Games That Had a Big Impact on Your Childhood That Other TNL'ers Didn't Play

Besides the obvious console mainstays, I was always on the ol' Packard Bell playing shareware versions of Apogee and id games.

Raptor: Call of the Shadows was a big one. I found it full version on 3.5" diskette at Babbage's! It's a vertical shooter for people that like to level things up. Your plane starts fairly weak, but eventually you get so damn powerful you can decimate everything from seven directions.



Commander Keen was another favorite. Episode 4: Goodbye Galaxy was my favorite. Classic platformer with goofy characters. I've gone on about it plenty of times before.

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Last but not least is Halloween Harry, later renamed to Alien Carnage. Pretty violent for its time! Best thing about it now, though, is it's free! Link and fun history lesson here.

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1284431611

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Raptor: Call of the Shadows was a big one. I found it full version on 3.5" diskette at Babbage's! It's a vertical shooter for people that like to level things up. Your plane starts fairly weak, but eventually you get so damn powerful you can decimate everything from seven directions.

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Yes!

I totally played the bejesus out of this game on my family's first PC (a 386, I believe). It was the game that made me get my first PC pad because I couldn't stand playing it with our shitty joystick or the keyboard.

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Venture for Colecovision. My brother and I put so many hours into this that we fried the AC adapter.

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Phoenix (arcade). Best arcade shooter ever! I pumped so many quarters into this back in second grade. There was a grocery store right next to my school, and my bro and I used to walk to school extra early to buy candy and play this. Awesome game.

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The Ninja (Master System)

I never knew you had to find all the secret scrolls in order to finally get to the princess. For years I played this fucking game and never beat it.

Shadowgate (NES)

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I don't know how much of TNL played Shadowgate, but I didn't know anyone else who played it when I was a kid. I found it to be a really interesting gaming experience at the time because most of what I knew before it was jumping, shooting, punching, kicking, etc. on a linear path to victory.

Shadowgate provided choices of action that had consequences. Of course, we all know now that there was usually only one correct choice in each situation, with the other choices resulting in death. However, at the time, I found the premise really cool, and it lead me to seek out other point-and-click type games, like Deja Vu and Uninvited.

I've always wanted to play Beyond Shadowgate for the TG-16 CD. I played Shadowgate 64 and really liked it. It was a rental, and I've not seen a copy in the wild since. I'd really like to play that one again.

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Shadowgate (NES)

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I don't know how much of TNL played Shadowgate, but I didn't know anyone else who played it when I was a kid. I found it to be a really interesting gaming experience at the time because most of what I knew before it was jumping, shooting, punching, kicking, etc. on a linear path to victory.

Shadowgate provided choices of action that had consequences. Of course, we all know now that there was usually only one correct choice in each situation, with the other choices resulting in death. However, at the time, I found the premise really cool, and it lead me to seek out other point-and-click type games, like Deja Vu and Uninvited.

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my mom and I beat shadowgate, deja vu and the uninvited together when I was a youngin'

edit: and sort of related, but prior to that I used to play the shit out of Mask of the Sun on the old tank ][e computer

Yes! Raptor! I played the hell out of the shareware but never played the full game.

I used to play a lot of Below the Root on my friend's old ass pc. Such an odd, wonderful game.

Also, for something not mentioned yet, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game. The game was fun, and all the stuff that came with it was hilarious.

Brave Fencer Musashi. It was my teen years, but still, if there's anyone on this forum that hasn't played this you're missing out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPgsT9qCjrs

Most of my childhood was early 70's arcade games, CBM and Pong. In my teens, I was introduced to my first real computer RPG called Phantasie (C64). Everyone I knew had a pirated copy, so it was necessary to have a backup to this game, because there was one level where the game would save and sometimes corrupt the disc. I never finished the game because of that glitch.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/phantasie

I use to love Atlantis on the Atari 2600. Don't think I ever fully understood it, but loved it nonetheless.

I just spent the last two hours trying to find the name of it, but there was an old arcade game I use to play as a kid where you would control a car (who I think wore a backwards hat) with a left joystick and his arms with a right joystick in order to grab fruit and gas. The objective was to stay on the road, not crash into other cars or obstacles, and park into your home's garage at the end of each level. If anyone has any clue which game I'm talking about I'd love to know it's name!