Your favourite Computer game ever

[Classic Jorge]

I know this place isnt awash with gamers, it's almost not a question for the serious gamer who would struggle to narrow it down anyway. What I'm interested in is finding out which games have actually meant something to you.

It could be the arcade game down the chippy, the arcades at southend pleasure beach or even snake on your nokia 3210. It could equally be on a PS1, an atari lynx or a nintendo game and watch, it doesnt matter. What matters most is the game that got you, right in the imagination.

For me it would probably have to be a couple. Kick Off II's spiritual successor, Goal on the Amiga was brilliant, it wiped the floor with SWoS and pretty much every FIFA or PES after it.

It might also be Civilisation V, which is a wonderful, wonderful game on a million levels.

Also, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which actually softened my heart towards the dreadful 80s music and made me feel like Al Pacino in Scarface.

Feel free to point out how adults shouldnt play or enjoy games though, it'as awimb after all, but I bet you there was a game you still pumped 10ps into back in the day.

[Red N White Army]

And NHL on the megadrive, which nearly caused me to fail my degree.

[Classic Jorge]

That made me temporarily like basketball.

[Ashberto]

Infocom text adventure IF games (interactive fiction)
Monkey Island series (esp the first)
Broken Sword series

As a kid the original Atari console Adventure (I never owned the console :cry: ) fired my imagination, and is probably what imprinted the adventure game thing, through many eras.

I haven't played anything much for years now except some Civ 4 and some post-commercial IF. I wouldn't mind a go of that Skyrim thingy though, if I could ever be bothered to get the console.

[Classic Jorge]

Today I have slotted seamlessly into the Fash role

[Red N White Army]

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[Classic Jorge]

That sent me down memory lane

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Corner of Well Hall Road. You know the one. I used to spend hours in there after school.

The same game was also good played on a glass-topped table in't boozer.

I once watched someone playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City. I couldn't understand how it worked, tbh. But the music was good.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Probably the only computer type game I ever played in my youth, and I was ****e at it.

[Classic Jorge]

I really, really loved Monkey Island, which felt like a comic you could play more than anything else.

Actually, in game writing, it's got to be up there with the best of them, by which I mean GTA.

Skyrim (or at least Elder Scrolls) is obscenely good, I just wandered around practicing my fireballs most of the time.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Classic Jorge]

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Also contains actual info for getting the game, which is now out of copyright.

[Ashberto]

to rescue. Some great noises though. I liked Missile Command from that era.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Wiped out all the aliens in one go.

That was my main tactic. Perhaps only.

[Classic Jorge]

I've never been to south london, is it nice?

[IUFG]

[Ashberto]

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[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Where I'm from, not so much :-(

[Ashberto]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

remember it now.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Ponce.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

Nice enough places but you realise the reality when you try and get back

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You're still pissing about with star anise in your bacon sandwiches, aren't you?

[Jake]

PES6 (random selection match is the best football gaming innovation ever), The Last of Us, and yeah, Vice City.

Driver 2 was also a great game, and I have extremely fond memories of Stuntman.

There are obviously lots more.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

We have a new delicacy over here, the 'spice bag'.

All the rage I tell you.

http://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/food-news/the-spic e-bag-testing-dublins-latest-takeaway-craze-on-my-family-341 49416.html (http://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/food-news/the-spice-bag-testing-dublins-latest-takeaway-craze-on-my-family-34149416.html)

[Jake]

[Ashberto]

The games were so finely balanced that it could take literally milions of hours of testing to expose the break-points. And then, all players would exploit them until fixed.

Civ 4, for example wasn't really finished until Beyond the Sword, the second XP. I'm glad you liked Civ 5 though. My community generally hated it. Even the designer (Trip), who I knew from Civ 3 days, thought it didn't work out as hoped.

Skyrim I should definitely try. I might just go into the woods and kill boars.

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[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's not going to overtake fried chicken from the petrol station, is it? :-(

[Red N White Army]

[Luis Anaconda]

The friend I stayed with has a view of the Valley from her lounge window

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Good, but in a bad way.

Every time I suggest it for the family evening meal I am shot down so I am afraid I cannot give a first hand review. My local chinese does a Mega Spice Bag for 20euro.

:-(

[Jake]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

http://www.elthamcollege.london/

Your manor, rnwa?

[Ashberto]

So far I have walked from Woolwich to Beckenham almost entirely through parks, woodland and open space. It makes London seem even more remarkable.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Cup of tea :hehe:

[Ashberto]

Feels like a village in the Kent countryside.

[Ashberto]

Phwoar!
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/properties/eltham-palace-and-gardens/things-to-see-and-do/eltham-entrance-hall.jpg

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I have a vivid memory of walking up it on a beautiful summer's early evening, nipping round the back of the theatre block to prepare the props for the opening night of Oh! What A Lovely War... to find out 5 minutes later that the director had hanged himself in the sixth form common room bogs.

The usual business, I'm afraid :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I haven't. I must.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Ashberto]

[Red N White Army]

I don't like it much, as you can tell.

[Red N White Army]

[hamstrung]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

become. I have never touched a game since.

[Red N White Army]

Emlyn Hughes' INternational Soccer. Barbarian.

[Ashberto]

What happened to the director that made him do that?

[In Arsene we rust]

Spent many a late night trying to solve puzzles on that game :yawn:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Jake]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I think you can probably fill in the blanks here, a.

[In Arsene we rust]

[Red N White Army]

If it wasn't for the awful people that seem to live there these days. (Sure it wasn't like that in your day c)

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Yes, indeed it was.

Luckily I lived in Bexley, which was a little less violent.

f**k it, everywhere was violent in the 70s :-(

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

a contributory factor to his state of mind.

He was a fine teacher, especially on those odd occasions when he was sober and awake.

[7evens]

[Berni]

and some cock and bull story about how he'd been kicked out for hitting a kid.

Apparently, it turned into a bit of a scandal in NZ when the truth came out a couple of years ago.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

annoying butler who'd be wondering around her mansion. I used to try and get him stuck in the walk-in fridge/freezer :hehe:

[Ashberto]

He later married my friend's mum. It was all rather awkward.

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Mr Shuttleworth used to punich poor mathematical performance by having boys weed his garden. Whilst kneeling amongst his daffodils one could be sure to receive a good fondling of the cheeks.

I can't say it did us any harm, to be honest.

[Ashberto]

It seemed to involve long chats in very close physical proximity.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

I heard this story from my sister's best friend's brother, and ISTR he went to Eltham College.

[Berni]

classroom so that you had to squeeze past him and his genitals to get out of the classroom.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

who was being tried for some fiddling. I was happy to testify on his behalf, but a little disconcerted when a close friend admitted to me, whilst we were waiting to take the stand, that the master in question had once delivered him the finest blow job in history :hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[barrybueno]

And finding one with the lever/joystick was absolute heaven :cloud9:

[Fred Killah]

Square Enix along with Naughty Dog have produced some delightful games over the years.

It is incredibly difficult to pin this down to one game. I could easily compile a top 20 and not ever know where to rank each entry appropriately.

I would say the top 3 for me, based on character and plot development coupled with gameplay mechanics are Secret of Mana, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Last of Us.

[PSRB]

[Classic Jorge]