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[antiaircraft]

I'm still growing up, so yeah. xD But someday I'll be able to say that I grew up on the Real-Time Strategy scene (and StarCraft II will probably still be a major game that far in the future).

[IrishLiz]

I grew up playing both... Oregon Trail, Dr. Brain, Math Blasters, Zoo Tycoon... plus my original Nintendo. :)

[jesse_rocket]

Ohh, I've got Okami, it's definitely very pretty. I got it on the Wii though, and the controls were a horrible pain and I gave up on it very quickly.

 

Also, dude! Oregon Trail. Gooood times.

 

I played a lot (a LOT) of Sim City 2000 in my youth.

[seuzy13]

I grew up playing compute games instead of video games. You know... Chip's Challenge, Frogger, Theme Park, Rollercoaster Tycoon.

 

I grew up with those games too! My brother used to play Chip's Challenge all the time--got to level eighty-something. He went nuts when I accidentally deleted his save file. :whistle:

 

And I still play Rollercoaster Tycoon. It's such an amazing game. I don't even think it's showing its age that much. You don't really notice the graphics while you're playing.

 

I also have extremely vague memories of playing Sim City as a kid. I was so young then, though. All I remember was creating monsters to destroy the town. :evil:

[livvy]

Oregon Trail. Good stuff. :P I also played Amazon Trail and Amazon Trail II 'til my computers updated beyond their playing ability. Sad. =[ I also played games like Freddy Fish and Putt-Putt and Spy Fox. I still sometimes amuse myself by playing through them (the few that still work.) Oh, and the Tycoons! Zoo was my favourite. :D

[The Score in Blue]

I grew up playing both... Oregon Trail, Dr. Brain, Math Blasters, Zoo Tycoon... plus my original Nintendo. :)

I played those! Math Blasters was fun...

I grew up with games like the Cluefinders and Zoombinis?

 

 

Oregon Trail. Good stuff. :P I also played Amazon Trail and Amazon Trail II 'til my computers updated beyond their playing ability. Sad. =[ I also played games like Freddy Fish and Putt-Putt and Spy Fox. I still sometimes amuse myself by playing through them (the few that still work.) Oh, and the Tycoons! Zoo was my favourite. :D

Since when was there an Amazon Trail??? Freddy Fish was cute though.

Tycoons are awesome! Zoo Tycoon 2 was my favourite.

[livvy]

Ohmygoodness I LOVED the Cluefinders and Zoombinis! They were my favourite games when I grew out of the Freddy Fish/Spy Fox stage. Unfortunately, they were among the first ones to stop working. :(

[Unstream]

I've actually played a very large variety of games. There's the arcade games, RPGs, FPSs, MMORPGs, RTSs (Roller Coaster Tycoon can be in this category, though my favorite was Age of Mythology), flash games, and even some two-trigger shooters. Personally, I think flash games are among the hardest :P

[CAV of Gang Green]

Grew up with video games. Grew up playing Pacman, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Gran Turismo. I loved those games, and the recent release of Gran Turismo 5 might actually make me get a PS3.

 

gamespot sucks. let's leave it that. they gave Twilight Princess and 8.5 and RADIANT DAWN A FREAKING 6. it's my least favorite video game site, just beating 1up

 

This is how I feel:

 

Best: IGN and Nintendo Power.

 

Worst: Game Informer and 1UP.

 

Gamespot is in the middle, because sometimes they get the right rating, and sometimes they're an idiot and give a good game a bad rating. Or they overhype a game, like Uncharted 2. But I am happy that they gave Galaxy 2 a perfect 10.

 

I hate Game Informer because they give good games bad reviews all the time. They gave Galaxy 2 a 9.25/10. That's great, but lower than the first, and they gave it that rating simply because it gets too hard for them at times. Bullcrap. I played the game, beat it, and it wasn't very hard. Game Informer is one of the only 3 reviewers to NOT give Galaxy 2 a perfect 10.

 

Must I also mention that they gave Goldeneye 007 a 6.5/10? Game Informer is the only reviewer to give it a bad review.

 

That's what's so funny. "Epic" seems to be a favorite word nowaways and we were in Game Stop and they had an ad for it on the TV, and I told my husband they were making Mickey sound all epic. (I never use the word epic.) Not 5 seconds later, they said it was called Epic Mickey. I was highly amused. :laughingsmiley:

 

Epic Mickey was originally going to be about one of Walt Disney's incomplete works. He would think about what would happen if Mickey killed himself. That was going to be the original Epic Mickey, about how he committed suiside and what would happen to the world of Disney. He would be a battered corpse, and it would be a horror game. But they binned that in favor of the current game.

[jesse_rocket]

I do want me some Epic Mickey. It's annoying that it's only on the Wii though, since ours is quite quite broken :(

[CAV of Gang Green]

The power cord to mine busted and I couldn't play Wii for 3 months. But I got a new cord when I got Galaxy 2.

[jesse_rocket]

Ours overheats horribly and turns itself off, and we've got no idea why, it's in position where it's well-ventilated, and the fan isn't blocked or anything. It's annoying, but then, we rarely used it anyway, so it doesn't seem worth actually paying to get it fixed. Disappointing, though.

[CAV of Gang Green]

That's rather strange. Is the warrenty still valid?

[The Score in Blue]

Ohmygoodness I LOVED the Cluefinders and Zoombinis! They were my favourite games when I grew out of the Freddy Fish/Spy Fox stage. Unfortunately, they were among the first ones to stop working. :(

 

I still have it! Just the Cluefinders, which is one of the ancient ones that still work on my computer.

 

I don't have a Wii :(

[IrishLiz]

Zoombinis and Amazon Trail!!! I left those out! Those were some of my favorites. I played Amazon Trail a lot. :)

[Tyler.]

the only ones I recognize out of everything you guys mention are Oregon trail and the tycoons

[:)Doc]

I recognize the Roller Coaster Tycoon and Zoombinis :D

[Tyler.]

I played Zoo Tycoon so much

I think it's still on that piece of crap computer in my living room :P

[The Score in Blue]

I've played Sims 2, something I didn't have growing up, but I'd like to know, what are the main perks of Sims 3 compared to Sims 2?

[Spritzie]

I'd forgotten about Oregon and Amazon Trail and Dr. Brain. I always loved computer games.

 

My husband and I have been playing the Tycoon games recently, though mostly Roller Coaster.

[Unstream]

I remember Roller Coaster Tycoon was fun until I got good at it. Then it was too easy, and I had to resort to trying to find the quickest ways to kill customers to entertain myself :laughingsmiley:

 

Yeah, I was a morbid little 2nd grader.

[CAV of Gang Green]

I've never played PC games. I was always a console kid. So if I decide to play PC games, I would first play:

 

Counter-Strike

Portal

Sims 3

Roller Coster Tycoon

 

That's it.

[Masaryk]

I play PC games almost exclusively now. I have a Wii, but we hardly ever use it. It's hooked up to the same TV as my husband's computer, and I never want to ask him to stop using the computer so that I can play on the Wii. And I have no desire whatsoever to get a PS3 or an Xbox. I haven't seen more that 2 or 3 games for either that interest me that I can't get for PC.

 

Besides, with Steam, buying a playing PC games is so cheap and easy. One credit card transaction and a download later, and I'm ready to play. Games go massively on sale all the time. I've bought many games, some for as little as a dollar, and most for under 10$. Portal was free.

 

Portal was also one of the most amazing games I've ever played.

[antiaircraft]

I've never played PC games. I was always a console kid. So if I decide to play PC games, I would first play:

 

Counter-Strike

Portal

Sims 3

Roller Coster Tycoon

 

That's it.

Ah... Counter-Strike. I remember playing that in IT class during my foundation year. Good times, good times. xD

[Quark]

I remember Roller Coaster Tycoon was fun until I got good at it. Then it was too easy, and I had to resort to trying to find the quickest ways to kill customers to entertain myself :laughingsmiley:

 

Yeah, I was a morbid little 2nd grader.

Ahhh yes! I loved making the roller coaster that would usually go in a one-way loop and then return your passengers safe. Except you could change the speed so that the coaster when VROOOOSH! right off the track.

Even more wonderful was building it over a body of water, assuring everyone's eventual drowning. :P

 

Man, between that and killing of Sims, most of my adolescence gaming was spent concocting various creative ways of killing off as many people as possible. Considering that I was playing those games and my brother was playing Grand Theft Auto, I probably had a higher kill rate than him, haha.