#Tell Us About Your Childhood Games

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robust musk
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We've all got our favourite games from our childhoods. The ones that made us into the gamers we are today! Whether you started gaming at a young age or didn't really play anything until your teens, we want to know what your favourite childhood games were. And, yes, I am mentally preparing myself to see someone comment a PS4/Xbox One game as one of their "childhood" games and for how old that will make me feel.

Growing up, we had a SEGA Mega Drive in the house, but it belonged to my older sister (who is 10 years older than me), so it wasn't my generation's console. I remember playing Sonic the Hedgehog on it though and finding it INCREDIBLY difficult.

The first games that I remember being completely hooked on were Pokémon and Digimon games. I had Pokémon Silver on the Gameboy colour and would get in from school and play until bedtime (or until my parents demanded I interact with the family). I also had Digimon World on the PS1 and I remember really struggling to progress in the game but loving how vibrant the world was and all the digivolution possibilities!

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latent flax
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I had a lot of favorites as a kid 🤔
Most of my fondest memories are from the Spyro series, Pokémon Crystal, and Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak.

I didn’t get into the crafting survival genre until a friend introduced me to Don’t Starve Together. From there I eventually got into Valheim and now Core Keeper JingleJamCookie

zenith verge
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Even though the game doesn't seem that nostalgic, my childhood game was (and still is) Terraria

grizzled vessel
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Minecraft,
I started in 2013 and played every day since, non stop haha😅
I made so many lasting memories, skills and friendships through the years, it helped shape me to who I am.

This non-stop experience lasted for 11 years until recently when I learned and mastered every aspect and skill possible in the current stage of the game, even ones people don't know exist haha 😁
When I finished college and started my dream job I started a new stage in life,
But minecraft will never be forgotten❤️

Hytale will be my replacement haha

dark rose
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Kirby return to dreamland on wii, this game is the most nostalgic think i can think of

upper flame
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Definetly Litle Big Planet 1 - 3 ..., pure nostalgia for me bec. me and my brother had to share a ps3 and we played it together

robust musk
knotty aspen
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Oh god.. age/life reveal coming in.... first off:

I am mentally preparing myself to see someone comment a PS4 PS1 as one of their "childhood" games and for how old that will make me feel.
😂

But Bubble Bobble and Dizzy on the CommodoreC64 (with a tape deck loading system, might I add!!)
... followed by Cannon Fodder on the Amiga

Then into the NES era with the original Zelda ... and onwards into the golden age of the SNES with again Zelda but also Super Metroid and Final Fantasy III and TerraNigma (and I STILL HAVE my SNES and these games in storage!)

I had Pokemon Red, Yellow, Silver on my Gameboy > Colour Gameboy ...

Rounding out into my late teens/early 20's with the PS1/PS2 and the rest of the Final Fantasy's and Soul Reaver series

Then I had a GameboySP, the little flip-fold one that done several tours of the world me, but nothing is sticking out as "oh I played this alot", from back then

This is also when "life" happened ... and now I'm a || divorced dad of 3, retired military veteran, with PC gaming and a host of games and time at my disposal ||

Did also own a Wii, but I wouldn't consider that in my "childhood" anymore ... my kids all now own Switches and Laptops ...

steady sundial
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The first video game I ever played was Ben 10 Alien Force on the DSi I got for my 5th birthday. I'm pretty sure it took me like a week to get past the shipyard, which is literally the start of the game, but I'd never played a video game before, so I had no clue what I was doing.

The game that had the biggest impact on me, and still has a huge impact on me to this day, is Pokémon Black. It was the first Pokémon game I'd ever played, and I know it got a lot of flak because you couldn't catch any of the older generation Pokémon until the post game, but it was my first Pokémon game, so I didn't have any old favorites. This was my first ever introduction to Pokémon, so I was able to really experience something brand new without any bias, and although I love all of the Pokémon games, it's the only Pokémon game I can say I've gone back and replayed dozens of times in my life.

Another game that had a pretty big impact on me was Sonic Colors for the Wii. I've never been a huge Sonic player; Sonic Colors is the only Sonic game I've beaten, and although I don't really remember a huge portion of the game, whenever I hear the opening theme, it just takes me back to when I'd sit on the living room floor grinding away at the game after school.

inner hound
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Man I feel old. I remember going to my grandparents house as a kid and playing the NES they got for us kids to play with when we visited. Original Mario, Duck hunt, Ski or Die...lol

inner hound
leaden jungle
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As far as I remember, I grew up playing side-scroller fighting games or co-op puzzle games on the Xbox which one of my uncles owned.
But the real first game I played by myself was the Zelda boat game for the DS.

frigid marlin
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I grew up on minecraft for a long time, and the rest of my gaming time was spent hopping between multi-player games to play with my friends (primarily Apex Legends and Sea of Thives for a while), more recently I picked up Celeste (about a year ago now?) And I have been playing it almost nonstop, it has amazing story, community, and gameplay. I've sunk over 500 hours into it, when a casual player could beat it in roughly 8-12 hours

latent flax
latent flax
# knotty aspen Oh god.. age/life reveal coming in.... first off: > I am mentally preparing mys...

My husband LOVES the Soul Reaver series. I never heard about it so we had a time where he played through the entire series and I just hung out to watch the story. Definitely one of the wildest plots I had to follow haha

Thank you for sharing your story, the part where you mentioned your kids are now gamers reminded me of how my ||late father’s|| influence and love for videogames also inspired me and my siblings to enjoy them too. JingleJamCookie

thorn lagoon
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My childhood games were the Original Sonic and the Original Mario, Soul Reaver, Digimon, PS2 Aliens Vs Predator: Extinction, Monster Rancher, Pokémon DS, Deer Avenger, Ghost Master, Legend Of Zelda, Metroid Prime, the original Halo, and also lastly I've played some of the Soul Caliber games. Yeah, I sure did play lots of games during my childhood but there were some other games I've played sadly I don't remember the game titles.

sullen dock
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super mario bros 3

vast linden
latent flax
vast linden
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I think one of my favorite games from growing up has to be the Overlord games. Not to be confused with the anime. They were like Pikmin meets Fable. You played as an Evil Overlord with a squad of little goblinoid minions. It was very silly. Your minions would pick up gear, and the basic brown ones could wear hats and show what weapon they were using. Hats including carved pumpkins, dead rats, an actual helmet, and a bit of slug with an eyestalk still attached. They could swing anything from a pitchfork, to a unicorn horn, or another unicorn horn but held backwards. It was charming enough to play through the awkward controls that weren't always responsive.

slim scarab
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It's 2:30 am so I'll just say what first comes to mind, Super Mario Sunshine

rain narwhal
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Dante's Inferno, growing up woth that game would never think I would love core keeper

bitter flame
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funny sonic is mentioned in this post, Sonic CD was a part of my childhood and is one of my favorite video games today

gusty osprey
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Trickster Online. I really wish we had a relaunch as we had with grand chase

dusky crypt
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i had the opportunity of playing terraria's 1.0 version when i was around 6 or 7 years old on a laptop that would overheat and shut off in about 10-15 minutes, so i never got that far. though once 1.3 released and i had better tech i really picked up the game and was super attached to it, nowadays i do sound design for its largest mod (calamity) and a few others

languid elk
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You can tell how old I am from this but I've played EVERY handheld Pokemon game starting from Red, Yellow, and Blue all the way up to at least Sun and Moon. I also love the Legend of Zelda too! Those are definitely a few top favorites of mine. There's also the original Spyro trilogy on PS2, a game called Jade Cocoon Story of the Tamamayu, and Final Fantasy 9. For PS2 my two absolute favorite series are Kingdom Hearts and Fatal Frame. I could go on but these are all my main "old game" favorites. XD

chrome plaza
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HMMMM. Lets go back to the 1970's. Original Space Invaders was my first game I played in 1979. Asteroids, and adventure 1982 arcade version. Many others for 25c for 5- 10 minute of fun. My parents had a booth in the small amusement parks in NYC at the time. I played so many. Good times.

slim scarab
robust grove
knotty aspen
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is it wrong that everytime I read this threads title, my brain auto-completes it... "Tell Us About Your Childhood ... TRAUMA" ......

slim scarab
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Nah I feel that

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You are Valid and You are heard

rustic mirage
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Everyone in here is talking about how old they are but we're all familiar with the titles GhostHelm

I had a Sega Genesis. My first game for it was Jurassic Park and I only ever played as the Raptor. When Rampage edition came out I was a happy camper.

Probably my most memorable one though is Ecco the Dolphin. Here I was, 7 years old, thinking I'd get to play a fun little platformer as a dolphin, my favourite animal. I was NOT prepared.

(Spoilers ahead for the games story!)

I remember poring over the story in the game manual and being completely awestruck by the scope of it. I was always trying to wrap my head around WHY the characters in games were doing their thing, and there was rarely enough room in the manuals to fully explain it to my satisfaction. I always had questions, and that was my favourite part of the ride home from the rental store--the mounting curiosity about what kind of story and experience was awaiting me.

Ecco the Dolphin begins with the mystery of what happens to your pod when they are sucked up into the sky by a freak waterspout. You are the only one left behind. You get cryptic breadcrumbs of story as you progress through deceptively difficult levels and meet other marine life you can communicate with (including a giant blue whale!!), only to find something that looks like an underwater DNA strand. It reveals that you are speaking to possibly the first life form on Earth, and that you must go back in time to prehistoric Earth's oceans. If that wasn't enough of a wild ride for a kid obsessed with paleontology and fantasy, you also have to search for Atlantis to find a time machine that can send you back to the precise moment before your pod is kidnapped by the storm. This time, you go with them. And you end up in an alien spaceship where you have to fight a disembodied alien queen head.

You can probably gauge now why core keeper is the perfect kinda game for someone like me 😉

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Also: soul reaver rules. I've still got the original one off comic from top cow and I'm SUPER stoked for the rerelease.

patent copper
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Probably Ark. It was always a game I loved a lot! It really sucks what they did to it though. Now there's no more servers besides non-dedicated from what I know. All because wildcard stupido wanted money. Now people with devices that weren't even well optimized for ark survival evolved have no chance. Nothing but a ruined game the players love.