What were the games you loved as a kid?
I am collecting the ones I can find, most are abandon-ware now… Companies went bankrupt so hard that no one owns the rights to most of the games:
1: Snail mail
2: flynoid
3: Inseqauiram Delux
4: feeding frenzy 2
5: Chicken invaders 3
6:Dinos and aliens
7:Heavy Weapons Delux
8:AstroPop
9:Axys Adventure
10: Red Ace Squadron
and I am sure theres more but this is some of my peak memories.
hows about you?
Sorry to say, I actually don’t recognize any of those. What system were they played on?
They were all for pc (win7)
its ok you dont recognize any of them- everyones childhood games are going to be different.
Does Real Arcade, Wild Tangent, Sandlot Games, PopCap games, and Bigfish games ring any bells?
also if you dont mind some link spam:
Realspace 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esLHY7FeRq8
Snail Mail
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/snail-mail-kwt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4tOYIt2Vhbo&pp=ygUNc25haWwgbWFpbCBwYw%3D%3D
Feeding frenzy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2QE-7HEtNI&pp=ygUOZmVlZGluZyBmcmVuenk%3D
Astropop Deluxe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CCBvIrt08JI&pp=ygUOYXN0cm9wb3AgZGVsdXg%3D
Magic ball 3
https://www.bigfishgames.com/magicball-f110t1l1.html?page=1
https://www.bigfishgames.com/magic-ball-3-f1347t1l4.html?page=1
magic ball 1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=joIB-SWs9Gg&pp=ygUPbWFnaWMgYmFsbCAxIHBj
Aquarium deluxe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U04weIAra20&pp=ygURaW5zZXFhdXJpYW0gZGVsdXg%3D
Atomic tank
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CwbBa19Xcnk
Dino and Aliens.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7VWuH8RF5xk&pp=ygUSZGlubyBhbmQgYWxpZW5zIHBj
super cow
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ejohmd0GG-E&pp=ygUMc3VwZXIgY293IHBj
flynoid
https://youtu.be/_MiqEp6urzI
My childhood games were played in arcades.
Tank Battle, Defender, Asteroids, Qix, etc.
classics!
I don’t recognize any of those titles either.
Dig-Dug is an absolute masterpiece.
Mario / Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Tetris for NES
Oh yeah we had a NES as kids, it was my dads. we had super mario bros 3, starwars, pictionary, Godzilla, paperboy and Star Tropics.
If it were legal id emulate NES games (starting with Star Tropics) in a heartbeat and never need to buy steam games again. lol!
I recognize none of those games. But after I looked at two YouTube videos, I quickly realized that when those games were available, I was working 14 hours a day with an 80,000 pound guided missile, trying to avoid low IQ types who believe brake checking has zero consequences.
Games when I was young consisted of “Get out of the house, go play outside, and don’t come back in until noon! And don’t pull the cows tails!”
We played on parked farm machinery and in the barn. Farm machinery has plenty of sharp edges and points. We survived. The way things are going, I am 100% convinced that almost anyone under age 50 would instantly die if they were exposed to those conditions.
Did I mention all the cow manure on the manure pile?
Winter? On Saturdays, “Get out of the house, go play in the barn, and don’t come back in until noon!”
That lasted until we were old enough to start doing farm chores. About age six.
that sounds really nice- and muscle building. I think kids were more responsible and expected to not be stupid back then.
Yeah, I think so too.
I wonder what the story is behind this warning- who tried it and found out lol
We were poorer, and had an NES after the SNES and Genesis launched. Megaman 2 was my jam - when we got the SNES, I loved the Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy 2.
When Sonic 2 came out, I bought a Genesis and that with paper route money. I still love the Sonic series, the original Genesis games are still brilliant. Along with Phantasy Star, that’s a series Sega shows absolutely no love to today.
Back then if kids did something stupid, they found out the hard way. It was the oddball kid who didn’t have stitches by age 10. Especially boys.
My younger brother would pull the cow’s tail. Why? Make the cow move faster. Amazing he never got kicked. Every day the two of us had to go out to the pasture, round up the cows, and get them to the barn for milking.
A quick look at the list - I believe those were all browser/flash based games.
My first batch of “computer games” were all played on the Atari 2600 back in the 70s.
Still have it actually 
sounds nice! Iived in the suburbs for a while till I got a chance in the last few years to live on a homestead, its a totally different life!
its been a wonderful experience.
What it imposed was a very strong work ethic. Especially when getting closer to being a teen. There was always something that needed to be done. Even in winter there was firewood waiting to be split or dead tree to be cut up and hauled. Such a strong work ethic is that I noticed most city kids never quite grasped. While they were playing football, basketball and so on at the high school, I was at home dealing in milk cows.
If there was free time on a Sunday afternoon, Sheepshead was played. With a large family and relatives getting together on Sunday afternoons in winter, a game was bound to get started.
The advantage I had but I didn’t know it at the time was with being taught a very strong work ethic, I would never turn down extra tasks at work when I got older. While the owner of the shop loved this, other employees seen it as trying to make them look bad. I can’t make anyone look bad. I can only make myself look bad. Later in life when driving a truck, I never turned down a load and always took care of emergency recoveries when asked.