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I don't play games as much as I used to at all, and not many games on the current generation of consoles have really clicked with me.

What are some nostalgic games for you?

I'd have to list Star Wars Battlefront as one of the best...
I liked the Far Cry games
Grand Theft Auto...

But #1 would be Team Fortress 2...that's still my favorite game.


Anyone remember LAN parties?

sh*t, when I think nostalgia, I think Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Intellivision, ColecoVision, NES, Genesis, SNES and such.

I used to love LAN parties back in the late 90s. It was the best way to play StarCraft with friends. YOU REQUIRE MOAR VESPENE GAS!

Those were personal favorites  ;D

The real nostalgic games would be the ones I had on gameboy...I just can't see myself buying another handheld to play any of them.

TC Ghost Recon games were INSANE games to play in a room full of people. Not great any other time though...

Always love me some Doom as well. I got the Brutal Doom mod a few months ago and have never played it vanilla since. SO much fun.

Any game from 1981-92 or so gets me nostalgic. I loved video games, still do but never had time to be a full gamer after college.

Nostalgia for me is late/mid-90s stuff.

Crash Bandicoot is one I'll remember the most.

Star Wars Podracing anyone? I wish they'd bring that back, updated with top notch graphics, optimized for the Oculus Rift: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb8IRpmJUT4#t=15 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb8IRpmJUT4#t=15)

Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon (PC) were favorites of mine.

Any of you guys/girls like watching Angry Video Game Nerd?

That guy is a comic genius.... :lol

"f*** Roger Rabbit; I want to nail him to the fucking cross!" - I almost died of laughter when I heard that.

Very much. I go right back to 1989 when I see those.

I like the part in that episode when he calls Jessica Rabbit.

I called the number for clues back in the day. Honest!

Commodore 64 games:

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Outrun

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Gold, Silver, Bronze

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Italy 1990

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Rainbow Islands

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Wizball

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Leaderboard

Nes: Megaman - Zelda - Rygar - Cobra - Rush 'n' Attack - Super Mario

I'm a huge gamer, with over 20 consoles and thousands of classic games. I grew up with the legendary DREAMCAST.

So I'd have to say, Sonic Adventure is my most nostalgic.... It influenced the kind of music I like today!

From lush interesting beats...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcRsqVM3l5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VBjq0oPZM

To rocking tracks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhh8K2wJC1E  (<-- One of my favorites EVER)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKs5dBfcB9g

And then some just generally great songs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DizopdPMBw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM8h2Xyis9M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qppHpolSlOg

AND THE LEGENDARY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_MCPcjxP0



And the opening video... as a kid this blew my MIND.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E71YqXXQoUU


I've still got my old copy! and a japanese copy... and the HD port...and DX.... and the Limited Edition version.... ugh... HAHA

To me, Nostalgia is Gamecube.
But as for Gaming in general, I'm a huge Gamer!
List of Consoles I currently own:
Atari 2600
Famicom with Famicom Disk System
NES
Sega Mega Drive
PS1
N64
Sega Dreamcast
GameCube
Xbox
PS2
Wii
PS3

Then there are the handhelds:
Game Boy
Game Boy Pocket
Game Boy Colour
Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance SP
DS Lite

For me, anything post-16 bit era is NOT nostalgia. I had a soft spot for the Sega Genesis when I was a kid, I still love playing the old Sonic the Hedgehog games. I'm too old to be nostalgic for anything post-16-bit...these days I consider 10-year-old games to be "recent", but 10 years ago a then-10-year-old game would have been a "childhood oldie" to me.

The E.T. Atari game. Yeah, I said it!  ;D Also, PaperBoy and Mario on the old original NES, with Duck Hunt and THAT DAMN DOG!!!  ;D

I think one day I will collect games more seriously. I just need the time, you can't really play and do other things like with music.

Damn, I don't think I've thought of that Duck Hunt game for nearly 20 years.

Anybody remember a NES game from the early 90s called "Fester's Quest"? You play Uncle Fester from The Addams Family and have to go around killing monsters. I sometimes think I must be the only person on the planet who bought that game.

That game was so terrible. Holy sh*t it was terrible. So terrible that AVGN did an episode about it!

Anybody watch the nerd "fight" nostalgia critic?

That was hilarious. Apparently the two of them are great friends in real life.

Despite still remembering many mental images from the game, I honestly can't remember if the game itself was good or bad. You want to talk about bad NES games - anyone remember the dreaded Friday the 13th game? Now that stunk.

That game is ungodly fucking bad. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was baaaaaaaaad, too.

There's still one game that is much worse than E.T.
PLUMBERS DON'T WEAR TIES!!! lol

"It's 8 o'clock and I'm seein' a 10!"
"TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF!"

That game is awesome in its sheer horribleness.

I love Angry Video Game Nerd! Although I'm a bit sick of him at the moment.
A lot of the game reviews I don't care for too much, I much prefer the console reviews, such as the Sega 32x, Atari Jaguar, Atari 5200, 3D0, Intellivision, etc.
The great thing about AVGN is that it gets people into Retro games. I showed it to a couple of friends. Before watching it, they were only interested in PS3's and Xbox 360's. After showing them AVGN, they loved it immediatly, and are now also into retro gaming!

To be honest, I'd like to see him review more GOOD games just because he's an excellent reviewer in general. I loved his Castlevania series.

You guys are nuts.  Friday the 13th is great.  I still play Friday the 13th.   :lol

There was one airplane flying game on Atari that I can't for the life of me remember the name of. The "obstacles" you had to avoid were the same barn for every single level. There was one specific area that you could put the plane in that made it that you could never lose. You could literally go into the other room and watch tv for an hour, and when you came back to the game you still hadn't died.  ;D

Here's another one I expect to stand alone on.  I love Night Trap.

Come on, this is brilliant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPL3DJ72tM

I LOVE The AVGN!!! Just grabbed AVGNA, it's a great game!

As for the show, I can't wait until the movie, the Bugs Bunny episode (The second where he gets beat up) is AMAZING :D

I own a classic video game store... you can always judge the most revered games by how much money I'm able to sell them for.  So far on Xbox and PS2 (or ps1) there haven't been too many mainstream games that are worth good money yet, but Star Wars Battlefront fetch the highest prices of the 'common' games... so I would have to point to that as being one of the most 'classic' of the Xbox generation.

Before that, anything by Konami, Nintendo, or Capcom is very sought after and regarded as 'great'. 

BEEEEE SEVENTEEN BAAAAAWMUR.

I think I've re watched that series about 10 times

About the angry video game nerd.  I don't like the guy.  One I'm a very positive person so an angry dude is not typically going to be something i'm interested in.

The real thing though, is, I get kids coming in my store all the time that just take his shtick as gospel.  I mean the guy is just making a living, he doesn't mean a lot of the things he says, but these little kids take this stuff for gospel.

So they'll come in the store, and just say the most asinine things, like "That game's by THQ they all suck".  Now, maybe that's true.... but damn don't you think you ought to play one and make up your own mind?  Or they'll talk about how Mario Paint was so stupid.  Uh... I remember when Mario Paint came out, and the sh*t was awesome.  Or they'll go on and on about how much they want Earthbound. Yeah; Earthbound is worth money because it sucked so bad nobody bought it.  

It's just strange to see all these young kids who are into classic games, but have these very strange opinions on everything that were put in their head... and they basically refuse to look outside whatever they've been indoctrinated with by the angry video game nerd or whoever else they've seen on youtube.

It's not really his fault, like I said he's just doing his thing and trying to be interesting... but these kids take his opinion as gospel.  

I'm just gonna go right ahead and say it: I don't care if AVGN says bad things about the Sega Mega CD, Sega 32x, Atari 5200, Atari Jaguar, Nintendo Virtual Boy, Intellivision and Colecovision. I still wanna get those consoles!

Yeah!  Imagine how I feel, I get that stuff in all the time... then I see these little kids come in and say "THE VIRTUAL BOY CAUSED HEADACHES, IT WAS A BAD IDEA NINTENDO FAILED". 

I bought one when it came out.  Nobody got a headache.  It was cool as sh*t. 

The Sega 32X sucked if you paid full price for it I guess and were expecting a ton of games, but looking back, it was a cool system.  The games were fun, they looked better than anything else at the time.  It was exciting when it was released. 

It's just sad seeing these kids who completely get how great, oh "The Legend Of Zelda" is, but never had the experience of playing "Centipede" on the Atari 5200 like I did when I was a kid.  He talks about how the controllers sucked.  They didn't in 1983!  I had the damn system, the controllers weren't broke, they worked great!

Again, it's his opinion, but kids be missin' MAD games son

From what I understand, there is only one known copy of Gamma Attack in existence. So how come I remember playing it?  ??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOjBGPxwVQA

Anybody remember Pitfall?  ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwfF5-Wt6YU

When I talk nostalgia, I talk Mega Man.  All the games for NES pretty much defined my childhood.  Even when I went on to get a Super Nintendo and so on, I always go back to those games.  The Castlevania games come close, but they still can't touch Mega Man for me.

Oh, and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!  Still in my top 5 favorite games of all time.  I never had the Mike Tyson version, but I had the later Mr. Dream one and I did beat him once.  I can't get past Super Macho Man nowadays, but I'll always have the satisfaction of knowing I kicked his ass at one time.

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