The video game that 'changed your life'

vfaqvrf 2024-10-26 19:16:36 UTC #21

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EncryptedWriting 2024-10-26 19:24:34 UTC #22

ThunderChicken 2024-10-26 19:47:42 UTC #23

By 2024 standards it's lame, but by 1984 standards it was awesome, and it had a really cool soundtrack. The game that I have fondest memories of would be Gyruss. It actually features in episode 25 of Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days.

Here is a video of somebody playing Gyruss (remember, this was 1984, so don't expect great graphics or complicated gameplay). This is not my video (actually, I was much better at the game than this guy):

And here is a video of the song that the game's soundtrack was modeled after. It is a disco version of the classical Bach song Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, performed by a group called Sky. The video game's use of this song was groundbreaking at the time given the limitations of video game hardware 40 years ago.

And I may or may not have a minor crush on the drummer. I have a thing for nerds. And he looks like he's having a great old time playing those drums!

abigaillmartin 2024-10-26 19:48:47 UTC #24

Are you kidding? This isn’t lame! This is neat!

Or maybe I’m just a nerd.

BellaTheCow 2024-10-26 19:54:11 UTC #25

Every Mario game definitely changed my life.

Calculus_Homework 2024-10-26 20:06:04 UTC #26

This was my first video game ever. Huge impact on my 7-year-old baby brain. xD

StarFox Adventures made me go to school for game design. LOL

And the whole Zelda franchise was something that resonated with me a lot. (Ocarina was my first from the series.)

briyosan 2024-10-26 22:56:00 UTC #27

lucky! i never owned a DS. the last pokemon game i played was Ruby & Sapphire lol

Stargazer31 2024-10-26 22:58:40 UTC #28

Either Professor Layton or Team Fortress 2

EncryptedWriting 2024-10-27 01:38:05 UTC #29

When I was 11 my old best friend left her DSi at my house and I may have used it for awhile.

Then my parents got me a 3ds for my birthday and it was history from then.

Amalockh1 2024-10-27 04:00:58 UTC #30

Catacomb Escape, my life was never the same after witnessing such masterpiece.

Lensing 2024-10-27 04:34:48 UTC #31

Imagine it´s 1987, you are 12 and only know video games from the arcade or
when your older brother lets you play on his Atari 2600.
I didn´t have a computer or a game console myself and only rich kids
had real computers like the Commodore 64. My best friend (at that time)
had a C64 and he said he had a new game and that he never saw something
like that. It was Maniac Mansion, a funny point and click adventure. Everything
about it was amazing, the options you had in the game, the humour, the theme,
gameplay and then you could choose and even switch between the characters
during the game. I was sure at that time that they will never be able to produce
a better game than this
Knd of changed my life and is definitely one of my top ten typical 80s memories

GothickangelStudios 2024-10-28 01:35:08 UTC #32

I grew up with Atari, Arcade and Nintendo. I have favourites with them all.
But Pokemon when it came out was like 0.o Been obsessed with it and the merch since it came to Canada in the mid 90s.

Favourite PC single player game is Soul Reaver.

Favourite MMORPG is Perfect World (International now) Can play retro or modern version. I prefer the 2007 version.

toonben 2024-10-28 02:04:10 UTC #33

If there's a video game that changed my life. Super Mario 64 obviously since it's the first game I've ever played. Other contenders for life-changing games: Fallout 3 (insanely addicted to it when I was a high school senior), Skyrim, and Red Dead Redemption 2.