No links this time for mine as they are not web-based. If any of these are missing from the whole of the internet for some reason, do let me know, I should have every CD still around and will share the files for archival (Some might not have much of a description as I would like because it's from memory and some I played in "peculiar times" of my life, I won't say more, just wanted to say that I am sorry for the sudden lack of details in some entries compared to others, it is my failure
).Prince of Persia (1989)
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This was my first video game. It was lent to me on a floppy disk and, aside from the novelty of it all, I really liked that the pc was making sounds, though they were quite loud XD
I never finished it because I prefer to take my time, and this game gives you an hour, no savepoints, to complete it from start to finish, and this sort of thing is not my cup of tea. I was transfixed when someone (a friend of someone I know) came to where I had the game installed to "win it for me". He played through the game like some well-oiled machine, it was spectacular, he beat it too. I have never seen the end levels since, but I recall the "palace levels" being all seemingly made of gold, and they were beautiful.
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Whenever I see this one I wonder if this was the first game I ever played, but then I recall that this was just one I could watch play at the time, the times I could play it myself being some rare moments of luck. Surprisingly, I found it on Steam, of all places, but I am perplexed at the price. In short, this is a sort of platformer "Mario style" with plenty of levels.
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I don't believe this one needs an introduction
I played the first game here on the HQ, but before that I only ever played the 2nd game. This game was my introduction to what a "drow" is, as well as a variety of things that have to do with D&D, and I loved the setting, races and spells ever since. I own the CD (in Italian) and I was so mesmerized by the CD case that I was afraid it would be taken from me for how beautiful it was. To say I would sleep hugging it would be an accurate idea to how much I care for this game, even if, now that I played the 1st game, I like the first one as a game more.► Show Spoiler
I made a topic about this game here, but this is one that is a must on my list. This game taught me a lot about controls, especially the mouse as it is mouse-heavy, and it is one of the few games that I like to play and replay endlessly when I get in the mood for it. I played the original Sacred, then the Polish (English dub) "Silver" version (also called "Sacred+"), "tried" Underworld, and then finally I got the "Gold Edition", but I personally prefer the original, as Underworld introduced new things, yes, but it also introduced quests that feel unfinished and that are painfully recognizable when playing because the characters do not have any "after" dialogue and become frozen in place, which I believe ruins the scenery.
It has a few areas and, without Underworld, it has ice, forests, hills, savannah, mud, caves, rocks, rocky desert, desert, swamp and lava regions. I even have an irl map of the game (preserved in plastic as the paper onto which I had printed it was at danger of having its colors ruined). This game can even be played online, though I have more experience playing it on LAN.
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This one is a Willy the Coyote game. It is full of puzzles and some running, but I would hazard to guess it is almost open world with its levels as there is a lot that can be explored and some puzzles ****** with my mind (plant a seed then mess with time to make it grow. It was just a mechanic, but I could not help but feel dread at the thought of how he would be stuck in a different time or go too far off into the future and everyone he loved be dead and all the rest). Still, it can get pretty silly at times, I just probably take everything too seriously.
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This one is a game that is just about extreme sports. My favourite of the modes available was the snowboard one. Not much to say, really, this was a game I really liked, especially because I could not do these same sports myself.
Figured I'd add a video for nostalgia's sake, and also because there seems to be a lot of similar games out there.
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(Leaving the cover art too as it is easier to find this way. I played it, as all the others on this list, only on pc)
(The hub where to pick a game. This "menu" is also interactive, aka, you can click on the insects and other places and it will do something.)
(The maze, more details below in the description-thing)
This is a collection of games that is meant to be played with a friend in couch co-op. It is a very dear and favourite game of mine, my favourite game in this being the maze, where you have to fill the maze's road with prints and then escape to the exit, at times requiring co-ordinated help from your friend, or, if playing alone, be forced to find another way as some things will not move without aid.
The other games are very varied, from a sort of target shooter, to a conga line snake-style, and more. I played it in Italian, so I am unsure about the other languages, but in Italian it was all very cozy and did not feel pompous or cringe like I sometimes see happen with voice actors of the movie/show reprising their roles for a videogame.
(The hub where to pick a game. This "menu" is also interactive, aka, you can click on the insects and other places and it will do something.)
(The maze, more details below in the description-thing)
This is a collection of games that is meant to be played with a friend in couch co-op. It is a very dear and favourite game of mine, my favourite game in this being the maze, where you have to fill the maze's road with prints and then escape to the exit, at times requiring co-ordinated help from your friend, or, if playing alone, be forced to find another way as some things will not move without aid.
The other games are very varied, from a sort of target shooter, to a conga line snake-style, and more. I played it in Italian, so I am unsure about the other languages, but in Italian it was all very cozy and did not feel pompous or cringe like I sometimes see happen with voice actors of the movie/show reprising their roles for a videogame.
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This is a game that contains many, from something caled "abbuffata", which is a sort of eating competition, funny cart racing (with destructable parts), to throwing various things through a catapult, and more that I can't recall presently. It is a game I really loved, but I personally know it best for the feast scenario, which threatens to make me lose this game as I forget the title and dub it in a different way that only exists in my imagination "La Grande Abbuffata" ("The Big Feast"). It can be played with other players too in couch co-op, but I think I recall there being the option for more than 2 players.
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This is an Italian game apparently, but I am not sure. I still have the CD and I am very attached to it. The game is about Carletto, the boy, and his quest to find his missing plush bear that a wolf kidnaps from him after the two go to sleep during one of grandma's fairytales and wake up inside a dream. It is a sort of puzzle game made for children with a story and different puzzles to resolve that is also part fairytale. It feels animated like a cartoon when playing and I really liked it from the start. Surprisingly, I only could ever win it once. That is because there is some sort of bug that prevents my progression and I could only manage to resolve it once. The bug in question is that, to progress, you need to complete all the puzzles some goats in a hut will give you, but some of the puzzles require you to scroll down and select a slide on a sort of movie roll, issue is that this movie roll automatically rolls down when approached with a mouse, causing a few images to be skipped. One day I will try re-installing this again to find a fix and report on it for anyone that might be reading this and that might either be curious or in need of help with this issue.
Seeing the loving grandma always makes me terribly nostalgic and sad, I love these sorts of old ladies, but they are always taken away so soon
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(Adding the cover too as I noticed there seem to be several. This is the one I played)
This is an action game with different levels that follows Tarzan as he becomes an adult and then fights Clayton. It has beautiful musics and imagery, there are a lot of variety to what can be done, bonus levels, some levels where you use Tarzan's animal companions in a variety of ways, and there is also the climbing and sliding off the trees. There are many secrets and things to find out, some objects are destructible and much more.
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This one is a game I loved to play together with other people. It is a lot of games in one but, on an overall basis, it is a sort of racing game between player and bots or just two players (or two players and bots). There are a lot of characters, and I did not know Rayman was some sort of franchise until I started to look into where did all this lore with the "large flies" come from that was showcased in the intro for this game.
The musics are also some I really liked. Will be posting them separatedly as well perhaps as now I am in the mood to listen to them
Here are a few, though I love every single one of them.
One of my favourite characters (the others being the Fairy and the three dudes fighting for the crown)
The dudes in question
The Fairy
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This one is a sort of collection platformer. You can choose between Warrior Dwarf and Mage Dwarf. There are plenty of levels but this one (also called Brave Dwarves) is the one I beat
which, though I have the CD, is not the one that caught my heart. I loved the collecting thing here too, but there is something about the night "fairy forest" graphics that I really like.
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This is a collection of games, not sure how best to describe them besides showing the screenshots for them. I really liked to play the farm one because I couldn't plant plants of my own and I wanted to be a farmer, so I was coping by "taking care" of these plants instead.
I was disappointed when I first played this game because I was sure it was this one
and I spent a long time trying to "unlock" the level, thinking this was a Demo of some sorts. I am sorry for thinking that now, and this game has become a dear one to me. I have yet to play the one that I was looking for originally.
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This one was a game I spent a long time with. It is, in short, a shooter game with a sort of story and 2 campaigns. That I recall it ends up being a suicide mission.
I recently found others of the same type about zombies and sequels to this one, but so far I like this one the best. The music was also one I really enjoyed.
This was the first game I found cheat codes for, though I can't recall what they did. I thought they were some secret to unlocking new levels (they did not) after playing through the game long enough to know by tempo what would happen and when. Now enough time has passed for me to have forgotten some things, which is great for replays.
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The first "modern game" that I played. I had no idea what the setting was, what was I getting myself into, or even an idea of how things worked, and my English was still not as good to catch what they were saying. To this day I have only a scattered understanding of the story. I often get this game confused and mixed-up in my memory with an imagined version of a first person Dead Space.
I plan to play the franchise at some point.
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This is a game that was gifted to me unexpectedly, and I was unsure if I could play it because I felt the gift was misplaced. The game is a series of levels, great music, and it has some random hidden levels too. There were parts that still make me shudder to this day because of how dangerous the whole thing looks (sliding close to a pitch black pit in a dark blue environment, for example).
I like this game, but just thinking of the Oasis level's geysers make every interest leave XD Maybe one day.
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I somewhat recently finally played through the first game, but my first introduction was the second game. I played it with a very scattered brain for a variety of reasons, and it became a game that I have very little memory of that do not mix with Fear 2.
Really liked the first game.
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Though my avatar is Doctor William Birkin (this screen of him coming from a Wii game called Darkside Chronicles) my first and most favourite "old" Resident Evil besides 1 is number 3. As it is very alike with the 2nd game (and a glorified DLC of it from what I recall reading) I get 2 and 3 confused and fused together at times, thus making my memory of the story inaccurate. What I do recall is the feel of the controls, the guns, the levels, and similar.
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This one was a game I loved to play with a friend to **** around with (I would make up voices and stories about the characters for him to entertain him). Can't recall what mode did we play, but I know it was just us against a lot of bots (or maybe "us" I recall wrong and it was in fact me or him playing and me making the voices, thus playing together. Can't recall). I know it has a story, but I got only half-way before I gifted the game to someone after hearing something about "giving what you most cherish to others" at church. I gifted it to someone as a show of friendship because of that, but I am not sure what he did with the game as I fear he wasn't really interested in having it
I have not played this game since and feel sad whenever I see it because of that, but I feel compelled to not play it as I gifted it off, so I am torn and sad at having been scammed in some way and my goodwill abused as usual I better stop here as I am getting sad.► Show Spoiler
This game was always a bit of a mystery to me. I couldn't understand the controls too well (still recall that A was to spin, though I am not sure anymore XD ) and had not much idea of the story. It is a game about just wrecking havoc inside an empty (closed for the night) shopping mall that I recall. The one I played, I believe, was a demo, but just seeing it again makes me wonder if I should find the complete game. I say should because it felt different than the Taz I like from the cartoon because he was, if I recall, said to be married in this one, while instead I believed him to be just some random animal that is uncontrollable, so it killed a bit of the mystique, so to speak. Some parts I recall them being quite frustrating, but it is due to my poor understanding of the controls. The best, when I could get it to work, was to accelerate while riding a shopping cart around the place.
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This one I don't believe needs an introduction
This game was incredible for me. It was the first game where I really felt I could make my own choices, and the ending left me utterly heartbroken, which I love. For anyone interested, I will leave a "resume" of this below, though I lack words to really do justice to what it meant to me, as it married with some things in my own personal life, so it felt very special.Long story short. My Warden was someone that did not wish to be a Warden (City elf) and the whole playthrough it was a series of being forced to being the hero, hailed, etc, yet he just wanted out, and was called a monster for making the difficult choices when he instead truly wanted to help, while Alistair (whom my character saw as the only "real Warden") was left in the sidelines. All the game too, Alistair was falling in battle, being, honestly, a burden in many fights because of it, even Zevran was surviving longer, but I kept holding on to him. Always in my team no matter where we went. When Morrigan's choice came around I refused after long thinking it over and then decided to "say my farewells", but wanted to say the final goodbye to Alistair in person so I kept him with me, with all that it entailed, for the battle with the Archdemon (Oghren was fantastic too, he held the line and worked himself out to be a hero from the dejected dwarf he was becoming, never been more happy to appoint someone to an important role on the frontlines to hold the city). When the battle was finally over (only had Wynne and poultices for aid and my character was a Duelist) I was ready for some "farewell" dialogue and that my character would, for the first time, and even though he would not want to, make the choice to be a Grey Warden and a hero, which meant his soul be destroyed so I was holding on to that information for what option to pick. But then Alistair offers instead. This bitchslapped the realization that I had forgotten in my wanting to say farewell to him: that he is a Warden too, ergo, he can do the sacrifice, but his soul destroyed in the process. I will always remember how he said "Let me save you, just this once.". The whole playthrough he had been the one to be saved, to be, for lack of a better word, babysat, and that line hit me like a truck. I won't deny that it felt like losing someone when I allowed him to, just this one time, save me instead. When I got healthy again and could walk outside (the photo I posted) I had the end credit soundtrack for this game playing on repeat as I scaled the path to get a better view of the horizon, for this is how much this game, this playthrough, impacted me.
This game was also a "wow" moment for me because I was coming out of the likes of Icewind Dale 2 and Baldur's Gate, so to see the same tactical mode, point and click movement with rings underneath the characters, unvoiced dialogue options etc, it felt like some sort of 3D Icewind Dale, and this was my first game being so close to something such as them.
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How could I forget to add this one to the list until now is beyond me. This is my introduction to Lovecraft's works and, in a way, the reason for my username's conception, as I would never have known of Lovecraft, at least not with such an impact perhaps, if I had not played this game. For anyone thinking "what? Dagoth is from Morrowind" and doesn't know:
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I changed DAGON to Dagoth, and that is because Dagoth ("th" sound) rolls off the tongue far better than DagonGeas. My real username would be "Dagon's Geas".
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This is a game that is all about Quidditch that I recall. You can choose who to play I think, but for this one it has been both a long time and also this game had a bit of a sad history for me. The guy that lent me this was mistreated somewhat, undeservedly or not I am unsure as I only know part of the story as per my unfortunate usual, but I was being cruel with him (hot and cold sort of thing) because I wished to fit in for once in my life, while also trying to juggle holding a friendship that I truly did want. In the end, as it happens when trying to hold onto things like this, I lost both, and it's what I deserve. He lent me this game and I was a ****, I hope he won every match and had much success
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This is a sort of platformer where there is no save-game feature besides collecting specific passwords to then skip levels to a select one corresponding to the password.
This is a game that can be played couch co-op and, in short, it is just "dinos" (of which there are 4 different types that can be selected that I recall) blowing bubbles to trap enemies or use as platforms (or pop to add points to the score). You get points for food and items collected as well as for killing enemies, there are also special items that have a chance of appearing. That I recall which items appear is never set, so every run is different, but I may be remembering wrong. The main menu is also interactive and the bubbles there can be popped by clicking on them.
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This is an amazing game, one of the most difficult that I remember winning when I still had trouble using a pc correctly. It was lent to me and then I found it on my own, I think? I know it was lent to me, but I have no idea afterwards if it was then gifted or what, but I know the guy that lent it for me to try was terribly nice.
The game is a sort of platformer with levels, but platformer is the wrong word here. It is hard for me to explain this game, but I recommend it to be played for anyone reading as it is much fun and has beautiful colors.
I think the story is that Donald is mad, but I can't recall as I couldn't understand Italian good enough at the time.
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This one is an online game, but I will make an exception for this one to be on this list as it is one that I played single-player, realizing only much later that there were players and that I made an account (which I barely understood what that meant at the time).
This was a sort of strange World of Warcraft. From my understanding it is a game full of jokes and similar, but, as I didn't much understand what was written, I can't say if they were funny or not. I recall I had to collect things (pumpkins I believe) for someone in a village, but I can't say what other quests were there at the top of my head without my memory being jogged about them first. I always played the Wolf character because I liked the idea of playing a sort of "survive as an animal in the wild" game, but it was highly roleplay more than actual survive mechanics, though I think I recall there being options to sleep and eat, though they could have been animations only. The players that I did meet were quite "peculiar", to say the least, and, though I never tried it myself as I had no one to do that with, you could have people ride on your back and use you as a mount if you were using the wolf. An interaction with a player that I recall was, in my broken English, some conversation about how to get a red cape and something to do with finding cheese. Using past tense because it seems the servers for this game shut down, which is terribly sad for me because I wanted to revisit this game now that I can actually understand what is going on and, perhaps, finally beat that "fairy dragon" that keeps killing me in a certain area as I explore.
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This is a side scroller (aside from a few areas and levels) "action game". I really like the musics, this was also the first game that had "passwords" to quickly access different levels. Took me a very long time to understand how the thing worked.
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This is a top-down game where you play as either (Italian names as that is the language I know it with) Zini (monkey), Flia (Pterodactyl) and Aladar (Iguanodon). Each character has its own ability and weaknesses and the whole game is a darker, and different, story that aims to somewhat follow the movie plot. This is another game that I play and re-play whenever I feel like it, but after "upgrading" from XP I cannot really install this game without going to hunt down online for the things necessary to run it, which is not something I look forward to doing.
The game also has a sort of encyclopedia where it collects every dinosaur (friend and foe alike) that you meet or kill during the many levels. I really like this game and I used it to teach to someone I know. I also really liked the end credits music.
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This is absolutely one of my most favourite games. I am very biased, so I won't say how good it is because it might be mid or bad for others, but for me it is a game I really love. In short, it is a mix of different activities and platforming with collecting on the side, but it is more than something like Crash Bandicoot, for example, though it reminds me of it with the graphics at times.
Ironically, THIS GAME introduced me to Resident Evil XD
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This is a game I only ever had a demo of, but now that I remembered it I will be trying to find the complete version as I always liked it. The game is about a boy that loses his dog to some shadow monsters and has to get him back. The gameplay, that I recall, had puzzles and it was a sort of side-scroller exploration. The shadow creatures were absolutely haunting and stress inducing as they amassed, horrible things, I loved it.
Will add others as they pop to mind, but for now I am focused on finding again a game that is much like Zoo Tycoon but it is not it. I recall it as I loved everything about it, but someone I knew had Zoo Tycoon and introduced me to it citing it was "better". I only played these games because I like hyenas and wanted to observe such strange animals up close, then I got the bug for management games but my "make a fence and let the animals fight or hunt humans in the wild" way of playing is still alive and well XD
Giving up the search for now as I have no idea what the game was. I am getting convinced by Google results it was just a "different version" of Zoo Tycoon, though the one that showed it to me played the 2nd game, and I am 100% sure I have never played the first game. The title was something like "animallica" but when I searched it nothing like what I expected popped up. It was an old game, Zoo Tycoon clone is the best way I can describe it. I feel very bad for not remembering it seeing as how much I defended it against the accusation that Zoo Tycoon was better
