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Golden guns....Aztec temple. I had all the respawn points memorized. As soon as someone died I had time to sprint to the next spawn point and shoot them before they could react. After a little while a few kids flat out refused to play that level with me
Halo. A bunch of us from high school still call each other our “gamertags” when we see each other. Even if it’s been a decade or more.
Dudes were setting up LAN parties, then we got the Xbox modem and everyone got online to play after school/sports/work.
A lot of games were popular, but in my high school it seemed like everyone played Halo.
I remember thinking how dumb the Xbox seemed when it came out, then I played 4v4 Halo over LAN at a friend’s house, and I then bought an Xbox that same weekend so we could play 6v6. Not optimal having two teams on one screen, but 6v6 CTF at Blood Gulch was just mind blowing - nothing came close to that gaming experience up until then. 3 paychecks down the drain on console plus controllers, but money well spent 💸💸💸
My best friend passed a few years ago. His tag was crumblypoopies. I remember him using that for his MySpace and Facebook username for many years haha.
One of the greatest moments of my early teen years was attending a LAN party where we had 4 boxes with 16 people in game, all in the same house, playing 8v8 capture the flag.
This! Halo CE co-op was a life-changing experience for me, then Halo 3 I played online with high school buddies just about every damn day after school. Peak multiplayer experience nothing has ever come close to those golden days
The LAN parties were incredible. We used to run a cable from my living room TV to a smaller TV and play 2v2 Halo 2. Lockout or Midship.
I even threw a $20 tournament in my house one time.
splinter cell was freaking sick. Halo 2. Had a lot of fun with Ocarina of Time and the Wind Waker. Luigi's Mansion.
there were a lot of fun games when I played from like 97-2010
No Half-Life enjoyers? Between Opposing Force Death Match, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat and CS 1.6 I burned a lot of my life in those mods.
Also Unreal Tournament low grav/instagib CTF/
NES: Mario 3
SNES: Zelda LTTP
Sega Genesis: Sonic 2
N64: Zelda OOT or GoldenEye
PS1: FF7
PS2: FFX
XBox 1: TES Oblivion
PC: Vanilla wow, honorable mention to Starcraft and Halflife
Man this game was hard. I remember me and my brother trying to beat the jack-in-a-box boss for hours before I (the younger one) finally did it as a fluke. Felt like the cats pyjamas for a long time after that.
HE'S THE LEADER OF THE BUNCH
YOU KNOW HIM WELL
HE'S FINALLY BACK
TO KICK! SOME! TAIL!
HE'S BIGGER, FASTER, AND STRONGER TOO
HE'S THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE D! K! CREW! HUH!
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. Specifically 2 and 3
*Bass! How low can you go?*
*Death row, what a brother knows*
*Once again, back is the incredible*
*The rhyme animal*
*The uncannable D, Public Enemy Number One*
Yes! The original F.E.A.R. is still the best shooter to this day. The soundtrack and combat mechanics are just perfect. And even the graphics still looks somewhat decent. It is probably the only old game I was able to replay many years later without getting bored.
That is far and away the best one, and then I would say Generals in second place. Of course given my name here I also enjoy the first one, those were some great cutscenes.
NES- Operation Wolf, Excitebike, Rampage
Sega Genesis- Road Rash, Mortal Kombat, Earthworm Jim
Sega Saturn- Virtua Cop, Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3D
PC: Warcraft 2, Age of Empires, MS Combat Flight Sim
PS1- Tenchu, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Gran Turismo 2, Final Fantasy Tactics
Single player: I left a lot of hours on GTA Vice City, Age of Mythology, KotOR and Dungeon Siege
Multi player: Left half of my life on CS 1.6, Dota and WoW
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I can still hear the bonus room music
NES DuckTales, bloody thing was impossible. Found my youngest playing a modern version of reminicent it on her Kindle Fire. LOL. I think I impressed her with my skills.
For me it came in spurts of gaming discovery.
1. First nes when I was 8 years old in '89. And playing Mario endlessly.
2. 1993 and the discovery of rpg games final Fantasy and DW 1,2 and especially 3 and 4.
3. First computer in 95 and playing doom, and soon after diablo 1
4. Encountering rts games, age of empires, Command and conquer 2, and starcraft/Warcraft
5. 1999 and diablo 2 which I played soooo much... And paid for part of my university by making d2 bots and running a d2 online store for items.... Lol... till moving to wow vanilla in 2004.
Donkey Kong Country was the first game I ever played, love it to this day! Though the bee level where it chased you is still a no go for me.
Close second would be OG Resident Evil 2 after I got a little older.
*The* most iconic to me personally or to the greater zeitgeist?
If the latter, then probably Super Mario Bros. for the NES. To me personally? Tough to say. I played a lot of PC games growing up.
Like the MS-DOS Mega Man games, Myst, Doom, Decent, Unreal Tournament... Minesweeper, Solitaire. Those are all iconic in their own way.
Battlefield 2. 1942 got me into gaming, 2 got me into the whole gaming culture. Wound up as a moderator on a BF2 community page. I think the forum for it is actually still active with a few of the stalwarts still chatting every now and then. Not long 'till it hits 20 years.
I have to ask, what is the game op posted? I didn't have access to a lot when I was a kid but this looks cool and id like to try it.
Mine would be runescape, it was the first of it's kind I ever came across, all I needed was internet. I lost my og account but still play classic.
Sonic, then Goldeneye, then Perfect Dark, and later, Halo: Combat Evolved.
I've spent hours with friends in split screen multi-player on both. The memory of booting them both up and the menu music gives me chills to this day.
Fifa 98. Flight Simulator 98. Quake. NFS Hot Pursuit. 3DFX Voodoo was such a game changer and I cannot forget the visuals once after I installed the card.
While my NES and SNES were played way into the 64-bit generation and beyond, I was mainly a PC gamer. The iconic games for me were:
RTC
Red Alert
Motocross Madness
As a kid, A Link to the Past
Too many to count really, kingdom hearts right when I graduated high school was a mindblower, halo two Xbox lan parties were incredible, and as others have said vanilla WOW was perfect.
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 My all time favourite game
With n64 was released I didn't think graphics could get any better than this lol
Same, I remember thinking "well, we're in 3D now, that's the end".
Woahhhhhhwwwwwwahhhhhhh! Let’s’aGo!!!
I loved Mario! Paper Mario and Dr. Mario mostly but this one I never got to finish since someone broke into our house while we were on vacation :(
Pokemon Red and Blue
This and only this. Pokemon is the highest grossing media franchise OF ALL TIME.
Missingno blew my mind
And my battery. Worth tho.
Ha ha omg - I remember that and the glitch to the candy or something? To get to level 99’s.
You could duplicate any item. Candies and master balls were common
Grinding to get fly so you can exploit the rare candy glitch 😉👌
FIIIINE, since nobody’s gonna say it I will: GoldenEye
Camping with the rocket launcher is a legitimate strategy.
Proxy mines and slap chops only
PvP Egyptian, slaps only. .... I call Oddjob .. YOU SONUVA- *Mom intervenes*
We had a no Oddjob rule
We would randomly select and if you got oddjob you had to do it again. He had such an advantage in a game where then a small advantages does wonders
Yet somehow someone always "forgot"...
NO ODDJOB!
Proxy mines were so fun on multiplayer to get peek a boo kills lol
I used to watch my Dad and older brother play GoldenEye all the time, I was jealous because they never let me have a turn lol.
That and Perfect Dark were my jams all Jr. High
I didn't think they could make Goldeneye better but they sure did. I've yet to see another FPS as perfect as Perfect Dark.
This is the correct answer.
Golden guns....Aztec temple. I had all the respawn points memorized. As soon as someone died I had time to sprint to the next spawn point and shoot them before they could react. After a little while a few kids flat out refused to play that level with me
No Oddjob
Yes
Metal Gear Solid 2 is up there for sure. It was the first game I bought. I just replayed it on Switch. 10/10 game.
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Such a tragic story. How Fox lost his father to that gambling addiction.
TRY A SOMERSAULT!
Do a barrel roll!
You annoying little fly.
Annoying bird, I am the great Leon!
KNOCK IT OFF FOX!!!
Hey EINSTEIN, I’m on your side!
Halo. A bunch of us from high school still call each other our “gamertags” when we see each other. Even if it’s been a decade or more. Dudes were setting up LAN parties, then we got the Xbox modem and everyone got online to play after school/sports/work. A lot of games were popular, but in my high school it seemed like everyone played Halo.
I remember thinking how dumb the Xbox seemed when it came out, then I played 4v4 Halo over LAN at a friend’s house, and I then bought an Xbox that same weekend so we could play 6v6. Not optimal having two teams on one screen, but 6v6 CTF at Blood Gulch was just mind blowing - nothing came close to that gaming experience up until then. 3 paychecks down the drain on console plus controllers, but money well spent 💸💸💸
XxJiveTurkeyxX was my tag haha
My husband, Peenipples, would probably love that lol
My best friend passed a few years ago. His tag was crumblypoopies. I remember him using that for his MySpace and Facebook username for many years haha.
One of the greatest moments of my early teen years was attending a LAN party where we had 4 boxes with 16 people in game, all in the same house, playing 8v8 capture the flag.
A friend of mine still goes by "Clubby" to this day, after being assigned it as a random name on Halo multi-player.
This! Halo CE co-op was a life-changing experience for me, then Halo 3 I played online with high school buddies just about every damn day after school. Peak multiplayer experience nothing has ever come close to those golden days
Halo was huge in my group as well.
I literally bought an Xbox and Halo on a whim today. I was always a Nintendo guy so it was always friends with the Xbox. What a treat to be a grownup
The LAN parties were incredible. We used to run a cable from my living room TV to a smaller TV and play 2v2 Halo 2. Lockout or Midship. I even threw a $20 tournament in my house one time.
splinter cell was freaking sick. Halo 2. Had a lot of fun with Ocarina of Time and the Wind Waker. Luigi's Mansion. there were a lot of fun games when I played from like 97-2010
 Currently replaying Goldeneye on the Switch.
# WHOA!
No Oddjob!
Spyro, Pokémon, Crash Bandicoot, Twisted Metal.
No Half-Life enjoyers? Between Opposing Force Death Match, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat and CS 1.6 I burned a lot of my life in those mods. Also Unreal Tournament low grav/instagib CTF/
DUN DUN DUN DUN *(rwhree dee whree dee whree dee DEE dee)* DUN DUN DUN DUN *EST-ANS INTERIUS* *IRA VEHMENTI* *SEPHIROTH!*
Plays in my head perfectly like it's coming from a speaker
Hell yeah
Depends on what era: NES: Zelda 1 SNES: Super Mario World 3 PS: FF7 PC - pre internet: Doom PC - post internet: WoW vanilla
I think you’re getting Super Mario Bros 3 (NES) and Super Mario World (SNES) confused.
SNES should be Zelda.
Wow vanilla was something else, those first 30 levels were an adventure.
FF7 was a life-changing experience back in 1997.
NES: Mario 3 SNES: Zelda LTTP Sega Genesis: Sonic 2 N64: Zelda OOT or GoldenEye PS1: FF7 PS2: FFX XBox 1: TES Oblivion PC: Vanilla wow, honorable mention to Starcraft and Halflife
Oh man I remember playing the OG Warcraft (1-3) on PC before the internet
Diablo II or Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Zelda gaaaaang
Bought an n64 controller for the switch just for ocarina of time
Join my army of the dead
Age of Empires II
For sure. Fable second for me.
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Man this game was hard. I remember me and my brother trying to beat the jack-in-a-box boss for hours before I (the younger one) finally did it as a fluke. Felt like the cats pyjamas for a long time after that.
I cannot wait until they port this for the switch
HE'S THE LEADER OF THE BUNCH YOU KNOW HIM WELL HE'S FINALLY BACK TO KICK! SOME! TAIL! HE'S BIGGER, FASTER, AND STRONGER TOO HE'S THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE D! K! CREW! HUH!
Age of Empires. My love for strategy games was born the moment I convinced my mother to buy it for me.
Resident Evil 2
StarCraft
Hey sarge, looks like you smashed some poor feller’s dog I’sa zergling, Lester! He wouldn’t be out this far unless…OH SHIT.
https://preview.redd.it/hk6y6vc9tz9d1.jpeg?width=581&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12177203786a4b988a1276d8c286484bf1b1e282 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. Specifically 2 and 3
*Bass! How low can you go?* *Death row, what a brother knows* *Once again, back is the incredible* *The rhyme animal* *The uncannable D, Public Enemy Number One*
THUG was great too.
Yes!!
This is way too low :)
chrono trigger. without a doubt.
For me it's Metal Gear Solid 1 but damn 2 is great! 
Psycho Mantis? Second floor basement?
Remember looking on the back of the CD case? To find the frequency…. A Hind D? Colonel, what’s a Russian gunship doing here? 😂
DOOM Final Fantasy Tactics The OG RE trilogy Heroes of Might and Magic 2/3
elder Millennial?
Eldest Millennial...'82
Heroes 2. Didn't expect to see anyone mention that one.
Starsiege Tribes
Wow starsiege yes
https://playt1.com/
SkiFree. In my restless dreams, I still believe I can outrun the abominable snow monster.
Mario 64!
My youth? Myst. My young adulthood was 100% F.E.A.R.
Myst! Yes!!
Yes! The original F.E.A.R. is still the best shooter to this day. The soundtrack and combat mechanics are just perfect. And even the graphics still looks somewhat decent. It is probably the only old game I was able to replay many years later without getting bored.
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 on PC is a game I could play to this day and not get bored. It's a shame the servers went down many years ago.
I love all the C&C games. Really liked Tiberian Sun
Getting a full LAN party together felt like magic was possible.
Hell march still plays in my head randomly
That is far and away the best one, and then I would say Generals in second place. Of course given my name here I also enjoy the first one, those were some great cutscenes.
This is the only game my dad still plays
Pokemon, Harvest Moon, Sims.
NES- Operation Wolf, Excitebike, Rampage Sega Genesis- Road Rash, Mortal Kombat, Earthworm Jim Sega Saturn- Virtua Cop, Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3D PC: Warcraft 2, Age of Empires, MS Combat Flight Sim PS1- Tenchu, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Gran Turismo 2, Final Fantasy Tactics
Half life
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this? Stepping through that teleporter to xen blew my mind.
Pokémon for sure. Final Fantasy 7 was huge for myself/a certain segment of the millennial population,
Ocarina of Time Going back further, Super Mario Bros. 3
Halo Super smash bros
Runescape
30 years old and still playing classic
Smash bros melee
Pokémon yellow, GTA vice city, elders scrolls oblivion, fallout new Vegas…the list is actually quite long
Pokemon Yellow, Final Fantasy X, Starcraft.
Single player: I left a lot of hours on GTA Vice City, Age of Mythology, KotOR and Dungeon Siege Multi player: Left half of my life on CS 1.6, Dota and WoW
Halo 1-3, Gears of War 1-2, GTA Vice City and San Andreas, Pokemon
https://preview.redd.it/ld69ygphgz9d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d58e6de0d83956def3191be08bb821df0c437a70 I can still hear the bonus room music
NES DuckTales, bloody thing was impossible. Found my youngest playing a modern version of reminicent it on her Kindle Fire. LOL. I think I impressed her with my skills.
Nights into Dreams
Chrono Trigger
For me it came in spurts of gaming discovery. 1. First nes when I was 8 years old in '89. And playing Mario endlessly. 2. 1993 and the discovery of rpg games final Fantasy and DW 1,2 and especially 3 and 4. 3. First computer in 95 and playing doom, and soon after diablo 1 4. Encountering rts games, age of empires, Command and conquer 2, and starcraft/Warcraft 5. 1999 and diablo 2 which I played soooo much... And paid for part of my university by making d2 bots and running a d2 online store for items.... Lol... till moving to wow vanilla in 2004.
N64: Goldeneye Xbox: Halo PS2: God of War Xbox 360: Modern Warfare or Halo 2 PS3: Last of Us
La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo?!
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX
 Donkey Kong Country was the first game I ever played, love it to this day! Though the bee level where it chased you is still a no go for me. Close second would be OG Resident Evil 2 after I got a little older.
 My favourite game ever. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Halo 2, Gears of War, Legend of Zelda, every Mario, and Conkers Live and reloaded.
Final Fantasy 7s graphics. Super Mario 64 for the solo gameplay. Mario Kart 64\Party for sleepovers.
*The* most iconic to me personally or to the greater zeitgeist? If the latter, then probably Super Mario Bros. for the NES. To me personally? Tough to say. I played a lot of PC games growing up. Like the MS-DOS Mega Man games, Myst, Doom, Decent, Unreal Tournament... Minesweeper, Solitaire. Those are all iconic in their own way.
Eternal Darkness.
I wish I still had that game, I am interested in replaying it.
Mario/Zelda
I still remember seeing the first peek at Super Mario World on SNES and how amazing it looked.
Ocarina of time or gta 3
Blood omen: legacy of cain
The intro from MGS: Metal Gear (PS1)
MGS1 Mortal Kombat Armored Core Resident Evil 2 FFVIII
Command and Conquer Red Alert 1 and 2!
Chrono trigger on snes
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Shining Force 2
CounterStrike
Diablo.
Excellent choice OP!
Battlefield 2. 1942 got me into gaming, 2 got me into the whole gaming culture. Wound up as a moderator on a BF2 community page. I think the forum for it is actually still active with a few of the stalwarts still chatting every now and then. Not long 'till it hits 20 years.
Conkers Bad Fur Day.
Conker's bad fur day
 Chex Quest.
Tibia
Pokemon Yellow and BattleTanx
I have to ask, what is the game op posted? I didn't have access to a lot when I was a kid but this looks cool and id like to try it. Mine would be runescape, it was the first of it's kind I ever came across, all I needed was internet. I lost my og account but still play classic.
Pokemon Gold. Or Pokemon Blue/Red.
Tony hawk pro skater for ps1, but not the actual game I'm talking about the demo that came free from pizza hut.
Sonic, then Goldeneye, then Perfect Dark, and later, Halo: Combat Evolved. I've spent hours with friends in split screen multi-player on both. The memory of booting them both up and the menu music gives me chills to this day.
Resident Evil 4. I bought a GameCube just to play it. Beat it 20 times in one year.
Metal Gear Solid
Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse ftw
Legend of Legaia, FF9, Crash Bash, Diablo 2
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Halo 3
Lol Spyro, SimAnt and Myst.
Starfox and Mario Kart, then Halo
TI-83 snakes
metal gear. but the first one will forever be MONKEY ISLAND.
Original Tetris on a Mac! With all the floppy disks! Also Nintendo 64: Mario Cart and Goldeneye
Goldeneye. Done
MGS1,2,3; GTA: San Andreas; Red Dead Redemption.
Fifa 98. Flight Simulator 98. Quake. NFS Hot Pursuit. 3DFX Voodoo was such a game changer and I cannot forget the visuals once after I installed the card.
It's world of warcraft and nothing else
Ocarina of Time
While my NES and SNES were played way into the 64-bit generation and beyond, I was mainly a PC gamer. The iconic games for me were: RTC Red Alert Motocross Madness
EarthBound
Ocarina of time by a country mile
Halo, Goldeneye, Super Mario 64, Shadows of the Empire
As a kid, A Link to the Past Too many to count really, kingdom hearts right when I graduated high school was a mindblower, halo two Xbox lan parties were incredible, and as others have said vanilla WOW was perfect.
Runescape
Ocarina of Time of course.
DOOM, Wolfenstein, and Quake were my favorites. Got me into PC gaming for good.