What kind of games did you favor as a kid?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Was it sequels to games you already liked? Ones featuring (or about) characters/properties you were a fan of? Something else entirely?

I liked ones based on my favorite cartoons when those were available, but was also all about those sweet covers and would usually pick what looked cooler.

You?

 

[Zerohour2k12]

As a kid I loved FF9 and Legend of Legaia, probly what made me a jrpg fan. and I used to watch my dad play the classic Resident Evil Trilogy on PS1. on my own time, I played a lot of Tekken 3, Spider-Man 2(PS1). Wild-9 and Soul of the Samurai.

It was a tad later when I played SotN and Metroid Zero Mission/Fusion and I've been a metroidvania fan since. Add to that Ace Combat 3 and Macross VF-X for my love of flight/dogfight games.

 

[AccordTheGynoid]

My tastes are about the same but elaborated. Zeldalikes, fire emblems, Metroidvanias, bullethells, twinstick shooters and tower defenses.
Ironically mixing n matching these themes has me playing some modern games. Soulslikes are basically 3d Zelda games. Helldivers 1 was twinstick shooter n helldivers 2 is basically dark souls bullet hell with guns with tower defense mechanics.

Think the only thing i play more now than then is fps but again, Metroid prime is why i got into first person

 

[Daman_1985]

Platformers mostly, like Sonic 1 & 2, Shinobi, Mario games, etc...

 

[DjQuick2008]

i had a commodore 64 in 1989 so had already figured out stuff like outrun, bubble bobble, renegade and other arcadey stuff released onto home systems was my thing. moving onto the snes i discovered wrestling genre looked a bit better with royal rumble, super aleste shooter and then mario kart and SF 2 turbo as well as mortal kombat hit the scene had a lot of fun with all of them.

 

[Boo Man]

As a kid I loved FF9 and Legend of Legaia, probly what made me a jrpg fan. and I used to watch my dad play the classic Resident Evil Trilogy on PS1. on my own time, I played a lot of Tekken 3, Spider-Man 2(PS1). Wild-9 and Soul of the Samurai.

It was a tad later when I played SotN and Metroid Zero Mission/Fusion and I've been a metroidvania fan since. Add to that Ace Combat 3 and Macross VF-X for my love of flight/dogfight games.

another Wild-9 fan!
2D platformers on PS1 were awesome, Pandemonium, Abe's Exodus, Heart of Darkness, Tomba
3D platformers were my favorite though like Jersey Devil, Kingsley's adventures, 40 Winks
and jrpgs ofc

 

[JustLooking456]

Platformers, RPG's and farming games.

Still do.

 

[Jeff]

Platformers like Mario, Kirby and Sonic, arcade style games, arcade Beat'em ups, puzzle games like Tetris, Dr. Mario, racing games like Mario Kart, Pole Position, and simple RPG games that don't have to be complex like Dragon Quest, Earthbound, Xenoblade and Mario RPGs.

 

[random0nonsense]

Platformers. It started with Pitfall! and continued through the years. I never played a RPG until Mario RPG hit the SNES. I never looked back after that.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Classic Mega Man series. I remember walking in to the video rental store every other week to rent NES then SNES games, and we would often see 'new' Mega Man games appearing. Back in the day I was a fan of Platform (2D, including Run'n guns) first than Fighters (2D, including Beat'em ups).

Covers were very important especially for games I was unfamiliar with, if it looked cool I was down to give it a chance. Not every game turned out great, Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout on PS1 comes to mind.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Platformers, puzzles, shoot em ups, beat em ups, racers and RPG (tend to action or tactical ones)

 

[moon200218]

any game that had a driving component like car/chase sections, open worlds with driving. I was all about that. It felt like freedom

 

[blahbleh]

gta games

 

[Heidegger of Shinra]

RPG's and racing games, always was, always will be.

 

[SpaceCress]

hack n slash games and platormers mostly, then switched to rpgs in my teens

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

My early tastes where mainly influenced by late seventies and early eighties arcade titles, Shoot em ups( space invaders, galaga, etc ) "maze games" ( pac man, rally-x, etc ) elevator action Donkey Kong, beat em ups, Racing games (Pole Position, Out run, etc).

 

[Pernil]

Bad licensed games. I turned down the opportunity to buy Twilight Princess on gamecube for $20 because I was collecting all the rugrats games at the time. Feel pretty stupid now in hindsight.

 

[BrawlMan]

Platformers, beat'em ups, arcade racers, realistic sports games sporadically, arcade sports games, and rail shooters. Most of which has not changed, but I don't bother with realistic sports games anymore and I will play a platformer occasionally.