ThanksGaming Month

[Ayen]

I'm gonna break the mold here and say Amiga 500 and sidescrolling shooters + arcade driving games.

I played games like Lotus Turbo Challenge, Silkworm, Test Drive and some F1 game I forgot the name of. I also spent a decent amount of time playing Ducktales on A500, as well as Rick Dangerous. On PC, I mostly played Sim City 2000.

That's awesome. I have the PlayStation port of SimCity 2000, I'm guessing it's better on the PC. Ducktales! That's another one I forgot, though it's probably not the same one since I played on the old computer back when we still had floppy discs. Yes, I'm old enough to know what floppy discs are.

--------------------------------

I neglected some titles from my last post. On the NES side of things I also played Ninja Gaiden, can't remember which one exactly, all I remember is running around in the sewers as a purple ninja, and the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I also played a game where you control a pink thing that shoots things and crawl walls and ceilings. Can't remember the name of it.

Other Genesis games I also played were The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Fatal Fury 2 and some side-scroll space shooter that I'm only vaguely certain was on the Genesis.

After the Genesis we got a Sega Saturn, although I can't remember any games we played for the Saturn. I want to say Battle Arena Toshinden and Virtua Cop, but I'm not 100% on that. Then we got the PlayStation and the first games brought home for them were Tekken 2, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider. They were awesome. I used to be scared just going into a room in Resident Evil and as much as it pains me to admit, I never got past the third level on Tomb Raider. Level three is as far as I've ever gotten on the original Tomb Raider. The puzzles were just... asdf!

[Madame Adequate]

Like Pike and others I've never not played vidya, it's been a part of my life since I was a wee babby and I devote more time to it than anything else. I first played stuff on my dad's PC in the late 80s, and my first own system was an Amstrad CPC (So it's a wonder I grew to love vidya given that! ). On and off over the years I've had a Master System, Mega Drive, PS1, PS2, XBox, 360, Game Gear, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, DS, and 3DS, as well as various gaming PCs - I just built a new one a few months ago actually!

Although I'm not jazzed about the direction mainstream videogames has been going for the last few years, I can't say we're living in a bad time for gaming or anything. Between Steam, GoG, and emulators, I can play damn near anything I'd want to from the past, and it seems a bit jejune to suggest gaming is in a bad place in a time when XCOM, GTAV, The Walking Dead, Arkham City, Dishonored, Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis IV, and so on and so forth all came out recently.

That said these whippersnappers today whose first game was Halo don't know trout about trout and should smurf off and die