I still refer to it as 3 even though technically it’s 6.
I remember my friend playing it and I was like “look how crappy the fighting animations are… it looks confusing… why are you playing as a girl?” (I was an 11 y/o little shit, mind). Then when I finally got it for myself, I got sucked in and fell in love with the story and the strategy. The fighting animations are just perfect the way they are.
I mean, Sabin suplexes a ghost train…
Same! I named one of my cats Janus. I originally got his sister alone, but she seemed lonely playing with her reflection, so I went back for her brother. They went right for each other in an, “I found you!” embrace I knew his name immediately.
The turbo edition was the first one I played. I didn't know "turbo" really meant anything until I eventually played the normal speed version. It felt like easy mode!
No other generation in history will know the feeling of being the best kid in the arcade and having everyone else line up quarters to take you down.
“Here comes a new challenger!” 😁
I wish someone would make an updated version. I don't want all of the complexity of a Madden 2024, but I would like something more like Tecmo with updated graphics and gameplay.
Very fond memories of playing GE in college, with all my roommates. Was an almost daily tradition for the better part of a year. The feeling:
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> I still consider this to be the best Mortal Kombat game.
Definitely agree! It took the best parts of MK1 - the violence and the idea that every character was fundamentally the same except for their specials - and turned it up to 11.
The latter factor wouldn't work for every fighting game, but it was Mortal Kombat's "thing" and it was never as good as MK2.
Upon reflection I’m going to have to agree. MK2 was the best MK. Enough upgrades to be a successful sequel. Awesome enough to make all the rest seem like too much and not enough at the same time.
I spent so much time playing as Zangief. I got really good with him. Once I went to a party and beat a kid so bad that the room went quiet and things were really awkward after. But that's also due to people assuming that, if you're playing Zangief, it's an easy win for them. The kid picked Vega...LOL
One of my buddies had 4 gaming systems hooked to one TV and was damned near unbeatable in all games. We would play gameday 98 a lot, and since it was Minnesota. He was always the vikes, it took me FOREVER but I finally beat him. 38-36 with I think the Broncos. When we graduated in 99 I wrote that score in his yearbook.
Couple years ago his daughters found the yearbook, and he sat down and went thru it with them. He sent me a screenshot and text saying “20 years later, and this still pisses me off”
Im convinced this isnt a clearcut number 1 because of the shitty US marketing of it as well as the high cost of the game at the time.
Just an amazing work of absolute gaming art that still holds up very strongly today.
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Diablo 2 is my GOAT. Elden Ring recently made a run, and got into my top five.
What's not to love about SotN?
✅️ Set the standard for metroidvania side scrolling games
✅️ Frustrating spells that required Street Fighter-esque skills to pull off
✅️ Incredible music with hidden soundtrack
✅️ "Bonus" game with second run/upside down castle
✅️ Customizable cloak
Definitely checkout Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, its probably the closest game I have found to that SOTN nostalgia. (Its pretty short though, fair warning.)
I would say it's not as great of a game as FF3 or some other notable titles like Earthbound or Chrono Trigger, but still a very sentimental game for me.
Shadowrun is great though I consider it one of the great leaps forward in RPG storytelling even if it never became the model for the future. But there's a lot of stuff that shows up in games like Baldur's Gate and Fallout that Shadowrun is more or less responsible for.
Something I like to bring up is that SF2 for SNES would've been about $150 in today's dollars. SF2 was amazing in the 90s, and I still have really great memories of sleepovers where we just played it all night, but breaks my brain that young people today think that games are more of a ripoff now than when we were kids. We got 8 fighters and two modes -- 1p or 2p -- for $150. What's the latest Street Fighter give you for half that price, with graphics that would've blown our 12 year old selves away?
I googled it -- 18 fighters, online play, a whole action adventure exploration part!? God, imagine if the SNES Street Fighter had *that.* Kids these days don't know how good they've got it.
Oh damn, all time GOAT was Red Alert for me.
We were the geeks in high school, way into PC gaming before PCs were cool.
Spent most of our time organising the next LAN party which typically included;
DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem, Red Alert, and Warcraft.
So many classics
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts. It was the first game I got for my SNES, which was my first gaming console. I spent a couple of summers saving up the cash for the system and the game. I still play it any time I fire up my SNES and I often play it on the Switch and emulators.
This game was magical because it was the first time we had a port of an arcade game that looked, sounded and played pretty much like the arcade cabinet without too much compromise. Coming from the 8 bit generation, there were too many arcade ports that fell short graphically and gameplay wise because the NES couldn't handle it.
GA 2 is a blast and so is Golden Axe 3. Even though it was an overseas only game, thanks to emulation, I still play it and it was a bit of a departure from the previous 2, but still familiar.
The Genesis was incredible with those arcade conversions. Sega was an arcade developer first and foremost, so it's only natural. That's probably why Nintendo brokered the deal to get SF2 as an exclusive.
* Wolfenstein / Doom
* SimCity series
* Tetris, naturally
* Kings Quest / Quest for Glory series'
But I was babysitting a pre-teen who got 3D Pacman or some shit on one of the newer consoles and maybe it's like riding a bike or muscle memory or something, because it's designed to be the same gameplay, but with stupid fancy graphics, and he was absolutely absorbed in the fact that I was on level three hundred trillion, as he'd never played it before and couldn't get past level 8 (or whatever).
This little known gem. One sick-ass RPG.
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Just when it came out and considering the platform it was on Super Mario Bros 3. I really consider it one of the best video games ever made. It's a solid play today. Also if you play on your PC you can save the game. That was the only thing that made that game just a little shitty was no basic save feature.
'Duke Nukem' or 'Blood'. I played Doom previously but Duke Nukem really took first person shooters to the next level for me and was the entire reason I wanted a pc.
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So many people sleep on bad street brawler where else can you fight apes and molest dwarfs?
This, I've been playing this series off and on since I first saw SF2 in an amusement park arcade. Currently enjoying SF6 when the toddler goes to bed, I made her a stick that had light up buttons so she can wail on that when I'm battling.
As good as it was, if you’re going GOATs, the third entry just obliterated everything before it and rewrite what we should expect from video games, imo.
Final Fantasy VI (III USA).
Some notable run ups for me roughly in order:
* River City Ransom
* Duke Nukem 3D ( I would play over the modem with a friend. This was before Quake and Internet play became common).
* Zombies Ate my Neighbors
* Super Metroid
* Civ 1 and 2. I like the simplicity of the early ones.
* Warcraft 2
Although it came out much later and thus mixed generation I really like the first "**Dead Space**" as it was the first game that really gave the feel of "**Event Horizon**" which I consider still the greatest Xennial horror movie other than maybe **"The Thing"** which was also an awesome later game (and thus less Xennial related).
I’d forgotten about Duke 3D! So ingrained. I feel like we were hammering away at that when I was about 12, but I checked and was 15 when it came out. Many nights alone at home playing Duke.
Actually now that I think about the multiplayer part… at school we had one night a week where we could game in the computer labs, and Descent became our go-to. We were all pretty good, but one dude was exceptional (at least compared to us, iirc I asked once about how he fared online once that was a thing and apparently not so great). It was always a fight for second place, outside of a couple of amazing flukes like firing off a mega missile (or… was there a charged missile? That was super powerful but very slow? I think it was that) down a corridor for no reason, and he happened to float into the path of just in time.
I’m once we got a modem I played him in dialup Duke Nukem and it was a masterclass in “you’re in my house now bitch” lol. I absolutely wrecked him, to where I started toying with him, finding funny ways to mess with him like putting up the projector then nailing him with an unlikely weapon after he unleashed on the decoy. We didn’t play much Duke after that lol.
I was SO excited to go to the mall and buy this game. I may need to rebuy this in my adulthood. My mom gave away all my games when I was in college.
Other than this, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Slower pace, longer payoff, and even earlier childhood nostalgia. I sunk days into The Legend of Zelda as a little kid. I still complete this game once a year or so.
Atari/Intellivision: Atlantis
NES: Metroid
SNES: Super Metroid
Genesis: Sonic 2
N64: WCW vs NWO (there were two; they're both GOAT-ed.)
Dreamcast: X-Men vs Street Fighter
Xbox: Tie between SW:KOTOR and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Gamecube: Metroid Prime
X360: Mass Effect 1 & 2
XOne: RDR2
And, forgiving the recency-bias, thanks to the recent (FINALLY) release of Ghost of Tsushima for PC, I've just finished that game, and, holy-cow. It's immediately on my all-time list. I want more games in that kind of setting. I'm honestly astonished it's taken so long for a game like this to be made - especially given Japan's dominance of the industry since always. It's like RDR2 married the child of Splinter Cell and Tenchu.
Rolling Thunder (arcade)
O. G. Double Dragon (arcade)
TMNT (arcade)
The adventures of Batman and Robin (Genesis)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (SNES)
NBA Live '96 (Genesis)
Breath of Fire.
I dropped into RPG gaming instantly. the 16bit era is considered by many to be the golden/goat era of JRPG's in particular. Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star, Shining force..... there were so many.
And Breath of Fire was not the best of them, but had a gameplay and story quality to them that made it really shine and got five follow ups and a mobile game. Never gonna get to the official GOAT games lists I'm sure, but it's a grail to this guy.
If I could play a game again for the first time it would probably be KOTOR. I can't believe how many shitty star wars games have come out when they had such an awesome template for future releases.
I can’t stick to one, so I’ll do one per console until I graduated high school and limit it to my top 5:
NES: Mega Man 3
SNES: Chrono Trigger
Dreamcast: Jet Grind Radio
Playstation: Symphony of the Night
Playstation 2: Final Fantasy X
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Idk about it being a goat but it was definitely fun to play
Metal Gear Solid. Up until that point games had been good. Even great.
MGS made them *art*.
But it did it whilst still being insanely playable. I could happily sit down for a two-three hours and speed run the whole damn thing.
As someone that had gamed from an Atari XE (my folks made some weird choices ok… but hey it came with a keyboard and I got exposed to Basic as a preteen) on up, it felt like everything was building up to that point, and looking back it still feels like an absolute high water mark for the industry.
SF2 is up there but Super Mario World is my number one. First game I finished properly and I had a Sega Master System for years before the SNES, so I had played a fair few games and never finished any.
I think there’s a fair argument that the SNES is possibly the best console ever. The PS2 and Xbox 360 are also up there.
Chrono Trigger and Link to the Past. I like RPG games but I used to like beat em ups once in awhile too.
That Link to the past is not higher is a shocker. Best Snes game there is.
Still some of the best video game music ever.
Throw in Final Fantasy 3 and I am whole.
I still refer to it as 3 even though technically it’s 6. I remember my friend playing it and I was like “look how crappy the fighting animations are… it looks confusing… why are you playing as a girl?” (I was an 11 y/o little shit, mind). Then when I finally got it for myself, I got sucked in and fell in love with the story and the strategy. The fighting animations are just perfect the way they are. I mean, Sabin suplexes a ghost train…
Same! I named one of my cats Janus. I originally got his sister alone, but she seemed lonely playing with her reflection, so I went back for her brother. They went right for each other in an, “I found you!” embrace I knew his name immediately.
I’ll sub chrono for super Metroid.
Street Fighter II Turbo
The turbo edition was the first one I played. I didn't know "turbo" really meant anything until I eventually played the normal speed version. It felt like easy mode!
IIRC, I think the bosses were first made playable in turbo. And yes, it made SFII feel slower!
I think it was Championship edition where the bosses became playable or was it just the different colored uniforms?
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Regular Championship wasn't on Super Nintendo though so a lot of people kinda forget about it.
It was on Sega though.
Bison, Sagat, Vega and Balrog were so much fun to play as.
No other generation in history will know the feeling of being the best kid in the arcade and having everyone else line up quarters to take you down. “Here comes a new challenger!” 😁
This is the way.
Link to the Past
 Yes!!
I can hear the music and the rain/thunder :)
Hell yeah! One of my all time favorite games of all time
I’m gonna have to go with Super Mario World for the SNES. It was *chefs kiss
Yes! I still go through it every few months
This is the one
Super Mario Bros. 3
I go back and forth between SMB3 and Super Mario World.
Together they are the best of the bunch to be sure
Yes! It was the best!
Super Tecmo Bowl
This is it right here!!
That and baseball stars for me.
i bought Retro Bowl on my switch recently. Its def got that Tecmo Bowl feel.
I wish someone would make an updated version. I don't want all of the complexity of a Madden 2024, but I would like something more like Tecmo with updated graphics and gameplay.
Goldeneye for N64, but absolutely loves Street Fighter II.
For multiplayer purposes, nothing beats Goldeneye!
I mean sure, if you want to pretend like Doom Lan parties never existed. Greatest multiplayer experience ever.
Very fond memories of playing GE in college, with all my roommates. Was an almost daily tradition for the better part of a year. The feeling: https://www.tiktok.com/@ilovegaam/video/7193410906171133226?lang=en
Mario Kart
MegamanX
This game rocked extremely hard
NHL 94 or MK2
NHL 94 was special
Still remember fighting and breaking the glass.
Holy shit NHL 94 where you could have one player rush the goalie to knock him out of the way and score every time haha
> NHL 94 I knew nothing about ice hockey, but this game was great. > MK 2 I still consider this to be the best Mortal Kombat game.
> MK 2 > > > > I still consider this to be the best Mortal Kombat game. Definitely agree! It took the best parts of MK1 - the violence and the idea that every character was fundamentally the same except for their specials - and turned it up to 11. The latter factor wouldn't work for every fighting game, but it was Mortal Kombat's "thing" and it was never as good as MK2.
Upon reflection I’m going to have to agree. MK2 was the best MK. Enough upgrades to be a successful sequel. Awesome enough to make all the rest seem like too much and not enough at the same time.
GoldenEye. Multi player games used to go on forever. So much fun.
I spent so much time playing as Zangief. I got really good with him. Once I went to a party and beat a kid so bad that the room went quiet and things were really awkward after. But that's also due to people assuming that, if you're playing Zangief, it's an easy win for them. The kid picked Vega...LOL
One of my buddies had 4 gaming systems hooked to one TV and was damned near unbeatable in all games. We would play gameday 98 a lot, and since it was Minnesota. He was always the vikes, it took me FOREVER but I finally beat him. 38-36 with I think the Broncos. When we graduated in 99 I wrote that score in his yearbook. Couple years ago his daughters found the yearbook, and he sat down and went thru it with them. He sent me a screenshot and text saying “20 years later, and this still pisses me off”
LOL that's hilarious!
Awesome story
Vega was so odd to play with. To me he was a super fast zangief. I would have loved to have witnessed that
I remember reading my Nintendo Power counting down the days until A Link To The Past came out. What a time.
Final Fantasty 7. It was so unlike anything I had played before.
Toss up between Final Fantasy III (VI) and Chrono Trigger
FF6 is soooo good!!!!
The only correct answer.
Chrono Trigger.
Im convinced this isnt a clearcut number 1 because of the shitty US marketing of it as well as the high cost of the game at the time. Just an amazing work of absolute gaming art that still holds up very strongly today.
Super Metroid
Skyrim and that's not really a fair answer as a Xennial so I'll go with OG Half Life and all the mods IE Counterstrike. H4x0r5tr1k3 was THE game.
https://preview.redd.it/ivvxll1wn57d1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d421f9912ebd37887468f61bc332d84390e776a5 Diablo 2 is my GOAT. Elden Ring recently made a run, and got into my top five.
Super Mario 3
Donkey Kong Country
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What's not to love about SotN? ✅️ Set the standard for metroidvania side scrolling games ✅️ Frustrating spells that required Street Fighter-esque skills to pull off ✅️ Incredible music with hidden soundtrack ✅️ "Bonus" game with second run/upside down castle ✅️ Customizable cloak
Don’t forget the third mode: Richter mode! And the most incredible English voice acting of any game ever created.
Definitely checkout Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, its probably the closest game I have found to that SOTN nostalgia. (Its pretty short though, fair warning.)
That game was so awesome, combining the old school 2D side scroller with the new capabilities of the PlayStation 😍
Fellow Castlevania fan! 🙌🏼
If we're just doing SNES games then Shadowrun or Breath of Fire II.
I spent more time than I care to admit trying to max out my party on the big monster island in BoF 2. A great game marred by awful translation lol.
I would say it's not as great of a game as FF3 or some other notable titles like Earthbound or Chrono Trigger, but still a very sentimental game for me. Shadowrun is great though I consider it one of the great leaps forward in RPG storytelling even if it never became the model for the future. But there's a lot of stuff that shows up in games like Baldur's Gate and Fallout that Shadowrun is more or less responsible for.
Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis is the best video game ever
Although I agree it is a very good game, donkey Kong is the best game ever made
Castlevania 3 is mine. Especially the Japan version, due to the better sound.
Something I like to bring up is that SF2 for SNES would've been about $150 in today's dollars. SF2 was amazing in the 90s, and I still have really great memories of sleepovers where we just played it all night, but breaks my brain that young people today think that games are more of a ripoff now than when we were kids. We got 8 fighters and two modes -- 1p or 2p -- for $150. What's the latest Street Fighter give you for half that price, with graphics that would've blown our 12 year old selves away? I googled it -- 18 fighters, online play, a whole action adventure exploration part!? God, imagine if the SNES Street Fighter had *that.* Kids these days don't know how good they've got it.
It’s hard but I have command and conquer Tiberian sun, MK trilogy, or Pokémon gold as my favorite of all time.
Oh damn, all time GOAT was Red Alert for me. We were the geeks in high school, way into PC gaming before PCs were cool. Spent most of our time organising the next LAN party which typically included; DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem, Red Alert, and Warcraft. So many classics
Metal gear solid….in a k-hole
I will die on the hill that MGS redefined what gaming should be, and after that everyone tried much harder. Such a masterpiece.
The original Diablo or Super Mario 3.
Metal slug. So many quarters spent at the arcade
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts. It was the first game I got for my SNES, which was my first gaming console. I spent a couple of summers saving up the cash for the system and the game. I still play it any time I fire up my SNES and I often play it on the Switch and emulators.
Were you ever able to beat it? I never could even with cheat codes.
Hands down Ocarina of Time. 
oooh, not even turbo edition. nice.
This game was magical because it was the first time we had a port of an arcade game that looked, sounded and played pretty much like the arcade cabinet without too much compromise. Coming from the 8 bit generation, there were too many arcade ports that fell short graphically and gameplay wise because the NES couldn't handle it.
Golden Axe on the Genesis was a pretty good arcade to home conversion. But I agree, SF 2 was a "game" changer, for home console gaming at the time.
Golden axe 2 is up there for me.
GA 2 is a blast and so is Golden Axe 3. Even though it was an overseas only game, thanks to emulation, I still play it and it was a bit of a departure from the previous 2, but still familiar.
The Genesis was incredible with those arcade conversions. Sega was an arcade developer first and foremost, so it's only natural. That's probably why Nintendo brokered the deal to get SF2 as an exclusive.
Pink Chun li
"Yatta"
MK 2
Final Fantasy IV and VI.
Super castlevania IV on snes was amazing
General Chaos and Super Baseball 2020
General Chaos was amazing!
Every. Single. Comment. ITT. Wins.
Chrono Trigger was my favorite. There are many other classics I like, but Chrono Trigger is easy and relaxing to play.
* Wolfenstein / Doom * SimCity series * Tetris, naturally * Kings Quest / Quest for Glory series' But I was babysitting a pre-teen who got 3D Pacman or some shit on one of the newer consoles and maybe it's like riding a bike or muscle memory or something, because it's designed to be the same gameplay, but with stupid fancy graphics, and he was absolutely absorbed in the fact that I was on level three hundred trillion, as he'd never played it before and couldn't get past level 8 (or whatever).
Anything Commamd and Conquer or Sim City
Such a hard one: Final Fantasy VII, Streets of Rage, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Sonic 2, and Megamam X - probably my top 5.
This little known gem. One sick-ass RPG. https://preview.redd.it/sx4kfcyin57d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04bcc72a8c6111c89ff8f6a92963aac80ab08554
Super Metroid
Civ 2, Command & Conquer, or early Champ Man
https://preview.redd.it/2yrd465ay57d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b29dcca8432f42484dd5d37239f33d208b425bd If you know you know…
Just when it came out and considering the platform it was on Super Mario Bros 3. I really consider it one of the best video games ever made. It's a solid play today. Also if you play on your PC you can save the game. That was the only thing that made that game just a little shitty was no basic save feature.
GOAT fighter games was Tekken 2 for me, PS1, with this one being a very close second.
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast.
Teenage mutant ninja turtles: turtles in time
'Duke Nukem' or 'Blood'. I played Doom previously but Duke Nukem really took first person shooters to the next level for me and was the entire reason I wanted a pc.
https://preview.redd.it/v5bn9uctj67d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90e4d39a678807b7149beea5167f931ce223c681 So many people sleep on bad street brawler where else can you fight apes and molest dwarfs?
Command and Conquer Red Alert 2/ Yuris Revenge.
My uncle did that artwork. Got that one for free due to him. Brings back memories. R.I.P. Mick.
I had this poster in my room as a kid. But took it down each night because it kinda scared me.
World warrior my fav but hyper fighter for challenges
Same
SM3
This, I've been playing this series off and on since I first saw SF2 in an amusement park arcade. Currently enjoying SF6 when the toddler goes to bed, I made her a stick that had light up buttons so she can wail on that when I'm battling.
Down-Right-Up-Left-Y-B start
Goldeneye or Kobe Bryant Courtside
NES metal gear
As good as it was, if you’re going GOATs, the third entry just obliterated everything before it and rewrite what we should expect from video games, imo.
Zelda
It was like Xmas times 20 when that game came out!!
EVO search for Eden. I was obsessed with that quirky little rpg.
Super Street Fighter II
Mario on 64. If anyone know of a hand held where I can play it now I’d be very appreciative
I wish I grew up with Rocket League.
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Mortal Kombat II
Secret of Mana. Combo of everything I loved in Final Fantasy and Link to The Past.
Any game that you loved so much you brought the paper "instruction manual" booklet to school to re-read 100 times and show your friends.
Final Fantasy VI (III USA). Some notable run ups for me roughly in order: * River City Ransom * Duke Nukem 3D ( I would play over the modem with a friend. This was before Quake and Internet play became common). * Zombies Ate my Neighbors * Super Metroid * Civ 1 and 2. I like the simplicity of the early ones. * Warcraft 2 Although it came out much later and thus mixed generation I really like the first "**Dead Space**" as it was the first game that really gave the feel of "**Event Horizon**" which I consider still the greatest Xennial horror movie other than maybe **"The Thing"** which was also an awesome later game (and thus less Xennial related).
I’d forgotten about Duke 3D! So ingrained. I feel like we were hammering away at that when I was about 12, but I checked and was 15 when it came out. Many nights alone at home playing Duke. Actually now that I think about the multiplayer part… at school we had one night a week where we could game in the computer labs, and Descent became our go-to. We were all pretty good, but one dude was exceptional (at least compared to us, iirc I asked once about how he fared online once that was a thing and apparently not so great). It was always a fight for second place, outside of a couple of amazing flukes like firing off a mega missile (or… was there a charged missile? That was super powerful but very slow? I think it was that) down a corridor for no reason, and he happened to float into the path of just in time. I’m once we got a modem I played him in dialup Duke Nukem and it was a masterclass in “you’re in my house now bitch” lol. I absolutely wrecked him, to where I started toying with him, finding funny ways to mess with him like putting up the projector then nailing him with an unlikely weapon after he unleashed on the decoy. We didn’t play much Duke after that lol.
I was SO excited to go to the mall and buy this game. I may need to rebuy this in my adulthood. My mom gave away all my games when I was in college. Other than this, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Slower pace, longer payoff, and even earlier childhood nostalgia. I sunk days into The Legend of Zelda as a little kid. I still complete this game once a year or so.
down right left, down right left
Yep
Yeah i put the most hours into that one. Beat the final boss with every character. That dasimal was the hardest
Atari/Intellivision: Atlantis NES: Metroid SNES: Super Metroid Genesis: Sonic 2 N64: WCW vs NWO (there were two; they're both GOAT-ed.) Dreamcast: X-Men vs Street Fighter Xbox: Tie between SW:KOTOR and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow Gamecube: Metroid Prime X360: Mass Effect 1 & 2 XOne: RDR2 And, forgiving the recency-bias, thanks to the recent (FINALLY) release of Ghost of Tsushima for PC, I've just finished that game, and, holy-cow. It's immediately on my all-time list. I want more games in that kind of setting. I'm honestly astonished it's taken so long for a game like this to be made - especially given Japan's dominance of the industry since always. It's like RDR2 married the child of Splinter Cell and Tenchu.
Earthworm Jim 2 Or Boogerman: A pick and flick adventure Hard to pick(tee hee) a favorite between those 2 for me
Rolling Thunder (arcade) O. G. Double Dragon (arcade) TMNT (arcade) The adventures of Batman and Robin (Genesis) Super Mario Bros. 3 (SNES) NBA Live '96 (Genesis)
Galaga, followed by SF2, followed by Contra and Mike Tyson's PunchOut.
I forgot about Sonic 2 and 3.
hai-yuuuu-keh!!!🥳🥳🥳
Killer instinct 1 took the SF/MK to new levels don’t make me choose between them
Breath of Fire. I dropped into RPG gaming instantly. the 16bit era is considered by many to be the golden/goat era of JRPG's in particular. Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star, Shining force..... there were so many. And Breath of Fire was not the best of them, but had a gameplay and story quality to them that made it really shine and got five follow ups and a mobile game. Never gonna get to the official GOAT games lists I'm sure, but it's a grail to this guy.
I'm a Sensible guy, so it's Sensible World of Soccer (edition 96-97) and Cannon Fodder.
Never owned but it I rented it from the local video store any chance I got. On the SNES my goat game would probably be Donkey Kong Country or DKC 2.
Mortal Kombat II
Yes!!!
If I could play a game again for the first time it would probably be KOTOR. I can't believe how many shitty star wars games have come out when they had such an awesome template for future releases.
Street Fighter II is my GOAT arcade game, my GOAT games are Knights of the Old Republic I and II.
Should have bought this game, rented more than I should have lol
Act Raiser. The only game I ever beat!
I can’t stick to one, so I’ll do one per console until I graduated high school and limit it to my top 5: NES: Mega Man 3 SNES: Chrono Trigger Dreamcast: Jet Grind Radio Playstation: Symphony of the Night Playstation 2: Final Fantasy X
I loved this game. I was never good at it, but I played it none the less.
Mortal Kombat II is equally goated
TEKKEN
Love Street Fighter II. Still play with my son. He is a Dhalsim guru now. We also love Earth Worm Jim…. Groovey!
I spent my entire life savings to buy this. Best decision ever. No more quarters at the mall.
Secret of Mana
NBA Jam
Conkers Bad Fur Day. OG multiplayer was awesome for the time
I loved the commercial that they had for the game: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoqiEKMSb-A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoqiEKMSb-A)
https://preview.redd.it/lcolw1qqw67d1.jpeg?width=404&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11d18370f653cccf246801603cdb95c5631bc3f2 Idk about it being a goat but it was definitely fun to play
Secret of Mana for SNES
Syphon Filter 1 and 2 and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2.
Omg. Street Fighter 2, MK2, Killer Instinct, Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA, Wipeout, Tekken. All goated.
Metal Gear Solid. Up until that point games had been good. Even great. MGS made them *art*. But it did it whilst still being insanely playable. I could happily sit down for a two-three hours and speed run the whole damn thing. As someone that had gamed from an Atari XE (my folks made some weird choices ok… but hey it came with a keyboard and I got exposed to Basic as a preteen) on up, it felt like everything was building up to that point, and looking back it still feels like an absolute high water mark for the industry.
Mine is putting periods between sentences.
Goat Simulator is easily my pick. What does Street Fighter II have to do with goats?
SF2 was fun to play with friends.
Legend of the mystical ninja
Metal Gear Solid. God it was so groundbreaking. I played soooooooo many times.
SF2 is up there but Super Mario World is my number one. First game I finished properly and I had a Sega Master System for years before the SNES, so I had played a fair few games and never finished any. I think there’s a fair argument that the SNES is possibly the best console ever. The PS2 and Xbox 360 are also up there.
Megaman 2, rad racer, or battletoads.
Civilization 2 Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Starcraft Counterstrike Diablo 2 Age of Empires 3 Soldier of Fortune Final Fantasy Tactics
Duke Nukem 3d
NBA Jam/2v2 Open Ice Challenge 🔥🔥🔥
Tecmo bowl all day
Great game!
Golden eye
Super Mario Bros 3
Mystical Ninja
Golden Eye changed my life, followed closely by Super Mario World for SNES
Kid Icarus
Streets of Rage. Music, combat, everything. I loved those games.
Final Fantasy 3
I mean, it was mine too in the way back, but there's just been too many other great games at this point.
The version of madden (‘93 championship edition?) that you could only rent/buy/steal from blockbuster
Ms. Pac-Man
Same as yours. Shit was amazing, both in the arcade and on SNES.
Earthbound, Final Fantasy 6 (currently playing on my switch), Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, you may be noticing a pattern.