Stronghold. I remember it like it was only a few hundred years ago.Start the flashback!
Captain Death:Yip yip!
[flash back]
Me:I will have to put that under the maybe list,it could be fun wearing a top hat, along with holding a cane, dancing with a few skeleton minions dress the same wear,singing a song we made up.
Captain Death:Who are you talking to sir?
Me:Magic letters of sending,faster then a mailman.
Captain Death:Yip yip.Speaking of mailmen, something for you in the mail today.
Me:Let me see that.Stronghold?This could be a fun game.
[end flash back]

Yes good old stronghold.Made things like getting iron or wood for your bows or swords fun.Had a nice story,start out learning how to feed your people and then on wards to laying siege to the enemy stronghold.Fight enemies like the the Rat,Snake,Pig and the big bad Wolf.Building up a kingdom and armies,to keep your lands safe and destroy the enemy.Watching the bowmen fire their arrows, as the crossbowmen start to reload and the pikemen holding off the enemy swordsmen.


Great game and still great today, that made all of these things like getting x to make y fun.

I think Wolfenstien 3D was my first ever pc game. Either that or an old learning game like Gizmos and Gagets. God I miss that game. It was the only game that made science fun.....(hey in my defence i was 8 or 9 at the time).

DOOM was the ultimate game for me. I still play it non-stop.

Okay....And why was Doom "THE" game for you? What i meen is, what set it apart from all the rest? (Sorry, just keeping on track)

I had my doubts about Monster Hunter for the PS2 but I put over four hundred hours into it.

Can't really be arsed with any more online dependent games nowadays.

The tech was amazing, it's violent, it's bloody, it's fast paced, you could DM against your buddies and it still has a strong community creating content for it. There was nothing like it for me and a lot of other people.

Some of the things people have done with the source ports like ZDOOM and Skulltag blows my mind.

Ultima Online, hands down.

First mmo, I was 15 at the time. Had to get a debit card to play it, and that took convincing from me to my father to let me do that.

When I first logged in, hearing the now very memorable and nostalgic "stones" theme I didn't know what to expect. I was literally stepping into a whole new world, to a genre I had never played prior to it.

The game became "more" then a game for me, because I was constantly interacting not with npc's, and not just by killing people, but actually interacting with other real people socially, doing things you simply did not really do in any other games. We had parties, events, tournaments (few guilds get together, throw a tournament with prizes for who wins). I actually talked and had conversations with people that amounted to far more then the usual "smack talk" you'd do in any other online game, from personal discussions to chit chat to even more deep things with some people.

I made friends, I made enemies, and to this day I still keep in contact with some of the people that I met while playing the game.

What makes it all the more bittersweet is that there still is no other mmo that even compares to UO, just how the gmae was designed. A sandbox rpg world where YOU make up what you want to do, where people forge things themselves and even the gm's, etc did things (how many times have you came across gm's in WoW or other mmo's throwing parties and having in-game events like tornaments, etc)?

I feel lucky that I got to experience what will likely be the only (popular/AAA backed) mmo like that, but sad that for the WoW generation, they'll never know what mmo's "could" be because everyone is contempt copying everything that WoW compied (EQ/DAOC, etc) trying to get a piece of the pie.

Got to say honestly...Command and Conquer 95. The original, Dos based. I was around 8 years old at the time, we had just gotten our first computer, we had AOL and i still to this day remember that god awful whine dial-up made. But when my dad brought home C&C and i was allowed to play it, i was instantly hooked. The violence was absolutely awesome, it was not over the top, blood spraying everywhere but when a Inf. unit died they looked like the exploded. Then came the hours apon hours of gritty tactics and strategy. Took me a couple weeks to actually understand the game and what was supposed to happen, but after that point the game was just incredible. I dont think a single game to date has hooked me in like that one did. But then again, i was young, now i have some understanding of a game when it releases lol.

Hmmm...

Under a Killing Moon. I remember going to EB Games with my mother (which at that time had this huge wall of PC games) and looking for a new adventure game. She was leaning toward something else but I got my hands on that Under a Killing Moon box and I was really excited by it. I remember I was carrying it around along with that Bruce Willis game, whose name I cannot remember.

Anyway my mother trusted my judgment and bought the game and we played the whole thing through together and it was probably one of my brightest video game memories. Loved the game, loved the time spent with my mom (who gave up video gaming not long after) and loved Tex Murphy, the down on his luck yet charming loser who I might have modeled a bit of myself on, for better or worse.

Okay and why was it "THE" game for you. What set it apart or made it special to you?

MMO Wise
Asheron's Call 1+2

Back in the day this was "THE GAME" I couldn't stop playing it the world was awesome the magic system was always being updated and there were millions of players online all the time, and even though I like WOW the MMORPG games that will always be the "One" for me is Asheron's Call 1+2

Single Player Wise
Baldur's Gate 1

I don't know what it is about this game but the Intro was awesome I've re-watched it more then HOMM3 and its still above and beyond anything that has been put out in recent years, and I'm currently replaying BG1+2 thanks to GOG.

Fool me once shame on you Fool me twice WATCH IT! I'M HUGE!

Well, I was raised with console gaming on Nintendo and Sega stuff. I was also an arcade player. I didn't get a PC of my own until I was in college (early 1999) and that game was what actually showed me that PC gaming wasn't just a bunch of crappy console-clone games. The games had voice, a personality, and good acting (mostly). And an excellent storyline.

It also introduced me to some actors who I ended up liking over the years: Tim Curry (z0mg he's the clown from IT?!) and Mark Hamill (wait, whiny Luke, WTF!).

*shrugs*

Two games for me spring to mind, for different reasons. First I was a massive fan of the dizzy games on my brother's c64/amstrad/spectrum (we were spoilt at that time) computers, thinking back I don't know if I even understood them that well as I must have been somewhere been 4 and 6 years old, but I loved them nonetheless. Then I remember being in a games shop where I saw an amiga for the first time, seeing the amiga in action with treasure island dizzy being played - I was completely blown away, I needed to have that amiga. After trying, and failing, to earn some money myself, I found out that the reason I was being thwarted in the amazing cash generation schemes of a 6? year old by my parents was because they had got me one for my upcoming birthday, along with treasure island dizzy. I loved that amiga, and I think my involvement with it probably shaped my future to some extent, because it took my fascination with computers to a much deeper level at an early age.

A second memory which sticks out for me, not so much because of 'the' game, but because of the circumstances around it, was Sonic on the Megadrive. This was a little while after it had been released, and in all honesty I probably wasn't all that keen on it still at that point - but it was after a complete change in circumstances in my home life over a few years of a string of tragic events changing a stable, fairly wealthy home into a single disabled parent/penniless setting, and also immediately after a massive burglary in which most of our property was also stolen(with no insurance) including all of the gaming stuff I/we had.

Anyways it was one night when I was sitting there on the bare floor playing with a pack of cards, probably wondering to myself was this how people spent their time before Mario came along and saved the universe, when my mother decided she'd had enough of seeing me moping around and somehow managed to scrape together enough to buy a replacement megadrive with sonic out of the pittance we had left. Some may say this was irresponsible; I felt guilty as hell myself because she bought it when we couldn't afford it, but I'm not sure how I would have coped at that age without some form of escapism in the clusterfuck of a situation we were in. Sonic for me always brings back the memories of that purchase and the situation/sacrifices made surrounding it, along with a deep sense of guilt which probably stops me making impulse purchases to this day. Except for the wii sonic. I only feel disappointment when I think of wii sonic.

Apologies if this post is incoherent or poorly written, 4 hours'ish of sleep in 3 days and too lazy to proofread all that. I'm just going to assume it's perfect zooom.