By pure numbers, mine has got to be GTA San Andreas since I only had a PS2 for the longest time. I think that might be why I kinda hate games now? Buying a new game and you get maybe a couple dozen hours if you're lucky kinda sucks. Oh it's just a campaign of like 9 missions? And the missions are pretty linear? idk man, might be worth like $10 but definitely not fullprice $60 or even half off $30.

• Space Invaders I feel like I should include one of the classic games I played in the 80s. You never forget your first, and I played this more than any others and it influenced my career as an adult. However I think 10 mile hike, burger time, breakout and pacman are better.
• Heroes of Might and Magic 3 My room mates would hotseat games while watching movies. A lot of fond memories
• Factorio Probably played more than any other game
• Golden Axe Warrior Not to be confused with Golden Axe. This was a Zelda clone on the Sega Master System. One of the best games on that platform IMO.
• Boulders gate 1 Besides golden axe warrior the only other RPG I really got into. Unfortunately I wiped my hard drive with a game that I had been playing for months and I just couldn't get back into it after that.

Baulders gate on ps2 was my introduction into RPG and a bonding experience with my aunts ex.

GTA 1 was my escape from an abusive house

Tony hawk kept me from getting picked on for my gaming choices

Smash bros had me bonding with my closest friends

NBA street helped me and my brother escape from our parents.

Pokémon, wow, final fantasy tactic advanced, harvest moon, civilization I guess ?

Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Space Invaders (on an Atari 2600), Tempest and Pitfall!

In chronological order

1. Breakout
2. Oregon Trail
3. The Secret of Monkey Island
4. Sonic Spinball
5. FF8

There are so many more but these were all big moments. Ugh I didn't even mention the IBM golf game or Carmen San Diego, I think I need to do this list based on the systems we had.

Mine is:

• Legend of zelda, a link to the past (snes)
• Super mario bros (nes)
• Tetris (nes)
• rock n roll racing (snes)
• street fighter 2 (snes)

...

• secret of mana, terranigma, kevin alone at home, there are so many before I even get to the more modern games. I haven't even reached command and conquer 1&2 yet or starcraft or diablo1 or 2.

Pretty much every Sierra franchise.

Warcraft, C&C, Street fighter two turbo, and final fantasy!

GTA: San Andreas and NFSU2. But not for the reasons you think. They were the first games that I could play on my school laptop. It was super slow (amd A6 1450 Apu, 4 gb ram) and those ran perfectly fine.

Zelda II The Adventure of Link

Super Metroid

Another World / Out of This World

Myst

Doom

Honorable mention goes to Super Mario Land.

In no particular order and with limited time thinking about it:

• Kirby Super Star
• Mario Sunshine
• Sonic Adventure (1 & 2 if I may)
• Guitar Hero
• Zelda: Link to the Past

My first console was a NES I inherited, but the first console gotten for me was a SNES, and the first console I received new in box was a GameCube. PS2 underrepresented in this list although Guitar Hero was on there and that game was wildly important for getting me more interested in music in general.

Halo >!because I played it with my older sister!<

Skyrim >!because it reminded me that I like RPGs!<

RuneScape >!because it taught me that I like RPGs!<

Minecraft >!because I played it with my little brother!<

DOOM >!because I was young and too scared to play it myself, but my mom enjoyed gaming sometimes, and watching her play are happy memories!<

• Super Mario 64

• Pilot Wings 64

• Balloons Tower Defense

• Portal 2

• Banjo Kazooie: nuts and bolts (I dont care if it killed the franchise, I really enjoyed this game)

• Super mario bros 3
• RuneScape
• Commander Keen (all of the series)
• Age of Empires
• Grand theft auto

No order:

•Chrono Trigger •FFVII •Panzer Dragoon Saga •GTA3 •EverQuest •(Street Fighter Alpha 2 is up there too)

Am I young or everyone else old?

• Super Mario Bros
• Delta Force
• Unreal tournament 99
• GTA San Andreas
• NFS Underground 2

Games that i bonded with my siblings playing growing up. Our lives would have not been the same without them.

Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, Xena Warrior Princess, Going Quackers, Pokémon Stadium

• super mario world
• doom
• age of empires 2
• RuneScape
• world of warcraft (only started it as young adult though)

I was in high school when I bought my first console, so it's pretty much just Landstalker and Phantasy Star IV.

• super Mario world
• earthbound
• Mario kart 64
• halo 2
• modern warfare

• Commander keen

• Wingnuts

• Burn:Cycle

• Myst

• Duke Nukem (the first one but also 3D)

Wingnuts was a dumb fmv 'dog fighting' game, but when you beat it you could play it again with silly dialogue. I also remember when setting up the sound card the test audio was a guy saying 'ah veiners, just ze vay I like zem!' In a bad German accent.

Burn:Cycle was an fmv adventure game that I adored, it also came with a sound track cd and a little packet of leaflets based on in game stuff that was really cool. I still listen to the ost on occasion

Lego Star Wars

Discworld

Unreal Tournament

Doom

Halo

Man, this is hard to narrow down.

• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• Dungeon Siege II
• Guild Wars
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Battlefield 3

• Sims 3

• Skyrim

• Animal Crossing New Leaf

• Cities: Skyline

• Sims 2

So I don't really feel that old when reading the notes, I do however apologise to anyone having an age crisis reading this.

Most important?

Morrowind.

I was already playing it, when a pack of dogs killed my two geese. One had a broken neck, the other had its guts spilling out.

I'm convinced that Morrowind helped me through my depression, and prevented me from becoming suicidal.

But I also like Drakan: Order of the Flame, Little Big Adventure 2, Dune 2, and Warcraft 1.

-Copy Kitty

-Undertale

-Super Smash Bros. (4 & Ultimate)

-Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

-Fantasy Life

• Starcraft
• Age of Empires 2
• Freddi Fish
• Pokemon yellow
• Zelda Ocarina of Time

• Pacman (bar arcade game with joysticks on the top and bottom, my mom worked there so I was often there during the day)
• Civilization 1
• The Incredible Machine
• Super Mario Bros.
• Duke Nukem 3D (Learned the commands to call a friend on my modem and then boot up duke3d.exe and play multiplayer, all from DOS)

• Dune 2, C&C and RA
• Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3
• Pokemon gen 1 and 2
• Warcraft 2 and 3
• Diablo 1 and 2

Lots of honourable mentions though.

• Doom, Doom 2 and Hexen
• Sonic 2, 3 and Knuckles
• Wow
• Counterstrike 1.6 and Source
• Half life and all the sequels
• Xmen and Xmen 2 (Sega)
• Gta 1, 2, 3 and Vice City
• FF7

Lemmings. Prince of Persia. Doom. Tomb Raider 1. Gran Turismo.

Commander Keen

Neverhood

Earthbound

Super Mario World

Secret of Mana

Twisted Metal 2 Final Fantasy 7 Legend of Dragoon Final Fantasy 8 Hydro Thunder

• Star Fox 64, for sure
• Half Life was a very big deal for me. Couldn't finish it when I was 8 because it was too scary, and it felt absolutely amazing coming back at 15 and blowing through it.
• Turok 2 seeds of evil. Didn't play it outside of using the cheats. It was basically a gore Sim for me.
• LoZ series was a very big deal.
• Much later, Armored Core 4 and 4A would make me obsessed with good mech gameplay.

Man, it's hard stratifying games you care about, especially when you have a massive log of them that all impacted you in one way or another. There were a bunch of free Linux games that I have very fond memories of too, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Abuse, etc. Also a bunch of weird niche games and demos, like One Must Fall and Food Fight and Fur Fighters. It's an impossible task, honestly.