What are your Top 10 Nostalgic Video Games?

ryan218 · November 2015

What are the Top 10 games you remember with great fondness and find to be your favourites in the nostalgic sense?

(Keep in mind, I'm a late '90s kid.)

10. Tycoon City: New York. Barely counts as nostalgia, but still...
9. Star Wars: Battlefront II. No introduction necessary. Only reason it ain't higher is because I don't have room!

8. Ultimate Spider-Man. I was gonna put Spider-Man 2: The Video Game here, but I couldn't leave this game off the list. I love it. If you've read the Ultimate comics, this is basically an adaptation of the Venom story arc from that series, but it's a ton of fun with lots of freedom to explore a cell-shaded NYC (including Queens and Manhattan, a first, and last, for a Spider-Man game) in the style of the comic's first run.
7. Medieval II: Total War. Loved it as a kid. My second Total War Game (after Rome) and was the main reason I went on to get Empire and later Napoleon, which jointly hold the title of my favourite Total War game (until I install Shogun II Fall of the Samurai later).
6. Star Trek: Legacy. Hear me out! Despite its faults (of which there are many), this is still a very fun arcade-y game to play and still looks beautiful today.
5. Star Trek: Bridge Commander. Some of you are probably surprised this isn't higher. Honestly, if I were counting mods, it would be. The original game is just a bit too bare-bones for me, though. Almost all of the ships aren't accurate in terms of armament or durability and there's a limited library of them to choose (unless you're using mods).
4. Star Wars: Empire at War. Only reason this isn't higher is because it's still a fairly recent game. It's a ton of fun, great graphics even today... A lot of options for units - especially with the Expansion Pack (Forces of Corruption).
3. Tony Hawk Underground. Customisation, storyline, park creator. Loved it. Only downside was my big sister lost the disk and I could only play the sequel...
2. Sonic the Hedgehog. Like I need a reason.
1. Spiderman N64/PS1. I played the hell outta this game as a kid. I think I still have the disk somewhere. Even when I had a PS2 I'd still put this game in and play it a lot. It may not be the best Spider-Man game, but it's definitely the one I remember loving most.

turbomagnus · November 2015

10. Any of the old DOS-era Sid Meier games (Civilization, Colonization, Master of Orion)
9. Oregon Trail (anyone who doesn't have some fondness for this is a liar...)
8. Star Trek: TNG - A Final Unity (until STO, and to a degree still, this was the epitome to me of what a Star Trek game was supposed to be.)
7. Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 (for Sega Genesis, one of the first games I ever played.)
6. Command and Conquer Tiberium Sun (I don't know where my old copy disappeared to, but It holds a special place as the first game I ever did any modding to.)
5. The Godfather: The Game and Don's Edition
4. The Ghostbusters: The Game (who hasn't had that childhood dream of teaming up with some of their favorite heroes? This one gave me the chance to do just that...)
3. Battlestar Galactica Online (Love the ships, just wish it didn't have browser-crashes so often. We'll see what happens when the client they're hoping for happens...)
2. Star Trek Online (As someone put it, "You are Kirk, You are Picard, You are Sisko...)
1. MOST Final Fantasy Games (X-2 was just confusing, XIII's Paradigm Deck made battles a pain in my neck, XI/Online and I just didn't get along and that experience kept me from even trying XIV/Online)

theraven2378 · November 2015

1) Colony Wars, the combat was really good and fast paced though you had think on your feet at the same time

2) Command and Conquer red alert 2, great game and I get nostalgia every time i boot it up

3) Doom, you really cannot beat some old school FPS action

4) Final Fantasys VII through to X, epic RPGs that I still enjoy playing

5) Rome Total War, brought something fresh in the way I play RTS games

6) Warhammer 40k Dawn of war and all it's expansions, great RTS and fun to play with many different factions with their own unique playstyles

7) Streets of Rage 2, loved it as a kid and still do 20 years later

8) Need for Speed carbon, fun racing game and driving classic muscle cars in cop chases is an experience

9) Worms Armageddon, fun party game and still holds it's charm

10) Medal of Honor Underground, excellent shooter for the PS1 and still worth the replay

jorantomalak · November 2015

1) Pac Man

2) Pitfall

3) Asteroids

4) Galaga

5) Donkey Kong

6) Pole Position

7) Mortal Kombat

8) Paperboy

9) Dig Dug

10) Space Invaders

My nostalgia is for the games i played in the arcades

mightyspence · November 2015

Here are my Top 10 nostalgia games, in no particular order:

1. THE OPERATIVE: No One Lives Forever (PC, 2000)
2. Star Raiders (Atari 5200, 1982)
3. Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic (Original Xbox, 2003)
4. Forza Motorsport (Original Xbox, 2005)
5. James Bond, 007: NightFire (PC and Original Xbox, 2002)
6. James Bond, 007: Everything Or Nothing (Original Xbox, 2004)
7. Tempest (Atari Jaguar, 1994)
8. Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (Original Xbox, 2006)
9. Playboy: The Mansion (Original Xbox, 2006)
10. Alpha Protocol (Xbox360, 2010)

rattler2 · November 2015

Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (More recent for me, but it is an older game)
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
Army Men
Star Trek: Starfleet Command II
Command and Conquer Red Alert (first C&C game I played)
Super Mario RPG
Darkwing Duck (NES)
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy)

markhawkman · November 2015

Area 51, more Site 4 than the original, but both were fun. I played Site 4 so much, I memorized most of the game. Most fun was how one of the levels had the possibility of getting a score above 100%.

SimLife, it's deformed cousin SimCity became more popular, but SimLife was a blast to tinker with and see what sorts of hideous monstrosities you could engineer.

Master Of Orion 2

Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, arcade was great, but the Gamecube version is amazing(especially with the new stuff)

jonsills · November 2015

Gotta concur with KotOR (and KotOR II, despite the fact that they were forced to chop out a fair bit of the plot including the ending), and the entire Worms series except that one that tried to go 3D, which didn't really work well IMO.

There's also Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast, and the remake Skies of Arcadia Legends on the Gamecube - nearly identical games, but not quite, because the 'Cube couldn't do the Pinta side missions that the original had on the VMU. Had some great lines, too ("'Impossible' is just a word people use to feel better about themselves when they quit").

The arcade vector-graphics Star Wars was an addiction of mine - I don't want to think about how many quarters I pounded into that thing. I also answered back to the recorded lines ("Look at the size of that thing!", "Cut the chatter, Red Two"; "Use the Force, Luke!", "Shut up and get off my X-wing, old man, you're throwing off my aim!").

Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, especially playing as a Malkavian and arguing with the stop signs (hey, they started it!). And the Malk was the only one where it felt like it made sense to beat that one guy to death with one of the legs he'd cut off of someone. (Okay, that makes sense for a Gangrel too - but a Ventrue? Not so much.)

rooster707 · November 2015

jonsills wrote: »

Gotta concur with KotOR (and KotOR II, despite the fact that they were forced to chop out a fair bit of the plot including the ending).

KotOR was one of the first video games I ever played. I'm actually playing it again right now.

Also, for the second one, I think you can get a mod that restores a lot of the cut content.

What are your Top 10 Nostalgic Video Games?

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