Most Favorite Older School Game
 

Now, to define old school, we will say any game that came in cartridge form. That discludes PS, PS2, Dreamcast, GC, and any other non-cartridge games. For the N64, use your judgement as that is a newer system that came out while non-cartridge games were also coming out.

I have a long list, only because I cannot make decisions.

1-Gyroscope for NES
2-Metriod, but even more so, Super Metroid
3-Zombies ate my Neighbors
4-Super Mario Brothers 3
5-Mario Paint

NES: Legend of Zelda, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, SMB3, Contra
SNES: Street Fighter II, Super Bomberman II, F-Zero
Older School: Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Q-Bert
also Final Fantasy 1 through 6.
are what immediately come to mind

Wisdom Tree's Bible Adventures for NES
Particurally, Noah's Arc mode.
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You had to return all the animals to the boat, and you could fit about four animal on your head before they start to fall off. They could also hurt you and you had to answer bible questions to regain your health. Now thats what I call religion!:D

Pac-man
Space Invaders
Metriod

Ha, I own Bible Adventures. Weird game. I also have another Bible game... it's called King of Kings. Very similar.

I'd say Mario 3
Pac-man
Mario Paint
Destiny of an Emperor (NES RPG, reminded me of Pokemon, which if you ignore the kiddy hype around it was a good game)
Final Fantasy
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Mega Man X

0) Chopper (or whatever that classic on the C-64 was called)
1) Pacman
2) Bard's Tale
3) Mario Brothers on Atari 7800 (broke one million on that one after 6 plus hours and clearing level 100 where the game loops again)
5) Pole Position on the same platform - still my favourite racing game
6) Orginal Wolfenstein and Doom

I had that one too, with the three wise men and others. That was a better game than the above mentioned one IMO.

final fantasy tactics advance!!!

if that's the way it's going to be.. <b>SOBE IT!!!</B>

w00t, bible adventures good? I just finished slagging it off in the worst games thread :P sorry if anyone takes offence, but I thought it was awful.

Anyways, my favs:
Sonic series
Prince of Persia (snes)
Super Metroid
Flashback
Another world
Blackthorn

Gotta rack my brain here for a second....

Kung Fu (Atari 2600)
King's Quest V (pc)
Super Mario 3
Super Spike V-Ball (nes) :cool:

Come on people, more than 10 posts and no mention of River City Ransom??!? wow.........

"What's this? A fighting game where you get money to buy things?!?!!" Blew my mind......

Ha. I think it's both good and bad... hard to explain what I mean.
It's fun but it's still a horrid game, IMO.

Sorry, I have to go with the computer game Hotrod II.

the evolution of Zelda is great...

i really love the old orginal style on the NES and the the SNES... but the transformation on N64 and thus the GameCube is phenomenal...

so my fav old school games would have to be the Legend of Zelda.

I really didn't play alot of console games, since I've never owned a single console in my life, but the ones that did stand out after I started using emulators are:

NES: Super Mario Brothers 3
NES: Astyanax
SNES: Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past
SNES: Mario World
SNES: Chrono Trigger
SNES: Final Fantasy III/VI/whatever it is... the awesome one

Classic stuff... they don't make em like this anymore.

1.) UN Squadron
2.) Mario Paint
3.) Track and Field (for the NES... with the runner pad)
4.) DUCK HUNT (quack quack)
5.) Pilot Wings


UN Squadon kicked major ass back in the day... I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned.... or maybe I missed it.

I love playing a lot of the older games some of my foavorites are:

1) pong - using the paddles built into the console
2) ghostbusters - commadore 64
3) horse race- TI 99/4A
4) parsec - TI 99/4A
5) Frogger - Atari 2600
6) Combat - Atari 2600
7) the mario series on NES including game boy ( orginal gey screen)
8) Zelda series

that is all I can rember right now even though there is a lot more to be enjoyed.

i passed UN squardon the first time i played it.. it's damn easy.. that's probably why it hasn't been mentioned.. i like gradius and r-type better..

^^

Bards Tale - C64
Stunt Car Racer - Amiga
Chaos - ZX Spectrum
Atic Attack - ZX Spectrum

Keystone Caper - Atari
Ghoul Patrol - SNES (it was like Zombies Ate My Neighbors but 9 million times better)
Soldiers of Fortune -SNES
Kangaroo - Atari
Gyruss - If you don't know then you shouldn't be playing video games.
Bonanza Bros - Genesis
Rise of the Dragon - Sega CD
Dark Savior - Sega Saturn
Dragon Force - Sega Saturn
Just about anything with the word "Castle" in the title.
Ultima - see Gyruss
Dragon Warrior series - see Gyruss.

My list goes on and on and on... but those are some of my favs.
It just seems that console game makers have lost their touch and are only holding onto the short attention span market. Games aren't fun on consoles any more and PC game makers aren't making games anymore... they're making half games and releasing patches to make up for their initial mistakes.

River Raid - Atari 2600
Leisure Suit Larry - PC
Star Control - Genesis
Star Fox - Super NES
Rise of the Dragon - Sega CD
Cosmic Chasm - Vectrex
Rush'n Attack - NES

Oh, and Joe Montana Sports Talk Football - The football game sucked but the anouncers were sooo cool and inovative.

Castlevania series (all platforms)
Legend of Zelda series (all platforms)
Phantasy Star series (all platforms)
Final Fantasy series (all platforms)

Tecmo Super Bowl.

(Bo Jackson is God.)

Fuzzix said Flashback..god I love that game. I play it over and over and over on my gen. I also like Shadowrun for the genesis..those two still get play on the lil black box..

That game is almost a religion in my dorm.

as far as my picks go,

Super Mario World;
Super Metroid;
Super C;
Super Mario RPG;
Chrono Trigger;
Donkey Kong Country I,II,III;
Legend of Zelda;
and Any Sonic game you care to mention.

OOO, ToeJam and Earl, the first one. On Gennesis. THAT was fun!

Here's SIX nobody's mentioned, unless I missed it:

Contra (NES)
BattleToads (NES)
Dynamite Headdy (Genesis)
Bionic Commando (NES)
Earthworm Jim (Genesis/SNES)
Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Genesis)

Bionic Commando (NES)
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
Mega Man (NES)
Super Mario 3 (NES)
Legend of Zelda (NES)

Super Mario 3 on the nes. First video game I ever played and still in my top five of all-time greatest games.

NES-Ledgend of zelda, lolo, mario.
SNES-Zelda, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, Chrono Trigger, Secret of mana, Secret of evermore, Zombies ate my neigbors, Rock and Roll racing, Super Metroid, Street Fighter II, Mario. ( i know there is more)

I forgot to mention Elite on the C64. So much of my teenage life was spent on that game. Even by todays standard it is still worth playing as it is so addictive.
Also for multiplayers a game called MULE. Again this was on the C64.

Frostbite - Atari 2600
H.E.R.O. - Atari 2600
Solaris - Atari 2600
Gyruss - Atari 2600

I also liked Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, Cross Country Canada and Number Munchers on the old Apple computer at school.:D

oh how do you spell it


nes kid icarus

great game

snes uncharted waters2 new horizans

I never could understand why people liked that game...but to each their own; I know I like games others hate.

Every Super Mario Bros game that ever came out
the first zelda for nes
duck hunt for nes
Street Fighter 2 for snes
pacman for whatever, arcade, nes, whatever
tetris for gameboy, and i had the little adapter thing for snes so you could play gameboy games on the snes, so i could bust out tetris on the big screen

On the PS2 currently playing:
Dynasty Warriors 4 (huzzah - great game)
Silent Hill 3 (requires nerves of steel)

On the PC:
Etherlords 2 (not bad)
Ghost Master (cross between Dungeon Master & The Sims)
And still running around in Morrowind.

Want to play some of the newer PC games but my computer spec isn't quite up to it.

tecmo super bowl (check out sblueman.com for an updated rom edition)

baseball stars

bill walsh college football 95

Shadow Run for SNES

Rocket Knight Adventures for the Sega Genesis.

Golden Axe 2 for Sega Genesis.