KSK Commenter Draft: Your Favorite Video Game (Console or Arcade)
Being out in L.A. covering the 20th anniversary Madden release stuff drummed up some gamer nostalgia, and not just for league-license-monopolistic sports titles. I still buy anywhere from five to 10 games a year but a busy schedule of dick joke writing keeps my playing time limited to three to five hours or so a week. There’s a certain wistfulness for the days in middle school when I could devote 40 hours over a couple of days to beating Final Fantasy III or Chrono Trigger. I’ve put that much time over the last four months into Grand Theft Auto 4 and am only about 54 percent completed with the main storyline. It’s great and all, but fuck me in the pants that’s a long game.
The one negative offshoot of the refinement of console games is that there’s no impetus to make decent arcade games anymore. That’s a shame, because arcades are shitloads of fun. Where else can you get your ass kicked for beating someone at Police Trainer?
You’re open to pick any game for any system. Or an arcade game. Fuck, pick a pinball game. I don’t care. Just don’t pick any goddamn PC games, you Warcraft-playing mutants. And picking Guitar Hero is just gonna get you called a fag.
My pick: Maniac Mansion (NES)
Kind of an obscure one, but I never get tired of playing through it. The overarching plot isn’t all that involved – a girl gets kidnapped and a group of friends try to rescue her. But it has something very few games of the era have – humor, characters and character development. Moreover, it’s a pretty funny and complex game with multiple endings that doesn’t gives its clues away easily (as opposed to, say, Zelda games where you got a little fucking sprite yelling at you if you pass something of interest). Back when this came out, this was all pretty novel for a console game and it still holds up well now.
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August 15th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Dragon Warrior (NES)
The best of the early RPG’s
August 15th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Ninja turtles on nes. My story of wasted youth.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Earthbound (SNES)
Booooya
August 15th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Duck Hunter (NES)
The dog was a baller.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Sega Hockey.
One-timer, suckers!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Super Mario 3.
Finding out I could buy it for the Wii Online reverted me further back into childhood.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
“Comix Zone,” Sega Genesis. It came out in the winter of Genesis’ discontent, so it was largely overlooked by kids my age, but the graphics were great (relative to platform/timeframe), I’ve always been a sucker for side-scrolling fighters, and it was something totally different.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Zelda: A Link to the Past
I remember zipping through this game when I was 9. I’m now trying to go through it again on my DS, and I think this 8-year regimen of alcohol ingestion has negatively affected my brain somehow.
Still, this game is fucking bonkers
August 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Halo 3, pwning n00bs l337.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:09 am
zomg wtf bbq lol rofl
August 15th, 2008 at 9:10 am
castlevania. the original. I can still hum the music to the 3rd level. and the game was hard as hell too.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Pitfall (Atari 2600)
Activision made this game, and it kicked ass when it came out. I’m old
August 15th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Secret of Mana
Still awesome after 15 years.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Golden Axe (arcade)
The first game where you could kill with weapons or diseases.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Fuck your rules. I’m taking StarCraft. Why? Because it’s FUCKING AWESOME, that’s why.
This is some gaming racist shit. For the record, I’ve never owned a console, so all of my picks will be PC games. Yes, I’m a nerd.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Blades of Steel
August 15th, 2008 at 9:15 am
@Otto Man: are you taking all the Sega hockeys? I want NHL ‘95 if not. Otherwise, I’ll take Tecmo Super Bowl. Got if for Christmas one year and played a whole season that night with the Giants. Can’t stop a coked up L.T.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Super Mario Brothers 2 (NES)
Very under-rated and ahead of its time
August 15th, 2008 at 9:17 am
There goes my morning. Thanks Ape.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Goldeneye…but NO GODDAMN PROX MINES
August 15th, 2008 at 9:18 am
as far as i’m concerned, it’s the only reason SNES exists.
the original super mario kart. i often wish i could shoot a heat-seeking turtle shell at some idiot connecticut drivers.
also, great opening pick by the yuletide primate. maniac mansion was a staple of my childhood.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Damn, Goldeneye and Super Mario Kart are great picks.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Wendy wells was hot.. my pick is Golgo 13 in which the character after sleeping with a woman, gains full energy, which is complete bullshit cause all I wants to do after that is pass out.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Phantasy Star (Sega original)
I wasted the better part of a year trying to finish that game.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Tecmo Super Bowl. Neal Anderson was the man.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Work or draft?
Work or draft?
Work or draft?
Work or draft?
AHHHHH THE HARD CHOICES!!!!!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Kickin it old school with Missle Command. Try to nuke my three cities will you?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Sunset Riders, Sega Genesis. Mexican dude with sombrero and large gun; white dude with cowboy hat and pistols.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (nes)
August 15th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Sticking with Genesis side-scrollers:
“Altered Beast.”
That shit was REMARKABLE when I was a lad. “I command you to rise from your grave and rescue my daughter’ — yes, sir. Little known fact: Famed Internet greek Tas Melas turns into a werewolf when copulating. True story.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:24 am
my second pick I’ll take mega-man 2. yeah, i like the old NES games. suck it.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Fuck! Mega-Man 2 was awesome. So many great NES games to pick from.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
+2 for Maniac Mansion, Ape. Fantastic, underrated game.
My pick… the original Legend of Zelda. You don’t fuck with a classic, my friend.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Contra (NES). still love playing it today
August 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Virtua Tennis arcade machine.
I couldn’t give a shit about tennis but I could play that game for a few forevers.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Resident Evil 2 was badass. I wasn’t smart or patient enough to beat the first one, but I was a rockstar in 2. (PS1)
August 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Contra was my next pick Yinzer B., nice call.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Golden Tee. Any of them. I guess I’ll take the new one Live 2008. Yes, I’m that guy.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Final Fantasy VII, PS1
August 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Space Harrier FTW (Sega MS). End of story, no more drafting please.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Chrono Trigger
August 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am
FIFA International Soccer – Sega Genesis…
Turn off fouls…then fuck people up..
August 15th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Twisted Metal 2! God damn that shit is still fun.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Pro Wrestling (nes)
Who can forget the classic characters of Star Man, The Amazon, Kin Corn Karn and others
August 15th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Double Dragon. At the deli on St. Mark’s Place (if only for the panty shot at the beginning).
August 15th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Mortal Kombat
August 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am
@UZH: you’re dead to me for stealing that pick.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Finish Him.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Over to the NES:
“Ninja Gaiden.”
Everything about this ruled ass — ninjas, surrounding oneself with unstoppable fire spinning in concentric circles around one’s body, swordplay, enemies that seemed to explode when slain — and I played it a LOT.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:31 am
no. I’m undead to you…
August 15th, 2008 at 9:32 am
An aside… I haven’t been jacked up for a fighting game in awhile, but damn, if that MK vs. DC game doesn’t look suh-weeeeet.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:32 am
pick#3. it’s an obscure one with a terrible name, but i simply can’t let someone pull the rug out from under me on this.
Ogre battle, SNES.
It’s awesome for so many reasons i can’t go into them here. One of the best RPGs ever devised and not many people even know it exists.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 for Dreamcast. Dreamcast was a shitty console in general, but Tony Hawk (and virtua tennis) were classics.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:33 am
SEGA Pro Rally (Genesis).
135 mph sideways in the mud…..hells yeah.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Tekken. Gotta keep track of W/L versus your buddies.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:34 am
SNES – Zombies Ate My Neighbor
August 15th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Rygar – NES.
Beating that game was on the same skill level as talking your way out of rape in a Baltimore City Jail.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Nibbler (Arcade) – was in my high school cafeteria.
If I could take a PC game (and I know I can’t), I’d take Leisure Suit Larry… my knowledge of trivia beyond my years allowed me to zip through the “Age Based Trivia Questions”. Then I just tried to get to the beach with the Blond and type “Hump Her” repeatedly, while she made the exact same unimpressed face my wife now makes at my equally smooth sexual advances.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Great call on Twisted Metal 2.
I pick Mario Kart 64. I spent all of 5th grade playing this game. Damn, the N64 was some fun shit.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Baseball Stars (nes)
so much…wasted time.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Oh I gotta jump in on this.
-Battle Toads- NES
Hard as all fuck check.
Kicking enemies turns your foot fucking huge.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Bill Walsh College Football ‘95 (sega)
August 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Herzog Zwei (NES)
August 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Excitebike (nes) another classic
August 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Good call JH – I killed a lot of brain cells while playing THawk2
My second pick is FIFA ‘97 – Indoor soccer was available on this one and I believe the first song was Blur Song 2 – great game
August 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Super Smash Bros. Melee… GC was a pretty underrated system if you ask me.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:38 am
MVP Baseball 2005 on PS2. Best baseball game ever.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:38 am
@Ben: That was the one I was thinking of. Mario Kart for N64 was wicked good.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:38 am
SNES – Super High Impact
August 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
GTA IV is great and all but GTA
: Vice City is my favorite. It was the first one I played and I have fond “blurry” memories of a 20 hour marathon involving empty beer bottles completely surrounding me on the floor and cigarette butts overflowing in the ash tray. Ahh, grad school was fun.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
RC Pro-Am (NES). Predicted the Honda Element 20 years ago. Don’t think I ever beat it.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Chiming in with Bionic Commando for NES – what a great fucking game.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Also GTA: Vice City had the best soundtrack. Made me nod my head to Motley Crue for jeebus sake.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:40 am
@zerodiablos: I overwrote my FFVII third-disc game save while playing Crash Bandicoot. I haven’t been the same gamer since.
As for the draft, I’m gonna have to take Mutant League Football for Genesis. Bones Jackson? Joe Magician? Scary Ice? Kill the Ref? Explosions? I’ve always maintained that EA should develop a remake.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Shining Force for the Sega Genesis. I loved that game, played it so much in the Marine Corps I damn near failed out of jet engine mechanic school.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Gran Turismo (Sony PS). The last video game I played like a maniac.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Anyone take Cyberball?
Cyberball. The dual screen arcade one.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
@dougery: What a horrible night to have a curse…Duck Tales will be my second pick, that game ruled
August 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Pick #4 Final fantasy 3, SNES. Possibly the greatest game of all time. why has nobody picked this yet?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Ice Hockey for the NES… Fat Guy FTW!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Track & Field (nes)
you could run really fast my rubbing a tin of dip back and forth across the A and B buttons
August 15th, 2008 at 9:42 am
NFL Blitz 2000! I think my friend and I once played this game to a 104-102 overtime classic. I loved being able to knock out players after the play was done.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
#2- Final Fantasy 2. SNES.
Fighting on the moon and shit.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Haven’t we done this before?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Quick Draw, good call on Mutant League Football. I was just about to pick it. Don’t forgot the coaches like Coach Bricka and Dante N. Ferno. What a fucking great game.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Final Fantasy IX – PS1
August 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am
NBA Jam Tournament addition for PS2. He’s on fire!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am
“RBI Baseball.” Epic showdowns with my brother, all day, every day.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am
River City Ransom (nes)
just freakin awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am
No RBI Baseball pick yet? STEAL! Bret Saberhagen = Unstoppable.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Tempest (Arcade). Classic game that’s probably older than most of you.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Pac-Man, in the table-top arcade setup. Your pop didn’t slide off the console when you moved the joystick like with the upright version. I wasted an entire summer of my youth with this.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
You dad sat on top of the console?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
@ MJ – Nice steal. Guess I will turn around and take the Wrestlefest arcade game. So much money spent on this one…just to see Earthquake give the thumbs down.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
@Hollywood: Sorry, dude, got just in under the wire. Though a trade for “Bionic Commando” and future considerations may pique my interest.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Damn you, mr. incognito! That was my bargain basement FF pick!
I guess I’ll have to go Final Fantasy X, just so no one steals that.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
For my next pick I will take General Chaos on Sega. Being able to singe cartoon like enemies with a flame thrower? Fuck. Yes.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
A superb job on the Wrestlefest pick, too. Damn, wish I’d thought of that.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Bases Loaded (nes)
August 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
as i get older and my tastes become more refined, i can’t get enough of big buck hunter. they have a safari one where you can SHOOT A LION IN THE FACE. now all i have to do is fight muhamed ali and ride around in a covertable with some happy zebras and my african adventure will be complete.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Hollywood : It’s still the game I play the most on my PS3.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
@ Yinzer B
Bases Loaded was the shit. I remember two of the big sluggers were named Oko and Baker.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Toe Jam and Earl for Sega Genesis.
Give me anything with rocket skates, aliens, and hamsters in bubbles
August 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Undead Zombie Horde Says:
jackin’4beats Says:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Haven’t we done this before?
Yep. I even too Twisted Metal 2 1st last year. I’ll just repeat my pick from last year.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:56 am
I’ll take Syphon Filter for Playstation.
I’ll taser fuckers until they light up like a roman candle.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:49 am
@ Devine – “Rise from your grave”
Mother fuckin’ Donkey Kong Country for the SNES. Awesome game. Diddy Kong was the best.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Blaster master for the NES. One of the longest and hardest games ever and no saving too!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Castlevania Symphony of the Night for Playstation 1
August 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Next pick… Super Metroid. Seriously, the SNES is probably the only system that can give the NES a run for its nostalgic money
August 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
The PC’s Eastside Hockey Manager
August 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
A Boy and His Blob (NES) – where else can you feed ketchup-flavored jellybeans to an amorphous blob of tapioca? Ahh, 1989…
August 15th, 2008 at 9:51 am
DHSC: The humor really added a lot to the game. Plus, the title screen music was bad ass.
Next pick: Super Baseball 2020. Now we set the crackers!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:51 am
although FFVII would have to be my pick (taken)
Gears of War is a close second…I love fucking people up with the Torque Bow, plus you can talk shit to the 8 year olds you slaughter while you play
August 15th, 2008 at 9:51 am
The sit-down version of the Star Trek arcade game. That was the shit like 25 years ago. Damn…
August 15th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Anyone here ever have Intellivision or ColecoVision with the extension module for Atari 2600 games? that was the shit back in the day.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:52 am
*Looks left
*Looks right
Sidescrolling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Grab a Dr. Pepper and Pick Donatello and I’m 13 all over again.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
So many good picks out there that I will now grab Paperboy. That’s right – fucking Paperboy!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Skies of Arcadia – Sega Dreamcast. That was one of the few games that made that system worth owning.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Super Spike V’Ball (NES). That and Baseball Stars were the reason I bought a used NES after PS2 came out.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
not sure if this is taken yet but I’ll take Karate Champ arcade game. This is the game that started all the fighting games
August 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Super Off Road, from the golden age of arcade games. I think I’ve given at least $100 in quarters to Ivan “Ironman” Stewart in my lifetime.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I’ll take Zillion (Sega MS) because it took me the entire 1988 winter olympics, plus another month to finish it.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Colecovision was the shit… Wow, no Rampage yet? That will be my third pick
August 15th, 2008 at 9:54 am
“Lakers vs. Celtics,” Genesis (couldn’t find video in a 10-second search, so I’m scrapping it). I played the FUCK out of this. “Barkley’s Gorilla Dunk” might be a fantasy name in the future.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:55 am
@Yinzer B
Goddamn. That was to be my next pick – I got the link ready and everything (link)
/pouts
August 15th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Double Dragon, bitches.
Count it.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:55 am
God of War.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:56 am
@Yinzer B
Goddamn. That was to be my next pick – I got the link ready and everything
link
/pouts
August 15th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Super Mario RPG
August 15th, 2008 at 9:57 am
@Yinzer B
Goddamn. That was to be my next pick – I got the link ready and everything link
August 15th, 2008 at 9:57 am
fuck it, I’ll take Venture (Colecovision)
I’m done, I have Atari 2600, Colecovision, NES, and SEGA represented
August 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Street Fighter 2
Best game ever with a moderately racist edge. Commies, Asian chicks who giggle, afeminite Italians? Yes, yes, and yes.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Mercenaries. Counting the days til I can start blowing up another godforsaken country when the sequel comes out Labor Day weekend.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Faxanadu (NES)… oh yeah
August 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Joust. That was a good game…
August 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball (SNES). COME ON! (*snaps bat over thigh*)
August 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I’ll take Tiger Woods 2004. I almost failed out of college because of this game.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Super Punch-Out!! (Arcade).
The underappreciated sequel to the first introduced the duck button, and a whole new level of awful stereotypes*, such as Bear Hugger (your standard redneck Canadian logger), Dragon Chan (why does this Hong Kong motherfucker get to kick in a goddamn boxing game?), Vodka Drunkenski (glugging a full bottle, before he got switched to spiking a soda can for the kiddies), and Great Tiger (since detained to Guantanamo in a piece of identity/nationality confusion).
Add in hard-as-fuck-to-beat Super Macho Man, and you wouldn’t have had much of a Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! without this.
*Props to Punch-Out!!, however, for Italian brawler Pizza Pasta and the Junkyard Gang reject Kid Quick. Wonder how they never made the NES game.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:00 am
DEFENDER. You could play that game for hours and hours on just a quarter. And piss off the line of people waiting to play after you. The arcade wouldn’t let anyone stack quarters on that game. One and done.
/should feel really old, but doesn’t
August 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Pirates! Gold for the Sega Genesis, another great time killer from my Marine Corps days. Loved it so much I bought it again when it came out for the Xbox.
@Westbrook: Faxanadu was awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Metal Gear: Solid 2. Awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Jungle Strike for Sega. Awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am
StarTropics (NES)
One of my favorite games of all time, beating people with a yo-yo and traveling to outer space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYCWNxagtA&feature=related
August 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Half Life 2.
Nerdy ass-action hero with aliens. Deal with it.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Soul Calibur. Cervantes was the SHIT! “Give me your soul!”
August 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Arcade: millipede
At home in the basement: The original Grand Theft Auto
Yah, I’m old
August 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Tetris
STEAL
August 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Ghosts and Goblins for NES – I remember my parents taking away my NES priveleges because I spent so much time playing this one.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Assassin’s Creed. It got repetitive, but I never get tired of awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:03 am
@ Rocco – Nice pick on the Metal Gear Solid 2. Putting dead guys in lockers? Disguising yourself as a box? Sweet.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Arcade – Operation Wolf, so many quarters spent, so many Commies killed.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Fuck it I have work to do. I hope someone picks these:
Marble Madness (NES)
Faceoff ‘99 (PS2)
SOCOM (PS2)
Gunsmoke (NES)
Bad Dudes (NES)
Call of Duty 2 (PS2)
August 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am
@ Muffed Punt: Just the other day I fired up Battle Toads on NEStopia. I forgot how awesome that game was.
My next pic: Lemmings (they’re basically all the same, but, meh, SNES); start playing that shit, and four hours disappear, guaranteed.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Medal of Honor, the original (not that Rising Sun BS with only 8 levels) for PS2. Hearing Nazis yell “We’re getting slaughtered!” as you pick them off with the sniper rifle is outrageously satisfying.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:06 am
“Madden 2004″ for PS2.> Introduction of Playmaker controls, owner mode and training camp (if I’m not mistaken), unstoppable Vick, plus Jason Sehorn as a free agent — invariably signed by a computer team, giving you the delight of torching him with inferior receivers, just as Giants fans had to watch in the ‘01 Super Bowl. This one nearly ended an early-stages relationship.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Oh, take some of these too:
Dr. Mario (NES)
NHL 2002 (PS2)
CTR (PS)
Crash Bandicoot (PS)
Sonic (Sega Genesis)
August 15th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Final Fantasy Tactics – the story line is a mess but some of the battles are intense
August 15th, 2008 at 10:08 am
2nd Pick: Marvel vs. Capcom (Arcade)
I think I spent at least 10 allowances on that game alone, probably my favorite fighting game ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_Br9a_rKA
August 15th, 2008 at 10:08 am
@ Westbrook: Tetris is an absolute steal at this point in the draft. Well played, sir.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Star wars original arcade version (with vector grafx!)
I win.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:09 am
@ Westbrook: Yes, pick of the draft so far. 2 player Tetris for SNES was awesome. Fucking your friend with a 4 line ‘bump’? Dr. Mario was like that but with falling capsules.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
SplatterHouse
I enjoyed being the baseball bat wielding anti-hero wearign a hockey mask obsessed with splattering things.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Streets of Rage- sega genesis
the original hooker punching game.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:14 am
guitar hero go fuck yourself! and dusty diamond’s all star softball
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Has the “My Dinner With Andre” game been taken?
“Tell me more…”
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am
@TDub: Brilliant selection, sir — how I didn’t take that earlier on, in the midst of my Sega side-scrolling fighter binge, is beyond me.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am
@JH,
that’s an inspired choice… the original was far better than the spinoffs.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am
No Maddens taken yet?
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Thank you, thank you
For my next pick… Wii Bowling
August 15th, 2008 at 10:16 am
@Devine,
the streets will always take you back, homes. They are forgiving.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Nevermind.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:17 am
@Westbrook: Sorry, not impressed with the Wii. Didn’t like Wii bowling, or tennis, or baseball. Maybe if I were 8.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Goddamn! late to the draft…time to do some CTRL-F’ing…
/fucking meetings
August 15th, 2008 at 10:20 am
How has no one taken Rad Racer yet?
Actually, here comes my Power Glove rant. After seeing the movie “The Wizard” with Fred Savage, I desperately wnated a power glove…which my parents got me for Christmas. Little did I know that the thing didn’t fucking work! What a piece of shit…I didn’t appreciate the misrepresentation of said product in that movie.
I wanted to be able to wear the power glove and drive like Lucas Barton.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Space Ace! Defender of Justice, turth, and the planet Earth!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I would’ve loved to have taken Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball….but since it’s gone, my vote goes to TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:21 am
the Beavis and Butthead game where you get to go to a Gwar concert in the end
August 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Wii is kinda weak, but Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles was cool.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
turth? damn stubby fingers.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:23 am
My Tom Brady pick is Metal Gear. (NES). Spoiler: big boss is the real enemy!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:24 am
“Saturday Night Slammasters,” SNES. Admittedly not as good as NES Pro Wrestling, nowhere near as good as Wrestlefest, and obviously lagging behind the next-gen versions, but this was a lot of fun for a middle-school fighting/wrestling game fan.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Pfft. Wii Bowling is the tits. Nice pick, Westy.
Also, Yinzer — you get a full point for taking Karate Champ.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:25 am
GRID. Only racing game that has kept my attention since Gran Tourismo.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (PS2). Solid pick right there.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Gotta roll with Bioshock, suckas!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Call of Duty 4. The Death from Above mission is a classic.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am
@Hollywood
What pissed me off about the wizard was the fact that the very first time playing the game they knew about the warp whistles. WTF.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
X-com UFO Defense for the Playstation. Sure it didn’t control as well as it did on PC, but it was ten shades of awesome. I am still waiting for a true blue sequel.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Dick Tracy (NES)
August 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
WWF No Mercy… those early-gen wrestling games are nice, but this is where it’s at, nuckas
August 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
To youse guys who picked BIONIC COMMANDO, youse guys play the “remake” version on PS3 & 360? 10 bucks and awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:28 am
@Obit rice – What pisses me off about that movie is Fred Savage being the main star. And, the scene where they’re playing Double Dragon at the bus station – who fucking cares how many points that semi-retarded kid got? Nobody played Double Dragon for points.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Westbrook, I’ll see your No Mercy and raise you one:
WWF SUPERSTARS (arcade)
Yeah, sure, you could only pick from Hogan, Savage, the Warrior, Honky Tonk Man, Boss Man, and Hacksaw Duggan…but let me repeat that…YOU COULD PLAY AS THE HONKY TONK MAN. This game took about 100 bucks from me between 1989-92
August 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I forget… could you use the guitar? That’d be the only reason to get crunk over using HTM
@ everyone except Otto Man re: Wii Bowling
Suck it hard, suck it long
August 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am
The year: 1986.
The place: A crappy laundromat that had a bunch of video games on one side, on Church Street, in Newark, Ohio.
The game: Chopper Lifter. Fly a helicopter and pluck victims of a sunken ship out of the ocean.
The reality: “Don’t eyeball me, little 10-year-old hanging with your mom while she does the laundry. Because over here, this few square feet around this Chopper Lifter game? This is may house!”
I was 24 years old.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am
For my one and only pick, I’m taking WWF Tag Team Wrestling. The aracade version. Soy many quarters, and likely arthritis from that fucker.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Addam’s Family pinball machine.
“MAMUSHKA!”
August 15th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Lee Carvallo’s Putting Challenge
August 15th, 2008 at 10:33 am
+1 @ EberleWerner
August 15th, 2008 at 10:33 am
For the Adrian Peterson of this draft, I will pick Sega Ninja. That game was the shizznit..
August 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am
@ Westbrook…
No, guitar, bummer…if I remember right, you could only grab a chair or table. But he did a dance on his way out to the ring on that little Wrestlemania cart. Savage also had an awesome flying clothesline, and the Bossman’s catch-slam was lights OUT.
Hogan sucked in the game, as in real life.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am
@EberleWerner – lol – “You have selected Power Drive”
August 15th, 2008 at 10:35 am
I gotta get some love in for Double Dragon 2 for Sega Genesis. Fighting dudes who look like Arnold Swartzenegger in a fucking helicoper = AMAZING
August 15th, 2008 at 10:35 am
nba street
August 15th, 2008 at 10:36 am
@porky1 – This game would have been much better if you could have played as Ted Dibiase instead of having to fight him and Andre at the end. Imagine being able to stuff hundred dollar bills in some guys mouth after pinning them – huge.
And, Honkytonk Man = KING.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Nice picks so far (I liked the sequel to Maniac Mansion, Day of The Tentacle, as well), but how could this get to almost 200 comments before anyone claimed Sensible Soccer? Yoinkers!
Steal of the draft, second only to Tetris, above.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Fucking Undead Zombie Horde….
Twisted Metal 2 for PS2 is the greatest game ever invented.
#2 – Road Rash for Sega Genesis…beat a bitch with a chain. Good times.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
madden 93 for the snes
August 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
My second Zelda related pick:
Ocarina of Time
August 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Bonk on Turbo Graphix16
August 15th, 2008 at 10:39 am
@Hollywood…yes, I was always pissed about DiBiase not being selectable. If the WWF had any balls back then he would’ve “stunned” Savage for the title at Wrestlemania IV. Money money money money money…
Oh, next pick. I select one of the 3 greatest pinball games of all time:
FUN HOUSE
You know the one…a creepy puppet head watching your ball, talking shit, and eventually swallowing your balls. Oh yes… I went there. I can never afford the real one, but the digital version on the PS2 Hall of Fame Collection version looks and plays AMAZING, and its $10 new.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:39 am
@dick_gozinia – +100
I loved talking a spiked baseball bat to bitches heads..great game…never seemed to end though.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Wayne Gretzky Hockey-SNES.
Holy sheeit my buddies and I logged some hours on that beautiful game.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I didn’t see if this was picked, but I’ll go skitchin’ for Genesis.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:40 am
1) Golden Axe 2) RBI Baseball 3) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
August 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Fuck me in the goat ass. Eveything good is taken… thats what i get for going out and getting ShittyDrunk and being late to work this morning
August 15th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Link’s Awakening (O-riginal Gameboy). If there was a better game on the green screen, I don’t know what it was.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am
@ Helmet – Dude, those picks were gone in the top 10. Are you that guy who goes to a Fantasy Football draft and, in the 10th round, goes “has anyone taken Tomlinson yet?”
August 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am
The original NBA Jam arcade game. I actually really want one of these in my home someday… hopefully one will still work by the time I can afford it.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:45 am
@ 3000: that’s a damn good game. The only non-Tetris green-screener that ever came close in my opinion was Donkey Kong (the deluxe remake version with like 80 levels.)
August 15th, 2008 at 10:46 am
@ 3000
You can’t go wrong with any non-CDI Zelda game, but I logged MAJOR hours on that one. You could walk through walls, steal crap and then the immortal BOMB ARROWS~!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:47 am
My Hero (Sega MS) card game. This game was THE BOMB in 1985. Fuck you I know how old I am.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Rock Band. There, I took Guitar Hero and added in more ‘instruments’. How ya like them fackin’ apples?
August 15th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Final Fantasy Adventure – Game Boy re-released as Legend of Mana for GBA
August 15th, 2008 at 10:48 am
NHL 91 for Sega Genesis.
You could body check the goalie and leave an empty net. Play the 2-player co-op version and rack up 71-1 victories. Too much fun.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Castlevania III. Grant FTW!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:50 am
You guys are lagging, so I’m going ahead with my next pick:
Donkey Kong. The OG arcade version.
Anyone between 30 and 40 has to have had at least one of those summers where you probably heard Mario’s death music about 6,000 times in the background of your arcade/Chuck E. Cheese/pool hall/7-11/amusement park visits.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Captain Skyhawk – NES
August 15th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Is my ctrl+f failing me?
Original Super Mario Bros. (NES)
August 15th, 2008 at 10:53 am
@ TDub
Almost as big a steal as Tetris was for me. Maybe even bigger.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:53 am
@DG: I have all the NHL’s for Genesis. Best sports series ever. My buddies and I still play 95. We even have a Sega Cup tourmament playing NHL 95.
/really not that big a geek I swear.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Streets of Rage 2
August 15th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Last pick before my meeting:
Kaboom! A super old game that used the Atari paddle controllers, but was fun as hell because you FINALLY GOT TO USE THE WORTHLESS PADDLE CONTROLLERS!
I don’t think this game would go over very well these days.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:56 am
@ Rocco:
You fucking geek.
Kidding… Tecmo Super Bowl tourneys > Any Madden, any day. Baseball Stars = Still the greatest.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp (arcade)
“Do it for the children!”
August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Primal Rage. The original console version from the arcade.
How did this last this long? It was AWESOME.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Super Dodgeball (NES)
The Russians were evil and unlike in gym class, I was never picked last. God damn gym class.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
damn, there are some killer games up in this. Tony Hawk 2 on PS def was the most addicting game ever.
My pick is Max Payne. That game was bad ass. Dodging bullets like the Matrix was the shit and the part where he gets drugged or drunk (can’t remember, I burnt some brain cells up back in the day) and you had to play the character in that state of mind just rocked!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
@porky: Still have a working NES and Tecmo Super Bowl. I’ve often had multiple tv’s going in my house: a couple for sports on tv, 3 for Sega, 1 for PS2 Madden, 1 for NES Tecmo Super Bowl.
/where did all these tv’s come from?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Marvel vs Capcom 2.
And Ape, you say “don’t pick any goddamn PC games” and then you pick the NES version of Maniac Mansion? That’s dumb. The NES version is like watching a movie on TBS; still a good time but with all the sexual innuendoes and threats of violence taken out.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:01 am
@ Rocco – We held some epic NHL 94 tourneys in college. I’d love to revisit those.
Next pick…
NES Super Dodge Ball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR5WVMQ2zHU
You got to use super throws where you’d hit an opponent in the head and send him careening around the screen. Hilarious game. Hours of fun.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Damn you, Monkey Business. That was on my short-list.
Star Fox 64
/king of steals
August 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
dude no one took Kung Fu NES, Mr X and Sylvia what were you guys thinking?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
GALAGA
Boo yah.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Super Dodge Ball was the shit. Damn, this draft makes me want to say fuck the job, go home, and fire up the emulators…I mean legally obtained arcade boards and console software.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
@DG. The next Sega Cup is right around the corner. Youd like my buddy Joe. Huge Seahawks fan.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:05 am
@porky1 – I knew some asshole would take Galaga – fuck that game! ;-) My dad (who is almost 60) loves that stupid game…it NEVER ENDS!
On top of that, it was a rip-off of Galaxian, which was far superior in all facets.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:05 am
@Westbrook,
yeah, how did that happen? Nice Starfox pick by the way. It was a pioneer in the multiplayer realm.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
@ Sabbatini: GREAT pick with River City Ransom. I wasted many a Saturday morning kickin’ ass with Dragon Feet!
I can’t believe somebody liked Metal Gear: Solid 2 more than MGS3! I pick MGS3
August 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
SSX Tricky for the PS2. Most annoying soundtrack imaginable, but highly enjoyable game
August 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Pilotwings for the SNES. Especially when you gain the ability to fly on jetpacks.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Call of Duty 4 consumed my life when it came out last November, it still hasn’t relinquished its grasp.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:07 am
^^ Thanks. That’s another game I burned hours on, mostly trying to beat my record for kills on one player. The multi-player action was pretty sweet too, especially since you could go on foot and shoot down planes with your handgun.
/Abe Simpson
August 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I almost forgot one of my picks: Double Dribble (NES)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am
@ Hollywood
Dads love Galaga. My late great pops liked the arcade version and he played the hell out of Galaga 90 on my old Turbografx 16.
/whupped my ass with Missile Command, Galaga 90, and his belt. RIP Dad.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am
(and it was a SEQUEL to Galaxian.)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:13 am
@porky1
I stand corrected, yes, it is a sequel. How come nobody has select POW (Prisoners Of War) yet? Or the Terminator 2 arcade game with the two guns? Or the Daytona Racing arcade where like 8 guys could play at once?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:14 am
grand theft auto: san andreas – best of the gta series (haven’t finished iv yet) and river city ransom was already taken. plus it had all that dope music from the mid 90’s.
/kinda misses the d.o.c.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Alright, time to make my final pick of the draft for now, and I’m betting it’ll be a pretty unpopular one. But fuck it, I don’t care, I’ll risk turning in my hetero-card for it. It’s an addictive game.
Pokémon Diamond for DS
*ducks garbage*
RECAP
The Legend of Zelda (NES)
Mortal Kombat (Arcade/multi-platform)
Super Smash Bros.: Melee (GC)
Ice Hockey (NES)
Final Fantasy X (PS2)
Super Metroid (SNES)
Faxanadu (NES)
Tetris (multi-platform)
Wii Bowling
WWF No Mercy (N64)
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (N64)
Castlevania III (NES)
StarFox 64 (N64)
Pokémon Diamond (DS)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Fuck it I’m not waiting cause I know no one probably even had this sytem. The TI-99/4A. TI Invaders, Parsec, Hunt the Wumpus, Munch Man, Car Wars, etc.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Maybe I missed it, but how did none of you queers pick Blades of Steel?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am
No one’s picked the Journey arcade game? It has a little digitized Steve Perry head! Come on!
Fags.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Battletoads
August 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Hahaha Hunt the Wumpus, I haven’t heard that one in years.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am
oh my god – 252 posts by 10:22am chicago time? that must be a new record. clearly this is the most geek-read site ever. my pick, which i cant believe is not taken cuz its flipping awesome, is wario ware on wii. that game is so japanese and crazy its awesome. when you have 3 seconds to shave a sheep, pick your nose, or push a person down, you know its craziness. think crazy japanese game show in wii form. hours of fun!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am
1942.
Ahh, donut shop memories…
August 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Arch Rivals NES.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
@Brunell4EVA
Rocket skaaaaaaaaaaaaaaates!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
@porky: Man I hated that fucking Wumpus.
I’ll take the arcade After Burner game too.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Killer Instinct. Like Mortal Kombat, except better.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
@ Rocco – NHL 94 & 95 when Mogilny was the best player in the game is part of the reason he’s my favorite player of all time. But I digress…
Star Wars Battlefront II for PS2 – Great co-op game where you can play as stormtroopers and slaughter jedi by the truckload. Plus, you get to play in all the cool settings like Hoth, Mos Eisley and on the Death Star. Totally awesome game that I’ve played way too much of, even after I beat it. And for my money that’s the true mark of a game’s greatness.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
gain ground (genesis/arcade) – not even sure why i like it. it’s just fucking ill.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Skitchin’ for SEGA
August 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Any busted into NCAA 09 on Wii…killer due to the controllers and how you throw, juke, and tackle. Hell, you can even fair catch a punt by waving the controller over your head.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Rush N’ Attack
Clearly supposed to be Russian Attack, but for some reason they decided to be subtle about killing Commies back then.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
@ dick-gozinia…
Battlefront and Republic Commando are underrated.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:25 am
porky1 Says:
August 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am
1942.
Ahh, donut shop memories…
Dude.
I went through all 85 stages or whatever the hell it was on the NES version. When I finally beat the game, the ending was the word “Congratulation” on the screen. And then it just started all over again. I think I might have cried.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Also 4-player Bond, either for N64 (GoldenEye, already picked), or PS2 (007: Agent Under Fire) are great to play. When I was a junior in college there were at a que all day long in my frat house room from before lunch till the end of the night for 4-player GoldenEye. My roommate and I didn’t even bother locking the door it’d get broken down anyway.
/hated getting shot in the back. NO HONOR!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter for PS2. I looooooove shooting me some mexican guerillas.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am
diddy kong racing for N64
August 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
1942 was till on my board.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
till, still, who gives a fuck it’s gone.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
@ognihs
Dammit. I thought I was gonna waltz in here and steal San Andreas. I still hop in the Hydra and light shit up; or visit the construction site in Doherty for cover while staging epic battles with the Army.
Also, River City Ransom is the shit.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:28 am
@ Brother Mouzoune…
Hahaha…not laughing at your pain, just at the ending. Yeah, and the worst part was, I think it was spelled Hines Ward-style.
“Congraturation” I believe.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Bubble Bobble for the NES.
I never knew why exactly I was obsessed with this game but I could never put the controller down.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:30 am
@ Naptown Drew – that’s the one thing i miss most in the new GTA – the ability to get in a building and just start bombing the police/army. i haven’t been able to get past 4 stars… wack. rampages are the best part of that game.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
My draft board is deep. I’m cheating again and picking Wipeout (PS20. Damn, we played some fun games my freshman year (GoldenEye, Mario Kart 64, Tekken, Wipeout, 2-player Tetris, Dr. Mario, NHL)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Aw fuck it. Here goes my only other pick since all the good shit’s gone:
MLB ‘04- The last time EA Sports was responsible for a baseball video game. Coincidentally, the last time a baseball video game was actually good.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
What was the genisis title Road rage or road rash? Where you took people out with chains on a motorcycle. I’m not breaking the 10 pick cycle…… I’m just sayin.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Okay…well, let’s see. I’ve apparently played way too many video games.
BUBBLE BOBBLE.
Man, taken out of context, this is a gay fucking game. But once you play it, and get into it…well, it’s still gay. But great. Like Freddie Mercury.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
*PS20 scheduled release date: 11/01/2037
August 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
OUCH ilkaknight got me…
Well I’m taking the arcade version, so there.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
If my “Bubble Bobble” is disallowed, I’ll take
BUST A MOVE.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Fast Break,, it was way ahead of it’s time and probably predicted the professional basket-brawls in Detroit.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:34 am
@ porky1
I don’t know if it was that bad, but it definitely had no ’s’ at the end.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:35 am
arch rivals for the sega genesis was a good one too.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Skate or Die.
Can’t believe it was still on the board.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:35 am
@ llkanighit
Bubble Bobble or Puzzle Bobble? I always liked Puzzle Bobble more (the one where you shoot bubbles at like-colored bubbles to burst them). I guess that’ll be my final pick.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:36 am
final fight – i’m still a sucker for a good beat ‘em up game, thank god for emulators. plus i think this was the first game to have hooker punching
August 15th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Command & Conquer: Red Alert (PC)
To the guy who picked X-Com: UFO Defense….damn it!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:39 am
@ognihs…
Double Dragon DID have a sluttity-dressed woman getting stomach-punched. don’t know if she was a hooker though.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:39 am
@ Naptown Drew
The only time I think ive played puzzle bobble (or something like it) was on a touch screen at a pool hall. Good game , but I’m sticking with the nostalgia of when we as a culture stopped playing outside.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I remember having a Back to the Future game for NES. Just terrible, but seeing that so many commentors like the movie (according to a previous draft), thought I’d throw that out there.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
(Puzzle Bobble/Bust A Move = same game)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Panzer Dragoon Saga for Sega Saturn. I may have gotten suckered into buying that piece of shit console, but fuck me if that game wasn’t friggin’ amazing.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:47 am
@ porky and llkanighit – Road Rash for Genesis is waaaay off the board. Sorry.
I’m going with a game I wasted countless hours on….Sim City 2000. I know 3000 and The Sims were probably better and more popular games overall, but SC2K was loads of fun.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:47 am
@ TK:
So you’re one of the 10 people who have ever gotten to play that game? Nice.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Road Rash? I dint’ pick dat.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:48 am
@ porky1 – it was some dude’s girlfriend. in the 80’s the #1 cause of random guys fighting organized crime was kidnapped girlfriends.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Still on the board I believe:
Deus Ex
Knights of the Old Republic (Best Game Ever Made)
/cyberpunk star wars geek
August 15th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Final Fantasy VII.
I would have picked a sports game, but I’m a nerd.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Yes. but was the girlfriend a prostitute? We never discovered the truth…
August 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I am going REALLY obscure: River Raid on the Atari. Nothing on Ninetendo ever matched for me, although Punch-Out came close.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
The Warriors on PS2
August 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Oh, and next pick…
DISCS OF TRON.
Because why the fuck not?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:52 am
@Porky1 – yeah, and like a douchebag I didn’t realize how rare it was and later sold the fucking thing for like 30 bucks, only to learn that it was going on eBay for about 5 times that. Seriously, awesome game though.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:55 am
NHL ‘94, Super Tennis (SNES), Baseball Simulator 2000 (SNES), Super Mario World (SNES), NCAA Football 2002 (PS2)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am
@ porky1 – i thought girlfriend and prostitute were mutually exclusive terms, if only because no one cares about a dead hooker.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am
super buster bros aka pang – this game is is like crack.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
NCAA March Madness 2008 (X-Box 360): I like to pretend that my Arizona Wildcats didn’t blow as bad as they did last year. Plus I can make Jerryd Bayless stay past his freshman year.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Fuck. I show up late and all my top choices are taken.
With that said, I select:
Adventure Island (NES): Cool! I got the skateboard, the boomerang AND all four dinosaurs??? SWEEEEEET…..
August 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Black Bass on NES. A total shitbag of a game that entertained me when I was like 7 or 8.
/swear I’m not a hick
August 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Mass Effect. Fucking tits.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
/also swear I’m not a hick
August 15th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Shinobi – arcade
Loved that shit. Never could get past the third level.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
@handfulofpeter – river raid was the shit fo sho! my 1st gaming experience ever in lfe!
August 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Q-bert. I was good at that game…no I am not a geek. Ok maybe I was back in the day.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
@ porky1 — oops. My fault on including you.
I’m going a little off the board here and picking Military Madness for Turbo-Grafx 16 (now downloadable for Wii!!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBrhlCoNP2w
Super fun.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
STAR CASTLE
Bringing the old school vibe for my last 3 picks (this is the first)
Damn I miss this game. Emulators never work.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
No Castlevania yet?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
That’s ok cause I’m taking Gauntlet for NES.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Intellivison’s SUPER PRO BASKETBALL. Professor Q was dope. Each game was 400 points combined, and I played it at least 5 times daily. My wrists still don’t work.
/adjusts hooks to type faster
August 15th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
You can play just about every old NES game online, free, without downloading anything. everyvideogame.com
Click arcade and then NES.
Can get a wee bit addicting. You’ve been warned.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Astrosmash for the Intellivision.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
@JSB, now you’re cookin with gas.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Doom 3 (xbox360),
f*ck nostalgia, I’m a renaissance man.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Fuck it, gotta go back to work…my last two picks:
FOOD FIGHT (arcade)
and
WARLORDS (Atari 2600)
August 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
@ devin hester’s speech coach
+100 for General Chaos, fuck and yes
August 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
@ porky1 – Damn! I almost took Warlords about 20 minutes ago. I absolutely loved that paddle controller for the Atari (also used for breakout and others) and the sound effects in that game were awesome. When you would hit somebody’s “king” the whole screen would flash and an explosion would deafen everyone in the room. To top it off, it was a 4 player game!!!! Man, I loved Warlords.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
RESIDENT EVIL 4?!
Seriously, that lasted over 300 picks?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Has it been 10 picks yet? I’m new here.
Next choice: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (XBOX). Gonna kill me some Germans.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Test Drive on the old Commodore 64.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hardball 95 for Sega. Best Baseball sim, and the first in that series with the MLBPA license….and it was the first where you could trade players.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
@ buck!!!! super mario world for snes was in my opinion the best of the mario franchise (not counting stuff like mariokart and other such evolutions of the characters). i mean, when you can go to a secret world where all the levels are called stuff like “groovy” “tubular” etc. that is just majorly kick ass.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I don’t know how I forgot about this one, but me and my friends still play Super Batter Up on a busted old Super NES all the time. We started out as gay-ass 10 year olds eating ice cream, and ended as gay-ass 25 year olds getting drunk and beating each other up over gay-ass tactics like bunting for base hits, but in between we’ve always had Super Batter Up
/Says “gay-ass” one more time
August 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I made that pick assuming someone took NHL ‘95 for sega already….
August 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
F-Zero for SNES: Racing hovercars, yes please.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
you all suck. I can’t believe Gauntlet hasn’t been picked. Green Elf needs food. Badly.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
ahha – SOCOM – PS2 – Wearing the headset and ordering your homies around was kickass after smoking a fatty, hypothetically speaking of course……
August 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
WWF Monday Night Raw for Sega: two words: Jacknife Powerbomb!
/Diesel power.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
With my 2nd pick, I select: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
I’m not a fan of the shoot-’em-up games like GTA or Halo. And since Metal Gear Solid was taken, Splinter Cell is the next best thing. There’s something gratifying about shooting a terrorist in complete silence and dumping his body in a dark room.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Ctrl F’ed Conflict didn’t get a hit sooo…
Vic Tokai’s Conflict (NES) Strategiosityfied combat, yes!
August 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
@Shane_Falco — amazing that Big Daddy Cool was TWFKA Oz…
August 15th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I can’t believe that Bioshock is still on the board.
That game is creepy and fun as all hell.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The Guardian Legend for the NES. You guys are asleep at the wheel.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Silverback,
I took it a looooong time ago, with good reason.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
@DC Beatdown: Wow, a Kevin Nash Oz reference. Awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Shenmue (Dreamcast)
Suck on that
August 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
@Fundamentally,
nice selection… I’m more of a “double agent” man myself, but I really like all the splinter cells.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
NARC on NES, pretty much the 1st violent game with blood…..come on!
anybody know how in the hell you get a picture on the little square over to the right?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Wipeout is a great pick, looks like MGS has been done to death, so I am going to take the original Tenchu this deep in the draft and declare my draft day an A.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
@dAndy
River Raid was hypnotic. There was something about those old school Activision games.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Excite Bike
Steal like a huh-fucka… build your own track and shit.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
@Obit rice: Sorry, I took Gauntlet.
My next pick: MLB for NES. That’s the one where you could throw a 100 mph fatsball or the double curve/screwball, and where home run balls sometimes went through the wall. Or it got stuck at the base of the wall.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
How do I do this…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzM3d7YMeVo
August 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I was thinking last week I should get rid of all my old games and consoles. Hell now I’m gonna dust ‘em off and play.
/weekend lost
Next pick, Bump’N'Jump. Mindless fun.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Fuck. Maybe this…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzM3d7YMeVo
August 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Um Sid Meir’s Civilization anyone? For PC? Really?
1. Pilotwings (SNES)
2. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (PS2)
3. NCAA March Madness 08 (360)
4. F-Zero (SNES)
5. Civilization (PC)
August 15th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I suck.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
@Rocco: No love for the bug that ends the game if the home team ties it up in the bottom of the ninth?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Oh goody. I’ll take that old arcade game “Two Crude.” You were a pair of steroid-enhanced beefcakes wandering around post-nuclear-blast NYC. Not only had Yankee stadium and all the players been destroyed, you could pick up just about anything (including a tank!) and throw it at people. Great game.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Sorry rocco, no find function on the iPod. Ive wasted hours of my life on final fantasy viii. I wouldn’t take my wife to the hospital until I beat omega weapon (she was in labor).
August 15th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Two Crude Dudes, I mean.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
@Jefferson SB: Damn, forgot about that one. All my NES games got ruined in a flood. Haven’t played any of these in years. (Except Tecmo Super Bowl, ‘borrowed’ my friend’s).
August 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
M.U.L.E. (NES) So awful it was good.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Dance Dance Revolution
/ducks
August 15th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Silent Service (NES) Subs stalking and blowing up anything in the water? Sounds like a B.Quinn on M.Phelps thing.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Silent Scope, the arcade game. Thats a late round steal right there.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Strider for the NES. Capcom owned the late ’80s.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Thought I’d come in for one more game:
NFL 2K5 (XBox/PS2)
To this day, still fucking awesome. Fuck you EA and NFL for monopolizing that shit. Pussies.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Atari’s Adventure
August 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
@porky: Great pick. I bought that one instead of Madden. So much better. 3, 5, and 7 step drops automatically? Hey EA get with it already.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Shinobi. I’m a kickass Ninja taking your life!
@ Rocco: that’s how you do it.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
@j4b: Yeah, well I see that it works, but I still don’t know how. href, url, what the fuck?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Roller Coaster Tycoon. I still have this installed on every computer I have ever owned because when your drunk/stoned there is nothing more fun to me than building incomplete roller coasters and sending crash test dummies hurtling towards their great reward. Or so I have been told.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
SO many good games taken already. . . . .
Bomberman ‘93 multiplayer blowing up friends fun time
August 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Yar’s Revenge (Atari) I would see that game on the back of my eyelids while trying to sleep.
/Drain Bamaged
August 15th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
“Dragon Force” for the Sega Saturn. I’m partial to replayable RPGs.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
@Rocco: Insert words that need to be linked here.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
That didn’t work out too well. Let’s try again…
August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Like this?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
See, that’s why I went to college. I just figured that shit out. Tawmmy couldn’t do that.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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The a’s need to be closed so the link works .
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
LARRY BIRD vs. DR. J BASKETBALL. That’s a steal this late in the draft.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Spy Hunter. F.T.W.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
you da man
August 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
for all the mario kart fans, i recommend this acitivity, one on one matches with the penalty being a half a solo cup of box wine, winner stays but opponent picks course
Tour de Franzia
Guaranteed to get you bit quick.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I know it hasn’t been 10 picks, just 10+ e-mails, but I need to take this game NOW!!!!
Berserk. That game gave me nightmares as a little kid.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
And seeing that this draft has slowed down a smidge, I’ll also take Daytona USA. The 8 player one at D&B (even though that place sucks.) 8 drunk friends careening around a NASCAR track? Sign me up.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
all right, i saw that this wasn’t up there, and not waiting 10
Portal
in the half life orange box collection. awesome
August 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
@KOOOWM3: Can I change that to CRT (Crash Team Racing for PS), and beer or Jack & Coke? Gotta have the multi-tap and 4 controllers for games like CRT or Bond. Throw that up on the 47″ LCD and you’re in business.
/not a bad idea for a rainy day.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I’ve realized I haven’t played most of these games.
/Needs to go buy some used games.
/Needs a life more than used games I think.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
@Hollywood – that was the point. Probably should have added some !!!11!! to make the sarcasm more clear. And no, I don’t ask about LT in the 10th. Maybe the 5th or 6th.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Solitaire
August 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
area 51
August 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Gradius (NES)
Upgrades…Hell yes! PIMP MY SATRFIGHTER!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
STARFIGHTER!!
/junkpunch
August 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Super Metroid. Probably one of the best action adventure games ever created. Oh, and Contra: Hard Corps for Genesis was badass too!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
@Eli: then I’m taking Free Cell or Spider Solitaire.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
@rocco
Take it and run with it my good man, its been a tradition since mario kart 64 came out and is to this day.
in honor of the Olympics,
Sydney 2000 for the O.G. Playstation
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
@KOOOWM3: Thank you. Now I just need 3 friends to play with.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
@ Rocco: So Crash Team Racing is worth eBaying?
Here’s one for y’all now that work has slowed:
NO ONE CAN STOP MR. DOMINO! (PS1)
Trust me. No one can stop him.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
What a great idea.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Little League Baseball for the NES was a legitimately awesome baseball game.
Nice work starting with Maniac Mansion by the way. Game rules.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
@porky: I think so. Just about the same as I remember Mario Kart 64, but with the Crash Bandicoot characters. Fun in single player mode, great in 2-, 3-, or 4-player.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I’ve seen almost every great NES Baseball game on this draft…
RBI Baseball
MLB
Baseball Stars
now Little League Baseball. Good stuff.
How about Bad News Baseball for NES? I still cue that one up once in a while. Great animation of getting KO’ed by the outfield wall…
August 15th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Never heard of Manian Mansion. Gonna have to check it out.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Just saw this post and i’m probably not the first to menton this: Blades of Steel for original NES. Graphics were good for their day, action was realistic, competition was tough and I haven’t even mentioned the best part: it was the first hockey title that let you fight. Granted, it was nintendo and with 2 buttons you don’t have a lot of punches in the old arsenal, but first to 5 hits won and only the loser went to the penalty box.
Also in between periods the screen would pan up to the jumbotron and between the 2nd and 3rd period you got to play a lil mini game. i can’t remeber exactly what it was but it had absolutely nothing to do with hockey
August 15th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
@vowlez: Blades of Steel long gone.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Where’s the love for Wolfenstein? or Ken Griffey Slugfest?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
In a world before Gran Turismo and Grand Theft Auto, there was…
…
…
…
…
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Hang-On. This game was the BOMB! (in 1985).
August 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
TMNT IV: Turtles in Time
Doesn’t matter one lick if it’s the arcade or console version.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Alright back, and with more Zelda…
Majora’s Mask (N64)
August 15th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Joe & Mac from SNES. You play as cavemen wrecking on dinosaurs with stone wheels and boomerangs and shit. I can’t believe nobody picked it. Classic!!
August 15th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Christ, 421………it says pinball is ok so…
MARS ATTACKS nothing fucking better ever.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Maniac Manion available at everyvideogame.com. Good work POD. Now I have to see what all the fuss is aboot.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Base Wars (NES)….
Baseball game with ROBOTS, choose which robots you want at each positions, then buy them upgrades as you win games. Plus, if there’s a forceout at the base, your robots do battle to determine if you’re out or not. Full seasons, stat tracking – awesome. And once your full team was 100% upgraded, games with 50+ HRs were commonplace. That was the last baseball game I ever got.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I know jackin4beats said gran turismo, but the third one was THE SHIT. It’s the only time i’ll even get close to driving the R34 Skyline. I lost a job to that fucker.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
ZOMG, It’s still available. FINAL FANTASY X
Suck it! Awsome gameplay and the most compelling story line evar!
August 15th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
earl weaver baseball
August 15th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
@ WORMFATHER
No it’s not. I took Final Fantasy X wayyyyyy back.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Lemmings
August 15th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
total carnage
August 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I can’t believe there are so few metal gear comments, if not just for people to say how much they hated it. MGS2 is easily my favorite game, though, and 3 isn’t far behind.
Such a disappointment I checked my reader so late.
I’ll take the Lion King for Sega Genesis. No, I’m not fucking around.
August 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I’ll take Super Smash Bros. Brawl as Westbrook already took Melee. I’m completely addicted to it.
/reveals age
August 15th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
MLB Power Pros. Fuck the kiddy style, that game keeps track of every stat imaginable. Going through all of them is like crack. How does Grady Sizemore fair against left handed Astros pitchers at the Jake in July when it rains? According to these stats, pretty damn good
August 15th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
No one’s taken Final Fantasy V? For shame.
Yoink.
August 15th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Fuck it. I’m taking a c-c-c-combo of Patapon and Resident Evil 4
What are ya buying?
August 15th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Holy shit, no one took Super Mario 64? I remember the first time I demo’d that in Blockbuster…I can’t even think of something witty to write. It was just awesome.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Tecmo Soccer. GO ROBIN!!!
/feels shame
/kills self
August 15th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I’m dumping a few into this pick since I have work to finish…
LAST ACTION HERO PINBALL GAME
August 15th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Hey Tards…I got two steals:
1) TOP GUN for Original Nintendo (God I hated when a heat seeking missle was bearin down) and
2) Dragons Lair…the arcade that launched modern graphics…and PIXAR I think.
Not to mention any 1,234,955,433 commodore 64 diskettes..preferably summer games….And no…it was not a computer…it was a console!
August 15th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
CRAP….SORRY. Last Action Hero Pinball.
Crappy movie…best pinball game ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCpIa20kD-I
Final Lap Twin – Turbo Grafx 16
Had this awesome quest mode where you started out as a little kid racing soapbox derby-style cars all the way to formula one stuff. Really addictive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxZtq4wrgo
Burnout 3: Takedown – PS2
Head-to-Head racing where your goal is to run the other guys into walls and over barriers. Sign me up for playing for 8 hrs straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6L0QXydbRo
Halo 2 – XBOX
I still like this one better than 3 and it was way more fun in a LAN party or co-op.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
One of these days I’m gonna wake up before 7:00 PST and be a real contributor.
“Gun” fox XBOX – Fucking sweet. Total bloodbath and great western feel.
“Duke Nukem Time” to Kill for PS. Health running low? Use a flame thrower and roast a few live chickens, great Westworld references too.
“Popeye” for Atari. Find someone you hate, pretend they are Bluto, do multiple bong hits, repeat.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Favorite games ever:
Madden (spanning 99-present)
ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2—Way better than any Madden)
Tecmo Super Bowl (NES & Sega)
Contra (NES)
Hitman series (PS2)
WWF Monday Night Raw (Sega)
WWF No Mercy (N64)
Metal Gear Solid (PS)
Super Mario 3 (NES)
MVP Baseball 2004? (PS2 it was after they stopped calling it Triple Play and Pujols was on the cover)
NHL ‘95 (Sega)
House of the Dead (arcade)
Silent Scope (arcade)
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (NES)
NBA Jam: Tournament Edition (Sega)
Wii Boxing (Great alternative to domestic violence)
Hardball ‘95 (Sega)
Doom (PC)
Zero Tolerance (Sega) Game had 100 plus levels of first person shoot em up action
Spiderman: Maximum Carnage (Sega) You got to play as Venom!
August 15th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Has anyone mentioned Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for PS1? It was absolutely kick ass. I still maintain that it is one of the greatest games of all time along with FFVII, Zelda: Link to the past, and Metal Gear Solid 4.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
1. World of Warcraft (PC)
2. Call of Duty 4 (PC)
3. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (SEGA Genesis)
4. Super Mario 3 (NES)
5. Goldeneye 007 (Nintendo 64)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
In my brother’s basement, he has an arcade version of Arkanoid. It’s that kick-ass sit-down table kind. He bought it from a Shakey’s or Chuck E Cheese. I’m terrible at it, but I could play it for hours.
Since we’re so far into the draft, I’ll take another pick: Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade pinball game. It has sounds from the movie. The best one is Sean Connery saying “Junior?”.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I must (after working 13 hours and cracking my first –of many– Arrogant Bastard) choose Decathlete (Saturn), my college roommates and I missed many 10am classes due to playing, smoking, and drinking till 6am. If someone walks in the room and thinks you’re masturbating, you’re running the 100 really fast. Honorable mention to Worms (DC), World Series BB 97′ (Saturn), and Olympic Gold (Sega MS import).
August 16th, 2008 at 12:26 am
GAH, I can’t believe I fanned on Mario 64. It’s quite possibly my favorite game in the series, and I loves me some Mario. Crap.
I guess for my bargain basement pick, it’ll have to be Super Mario Bros. 2, since my other bargain basement pick went super, super early (Zombies Ate My Neighbors).
August 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
For my first pick, I’ll take Zork!
/Ok, I’ll show myself out…..
August 16th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Since it’s been more than ten picks, and since I fucking bombed by taking a PC game with my first selection, I get to make the following picks:
1. Halo (the original on Xbox). That level where you’re defending the fort with the other soldiers and the aliens are dropping in all around you? Bad ass.
2. Spider-Man (Xbox). Props for getting to the Statue of Liberty.
3. Air Fortress (NES). It was like Metroid, for people who weren’t buying that ‘roll up in a ball’ shit.
4. Bags (arcade). Yeah, cause why actually play Bags outside hammered, when you can do it from the comfort of a bar, while hammered?
5. Shining Force 2 (Sega). I actually like this one more than the original. Sorry, Skye…
August 16th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
How about Joust? That game was AWESOME! Spent half the summer of ‘84 dropping quarters in that machine at the pizza place down the street…
August 16th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Medieval Madness (Pinball)
“It’s a great day for jousting!”
August 16th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
N64 Shadows of the Empire. Goldeneye close second
August 17th, 2008 at 1:41 am
NFL street 1 for the gamecube is like tits covered in hot wings, its the shit, with old school smash bros 1 for the N64 a close second, I still am undefeated in smash 1 as Pikachu
August 17th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Oh hell yeah, Chrono Cross (PS1) is still on the board. Make that “was still on the board.” Fuck yeah!
August 17th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
ummm… how about Street Fighter 2? Anyone take that yet? no? I’ll take it then. Street Fighter 2.
August 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Super Dodgeball (nes). USSR is the tits.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Okami…go ahead you assholes, make fun of me
oh, and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
August 18th, 2008 at 1:34 am
No Space Invaders or Asteroids ? The original donut shop classics
August 18th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Way late to the game, but had to throw this out after seeing it today – Megamania (Activision). When you got to a million points, the numbers would turn to exclamation points. They would publish pictures of your TV screen with the !!!!!s in Atari’s magazine. About the coolest thing ever for an 11 year old.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Super Smash Bros. 64. The summer of ‘99 was magical.