Writer's Block: Top Five Video Games

[kismet09]

[Error: unknown template qotd] Saw this on the homepage and had to answer:

1. Tetris (Nintendo).  Couldn't get enough, back in the day.  I got to level 19 regularly, rocket ships, etc. on the nintendo version.
2. We love Katamari (PS2).  I play til I get nauseous, then I eat ginger candies and play some more.
3. Zoo Tycoon (PC).  i love creating exhibits, although I'm still irritated that you can't put monkeys in the bathrooms.
4. Super Mario Kart (N64 version).  I was always Yoshi or Toad.  I wasn't particularly good, but I played a lot.
5. hmm... most of the rest, I spent more time watching than playing.  When there used to be an arcade (called the Fun Zone) in the basement of the Century Mall, near where my family business is, I used to play Galaxian a lot.  My brother and I would get five bucks, we'd change it into quarters in the machine, and split it.  I always ran out fast, since he'd play Super Mario til he finished it on one quarter, and I'd just keep blowing myself up on Galaxian, or getting squashed by cars on Frogger.  I was also particularly awful at Q-bert -- I really don't have much spatial sense, so I fell off constantly.

Comments

[crosstables.livejournal.com]

What? No Track & Field cartridge for the Atari 2600!? I put a lot of work into that one! Making things work with 128 bytes of RAM is challenging! :-)

[nagekinoki.livejournal.com]

Wow, I really wonder what would fit in this for me, overall.

I'm amazed that you could fit just 5 onto a list. Of course, I think that just shows how much more I need to get out.

I guess my list would have some of the following:

a) DDR/ITG/IIDX
b) Doom/Q1/Q2/Q3
c) FF7/FFX/CC/CX/Xenogears
d) Starcraft/Warcraft 1-3/Diablo
e) Civilization II
f) Bushido Blade/Dead or Alive
g) Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (BEST GAME EVER!)

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, i did love carmen sandiego, and oregon trail, when i was a kid. i was one with my world almanac.

i never got that into video games - i have more fun watching other people play.

[cislocative.livejournal.com]

I love Super Mario Kart 64! I was Toad fairly frequently as well.

[key-lime-guy.livejournal.com]

Tetris!! Man, how many thousands of hours did I spend playing that in my younger days? I got a hankering for Tetris about a year ago, and, given that all of the versions I've seen for the modern systems suck ass, I went on Ebay and bought an old NES for the express purpose of playing Tetris. Still haven't gotten as good as I used to be (I could get up around 700,000 on a good day), but still an awesome game. What I like to do sometimes is start on level 19 and see how far I can get.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

i never start lower than level 9, because it's boring at any speed slower than that.