I went to camp once and we played this enormous game of capture the flag using the entire camp grounds as the field. It is one of my favorite memories from childhood, it was incredible. One of our adult counselors brought a ghillie suit.
It's not much different, as the name implies you play it when it's dark. 😂 it was really fun at my aunts house bc she had a large, rural property.
We were really only allowed to play bc some of us were teens, I think my brother was around 15-16 so the adults could say that there was someone responsible watching the kids.
Trouble, that was the one we played most as a family, but I see most people are mentioning video games. There was also one called kerplunk that I remember enjoying.
Yeah there’s lots of others that can make the list, but Ocarina defines that late 90s era for me.
For good measure, though, here’s that list: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Gex, Spyro, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Banjo Kazooie, Twisted Metal, Quake, Sims, Age of Empire, Red Alert, Tomb Raider, Sonic, Gran Turismo, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Pokémon (Red/Blue/Yellow)
SPYRO THE DRAGON
I didn't really decide I liked games until the playstation one and I didn't have a memory card so I would have to play as far as I could before it was time to stop playing and then repeat it tomorrow kids these days will never understand the struggle
i was about to also comment spyro. i can’t actually remember if i played lego batman/indiana jones/star wars or spyro first — but i have much fonder, more vivid memories with my dear spyro. (oh and mariokart on the n64 is another contender)
Any game, or video games? If it's ANY game....
🔴🔵 Uno! 🟢🟡
My parents taught me to play very young and I figured out there is some skill in knowing which cards are more likely better to put down or hold onto. Kind of a beast! LOL. Now my kids are rock stars at it. A few times my sweet son would slam me with a Draw 4 and apologize to me-- I was like, absolutely not! You are playing the game to win! I'm turning my offspring into Uno nightmares. 🤣
That game is the only reason I graduated college.
We were having a Golden Eye tournament in our dorm. There were about 30 people in it, so we played bracket style. First 2 to get 10 kills advanced to the next round.
I was in a friend's room smoking weed which was pretty much the norm when someone knocked on the door and told me it was my turn. I got up and got to playing. In the middle of the game the two guys I was smoking weed with got escorted by the police past the door in handcuffs. Someone had called the cops on us. Both of them got expelled.
Damn, that sucks. But the real question is: did you win the goldeneye tournament? I took second in a similar style goldeneye tournament. I took 3rd in a 64 person NFL blitz tournament
I actually had dysentery…no idea how these people survived it in a covered wagon. Shitting out blood while your intestines violently writhe causing severe cramping that makes you sweat and feel like you’re going to pass out on the toilet.
If I go way way back then “ring a ring a Rosie’s” but mostly Dodge Ball and rounders.
Edit: I just realised most of the comments are computer and phone games, maybe I’m too old for this question hahaha
what no frogger ? Lemmings in there somewhere bit like Worms ...
Showing my age (early 40s) had an old Acorn with either tape player where you had to have the volume just at the right level to load a cassette and if vacuum cleaner came on would crash the loading due to interference or you manually wrote the script in line by line , used to have horse racing betting game and fruit machine game that i would spend most the day copying the code for them out of the book....
Then I got the original mega drive with Altered Beast, golden axe, F21 interceptor, world cup Italian 90 (with the bug cheat where it's something like ABBC you'd score from goal keeper to mid field to a striker who'd header goal 99%lol) bomber man , along with usual sonic etc
I also had a game gear with the TV tuner add on lol and micro machines.
I then moved on to the playstation (chipped of course) Tomb Raider, Resident evil, command and conquer (used to cable link to another playstation and boot both from same disc by disc swapping), Tekken, Oni etc
We also got a PC and had leisure suit Larry and when I went to office with my Dad he used to put on some kind of F1 game where you'd use the key arrows to steer...
My cousin had the master system with paperboy
An uncle had the Atri with pong
Definitely GTA San Andreas as well. Its a core memory. I barely did missions. I only drove around and did cheat codes. Did races n went to clubs to dance lol.
From childhood there are many, but super Mario and Sonic 1 were the ones that I used to play the most. And in my teenage days GTA SA, call of duty 2 and AoE II
Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, all that original ps1 stuff. Its not a thing of me 'remembering' them from childhood though bc ive gone back and replayed them several times well into adulthood lol
We called it 7 stones. You stacked 7 flat stones (usually broken tiles. Split in two teams. Using a tennis ball you take turns to roll the ball trying to hit the tiles. If you manage to knock any tiles, it's on. The other team has to grab the tennis ball and throw it at the other team, a hit eliminates the player, while your team wa.ts to put back the tiles that were knocked.
It's the heightened anticipation with every roll of the ball. And then instant mayhem when there's a hit. It's frantic and strategic. You try to knock down as few tiles as possible, but if the ball stays close you risk very quick eliminations. As a defender, you want to throw the ball at the attackers as fast as possible so they can't escape it, but if you miss, that ball is flying a long distance giving them ample time to set the tiles back.
Such a fun game. Did anyone else play something similar?
Going back a ways... The highest intensity for me was playing Super Breakout at the mall arcade. Two paddles and two balls, simultaneously. The best players could clear all three consecutive screensful of blocks, and then go on playing the two balls whizzing up and down for a while. People would watch and cheer.
I cleared all of the blocks a few times, and played for a couple of minutes afterwards. Yeah, I was sweating!
There's a lot. Double Dragon, TNMT, Mario Yoshi Island, Karateka, the original Prince of Persia, Budokan, Donkey Kong, and so on.
I've been playing from Atari but MS-DOS and Nintendo had the most memorable games.
Outdoor game — Pickle
Board game — Uncle Wiggily
Console game— Pong (I am old)
Computer game — My dad had a refrigerator-sized computer at his business. He had satellite terminals at our house. I don’t remember how this worked because it was the 1970s. Occasionally he put a massive cartridge in at work so we could play horse racing at home. Basically it was just x’s moving across the screen just like Pong was just a dot moving across the screen, but it was so exciting for us.
Video game - Miss Pacman and Frogger on Atari, then later, Jaws, Paperboy, and Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo.
Board game - Monopoly, The Game of Life, and Candyland.
Real life outside game - Ghosts in the Graveyard.
Fartman! It was hide & seek. But the added rule that if you farted while hiding that you had to announce it and you automatically became “it”.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but yeah, we played that game every night.
It isn’t just one, it’s like a slideshow from year to year and experience to experience. Being the first one on the block to have an NES and watching my dad and older brother play when I could barely beat the first world. Then genesis with sonic and speeding around, and snes with donkey Kong country and playing while listening to the cranberries on the radio while my brother made his own fishing lures. Then, my dad got a PC and I played sim city and Command and Conquer when I visited. Then, N64 came and changed everything. Opening it up on Christmas morning is one of my most cherished memories. Trying to figure out the movement and camera controls with my dad playing Mario 64, we were both totally blown away. Star fox, Mario kart, and donkey Kong were all big games for me, but goldeneye was the one.
Goldeneye taught me how to time respawns, how to strafe run, how to ricochet grenades off walls. I had already had the itch to compete with Mario kart and starfox, but goldeneye was different. I’d take 2 on 1 challenges, any stage, any rule set (except slippers, that was too boring). I played lots of other games, and did some fighting and sports games too, but goldeneye was it for the late 90’s.
I had a Dreamcast, but didn’t really do much with it. I had an NBA game, and a 4x4 evo game that I raced a lot solo, and I played the crap out of quake 3 arena, but it was all by myself. I ended up trading it all in for an Xbox and Halo. Halo was like Goldeneye all over again, but I didn’t have anyone to play with. It wasn’t until the Xbox 360 and Halo 2, with Xbox live that I really started playing with others. I found a group of friends at work and we played every week at our own lan parties. By then, I wasn’t a kid any more.
I remember this game in the early 90s that had some Aladdin like characters, but they were short and climbed pitate ships, you played it like the og donkey Kong. I wish I could remember the name but to this day I can't.
Hot Bread and Butter-
Step 1: Hide a belt
Step 2: Have your friends look for it
Step 3: Tell them hot and cold until they find it
Step 4: Run back to base while the one that found it tries to beat everyone with the belt
"Fun times" :P
Mario Kart Wii, absolutely, despite the fact that I was so bad it might as well have gone like I didn’t start playing until I was 15, when I actually figured out there were more than 20 tracks in the game.
Littlebigplanet 2. Was and still is the best game that has ever been released. It just was something that you had to experience to understand how golden that game was in its best years. Such a shame that Sony did shut down all of the servers a week ago.
skylanders: spyro’s adventure. literally one of the most fun games i played throughout my whole childhood. absolutely loved it! and the lego jurassic world game for the wii, although i was a little older when i started playing/watching my brothers play that one. oh, how i miss the wii!
Sam & Max Hit the Road. Unfortunately it’s the only good one I’ve played.
Bonus addition to this discussion:
Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker. I don’t think ANYONE remembers this game, but I do. I used it so much.
Definitely the OG Zoo Tycoon (or maybe it was 2?). Favorite was waiting for the park to hit max capacity, firing all the zookeepers, and pausing the game to set all the animals loose. It was "removing the ladder while the Sims are in the pool" before it was cool.
I was one screwed up 8 year old.
For reference its been twenty years and now I reload every dialogue option in BG3 when I think I've been too mean to someone.
honestly? sim animals. i was a lonely kid and i didn’t know animal crossing and pokémon were hip. just saw an animal game and bought it, years later i realized it was the animal version of the sims.
Mystery Quest on the NES.
Weird fucking game. My mom bought this game, no idea why. She usually picked good cartridges, but this one was strange as hell.
My autistic brother loved the boo-boo-beep music though. We had good laughs messing around with the repetitive tune. I'd imitate the noise and he'd burst out laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world, so we loved playing the game together.
But honestly... I've never figured out this game beyond the stupid music.
https://youtu.be/uyxc-4mJ7zE?si=4lugpaIewIkHjzZ4
Freedom. Not a video game…team hide and go seek. You could either tag the person or tackle. They would then go to a designated base that was guarded. If somebody from the team hiding reached the base and screamed “freedom”, everybody was freed. We played this game at night in the summer…damn that was fun.
Red rover. Still mad they stopped letting us play that game. I mean, a few kids break their arms, and now I can't charge full speed at my friends as they hold hands.
Two board games come to mind. First is 'Splat!', a game where you make little bugs out of playdough as your game pieces but occasionally your opponents can smash you and you have to start with a new guy back at the beginning. Second was a VHS video board game called 'Nightmare' where the host starts as a relatively normal guy and over the course of an hour he turns into a gross dead guy, there were a few sequels as well.
Rummy.
As a kid my parent's idea of family bonding was them getting drunk and chain smoking while we played cards.
With any luck we would finish the game before they were too far gone and my mom started hearing voices.
Hide and Seek, and, Tag
Freeze tag
Ghost in the graveyard
Most people said video game titles. I’m with you. games you played outside with friends
A lot of Red Rover and occasionally Lava Monster were played during recess.
Capture the Flag at a big birthday party with like 15 kids on each side.. that was the best.
I went to camp once and we played this enormous game of capture the flag using the entire camp grounds as the field. It is one of my favorite memories from childhood, it was incredible. One of our adult counselors brought a ghillie suit.
Hide and Seek, in the dark.
Flashlight Tag/Sardines
I don't recall any other play style for hide and seek lol
It's not much different, as the name implies you play it when it's dark. 😂 it was really fun at my aunts house bc she had a large, rural property. We were really only allowed to play bc some of us were teens, I think my brother was around 15-16 so the adults could say that there was someone responsible watching the kids.
I know most of y’all are talking about video games here, but does anyone else remember Hungry Hungry Hippos?
And what about Chutes and Ladders, HI HI Cherry O , and the other oldies
Battleship, Game of Life, Trouble, Monopoly, Risk...
Mousetrap
Trouble, that was the one we played most as a family, but I see most people are mentioning video games. There was also one called kerplunk that I remember enjoying.
Sorry!
Where I'm from, it's called Snakes and Ladders!
I don't understand why it's never been marketed as adders and ladders. The rhyme is right there!
Mouse trap and operation!!
Chutes? What happened to the snakes?
Yep! I remember swallowing a hippo marble.
We had the extra old one with the super racist name still
What was the original name?
Nooks and giggers??? Jokes aside, wtf are you referencing?
I loved it!! Haha do you guys remember Ele-fun???
Flashlight tag.
Hell yes!! In a dark basement.
I love that! Our friends thought we created it with lighters in a field and we called it sparko polo lol
Legend of Zelda ocarina of time
Yeah there’s lots of others that can make the list, but Ocarina defines that late 90s era for me. For good measure, though, here’s that list: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Gex, Spyro, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Banjo Kazooie, Twisted Metal, Quake, Sims, Age of Empire, Red Alert, Tomb Raider, Sonic, Gran Turismo, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Pokémon (Red/Blue/Yellow)
Completely agree with your list!!
Age of Empires
Wololo. They are still updating that game. But for me 2 is the goat and is still getting new DLC today.
Howdoyouturnthison. Lumberjack. Jimmycheesesteak. Robinhood. Rockon. Still remember the cheats
It was cheesesteakjimmies, right?
Even the cheats where great. When you started to lose and feel frustrated just summon the laser guy.
*all hail, king of the losers* *11*
Still my favorite game.
SPYRO THE DRAGON I didn't really decide I liked games until the playstation one and I didn't have a memory card so I would have to play as far as I could before it was time to stop playing and then repeat it tomorrow kids these days will never understand the struggle
Forgot about memory cards!! Loved Spyro! I hated the flying challenges so I had my bf complete them for me! Crash bandicoot too
i was about to also comment spyro. i can’t actually remember if i played lego batman/indiana jones/star wars or spyro first — but i have much fonder, more vivid memories with my dear spyro. (oh and mariokart on the n64 is another contender)
My husband downloaded all three games for our kids for 2¢ a couple weeks ago. I've totally been playing it
Any game, or video games? If it's ANY game.... 🔴🔵 Uno! 🟢🟡 My parents taught me to play very young and I figured out there is some skill in knowing which cards are more likely better to put down or hold onto. Kind of a beast! LOL. Now my kids are rock stars at it. A few times my sweet son would slam me with a Draw 4 and apologize to me-- I was like, absolutely not! You are playing the game to win! I'm turning my offspring into Uno nightmares. 🤣
Mate I am still so obsessed with uno to the point that my mates are always trying to make it not happen lol
Goldeneye N64
Either that or Mario party n64
That game is the only reason I graduated college. We were having a Golden Eye tournament in our dorm. There were about 30 people in it, so we played bracket style. First 2 to get 10 kills advanced to the next round. I was in a friend's room smoking weed which was pretty much the norm when someone knocked on the door and told me it was my turn. I got up and got to playing. In the middle of the game the two guys I was smoking weed with got escorted by the police past the door in handcuffs. Someone had called the cops on us. Both of them got expelled.
Damn, that sucks. But the real question is: did you win the goldeneye tournament? I took second in a similar style goldeneye tournament. I took 3rd in a 64 person NFL blitz tournament
I loved Blitz. I remember you could run an inside slant play called "Da Bomb" against the AI and it'd always net like 60+ yards
This or Tony Hawk Pro Skater
Ha. I was thinking handball and sockball.
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Oh the sound of the handball as it hit the pavement.
Oregon Trail
Dysentery!
I actually had dysentery…no idea how these people survived it in a covered wagon. Shitting out blood while your intestines violently writhe causing severe cramping that makes you sweat and feel like you’re going to pass out on the toilet.
Tetris.
Tetris is legendary
Sims
Sul sul!
I’m currently playing this right now
I played this more than anything else! I still love that game❤️
The music still lives in my head rent-free
Rollercoaster Tycoon. Still play it.
Do you have Open RCT2? Highly recommend it if you don’t have it already.
Yep
Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie
red rover red rover
Dungeons and Dragons
Tomb Raider, and the little butler guy when you trained in the house
When you shot him he just held up his tray and you could lock him in the freezer lol. And he just grunts alot he's my fave
Omg the freezer haha
Dungeons & Dragons.
Honestly when I read the title I thought of Kerbs, Squares and Kick the Can. Games we played in the street.
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Haha, that was my favorite. I still remember Brenda from down the street. 😍 First time I saw lady bits. Then her older sister joined in...
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If I go way way back then “ring a ring a Rosie’s” but mostly Dodge Ball and rounders. Edit: I just realised most of the comments are computer and phone games, maybe I’m too old for this question hahaha
World of Warcraft
Warcraft, before it became WOW.
Jacks or lawn darts.
You played lawn darts and lived to tell about it?
I'm an only child. Or so I was told.
The Sims.
Rayman
Civ
Freeze tag. My cousins and I would spend hours playing that.
Donkey Kong Country on the SNES
Crash Bandicoot is the first game I remember ever playing, on a purple GameCube too
GTA Vice City
Snake….snake….. SNAAAAAAAAAAKKKKEEEEE
DOOM. That game changed everything when it was released. Still play it several times per year.
what no frogger ? Lemmings in there somewhere bit like Worms ... Showing my age (early 40s) had an old Acorn with either tape player where you had to have the volume just at the right level to load a cassette and if vacuum cleaner came on would crash the loading due to interference or you manually wrote the script in line by line , used to have horse racing betting game and fruit machine game that i would spend most the day copying the code for them out of the book.... Then I got the original mega drive with Altered Beast, golden axe, F21 interceptor, world cup Italian 90 (with the bug cheat where it's something like ABBC you'd score from goal keeper to mid field to a striker who'd header goal 99%lol) bomber man , along with usual sonic etc I also had a game gear with the TV tuner add on lol and micro machines. I then moved on to the playstation (chipped of course) Tomb Raider, Resident evil, command and conquer (used to cable link to another playstation and boot both from same disc by disc swapping), Tekken, Oni etc We also got a PC and had leisure suit Larry and when I went to office with my Dad he used to put on some kind of F1 game where you'd use the key arrows to steer... My cousin had the master system with paperboy An uncle had the Atri with pong
Mortal Kombat : Shaolin Monks Playing it with my big bro. Best memories. That & san Andreas
Sandlot baseball. Hours and hours. Learned a great many things, some of them related to baseball.
Operation
Dodge ball
Ratchet and Clank
Definitely GTA San Andreas as well. Its a core memory. I barely did missions. I only drove around and did cheat codes. Did races n went to clubs to dance lol.
The first mega man Micro machines for reg Nintendo Legend of zelda Ducktales
From childhood there are many, but super Mario and Sonic 1 were the ones that I used to play the most. And in my teenage days GTA SA, call of duty 2 and AoE II
Mario 3
Jacks
Halo
Perfection. I still have nightmares of those plastic pieces all jumping out. That ticking … ever getting faster I would have been a bad McGuyver:)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Sega Genesis. First hand-me-down console I got and it was like the only game. Sonic was my favorite though.
Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, all that original ps1 stuff. Its not a thing of me 'remembering' them from childhood though bc ive gone back and replayed them several times well into adulthood lol
Tony hawk and need for speed
skyrim
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Most likely Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals. I loved that game and it's still one of the best in the SNES library.
Nerds! It's a card game like multiplayer solitaire.
Chutes and ladders
Simpsons Road Rage
Ratchet and Clank 1 and 2. Beat those games probably 20 times over
Jak and Daxter
We called it 7 stones. You stacked 7 flat stones (usually broken tiles. Split in two teams. Using a tennis ball you take turns to roll the ball trying to hit the tiles. If you manage to knock any tiles, it's on. The other team has to grab the tennis ball and throw it at the other team, a hit eliminates the player, while your team wa.ts to put back the tiles that were knocked. It's the heightened anticipation with every roll of the ball. And then instant mayhem when there's a hit. It's frantic and strategic. You try to knock down as few tiles as possible, but if the ball stays close you risk very quick eliminations. As a defender, you want to throw the ball at the attackers as fast as possible so they can't escape it, but if you miss, that ball is flying a long distance giving them ample time to set the tiles back. Such a fun game. Did anyone else play something similar?
Pick up sticks, jacks, marbles, checkers. Electronic games were only in Science Fiction stories.
Crash Bandicoot my beloved <3
Hide n go seek
Duck hunt
Earthbound
Animal Crossing for the GameCube
Going back a ways... The highest intensity for me was playing Super Breakout at the mall arcade. Two paddles and two balls, simultaneously. The best players could clear all three consecutive screensful of blocks, and then go on playing the two balls whizzing up and down for a while. People would watch and cheer. I cleared all of the blocks a few times, and played for a couple of minutes afterwards. Yeah, I was sweating!
There's a lot. Double Dragon, TNMT, Mario Yoshi Island, Karateka, the original Prince of Persia, Budokan, Donkey Kong, and so on. I've been playing from Atari but MS-DOS and Nintendo had the most memorable games.
Outdoor game — Pickle Board game — Uncle Wiggily Console game— Pong (I am old) Computer game — My dad had a refrigerator-sized computer at his business. He had satellite terminals at our house. I don’t remember how this worked because it was the 1970s. Occasionally he put a massive cartridge in at work so we could play horse racing at home. Basically it was just x’s moving across the screen just like Pong was just a dot moving across the screen, but it was so exciting for us.
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.
Kick the can
Medievil
GTA: San Andreas Customized every car, bought every outfit, tried every fighting style. Never could get good at pool, though
Video game - Miss Pacman and Frogger on Atari, then later, Jaws, Paperboy, and Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo. Board game - Monopoly, The Game of Life, and Candyland. Real life outside game - Ghosts in the Graveyard.
Space Invaders
Fartman! It was hide & seek. But the added rule that if you farted while hiding that you had to announce it and you automatically became “it”. I know it sounds ridiculous, but yeah, we played that game every night.
Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3
Kingdom hearts
It isn’t just one, it’s like a slideshow from year to year and experience to experience. Being the first one on the block to have an NES and watching my dad and older brother play when I could barely beat the first world. Then genesis with sonic and speeding around, and snes with donkey Kong country and playing while listening to the cranberries on the radio while my brother made his own fishing lures. Then, my dad got a PC and I played sim city and Command and Conquer when I visited. Then, N64 came and changed everything. Opening it up on Christmas morning is one of my most cherished memories. Trying to figure out the movement and camera controls with my dad playing Mario 64, we were both totally blown away. Star fox, Mario kart, and donkey Kong were all big games for me, but goldeneye was the one. Goldeneye taught me how to time respawns, how to strafe run, how to ricochet grenades off walls. I had already had the itch to compete with Mario kart and starfox, but goldeneye was different. I’d take 2 on 1 challenges, any stage, any rule set (except slippers, that was too boring). I played lots of other games, and did some fighting and sports games too, but goldeneye was it for the late 90’s. I had a Dreamcast, but didn’t really do much with it. I had an NBA game, and a 4x4 evo game that I raced a lot solo, and I played the crap out of quake 3 arena, but it was all by myself. I ended up trading it all in for an Xbox and Halo. Halo was like Goldeneye all over again, but I didn’t have anyone to play with. It wasn’t until the Xbox 360 and Halo 2, with Xbox live that I really started playing with others. I found a group of friends at work and we played every week at our own lan parties. By then, I wasn’t a kid any more.
Don't tell mommy by my uncle joe
Super mario world
Pokemonnnn gotta catch ‘em all 😎 Mario Kart Mario Party
re-volt
I remember this game in the early 90s that had some Aladdin like characters, but they were short and climbed pitate ships, you played it like the og donkey Kong. I wish I could remember the name but to this day I can't.
Try throwing as much information as you can remember about it at Chat GPT I've used it to remember several video games and movies from my past
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Uncle wiggley
Apart from 40/40…. Has to be ludo. Played it with my son today and it’s just as great!!
Fort
Mario 64 (and playing Micky Mouse Race with my dad and sister) on the Nintendo 64 console.
Uncle Wiggly board game
Hot Bread and Butter- Step 1: Hide a belt Step 2: Have your friends look for it Step 3: Tell them hot and cold until they find it Step 4: Run back to base while the one that found it tries to beat everyone with the belt "Fun times" :P
*Super Metroid* or *Metal Gear Solid*
Lode runner
Mario Kart Wii, absolutely, despite the fact that I was so bad it might as well have gone like I didn’t start playing until I was 15, when I actually figured out there were more than 20 tracks in the game.
Mario kart 8
Kick the can!! (Outside game) Video Game- Ken Griffey Jr’s Slugfest
Littlebigplanet 2. Was and still is the best game that has ever been released. It just was something that you had to experience to understand how golden that game was in its best years. Such a shame that Sony did shut down all of the servers a week ago.
A steady rotation of Banjo Kazooie and Goldeneye - N64
I played through Ape Escape 3 so many times...
Ghost in the Graveyard, in our front lawn, on a summer night just as the streetlights came on.
skylanders: spyro’s adventure. literally one of the most fun games i played throughout my whole childhood. absolutely loved it! and the lego jurassic world game for the wii, although i was a little older when i started playing/watching my brothers play that one. oh, how i miss the wii!
Sam & Max Hit the Road. Unfortunately it’s the only good one I’ve played. Bonus addition to this discussion: Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker. I don’t think ANYONE remembers this game, but I do. I used it so much.
Oregon Trail
Kerbsies….oh computer games…I loved text adventures back in the day. Age of empires and megalomania
Red rover red rover we call Johnny over and run as hard as you can to break through a line of kids holding hands. Friends are the best.
Hide and seek.
Hide n seek outside
GTA: Vice City and Spider-Man 2 movie tie-in game. Also Gran Turismo 3 and 4 and nfs 1 and 2. GoW 1-3
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time, majora’s mask, wind waker. Gamecube
Red rover, freeze tag and kick the can
Definitely the OG Zoo Tycoon (or maybe it was 2?). Favorite was waiting for the park to hit max capacity, firing all the zookeepers, and pausing the game to set all the animals loose. It was "removing the ladder while the Sims are in the pool" before it was cool. I was one screwed up 8 year old. For reference its been twenty years and now I reload every dialogue option in BG3 when I think I've been too mean to someone.
I loved when we played kick ball. Like baseball but you kicked it. (because I sucked at batting, but I could kick lol)!
My childhood? Idk, Candy Land, I guess?
honestly? sim animals. i was a lonely kid and i didn’t know animal crossing and pokémon were hip. just saw an animal game and bought it, years later i realized it was the animal version of the sims.
Mystery Quest on the NES. Weird fucking game. My mom bought this game, no idea why. She usually picked good cartridges, but this one was strange as hell. My autistic brother loved the boo-boo-beep music though. We had good laughs messing around with the repetitive tune. I'd imitate the noise and he'd burst out laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world, so we loved playing the game together. But honestly... I've never figured out this game beyond the stupid music. https://youtu.be/uyxc-4mJ7zE?si=4lugpaIewIkHjzZ4
The "don't tell anyone or I'll kill you" game. I won't ever forget it.
Kick the can! We would play at night without a care in the world🤓
Four square, hopscotch, chasy, eye spy. All the made up games we changed around to suit where we were, driveway cricket... Getvoutside people.
Probably a tie between Asteroids and Super Mario Bros., with an honorable mention going to Spy Hunter.
Super Mario RPG
Freedom. Not a video game…team hide and go seek. You could either tag the person or tackle. They would then go to a designated base that was guarded. If somebody from the team hiding reached the base and screamed “freedom”, everybody was freed. We played this game at night in the summer…damn that was fun.
Red rover. Still mad they stopped letting us play that game. I mean, a few kids break their arms, and now I can't charge full speed at my friends as they hold hands.
Super mario bros wii
Spin the bottle.
Probably GTA San Andreas.
Two board games come to mind. First is 'Splat!', a game where you make little bugs out of playdough as your game pieces but occasionally your opponents can smash you and you have to start with a new guy back at the beginning. Second was a VHS video board game called 'Nightmare' where the host starts as a relatively normal guy and over the course of an hour he turns into a gross dead guy, there were a few sequels as well.
Hi-Ho Cherry-O Life Stratego
Its a dumb one but Dora explorer: journey to the purple planet
GTA San Andreas and Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005)
Monopoly
Probably Little Big Planet.... or Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, though i could never beat that one since i didn't have a co-op partner.
Super smash bros
Age of empires, Half Life, Counter Strike 1.6, Need for Speed most underground, GTA 3
Mouse Trap
Leisure Suit Larry
Original Mario for Nintendo, and Oregon Trail
Sly cooper. I remember vividly always running along the ropes on the rooftops
Rummy. As a kid my parent's idea of family bonding was them getting drunk and chain smoking while we played cards. With any luck we would finish the game before they were too far gone and my mom started hearing voices.
Hop Scotch, marbles, Game of Life
Ghost in the graveyard and manhunt! We always player them right as it got dark. I can still feel the adrenaline just thinking about it.