# what were your favorite games (by platform, please) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855 "2007-02-27T07:24:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/1 "2007-02-27T07:24:38Z")
I wrote up this list more as an exercise in memory recently, but I thought it’d be fun to post and see what other people had to say about their picks. Oh, and assume that any PC game I list includes any & all expansions, please. And of course, if you want do discuss any of my picks, that’d be cool too… 😉 Cards Bullshit Euchre Uno Board Games Trivial Pursuit Chess Risk Tabletop & CCG’s Magic: the Gathering Classic Battletech Mechwarrior: Dark Age Arcade Street Fighter 2 Pac Man Time Crisis 2 Atari 2600 Space Invaders Legend Pitfall NES Mega Man 2 Ninja Gaiden Legend of Zelda SNES Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Chrono Trigger Super Bomberman Sega Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (the combined game using the lock-on feature) Gunstar Heroes Lemmings PS1 Final Fantasy Tactics Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Mega Man X4 N64 Super Mario 64 Perfect Dark Mario Kart 64 Sega Dreamcast Sonic Adventure Soul Calibur Marvel vs. Capcom 2 PS2 Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies Final Fantasy X Gradius V Gamecube Super Smash Brothers: Melee Soul Calibur II Metroid Prime Xbox Halo Guilty Gear XX: Reload Crimson Skies Gameboy Tetris Pokemon: Red & Blue Donkey Kong Gameboy Color Dragon Warrior/Quest I&II Dragon Warrior/Quest III Crystalis Gameboy Advance Wario Ware Super Mario Advance Metroid: Zero Mission Nintendo DS Super Mario 64DS Final Fantasy III Children of Mana PC early-mid 90’s Warcraft II TIE Fighter Sim City 2000 PC mid-90’s to the Millenium Warcraft III Master of Orion II Mechwarrior 2 PC recent years World of Warcraft Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War City of Heroes/Villains PS. I know, I know, I’m a series-whore, right? So what! And if you want me to pare things down to an absolute favorites list, here’s an off-the-cuff list: 1.) Final Fantasy Tactics 2.) TIE Fighter 3.) Classic Battletech 4.) Megaman 2 5.) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (the combined game using the lock-on feature) ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/2 "2007-02-27T07:31:50Z")
I took too long trying to edit that mess (my mistake from pasting in from word and not thinking about formatting)! :mad: Please replace it with this: I wrote up this list more as an exercise in memory recently, but I thought it’d be fun to post and see what other people had to say about their picks. Oh, and assume that any PC game I list includes any & all expansions, please. And of course, if you want do discuss any of my picks, that’d be cool too… 😉 If you want, skip from here down to the PS at the end and just read my top 5 Cards Bullshit Euchre Uno Board Games Trivial Pursuit Chess Risk Tabletop & CCG’s Magic: the Gathering Classic Battletech Mechwarrior: Dark Age Arcade Street Fighter 2 Pac Man Time Crisis 2 Atari 2600 Space Invaders Legend Pitfall NES Mega Man 2 Ninja Gaiden Legend of Zelda SNES Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Chrono Trigger Super Bomberman Sega Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (the combined game using the lock-on feature) Gunstar Heroes Lemmings PS1 Final Fantasy Tactics Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Mega Man X4 N64 Super Mario 64 Perfect Dark Mario Kart 64 Sega Dreamcast Sonic Adventure Soul Calibur Marvel vs. Capcom 2 PS2 Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies Final Fantasy X Gradius V Gamecube Super Smash Brothers: Melee Soul Calibur II Metroid Prime Xbox Halo Guilty Gear XX: Reload Crimson Skies Gameboy Tetris Pokemon: Red & Blue Donkey Kong Gameboy Color Dragon Warrior/Quest I&II Dragon Warrior/Quest III Crystalis Gameboy Advance Wario Ware Super Mario Advance Metroid: Zero Mission Nintendo DS Super Mario 64DS Final Fantasy III Children of Mana PC early-mid 90’s Warcraft II TIE Fighter Sim City 2000 PC mid-90’s to the Millenium Warcraft III Master of Orion II Mechwarrior 2 PC recent years World of Warcraft Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War City of Heroes/Villains **PS.** I know, I know, I’m a series-whore, right? So what! And if you want me to pare things down to an absolute favorites list, here’s an off-the-cuff list: 1.) Final Fantasy Tactics 2.) TIE Fighter 3.) Classic Battletech 4.) Megaman 2 5.) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (the combined game using the lock-on feature) ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/3 "2007-02-27T08:07:31Z")
All right - very first post! Also love games. Cards: Poker, pontoon, 500, Euchre Board: Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble (every Thursday night with 3 of my mates), Risk, Space Crusade, Cluedo, Charades, Articulate Electronic: (insert sad face) not co-ordinated enough to be a gamer ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/4 "2007-02-27T09:20:32Z")
Oh boy. I’ll try to keep it short, but my list dates back to 1983 😃 Fortunately, I’ve limited my platforms. **Cards** [ul] [li]Euchre[/li][li]Spades[/li][li]Hearts[/li][/ul] **Social** [ul] [li]Clue[/li][li]Pool[/li][li]Foosball[/li][li]Yahtzee[/li][li]Car Wars[/li][li]Pictionary[/li][/ul] **Atari 800 (yes, indeed, eight hundred)** [ul] [li]M.U.L.E.[/li][li]Wizards of Wor[/li][li]Zork (and all other Infocom games, including and especially Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)[/li][li]Pitfall[/li][li]Donkey Kong[/li][li]Mario Brothers (the original sewer-pipe-clearing mayhem)[/li][li]Loderunner[/li][li]Joust[/li][li]Mail Order Monsters[/li][li]Autoduel[/li][/ul] **Arcade** [ul] [li]Rampage[/li][li]Gauntlet[/li][li]Tron[/li][li]Gyruss[/li][li]Ninja Gaiden[/li][li]House of the Dead[/li][/ul] **PC** [ul] [li]Tongue of the Fatman[/li][li]Arkanoid[/li][li]Police/King/Space Quest series[/li][li]Zack McKracken/Day of the Tentacle[/li][li]Sam and Max Hit the Road[/li][li]Mechwarrior[/li][li]The Lost Vikings[/li][li]Lemmings[/li][li]Might & Magic series (not Heroes of…)[/li][li]Civilization (and all subsequent)[/li][li]Alpha Centauri[/li][li]Rome: Total War[/li][li]Team Fortress (both Quake and Halflife incarnations)[/li][li]Sword of the Samurai[/li][li]Call of Duty I & II[/li][li]Fallout I & II[/li][li]Elder Scrolls III & IV (Morrowind / Oblivion)[/li][li]Baldur’s Gate II[/li][li]Arcanum[/li][li]Starcraft[/li][li]Deus Ex I & II[/li][li]Thief I/II/III[/li][li]No One Lives Forever I & II[/li][li]Half Life II[/li][li]Dune II[/li][li]Space Rangers I & II[/li][li]Battlefield 1942[/li][/ul] **MMOG** [ul] [li]Ultima Online[/li][li]Everquest[/li][li]Dark Age of Camelot[/li][li]Planetside[/li][li]World of Warcraft (duh… haha)[/li][/ul] **Top 5 regardless of Platform** [ul] [li]Foosball[/li][li]World of Warcraft[/li][li]Fallout II[/li][li]Alpha Centauri[/li][li]Morrowind[/li][/ul] Whew… That was a lot longer than I thought. Good grief, have I been a total geek for that many years?? :eek: _edit: formatting_ ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/5 "2007-02-27T09:33:36Z")
Some of mine : 3DO : Killing Time, Syndicate ( I think it was this platform ) Atari ST : Sun Dog, Rogue, Lemmings, Populous ( I _think_ it was on this platform ) Playstation : Armored Core, Civilization 2, PO’d, Final Fantasy VII and VIII, Syphon Filter, Metal Gear Solid, Diablo, Legacy of Kain : Blood Omen, Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver, Tomb Raider I, II, III, Command and Conquer : Red Alert, Shadow Man, Tenchu : Stealth Assassins, Silent Hill, Castelvania : Symphony of the Night, G-Police, Resident Evil 1 & 2, Syndicate Wars, Vagrant Story Playstation 2 : Later Armored Core games, Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto series, Hitman 2, Destroy All Humans, Devil May Cry, Summoner 2, Silent Hill 2, Bloodrayne PC : Baldur’s Gate 2, Diablo 2, Morrowind, City of Heros/Villains, Civilization 3, Master of Orion II, Oblivion, Starcraft ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/6 "2007-02-27T09:39:01Z")
I would just like to supply you with a “Hell yeah!” for Sonic III + Knuckles for the Genesis. I never knew anyone else who appreciated it at the time, so it’s good to know there are gaming conneseurs with _TASTE_ out there. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/7 "2007-02-27T10:28:40Z")
Chess Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Civilisation 4 (I’m still trying to improve at those three, so don’t have time for any others :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/8 "2007-02-27T10:59:09Z")
Holy cow, forgive me if I don’t put forth effort you all have… Cards: Poker Canasta Spades Board games: Monopoly Arcade games: Donkey Kong Galaga Pacman Intellivision: Sea Battle PC: Star Control II edit: I went through every single infocom game, with or without help (my favorite was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I’m sure I’ve missed a few, but that at least demonstrates my level of dedication, though I can say I spent countless hours on the above. ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/9 "2007-02-27T11:11:14Z")
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer] I would just like to supply you with a “Hell yeah!” for Sonic III + Knuckles for the Genesis. I never knew anyone else who appreciated it at the time, so it’s good to know there are gaming conneseurs with _TASTE_ out there. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah. My save batteries run out on me more times than I can count, and I can never resist completing the game with every character, with all the Super Chaos Emeralds. By sheer time commitment alone it’s on there. 😃 Also, glad to see some other people giving props to Euchre. Truly, a thinking man’s (or woman’s) card game! 😉 PS. Here’s hoping a mod cleans up my gaff with the first post. PPS. For the record, I have tons of games for a lot of those systems I love (like all the other Final Fantasies 1-10, the Mega Men, the first two Ninja Gaidens, all the Zelda’s, Armored Core, etc.), but I tried to pare things down to a top 3 for each platform, based on time spent playing/time spent thinking about it/overall affection. It killed me not to list Bubble Bobble for NES, though. Oh, and also, I’ll admit that I don’t quite remember which Atari I inherited from my older brother, so those games might be from some other entry of the era. You’ll have to forgive me, it was before my time! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/10 "2007-02-27T11:23:18Z")
Right on, I’ve most defintely played Star Control on the Genesis more than any other game besides Poker. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-games-by-platform-please/393855/11 "2007-02-27T12:30:58Z")
…well, this thread is going to be a walk down memory lane… **Atari 2600** [Yars Revenge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yars_Revenge) Great gameplay with a simple premises: you are a bug, you need to destroy the Qotile and avoid the Swirl. Many nights of fun… [Bezerk](http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/berzerk) Beware the bouncing Evil Otto!!!%! :eek: **Commodore 64** [The Last Ninja](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ninja) When I think back now, this game would have been laughed out the gaming store because of the laughingly bad control issues. But at the time this was my personal favourite game: the first one we bought for the 64, and the one I remember most fondly. It too had a great soundtrack, that I can still play in my head nearly twenty years since I last played it. [Impossible Mission](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Mission) “We have a visitor. Stay a while. Stay…FOREVER!!!” This game had my all time favourite quotation: was great fun to play, and a real bugger to beat. Fantastic stuff. [Strange Loop](http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/strange-loop) A strange game that I can bearly remember: but I do remember spending many nights searching rooms and finding new things… **Amiga 500** [Paradroid 90](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid) How could you not like this one? I mean, Android 883 was a frick’n Dalek!!! How cool is that? [Bitmap Brothers Games](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap_Brothers) I won’t pick any particular game out: but whenever these guys released a new game I was normally at the head of the line. My personal favourites were “Gods”, a great game with a great soundtrack, Magic Pockets, just plain out fun, Speedball II Brutal Deluxe-manic sports fun…man I miss game designers like these guys in the gaming world today… ☹ And Gods had my favourite ever “specially written for a game” song, “Into the Wonderful,” by Nation XII. (John Foxx from Ultravox) [Dungeon Master](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_%28computer_game%29) The first and ( IMHO ) the best of the First Person Real Time Role Playing Games to come out during the the late 80’s early 90’s. Ground breaking stuff. (Eye of Beholder 2 ran a close second in my “favourite” rankings though) [The Killing Game Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Game_Show) One of the few games from Psygnosis that I actually liked. Plenty to do, manic levels, with great gameplay. **The Playstation** [Final Fantasy 7](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy_7) While this isn’t the favourite of most Final Fantasy fans, it certainly is mine. I started playing it at a time when there was a gap that needed to be filled in my life: and the memory of playing it along with my mates at the time who were playing concurrently are some that will never leave me… (Miss you Gerrard mate, wish I knew where you were now… ☹ ) **Nintendo 64** [Goldeneye 007](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldeneye_007) My favourite multi player game: and one of my favourite games of all time. Me and my mates took our Goldeneye playing VERY SERIOUSLY: we borrowed a signal splitter from the SkyCity Theatre and proceeded to hook up four large television sets to the one unit, then we taped over the other three players screens so we couldn’t cheat. Consequently, we became PRETTY DAMM GOOD at the game, my mate Kelly was pretty much unbeatable, and I was second only to Kels. I invented a technique called the “Apollo Manoevour” which fooled pretty much everyone I played until my mate figured out what I was doing… [Perfect Dark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark) Not as good as Goldeneye, but still pretty damm good. The amount of variations to the multi player you could do were amazing. Our favourite two player variation we called “Guided Missile”. We would toss a coin to see who would go first, and then from the weapon spawn spot, we would fire a missile and try to guide it onto the other player…obviously certain levels were better than others, but the game was mighty tense!!! **Other Platforms:** [The Half Life Series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Freeman) Sure, the games were pretty much on rails, but the feeling of immersion was immense. Half Life One has some of my all time favourite moments in games: for example: [spoiler]the first time I encountered troops, played pretty poorly, and died. Thinking that they would pull the same tactics, when I respawned and went on the charge only to discover that they had moved position, thrown a grenade at me and were acutally _flanking me._ Or when you are riding the train at the beginning, and suddenly realizing that you could move around and that the game had acutally begun. Or seeing the g man turn up in various spots and trying to chase him down but failing. Or one of the times on the surface that you encounter the helicopter, and I wasn’t sure if the MG I was carrying could actually take it out: and the extended battle I had with it until it finally came crashing down with me pumping the air with my fist! Or crawling along on a pipe and hearing the guards talking about me!!! Or when you crawled through that tunnel, and suddenly the music started to build up and the light at the end of the tunnel got brighter, and when you finally get through the tunnel you find yourself on a tiny ledge on a cliff face thousands of metres in the air, with jet planes flying by! Boy, this game had a lot of great moments![/spoiler] Wow. Forgot how much fun I used to have gaming! Gonna go plug the X-box back in…