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Your Favorite Video Game Ever - Any Format

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by RokSki, Feb 15, 2007.

  1. Trouser_Buddah

    Trouser_Buddah Active Member

    Ok, did some research to find out the name of my favorite baseball game...

    Baseball Stars for Nintendo (1989). You created your own team, and could increase players' skills by winning exhibitions and making money. Back then I also thought it was cool that players could climb walls in the outfield to rob home runs...

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  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    I've played many video games on old-school and nouveau consoles, from Combat and Kaboom on the Atari 2600 to the 1st-person shooter games on XBox 360.

    But my favorite game, probably always will be because I was the best — I'll take on anyone, anytime, anywhere — is RBI Baseball on Nintendo. I miss that game.
     
  3. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I just finished Castlevania: Curse of Darkness on the XBox.
    Pretty good, but not as good as Castlevanie: Symphony of Night for PS1, possibly the greatest game ever made.
     
  4. Trouser_Buddah

    Trouser_Buddah Active Member

    Oh, and Atari baseball, like most of its early sports games, sucked ass.

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  5. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    They weren't the originals and they weren't the biggest innovators, but nothing says fun like Midway and Williams games from the early 90's. BIG MONEY! BIG PRIZES! IIIIIIIIII LOVE IT!
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    I spent an entire afternoon last week playing Shattered Union on the XBox. It's a war strategy game that has you playing the second U.S. Civil War (with actual weapons like Abrams tanks and Apache choppers). I was getting pissed because I finally became evil enough to earn a nuclear weapon, and I was in the midwest. So I got to nuke Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Yee freakin' ha.

    I'm also digging on Bully. It's amazing how much fun it is to give someone a virtual swirlie.

    As far as old school...
    1) Mike Tyson's Punchout!! No matter how well you know the patterns, how many times you beat Tyson, it just never got old.
    2) Tecmo Super Bowl. Never did realize my dream of winning the super bowl with all 28 teams. Only did it with 15 or 16 before the SNES came out and the NES went into mothballs.
    3) The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game kicked ass. My friends and I spent many an afternoon and an allowance hanging out in a corner of the 7-11 because of that beast.
     
  7. Trouser_Buddah

    Trouser_Buddah Active Member

    On the Turtles Nintendo game, I could never get past the level where you have to swim underwater.... :mad:
     
  8. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    The Atari games didn't suck at the time. They were great.
    We used to obsess over the Atari football, and Activision's Ice Hockey was awesome.
    Of course, then Intellivision came out.
     
  9. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Great fucking machine (was the first one I remember with Magna-Save).

    Some other faves from that era:

    Xenon
    High-Speed Express
    Cheetah (first machine I ever broke a million on)
    and, of course, the massive Middle Earth
     
  10. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Cave Man was a good pinball machine.
    F-14 Tomcat was also a pretty good machine.
     
  11. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Purchase Midway Arcade Treasures, the first one.

    It's what you want.

    It's what every white boy off the lake wants.

    (what movie?)

    As for RBI baseball . . always thought Bases Loaded was superior. I hated how a throw from third to first bounced in RBI. Bases Loaded had the PING! of the bat, and a hilarious announcer.
     
  12. Trouser_Buddah

    Trouser_Buddah Active Member

    A matter of taste...I know Atari was generally good for the time, but I always hated the sports games, even as a video-game know-nothing at 7 years old. Bowling was the only one I cared to play for very long...

    When you had other games like River Raid and Pitfall, the pitiful baseball game didn't really do it for me...
     
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