Another game for me was Half Life. My brother and I gave names to all the Xen aliens.
Headcrab: Face Humper
Zombie: Zombie
Houndeye: Electric Sheep
Bullsquid: Croctapuss (Octapuss/Crocadile)
Controller: Fetus
Gargantua: Big angry thing that shoots fire
Ichthyosaur: Big Fish
Leech: Leech
Alien Grunt: Alien Soldier
Vortigaunt: Really anoying thing that shoots electricity
Nihilanth: Massive Baby
Snark: Exploding Rat
Tentacle: Loud Thing

Sonic and Knuckles was waaay better than Sonic 2. Also, I preferred DK1 to DK2.I love you too.

Exactly the same at my end (Morrowind excluded - I have never played it).

I never had one, which is possibly why I don't really care for OOT.
Also, WoF, I never could get really engrossed in SM64. I even got all stupid-excited for the DS version, played it almost to the end and sold it.

Oh, and Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3. Especially 2, though.

Yes it is. It was the only game I really played on my N64. I had Ocarina Of Time but never got into it until I played Zelda collecters edition on the Gamecube. I think it was the kokiri forest and first dungeon that stopped me getting into it at first. I also played Pokemon Stadium sometimes using my Pokemon from Red.

I had Stadium 2 which I am reliably informed was heaps better.

I guess you feel a lot differently about a game if you've grown up with it, with the main reason for playing it nowadays being nostalgia. There are some games that I probably wouldn't still play today had I not played them as a kid.

It took me a while to get into Ocarina of Time, I found it too difficult and I gave up. I tried playing it again and then got into it quite quickly.

OTT had three rather stiff learning curves, it's not the Bottom of the Well or the transformation to Adult Link that stuck with me though. Oh no, it's walking out of Kokiri forest and wondering what that orange house was, then getting closer and realizing it was a nigh indestructible ranged enemy who made a creepy sound, then running away from him and getting to the castle...just in time to see the drawbridge close and night fall on Hyrule.

If you survive your night full of skeletons without any emotional scars then feel free to enjoy a slow paced game for the next few hours.

Oh yes Hyrule:

"Come to our beautifull countryside. Live in the big city, or maybe the village is for you. We also have unique wildlife like the near indestrucible giant planty thing that will try to kill you. And lets not forget the nightlife, deformed glowey eyed skeletons jump out of the ground by your feet, trying to gouge your eyes out until morning. Why not have a great day out at one of the inaccesible temples complete with monsters. Here in Hyrule everything wants to kill you, we hope you visit soon."

Is Link really saving Hyrule? It seems everyone is just going to be killed by thier surroundings :p.

I seriously don't know what it is specifically. It just mashes everything together perfectly: Proper, engaging action, humour, environment, and then it puts so many variations on the original formula that you never get bored. I mean, the majority of the game is made up of one-off experiences. And it has the most enjoyable end-game boss I know.

Virtua Cop 2 springs to mind, I remember the jetpack nazi brigade at the end of the Medium level warmly.

But of course.

Growing up, I played the shit out of my GameBoy pocket and later the Advance. I still have a lot of my games though not all of them. I remember we had a moving sale once and this chinese guy ended up walking away with like 10 of my games and my gameboy for like 15 bucks. I swear he used jedi mind tricks or some shit, because I don't remember his bargaining to be very convincing...

Whatever though. I had so many good times playing Metroid, Mario, Zelda, and Kirby on that thing. And all my friends had gameboys too so we used to link up and play 4-player which was actually really fun

We're entering Corneria city now!

Lylat Wars was the best.

Can't let you do that Fox.

lol check out this awesome Oddworld AO walk-through, I remember game brain! I had this tape and remember thinking how awesome it would be to live in a video-game. lol back then it was more of a moral choice of whether or not I SHOULD do it and escape a religious zealot of a mother leaving my family behind.

Nice video, I never saw it, thanks for sharing :D

Your daddy screamed real good when he died!

I remember that guy!

That's an exclamation point. All my preconceptions are thrown out the window.

Wah! Haha!

You know what was really good? Road Rash.

I get some serious nostaliga when I think back to old side-scrolling games like Captain Claw, that was the shiz. But the most overwhelming nostalgia is probably from hearing any one of those MIDI tracks from AoE 1.

AOE 1... Many an hour was spent on the game demo when I had my first computer. Hard drives were so small back then. I can't seem to remember any of the full games I used to play when I got my first PC.

The shit:

If it's nostalgia caused by music then I would say for me it would be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vaBx...=youtube_gdata

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCP8Y...=youtube_gdata

Even though this next one isn't from an 8-bit game it brings nostalgia for some reason (probably just the sound).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jjC...=youtube_gdata

Edit: attempting to fix the links, damn my phone for not being able to copy and paste.

Edit2: that should do it. I had to change the link for the last one, which is a shame since I liked the picture on it.