I was flipping through and caught the final show.  It really took me back.

The top 5 were:

5: Tetris
4: Astroids
3: Bioshock
2: Zelda - Link To The Past
1: Super Mario Brothers

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/724839/g4-counts-down-the-top-100-video-games-of-all-time/

After Pong, I quit playing, till Atari came up with it's game box and I was hooked on tanks.
I really hated Mario bros and am glad to see it has come to an end, making room for better games.

My Sears version of the Atari 2600 was the bees' knees back in the day. ASTEROIDS was the game! I loved Asteroids so much... I took an old "parson's table" top -- basically a piece of laminate-covered particle board about 18 inches square -- and mounted three things to it. I took an Atari 2600 joystick apart and figured a way to screw on to the board. I talked my office-supply repair guy buddy into bringing home a key switch from an old-style desktop calculator, and mounted it on the board and wired it into the fire-button circuitry on the joystick. And finally, I drilled a small hole in the bottom of a black bakelite ashtray and screwed that puppy to the board too.

I could rotate and aim with my right hand, hammer the rocks into smaller rocks with my left hand on the calculator button, and keep control of my smokes, all at the same time!

Ah, college days.

Quote from: tbone0106 on June 16, 2012, 09:10:31 PM
My Sears version of the Atari 2600 was the bees' knees back in the day. ASTEROIDS was the game! I loved Asteroids so much... I took an old "parson's table" top -- basically a piece of laminate-covered particle board about 18 inches square -- and mounted three things to it. I took an Atari 2600 joystick apart and figured a way to screw on to the board. I talked my office-supply repair guy buddy into bringing home a key switch from an old-style desktop calculator, and mounted it on the board and wired it into the fire-button circuitry on the joystick. And finally, I drilled a small hole in the bottom of a black bakelite ashtray and screwed that puppy to the board too.

I could rotate and aim with my right hand, hammer the rocks into smaller rocks with my left hand on the calculator button, and keep control of my smokes, all at the same time!

Ah, college days.

Nice!  I had a lot of fun with the 2600...  What was your favorite game?

Quote from: tbone0106 on June 16, 2012, 09:10:31 PM
My Sears version of the Atari 2600 was the bees' knees back in the day. ASTEROIDS was the game! I loved Asteroids so much... I took an old "parson's table" top -- basically a piece of laminate-covered particle board about 18 inches square -- and mounted three things to it. I took an Atari 2600 joystick apart and figured a way to screw on to the board. I talked my office-supply repair guy buddy into bringing home a key switch from an old-style desktop calculator, and mounted it on the board and wired it into the fire-button circuitry on the joystick. And finally, I drilled a small hole in the bottom of a black bakelite ashtray and screwed that puppy to the board too.

I could rotate and aim with my right hand, hammer the rocks into smaller rocks with my left hand on the calculator button, and keep control of my smokes, all at the same time!

Ah, college days.

Anyone that would put that much focus and effort into Asteroids, wasn't dating girls, NERD!

My personal Top Five:

5. "Tomb Raider 2"
4. "Tetris"
3. "Super Mario Bros. 2"
2. "Tekken 2"
1. "Resident Evil 2"

Quote from: Jasmine on June 18, 2012, 04:35:36 PM
My personal Top Five:

5. "Tomb Raider 2"
4. "Tetris"
3. "Super Mario Bros. 2"
2. "Tekken 2"
1. "Resident Evil 2"

One of my best friends was a hard core gamer and played Tekken 2 all the time.  When we were roommates years ago, and he always got me to play him, but would just end up stomping me to where it wasn't fun any more....  I miss those days...

Quote from: taxed on June 16, 2012, 12:12:19 AM
I was flipping through and caught the final show.  It really took me back.

The top 5 were:

5: Tetris
4: Astroids
3: Bioshock
2: Zelda - Link To The Past
1: Super Mario Brothers

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/724839/g4-counts-down-the-top-100-video-games-of-all-time/

Yeah, well clearly there are some Zelda fans over at G4, wouldn't you say? THREE Zelda titles in the top ten?

Other shockers:

• Ms. PacMan makes the list, but not the original PacMan?
• Wolfenstein 3D, one of the greatest and most important PC games ever, the literal model and progenitor of the Doom series, the Quake series, and every other PC-based 3D FPS since 1992, comes in at #64? WTF?
• Not one single flight simulator? Um, where is European Air War or Battle of Britain 2?
• I can't believe they left out BattleZone. It was released for the Atari 2600 (on which it sucked), but the original arcade game was AWESOME, especially the stand-up machine. Just as important in its day as was Wolfenstein 3D ten years later as a seminal 3D FPS.
• No Battlefield titles? No Medal of Honor titles?

Quote from: taxed on June 18, 2012, 05:53:17 PM
One of my best friends was a hard core gamer and played Tekken 2 all the time.  When we were roommates years ago, and he always got me to play him, but would just end up stomping me to where it wasn't fun any more....  I miss those days...

I usually played as "Jun Kazama" because she had this cool move that I managed to perfect. I also liked playing as that Tiger King guy, because he had all the great wrestling moves. I also enjoyed the "Mortal Kombat" and "Dead or Alive" games. I wasn't into "Street Fighter," tho'.

Super Mario
Pitfall
Crystal castles
Vanguard

I am old school all the way

Painkiller
WipeOut 2047
Unreal Tournament (all versions)
Doom and Quake series
Gauntlet

Quote from: Bruce Lombardo, author on September 12, 2012, 01:00:47 AM
Painkiller
WipeOut 2047
Unreal Tournament (all versions)
Doom and Quake series
Gauntlet

I used to love playing Quake on line, always down loading new maps to play on, had a great community of people.
Then everyone started getting DSL and I looked like a corpse on the roadside because my connection was so slow.

I'll check out Wipe Out 2047 next, never heard of it.