So just bought the first three Spyro games from the PSN network, Childhood all over again :)

So what was your favourite childhood game and why?

When I was very small, I liked playing my Super Nintendo. The Lion King and Super Mario World were the two I played the most. Truthfully though, I didn't have many games for a while. :'D

I guess my two favorites (after I obtained them) were the Zoo Tycoon games, and the original Animal Crossing.

I love the idea of this thread, my mom worked at a store that rented video games and I could play as many as I wanted. It was like heaven, hahaha.

When I was a kid I played more N64 than anything else, my list of favorites is forever long: Legend of Zelda: OoT, Mischief Makers, Diddy Kong Racing, Super Smash Bros, Clay Fighters 63 1/3, Mario Party, Banjo Kazooie, Hey You! Pikachu, Yoshi's Story, Pokemon Stadium & Snap.. I could go on, hahaha. Oh, and there was a Rugrats game (it was called Totally Angelica or something) on the first PlayStation that I loved more than life itself.

When I was a young child I had a gameboy color with Pokémon Yellow and Pinball and I enjoyed playing those, but my favorite game was some Jump'n'Run I just can't remember the name of. On my 10th birthday I think I got a DS with Animal Crossing Wild World and I loved it so much. When I was like 12 I had a PlayStation 2 and I played The Sims 2 non-stop.

It's funny how I still play the latest editions of those games, but with a constant low budget there's not much room to discover. 😆

My favourite game when I was growing up was Mario 64- that game was so much fun and there was so much to do. _ There were various different painting worlds that you could jump into; my favourite painting world was the snow one, where you'd have to reunite the baby penguin with his mother (so cute).

And there was a ghost world called Big Boo's Haunt in the basement, I can remember being terrified of that world for some reason lol.

YES. The first three Spyro games for sure, lol.

The original Pokemon games are the ones I played the most, I guess. Before that my favourite game was Wishbone and the Odyssey or something like that. Yay for learning while playing. :p

Oh goodness..some of my fondest childhood memories are from gaming. I think my first gaming experience was Duck Hunt and Super Mario Brothers. I HATED the Duck Hunt dog. When he laughed at me, I tried to shoot him with the blaster X(. And the clay shooter, oh man. When I played Super Mario Bros 3, my dad would always do commentary with Mario. When Mario jumped, my dad would go "yumpity YUMP!" and if I made Mario hit a block he would go "ouch, oh that hurts" lol, oh dad...you were so funny. I remember I could never get past certain levels and I had to cheat by the whistle (did you know, that the whistle in Mario Bros 3 is the same tune of Ocarina of Time's title screen?) I still love the wind up shoe powerup!

My dad also had an Atari. The only thing I can remember with that one is the ET game...I...HATE..ET! Everytime I see a picture of him I get the dreaded 'shock' factor. I gasp and my stomach does the flip and I freak out. I dont think he played it because all he did was the title screen...like, ET would walk back and forth between two sets of stairs and after about 20 seconds, ET would extend his head from behind a wall...shudder

But back to gaming....they came out with Super Mario Brothers Super Show and Captain N the Game Master. I LOVED that show. Oh man...I actually have the dvds of them. (i should ask for the legend of zelda ones for christmas....hmm). When I watch them, I get the feeling of youth and carefree life. I really liked the Zelda ones...like Link even though he was a jerk in the show. That brings me to N64 days. Super Mario 64 is the first game I think of when i think of the good ole N64. That is probably the number one nostalgia game for me. And then we are getting into Star Fox (Andross scared the crap out of me as a robot) and Super Smash Brothers and Pod Racing.

If we are talking gaming rage quits it would be Link's Awakening DX for the Gameboy Color. I was on the second to last dungeon, Eagle's Tower, and I got stumped. I could not figure out where the stupid pillars were to knock down. So, for six years I didn't pick it up. That is until I found the Internet and the walkthrough.

That is the only rage quit I can think of. I didnt really rage back in the day, if I could not get it, I would never go to it again and i would move on to something else.

CENTIPEDE!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite arcade game ever!

And, Pocahontas! I would replay that over and over. I loved that movie as a kid. Now I think it is the most shallow Disney movie. Hunchback of Notre Dame is the best Disney movie. Well, that and Beauty and the Beast.

Love your username, by the way :D

Oh yes, I remember hating that level, Cool Cool Mountain. I think my favorite stage would be either the desert or Jolly Roger Bay. The music for the latter is so relaxing and THE nostalgia track in the game for me. Oh, I liked Hazy Maze Cave, but I got lost so much and the red coins in that level was irritating. I could not for the life of me, do anything that required patience in that game. Especially Rainbow Cruise X_____x

Oh wow, those games too...O__o I loved the first gen pokemon games and the show. I still only acknowledge the first generation pokemon. The new ones to me ....they look kind of strange. When they first came out with Pokemon Stadium and had kiosks for taking pictures of your pokemon, I went nuts with those. My favorite pokemon are the legendary birds and all eevee evolutions. Oh, and the horses and the bull....Dragonaire, Gyarados....I got like a million vaporeons ....lol. Yoshi's Island! I could not get very far...the sewers i think is where I ended off at. I love the art in the game but it made me so sad and afraid for the Yoshis because when one died, the little flower would go cold and it would be taken to a dark castle. Then i didnt really understand much as a kid so i was like "what am I doing?" I love the rap/hip hop track in the sewers though. And...in the title screen, does it sound like they are saying "Ohhh, at the airporttt. Ohhh, at the airpooortttt. Ohhh, at the airrpooorttt. At the airrpooorttt, at the aiiirrpooorrtt."?

Pretty much all LoZ and Pokemon here. Also the Humongous Entertainment PC games like Spy Fox, Putt-Putt, and Pajama Sam. I wouldn't stop playing those because the slight difference in adventures was addicting to go through despite its repetitiveness.

Pokemon was my favourite childhood game...had every generation so far. Even today I still play it occasionally =D

I remember my first games being Pokemon Red, Donkey Kong 64, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I still love Ocarina of Time to this very day, although nowadays, I see DK64 to be a game that has good points but tons of flaws (such as the rings on those Diddy Kong jetpack minigames to have smaller hitboxes than they should or the swimming controls/camera angles being horrible). I can definitely see why Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow are nostalgic, but the future Pokemon games are actually a lot better.

When it comes to scary things in Big Boo's Haunt, the first thing that comes to my mind is the Mad Piano. The merry-go-round in the basement would be my second guess.

Thank you, I love your username too!

I think you're the opposite to me haha, I really disliked those levels (loved the music on the Jolly Roger one though!). The eel terrified me. xD Those teeth! I remember mostly liking the "safe" levels that didn't have giant scary creatures wandering around or quicksand to swallow me up. I still played them all, completed the game and got most of the stars, but I can remember leaving the "scary" levels until I absolutely had to do them to progress. I was very easily scared as a child lol!

Oh yes that piano was terrifying! Jump scares always get me. I think the whole atmosphere of that level just creeped me out; I was around 9 or 10 years old at the time. In retrospect Big Boo's Haunt was a really interesting level though, and definitely one that sticks out the most. ^-^

Oh really? I didnt care about the big eel or giant things. I guess I was just used to Star Fox :p

I was a gullible child...and in some ways I still am gullible :/

Aaaaaah Spyro :D I loved those games. I also bought the trilogy on PSN a few months ago, but when I was little, Spyro 1, 2 and 3 were my go-to games. I never managed to complete them when I was younger, but I've since replayed and actually have been able to beat 1 and 3. I'm still struggling with 2 (some of those orbs are a pain).

Also, Crash Bandicoot Warped aka 3 (never completed a game of CB, still can't lmfao), Crash Team Racing, Medievil, Tomb Raider 1, 2 and 3 (mostly 2), Tekken 3, Dead Or Alive and Soul Blade. I had a PS1, then a PS2 and now a PS3.

O__O I forgot about Gex: Enter The Gecko for the N64!! I loved all the crazy things he says in each level. The horror stages actually legitimately scared me...specially when he did his idle animations. One he would hold his arms out and his head would do a 180....

And the Titanic level actually gave you a sense of desertion and lonesomeness. That one really made me depressed.

My first copy of Pokemon Emerald (and my first Pokemon game ever) was bugged. Every time I beat the elite four, the game would reset with no warning.

The third time through I was an angry child

When I was really young I didn't have any games. xD I remember everyone else got their gameboy color and played pokemon and I had a fake gameboy from like, burger king or something... I pretended to play so I could be cool too ...

Later on I finally got a real one. a gameboy color when I was 7 or 8... (first game was pokemon blue) and I got a GBA when I was 9 or 10 (pokemon emerald!). And my first big console was a ps2 when I was 12. I think my first game on that was actually the neopets video game x:

Back when I owned a Sega Genesis, my main games were Art Alive and The Lion King. Bunches of fun.

When I was 6 years old, I'd say Hey You, Pikachu and Diddy Kong Racing. They were the first couple of games I owned when I first had an N64. I still go back and play DKR whenever I get the urge.

Oh gosh. My absolute favorite childhood game was Candyland. My mom and I were total pros. We would play speed games and be done in like 3 minutes. Any time my dad played with us we would make fun of him for going too slow. Sometimes I'd rig the game and set up the cards so that I would draw Queen Frostine's card at the start of the game, and then give my dad nothing but bad draws. I was such an awful 8 year old.

My very first video game had to be Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures or Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball for the Sega Genesis. I still have both my Sega and the games ^^ I don't think I ever beat either though.

They were originally my older brother's, but he let me play them too and eventually gave them to me when he got a PS1

The original PlayStation was my first game console, and I played SO MUCH Crash Bandicoot and Gran Turismo on it. I've been thinking about getting a PlayStation so I can play those games again. :')

I also played Duke Nukem on MS-DOS. Good times.