Your Favorite Video Game Ever - Any Format

In addition to the much-loved Tecmo Super Bowl, I'd like to add Double Dribble to the list.

Not only was it the first game that accurately reproduced the Hydra-Rib basketball goals, I felt like Rex Chapman every time I let loose a 3 from that specific spot on the wing.

 

More of an old-school pinball fan, which meant I loved the "Wizard" and "Captain Fantastic" games, along with "300". I never really got into the over-the-top, spastic machines, largely because as time went on, the price went up to 50 cents and the amount of balls went from 5 to 3.

Used to have the old Williams game "Gulfstream" in my apartment. Now, I want to buy a pinball machine.

 

I forgot Space Invaders which was another pinball machine I loved.

Like Birdscribe, I grew up on the KISS, Playboy, Captain Fantastic and Bobby Orr (yes, there was one) machines. A buddy of mine bought an old Wizard machine and did a beautiful job in restoring it. Wasted many hours in his basement playing that thing.

 

1. FIFA '98.
I loved taking Tonga through World Cup qualifying and going crazy playing Brazil in the World Cup. Such a great game.

2. Tecmo Super Bowl
It kept track of punting average. What else needs to be said?

3. The Legend of Zelda.
The first game I would stay up all night to play. Probably never would have solved it had it not been for a few tips in Nintendo Power.

4. Mortal Kombat.
Nothing helped a rotten day more than being Johnny Cage and knocking Sub-Zero's head off his body. FATALITY!

5. Nintento Ice Hockey.
The Cold War wasn't over yet! USA vs. USSR baby! Free for all fights! Shootouts! Empty-net overtimes! Crowd doing wild in final minute of one-goal game!

 

Before I forget, the Journey video game was awesome. I'd spend hours on end in the Sahara casino in Vegas as a kid killing bad guys with Steve Perry's microphone and Neal Schon's guitar while "Don't Stop Believing" played. Good good times.

Someone else mentioned Pitfall, and that was great on Atari, especially jumping over the crocs.

Super Mario Bros on Nintendo was cool, but everytime I'd go underground into the water I could never get back to land.

The arcade version of Centipede and/or Millipede was cool, but I'd always cut up the underside of my fingers with that rolling ball.

1942 was way cool in the arcade, so was Jungle Hunt.

 

Some people look down their noses at it, but I had great fun with Game Genie, especially in the Mario games. There's no way I would have seen some of the cool stuff in some of the worlds if I hadn't had, say, unlimited flight.

 

Pirates! on a C64.

It's been updated and released for PCs recently, I'm hoping it comes out for Mac.

 

-- Pitfall
-- Xaxxon
-- Tyson
-- RBI Baseball

 

It's been out for original Xbox too (not sure if they have a 360 version).

 

Unless I read too fast, nobody's mentioned this yet... I always loved being able to stretch a single into a double and all the inside the park homers I could hit if I got a fast runner.

 

I also can't believe nobody's mentioned one of my favorite arcade games yet:

 

Paperboy has to be in my top 10. What a fun game.