By pure numbers, mine has got to be GTA San Andreas since I only had a PS2 for the longest time. I think that might be why I kinda hate games now? Buying a new game and you get maybe a couple dozen hours if you're lucky kinda sucks. Oh it's just a campaign of like 9 missions? And the missions are pretty linear? idk man, might be worth like $10 but definitely not fullprice $60 or even half off $30.

Super Mario Galaxy

Red Alert 2

Age of Empires 2

Fallout New Vegas

TES Oblivion

• Deus Ex
• Halo CE for PC
• Half Life 2
• FallOut 3 / New Vegas
• CoD2 (The WW2 one)

Lemmings. Prince of Persia. Doom. Tomb Raider 1. Gran Turismo.

FF VII

Ocarina of Time

Ghost & goblins

Galaga '88

Ninja Spirit

Pretty much every Sierra franchise.

Warcraft, C&C, Street fighter two turbo, and final fantasy!

• super mario world
• doom
• age of empires 2
• RuneScape
• world of warcraft (only started it as young adult though)

• Super Mario 64

• Pilot Wings 64

• Balloons Tower Defense

• Portal 2

• Banjo Kazooie: nuts and bolts (I dont care if it killed the franchise, I really enjoyed this game)

• Sims 3

• Skyrim

• Animal Crossing New Leaf

• Cities: Skyline

• Sims 2

So I don't really feel that old when reading the notes, I do however apologise to anyone having an age crisis reading this.

• Commander keen

• Wingnuts

• Burn:Cycle

• Myst

• Duke Nukem (the first one but also 3D)

Wingnuts was a dumb fmv 'dog fighting' game, but when you beat it you could play it again with silly dialogue. I also remember when setting up the sound card the test audio was a guy saying 'ah veiners, just ze vay I like zem!' In a bad German accent.

Burn:Cycle was an fmv adventure game that I adored, it also came with a sound track cd and a little packet of leaflets based on in game stuff that was really cool. I still listen to the ost on occasion

• Pacman (bar arcade game with joysticks on the top and bottom, my mom worked there so I was often there during the day)
• Civilization 1
• The Incredible Machine
• Super Mario Bros.
• Duke Nukem 3D (Learned the commands to call a friend on my modem and then boot up duke3d.exe and play multiplayer, all from DOS)

Baulders gate on ps2 was my introduction into RPG and a bonding experience with my aunts ex.

GTA 1 was my escape from an abusive house

Tony hawk kept me from getting picked on for my gaming choices

Smash bros had me bonding with my closest friends

NBA street helped me and my brother escape from our parents.

• Star Fox 64, for sure
• Half Life was a very big deal for me. Couldn't finish it when I was 8 because it was too scary, and it felt absolutely amazing coming back at 15 and blowing through it.
• Turok 2 seeds of evil. Didn't play it outside of using the cheats. It was basically a gore Sim for me.
• LoZ series was a very big deal.
• Much later, Armored Core 4 and 4A would make me obsessed with good mech gameplay.

Man, it's hard stratifying games you care about, especially when you have a massive log of them that all impacted you in one way or another. There were a bunch of free Linux games that I have very fond memories of too, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Abuse, etc. Also a bunch of weird niche games and demos, like One Must Fall and Food Fight and Fur Fighters. It's an impossible task, honestly.

• Space Invaders I feel like I should include one of the classic games I played in the 80s. You never forget your first, and I played this more than any others and it influenced my career as an adult. However I think 10 mile hike, burger time, breakout and pacman are better.
• Heroes of Might and Magic 3 My room mates would hotseat games while watching movies. A lot of fond memories
• Factorio Probably played more than any other game
• Golden Axe Warrior Not to be confused with Golden Axe. This was a Zelda clone on the Sega Master System. One of the best games on that platform IMO.
• Boulders gate 1 Besides golden axe warrior the only other RPG I really got into. Unfortunately I wiped my hard drive with a game that I had been playing for months and I just couldn't get back into it after that.

Just five is so limiting:

Mario Kart Mega Man 3 Donkey Kong Country Jet Moto Final Fantasy VII

Even expanding to ten feels restrictive, alas:

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 The Neverhood Perfect Dark Seventh Guest Earthworm Jim

Zelda II The Adventure of Link

Super Metroid

Another World / Out of This World

Myst

Doom

Honorable mention goes to Super Mario Land.

My top 5 were (in no particular order):

• Pokemon Diamond
• Star Wars Battlefront: Rogue Squadron (PSP)
• Fossil Fighters
• Skyrim
• FTL: Faster Than Light

The instructions are contradictory. I’m not sure how it’s possible to comply.

• Pac-Man (Atari 400)
• Pole Position (Arcade)
• Parsec (TI-99/4A)
• The Legend of Zelda (NES)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (PC)

• Zork Zero
• Streetfighter II
• Diablo
• GoldenEye
• World of Warcraft

In chronological order

1. Breakout
2. Oregon Trail
3. The Secret of Monkey Island
4. Sonic Spinball
5. FF8

There are so many more but these were all big moments. Ugh I didn't even mention the IBM golf game or Carmen San Diego, I think I need to do this list based on the systems we had.

Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Space Invaders (on an Atari 2600), Tempest and Pitfall!

Halo >!because I played it with my older sister!<

Skyrim >!because it reminded me that I like RPGs!<

RuneScape >!because it taught me that I like RPGs!<

Minecraft >!because I played it with my little brother!<

DOOM >!because I was young and too scared to play it myself, but my mom enjoyed gaming sometimes, and watching her play are happy memories!<

• Dizzy (ZX Spectrum), all the games in the series
• Heroes of Might and Magic, played up to 5, but 2 and 3 were my favorites
• Masters of Orion 2
• Little Big Adventure
• Monkey Island, all the games in the series

• Super mario bros 3
• RuneScape
• Commander Keen (all of the series)
• Age of Empires
• Grand theft auto

1. Zork
2. Civilization
3. Daggerfall
4. MechWarrior 2
5. The Journeyman Project

I played a lot of Atari and Collecovision as a kid, but games didn’t feel “important” until my family bought our first PC. After that, game consoles in general stopped being important. It was a new world of possibility.

• Starcraft
• Age of Empires 2
• Freddi Fish
• Pokemon yellow
• Zelda Ocarina of Time

GTA: San Andreas and NFSU2. But not for the reasons you think. They were the first games that I could play on my school laptop. It was super slow (amd A6 1450 Apu, 4 gb ram) and those ran perfectly fine.

1. Sopwith

2. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

3. Super Mario 1 & 3.

4. 688 Attack Sub

5. Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Halo:CE would probably be the single most important, but it just missed my teenage years.

Moo2

FFT

Golden Eye

Red Alert

Mariokart 64

This list could also be alternatively titled: "Why I flunked out of college the first time."

• Sonic The Hedgehog
• Ms. Pacman
• Diablo
• Starcraft
• CS:Source

Morrowind Ocarina of Time Donkey Kong Country The Sonic chaos game on dreamcast Time splitters

• super Mario world
• earthbound
• Mario kart 64
• halo 2
• modern warfare

xenogears final fantasy 7 final fantasy 10 super smash Bros melee Diablo 2

In rough chronological order:

Starflyers

Mario Kart

Shadow cities

COD zombies (ios app version)

Minecraft

I'm stopping this list before high school, as I built my first PC and figured out emulation, so I started playing a lot more games.

Lego Star Wars

Discworld

Unreal Tournament

Doom

Halo

-Pokemon Gold (OG)

-Metroid: Zero Mission/Fusion

-SSBM

-Battlefront II (The OG one)

-The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

Man, this is hard to narrow down.

• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• Dungeon Siege II
• Guild Wars
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Battlefield 3

I can't limit it to 5.

I keep trying to, and it doesn't work, I end up leaving out something that I spent a massive amount of time on and also very strongly impacted my conception of what a game can be.

In no particular order and with limited time thinking about it:

• Kirby Super Star
• Mario Sunshine
• Sonic Adventure (1 & 2 if I may)
• Guitar Hero
• Zelda: Link to the Past

My first console was a NES I inherited, but the first console gotten for me was a SNES, and the first console I received new in box was a GameCube. PS2 underrepresented in this list although Guitar Hero was on there and that game was wildly important for getting me more interested in music in general.

• Pokemon gen 1 and 2 I guess
• Majesty
• aoe 2
• WoW
• gizmos and gadgets

• Super Mario World
• LoZ : Link to the Past / LoZ : Ocarina of Time
• FFVIII
• Super Smash Bros.
• Ragnarok Online

• StarCraft
• Heretic
• Diablo
• Quake
• Half Life / Counterstrike

-Copy Kitty

-Undertale

-Super Smash Bros. (4 & Ultimate)

-Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

-Fantasy Life

Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

Super Smash Bros Melee

Halo: Reach

RuneScape

Guildwars 2

stone tablets

Right there with ya OP!

• Defender
• Tempest
• Rogue
• Gato
• MechWarrior 1

Commander Keen

Neverhood

Earthbound

Super Mario World

Secret of Mana

• Microsurgeon
• Quake
• Ultima Online
• Myst
• Fallout 2

What an interesting way to look at demographics!

Twisted Metal 2 Final Fantasy 7 Legend of Dragoon Final Fantasy 8 Hydro Thunder

Am I young or everyone else old?

• Super Mario Bros
• Delta Force
• Unreal tournament 99
• GTA San Andreas
• NFS Underground 2

Off the top of my head:

• Karate Champ II (arcade)
• Pac-Land (arcade)
• Gryzor aka Contra (Amstrad CPC)
• Sorcery (Amstrad CPC)
• Xenon (Atari ST)

Oh wait, Elite (BBC, Amstrad, and ST) — probably more so than Xenon.

Games that i bonded with my siblings playing growing up. Our lives would have not been the same without them.

Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, Xena Warrior Princess, Going Quackers, Pokémon Stadium

Commodore Vic 20/Commodore64: Clowns, Omega Race, a space station game, Ghosts and Goblins, Zork, there was a Transformers game (looked fan made), Lode Runner, and about a dozen more

Minecraft, Team Fortress 2, Apex Legends, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (1 and 2) and Terraria. I'm not very old X)

No order:

•Chrono Trigger •FFVII •Panzer Dragoon Saga •GTA3 •EverQuest •(Street Fighter Alpha 2 is up there too)

california games.
Flowers of crystal.
Tetris.
Daedelian opus.
Tetris.
ET because fuck me and fuck that game

I was in high school when I bought my first console, so it's pretty much just Landstalker and Phantasy Star IV.

• Pikachu volleyball. Legends, we played it in computer class
• Dota. The OG of moba
• snakes. The only game in our phone
• suikoden
• ff8

I m old.

Well, I'm not as old as some people, but here goes.

• Sonic Mega Collection

• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 ( w/ all expansions )

• Borderlands 1

• Worms Armageddon ( the xbox360 version )

• Destroy All Humans 2

That's usually the case for me too, but these games in the screenshot are older than the ones I tend to see in other posts like this so this one doesn't make me feel as old.

Sly cooper

Cod 4

Burnout 3

||| Child Youth gap |||

New Vegas

Borderlands 2

Going to date myself very specifically. 🙃

• Columns (played with my mom, she fucking loved that game so much she’d leave the console running between playtime to save her progress)
• Sonic spinball
• Golden axe/street fighter (both)
• Comix zone (this one even influenced my music tastes because it came with a CD - the first cd I ever owned. Still have it.)
• Dominion (now abandonware, similar to StarCraft but with laser fences and shit)

All of these were SNES/genesis other than dominion which was pc.

Whatever hockey game I had on genesis gets an honorable mention. It’s the only purely sports game I’ve ever played and liked.

• LEGO Universe
• Club Penguin
• Minecraft
• Space Engineers
• Skyrim

Hmm definitely Minecraft, Skyrim, and Sa2b. As for the other two… probably Town of Salem and Fantasy Life for the 3ds

I still play Minecraft, I played some modded skyrim last year (and got the oblivion remaster) and I literally got a steam deck primarily so I could play sa2b on it whenever I want. I’ve been loving the fantasy life sequel that just came out too. The only thing I don’t really play anymore is town of Salem bc the servers suck even worse now. So few players that you’re always stuck with racist trolls and shit

Basically, teen me had pretty good taste

Super Mario Bros 3 Dark Reign Unreal Tournament Homeworld Gears of War

super smash bros melee

tomodachi life

sonic adventure 2

will add last 2 if i can think of any