Your Favorite Video Game Ever - Any Format

Hey, if you had Brook Jacoby at 3rd base it's no wonder the throws bounced. [/ducking IJAG's right hook to the gut]

 

I've had a vision of my corner of Heaven, if the Lord will allow:

A big Putt Putt with a bunch of courses and a gameroom with every decent video game that 1990-1995 produced. Street Fighter II. Mortal Kombat II. Smash TV. NBA Jam. NFL Blitz. A Neo Geo cabinet with Baseball Stars Professional in it. Klax. A row of 80's classics (this MUST include Mr. Do!). A bunch of pinballs. Every day is Super Saturday. The sun is shining, the Color Me Badd is playing, the girls are cute, the hot dogs are hot, the ice cream is cold and Drazen Petrovic just hit the game-winning three on Brad Lohaus's pixelated ass.

To God be the glory.

 

Here's a cheesy one, but one I loved:

The PC version of Dr. J vs Larry Bird, One-on-One. I could spend hours on that game.

I was always a sucker for basketball games, from pre-Double Dribble thru NBA Jam to Run and Gun to NBA Live.

What was great about Double Dribble was when you got into the 'dunk zone' and could just laugh in your opponent's face while your guy did his dunk, and the opponent was helpless. That was always fun.

Always liked the Pop-a-Shot at the arcade, too.

 

"Ghostbusters" was pretty cool, although it was always real deflating at the end if you lost. Because the four ghosts would fly together to make one Stay-Puf man, and he'd crunch a bunch of buildings, and you couldn't do a damn thing.

Whoa. Deja vu.

 

What I loved about Gauntlet was the comments like "The wizard is about to die.'

Not nearly as enjoyable as the Mortal Kombat narrator's glee when you were down to your last hit, but still enjoyable. I used to play Gauntlet all the time on breaks when I worked in a movie theater in northern Cali.

 

Pitfall, Centipede, any of the Super Mario Brothers video games, and the Legend of Zelda.

 

Pitfall was a great game. It seemed like the first home game that had a little bit of an edge to it, instead of just blowing things up (Combat) or hitting things back and forth (Pong).

It just brought something new to the table for home consoles. I can still see the advertisements for the game in my head.

 

I can still remember the first time I saw an arcade Mortal Combat machine. The Ground Round....must've been my 15th birthday dinner...dude was playing with Sub-Zero and ripped the guy's spine out and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I learned how to play that game just to do that one stinkin' move, and it's about the only one I remember to this day.
Forward, down, forward, high punch. Pop a top of vertebrae.

 

On the PC:

Panzer General -- God I loved this game. I'd play it over and over and over trying to get all the moves down just right to capture every city and country as fast as possible.

Civ I and Civ II. I played III and IV a ton too, but neither wasted quite as much time as the first two.

I had this shitty Civil War game, like "America's Civil War" or something, for the PC way back in the day right after we got a computer nice enough run a lot of games, like maybe 92-94. Anyway, for some reason the game wouldn't save and my family used the computer every day, so I couldn't just leave it on. Well, I'd wasted $50 on it, so I used to stay up nearly all night trying to win the Civil War without turning the computer off. Pissed my parents off to no end ...

Aces over Europe was another great game from my initial computer days.

As someone pointed out, Duke Nuke'em kicked ass. Those shitty, blocky boobs were a big deal to me at that age. I heard just a few days ago that they were STILLLLLLL working on a sequel.

I also played the shit out of Command and Conquer: Red Alert, though that was a little later.

 

I've got this game. Haven't played it in a while. One of the first NES games where the players can dive.

I believe it has an all-girl team in short skirts, just like "A League of Their Own"

 

Hell, I've got that game, too. I used to keep stats, and of course, win 10-0 by run-rule. I absolutely loved Bret Saberhagen's sidearm pitch. Had a lot of no-hitters that way.

The pitchers could bunt for a triple if you played it right.

Good times. Haven't got them out since I bought my kids a PS2 for Christmas.

 

Kind of a weird entry, I know, but I still have fond memories of playing Sim City on my Super Nintendo.

Oh, what's that? You feel I've raised taxes too high? Well, I'll just throw a few tornadoes and an earthquake on you, and we'll see if your attitude's better.