What's that game that absolutely destroys you with nostalgia

>>3088524
Demon's Souls

Because that's when I had everything going for me. Out of highschool, employed at a good job, hanging out with a QT who almost became my GF.

Then everything spiraled out of control and here I am in my parent's basement wondering where I went so fucking wrong.

>>3088536

You actually dodged a bullet but you don't realize it.

You're still in time.

Secret of Mana. Everything about it is nostalgic, especially the music.

You can still do a proper new game in the mana series, squeenix. Hurry up.

SMB3 and Sanic 1

>>3088524
Shining Force, probably. I played it when I was in eight grade and I made slow progress with it. Last week I was in my hometown and I found my notebooks from the time filled with shining force related drawing. I used to imagine more things about the world and where the story would be headed, and the final boss is a fantastic memory for me because since I didn't understand the mechanics I was severely underprepared and so winning felt like a huge victory.

After shining force came lufia and the fortress of doom. I used to love that too (notebooks from later years are filled with doom island and guard daos drawings), but I think shining force is a bit more nostalgic if only because it's more fun to play, even if the ending of lufia can still manage to make me cry.

>>3088524
Fucking love that game

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Games like these are just not made anymore, devs care more about resolution and hats now.

>>3088524
For one birthday as a kid I got 3 ps1 games, my mom got me FFIX and two of my friends got me Megaman Legends and Brave Fencer Musashi. We had a blast and stayed up for the whole weekend playing games, and all 3 of those games hit major nostalgic notes for me ever since.

The world map music for FFIX especially gets me.

>>3088524
Super Mario 64, it's the only game I can actually separate from my shitty childhood. For the record I played it on wii vc as a kid and I basically spent most of my time playing it despite owning Super Mario Galaxy.
I'm 18 currently before someone calls me underage, but frankly my childhood was awful and I had no friends so I really can't even think of days that are better than right now.

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Not retro

Rayman 2.

>>3088614
Fuck what game is this? remember having it on a demo disc for PS2 and I really want to find it again! It was like a PS2 version of a Quintent Game!

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>>3088524

>>3088657
Dark Cloud

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AKI Wrestling Games

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I played this
My friends played this
My siblings played this
My fucking babysitter played this.

And we all agreed, that it sucked to watch, but was addicting as Hell to play.

Still the best in the series IMO.

>>3088598
If you're younger than 25 you're pretty much underage here. Being 26/29 is just barely tolerated.

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>Be me now
>My own house
>2 fun cars
>60" plasma TV
>All da games
>Great wife and kid

>Be me playing Final Fantasy 7
>My own apartment
>Parents & grandma still alive
>Just broke up with fat chick for hot nerd bird
>Job at Babbage's
>Smoke weed erryday
>Drunk D&D or MTG every night
>Sometimes play Super Mario All Stars or Capcom Legends and get nostalgic for being a kid

You guys who are young adults now, don't worry. You'll get to a place where you're comfortable to live the rest of your life sooner or later based on shit you're learning now but you should also realize that right now you have the opportunities to make memories of things you have the freedom to do now that you won't have then. Make them. Trust Old Man /vr/ on this one.

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Probably this game, it always reminds me saying "oh man, a space shooter mixed with the legend of zelda, i wonder if they will come up with more game mixes"

And looking to modern gaming, games with mixed genres are always X with RPG elements.

>>3088692
Oh and maybe one of the megaman games, i was knee deep into megaman i used to draw original Robot masters (i wonder what happened to those drawings), shame that i can't talk about megaman anymore (at least around my friends) because everyone always prefered the X series, and i don't mean 1-3 like everyone with a brain would, no, i have friends that even think X7 is good.

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Still the best.

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>>3088536
ah yes
>prison

>>3088574
What is that game? Looks pretty good

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always bet

>>3088728
I didn't go to prison.

I quit my job, decided to go back to school, gained 100 lbs from stress eating, barely talk to my friends because they're busy with their lives in a different city and I basically have crippling depression.

I'm working on changing the depression and 100lb weight gain, but I feel like I wasted my time and money at school because computer programming is incredibly stressful, so now I'm out 4 years of my life I could've spent working.

Prison would also be a lot easier to explain to friends and family.

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>>3088524
>Rock Volnutt will never get off the moon

>>3088778

>Tron and Roll said they where building a rocket and are fully capable of doing so

You whiny faggots don't know what a real cliffhanger is

>>3088776
If programming is too hard move all that knowledge to computer maintenance.

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>>3088614
>>3088659
Early ps2/late ps1 games give me this feeling. I don't have many memories of being <10, so these are the games I remember fondly, even if some of them were bad. I vaguely remember the SNES (mostly remember Starwing, dunno why), but not much. Dark Cloud is definitely among them! Also Tekken Tag. Lots of memories playing that one.

>>3088713
Also this. Great memories of playing this with my older bro.

>>3088757
Mega Man Legends.

>>3088786
Fuck off back to >>>/v/ kiddo

Games that I have fond memories of, so many of the games I played as a kid. Nostalgia for better days, are only found from games I played in my early 20's, when I got out of a shitty childhood and into an amazing life, which subsequently crashed and burned.

I'll get back there, though.

>>3088524
StarCraft

>dad buys me a falcon northwest computer during 4th grade
>parents never bother me about playing too long because I kept up with my grades
>play single player and custom games so much because I had no idea what internet was
>had no absolute care in the world
fast forward to high school
>straight into sophomore year, the freshman I fucked has my baby girl

Carmine today lives with me while her mom is doing who knows what the fuck.

>start playing games with snes
>this thread is making me realize my most nostalgic game isn't even considered retro

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>>3088524
I think this was the last game in which I was truly immersed in the game world and story. The childlike curiosity and world view I had up to that point seemed to get left behind from that point onward.

Not that the game taught me any especially important life lessons or anything, it just happened to come out when I was at the age where these things happen.

>>3088664
I still have this. My brother and I shared many laughs.

I guess for me that would be Crash bandicoot or pac-man world 1. Super mario world and sonic 2 would also be up there.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAwTVPk5s1A

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My nostalgia gland doesn't work on a lot of Nintendo and SEGA games that I played as a kid because I never really stopped playing them, so I haven't had much time to miss them. That said, OP's choice makes my heart swell, and I started replaying Paper Mario for the first time yesterday and kept getting all teary-eyed.

Only kind of /vr/, but when I bought my Wii U I was visiting back home in another province (Canadafag here) and played it for the first time with my brother who I never see anymore. We got to the remake of N64's Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 8 and all the memories of playing Mario Kart 64 with him as kids in simpler times came rushing back. It was pretty powerful.

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First SNES game along with DKC

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>>3089073
Final Fantasy VII.

Takes me back to high school, being naive to the world and how it really works, family unit was strong and the American middle class life was still a thing and the future of gaming looked so bright.

I'd go back in time and tell myself to stop gaming after VII, move out of the U.S., NEVER speak to my family ever again and never trust women.

>>3088561
Yea I can agree with this, the music from the intro and some parts still make me teary eyed. Makes my wife giggle.

>>3088571
Oh yea, this makes me really daydream to the old days.

>>3088598
You're still underage and a child.
But whatever. You enjoyed a game you didn't have to give us your life details we don't care about you, we just want your game not your whole back story you npc.

>>3088561
Sorry man, the mana series hasn't been good in a very very long time. The last "good" game was Legend of Mana, and honestly it wasn't even that great.

If Square revisited the series today, it wouldn't be good. They've tried too many times now.

Worms 2

I'm a simple man

>>3088524
that one ;_;

spent hours kicking virtual cans

>>3088825
You're a faggot.

>>3088691
This. Getting older is great if you have your shit together.

>>3088691

Hey gramps! it's always nice reading you. I still remember your stories about babbage, the saturn and the weed.

Keep on rocking dude.

>>3088578
Of course, at the time, the graphics were a big draw.

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Pilotwings 64 easily. Early N64 was such a magical time in gaming for me. So many of my games I found myself ignoring the actual gameplay and just wanted to go off exploring. PW64 did this best for me. This song gets me in the nostalgia feels every fucking time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqAbNqhZuk
I'm instantly reminded of friday nights at my childhood home comfy as fuck. Man what I wouldn't give to go back, shit I haven't even seen home in 8 years. Shame everything and everyone went to shit there..

>>3088776
>oh woe is me, i have it worse than prisoners
Sounds like you're working really hard on changing the depression, what with busting out the violin to mean strangers even when there really wasn't an in for it.

Step 1:
-Get off 4chan.

Step 2:
-Stop wallowing in your perceived failures. You're not going to get ahead if you're too busy pouting over what's behind you.

Grand Theft Auto 3

>>3089204
>>3088713
My niggas.

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Kirby's adventure

Reminds me of being 5, I remember actually testing each ability and trying to figure out each one. To this day it is one of my favorite games.

>>3088841
Fuck bro, that sounds rough. I hope things are atleast good for you now.

>>3088524
The Mega Man X password screen music.

>I HAD MY WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF ME!!!

Star fox adventures

>>3089243
>>3089274
This is now a comfy game music thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mvlM00ZF7s&index=8&list=PLDF411E031D22DD93

If I had to choose only one song that fills me with nostalgia it has to be this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-V2wgsrfVE

First game I ever saw an ending to, played it a lot with my friends taking turns when I was 6, and even my dad played with us a lot.
Whenever I listen to this I have a lot of images in my memory rushing back in my head, not just of playing the game but in general about my childhood, which seems so far away now that sometimes I have a hard time believing these memories actually happened and aren't just a movie I'm remembering, but when I listen to this song the memories become more real if that makes any sense.
It's strong, actual nostalgia.

>>3088524
Sonic CD, especially the music regardless of it being JP/EU or US. Which is really weird since I played it for the first time just a year or two ago. Even though it's relatively new to me something about it just hits all the right buttons. I get similar feelings from Chrono Trigger but I can't remember when I first played that, too long ago.

>>3089440
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6k9Lm14N_0&index=14&list=PLA6ECEC231DE28F97

>>3089110
legend of mana was the best game in the series

it was the best written and most interesting anyway

and it had the most beautiful visuals and music

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>>3088780
>Thinks getting off the moon is the only unresolved plotline in the game.

What's it like being too stupid to live?

>>3089230
I am rocking out right now thanks. Pham is visiting the in-laws for her spring break so I took the extra-fun car out and am hanging out with my 28 year old hipster new-school gamer pothead buddy while my rear view mirror adhesive sets up (mirror fell of last time I drove it). He's trying to enter a booster draft on MTG online and had been bugging me to advise him on deck design.

>>3088524
none, my days were never better, my life was complete shit all the way through

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This, FF Tactics, and Mega Man X1-6.

>>3089108
I may be a child but I'm not underage, and this is a nostalgia thread is it not?

>tfw rental cabins have wifi now
>everyone gets drunk and would rather post about in on social media instead of enjoying our time away from it all

>during college we used to all pitch in for a cabin
>being the biggest gamer in our group left me in charge of bringing entertainment
>we used to play dreamcast quake 3 because I forgot my n64 on purpose
>otherwise it was conkers bad dur day heist with some smash bros and perfect dark or goldeneye

The internet ruined earth. Abandon ship everyone.

>>3088536

> hanging out with a QT who almost became my GF.

Almost had a girlfriend? You were really at the top of your game

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>>3088524
WoW, such an amazing gaming experience and playing with RL friends + new friends met in Warcraft World was god like gaming. Also in second place for me is Morrowind.

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Playing this vanilla, and being happy with it. I guess it was around 1996.

Nowadays I can't even get a game started without pondering what grfs to use, and then get bored too quickly when I start playing.

Baldur's Gate.

SMB3, in about 1989

Last time life was quite that colorful.

>>3089630
ff9 was great, early high school feels

>>3088524
Literally not a single one. Just like not a single movie or anything like that.

I'm a pretty dumb person, but not that dumb.

>>3088524
I don't have just one, there's a few of them that have a special place for various reasons.

The C64 Gyruss port was my first videogame ever, to this day I still fondly remember being a 4 years old kid and waking up with sore thumbs and wrists due to too much Gyruss before going to bed.

Then there's Alex Kidd, my first console game.

Castle of the Winds was my first PC game and my first RPG/Dungeon Crawler, I still remember how mindblown I was after finding out you could move diagonally but I was a young kid and I didn't know enough english back then to properly read the game.
Also played a lot of other games, Duke Nukem, Raptor, Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen and obviously Doom and Heretic.

Then there was the Amiga, Gods, Kyrandia and a lot of other fun stuff.

I guess the last big nostalgic game for me is SaGa Frontier 2, such an amazing experience.

While other games have earned a special place they all came somewhat later than these, with time I also learned to appreciate a few games I played back then much more, but even so, these really hit me hard whenever I go back to them, memories come back every time, good ones and bad ones, but they really make me look at my past in a lot of ways, something that no other games do.

>>3089559

it's the one you keep bitching about

>>3088713
This definitely.

Dreamcast is probably my most comfy memories. PSO and Shenmue.

Along with Morrowind and Halo CE later when the Xbox came out.

>>3089506
Subjective. Imo SoM was the best. SD3 was great. Legend just had too much obtuse shit going on and didn't have the same nice adventure 'flow' that the other games had.

And fuck that jungle maze with all those switching gates.

Its a shame square fucked up so bad with this series. Dawn of Mana looked fucking amazing. It wouldn't have taken much (aside from a complete plot rewrite and battle mechanics) to make it the best in the series. The "feel" was there. WTF is this kiddy shit square? Who the fuck were you targeting it at, toddlers?

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Fucking Landstalker. Never beat it but I still have fond memories of coming home from school and turning on the genesis to play that crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAozgz3fLQk

ICE CREAM ICE CREAM

>>3089469
I only played Sonic CD late last year, after beating 1, 2, 3&K, SMS and GG ripoffs, a bit of Adventure, and two fangames Before/After the Sequel.

It's already an instant classic too me. As soon as the Palmtree Panic tune starts I feel strangely happy as fuck, I have NO idea why... Well maybe... I have very, VERY foggy memory of Palmtree Panic Act 3 (and ONLY Act 3) running in DOS maybe when I was like 5 or 6.

It's almost like a direct link to my childhood. Almost like as gay as this sounds I'm travelling to my own past. And I don't even fucking know why.

>>3088524
>nostalgia for better days?

There were never any "good old days". They are today, they are tomorrow.

It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow.

>>3089274
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There are a lot of games that bring me warm nostalgic feelings.

>>SNES
>Yoshi's Island
For the beautiful artstyle, which I consider the best in Nintendo's history
>Kirby Superstar
For the fun gameplay, co-op, nostalgic music and dreamy graphics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojzZXyhJW8
This track really embodies childhood wonder.
>Secret of Evermore
I loved the atmosphere.
>Super Bomberman 3
The OST makes me explode with nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfLve8_sAw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw5ZlCymHYo

>>N64
>Super Mario 64
This is probably the most fun game I've ever played. I used to waste hours just trying moves and jumps in the castle courtyard. I still think it features the best controls, except for camera management.
>Ocarina of Time
If you played it back when it was released, you'd feel like it was the best game ever. Nintendo really poured everything they could inside this game. Top notch graphics and gameplay, great storytelling, awesome dungeons. Child wonder everywhere.
>Banjo Kazooie
Very different from SM64. Still a great game, with an unique ironic style.

>>GB
>Pokemon Red/Gold
No explaination needed.
>Dragon Warrior Monsters
DQ music is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGCXgkDCO3k
Simply beautiful. Great gameplay and very different from pokemon.

>TES III: Morrowind
Not /vr/, but this is the last game (maybe on par with Gothic 2) that made me feel a child's sense of wonder.

>>3091417
Lay off the drugs, anon.

Yoshi's Island and Mega Man X.

>>3089693
a video game nostalgia thread. not a feel bad for some faggot with a wii thread.

>>3088913
Pretty much this.

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>>3088713
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyRrIvdImA
F-Fucking this...

>>3088913
Every hear of the joke "Everything was better when you were eleven?"

Basically when you just hitting the threshold of puberty, while you can still be a dumb kid but are growing in an adult and don't have to worry about adult shit yet everything about growth and change seems like it's about you and you really connect to it.

I didn't mature watching Avatar but a few of friends did, and they talk about how it's one of the best shows every. I've watched it and while good, it has some godawful writing and hamfisted lessons. The first season alone is nothing but "girlz r equil 2" which I guess when you're a dumb kid is something you might need to be reminded, but as an adult is just grating.

Anyway the point is games apply here too. So many """hipsters""" connect to Legend of Zelda, Earthbound and arguably Sonic because they matured while playing these and connected deeply to the characters and themes. It's why when you argue that these (while not bad) are not the greatest and their only defence will be "muh feelz".

The theirs people who sorta missed this, and thus have manchildren starved for this emotional growth, thus they obsesses over shit like My Little Pony and more often than not before furfags.

>>3095086
Actually, most people have moderate to high levels of stress at every point in their lives. It's just the lens of memory that leads to us forgetting about the bad things and remembering the good things. Our brains are wired like that.

I would say that everything is better when you're getting high quality pussy on the regular.

>>3094909
beautiful

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Halloween Harry was my first PC game (the shareware version) and it makes me want to go back every time.

I was a Sega kid but PC opened my eyes all the wild and weird titles that you would never see on a console. Just the fact you had CDs that came with magazines that were just pumped with demos and shareware. So much variety.

I imagine that's a big drawcard to today's children to mobile over consoles.

>>3089091
What happened between you and your family/women?

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Spyro 1 (best in the trilogy, I don't care what anyone says)
Final Fantasy 7
MediEvil

>>3088776
You sounds like a whiny faggot who blames society for his own fuck ups.

>>3095470
Where did he blame society? Seems to me he thought he could handle more pressure than he could and now he's depressed about it.

Any of the Mega Man Battle Network games. 3 and 5 in particular. I spent the most time playing those two since 3 was so good and the DS version of 5 had an extra save file so I could easily play it over and over.

>>3090275
>Never beat it
Now is as good a time as any. What's stoppin' ya?

>>3088524
Snowbros.
Those developer niggas knew what they were doing.

>>3091417
>running in DOS
Unpossible. Windows 95, maybe.

>>3089748
>Nowadays I can't even get a game started without pondering what grfs to use
Metagaming is evil. People laugh at me when I say this, but you show perfectly what's so bad about it

>>3095432
woah, what happened to the gorgeous gouraud shaded backdrops? Stupid texture?

>>3096065
>>3089748

Same thing happened to me with Age of Empires II.
I used to just play and chill, focusing on building beautiful towns and exploring the map.

>>3095923
Dude I was five or six. It was probably
Windows 95. I think it was just a demo that came on some random PC magazine. It's probably better I didn't grow up playing it, probably would have become a full blown Sonicfag.

Banjo Tooie. Because I had so much imagination back then that I played nothing but that game for a year.

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Threads of Fate.

I replay this (both characters) at least once a year. It always reminds me of a simpler time. I'm still waiting for a direct sequel, but I'm well aware the chances are slim to none.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFk3mS6VVsE

To this day, this track is still full of energy and emotion.

>>3095470
I'm not him but I could blame society for the shit-terrible wages, the skyrocketing college tuition rate, the general terrible state of college right now, as well as the job market, and etc.

None of that is my fault, and it's working against me and all the advice I had been given until now.

Not everything is within my control. Why be a shit about it?

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>>3096412
This.

I must of replayed the demo over a hundred times when I was little. That forest theme is forever ingrained in my mind. Nostalgia hits me like a truck whenever I hear even the first few seconds of it.

>that feel when you actually managed to get bored of your favorite game after replaying it at least annually for the last 15 years
>it felt like you could enjoy it forever but suddenly not anymore

;_; feels bad man

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>>3088524
You already posted it. I was terrible at Legends as a kid, so I'd always play up to the fight with Marlwolfe and end up letting my older brother play through the rest. We'd spend hours in front of the TV playing that shit, and hoping for a sequel that seemed like it was never gonna come. But the disc got scratched up eventually, and I never got a chance to actually play it all the way through myself until last year when I finally bought my own copy.

Around 2003 or so I stumbled onto some Mega Man fansites and discovered that Legends 2 was a thing, and we'd somehow missed it entirely. I wanted to play it so damn bad, and never could find a copy since it'd been off the shelves for a long time by then. Didn't end up playing that one either until last year, and I think putting it on a pedestal for so long kinda ruined it for me when I finally got my hands on it since it just wasn't what I was expecting.

Nino Ruins really didn't help.

>>3098449
I feel like I should know this, but Im drawing a blank

>>3098713
Dude, just don't play it for a year, give it some time to forget some stuff about it.

I love Rayman 2 but I don't play it yearly, maybe every 1.5 to 2 years. That why it's always magical.

Also I'm lucky enough to love a game that has like 10 different versions so I can try a new one each time.

I also like getting high and playing it, immerses me more and the memories fade out of my brain sooner, but I know admitting this is probably going to draw some Quintenfags.

>>3088524
Pokemon Crystal and Zelda MM

>inB4 those are barely even retro

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>>3095432
came in to post these exact 3

>>3088691

Change a particular here or there, and we have the same circumstances (done well for myself, married, house, kid, toys, etc). Even so, while I am happily content most of the time, there are still moments when I think back to those long, lazy summer days as a kid playing on the computer (mainly Sierra and Lucasgilm Games stuff), without any other care in the world.

I wouldn't trade in what I have now, but I do sometimes wish I still had what I did. But, that's growing up I guess.

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Most memorable as a kid

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Donkey Kong Country 2. Only thing I have planned for my vacation from work is playing the DMC games. Just perfect

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>>3101006
DMC = DKC

>>3089243
Your post brought a tear to my eye... Okay not really but I feel the exact same way man, well put.

>>3091421

oh shit gogol bordello

>>3089469

I dont want to make this a JP vs US thing, but the JP song in Palmtree Panic is fucking nostalgic and amazing as fuck. It sounds like "THIS IS THE FIRST LEVEL GET HYPE" that reminds me of the 90s a lot.

>>3089789

Man that hit me hard. Nice poetic line.

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>Gathered around N64 for Mario Kart and Goldeneye in summer camp
>Entire groups of kids who would never talk to each other otherwise bonding over video games
>Chill camp counselor whups us all every time and gives us pointers

I enjoy a lot of freedoms in my adult life, but I often miss the camaraderie of my childhood and college years.

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>>3089731
I know this feel all too well.

Firing up Bard's Tale for the first time with my freshly sector-edited master race adventurer after losing my save game in a floppy disaster.

8 years old, cracks knuckles, get into the mazes.

>>3088524
nice

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>>3088524
>tfw you will never play Ogres & Knights again

>>3089243
This. I only ever rented Pilotwings and I remember as a kid not being able to understand the controls. My brother had to help me play many n64 games because I was the retarded younger brother. The jump to 3D analog controls was too much for me.

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>>3088730
This, every time I get around to playing it I remember that my childhood is gone. Pic related also does this to me and I feel a mixture of sadness and happiness every time I play it.

When I hook up the Gamecube, or Wii with component cables now...

Late at night. 2 or 3 AM on a weekend or a night off from work.

And start up a new game of Animal Crossing.

Absolutely fucking floods me with 2001.

>>3089243
Same, something about this game's vibe is unexplainable but has stuck with me forever

>>3088691
Nice blog, faggot

>>3096412
nice nigga. just replayed this over winter.

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>>3088913
This area seems to be the one that gets me that feel every single time.

>>3103839
Nice contribution /v/

>>3088524
Donkey Kong 64. I know /vr/ thinks it's the weakest of the Rare collectithons, a genre which is for babbies itself, but what I did was get high as fuck and just roam around the levels picking the shit up and generally exploring. I remember clearing the boss of the Sunken Ship Cove level (fighting an Octopus in the dark, shit was intense and so much fun) and entering the woods level and getting completely lost. It felt so magical. Then I went to bed and tried again in the morning, discovered it's an extremely simple area with only like 4 key areas that all branch of one hub. Good times.

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this

>>3105562
>>3105572
Did the same thing with this game. Honestly 3D Rare games are the best to get high and play because they're never too challenging and promote exploration with collectibles.

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kinda weird choice but it more than anything takes me back to that childlike sense of wonder of what i could find and where. tomba, spyro and ocarina do the same thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tf7gu6hKkc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3UK9RYf28c shivers everytime

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My childhood consisted of a lot Super Mario World. There are a few games that overwhelm me feelings of personal nostalgia, but Mario World by far has left the biggest impact on me. It was my first, and if I was forced to pick one game to keep from my collection, it would be this. Being a kid and playing this seems like a lifetime ago. I don't think another video game can make me as emotional as this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mNZAZgXYJo

>>3108140
This and Super Mario All-Stars.

Phantasy Star III. I almost break down every time I hear the title theme.

>>3108573
>I almost break down every time I hear the title theme
PTSD? Tried self-help groups?

Ultima 7 and SI
Nothing was deeper, nothing was ever so immersive, and I never cared so much about seeing a world. Every time I replay that game every few years it's like I'm that teen shut-in all over again, lost in that world.

>>3088524

>Tekken 3
Back in the day playing that as a real yungin with like 8 other kids at my apt. complex while listening to the new Eminem CD. We all had that game, would always play it at eachothers houses.

>Super Mario World
It was like a tradition of mine to hook up the ye ol SNES every year or two and play through all the games. I'd always beat SMW and try to beat Mario 3 but that game was way harder for me.

The last time I honored that tradition was Summer break of 2011. The last time things were truly going my way and I was happy, the high point of my teenage life (and my life right now too). I just remember waking up on a hot summer day, chillin and playing my favorite Mario game in my room, then getting the call to go meet up with my friend and these 2 girls that we were always trying to get at lol. I never imagined or could have imagined then how fucked everything would get in the next few years.

The Reason I have so much nostalgia for that game, because I played it at pretty much every stage of my adolescent life. I first played it at around 4-5 years old, that was the one game I never outgrew as I got older.

I just wish I was a kid again.

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Nobody is probably reading this anymore, but anyway, I downloaded pic related tonight because I'm having a lonely Saturday night. I was already feeling nostalgic today because I played hockey today, which I haven't done in years, and it really brought back a lot of memories.

This is my first time here, and reading your stories, I can't help but feel like we're all the same really.

Anyway
>Pokémon
Got dat dere yellow on my 3ds
>bomberman for SNES
>StarCraft & Warcraft 3
>twinsens odyssey
>tekken
Tag is my favourite
>CTR & Mario kart
>liero
>worms
>cs1.6
Really bring me back, games were fun because they were social I think

>>3108714
>games were fun because they were social
It's odd, when you think about it. More and more "social" features have been added to games, yet ... it didn't do much good, did it?

That said, I personally don't get the claim that old games were more social, but that's just because I was a heavily singleplayer focused gamer. If it was a multiplayer game, I was not interested, except maybe if the other players could be replaced with bots

>>3088776
>>3108573
>>3108680
>>3108714
>/vr/
>Broken people trying to forget the misery of their existence and remember games from when they were happy

>>3088657
>Rayman 2.
mah nigga

>PS1
Pacman World

>N64
Smash Bros

>Gameboy
Pokemon

>>3088561
Seconding. A lot of games on the SNES do to me what OP is describing but this one really stands out.

>>3088713
This WOULD take it hands down for me but I was too old, and the turn of the millennium was when things began to get grim for myself and from the way it seems, many others. I'm going to say this one anyway though because Dreamcast PSO transcends all of that shit.

>>3088524
NBA jam and legend of the mystical ninja. I can still taste the pizza plus and Dr.thunder when I play them.

>>3088614
So good.

Where does shit from the PS2 fall? They're not even remotely current but not retro either.

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>be 7
>walk into the remodeled pizza joint
>mortal kombat and street fighter 2 are glowing in the back of a dark room
I honestly can't think of anything that captures my imagination like the smell of combination pizza and that dark back room.

>>3094251
>If you played it back when it was released, you'd feel like it was the best game ever. Nintendo really poured everything they could inside this game. Top notch graphics and gameplay, great storytelling, awesome dungeons. Child wonder everywhere.

This. Ocarina of Time still fills me with a sense of discovery and childhood wonderment. It brings back memories of being a child and wandering around an exploring my grandfather's ranch. Those are good memories. I'm sure Miyamoto would be happy to hear that, because from what I remember, Miyamoto said the Legend of Zelda began due to Miyamoto's memories of exploring caves as a child.

That's pretty powerful to me, that someone could pass their feelings onto another like that and we both feel and remember the same thing. That really means a lot to me.

>>3108775
this is pretty accurate desu

>>3088536
lmao u sound like such a pathetic piece of shit. get a grip

>>3108745
I suppose I think games were more social because I always played them with people, I never had a console, so I was always playing with other kids because that was the only way to play.

I think I got a PlayStation when I was about twelve or so, and immediately got ff7 and loved it, but I don't have the same nostalgia for that as I do for Mario kart

With online gaming today even though you can talk to the other players I just don't see it as a social thing. You are still alone in a room, split screen is the best.

Unreal tournament in my high school's computer lab after class was pretty fun too.

>>3109528
I don't know, some people think that retro means anything that's not current. Ps2 came out what, fifteen years ago?

Holy shit Ps3 is ten years old already. I don't feel like I'm playing games from another era when I'm playing Ps3 games, but for me ps2 is retro.

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>>3089042
My first SANIC was the GG version of 2 back in 6th grade, I got it for Christmas in this Sonic-themed bundle with the GG itself, and it probably shaped my tolerance for being careful when it comes to bullshit instadeath level design. I could never get anything other than the fucked-up bad end though, also: take note of the viewport here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgsrlnVhqs

It wasn't until a few years ago that I found out it was cropped to make it playable on the GG's tiny screen, and the SMS version is actually fair to a point with how much you can see, seen here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6RtXmMN9Og

Ridge Racer or Sega Rally... or any number of 1st gen PS1/Saturn games. Honestly, I'm more into 16-bit for my retro fix, but the PS1/Saturn era was when I was in HS, thinking I had the whole world in front of me, excited for the future, not realizing that being an adult and having to earn a living actually sucks ass.

>>3109974
It's not just you. It's just what happens with the passage of time. There are one or two presumably junior high-age kids on this board that kick and scream and deny reality, but things get retro as they age. The PS2 is definitively retro, my dude. You're good.

>>3108775
Accurate. But retro games are objectively better than today's dlc filled bs, but I don't play them just for nostalgia. I like them because I can sit down and plug in and play, no need to put in my Social Security number just to download an update from Xbox live or whatever.

>>3110332
They're not "better" per say, they're different. Retro games were games - in the sense you were given an objective, a path, and hazards to slow you down. They took memory restrictions and did what the could, utilising everything they had to make that challenge as alluring as possible, and because they couldn't be as realistic, they were stylistic which as it ages ends up looking the same quality, and because it was nigh-impossible to play the game without piracy a they didn't need to worry. And multiplayer was more often than not an afterthought unless the game was designed for it.

Now games are the about the "experience". They can put in the best music, graphics, so they make the game be as psuedo challenging as possible, basically holding you hand and squeezing tight when your having a tough time. They don't need to make a game as alluring, because they just exploit the popularity it once had, and then try to make them gritty and realistic, which always ends up looking like shit when technology improves shit months later. Then they have to worry about people stealing it because we can (and will) so they have to jam all the bullshit tracking grabage because it costs a lot of money to make a face have freckles and they need to make it back. But it's a two edge sword because they tech logos also allows online multiplayer.

>>3089742
this board really misses out on a lot by dismissing these games as non /vr/

>>3095432
PS1 era was the golden age for these types of 3D adventure games. It's a shame that like the newest one in this genre I can think of is Kameo which came out in 2006. Just isn't really a market for these types of games anymore it seems.

>>3102473
God that game and Total Annihilation were so fun as a kid. Those were the first games I played on the computer. I hate how we won't get another WC RTS because of WoW, and how Planetary Annihilation was such a failure.

>>3089243
This game will always hold a special place in my heart because of my brother.

We used to play Pilotwings together on the SNES all the time (along with Sim City). His friends would come over and play too. When Pilotwings 64 came out, we played that together, but we started growing up and changing.

He, being the older brother, grew a bit more distant and developed his own life. He eventually got into drugs, and his addiction has cast a shadow over him since.

Good memories were replaced with horrible ones, and I never thought time would heal them. But it did. Now I can look back fondly on those memories and ignore what happened soon after.

Life is hard and cruel, but sometimes I wish it wasn't. At least I have a few good memories to cherish.

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>>3088524
Pokemon Crystal.

>I'd stay up all night almost every night for months playing it since I had insomnia as a kid
>the world seemed to be gigantic since I'd never played an rpg before then
>I'd complete it then continue roaming around finding new things to be fascinated by, sometimes I'd even just go hang out at Goldenrod and do nothing because I liked how comfy the atmosphere was and the top of the tower was cool as shit
>I lived in a small town and it made me fascinated by cities, lots of windows with yellow light pouring out of them, etc

It was the only game I really had an adventure in, even to this day.

>>3111780
>even to this day
What have you played since, that had the opportunity to give you an adventure, but missed the mark?

>>3111793
Too many games to name honestly. I think the time/age was just right when I played Crystal. The music, the day and night cycles, everything was just perfect when it came together and made me feel like I was really on my very own Pokemon adventure. It's weird though because I can't stand every other Pokemon game created afterwards.

I loved Ren and Stimpy as a kid and loved how great the Genesis sounded, so I loved this game of course. Played it for hours and hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQd_QJZ94PI

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Shenmue


>last time I played it was back in high school
>it was the first time I was so utterly enraptured by the comfy atmosphere in a game
>blazed through it twice, back-to-back
>played through it again with my bro over an extended weekend
>still remember eating microwave pizza and ramen while taking turns trying to get all the prizes in the forklift races
>we actually made an IRL replica of Ryo's in-game notebook and updated it accordingly as we went through the story
>I still have that notebook in my desk drawer somewhere

things were so simple back then

Listening to the soundtrack again feels like a religious experience.

Maybe once I'm finally done sorting out all the bullshit currently happening in my life, we'll get together one of these weekends and play through it again, for old time's sake.


Yeah, that sounds nice...

>>3112569
>Maybe once I'm finally done sorting out all the bullshit currently happening in my life
That never happens, anon. It just gets replaced by different bullshit. Just got to pick up the game and play it.

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>>3112582

>>3112594
that's a hub cap

>>3089630
FFIX gives me kind of a nostalgic feeling despite me having completely beaten it only like an year ago. It's not even my absolute favorite from the series, but it has something inherently nostalgic and magical about it.

>>3088776
>He bought the STEM college degree maymay
>http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myth-of-the-science-and-engineering-shortage/284359/
>He listened to /g/

That's your problem, not vidyas.Never trust maymay posters or CEOs.

>>3112660
It's not a /g/ meme. The idea that only stem field/law school/etc. works is spread all over academia and among normalfags.

>>3112668
>law school/etc
Lawyers will always have ambulance chasers, but compared to computing and le sciences ,their average salaries are still WAAAAAY higher than some code monkey or some labrat intern who actually does most of the research. Just google it.

>>3089136
Based Worms

>>3088524
Gameplay and Level design in Legends might not be good, but fuck me if that game didn't exhale charm.

>>3089243
What did Ocarina of Time do for you?

>>3089748
All i can ever be bothered to do now is load up West Country 90210 and connect the towns and cities.

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I think, when I look back at things, Landstalker is the game that I truly enjoyed the most. I spent hours and days in that world and it became as much a part of me as I a part of it. I enjoyed just walking the map, making up my own little storylines, delivering a package from one town to another etc.

>>3110007
You actually beat that shit?

I think I got past the zone 1 boss ONCE. The screen is smaller than the Master System, so a relatively easy boss fight was near impossible for me.

I watched a longplay years and years latter, and some of the later levels are utter horseshit. I don't know how any one beat this game.

>>3088713
Holy fuck this game.

>>3095432
>the Spyro "What the FUCK is art-direction?" remake

>>3098736
Misadventures of Tron Bonne was quite good though

This thread's OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSI7M3sUKdc

DAYTONAAAAAA
LET'S GO AWAY!

>>3116041
ROLLING START!!

>>3088524
OoT/MM
Pokemon Crystal
Dark Cloud

The music just kills me at times ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMNfhlXs5Do

>>3096068
What?

>>3098878
Isn't Vin himself a gamer? I wonder if he's played those games.

>>3111712
Hopefully they'll make a comeback. Even if it's indie kickstarter shit it could be better than AAA corporate-pandering schlock of today.

>>3113479
I'd still play it.

gran turismo 2, dueling tigra ice racers

>>3116832
>Isn't Vin himself a gamer? I wonder if he's played those games.

Riddick is based on his D&D character. Vin fucking loves vidya.
Hell, what you should really wonder is whether he posts here.

>>3116840
I bet he shitposts about elves constantly.

Star Ocean 2. It was the first RPG I really got into and probably the only game where I just kept playing until I fell asleep with the controller in my hands. I just couldn't stop. Just hearing the world map theme takes me back.

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>>3088524
Streets of Rage.
I think I even have the cartridge still, and emulate it a couple of dozen times a year whenever I'm bored.

Syphon Filter, and I don't even think it's a very good game. It's just very nostalgic to me for many reasons, but mostly I really liked how games of that era looked.

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>>3088658
the first snowboard kids is one of my favourite games, its music and style just capture a specific time. however, i never played the second part.

is there a big break in aesthetics? the music is fine, but from what i've seen i suspect some y2k-radness, which would just kill the atmosphere for me.

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>>3116832
>What?
Look at old spyro games. The backdrop is not a texture, it's a dome made of gouraud shaded triangles, polygons

>>3088536

:'(

>>3108775
true.dat
I like SMB1, SMB3, Sonic, the original LoZ etc. Born in 1983, i think i still live in 90s when i am daydreaming.
Living in the Greek Crisis I have to work all day, (not for shitloads of money but just to make a living) and I feel like a prisoner sometimes...

>>3088524
Pokemon Gold or GTA San Andreas.

inb4 underageb&, I was a teen at the time, it's nostalgia for the fact that (A) there was still hope I wouldn't be the failure i am today and (B) the internet still had some hope of turning out good instead of feeling like it was in terminal decline via centralization and mixture with IRL like it does today. It helps that I regularly replay it.

I remember loving walking around in Gold at night. Trying my best to see the screen with a crappy GBC light adaptor thing that clipped to the screen and ate precious batteries, or aimlessly exploring and playing with the Pokegear. That's probably one of my most missed things: Exploring in a Pokemon game instead of rapidly realizing how linear most of the areas are.

>>3118170
>and ate precious batteries
batteries you could actually buy, instead of draining your proprietary rechargeable, and a light you could remove during the day, where you could see plenty and it would not drain anything

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>>3088524
Pokemon Crystal, Chrono Trigger, and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (I know it's not retro). Something about the atmosphere of each of the games just feels like something that modern games just lack completely. It felt like they were trying to tell a story without it being the usual cinematic schlock that usually gets 9s out of 10s and the gameplay feels way more satisfying than majority of the games on the market. While I know that the devs were looking to turn a profit, it also felt like they had the passion and inspiration to make the games they wanted back in the day (for the most part").

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DreamCast was way ahead of the game

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>seventh grade
>wake up an hour early
>play Final Fantasy 9 while eating cereal
>bike to school

Fug.

>>3118849
>batteries you could actually buy
nah, i had to bug my parents to do it. shit sucked.

>>3088536
My sides. So glad im not you.

>>3088536
>everything going for me
>has job, but no g/f
To be honest that sounds like a crappy life. How is that GOOD?

>>3118170
With you on SA.

It actually felt like a huge and expansive world to explore, less a game, more an adventure.

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>>3094251
>dat instruction manual
Holy fuck just seeing that brought back a nostalgia rush, thanks anon

>>3119757
these graphics are quite beautiful

>>3103498
Honestly agree with you, although I enjoyed thousand year door it, something about this game here specifically just stuck with me. I've tried playing through it again but it just doesn't feel the same.

>>3088657
>Rayman 2

Awesome. I have the same with Crash Bandicoot. Once a year I pick one of the games in the primary trilogy and play through it. Currently playing through the first one.

Also, Pokémon Leaf Green/Ruby, Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories, Tekken 3 and Harvest Moon.

Here in mexico some stores had 3 or 4 playstations modded to use pirate games for like $1 USD/hour.

Me and my friends used to play Marvel vs Capcom 1, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Metal Slug X and King of Fighters 98 like 3 or 4 hours dialy after school, those were the times..

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>>3119965
>There were even "tournaments" where the "gangs" of kids near the store meet to fight each other by rounds, we called them "retas". This happened also with the arcade machines with King of Fighters.

Sometimes when your mom sent you to the store to buy tortillas or bread we used the change to play one or two rounds in the KOF machine.

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>>3119965
There were stores that had N64s instead of PS1s but these stores were on the nicer places of the city and the rent was often more expensive.
Sometimes you could see 4 players with different colors playing Mario Kart or Golden Eye, and a could of like ten people watching them play or supporting someone.

Thats why I love older consoles, there wasn't multiplayer but local multiplayer helped a lot with social skills and making friends, something that newfags/underages will never know.

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>>3096412
This. I totally came across it by chance. Just pulled it out of the bargain bin one day.

Today being in the bargain bin means it's crap.

What happened?

>>3088524
none. i dont live in the past. tips fedora

>>3119965
Damn most of that money was spent watching loading times.

>>3096412
Same but I only play the Mint side.

yoshi's island

sometimes the theme makes me cry

>>3113479
I'm not seeing what's wrong with it.

1) There were no "better days". When I'm 60 I guess there'll have been "better days", but I don't like that mentality.
2) I actually am not affected by this, ever. My favourite game of all time is DKC2 and I didn't even play it properly as a kid.

.....(cont)
>>3122701
when I say "properly" I mean I played it briefly at someone's house only so I couldn't say I never played it.

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>That fucking music
>All those great, charismatic characters
>Grew up watching dad play kof and Fatal Fury, so SNK is a big part of my childhood
Playing this on the PSX was such a fucking blast, even if I sucked at actually playing it back then.
The game still still holds up and I play it regularly, thank you SNK.

Also, Sonic Adventure 1 even though it sucks nowadays.

Those two games/franchises are so bittersweet to me, because they were so great when I was an innocent kid, and life was great and fun back then. And then both series went to shit as I grew up just like my life, so it's pretty depressing, looking back

KOF got weird in 99-2002, got super gay after 2003, and kinda died for a while. At least the new one is shaping up great.
Sonic...goes without saying. Good thing I don't care for it anymore.

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>>3088524
>kicking the can behind the jetlag bakery
>get 1,000 zenny
>keep our streets free from litter!
>do this often enough and you turn into dark mega man
Also happens when you kill too many vending machines, and I think if you kick too many dogs in the throat.
loved going back to the city with a new power up and screwing around for another hour. High jumping onto street lights and then buildings, or across awnings in front of stores. Skating around the city and cars

I wish they'd fix the camera

>>3088524
this will forever be the game I feel the most nostalgia for. it's the game i want to show my kids one day. I miss this shit. I miss when it was new and perfectly shiney to my life. now it's dull and brings heart ache. I still love playing it, but the feels are great.

>>3095432
I replayed this last summer so I could finally beat it 100%. the original spyro trilogy will always make me want to be a kid again.

>>3096412
I used to play the demo at least once a day. now that I have it emulated I'm afraid of beating it. I don't want the mystery of the story to be taken away. it has to remain a demo in my heart, forever.

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>>3098736
>I was terrible at Legends as a kid, so I'd always play up to the fight with Marlwolfe and end up letting my older brother play through the rest
Oh wow, me too. Marlwolf was a pretty hard boss for how early in the game it is; it's got those green homing fireballs and everything.

I think where MML1 was just a fun adventure with some over-the-top cartoony cutscenes, MML2 tried to be a little more serious and character-focused. It's not a bad thing, but the Mega/Roll shipping is laid on a little too thick. And I'm not just saying that because I ship Mega/Tron. Nope...

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Christmas of 1992. I remember I paused the game on this exact stage to go eat some turkey. I really felt at the top of my game when I was 6 years old. Everything after that is downhill.

>>3125659
>Everything after that is downhill
And you're still not at the bottom

>>3126161
Ouch the edge.

God you faggots are fucking sad.

Yes occasionally it's shitty but you also have a lot more freedom.

>>3126278
You're taking a shitpost seriously
Think about who the fucking sad faggot is in here

>>3126318
You for taking a reply to shitpost seriously.

>>3127936
>I only acted like I was pissed off

fallout 4

>>3094339
Wow, you really fell for the age bait shit, or maybe you helped foster that environment on this board. Either way you're cancer.

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>>3089630
When I was a kid it didn't matter if I was getting grief at school or if my parents were fighting, at least being able to hide away and get lost in an rpg on the SNES or PS1 made me forget for a while. FFIX was my favorite, I actually avoided looking up art or talking about it because I didn't want to ruin the memories I had of how the characters were in my head. Back then I used to imagine I'd get lost there and would end up saving Burmecia in some survival mode boss rush, then I'd go adventuring with the main cast and Freya would sit with me watching the sunset.

Kind of stupid looking back I guess, but kids are like that, right?

>>3088841
>StarCraft
This game was my fucking childhood. I sucked at the real game so I played custom maps on battle net all day every day for years.

also,
>that music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S41XFYRX6Bs

Are the servers still up? I haven't checked in ages.

>>3127952
>I only acted like I knew you acted like you were pissed off

>>3125639
My biggest problem with Marlwolf is that I didn't figure out how to do a dodge roll until sometime after I finally beat it. It makes it real easy to dodge those energy balls.

>>3089243
Man, I was crossing my fingers so hard that the YouTube link would be Birdman.

This game is nostalgia incarnate for me.

I wish I could still play the same game for days on end

>>3128394
you can do it

>>3128420
But should you?

>>3130720
Of course you should

>>3130721
... Good enough for me!