I have been playing video games for many, many years. I remember having a Sears Pong / snake/ basic programming game system. I vividly remember the Christmas where my brother and I received an Atari 2600. I remember buying my first game (at Sears of all places), spending all night playing, and wanting nothing more than to hang out with my friend taking turns to see who could get the farthest. I remember hearing that a kid down the street had a high score inPitfall that more than quadruped my best effort, and how I would practice and play every night so I too could hold such a record.I must have spent half my youth at an arcade, Tilt, wasting my allowance on any game I could play.One of my best football games ever was played on a very bad 4 player NES football game. Man was that game bad. The field was diagonal, but the game was 4 players.Bill fumbled on the goal line at the last second and lost the game. Tothis day thatmoment sticks with him, and we don't let him forget it.NHL 94 on the Sega CD - I will take on anyone. I majored in that game in college. Firstgame that scared the ever ling piss out of me was notResident Evil, although good, it had no comparison to the first Silent Hill. God Damn that game. The last half of the game I just spent running, running away from everything. Somehow I solved it, but man that game was pure evil. Demolitionracing on the PS1 was where it was at. Toy commander on theDreamcast was an amazing multiplayer experience. NFL 2k, dam that was a great game; too bad EA and the NFL are whores. GTA.That changed everything, not since Doomhad I played a game that I could not stop playing. I could still draw maps of the city in GTA and the first several levels of Doom. Halo was anothergame that owned me. Not so much for thedeath match, but for the multiplayer campaign. I must have played a few of those levees a few hundred times with my friends. Hell, all I have played for the past year has beenBattleField Bad Company. Destruction, vehicles, and snipers, all ina massive multiplayer game -again I am amazed. Just when I think I can not be impressed anymore, bam.
loaded up the old 2600 again. That's right it was Sea Quest time agian. You know the more I play that game, the more I realize that, that game is just rock solid, kick ass, twitch shooter from hell and beyond. The more I thought about my love for the game I started to think of what games Istill play and love as much as I did the first time I played them. So here is my uber kick ass list del fuego:
Bioshock (for some reason it just does not get old no mater how many times I play through it)
X-Com (Top 5 games of all time. Period. Turn based combat can still kick ass)
Sea Quest
Doom (The first few levels I can draw a map with pen and paper, sad I know, sad but true)
Battelfield: Bad Company (they just got it right)
Counter Strike (once you get ride of all the cheaters, it is just a simple fun game)
Mario 64 andSuper Mario Bros. 3 (platforming at it's best)
NHL 94 (sega CD) (I know sega CD, but the game is just hands doen the best hockey game ever. Sorry, but I own to this day at that game)
There are more, but this is the short list.
