Games that have had the biggest influence on you?

[Hyperactive]

Simple and stupid: What game or games have had the biggest influence on you? Don't need to be PC games, but let's forget card and board games, shall we ;)

Mine are:

Leisuresuit Larry (1?)
Probably one of the first computer games I ever played. It was a loong time ago, my friend had a 286 and some games innit. Mostly my friend wanted to play Prince of Percia but sometimes I managed to persuade him into theworld of Larry. I didn't understand a word about the game but driving in the taxi was fun. He also had the Police Quest and some other wizardry game. I guess the fact that it was my first computer game experience just burned it into my memory

Goonies 2
This nintendo 8bit classic was one of my favourites at the time I purchased my own 8bit nintendo. Well my parents did, but I had to do some slavework for them to make 'em forget the money.... The game was a very simple adventure game with puzzles to solve and new levels to discover. Again, it was my friend's game so I needed to borrow it from him to get to play it. Luckily he didn't like it much so I could have it as long as I wanted. Most of my games at that time were racing games and this maybe saved me from being a total car maniac. For a while :)

Gran Turismo 1
This game actually just blew my mind. At the time it came out it was something completely different. As me and some of my mates used to play Need for speed 1 at times, the "depth" of the GT1 was just astonishing! But there was a tragedy too. As my friend bought it first I had to visit there all the time just to get to play it. Setting up suspensions, thinking what to buy next and racing. Sometimes we just started early in the morning and stopped late in the evening. Once I managed to persuade him to borrow it to me for two nights. He sweared that he would kill me if didn't return it on time. So I had to play 72 hours straight (joking...). It was a weekend so I played it at least 14 hours a day. After that I had my own memorycard filled with various cars and we could really take on. 500hp subaru against my rwd special nissan FXO (lol). He had the power but I had the handling. Boy what fun it was, racing was tight and fair.

Sportscar GT, for PC
My first racing sim, as one might say. This is the game that made me buy a wheel. And pretty soon after this I bought GPL. So you could say this game was my passage to sim racing. Racing against those BMWs, Porsches and others was just great fun. And it had a career mode! Well the irony is that it was an ISI game and after that I have never liked any ISI games. In SCGT the feeling was different, although the physics modelling at that time had already the same problems as the all ISI games have today. But the fact is that this, game with GPL, made me a sim racing enthusiast.

[tristancliffe]

Wolfenstein 3D
Radar Rat Race - Vic20 genius
Stunt Car Racer
F1GP (Grand Prix World in other countries), the first of Geoff Crammonds GPx series
Half Life
Half Life 2 (apart from the ending)
Gran Turismo (what a mistake that was!)
GP2, 3 and 4.
LFS

[Kegetys]

Spelunker
This propably was the first computer game I ever played. I was 4 back then and the C64 came with Spelunker, Stealth, Raid on Bungeling Bay and some other game that didn't work, and I believe Spelunker was the first game we tried. Not that special game, though it has great music.

System Shock
This is simply the best game I have played. (And some people (http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/halloffame/ss_a.shtm) at GameSpy seem to agree with me ;)) In fact I have just started playing it again, since someone made a "patch" that allows using 1024x768 resolution with it. And it doesn't even look that bad despite the fact that its as old as Doom 2, it has 3D objects, real time lighting, leaning, jumping, great storyline, great voice acting... even 'bullet time' :) A game thats only fault was that it was 5 years ahead of its time.

Doom
I got to try Doom once when I still had an Amiga, and after that I just had to get a PC no matter what. Doom had great atmosphere and great gameplay, and very impressive "3D" graphics. I still play it sometimes using the various source ports like Doom Legacy and jDoom that add things like 3D acceleration.

Operation Flashpoint
OFP changed my view on 3D shooters. After it everything else just seems so boring and restricted, if I hadn't ever played OFP I propably would have thought games like HL2, BF2, etc. are great but now I find them as interesting as NFSU would be after playing LFS. I guess I also have had influence on OFP as I have made quite alot of mods for it...

[AndroidXP]

Half Life
Live for Speed
Secret of Mana
Zelda: A link to the past

Well, these are the ones I play(ed) most. Lately I also learned what fear means thanks to the old but good System Shock 2 :Looking_a

Also I really liked the Max Payne series and its way to tell you the story. Half Life 2 was/is awsome in the graphics and physics department, and I also think the story was ok the first time you play it (if you did a bit of research before and actually understood that most story parts are very well hidden) but I've not been hooked by it.

What always influenced me too were gaming milestones in the realism department. After playing LFS the first time I realised how crappy actually every other racing "sim" was. After playing Operation Flashpoint I noticed how crappy "realistic" HL mods really were.

[TagForce]

Pirate's Adventure (C16/Vic20) - It taught me english in it's simplest form ("say YOHO", the world spins around and suddenly you find yourself on a deserted beach. To the west you see a lagoon. The tide is coming in)

Impossible Mission (C64) - Just one of the best thought out games ever made. Simple, yet addicting.

Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (PC) - The first ever Interactive Movie... The concept was great, the gameplay was even better... And of course a Ginger Lynn Allen that did not get nekkid.

Tex Murphy Series (PC) - The PERFECT detective/puzzle adventures. Great stories, great playability, and very difficult to solve.

NASCAR Racing by Papyrus (PC) - Got me into NASCAR and oval racing, which to this day is still my favorite form of racing.

Special mention:
NASCAR Racing 2002 Season (PC) - Made me my first ever money by playing a game... Won me the 2002 ESCORS European Challenge Series sponsored by Ball Racing Developments. 400 UKP cheque. Woohoo.

[P5YcHoM4N]

The game that hooked me on console I cannot remember. But I can PC. So I shall share.

It was a cold night back in 1998, and I had a nice box on my table. This was new, it had been praised by all, so I decied to buy it. Upon opening the box I was greeted by a CD, and a book. This book was different to most, but I don't know why. Placing it on one side I loaded the CD into my computer, to which it began to autoplay.
Click click click I went making my way through setup, when will this end I cried, but then there was light, it came close, I could feel it. Complete.
On the edge of my seat I made my way to the shortcut and clicked not once but twice, CD-Key entre I must, so CD-Key entre I did.
All is dark did it work? Who knows, lets wait- that music, where is it coming from, horar it worked. Now to play, New game I do think, ah, sweet loading screen.

A tram... what the- Oh well, it can't be much longer for the game to start.

[20 minutes later]

ARGH END ALREADY WHAT THE HELL YOU STUPID LUMP OF *(&)&*)&£")%&!
Whats this, I stopped at a station, YAY the torture is over I can play the game [Note to self: Never start this game from the start again].

That game changed my life. It got me into FPS like a rapest in some womens pants, following that I decied one day to play TFC, and that was it for my social life.

Then I get my claws on 1nsane. And I put down FPS for a racing game like no other. Anyone who has played it will know why. That game is pure crazyness. And was a god to me. Even upto early this year I played it. Then my fave site for 1nsane stuff (www.insanegarage.com (http://www.insanegarage.com)) closed down. And I was sad, and a few weeks later I stopped playing the game. Never to go back :( I even got my wheel just for that game, as rock crawling was a bitch with a keyboard.

I would have loved to say HL2. But really, that was no game. It seemed more like a demo of what the source engine can do, then it being a game.
The story agreed followed on nicely. But it was more linear then the first game (how do you get more linear then a line :o ). None of the puzzles needed as much time to work out, in HL1 if you got lost, you was lost. In HL2 there are sign posts everywhere. In HL1 you spent ages on one problem. On HL2, you spend 30 seconds.

I really didn't like the game. I me being a HL fanboy that I am, was sad. They removed all the stuff they had shown at E3 for 3-4 years. They didn't even tick a check box that lets stuff block doors... I swear Vavle had two games in development there. HL2 E3 Edition, and HL2 What WE Will Sell Our Loyal Fans.
What sucks even more is I'm still waiting for TF2. Which is the game that started development of HL2. I mean, wtf, people cried over HL2 be delayed. TF2 was due for release Summer 2000... still waiting.

LFS has got me hooked in racing games again, and what a choice I made :P Kicks the ass of the rest (bar 1nsane, tbh) and imho was betterthen NASCAR Racing Season, though as my CD looks like it's been ranover with a SimBrick, I can't install it anymore anyway =/

[Qurpiz]

Super Mario:
I guess I don't need to explain this. It's still one of the best games in my shelf.

Slicks'n'Slide:
Classic arcade-game. Pure fun. GeneRally reminds this a lot.

The Legend of Zelda: A link to the past:
Blew my mind. At the time, it was the only game with wizards and fairies and magic that I enjoyed. And I still would, but it's nowadays broken :(

Super Mario World:
The only game I really miss. It was so great... I loved every single level in it.

NHL 93:
The first icehockey-game I got my hands on (excluding Blades of Steel). Was great fun playing against someone.

NHL 98:
Aah the times back then. Me and my friend playing this til late in the night, with only 2 teams. Me with Colorado Avalanche and he with Detroit Red Wings.

Call of Duty:
Changed my mind about first person shooters. I got really hooked on multiplayer, and CoD UO is still the best WW II games I know.

GeneRally:
I allways wanted to create tracks, and now I could. Made quite a few of them. And playing GR was incredible fun too (It still is, btw)

Live for Speed:
First sim that really felt good. I don't think any other sim will ever feel so good than this. I'm loving it.

[NotAnIllusion]

Lol nice thread. Let's see now, in not necessarily in the right order:

Nethack
Vaguely remember watching my uncle play this.. later I got hooked

Alley cat, LoL gr8 fun

Stunts
Played this all nite long making crazy tracks

NHL'93
The pathetic AI and goalkeeping gave me several nites of headache

UFO: Enemy Unknown
Probably the best turn-based startegy ever, I still play this!

Slicks, best top-down racer ever. Still have it.

Mario 1, 2 & 3 (NES) fun fun fun! Don't have it.

Wolf 3d, simply awesome..

Doom, countless hours hogging my school's computer lab playing on the LAN! Still got it.

Terminal Velocity

Pizza Worm!!!!

F1GP, ooh the most realistic F1 racer at the time. Still got it.

Transport Tycoon, enjoyed this mgt sim. Still have it.

The Dig

Breakout (arkanoid clone)

Tetris

Bubble Bobble (NES) :)

Lemmings

Rescue Rover

Action Supercross

Worms

Manager, an *auld* uk footy manager based on b4 the premiership was estd. (i think)

Need for Speed 1, shut up! yes it's NFS but it's the gr8est NFS ever and is nothing like the current arcade crap.

LFS

and loads of others I can't even remember the names of :p

[X-Ter]

F1GP for Amiga - My first contact with real sims.
Flashback for Amiga - The first real adventure game I got hooked on.
Elite for Amiga - I think I played this one for 16 hours straight when I got it.
SCGT - My second contact with driving sims and the one that got me go buy a wheel.
Nascar Heat - The sim that saved SCORE. Best multiplayer code I've seen so far.
LFS - Probably the one sim that has potential to break up my marriage :)

[Fordman]

Well apart from the obvious LFS, I never really play many other games, but ones that I remember got me almost as hooked was:

GP2 and GP3
Toca 2 ( Finished 3rd overall in the Wireplay League )
Fifa 2002
Command and Conquer

And see if anybody remembers these little Beauties :)

Mega-lo-Mania :smileypul and Turbo Outrun ( Early Amiga days, TO music was Awesome for its time ) and Sensible Soccer

[GP4Flo]

Stunts - my first racing game

Lemmings - ah, the good old days ;)

Sim City - the original

Sam Secret Agent 006 (?) - nice Jump & Run game

Sim City 2000 - the first game I bought

Grand Prix 2 - my first racing simulator

Need for Speed 3 - my first racing game with hardware acceleration, force feedback and a nice network mode (cops & robbers)

Age of Empires 2 - first game I've played online

Grand Prix 3 - made the famous GP3Update for it

Live for Speed - the best online racing simulator

[Shotglass]

well this is mostly a list of games that were the ones that got me interestet in their genre

pong - the first game i remember playing and therefore probably the one that got me addicted to games

nibbles (seriously) - first game i ever played on a x86 and the one game that founded my believe that splitscreen and 4 hands on the keyboard is the ultimate kind of multiplayer

mario andrettis racing challenge - my first "real" x86 game (still got the disks somewhere round here) and the number 1 reason why i want a dirt oval and sprint cars in lfs

wing commander 1 - the one game i played the most on our good ol 386 and still by far the best of the wc series (you can tell i love that game by my handle)

stunts - the gem among all of the arcade racers ever made ... lets see im crashday can live up to the myth

monkey island - you just gotta love the lucas adventures ... all of them :monkey:

fatal racing - it combined 2 of the most important assets a game could have ... stunts stile driving and splitscreen ... plus i got it for free bundled with my beloved voodoo graphics

half life - first fps i ever liked ... even made me play nothing but ego shooters for a few years

lfs s2 - first sim that got me hooked on that genre ... mostly because its the first sim that ever felt right

[DodgeRacer]

Definatly Nascar Racing 2/1999 was the biggest influence on me, that was basicly the first sim I played and that game really taught me a lot about how a race car works and got me into racing.

GT1 Got me into cars, I learned more about cars from that game than I had ever hoped to learn about everything, and If not for that im not sure I ever would have gotten interested in them.

Nascar heat- First sim like game I Ever played online, got me into online racing. (word to any IRF racers still hangin around)

Nascar Racing 2003 first game I ever had the privlage to mod, and really refined my driving.


LFS- Taught me what sim really meant...



non racing


Sim City 2000-This game was basicly the first computer game I ever played, and i still play it to this day.

Earth 2150/C&C: generals-Only RPG's I like because I enjoy playing em on lan against my brother.

[mrodgers]

What video game influenced me the most? Definately Indycar Racing 2. I never was much into the console thing. Yea, I had a Sega Genesis (still do, in fact) that we drank beer and fought all night long on who had the next game of NHL93. I got my first PC in 1995, a Pentium 75 with a whopping 8 mb ram. The first game I saw was, *cough* Need for Speed, the original. Well, back then it was OK, not like it is now with Underground. Then a few weeks later I found ICR2 and was hooked. So hooked that I actually was still playing it a year ago this month. I still had the old P75 up through November last year when I got a Celeron 667 of my wife's Aunt. You all over at RSC have heard about that one and S1. Anyways, when I got the 667, I was able to move from ICR2 to Nascar 2002. I ran that up until I found LFS in March this year. LFS was my first online racing experience, and of course, now I won't ever race offline again. Now that the novelty of S2 is wearing off, I'm starting to fly with Microsoft FS2004. So, now I'm dividing up my time between FS2004 and LFS.

[MAGGOT]

Hmm... I can't remeber the exact name of the game, but I believe it was called Indianapolis 500. This was before the Indycar Racing 1 times. That was the first game I had ever played on the computer, and it was - to my knowledge - the first '3d' racing game. I had a lot of fun with that thing. After that game, I moved on into the NASCAR Racing and Indycar Racing games from Papyrus, and then into GPL. From there I moved into SCGT, then to F1C, and now to LFS (and sometimes rFactor.. it needs some mods for me to play it more methinks tho....)

There are random games interspersed here and there, but those are the main ones I played.

I also got hooked on the Gran Turismo series. I have all 4 of the North American releases, and I still play GT4 quite frequently. My buddy in college and I are planning on running the Nordschleife 24 hour enduro next weekend :D

MAGGOT

[Zewerr]

As a kid:

Hard Drivin' and Race Drivin', the Arcade versions. They were so realistic for being made in I believe the 80's, maybe? But they taught me car control and also how to drive a stick when I was probably 8 years old!

Now:

Counter-strike. Face it. I can't see myself ever not playing it on a regular basis. And I've met lots of friends playing it!

[Gabkicks]

Mario bros/duck hunt- 1st game i ever played
pole position/rad mobile- 1st racing games
Ridge racer - introduced me to drifting :D
Mortal Kombat- got me into martial arts.
Gran turismo- introduced me to a bunch of car's i'd never heard of.
Unreal tournament- 1st FPS i really got into.-made me upgrade my pc for 1st time
America's army - 1st time i'd ever joined a competitive clan in any game.

LFS- best racing game out sofar

Richard burns rally- really rubs it in that WRC drivers have balls the size of the boulders that line corners they powerslide around.

there are some i'm forgetting but its 3 in the morning...

[Lible]

Super Mario
MS Flight Simulator
MS Train Simulator
LFS

[Hyperactive]

Only couple of people even mentioning GPL! Shame on you. :)

[the_angry_angel]

In rough order of playing:

Paratrooper
Wolfenstein 3D
Battlecruiser 3000AD (the original)
QuakeWorld (mm, 2fort and rocket jumping soldiers!)
Unreal
Unreal Tournament
HalfLife
EVE: Online
LFS

[ORION]

I think any game you play incluences you in a way - one more, one less, maybe related to the time you play it.
And if you begin to think more about games rather than just playing them, you will notice very interesting things :)

[X-Ter]

Only couple of people even mentioning GPL! Shame on you. :)
Well I did play GPL... Just didn't mention it cause it didn't have that much of an impact on me. No open wheel cars ever did. Had there been a mod for GPL with real cars (yeah, yeah, don't start, I've heard it all:) ) I would have played it more. Shame that GT40 mod never made it to release...

[Tweaker]

In order:

Flight Simulator 1.00
http://simflight.com/~fshistory/fsh/pictures/Image7.gif

DOOM
Mechwarrior 2
Quake (and all later versions)


Then I got into car games, and the most influential: GPL.
I played GPL on an old HP 200mhz computer first with my force feedback joystick, and man was it challenging. This game is what eventually taught me all the aspects of a racing game, and I played it for several years ever since I bought it on the shelves weeks after it was released. My favorite combo was Monza with the Ferrari, Nurb was too hard for me at the time :).

I've tried a lot of racing simulations between now and then (gpl) and I haven't been satisfied enough with most titles other than Papy's Nascar 2k series, until I tried LFS. Which is why I am here now, I have been influenced by this game far too much, and I don't know if or when it will ever end, hah!

Also used to play alot of CounterStrike/Halflife, both old and source. Someone mentioned Operation Flashpoint, and even though the bugs pissed me off sometimes, I was still liking that game too. I made a few multiplayer maps too and have to say that was one game that did things differently, in a good way. Battlefield 1942 took up a lot of my time in the past, especially with the Desert Combat Mod and huge online tournaments I was involved in (When I tried LFS for the first time, I put it away for a while and was gone playing this game, then it died off and I came back here :)). Now I own Battlefield 2, and that is quite fun too... but I try and avoid the addictions I had in the old Battlefield ;).

[GTR_Yuni]

fatal racing - it combined 2 of the most important assets a game could have ... stunts stile driving and splitscreen ... plus i got it for free bundled with my beloved voodoo graphics

Whiplash - First game with something more complex than jumps. Most stunts are based around it, but still fun none the less! I still play it even today. (Note to Shotglass: Fatal Racing is called "Whiplash" over here)

LFS - Gave me a reason to stop playing most of the PS2 games I own. :ices_rofl

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies - The first and only air combat game I've played. Dang fun trying to shoot down some enemy planes, but gets a wee bit boring after a while.

Age Of Empires - The very first of stratgy games I played. I don't play it anymore and I dunno if I even have it anymore.

[csimpok]

Impossible Mission (C64) - "Another visitor. Stay a while. Stay forever!!" :)

Warcraft II.
Age of Empires II.

Unreal Tournament
Battlefield 2

FIFA 97
NBA 2000

Stunts
GP3 by Geoff Crammond
Colin McRae Rally
LFS

Flight Simulator 2000 (even was in a Virtual Airlines :))

Oh, and forgot the game I spent the most time playing with: Indianapolis 500 (very nice game from 1990)

[Simon Savage]

You guys have short memories!!

First racing game i played when i was seven crazycars 3!

Theme Hospital man i loved that game

Worms Oooo i did enjoy playing worms i was able to throw nades anywhere!

Duke Nukem 3D such a cool shooter!

GrandPrix 2 the AI are still impressive today and the cars handling apart from the graphics it could br said to be as good as Sony is making now shows a lot for Sony.

Toca touring cars and Nascar two i enjoyed both remember crowding round my PC playing with my freinds racing eachother in Toca and at times using the tank cheat.

then GP3 GP3 2000 GP4 all good games

Then Nascar 3 and 2003 N2003 still one of the ultimate Sims and online games

[mantis9]

Spy Hunter (on my zx48)
Stunt Car Racer (on my atari st)
Micro machines (still play on my mates megadrive :D )
the Sim City series up to and EXCLUDING 4 (3000 being the best and still installed on my hard drive)
The biggest influence has to be LFS though :nod:

edit - doh! I forgot about Pirates! The original on my Amiga (or was it the ST?) and I got the new one as well :xpirate: :( pirate smiley doesnt work

edit 2 - pirate smiley has been fixed! woot! (do people still say that?)

[xaotik]

Hmm... off the top of my head and in order of influence:

Elite
Pirates!
Sierra adventure games
Impossible Mission
The Ancient Art of War (mapmaking fun)
LucasArts adventure games (much later on)
F1 Grand Prix (World Circuit) - I still have the name "Luigi Rivellini" stuck in my head - has to be the best ever Italian-sound-a-like racing name.
Jet Set Willy ( :( )
Virus
Grand Prix Circuit (Accolade's... too many hours on this one)
Rogue
Prince of Persia and Another World (both 2d platform action/adventure games known for their smooth animation)
Starglider
Bard's Tale
Test Drive (yes, the original 2d one - three types of turns and 4 types of traffic)

Hmm... I should stop editing this list... it'll just get longer and longer... *sigh*

[Tweaker]

Duke Nukem 3D such a cool shooter!

Doh! I forgot about this one! I love the Nukem series :)

[STRAHD]

Wow Ive been playing games so long that is hard to come up with just a few. I remember that my first system was the orig. atari and it cost 320$, holy god, does the xbox 360 even cost that much, boy how the times have changed. I guess the most influential games would have been:

anything with a car or bike to drive, all started by Pole Position, and Excite Bike

the Mortal Combat arcade game(I remember me an all my friends would leave school at dinner time on friday to go to the mall to play that for hrs till the mall closed, then we would go get drunk, wake up sat. to do it all over again, stupid ass teenagers)

and probably Doom, it got me hooked on shooter games and was pretty much the first pc game I ever played, and it also had a real cool Star Wars mod(or was that Doom2)

[Racer Y]

Hi... I guess y'all really mean video games, not just any ol' game :)
So, I'll go with Defender. and Beserk. Those two games made me realize
the potential of video games.

A as far as computer titles... sierra's Wings of the Pacific. THat game alone made me get a computer

Westwood's Red Alert. This game was the first RTS game I played and turned me on to LAN play.

Age of Empires Rise of Rome. This was the game of choice for me when we first got internet access. I loved online gaming.... for a bit, then things started to suck with cheaters, clans... and those whiny assed ping freaks.
You could never get a decent game going if one of them showed up.

Life for Speed... Uh this is kinda weird about this game...
I had recently lost what was pretty much my only true friend to a
Diabetes related heart attack. I pretty much burned out and didn't do much of anything anymore... then i stumbled
onto this game about a year later & i dunno something clicked and
I started to get back to being halfway normal again.

Too bad you didn't meaqn board games...
I learned how to interact with others thru Chess and I learned my sense of morality with Sorry.... ;)

[biggie]

Ah the good old times :)

I remember spending hours, days and even weeks in front of the PC together with an old friend of mine when we were only 10 or 11. Some of the most influential games in this period were:

the Wing Commander series (especially WC Armada and WC3. Damn, we soooo loved the story&feel of it)
Bioforge (really fine game for the time when it was released... with a very disturbing and "freaky" plot. It was back in those days where such cheesy horror stories actually DID shock and at the same time amaze you ;))
the Command & Conquer series, especially C&C1 and C&C: Red Alert
The Myst Series. Well, we were a little young for understanding the more complicated puzzles, but it was still fun.
Carmageddon - revolutionary crash physics and a virtually free environment to experiment with. We just loved it!
The Incredible Machine. Oldie but goldie. Everyone should have tried this. Just wicked!But there were many other games I'd consider the most influencing:

the NFS series. I was really having a blast playing the NFS1 demo and I was so amazed by the full verison including all the nicely made car demonstration videos. I liked NFS3 and played it a lot, when some day NFS4 came out. I think that was the time when I first started hotlapping :D I did have some competition with a friend of mine and we even had our own Excel chart to compare our times :D
Some random Formula 1 sims, can't remember their names exactly. What I do remember is GP3 which I was playing for quite some time.
Viper Racing... ah, I really loved that game. It was one of the first games I played that had the feeling of a real simulation about it. I also liked roaming the tracks and just playing with the physics.
It was also the first game I seriously played with a wheel. Heck, I even completed the carreer mode all over :)
Diablo 1 & 2. Damn, I just loved Diablo 1 to death. It was so revolutionary at that time and it just awoke the collector's and adventurer's spirit in me. I remember endless coop-1on1 multiplayer sessions with my uncle. Multiplayer was completely new for us at that time because we both didn't have internet. So it was a real blast being able to actually coordinate and cooperate with a real person while playing :D Can't remember how often I/we completed it... must have been 10+ times or something. Same with Diablo 2, even though it lacked the original Diablo 1 charm.
Baldur's Gate. Awesome and very immersive story.
Ultima 9. I really loved how immersing and real this world felt. Being able to walk everywhere just without delay, some places even felt like "home" when you returned ;)
The Tomb Raider Series up to Tomb Raider 3. After that it became only repetitive commerce with little innovation.
Comanche 1 - I think it was the first game I played on my very first PC, a 386 DX-30 and I totally loved it :)
Half-Life and almost any other 3D-shooter at that time.
Counter-Strike for a while, but I got really fed up with it some day. I was glad when I found LFS and could leave CS. LFS really is just as addictive, but doesn't have all this unfriendlyness and harsh tone in the community. Also I think LFS is much less luck-dependent than CS... you know that if you spin, it is your fault, not somebody else's luckshot ;)Well, there's still so many more games I'm sure I have forgotten. But yes, there's been a lot.
Nowadays I'd say I'm playing 95% LFS and 5% just for a real change.

[JamesF1]

(in approximate order of influence)

GP2
This really made my modding and racing interest jump to a whole new level. In fact, back in the day of GP2, I was the 5th fastest driver in the LFRS league with an LFRS champion as my team-mate :D GP2 was also where I invented the technique of TC-switching which eventually spread around the leagues (after much skepticism, and people saying "Don't be stupid, it doesn't work") and was declared the fastest starter in the LFRS! That and helping Juha Viitala with his carsets made it so much fun :) This continued, to a lesser extent, into GP3. And my interest in the series hit a low (after owning F1GP, GP2 and GP3 previously) with GP4 when the modability was greatly reduced, everything became so much more complex to mod and - it just lacked something that GP2 had. However with GP3 I did have many fun times with people like GP4Flo, Addie Walti and many more of the great guys of the pre-GP4 GPx community.

Live for Speed
Having been around since the first release of Live for Speed, and having spent many thousands of hours racing around the various tracks in the various cars, I must say - I'm hooking. Not as hooked as I was to GP2 - though. But I'm sure that as our beloved sim develops, it will draw me in as much as GP2 ever did.

Richard Burns Rally
Having the opportunity to beta RBR I was so very excited - I'd noted all the news items, screenshots, movies, EVERYTHING, meticulously - and now it was time to play. I was so hooked, I played for days on end, barely stopping for sleep, bodily functions or anything else! Addictive, and the best physics of any sim to date or since - end of story.

GeneRally
I was so hooked on this for several years. I still would be if I had the time and the community wasn't so (largely) n00bish now. I still mod the GeneRally forums (having been part of the community since the first week of release), but have very little in-game time now.

Lock On: Modern Air Combat
Rekindled my love for flight simming - and doing it at the most detailed level. My squadron (Moose Squadron - http://moosesquardon.mine.nu) were a very professional group of guys, we took everything professionally and seriously in the air, proper communcation protocols and flight missions. I spent many hundreds of hours on fully planned scrims and bombing raids. And many more hours trying to nurse a damaged plane, leaking fuel, back to the airbase before getting caught by incoming Russian SU-33s who had just taken off from a nearby carrier :) Buggy as hell, but still the best combat flight-sim ever - possibly the best flight sim.

F1GP
My first real sim, after having played a number of regular "driving" games that were around before (you know the ones). This really sparked my interest - and I enjoyed the game so much!

Grand Prix Legends
Well, what do we say? Although I never spent as much time in GPL as I did in other sims - I've always loved it. The detail of the physics, the excitement, the skills required, it all just made for an amazing sim. Oh, and the community - *THE* community :)

Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
I had great fun playing this with my friends over at The Jedi Academy and I've had many fun hours of sabre-locking and force battles with the great guys over there.

[ayrton senna 87]

Gran Turismo series
this damn game gave me a chuck it sideways and hang on style of driving in real life which is gone now (thank god)

Live For Speed
this game helped me to practise starts which helped alot in real life, but it has made me ruthless on the track :schwitz:

thats about the only games i played, apart from final fantasy 7 about 6 years ago. oh and resident evils

oh and i played sonic on the master system

[J.B.]

PC

X-Wing/Tie Fighter
Tex Murphy games
Lucasarts adventures
GP1/2
Wing Commander III/IV
Larry I
Rebel Assault I/II
Indy 500
Indycar Racing
LFS


Consoles

Zelda games
Castlevania games
Mega Man games
Mortal Kombat games
Mario Kart SNES
EA NBA games
GT2
F-Zero
TOCA 2 PS1
Final Fantasy GB
Sega Rally and Daytona Arcade
Gargoyle's Quest

[Anarchi-H]

Hmm, in a rough order of discovery...

Turbo Esprit (On my spunky ZX128 +2a) (http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/turbo-esprit)
XJ220 (On my even more spunky Amiga 500) (http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/jaguar-xj220)
Doom (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/doom)
Sim City 2000 (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/simcity-2000)
Quake (specifically with team fortress) (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/quake)
Quake II (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/quake-ii)
Gran Turismo (http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/gran-turismo)
Everquest (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/everquest)
And of course LFS (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/live-for-speed)

Turbo Esprit was the first driving game I ever played, and I loved it despite it taking 10 minutes to load.
Pretty red and blue bars. *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep**bip**beeeeeeeeeeeeieieieieiie eep**bip*

Heheh, brings back some memories

*edit* Oh, forgot these two
Abes oddysee (http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/oddworld-abes-oddysee)
Abes exodus (http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/oddworld-abes-exoddus)

Probably the only game on the planet where you can possess your own fart and blow stuff up with them, and thats not to mention they were really funny; and there were some decent puzzles.
*/edit*

[hijacker(GR)]

Super mario kart (SNES)thousands of hours in multiplayer
Stunt race FX (SNES)
Formula 1 1997 (PS1)
Die hard trilogy (PS1)
Destruction derby 2 (PS1) ...not mean i'm a wrecker :D
PES 4 (PS2)
Need for speed SE (1995) ...on a 486DX4/120MHz
Burning road (PS1)
Resident Evil 1 (PS1) !!!THE GAME!!!
Sega virtual Tennis 2(arcade)
Sega rally 1&2 (arcade)
Sega touring car (arcade)
Point blank (arcade)
and sure LFS

[Hyperactive]

...
Destruction derby 2 (PS1) ...not mean i'm a wrecker :D
...

I actually remember to have done some hotlapping in that game :)

[NotAnIllusion]

The Incredible Machine. Oldie but goldie. Everyone should have tried this. Just wicked!
Yes I remember this, outstanding brainteasers! :D

[Huru-aito]

Turbo Outrun (C64)
Test Drive (C64)
Stunt Car Racer (C64)
Grand Prix Circuit (C64)
F1GP
NFS (the SE version to be exact)
Indycar Racing 2
Viper Racing
LFS

Those are the ones that I've spend a lot of time with. That doesn't mean titles like GPL or NR2003 would suck - I just haven't driven them that much.

Oh yeah, I've played Quake and it's mods for quite a bit aswell :)

[Ardent]

star wars galaxies

it's the game i played for the longest time ever, even were a beta tester for more than a year.
As for old game it's wizardry 6: the bane of the cosmic forge which I played for ages. I still could solve it, if I had to :)

[xapexcivicx]

I'm not making a long post.

Live For Speed
Gran Turismo 1
...Kitten Cannon ( www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html )

[Rotary]

not really in any order... just as I remember them, probably a lot more but these come to mind first.

Grand Prix
Kings Quest III
Test Drive
Leisure Suite Larry
Police Quest
Sim City
Mario Brothers III
Super Mario Kart
Super R-Type
Mortal Kombat
Indy 500
Metal Gear Solid
Gran Turismo 1
Toca 2
Medal of Honour (first PSone version)
Final Fantasy VIII, X & X-2 (more so VIII as it was my first Final Fantasy)
Diablo II
Operation Flashpoint
Neverwinter Nights
LFS
Battlefield 2

[ColeusRattus]

I don't know, if you can say "influenced", as I really don't know, which games influenced me how. But there are some classics, which had me have lots of good times.

My first memories concerning Computer games ( with an old Amber/Black screen): Accolade's Grand Prix and Microprose's F15 Strike Eagle II

Then, after having my first colour screen (which was a much gretare advance than my first 3d Accelerator):
Prince of Persia
Test Drive II Th Duell
Zak McCracken

The rest is not associated with hardware-updates:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Monkey Island
Stunts (4D Sports Driving)
Street Rod
Wing Commander (II to V)
Privateer
Ultima VII, VIII, IX
NASCAR Racing
Strike Commander
Need for Speed (Played all of them, up to UG2, but dunno about MW)
Unreal (With my first 3D acceleration card)
European Air War
Falcon 4.0
Civilization 2
Terra Nova - Strike Force Centauri
IL2 Sturmovik (+AEP+PF)
Hitman I + 2 (Contracts sucked IMHO)
Counter Strike
Frontline Force (HL mod)
Rainbow 6 (All major parts, not the pricey "add-ons")
Infiltration (UT mod)
Red Orchestra (UT2k4 mod)
Operation Flashpoint
Morrowind
GTR
World of Warcraft

My non-PC Classics:
Secret of Mana (Played through it in coop at a friends SNES)
Zelda - Ocarina of Time
Gran Turismo 3 (Which was the sole reason for me to buy a PS2)
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 (which are to me more like Manga movies with short periods of interaction. Quite entertaining though)
Kill Zone (I really dig that gritty WWI/II-Sci-Fi scenario and amosphere. Also, due to the limiting control with the joypad, you behave more realistically in Console shooters, not being able to move nad run at the same time properly :D)
Soul Calibur 2

Many of tehse above are still played from time to time, but ATM, most of my gaming time is consumed by the following:

LfS
GT Legends
Red Orchestra
Civilization 4
Rome - Total War
Gran Turismo 4

EDIT: After many edits, which I used to add some games which slipped, it just occurred to me that I might spend too much time gaming... should go out more ;)

[avih]

- Arcades
Outrun (+also works great with MAME)
Enduro Racer
Chase HQ
1943
Hard Drivin'

- Spectrum 48K/128K
Manic Miner
Match Point
Squash (amazing :) )
Turbo esprit
Elite (yay 3d :) )
Platoon
Stunts 3D
Flying Shark
Head over hills
R-Type

- Atari ST
Interphase (amazing 3d exploration)
Dragon's Lair (fun animation)

- PC
Loom
Wolfenstein/Doom 1/2
Tomb raider 1/2 (1st 3d accelerated game i've played :) )
Collin McRae 2 (PS emu/PC)
GT 2 (PS emu)
Hitman 1/2 (just amazing)
Splinter Cell 1/2
LFS

he.. many years of gaming :)

[Takumi_Project.d]

zelda ocarina of time on the n64. first zelda game i ever played and still something i hold close :) i must have been about 14 at the time, totally controlled my life for the longest time

[Anarchi-H]

Hitman 1/2 (just amazing)

:doh: How did I forget the Hitman games. I nearly got sacked from bunking off playing the original Hitman.
Hitman 2 was just as good, which is rare for a sequel, but Contracts fell a bit short IMO.

[Woz]

I have been playing video games since the very early days but here is my hit list. All have been responsible for taking many hours of my life.

Defender, Robotron & Tempest (Arcade)
Simple twitch games but great playability etc.

Dungeon Master series (Atari ST)
Great role play style game. Very dated now but great at the time.

Stunt Car Racer (Atari ST)
All ready been mentioned I think. This was great in 2 player and the tracks were just mental. The feel of the cars was good as well.

Doom 1/2, Quake 1/2 & 3
iD games have to appear in any list of games that had an impact on gaming. Doom 3 was a little of a let down, stunning visuals that could scare the crap out of you (Play in the dark with headphones :)) but gameplay was dated so this was the first iD game I never completed. iD made game demos a must and have always pushed hardware to breaking point. Q3 was the top level in deathmatch and ctf play with solid online and physics and a feels that some still cant match.

Half Life 1 & 2
Great games in their own right and without these we would not have CounterStrike, a game with over 100000 players at peak times of the day.

Deus Ex
Follow on from system shock series and one of the best RPG's in an FPS setting. Free form, great story and graphics. The follow up, Deus Ex 2, was too short and dumbed down for the masses.

GTA 1, 2, 3, VC
What a great series, loads to do and see and endless gameplay. Oh to have the LFS physics engine in this game:)

LFS
This has pulled me in as much as Quake 3, although I have a few years to go before I would have clocked up the hours that Quake 3 took from me.

Real Flight Sims
I worked on military and commercial flight sims for 10 years. Not your normal PC sims, full blown £10mil system used to train pilots. Not really a game unless you do a lot of night shift and need to "test" your software for hours on end :) Yes a 747-400 will loop... If you take it to 35000feet and then point it at the ground until you hit 10000feet and then pull back and hope. wahahahah I love full motion platforms :)

[mr_x]

Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 2
Toca 2 Tourng Cars
Delta Force Black Hawk Down
Gran Turismo 2
Sim City series
Monkey Island
Grim Fandango

[naskavu]

Live for speed
Halo 2 ( xbox )
Need for speed ( xbox)
Hard truck 18 wheels to steels
Ghost recon 2

[Michael Miskella]

dont fully understand the question but i'll answer with my most memorable and try to get them in order.

Super Mario Bros.
Roadrash
Street Fighter 2
Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Mario Kart
Super Bomberman
Gran Turismo 2
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Final Fantasy 7
Half-Life (then the mods Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike in that order)
Motor City Online
Live For Speed
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Half-Life 2 (Counter-Strike: Source Beta was played first and final release still is)

Out of all that i'd only consider Valve and the LFS Dev's to have my full support, gratitude and loyalty.

[STROBE]

Lotus Turbo Esprit Series
Memories of playing this when I was just a kid.

Monkey Island 2
The best point'n'click adventure game ever? Quite possibly. I've only ever been interested in the occasional adventure game, but this was by far the most fun. The humour, the graphics, the atmosphere, the laid-back nature of it knowing you couldn't just die or fail or have to restart - the fact that it was about nothing more than having FUN. Beneath a Steel Sky also gets a special mention for being an adventure game that wasn't set in a land of mystery and magic and goblins, etc. Which I recall seemed to be something of a rarity at the time.

Doom II
First time I played this was the first time I'd seen 3D graphics with textures. Even today I can still picture some of the levels, enemies and weapons.

Half Life 2
I found this to be the most atmospheric game I've played in a long time. Not only is it visually stunning with a decent storyline to explore, but the sheer diversity of the environments with accompanying different sounds and enemies is unequalled.

Grand Prix / Grand Prix 2
These two racing sims had me hooked. I remember reading the review in the magazine, seeing a screenshot and being stunned when I noticed the wingmirrors actually worked! In the days of digital input devices, these games were kings. But GP3 left me strangely lacking, for some reason.

Gran Turismo 1 & 2
The ultimate driving simulator? Well, on consoles, yes. It doesn't cut the mustard for us realism/sim addicts, but for the average gamer it's a superbly detailed, well rounded racing game with enough depth to keep happy those who like tinkering with different upgrades, setups, etc. I've wasted many a day on GT2. And even though we now have LFS, I'll still be very interested/tempted by the next Gran Turismo on the PS3.

Grand Theft Auto III
Despite the best efforts of Rockstar, neither Vice City or even San Andreas can recapture the magic of the first installment of 3D GTAs. Nothing about this game was cutting edge (graphics, sound, design) except the concept, storyline and production. It created a whole genre of 3D driving/shooting games, and is so good you can still play it today and simply not notice it's age. Maybe it's just the New York / Chicago inspired Liberty City lends itself to GTA better than Vice City's Miami or San Andreas' LA/SF/LV, but there's something about the city design that just feels right, and plays superbly. It's also worth checking out this video (http://www.fileplanet.com/143527/140000/fileinfo/Liberty-City-Tribute).

Live For Speed
Obviously. ;)

[nikimere]

Grand Prix 3 got me started, never played anything online until.... LFS

Then LFS took me in a headlock and wont let me go! Addicted..... :schwitz: :D

[Forbin]

Doom II
First time I played this was the first time I'd seen 3D graphics with textures. Even today I can still picture some of the levels, enemies and weapons.
I think most consider it to be 2.5D :). The first truly 3D FPS was Quake.

[avih]

either quake or tomb raider, whichever came out 1st :)

[Zewerr]

Monkey Island roxorz!!!!

About as good as Space Quest!

[Tweaker]

OH man I remember just playing the Monkey Island demo and just died to own the full game... but never got around to getting it :( Was a cool puzzle game :)

[SladiVadi]

Because of X-Wing I got a PC.

Because of LfS I subscribed to leagues. :lovies3d:

[Zewerr]

OH man I remember just playing the Monkey Island demo and just died to own the full game... but never got around to getting it :( Was a cool puzzle game :)

You can get the whole monkey island series cheap! They come in that Lucas Arts collector package type thingie.

[ajp71]

Gpl
N2003
Lfs

[CHR20000]

LFS of course,:D
C&C generals:Looking_a/zero hour:pillepall
UTseries(esp.2004 bc.of onslaught):thumb:
MAFIA & GTA (VC+SA):smileypul

[Matrixi]

So many to list.. oh well.

Bubble Bobble
Silkworm
Stunts
Street Rod 1 & 2
Test Drive 1 & 2
Mario Bros 1, 2, 3

Carmageddon 1 & 2
Doom 1 & 2
Quake 1 & 2 (I hate 4 oh-so-much)
Duke 3D
Legend of Kyrandia 3
Operation Flashpoint
Everquest 2
Gish (Hillarious little game it was)
Half-Life 1 & 2
Fable
Gran Turismo 3 & 4
LFS

I've forgotten a ton of great games that should've been listed.

[rich uk]

Ultima online (laying it since 97)
Unreal Tournament (original 99, none of this 2003/2004 s**t)
Quake 3 Rocket arena (Since 2000)
Gpl (since 2000)
LFS (august 2002)


all mighty games, and all blew my mind

[deggis]

Remember the topic. It seems that this thread has gone to "best games ever thread".

Wolfenstein 3D & Alone In The Dark
The first games that made me poop my pants. Actually I never played them that much because they were too scary.

Microprose Grand Prix, Stunts, RAC Rally & Need For Speed 1 + Slicks 'n' Slide :D
The first "sims" and/or driving games that I got hooked to.

Rainbow Six, Half-Life & Operation Flashpoint
There are six FPS games that have changed the genre. These are three of them (other ones are Wolf 3D, Doom and Quake :)).

Richard Burns Rally
The game that finally forced me to buy a wheel.

Infiltration (UT mod)
YES! It's very sad that Infiltration never got the big audience. It was really ahead of it's time. For example it had 3D iron sights (with so called "free aiming") even before Operation Flashpoint. Sad also that the dev team recently stopped developing the HL2 project. America's Army could be called as "an Infiltration clone" (really! before someone starts a flame war: you just don't know if you never played Infiltration).

[rogokos]

Hard Drivin' - Arcade unit by Atari.
Race Drivin' - Arcade unit by Atari.
Virtua Racing - Arcade unit by SEGA AM2.
Daytona USA - Arcade unit by SEGA AM2.
F355 Challenge - Arcade unit by SEGA AM2.
San Francisco RUSH EXTREME RACING - Arcade unit by Atari.
Ridge Racer 1 & 2 - Arcade unit by Namco.

All of the above games had good physics [not great]. F355 ranks highest in closest possible real life physics in an arcade system and I still love getting in the arcade unit with it's realistic clutch and stick. Ridge racer was purely a game that was manageable when punch drunk.

Wow duddddee hardly anyone even mentions Hard or Race Drivin. Those were the first games that benchmarked physics.

CART Racing - PC by Sierra
Monaco Grand Prix 2 - PC by UBI Soft
NASCAR - All the games made by Papyrus, not EA.
Need for Speed 1 Special Edition - PC by EA [This actually had realistic physics]
Viper Racing - PC by Sierra/Papyrus

Now I found LFS!!!

[W1LLSD4D]

:scratchch

GPL
F1GP (& GP2)
Indy 500
Sim City (& SC 2000)

[Vain]

Mario Andretti Racing - Introduced me to PC games
Battlechess - Introduced me to "Computers are stupid - and funny!"
Anno 1602 - Introduced me to "Wow, these 10 hours went by quickly!"
Ultima Online - Introduced me to roleplaying games
Unreal Tournament - Introduced me to "Woha, see that heap of flesh, cool!"
LFS - Introduced me to real physics in a game

Vain

[MataGyula]

Commander Ken 4 >> it was the first great game i played :nod:
Mafia > loved the atmosphere
GTA - the whole series
Half Life 2 > oh the physics :smileypul
Counter Strike > only with POD Bot :shy:
Soldat > 4EVER !
Gish
GeneRally
NFS 5
World of Warcraft
Warcraft 3
Fear
Fahrenheit
Stronghold Crusader
Live for Speed - i must say that LFS has got me so much, like no other game . Even Iam a demo racer, i had spent a GREAT ammount of time playing it :) .... since november 2004 :) ... damn i need to buy a licence :tilt:

[ATHome]

Nascar Racing 1
Indycar Racing 2
Stunts (discovered it very late, at the time my P100 was still new)
Nascar Racing 2
Grand Prix 2
Need For Speed 2 SE
Need For Speed Porsche
Quake 3 Arena
Grand Prix Legends
Nascar Racing 4
Live For Speed
Grand Prix 4
Nascar Racing 2003 (Papy)

That are the games in approx. chronical order.

[bbman]

Siedler 2 (where all began)
C&C Renegade (the game that finally got me online)
LfS (love on second sight, but now more than everything... :D)

[FunkedUp]

subLogic FS II
Indy 500
Sega NHL 92
John Madden Football

[speedfreak227]

MASTER OF ORION: (PC) fantastic empire building game. i still play it.

MOONSTONE: (amiga) great 4 player knight game where you take on monsters to win treasures and such. my friends and i LIVED on this game for years.

PIRATES: (C64) awesome because of its open endedness.

MANIAC MANSION: (C64) awesome because it could be finished multiple different ways

ZAK MCKRACKEN AND THE ALIEN MINDBENDERS: (C64) fantastic follow up to Maniac Mansion which included the elusive chainsaw gas. hahahahahaha

THE ORIGINAL TEST DRIVE: (C64) learned how to shift with that.

ANOTHER WORLD/OUT OF THIS WORLD: (amiga) first fully polygon game. when i watched the intro i nearly crapped myself with excitement. i tried to explain the signifigance to my father but it was lost on him.

RAILROAD TYCOON: (amiga) again awsome for beong so open ended.

TOMB RAIDER: (PS) the first one was the best by far. i wish they would remake it for PS2 with updated graphics.

PRINCE OF PERSIA, THE SANDS OF TIME: (PS2) just a fantastic game.

speedfreak227

[Eldanor]

Hmmm... let me think. I suppose the most relevant games for me are the ones that showed me up the different game styles. Advenfure, FPS, RTS...

- Some "Bruce Lee" thing (A Spectrum game I used to play with my cousin, ahhh those were the days)
- Monkey Island :) (And then everything LucasArts produced XD)
- Final Fantasy Adventure (Game Boy)
- Doom II (also quakes, hl, unreals... but Doom II started it all for me)
- Warcraft I (I discovered RTS with that, later I played Dune 2 :) )
- Ironman (That Nitro 4x4 game, I used to play with 2 friends, great!!)
- Transport Tycoon Deluxe, very funny.
- Stunts Driving. Loved to make big jumps for the Formula car XDDD
- Duck Hunt LOL. I used to play some wicked games using Whiskey and Duck Hunt with my friends XDD

Old games are like onld movies. They had such a crap graphics and sound that they had to make a great story or funny game for the people to play it. Now you can throw the enjoymente away if you put enough shiny things on the screen XDDD

[mr grady]

On the good old Amiga:

alone in the dark

team yankee

m1 tank platoon

On the PC:

duke nukem 3d

doom/quake

GP2

counterstrike

viper racing

Nas2002/2003

LVS

[shim]

Wolf3D
Descent
Quake 1
Super Mario Kart
Gran Turismo

reasoning
Wolf3D - was the first FPS i ever played..

Descent - first proper 3d movement game i ever played, being able to fly through tunnels that go up, down, left right, it blew my mind away

Quake - first 3d Accelerated game i played and opened up the 3D market

Super Mario Kart - it made racing fun, its still damn fun to play when im drunk with me mates :P

Gran Turismo - it brought me into the world of proper racing and what cars can and cant do.. for its time, the physics where amazing..

[Boris Lozac]

Definatelly LFS...
Why? Because i've become a mad man when it comes to LFS.. :pillepall :D
It gave me the best driving/racing feel, that no other sim did...
And now i can't believe that people can play other games, just because of the "real" cars and tracks, when there is no that good feeling like in LFS.. That feeling that i am in total control, that everything depends on me, and my reactions..
So yes, BIG influence on me.. :)

Others are..:
Flimbo's quest(C64)
Phoenix (C64)
Earth worm Jim
Mafia
Rainbow six serial
Medal of honor allied assault
Richard burns rally

[al heeley]

Revs for the BBC Micro
http://www.retrogames.co.uk/stock/assets/images/BBC_-_Revs.jpg

Papyrus Indycar Racing 2
http://www.cdaccess.com/gifs/shared/front/large/indycar2.gif

Grand Prix Legends
http://www.bmwccn.no/rogaland/images/gpl_small.jpg

Stunt Car Racing
http://www.kostenlose-lieder.de/Fotos/Amigaspiele/Stunt_Car_Racer_06.jpg

[mrbogeyman]

Hmmm good topic :D

Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix 1
Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix 2
STAR WARS: Xwing & Tie Fighter (originals)
Warcraft 2
Doom 1
Doom 2
Quake 2 (my first real 3D shooter, i missed Q1 due to my hardware)
Need for Speed: 2-SE, 3-Hot Pursuit, 4-Road Challenge, 5-Porsche
System Shock 2 (had to put it in there because i thought it was so good at the time although i had to do some digging in this thread to remember it! ending was dissapointing for me as it only took 1 attempt :doh: )
Half-Life
Live for Speed :D

These are the games that have stood out for me over my gaming years, and given me the most enjoyment and longevity.

[shim]

system shock 2 was a damn good game..

[Ziil]

Prince of Persia
Doom
Tomb Raider
Stunts
F/A-18 Hornet
Need for Speed 1
F-22 Raptor - the arcade one not a flight sim. :)
Super Mario :)
Myst 4 - that game can make your head hurt and i love it :nod: it has some Real nice graphics( the darn thing comes in 2 DVDs when you buy it:pillepall ) and some REAL hard puzzels :D

[Jesters Tear]

Revs
Elite

BBC Micro. Rose tinted memories.

JT

[mr_spoon]

I spent some time compiling this list as I liked the trip down memory lane:

FPS:
- Doom 1 & 2 (and much fun creating levels with DEU).
- Dark Forces.
- Quake2 (especially the ActionQ2 mod, best mod ever). Virtually skipped Q3 as AQ2 was so good. Quake1.
- Unreal (ooh, pretty graphics).
- Doom3 (play it alone in the dark, scary... aah, hehehe).

Adventure:
- Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max (both abosolutely brilliant).
- Broken Sword 1 (got BS2 but still not played it).

Racing:
- Lotus Challenge, F1GP & GP2, Micro Machines, Skunny Kart (MarioKart clone for PC), SuperKarts.
- NFS 2,3,4 & Porsche 2000 (all just multiplayer/split-screen).
- Live for Speed, S1 & S2.

Other Sims:
- Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, MiG-29 Falcrum, TFX.
- X-Wing, Tie Fighter.

Others:
- Sensible Soccer (a demo with an exploding football, hilarious).
- Scorched Earth (multiplayer magic).
- Utopia (ancient obscure strategy game).
- Warcraft 2.
- One Must Fall (probably still the best fighting game on the PC).
- Worms (not any later versions as they aren't as 'pure').

Sorry for the long list, it isn't just all the games I've ever played and I did have to edit some rather good ones out, it really is just the most enjoyable/memorable ones. I got into Linux a few years ago so my gaming isn't quite so prolific now.

[spankmeyer]

Mind-blowing games back then:
Rainbow 6 & Rogue Spear
Falcon 4.0
Wing Commander 2
UFO: Enemy Unkown
Jagged Alliance
System Shock
Dreamweb
Terra Nova

[RMachucaA]

test drive
space quest\police quest
wing commander 1-2-3
falcon
big red racing
and all of the papy sims, and microprose sims

[VorTeX3k]

Well, I think those game had a lot of influence on me:

- F1 Grand Prix (World Circuit)
- Testdrive
- Stunts
- eeahrm... I forgot the name of this ;) it was a motorcycle racing sim from accolade
- grand prix 2
- nascar (1, from papyrus)
- operation flashpoint (still playing :D even after 5 years i cannot get enough of this)
- unrealm ut (with infiltration mod, much better than strike force)
- need for speed 1 and porsche
- eurofighter
- Sega Rally (PC) :P
- lfs (currently not that much)

[W1LLSD4D]

- Worms (not any later versions as they aren't as 'pure').


I've forgotten about worms. My gf (now wife) fell about laughing at "I'm gonna get you..."

[Hankstar]

Good thread :) It's a big list because all of these games have hooked me in and kept me absorbing cathode radiation for hours upon hours. Could account for the paranoia I suppose...unless the CIA is making me paranoid with it's thought control satellites...

C64 - the beginning:
Dambusters, Ace of Aces, Turrican, Test Drive, Grand Prix Circuit, Powerdrift, Outrun, Attack of the Mutant Camels, International Soccer, Park Patrol, Midnight Resistance, Phantoms of the Asteroid (awesome soundtrack)

SNES: F-Zero, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country

PC: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Command & Conquer, Need For Speed, Interstate 76 (too wicked!), X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, Grand Prix Legends, Live For Speed, Medal of Honour Allied Assault (that Normandy level is insane, and Sniper Town rocks), Prince of Persia, The Sims, GTA3, GTA Vice City, Max Payne(s)(can't beat bullet time :D)

PS1:
Gran Turismo 1 & 2, Micro Machines 3D, Metal Gear Solid, Armored Core, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Ghost In The Shell, Silent Hill, Resident Evil(s) (closer .. closer .. BLAM BLAM SPLUTCH muaaahahahahaa!)

PS2: GT3, Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2 & 3 (icky!), GTA San Andreas, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - great fun :nod:

I could go on ... but I won't. I can't remember anymore :)

[speedfreak227]

Good thread :) It's a big list because all of these games have hooked me in and kept me absorbing cathode radiation for hours upon hours. Could account for the paranoia I suppose...unless the CIA is making me paranoid with it's thought control satellites...

C64 - the beginning:
Dambusters, Ace of Aces, Turrican, Test Drive, Grand Prix Circuit, Powerdrift, Outrun, Attack of the Mutant Camels, International Soccer, Park Patrol, Midnight Resistance, Phantoms of the Asteroid (awesome soundtrack)

SNES: F-Zero, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country

PC: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Command & Conquer, Need For Speed, Interstate 76 (too wicked!), X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, Grand Prix Legends, Live For Speed, Medal of Honour Allied Assault (that Normandy level is insane, and Sniper Town rocks), Prince of Persia, The Sims, GTA3, GTA Vice City, Max Payne(s)(can't beat bullet time :D)

PS1:
Gran Turismo 1 & 2, Micro Machines 3D, Metal Gear Solid, Armored Core, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Ghost In The Shell, Silent Hill, Resident Evil(s) (closer .. closer .. BLAM BLAM SPLUTCH muaaahahahahaa!)

PS2: GT3, Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2 & 3 (icky!), GTA San Andreas, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - great fun :nod:

I could go on ... but I won't. I can't remember anymore :)

wow, we have a lot of favorite games in common.

i had dam busters for my colecovision but i think i only saw the dam once....maybe...... if that was actually the dam........

and i LOVE the dude from bruce lee as your avatar.

speedfreak227

[Hankstar]

wow, we have a lot of favorite games in common.

i had dam busters for my colecovision but i think i only saw the dam once....maybe...... if that was actually the dam........

and i LOVE the dude from bruce lee as your avatar.



His name and Green Yamo and he cannot be defeated! Except maybe by Bruce Lee ...

You seem to be a man of great taste and refinement :nod: Dambusters blew my tiny 12-year old mind (I was obsessed with 617 squadron and watched the film and read the book repeatedly) and it took up many of my C64 days, although I never did manage to fly all the way there from Scampton and bust the Moehne dam without getting PWND by Messerschmits on the way back. It was my first taste of game addiction...

C64-heads, go here: http://c64s.com/
:thumb:

[speedfreak227]

C64-heads, go here: http://c64s.com/
:thumb:

i went there but the games don't seem to be playable for me. maybe i need a newer java but mine should be pretty up to date.

i want to play Blue Max and Rags to Riches again!!!

speedfreak227

[Smax]

Hmmm I suppose it all started with a Printzsound [sp] thing that plugged into the telly and let you move lines that pretended to be racquets around to hit a blob which pretended to be a ball...called itself "tennis" although the "football" one was pretty much the same just with more blobs, kinda like primitive electronic table football. That must have been about the time that I was pestering my parents for 10pence pieces for a go on Space Invaders.

I had a coupla little hand held Pacmans and Donkey Kongs, then a 48k Spectrum, favourite games being Way of the exploding fist, Spyhunter and Attic Attack.

Then I stopped playing videogames for the best part of 15 years until I bought a PS1 Gran Turnismo 1,2 and Soulblade owned that, just as Gran Turismo 3,4 and Rachet & Clank own my PS2.

P.C wise the games I've lost most time to have been Unreal and Unreal Tournament 99, but I gave up on the UT series when UT2003 introduced all those silly disco stu break dancing moves and fubared the weapons [Thanks Cliffy B].

These days I'll play just about any FPS with a strong single palyer storyline, recent favourites being Far Cry and F.E.A.R. Multi player is taken care of by BF2/Special Forces, and other than NFSU2 & MW [which I happen to love :P] LFS is the only other game I have installed.

[the_angry_angel]

P.C wise the games I've lost most time to have been Unreal and Unreal Tournament 99, but I gave up on the UT series when UT2003 introduced all those silly disco stu break dancing moves and fubared the weapons [Thanks Cliffy B].I hear you on that one. Did you wait for the UT2003 demo religiously? (I did). I was absolutely floored by how good it looked, but pretty pissed off with the whole scale and double jump quake-feel to it :(

[Smax]

I even went as far as taking part in the whole making up silly photoshops with a "in two weeks/where's the demo" thing that went on at the Planet Unreal Forums 'cos Mark Rein and Cliffy B used to read 'em. I worked the news on Unreality.dk, wrote map reviews on Come In Or Get Out, played with the [UITY] clan and in short was a total fanboi.
[even worse than Tristan ;)]
I was GUTTED when the unicorn turned out the be real after all and I finally played "teh demo", but I bought the game anyway...I and everyone else in the clan had unistalled it within a fortnight and that was that, I've never played any of em since, and having seen the UT2007 videos I'm not in any hurry to play that either.

[the_angry_angel]

I even went as far as taking part in the whole making up silly photoshops with a "in two weeks/where's the demo" thing that went on at the Planet Unreal Forums 'cos Mark Rein and Cliffy B used to read 'em.lol, those posts were hilarious - I think I've still got some of the better photoshop's around on one of my boxes (http://images.theangryangel.is-a-geek.com/unreal/pre-demo/ut2k3demo1%2520copy.jpg) :D I think I've even still got a shot of when I managed to get my name of CliffyB's net-aware scrolling notify thing (http://images.theangryangel.is-a-geek.com/unreal/cliffe%20webcamwebcam32_2.jpg).

I worked the news on Unreality.dk, wrote map reviews on Come In Or Get Out, played with the [UITY] clan and in short was a total fanboi.
[even worse than Tristan ;)] Those names definately ring a few bells :D I must admit that I too was a massive fan boy :(

[Flotch]

worms (the first only, and later worms reinforcement)
age of empires (1, 2, mythology)
starcraft
heroes of M&M (3 & 4 a lot)
GPL
RBR slightly
Rome Total War
LFS, 0.1 to S2 alpha of course ;) . to be continued.

[Smax]

[quote=the_angry_angel]lol, those posts were hilarious - I think I've still got some of the better photoshop's around on one of my boxes (http://images.theangryangel.is-a-geek.com/unreal/pre-demo/ut2k3demo1%2520copy.jpg) :D I think I've even still got a shot of when I managed to get my name of CliffyB's net-aware scrolling notify thing (http://images.theangryangel.is-a-geek.com/unreal/cliffe%20webcamwebcam32_2.jpg).


Nice one... I too seem to have pictures in my old homestead filedump account

http://houseofsmax.homestead.com/files/cliffsez.jpg
http://houseofsmax.homestead.com/files/karl2.jpg

And even one from Cliffy's silly "photshop this" distraction thread.

http://houseofsmax.homestead.com/files/markpic_smax.jpg

After I posted those my homestead account went over its bandwidth allowance 3 days in a row-the only times it's ever done so, it would seem that you and I were not the only fanbois....;)

[the_angry_angel]

rofl, such an awesome team of developers, an awesome group of people, an awesome engine - shame about the last few games they;ve released based on it :(

[Breizh]

Test Drive, Another World + Flashback, F-Zero.
LFS -tires + propellers + guns (http://hitechcreations.com)

[TheMaestro]

Myth 2 Soulblighter

Game Description:

In command of a ragtag army of berserkers, dwarves, soldiers, and sorcerers, you are the last hope (yet again) of saving the folk of Madrigal and the West from the evil might of Soulblighter and his minions. Test your fortitude by challenging others on your network or online to a battle to the death, or cross swords and sages with Soulblighter himself. For fantasy gamers, this is far better than a slab of roast beast washed down with a tall ale.

Times New Roman]Been playing for 7 years and it is an awsome game, but can't be bought in stores anymore :x

[Fetzo]

rally speedway (track editor, awesome drifts.....great multiplayer game!)
silent hill (the horror!)
counterstrike (i played it for too long to deny it :P)
gran turismo (was definately the first step i took from arcade racing to simulations)
total annihilation (best rts to date, supreme comander ist not out yet)

currently:
guitar hero (omg i rock!)

[whitey6272]

Id have to say grand theft auto, without it id never have got the courage to shoot people in broad daylight and steal cars:thumb: