InterruptorJones wrote:
Gragh you people make me feel old!

If it makes you feel better, I wasn't going to list anything post 1996 (this being the year that the Playstation launched and the year that I stopped keeping up with modern games)
Uh, let's see...
1 - Jet Set Willy II (C64)
- - - basically an expanded version of JSW1 (an off-beat platform game in which Willy, a miner turned millionaire, must clean up his junk-strewn mansion or his exasperated cleaner Maria won't let him go to bed) rather than a genuine sequel. This originally came out on the ZX Spectrum, and there's a significant fan-community still creating edited versions of JSW1 and its prequel Manic Miner on that system today. However, I first encountered it through this game, on the C64, so for me that's the definitive game
2 - Sonic 1 through S3NK (Genesis)
- - - All the early Sonic games were awesome in my opinion. Shame they killed it for me when they went to 3D. If the Playstation was the system where I lost touch with modern games, the Dreamcast was the point where I decisively slammed the door shut
Hmm, I should have a non-platformer in here...
3 - Katakis (Amiga)
- - - I could probably fill my top twenty with platformers if I tried, but here's a classy shoot-'em-up from Factor 5, the geniuses (mainly Manfred Trenz) who also gave us Turrican 1 and 2. It's basically a variant on R-Type, but again I knew it long before I knew the original and, as such, is the definitive version for me
I don't think I've told this story here - I've told it on a dozen other forums, I know that - but when I was a kid I used to love watching my brother playing videogames. I thought it was better than any cinema. Then I spent a lot of time dedicated to playing games myself (which probably accounts for my slack social skills), then as my interest in playing them waned I've found myself going back to the old tradition of watching other people play them. Given the increasingly cinematic nature of modern games like Silent Hill, I imagine this is oddly fitting