• SybilVane@lemmy.ca
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    30 days ago

    Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. Played it as a child together with my mom. She had all the worldly knowledge, but at the time I was the only one who could speak/understand English, so teamwork was key. That game meant hours of educational fun for the both of us.

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    1 month ago

    Dune 2. It was the gateway drug that turned me playing computer games into a full blown addiction for a bunch of my family.

    Relations camped out waiting for a slot to satisfy the urge for months until they could scrape together the cash to fund an appropriate PC to run it themselves at home.

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.works
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    Age of Empires 2 is my most played game ever and extremely nostalgic. Conquerors was next to flawless especially with fan made AI that didn’t cheat resources. I liked to play sometimes with friends co-op against one brutally hard AI. Most of my time was online pvp matches, or making and scripting custom maps to post on AOE Heaven. MSN Zones first, then GameRanger when that shut down. A little bit (still hundreds of hours) when Forgotten Empires picked it back up too until I got overwhelmed.

    While I love all the new expansions except the few mid ones, I think it’s too bloated now for PvP. I don’t want to memorize so many nations. I had a similar problem with Dead by Daylight and to a smaller extent, TF2. I got filtered I’m just too old to dump so many hours into a game now to keep track of all that shit, and not for a lack of free time actually in my case.

    But I love the new SP campaigns!

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    I suppose monopoly. It was the only game we really played. We also played trivial pursuit, but it was questions for my parents mostly.

    I did get the question once of “What company was snoopy a mascot for” and answered “get met” which they were shocked and asked how I knew, and it was a brief appearance in a Bloom County comic, which they had the anthologies of so I read them all.

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    Super Mario Bros 3. It was the first video game I’d ever played. That was my gateway drug.

    I used to know that game like the back of my hand. Any time I pick it back up, it feels like visiting an old, childhood home.