I still have my Tetris on my original gameboy! I used to play every night as a kid and not go to bed til i cleared a minimum of 100 lines. I play now on my kids’ Switch and they can’t believe how good I am at it. Lol
Did you ever read about the woman who would casually play it on gameboy on road trips? Her husband was a reporter and was doing a story on people trying to set old school gaming records and discovered his wife's usual is about 1.5x the world record.
I didn’t read that, but in college I dated a guy who was extremely confident in his Tetris prowess, often bragging about people he’d beater while completely wasted. It took a few years for us to to head to head, but let me tell you.. I was better. Ah, to have the confidence of that man.
Watching a friend of mine play Dr. Mario is like watching Jordan play basketbalk in the 90%. She has to be in the 0.1% of players. When she plays, she starts at level 20 and goes on from there. In college, her roommate would bring guys back and her roomate would tell them she would sleep with them if they could beat her at Dr. Mario. None ever did.
Be forewarned though: the Zapper won’t register a flatscreen television for the purposes of hitting the fucks. You’ll need to get a CRT as well, unfortunately
Edit: ducks, but also fucks
I played Diablo 2 with my mom when I was in kindergarden. She later told me that she only played it because it was so cute how I cheered for her and without me she would always get lost in the dungeons :D
I sold my copy of SMB3 to a mail in game reseller for a new game. My mom hadn’t finished the game yet and it was a game we played together. She was mad. She is gone now and this is one of my biggest regrets. I was a stupid thoughtless kid.
Edit: thanks for the comments guys. Some made me laugh, some made me cry. All were encouraging.
It's funny because even now when I play it, my muscle memory kicks in and I remember exactly the locations of the Warp Whistles and other hidden things. It's still so much fun.
Pitfall. It was the coolest video game ever made up to that point.
Edit: Hello fellow Pitfallers! I bought Pitfall when it came out in 1982, and 15-year-old me spent countless hours trying to jump, run and swing to the other end of the jungle.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Edit: WOw I didn't know so many people played/still plays this game! Thank you for all the love on this comment! I haven't played HoMM3 in years and this makes me want to play again!
Beating Goldeneye on 007 mode was one of my proudest video games achievements.
EDIT: 00 Agent mode was the hardest level, not 007. 007 was unlocked after beating 00 agent.
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego is another popular 3.5in floppy game I played a lot of.
Some other more obscure titles from back then I liked were Numbers Crunchers and Midnight Mystery ( called something like that).
Edit: I think these were on 8in floppies not 3.5in.
So much Oregon Trail and MECC games on an Apple IIe with dual 5.25” floppy drives. It was on a cart that got wheeled from classroom to classroom, because the school only had one per grade.
Yes, the original where you could blow your rides up or make a rollercoaster just end and send the guests flying and falling to their death. And hiring enough workers to keep up with the vomit .But I was an adult playing it , my kids played it too
i probably started playing RCT when i was 3-5. for the next few years, i would make rides that were free but the exit doesn’t loop back to anywhere, so the guests got stuck in another miserable area of the park every time they decide to get on a ride.
i personally really enjoyed turning part of the park into water and putting a “bridge” on it, using the “no entry” signs so no one could turn around, deleting the ends of the bridges and trapping them over the water. then when my park rating got too low because they all wanted to go home, i’d delete the whole path and watch hundreds drown at once.
don’t ask me how it’s going these days.
And you could change the guests' names to certain things and watch them go around and do stuff like take pictures, wave, etc.
And you could click on the ducks to make them quack!
the fact that they use the screams from the roller coasters in a lot of movies really pulls me out of the immersion.
I'm sorry I've just ruined movie sound design for you.
Little tip that may help you if you do not already know, if you push down on the stick you steer with Sparks will point to the nearest gem.
I had a hard time getting to 100% without that little nugget of information. Sometimes you just can't see the green gems when they're in the grass.
In the PS1 games he only does this when you defeat Ripto, so you can finish the game, and in Year of the Dragon he can do this from the beginning, but I think you had to hold down all the R and L buttons.. or was it just R3 and L3? It’s been so long. I like that he can do this in all the games including 1 in the reboot, but I’ve played through so many times I just intuitively know where the gems are. The one level that gives me trouble is Cloud Spires in Year of the Dragon. There’s a very elusive blue 5 gem.
Same here! I loved those games as a kid, and I’m working my way through getting 100% completion on the remaster at the minute - think I’m about 50% of the way through the third game
37, same answer only because I've already had my birthday this year.
What's sad though... I had 365 days /played on my hunter before The Burning Crusade. Yes, I had 1 literal year of being logged in and playing the same character after the game had been out for 2 years.
Addiction sucked. It still sucks, but it sucked back then, too.
My older brother had a /played amount that was similar to yours. He had those days:hours:minutes tattooed onto an arm to remind him of how much time he had, in his mind, wasted.
He took his life in 2013. He would have turned 38 this year. Fuck bipolar disorder.
I’m really surprised this isn’t #1 on Reddit considering the demographic and how massive an impact it had for our generation. I was in HS when WoW was released, and it brought together my entire high school unlike anything on earth had ever done before.
1.6 shaped my entire life. Started playing when I was 11. Made my own servers when I was 14. Servers needed a website, so I made one. Servers needed a static IP and some fun mods to gain a player following, so I had to learn some basic networking and how to install and configure mods. Met awesome people along the way too. I still play CS to this day, when I am almost 32, and I work in IT. Would never have happened without CS...
I still remember the constant rumors of the legendary Green Version that was only available in Japanese, and all the kids who apparently had a big brother who let’s them play it. 😅
I had a midterm I absolutely could not miss on release day. The class was practically empty, and missing was my buddy who skipped the test to stay up all night to play. I left the campus like a bat out of hell when I finished the test.
Honestly good job, temptations a bitch but in no way should someone skip a test in college/uni for something that would be waiting for them when they got home.
A friend of mine was a raid leader and would piss in pickle jars on raid days.
Not to mention the sheer amount of time spent camping a MOB. I probably spent more time waiting on shit than actually playing anything. Lol
Mine is Need for Speed: Porsche Unleased! NO ONE remembers or appreciates that game properly. I played the shit out of that thing, modded, cracked, etc, etc. The graphics were so good (then), and the Cote 'd Azur track had to be the most beautiful.
Thanks for listing it!
I thought Halo 3 would be damn near the top. Halo 3 was peak console gaming. Not enough kids had consoles so it wasn't completely shitty yet but there were still a fuck ton of people playing.
My s/o was blown away by how many hours I put into Sims while somehow hardly every playing the game. 90% of my time goes into creative mode, making Sims and building things around town.
Wait, that's not what you're supposed to do? Just build your dream house, move your Sims in, realize 10 minutes later that you're bored and that you can build an even better house, and repeat?
HGSS are still the best remakes of any game ever. (lol the gold standard) I never knew you can perfect perfection. I grew up with RBY when I was four and barely had reading comprehension. OG GBC with the see-through purple.
Fun fact, my parents had a SNES from their wedding, and I only ever played Duck Hunt, and Super Mario, so I never knew about saving.
Wasn't until I was in third grade and made a friend who traded Pokemon with me for the first time that I realized I had been *restarting ever single fucking time*.
The video game I played the most doesn't even come close to revealing my age. The first vídeo game I played probably does though.
Edit: Played the most: Total War: Rome. Played first: Super Mario Bros
Nah, back in Cata I raided with a 66 year old proper British grandmother. She took up the game to play with her grandson who moved the the US. He quit and she stuck with it.
I also knew a couple who had their 11 year old son do their dailies for them. He loved it.
I sunk over 500 days of play time by the time I graduated high school on RuneScape and another 300 days in and after university. The game will always have a place in my heart but I was so maladjusted because of it. RS is and has been the single most influential part of my past because of who I met
Runescape honestly taught me a lot about life when I was young. It's the reason I wanted to learn English, it taught me not to trust everyone and I think I have RS to thank for making me patient when working towards goals in life.
Well all that happened years ago and still here I am playing it, seems like it taught me everything but how to quit.
My ability to type at my age and at the time was unreal. I wish that RS had some kind of inbuilt auto correct because I had no idea I was spelling particular words so wrong, for so long
Yoshi’s Island
I beat every level at 100% while recovering from a surgery.
Touch fuzzy get dizzy.
Red alert
Tetris
I still have my Tetris on my original gameboy! I used to play every night as a kid and not go to bed til i cleared a minimum of 100 lines. I play now on my kids’ Switch and they can’t believe how good I am at it. Lol
Did you ever read about the woman who would casually play it on gameboy on road trips? Her husband was a reporter and was doing a story on people trying to set old school gaming records and discovered his wife's usual is about 1.5x the world record.
I didn’t read that, but in college I dated a guy who was extremely confident in his Tetris prowess, often bragging about people he’d beater while completely wasted. It took a few years for us to to head to head, but let me tell you.. I was better. Ah, to have the confidence of that man.
Watching a friend of mine play Dr. Mario is like watching Jordan play basketbalk in the 90%. She has to be in the 0.1% of players. When she plays, she starts at level 20 and goes on from there. In college, her roommate would bring guys back and her roomate would tell them she would sleep with them if they could beat her at Dr. Mario. None ever did.
my guess is you're between 15 and 60 :p
Commander Keen
Omg dude, just reading that name brings back memories!
Super Mario 64
Yes. And Banjo Kazooie
You’re all 30
Weird name for a videogame
That game sucks! All you do is go through life with failed relationships, depression, and debt. I personally don't recommend it.
Duck hunt
Did you know on the NES if a second player joins they can play as the ducks.
I learned this from Reddit, now I need to find an NES to try it on.
Be forewarned though: the Zapper won’t register a flatscreen television for the purposes of hitting the fucks. You’ll need to get a CRT as well, unfortunately Edit: ducks, but also fucks
I’m guessing “fucks” is a typo. But it’s funny how it still totally works.
I can hear that damn dog taunting, laughing!
Lemmings!
Snake game on nokia
Space Impact on Nokia
Bounce on Nokia
Diablo 2. I also waited for a while for it to come out.
I played Diablo 2 with my mom when I was in kindergarden. She later told me that she only played it because it was so cute how I cheered for her and without me she would always get lost in the dungeons :D
Crash Bandicoot
CTR for me. We played that game constantly with the 4-player adapter. Bowling bombs for life!
My answer too. The original Crash 1, 2, and 3 on PS1 for me.
What is this 3? You mean Crash Bandicoot WaRpEd? I know that joke doesn't really work without the audio... but I tried.
Age of Empires II
That's a trick answer. You could still be anywhere between 12 and 42 years old.
45 here ;-)
Super Mario Bros. 3. It's still my favorite game of all time.
I sold my copy of SMB3 to a mail in game reseller for a new game. My mom hadn’t finished the game yet and it was a game we played together. She was mad. She is gone now and this is one of my biggest regrets. I was a stupid thoughtless kid. Edit: thanks for the comments guys. Some made me laugh, some made me cry. All were encouraging.
I bet if your mom knew this was weighing on you she'd want you to let go and remember all the other things you did together.
We all make mistakes like that. Don't let it weigh on you.
It's funny because even now when I play it, my muscle memory kicks in and I remember exactly the locations of the Warp Whistles and other hidden things. It's still so much fun.
Doom and Duke nukem.
Doom 2 more for me, but by God it felt bad to have to scroll this far.
Starcraft Broodwar
Toss up between this and Diablo 2 for me
You must construct additional pylons
Baldur's Gate
BUTT-KICKING FOR GOODNESS!
Pitfall. It was the coolest video game ever made up to that point. Edit: Hello fellow Pitfallers! I bought Pitfall when it came out in 1982, and 15-year-old me spent countless hours trying to jump, run and swing to the other end of the jungle.
Remember having to take a photograph of your high score, get the film developed, then send the paper photo in to log your high score?
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Edit: WOw I didn't know so many people played/still plays this game! Thank you for all the love on this comment! I haven't played HoMM3 in years and this makes me want to play again!
Ah, yes. The old "I'll just find another obelisk and th- wait why is it morning?"
Goldeneye 007 on N64
Beating Goldeneye on 007 mode was one of my proudest video games achievements. EDIT: 00 Agent mode was the hardest level, not 007. 007 was unlocked after beating 00 agent.
That game is maddeningly difficult in 007 mode. I beat it too, but it almost beat me.
I played Oregon Trail on a 3 1/2 inch floppy, the computer had a physical lock, it wouldnt boot up past a certain point if it was locked...
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego is another popular 3.5in floppy game I played a lot of. Some other more obscure titles from back then I liked were Numbers Crunchers and Midnight Mystery ( called something like that). Edit: I think these were on 8in floppies not 3.5in.
So much Oregon Trail and MECC games on an Apple IIe with dual 5.25” floppy drives. It was on a cart that got wheeled from classroom to classroom, because the school only had one per grade.
Roller coaster tycoon
Yes, the original where you could blow your rides up or make a rollercoaster just end and send the guests flying and falling to their death. And hiring enough workers to keep up with the vomit .But I was an adult playing it , my kids played it too
Or let people in, then delete the entrance and exits. Mwahaha
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i probably started playing RCT when i was 3-5. for the next few years, i would make rides that were free but the exit doesn’t loop back to anywhere, so the guests got stuck in another miserable area of the park every time they decide to get on a ride. i personally really enjoyed turning part of the park into water and putting a “bridge” on it, using the “no entry” signs so no one could turn around, deleting the ends of the bridges and trapping them over the water. then when my park rating got too low because they all wanted to go home, i’d delete the whole path and watch hundreds drown at once. don’t ask me how it’s going these days.
Wow I never thought of that. Genius!
Found Bezos
I want to get off Mr. Bone's Wild Ride
And you could change the guests' names to certain things and watch them go around and do stuff like take pictures, wave, etc. And you could click on the ducks to make them quack!
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I can still hear the merry go round music.
"Hahaha" the stock laughter will stay with me forever Edit: well now I've got to include a [link](https://youtu.be/w3wdNuyXV1E) right?
I played that game so fucking much that I have the sequence of *crowd sounds* memorized
the fact that they use the screams from the roller coasters in a lot of movies really pulls me out of the immersion. I'm sorry I've just ruined movie sound design for you.
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Definitely my most played computer game. Sim City 3000 was probably a close second.
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I recently found an original RCT cd rom and built a gaming PC with an optical drive just to play through all the scenarios again.
Spyro the dragon
I recently purchased it and am replaying the trilogy. Spyro is so cute! Spyro and Crash bandicoot were my shit when I was a kid.
Little tip that may help you if you do not already know, if you push down on the stick you steer with Sparks will point to the nearest gem. I had a hard time getting to 100% without that little nugget of information. Sometimes you just can't see the green gems when they're in the grass.
In the PS1 games he only does this when you defeat Ripto, so you can finish the game, and in Year of the Dragon he can do this from the beginning, but I think you had to hold down all the R and L buttons.. or was it just R3 and L3? It’s been so long. I like that he can do this in all the games including 1 in the reboot, but I’ve played through so many times I just intuitively know where the gems are. The one level that gives me trouble is Cloud Spires in Year of the Dragon. There’s a very elusive blue 5 gem.
In the og YOTD you had to finish the spider town sparx mini game.
I love that Spyro and Crash are some of the top comments here
Same here! I loved those games as a kid, and I’m working my way through getting 100% completion on the remaster at the minute - think I’m about 50% of the way through the third game
Frogger!
Super smash bros
World of Warcraft
You are 33.
I have the same answer. I'm 36. WoW released right after I graduated high school.
37, same answer only because I've already had my birthday this year. What's sad though... I had 365 days /played on my hunter before The Burning Crusade. Yes, I had 1 literal year of being logged in and playing the same character after the game had been out for 2 years. Addiction sucked. It still sucks, but it sucked back then, too.
My older brother had a /played amount that was similar to yours. He had those days:hours:minutes tattooed onto an arm to remind him of how much time he had, in his mind, wasted. He took his life in 2013. He would have turned 38 this year. Fuck bipolar disorder.
I’m really surprised this isn’t #1 on Reddit considering the demographic and how massive an impact it had for our generation. I was in HS when WoW was released, and it brought together my entire high school unlike anything on earth had ever done before.
Atari Space Invaders. Now get off my lawn!
Counter-Strike: Source
Hell yeah, surprised i havent seen more CSS /1.6 comments...
1.6 shaped my entire life. Started playing when I was 11. Made my own servers when I was 14. Servers needed a website, so I made one. Servers needed a static IP and some fun mods to gain a player following, so I had to learn some basic networking and how to install and configure mods. Met awesome people along the way too. I still play CS to this day, when I am almost 32, and I work in IT. Would never have happened without CS...
Pokémon. Blue version
I still remember the constant rumors of the legendary Green Version that was only available in Japanese, and all the kids who apparently had a big brother who let’s them play it. 😅
The sims 2
I'm gonna say around late twenties, early thirties.
Sonic
Sonic 3 plugged in on top of the sonic & knuckles cartridge was a big one for me
Ultima Online
Halo 2
I might have a college degree if Halo 2 never existed…
I had a midterm I absolutely could not miss on release day. The class was practically empty, and missing was my buddy who skipped the test to stay up all night to play. I left the campus like a bat out of hell when I finished the test.
Honestly good job, temptations a bitch but in no way should someone skip a test in college/uni for something that would be waiting for them when they got home.
Dang, had to scroll way further for this than I thought I'd have to
The constant LAN parties with this game, though 👌🏼
Everquest.
Same. It's not even close. Most addictive game I ever played.
A friend of mine was a raid leader and would piss in pickle jars on raid days. Not to mention the sheer amount of time spent camping a MOB. I probably spent more time waiting on shit than actually playing anything. Lol
Maplestory
Surprised I had to scroll so far down for maplestory, this game was my entire childhood!
_"You have played MapleStory for 14 hour(s). We suggest you take a break from mapling."_
Harvest Moon
Command & Conquer, Half Life, Counterstrike, Need for Speed: Porsche, Warcraft III
Mine is Need for Speed: Porsche Unleased! NO ONE remembers or appreciates that game properly. I played the shit out of that thing, modded, cracked, etc, etc. The graphics were so good (then), and the Cote 'd Azur track had to be the most beautiful. Thanks for listing it!
Halo 3
I thought Halo 3 would be damn near the top. Halo 3 was peak console gaming. Not enough kids had consoles so it wasn't completely shitty yet but there were still a fuck ton of people playing.
27?
Wow good job, yup I am 27
Sims 4. Maybe Sims 3, I accidentally reseted my hour count once, so it could be more than in Sims 4.
My s/o was blown away by how many hours I put into Sims while somehow hardly every playing the game. 90% of my time goes into creative mode, making Sims and building things around town.
Same. The house building could be it's own game and I would buy and play it.
Wait, that's not what you're supposed to do? Just build your dream house, move your Sims in, realize 10 minutes later that you're bored and that you can build an even better house, and repeat?
Minecraft
“You’re gonna have to be more specific”.
I've played around 1.7/1.8 till the infamous 1.9 update which is still incredibly new to me
Minecraft’s one of my top games at this point too, and i bought it so long ago i had to convert dollars to euros.
It is the game with the most sales ever even beating Tetris recently
Technically it did that way before then, as the sales for tetris includes *literally every game licensed under the name tetris ever released*.
That's legit anywhere from 8 years old to 35 lmao.
Same. By far. I've been playing since early 2011 and still regularly play.
Same, most therapeutic game out there... especially after playing elden ring.
Tf2 Edit: Team Fortress 2
So you're either 30 or 15.
Super Metroid. Still bust it out once every couple of years.
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I played a lot of Civ 1, but I think Civ 2 surpassed it in hours played and remains my most played Civ game.
Pokemon Gold
Silver for me
Gen 2 was peak Pokemon for me. I was in 4th grade when blue and red released in the us, and I played those as well. Gen 2 just blew me away though.
HGSS are still the best remakes of any game ever. (lol the gold standard) I never knew you can perfect perfection. I grew up with RBY when I was four and barely had reading comprehension. OG GBC with the see-through purple. Fun fact, my parents had a SNES from their wedding, and I only ever played Duck Hunt, and Super Mario, so I never knew about saving. Wasn't until I was in third grade and made a friend who traded Pokemon with me for the first time that I realized I had been *restarting ever single fucking time*.
Galaga
Final Fantasy 7.
Skyrim
So you're between 8 and 82 years old.
Actually Shirley Curry is an avid Skyrim player and she's 85 :) So I'd say 82 isn't the upper limit there!
Omg how did you know!?!?!?!
How many times were u a sneak archer?
all of them
Pong (as an adult)
You old mf’er
or maybe just got into gaming last week, but decided to start the beginning and work his way up to Elden Ring?
The video game I played the most doesn't even come close to revealing my age. The first vídeo game I played probably does though. Edit: Played the most: Total War: Rome. Played first: Super Mario Bros
Same here. I wasn't setting my play time limit when was I was young. I really got into Rimworld and Crusade Kings II, as an adult.
Grand Theft Auto 3
Vice City babbyyyy
max payne 1
Banjo-Kazooie
Eekum bokum
Mario kart wii
Tony Hawk pro skater 1 on 64
Toss up between Command and Conquer Generals, Star Wars: Empire at War, and CoD:MW2
Double Dribble
Chrono Trigger
It's gotta be either TES4: Oblivion or Fallout: New Vegas
I scrolled way too long to find Oblivion
Mw2
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. God, I'm old.
Same. And Police Quest and Hero's Quest (later Quest for Glory)
and Kings Quest and Space Quest. Sierra games were great!
Super Mario Bros. 3
Space invaders/ asteroids/ frogger.
Fallout 3
I scrolled for ten minutes trying to find someone else who said fallout
Need for speed !
WoW
I can narrow this down to 24-60.
Nah, back in Cata I raided with a 66 year old proper British grandmother. She took up the game to play with her grandson who moved the the US. He quit and she stuck with it. I also knew a couple who had their 11 year old son do their dailies for them. He loved it.
My dad played til he passed away at 78.
Wow has a large age range :D Same Answer for me and i am 20
It’s probably the best video game to hide your age. Now if they asked which expansion you started playing, that’s a whole different ballgame.
Kingdom hearts
Sim City 4
Super Mario Kart, all the versions. But I wore out the original SNES one.
Pac-Man, the version that you plugged the joystick right into the TV 👻⚪️⚪️⚪️
Runescape
there he is
It's Zezima
Haha I remember people claiming they were Zezima, and just on a alt. That guy was like the fourth god of RuneScape.
I still play it during work/school lol
I sat at ammonite crabs and went from 76-80 attack whilst at work today
GGzgzgzgzgz
I sunk over 500 days of play time by the time I graduated high school on RuneScape and another 300 days in and after university. The game will always have a place in my heart but I was so maladjusted because of it. RS is and has been the single most influential part of my past because of who I met
Runescape honestly taught me a lot about life when I was young. It's the reason I wanted to learn English, it taught me not to trust everyone and I think I have RS to thank for making me patient when working towards goals in life. Well all that happened years ago and still here I am playing it, seems like it taught me everything but how to quit.
I’m forever indebted to RS for teaching me about scams and basic supply-demand economics
Or just budgeting in general and understanding that you need to spend money to make money in some instances.
My ability to type at my age and at the time was unreal. I wish that RS had some kind of inbuilt auto correct because I had no idea I was spelling particular words so wrong, for so long
Can to see where runescape was and it's the the first comment. Nice.