-These days World of Warcraft is a good way to indulge one's inner nerd.

 

1. Goldeneye 64
This game and beer cost me $17,000 in scholarships. It might have been worth it.
2. Resident Evil
Creepiest. Game. Ever. Totally original for its time.
3. Mortal Kombat
Digitized characters, fatalites. (Super Street Fighter would have been here if not for the fatalities.) Hell, I still remember that it was released on a Monday, not a Tuesday. Mortal Monday as it was dubbed.
Honorable mention: NHL '94
"Watch, I'm going to make Gretzky's head bleed."

 

Now HERE is a thread I can sink my teeth into!!

Sweet.

Problem is there are so many damn games that are awesome - it is like where to start?

Old school arcade - Forgotten Worlds

off the chain you and a buddy flying through space/ancient Egypt CONTSANT massive fire and tons of power ups - tremendous!!

Final fight - just pure ass whuppin with weapons and breakaway stuff

Double Dragon

Red Barron - JDV will wreck you in the air

New school arcade flying - Lock On

Basically combat simulator - I crush on that game

computer games - oh gosh how many????

Ultima series - amazing!!!!

Lucas Arts ANYTHING - notably Jedi Knight series, Empire at War/forces of corruption.

F.E.A.R.

Doom - so groundbreaking in so many ways - have to give respect!

Wing Commander/Privateer series - tight

Balders Gate/Never Winter Night series

Wasteland (Com 64) then later Fallout series (TIGHT)

Mule (Com 64)

Hack (Amiga)

Half-Life

Duke Nukem - come get some!!

JDV is an encyclopedia of games

 

I managed to pretty much go cold turkey on video games years ago. In the early 80s we'd get done with class in college at about 3 and go down to the arcade and stay till 11.

Some of the real favorites:
1. Asteroids. If you knew what you were doing you could play forever. I scored over 600,000 once and had extra ships across the top of the screen.
2. Pac-Man. Simply a classic.
3. Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr.

Other classics:
Front Line -- a war game that I didn't see too many places but it was in one of the arcades in my college town and we played it forever. If I could find it online somewhere I'd probably buy it right away.

Pengo
Mappy
Jungle King
Joust

From being totally addicted to all those games I managed to never, ever buy a home video game system. Thank God. Of course, now all those hours that aren't wasted on video games are wasted online either here or playing Addiction Solitaire.

 

The answer is Goldeneye. There is no other correct answer.

I spent pretty much every weekday night playing multiplayer Goldeneye during my freshman year. And weekend nights were spent pregaming playing Goldeneye. One hit kills. If you die, take a drink.

 

Jungle King - Damn, I haven't thought of that game in forever.
That's a classic. Nice, Old Tony.

 

My top 10:

1) Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) --- best game ever, and there's no close second

(Big gap)

2) Worms (PC) ----- Big props to anyone who's ever heard of this
3) Tecmo Super Bowl (Genesis) --- Career record: 6,142,423-1... God damn you Finley...
4) Mario Party, any of 2-8 (N64, Gamecube) --- gotta have friends with this
5) Bases Loaded (Nintendo) --- Oh yeah, Oko, Philly rocked
6) Super Smash Bros. (N64) --- I could whip anybody with any character
7) Mega Man, any of 2-4 (Nintendo) --- My friends and I used to make up our own levels to this game
8 Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii) --- Playing it now, and damn is it good
9) Super Mario Bros. 3 (Nintendo) --- I liked Hammer Bros. Mario
10) Sim City 2000 (PC) --- What the hell is an Arco, anyway?

Honorable mention: NCAA Football 2002 (PS2) -- because Marshall was so good that season
Goldeneye (N64), --- I'm convinced it's impossible without a guide
Super Mario 64 (N64), --- groundbreaking
The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo), --- the one that started it all, and fun, too
Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis), --- he was the epitome of cool
Perfect Dark (N64) --- still my favorite shooter

 

FACE OFF!

Flip the puck! flip the puck! (now rapid passing) flip-flip-flipthe-flip the puck!

Or whatever the hell it said when you passed the puck. That's what it sounded like. I could be wrong.

Also, regarding arcade games:

Tron and Tron Deadly discs were great. Gauntlet, with a group of buddies and a lot of quarters and time (no need for the quarters if you were at one of those admission arcades, like a DisneyQuest or something), was great.

I'll always have a soft spot for the Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back games with the wiry graphics and the steering wheels.