What Was Your Favorite Computer Game Growing Up?

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Mine Was Zoo Tycoon 2, but I also liked Roller coaster tycoon and the Sims2!

My husband got a few of my old favorite PC games working on my Macbook, I swear he's so sweet. I kinda feel sad because it seems like so many of the popular games for kids these days is free to play slop like Roblox with tons of predators lurking around every corner. Thankfully Steam has some fun games these days, I'll be getting good offline games for my kids when they are older.

What Was Your Favorite Computer Game Growing Up?

Rei13 · Accepted Answer

I really liked the Sims 2 and whichever tycoon game (or similar) let you have dinosaurs on pc. I liked making the park and once it had enough people visiting to block the entrances and release the dinosaurs lol. As for Sims 2, the bool prop cheat and mods were my best friends. Outside of that I also liked the space cadet pinball game, jumpstart (as far as early childhood goes) and Cap’n Crunch adventures

TsundereMatrix · Accepted Answer

I played a lot of Zoo Tycoon, Roller Coaster Tycoon and also Sims. I just reinstalled Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo. Both games are by the same developer that made Zoo Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon. They are harder to manage but you have more creative freedom to create your own buildings.

MrOracle · Answer

I guess you need to define "growing up".

Computers (as in, desktop PCs) technically had games when I was a kid, but they were pretty crappy. We did have video games - arcade games and home video consoles (Atari 2600). But my favorite two video games were both early 80s vector graphics games:

Tail Gunner puts you at the rear of a space ship that is constantly being attacked by waves of enemy space ships, and you have to shoot them before they get past you, and they get faster and maneuver more wildly as the levels increase. You have "shields" that can prevent the ships from getting past, but they lose power very quickly and only partially recharge at certain milestones. If 3 (or 5) ships get past you, the game is over.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/DqQ_VEZIxwo

Omega Race

Omega Race is somewhat similar to Asteroids, except you have a boundary in the center of the screen and if you fly into it, you will bounce off. There are asteroids and enemy ships that try to kill you, and they speed up the more you destroy.

I was 21 before I could afford to buy a PC (an i386), and my favorite game by far was X-Wing - a flight simulator/battle game obviously in the Star Wars universe. There were two sequels - Tie Fighter, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. I had the first generation Thrustmaster HOTAS controller setup, which was both amazing and complicated to set up, but it was a ton of fun.

Then, in 1995, my favorite computer game of all time was released: Command & Conquer. It was originally released as a DOS game, which up until that point was the standard for computer games, but Windows 95 was released in September of 1995, and a Windows port was released in 1996. C&C had several sequels and off-shoots, but the game peaked with C&C v3 with the Kane's Wrath expansion pack. EA bought the studio, released an absolutely awful C&C v4, and that was the end of the franchise.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

.  Commodore Amiga version here. One of the too few games I've seen mixing Adventure and Strategy genres. Quite a memorable soundtrack and ambiance as well. Also, yes, I had the (correctly) cracked version because I could finish the game, unlike many other half-baked cracked games at that time lol

AviatorTom · Answer

When I was growing up, we didn't have home computers yet. We played cards and board games. My favorite card game was Euchre, and my favorite board game was Stratego. A No-Brainer Euchre Hand - if Spades are Trump Stratego Game Board

OneViewpoint · Answer

LOL, I was born in 1966. When the pyramids were still being built. The only people playing with computers were some geeks working for IBM and playing with like 43 transistors. I was stuck in the real world as a kid. Getting punched actually hurt and bled and you didn't respawn after you broke bones.

Zack-Bann · Answer

When I was like 4 years old it was GTA Vice City

In the following decade it went on to be more and more violent and gruesome

By today’s standards my parents would insanely irresponsible 😂

But somehow it didn’t influence me into becoming a violent adult, so there’s something to be said about the stigma around video games

abc3643 · Answer

Asteroids, the way it was originally played in arcades during The Golden Age of Video Games. The way God meant video games to be...

exitseven · Answer

I liked PacMan and I also had a game that ran on MS-DOS called F-19 Stealthfighter. I had to buy a joystick for my computer to really play it.

Nik1hil · Answer

Age of Empires 2 was and still is fun.. still often play it!..

Gta Vice city Played so much I didn't need to look at map, I would Drive fastest car in it and drift from one location to another..

Halo : Combat Evolved was so much fun!.

Caesar 3 was the Backup that I enjoyed when I got bored by above 3.. this one is like Zoo Tycoon 2. And I have been looking for Substitute to it!

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Wayyyyyyyy to many to list. C-64: Paradroid, Zak McKracken, Paradroid... Amiga: Civilization, The Settlers, Dune... Mac: Halo, Diablo, StarCraft...

RandomGirl42 · Answer

Dovakhiin! Dovakhiin!

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Clue finders I miss the 90s/early 2000s when technology wasn't so fancy

Telekinetic-Potato · Answer

Locomotion. That game and I have put in a lot of hours.

jshm2 · Answer

Diablo and Diablo 2  But pretty much any RPG

Xawyx-2 · Answer

I had many favorites, mostly console games, but when it comes to computer games - Heroes Of Might & Magic series.

msc545 · Answer

I enjoyed Pong, and I'm a little weird that way. After that, it was World of Warcraft, and until recently it still was, but they ruined the game.

Mike_Hum · Answer

I loved rollercoaster tycoon 1 and 2. The civilization games, and wing commander privateer - both 1 and 2.

LC75LC71 · Answer

Well it was Pole Position on the Apple IIe. Computers were crazy expensive in the 80's, often compared to a car purchase.

MysticDevice · Answer

Ooh probably Star Craft, Homeworld, Rollercoaster Tychoon, or Sim City 4. I was obsessed.

fuddly · Answer

I just had a memory of Attic Attack and Prince of Persia

FreyaRed · Answer

Sims, SWTOR, Witcher, Elder scrolls online

Unycorn · Answer

Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction

NathanDavis · Answer

Age of Empires II

PolarPoint · Answer

clash of clans. I was very passionate.

queenofcardio · Answer

I really liked Battle Jeep

Iron_Man · Answer

Mike Tyson‘s punch out

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Age of empires, Hercules & Street fighter zero

Sammy098 · Answer

Call of duty, NFS Most Wanted and Prince of Persia

najekim · Answer

When it came out, Pong.

MrChinaski · Answer

Pirates!

Simslover92 · Answer

Sims 2

beenherebefore · Answer

SIMS4.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Chess

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