Our exclusive profile feature where we reach out to celebrities, world record holders, company reps and notable gamers and asking them about their favorite classic game and you can see the results and answers here.
This was one of the first games I ever played obsessively. Even at my young age, the humor and puzzles appealed to me—even if the phrase “You can’t do that…at least not now” is permanently burned into my brain.
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Tie Fighter stands out for me as one of those games that has that rare quality of being an experience. From the story, the initiation into the Emperor’s Inner Circle (Secret forearm tattoo and all), the ship models, it was a game that you could tell was made with L.O.V.E. for the source material, while still maintaining an originality of its own.
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I think this was the first rpg that I played on a computer and I sure do have fond memories. Even with minimal graphics, which were actually pretty good at the time, it was still frightening and great fun exploring and killing all of the monsters. All to save some king or something. 🙂 It had multiple character types, a party, turn based combat, random encounters, layout, and items, and an auto-map. Some of this is common now, but this is from a game made almost 30 years ago.
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I love Civ IV because it’s basically the best representation of what I love about real life (planning, strategy, intrigue) but sped up 100x.
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Awesome 3D + Tight Controls (Mouselook) + Internet Matchmaking + Clans = My First Awesome Online Multiplayer Experience!
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It was refreshing to see a game break the mold and deliver a real experience, not just a story inside a cookie cutter design scheme. I’d trade in all the HD graphics in the world for a game that actually takes me by surprise and rewards me for actually paying attention to it.
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Some people think it is crazy to just look at the stats, clicking on numbers and watching 22 small round dots flying around the screen, but for me it is pure fun. It is a great feeling to start a career as a manager of your favorite club, and build your squad the way you want. I can spend hours on looking for players and staff that can help my team to win the league and go far in the European competition.
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Ultima IV was the first open-world style game that I ever played that gave me a real sense of control over the destiny of the character from the start. The player answers a series of ethical challenges to determine the personality of their character. That really spoke to me from a design perspective, because it offered immediate opportunities for replayability and gave the player unprecedented control over how their character evolved in a computer game.
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Space Invaders is such a simple and beautiful formula, and allows for the development of personal technique. It’s accessible to anyone, and still remains satisfying, fun, and relaxing. There’s nothing like playing a real arcade machine…those glowing phosphors and that rad moon backdrop are iconic.
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Having hidden aliens suddenly fire on you, the ominous music and the pit in your stomach you felt when sneaking into an enemy ship made for unbelievable tension. I have not found a game that’s been able to replicate the sense of tension X-Com created.
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I LOVED Blaster Master as a kid – fighting radioactive frogs and driving a tank? What more could you ask for? Plus the game was hard as crap – beating that game definitely was one of my proudest moments of nerddom.
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I’m not quite sure why I love this game so much, but I just do! I must have played it a million times with my best friend growing up and I still play it today. When a game doesn’t get old after 20 years you know you have a winner! It had several things going for it;
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I loved the arcade game and my ColecoVision version made me the only kid on the block with a home version that rivaled what we played in the arcade. Definitely a taste of things to come plus that summer it made me a very popular kid as well.
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King’s Bounty was released in 1990 and became the ancestor for a great number of modern game series. The fairytale spirit of the game made a huge amount of players spend hours completing the quests for one of the four characters chosen, travelling through the game world, searching for treasures and building up armies to fight for the glory of the King.
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Madness was one of the best games ever created, and is STILL fun today more than two decades later. I used to play on the Amiga 2000 with my older sister; she preferred the mouse, while I preferred the obviously superior joystick. Lemmings was a fantastic time sink; some of the later levels were some of the best designed puzzles I’ve ever seen.
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Incredibly deep content: a mix of turn-based squad combat, RPG, and resource management. You carefully nurtured and grew your squad and it really hurt when some of your favorites died horribly. TFTD was the sequel to the original. It added multiple levels for the underwater battle maps, and once you had advanced armor, you could float to the top of ships, blow holes in the top and sides of the ship, and enter.
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Dhalsim, after winning a fight: “Now you’ve realized the inner mysteries of Yoga!” – I spent enough money on this game in the arcade to put a down payment on a small house. Nothing was more satisfying than having a bunch of people line up to put their quarters down to try and kick you off the cabinet, and playing for an hour or more on 1 quarter.
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