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.

Are floppies allowed?

Unreal Tuornament is my fav.

super mario kart

Legend of Zelda - NES
Blaster Master - NES
Golden Axe - Genesis

if they are...

X-Com: UFO Defense !

o how could i not metion zelda

that game owns all

Chrono Trigger
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bubble Bobble
Super Mario 3
Oregon Trail(jus cuz i played that in elementary comp class.. instead of doing my assignment)!

Donkey Kong Country was good, and number 2 was better.

Also, Super Smash Bros and Mario Party were, and still are, the epitomes of party games. Sure, the sequels have improved on and refined the formula, but in all, the original and the best holds true.

Tecmo Super Bowl - only football game I ever liked. My friends and I used to stay up all night playing this thing in my dorm room. Damned near got me kicked out school.

Zombies Ate my Neighbors, Earthworm Jim, River Raid, River city Ransom, Granada (Sega), Parsec (TI), Adventure (TI), Super Bomberman I & II, Gyruss...

I could go on for hours. I wish I could find some of my old systems and the games on them.

Where cartridge-based games are concerned, I've only owned a NES, Gameboy and GBA. So there's a shitlist of games I still have to catch up to. Nevertheless:

NES: Super Mario 3
SNES : Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger (I'm yet to finish any of these, I'll get around to it one of these days. Thank god for emulation)
Gameboy : Tetris, of course

Wasteland is my contribution to the list

doubt I can complete the list, I'll try to keep it short

Chrono Trigger, Metroid, Super Metroid, All 4 TMNT Games (4 is awesome multiplayer badness), All Mega Man Games (X is sweet, I make that game look simple), Zelda, All three Contras ( I own 1 and 2 ;)), Snake Rattle & Roll, Marble Madness, Arch Rivals, Super Spike 'n' Vollyball, Super Dodgeball.. oh man the list goes on! heh.

There was this one game for the C64.. I can't remember the name, but you were this little stickman that had to collect orbs. there was either a time limit or some other guy you had to race. At harder levels bullets would shoot past the screen at varying speeds. With a color monitor it was all rainbow colors ;) Oh one of the really hard levels was that it was invisible, and you had to creep along to show the board without falling off...... Soon after they shot bullet at you too.. heh

NES - Conflict
SNES - Secret of Mana or Ogre Battle

orge battle is amazing

the story line and war aspect make it a fantastic game

the only problemis the amout of time it takes to beat it

and getting the best ending is very hard as well

Much respect. River City Ransoms owns.

Some of my other favorites are Castlevania 3, Final Fantasy 2(4), and if old school arcade games count, Final Fight.

NES Russian Attack, Metroid, Zelda, Contra :love:

Atari 2600 Defender, Pitfall, and Q-Bert.

I can't remember the system my cousin had, but the controllers had inserts you put in and I remember doing his fucking chores so I could get my fix of mid 80's Joust :thumbsup:

How could I forget:eek:
Madden 1993 for SEGA! Any football game where "PUNT RUSH" is the unstoppable defense should be mentioned.

NES: Duck Hunt
NES: Commando
NES: Dr.Mario
SNES: Super Mario 3

Starcontrol 2. All the way.

They have a great remake at StarControl-Timewarp

Good thread! Makes me wanna break out my old systems...

- Mario 3
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Street Fighter 2 (and Alpha)
- Mario Cart
- Mega Man games
- Tetris (NES, first one I think)
- Pilot Wings
- Mario Paint
- Punch Out (Mike Tyson's)
- GoldenEye 007 (N64, kind of old school)
- Pictionary
- Mega Man X
- Donkey Kong games
- And many more!

Contra, Ninja Gaiden, and Crystalis for the NES.

Since no one has added this:

Double Dragon on the NES.

I just recently beat Mike Tyson's Punch-out!! and I realized why I stopped playing it as a little kid the end was just Turbo from American Gladiators gay.

Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Super Metroid (beating it without the grappling beam is a biatch...)
Zelda: A Link to the Past

The SNES just had KILLER games for it. Oh how I wish those days were back again. :P

Lucas Arts adventure games for PC:
Grim Fandango
The Monkey Island series
Indiana Jones series
Day of the Tentacle
Maniac Mansion

Than there's the Police Quest series by Sierra

And I was addicted to WCW Revenge, Goldeneye, and Mario Kart for N64.

Bad Dudes (NES)
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (NES)
Battle Toads (NES)
Double Dragon (NES)
Duck Hunt (NES)
Contra (NES)

legacy of the ancients for c64

Galaga. :(

X-com
Contra
Sword of Kadash
Prince of Persia

ninja gaiden-nes
power pro wrestling-nes
excitebike-nes
super mario world -snes
joe montana football-genesis
monday night raw-snes
super punchou-snes
punchout-nes

nes:
super dodge ball
mario series
zelda series
metroid
contra
punchout
faxanadu

snes
chrono trigger
FFs
secret of mana
secret of evermore
metal warriors
metroid
punchout
zelda

Few games i really enjoyed were.

Shadowrun
Legend of Zelda
Mario Brothers
Contra
Final Fantasy
Phantsy Star Or however it was called.
Pong
Metroid
That one game were you could Hackysack in it and rollerblade. Damn i forgot the title of it.

Early PC games i enjoyed.
All of Sierra's games :>

Favorite MUD
Gemstone 3 <-- spent years here

The original Tecmo Bowl was even better.. the New York team had that one really fast ass linebacker that could outrun anyone.

Chrono Trigger and FF3

Most of my faves have already been mentioned, so I'll skip 'em.

Strider (Genesis)
X-Men 1 & 2 (Genesis)
Actraiser (SNES)
Caveman Games (NES) -Actually, it isn't that great, but I love the concept, and have great memories of playing it with my sister.

NES: Rush 'N Attack (no it is not Russian :) ) is by far the best nes game in my opinion.

SNES: Secret of Mana, I like it even more than FF7, also love Shadowrun and Super Tecmo Bowl.

Mario All-Stars for my SNES. Damn thing doesn't save any more for some reason.

Is it a little too sad that I still remember the cheat code for Contra? :lol:

My list:
Atari: For some reason, I really liked Burger Time :lol: oh, and Kaboom!
NES: Contra, Super Mario Bros. 3, Punch Out, Legend of Zelda, California Games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
Genesis: Sonic of course, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Earthworm Jim...
PC: King's Quest, Space Quest, and going even more old school, Leather Goddesses of Phobos and Lemonade Stand.

...I want to play all these again now. :D

Super Tecmo Bowl-NES
Super Mario Kart-SNES
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time-SNES
My .02

-Dostoevsky

Nes/Snes

Mega Man Series
Zelda Series
Bionic Commando
River City Ransom (yes, this game kicked ass!)

PC

X-Wing
Master of Magic
Wolfenstein 3D

Police Quest
Aladdin on GENESIS! not teh snes one
Teh old Castlevanias
And if thats the case, Grand Theft Auto 3
lol

Not really, since they sell it on t-shirts. That and it was really, really easy to remember.

galactica.. I think its what its called, the most hypnotising music ever!
duck hunt
tecmo bowl
duke nukem
wolfenstein 3-D, though the graphics were very far from 3D
of course Mario Bros

I believe mine would also have to be wolfenstein, and I absolutely loved return to castle wolfenstein, its a great remake

Ooh, Contra t-shirts...I've actually never seen them. I'll have to look for them next time I'm in the States.

Check places like Hot Topic they have a lot of "Old School" shirts they have a tendency to be on the expensive side. I got Homer's Pin Pals bowling shirt there, I love it.

And I would also have to put in my vote to Leisure Suit Larry as one of my favorite old school games.

Double Dragon or Tecmo Super Bowl

ooh that reminded me of base wars. any game where you fight for a base is cool in my book

Super Techmo Bowl!!
Zelda
Punch Out
Castlevania (first one)
Bases Loaded

WORMS.. dont know if that counts

and raiden is super fun

Back when I was in elementary school, we had macs and a game called Dino Park was on it. It was a tycoon type game where you keep dinosaurs as pets and get people to visit them, kind of like a zoo. A bunch of us would constantly play it and get competitive on earning the most amount of money. Great game and it was quite addicting.

Zelda: Link to the Past & Super Mario Bros

They have T-SHIRTS?!? :eek:
I so have to get one now, Contra for the NES was fricken awesome! ^_^

Other great old-skool NES games:
Megaman 2-- The Metal Gun was simply the best gun any of the games in the series have ever had, proving the fact that the uglier the color of the new costume the cooler the gun. :D
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game-- which was actually better in the arcades with 4 people, IMO.
Bible adventures-- I don't care what anyone else thinks, the Noah's Ark game was fun. Any game where you get to stun pigs with bales of hay, then balance them on top of your head, scores points in my book.

EXCITEBIKE!

That was a classic if there was ever one! I still remember hitting the buttons to groove to the beat at the end of levels [Unless my memory is failling me, which it often does...]

Others include:

NES: The Three Mario Games [1,2,3], The Mega Man Series [1 through 8 or 9], Zelda, Double Dragon and Duck hunt.

SNES:

Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasies [1,2,3]
Mega Man X, X2, X3 Earthbound
Terranigma (Not really well known) Secret of Mana 1 and 2
Secret of Evermore,
Illusion of Gaia
Sunset Riders
Aerofighters
Contra 3
Turtles in Time
Mario Cart
Actraiser [One Not Two]
and Super Mario World!

Hmm... From all these, I'd have to say Final Fantasy three would Just edge out the others for the number one spot.

Gothmog: I loved Starcontrol and Starcontrol 2! Brilliant games!

snes: Earthbound
...hmm...Earthbound was one of the strangest rpgs i had ever seen...the enemies were strange(crazed hippies, mean bag ladies, feeble old men, etc), and the battle items were weird(frying pans and baseball bats)...and the story line wasn't typical of an rpg either(i remember having to save a girl from the 'happy happist cult')...but it was one of the best rpgs i ever played.

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start.

Relax your not the only one...

Games
NES:
Final Fantasy
Contra
Metal Gear
Double Dragon
Punch Out

SNES:
Final Fantasy 2&3
Crono Trigger
Super Punch Out
Mario World
Mario RPG (Best Mario Game EVER!)

ZZZZEEEEELLLLLLDDDDDDAAAA

I cant believe no one has said "Speedball" on the megadrive. I loved that game. I played it so much I burnt the cartridge out. If I knew where to buy it now I would. That was such a cool game.

Shining Force

Simply the greatest RPG ever. Ever. EVER!

double dragon... i remember a 15 minute wait minimum at the arcades when that game first came out. all the 7-11's had one and you could play all day an night. of course if you died, the person with their quarter up had next.