(Summary: #1 Think of a game and #2. tell us WHY it was "THE" game for you.)

Hello Good Old Gamers, I have a qeustion for you. But before that I'd like you to think carefully. Doesn't have to be long and hard but just think.

Think back to when you first got your hands on a game. But not just any game, but "the" game. The game that when you first looked at the cover, you had your doubts. But wound up being somthing you played for hours on end when you were younger.

It could be any game from any PC (Dos, windows) or console (PS1, Saturn, Snes, Etc). It could be an under rated gem or a AAA title. It doesn't have to be just one either.

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Now that you thought about it long enough here is my question.

What was that game and why did you like it?

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To be fair I will tell you mine

Duke Nuken 3D for MS-Dos!

This game was "The" game for me! Nothing came close (in my opinion) to this action packed, adrenaline pumping, crude humorous fps roller coaster!

okay, okay, breath.....

Of course I may be overstating but hey thats what nostalgia does. I could go on for hours on how great this game was but.......I don't think you would have the patience.

Probably Heroes of Might and Magic 2.
I remember trying the demo from a magazine in December 1996/January 1997 (I'm not sure about the date and cba to find that magazine). I've shown it to my friends and it ended up everyone of us playing the demo with a single map (Broken Alliance). Heck, we even sometimes played it together and changed for every turn, so we had our own kind of hot-seat.

Then we somehow got the full version and the gaming orgies began.
I still play it from time to time, when nostalgia strikes me. I'm no pro in it, by any means, I just enjoy playing it.

And why do I still like it? Well, who knows Heroes series, knows the "just one more turn" syndrome. Add the beautiful opera music and stylish graphics......curse you, now you made me want to play it again.

Wizball for the C64. The game was so strange on the surface, so different from anything else I'd seen or played, but once I got into it and learned how the game mechanics worked, I found one of the greatest games ever made. I still play it from time to time.

Panzer Dragoon Saga. I never really liked JRPG's but the day I put that into the CD tray of my Saturn I wondered where the game had been all my life. The Panzer Dragoon games were good on-rails shooters but Team Andromeda not only made an RPG on their first attempt but made IMO the best JRPG of all time. All those fools who went on about Final Fantasy VII... they didn't know what they were missing.

Gabriel Knight Mysteries.

That's probably the best intro to adventure gaming anyone could ever have.

Wizardry 7. At first I thought it was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen, and I got it as part of a bundle with my Pentium 75 (lol) so it didn't have a game manual with it. I spent a few hours trying to figure out how everything worked, and then I played through the beginner's dungeon.

After that, I was hooked forever. Heck, I didn't even figure out how to equip items until about a week later, and I STILL loved it, with my naked fighter-types punching mythical monsters to death. It's the game that got me started on RPGs in the first place, both video and tabletop.

I still play it to this day, and it hasn't lost any of its charm. Sadly it's not available on GOG... yet.

i absolutely love this game, it was amazing from beginning to end

What was "The" game for you Mr. Scoffin? I dont mind praise. But please follow that praise with a game that you liked and why you liked it (just wanna keep on track).

I would have to say Fallout is *the* game for me.


I remember poking around in my local Wal-Mart many, oh way too many, moons ago looking for something new as I had finished Doom 2 not too long ago. I saw this brown box with an armored character on it and the name "Fallout A Post-Apocalyptic Role-Playing Game". Thus intrigued, I began a thorough inspection of said box. Flipping it over and over, squinting at the tiny screenshots of even tinier people going about their business in a video game world. I bought the game and proceeded to read through the thick ring-bound manual that came with it.

After I got home and installed the game and beat it a week later I knew that THIS is the perfect game. Nothing has come close to matching the simple beauty and elegance of Fallout except, of course, its sequel : Fallout 2 :D.

The Last Ninja 2. Though, we didn't have boxes then. ;)

There have been quite a few games that do this for me but I think one of the titles that hits me the hardest with nostalgic bliss is:


The Last Express. I first heard about it from my Myst cd. There was a trailer and a readme with it. The trailer didn't work on my then computer but I was very interested (I've loved the World War 1 era for a long time and always adored passenger trains and mysteries). I remember I went shopping with my parents one day and lo and behold, there the game was. I asked dad if I could have it and he told me I could put it in the cart.

I absolutely loved it from the first time I played it, actually had to ask for the guide that Christmas since there was a point I kept failing at completely and we had 56K and I was only allowed to go online at certain times so a net walkthrough wasn't an option. :P To this day I still get very happy when I hear the title screen music. :)

Ah, sh*t, i forgot, sorry!:)

TLN2 showed me what "home computer" games can really do, as opposed to what console did back then. It had all the stuff i wanted from a game, a story, varied levels, fights, puzzles, awesome graphics and music. The music especially had a great impact on me, a real kicker for my imagination. Two tracks were Tangerine Dream covers, which i think would sound awesome on guitars. Actually, my interest in metal music, came from that game, from that very "this would sound cool on a guitar" thinking while listening to the ingame version of Midnight in Tula.
And it's THE game that made me obsessed with games and want to be a game designer, filling my head with a lot of ideas and designs.Sadly, times have changed.

Is this ok?:)

Shining Force from the Sega Genesis. It was probably the first 'tactical' RPG that I ever played. I loved having allies with what passed for personalities, loved the graphic palette, loved the battles. I soaked hour upon hour into that game, but when I finished it, it felt as if it was over too soon.

X-Com for me (this was back in 1996/97). I just got my first computer, a pretty crappy obsolete 386, but I didn't really care because I didn't know any better (I was like 10 or 11 at the time).

I was in some store with my dad and he said I could have a game from there. I had no idea because I had almost no knowledge about computers and what worked on them. He got 2 games off the shelf and said they'd work. One of them was some submarine simulator or something. The other was X-Com (Or UFO: Enemy Unknown because I was living in England at the time). We decided this UFO game was the better choice.

I think that was the first PC game I'd ever owned. Currently it is tied for my #1 game of all time (with Civilization II), and still play it on occasion.