Hexus Best Games Ever

[paulq]

i used to love r-type, but i like all the old shoot em ups even now. can't beat the classics. as far as recent ones go me fav would be counter strike

[0iD]

Stargate Defender took up a lot of mu adolescence in the arcades

[Ferral]

Olympic Skier on the Commodore 16 was my first ever game. Really enjoyed it. Yeah graphics were quite poor but it was challenging and fun.

[Elessar_VPR]

First game I played was 'Horace goes skiing' on the Spectrum ZX. Moved onto the Amstrad pretty soon after that though (got to love Dizzy!)

[schmunk]

Gauntlet, Gauntlet and more Gauntlet - in the sports centre after my swimming lesson. You young'uns don't know what you missed...

[theuncharmed]

Gumshoe - commodore 64. That was before the tape deck chewed everything I gave it and the TV exploded.

Ah, the memories. Still have the 64 somewhere with it's 1mhz chip

*heads off to me mums house to dig the thing out*

[G4Z]

i can't quite recall the first game I ever played, but I can deffo (just about, I was 5 at the time and it was 1986!) remember my first game on my own computer. Arcadians on the venerable Acorn electron 32k with a black and white TV :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadians_%28Acornsoft%29

Looking on the list of Electron games I noticed another classic I played :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repton_%28computer_game%29

ahhh, those were the days.

[[GSV]Trig]

First game I remember playing was Hobbit on the old 16k rubber keyed speccy...

[Steve B]

oldest game i can remember would be donkey kong for the NES, when an indian family moved in across the street for 6 months and brought it over. Before that I had an AtariST for playing the mad professor on, which was awesome. Goldenaxe too, rocked! Lemmings, dizzy and MacDonalds World, those were the days!!!
Anyone remember Magic Boy?

[Mithrandir]

Gauntlet, Gauntlet and more Gauntlet - in the sports centre after my swimming lesson. You young'uns don't know what you missed...

Ah I remember my local arcade had the machine for four players....."red wizard needs food badly".


I can't remember my first game though, must be worm on the school RM Nimbus
It'd probably be an Atari ST game as that was the first computer we had in our house.

As for Top 10 games, it's so difficult. There are some amazing games I've played over the years on various home formats and even arcades (now on MAME )

Here are some from the top of my head:
Syndicate Wars
Dungeon Keeper
Populous
Little Big Adventure
Crusader
Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Revenge of Shinobi
Streets of Rage series
X-Out
Turrican series
Panzer Dragoon series
Thunder Force series (3 in particular)
Toe Jam & Earl
Nights (into Dreams)
Sword of Vermilion
Shining Force 3
C&C series
Raiden
Road Rash
Musha Aleste
Virtua Cop
John Madden games (from early 90s - not played recent offerings)
EA NHL games (as per John Madden)
Quake series
Unreal Tournament
Duke Nukem

[PenguinJim]

Legend of the Mystical Ninja

I keep hovering over that on Virtual Console... but I've got 1000 points left, and I still don't have Ocarina of Time. Or Mario 64. I'd buy some more points, but I'm a tight get.

[0iD]

Duke Nukem side scroller on my old 286

[mcmiller]

First game I remember playing was Hobbit on the old 16k rubber keyed speccy...

i had that game, it was impossible! i think i got to the part with the ogres or trolls that are sitting round the fire lol
Dizzy games where awesome lol treasure island dizzy thats an all time classic

edit: thought of a couple more how to be a complete b****d which was a hilarious game and school daze which was fun

[Hopper.]

I know the 1st game i got into was Ridge Racer on the ps1

After seeing it in the arcade when playing it at home, got me hooked, and im still playing games like 11years later. Makes me feel old now

[roorooroo]

i had that game, it was impossible! i think i got to the part with the ogres or trolls that are sitting round the fire lol
Dizzy games where awesome lol treasure island dizzy thats an all time classic

edit: thought of a couple more how to be a complete b****d which was a hilarious game and school daze which was fun

lol yeah it was a hard game..i remember being proud as punch getting my name mentioned in popular computing weekly after I wrote in saying i completed it..
i recall how to be a complete b*****d too..that was hilarious!

Worst game I ever saw was a rendition of Gorf by a company in Hyde called Control Technology..now I would be surprised if many people on here have heard of that company/game i mentioned!

[vc54321]

one of my first games was most probably space invaders or something. I know it was definitely on the atari 2600 which I still own now heh