[tooboku]

Those were the fondest memories of my childhood.

[DarklyValentine]

pc games are for the pathetic and weak of mind


The original sims was a 5 and half inch floppy oooer

and sega sonic the original

declares everything else meanigless

oh an atari

oh and asteroids zx sp-spectrum

fools muhahaha

oh and the mad tennis came
boing boing with the dials

[Codger]

... well I have to admit I wouldn't mind walking around an airport shooting everyone, but that's only because I don't like queues.

[White_Rat]

the Mother series
the Donkey Kong Country series
Chrono Trigger
Portal 1 & 2
Minecraft
Sonic the Hedgehog series, most notably the original Sega Genesis ones.

[Meritocrat]

Chrono Trigger
Starcraft 1 and 2
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (+ Alien Crossfire expansion pack)

[tooboku]

I presume you meant 'Tournament'! One of the reasons I still have a Windows XP partition on my Mac I've played them all but the original is still unbeatable. If only I could get those ultra hi-res textures to work. Ah well, classic is still classic.

So... when I posted that yesterday, I forgat that today was SysAdmin Appreciation day. I saw my friends post it on facebook and I was like, oh shit. Then I remembered the LAN man from highschool and dropped him a line. Out of all the people in my entire educational career, the one person who has had the biggest influence on my life wasn't a teacher. It was the LAN man. When I got bored of all the other kids at lunch, he would let me into his office and play with all the neat computer stuff. He let me help him do his work after school managing servers, imaging computers, crimping cables, configuring routers, and so on. Best of all, when all the work was done, it was non-stop Unreal Tournament on 333MHz Pentium IIs. Yeah, that's how old I am.

[kiwig0ld]

The Sims
Flight Simulator
PGA Golf

[hoom]

Just a few of them:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Battlefield: Vietnam
Garry's Mod
Monkey Island 3-5
Sid Meier's Pirates
Sid Meier's Civilization 2, 4, & 5
Team Fortress 2
Modular Combat
Assassin's Creed I, II, and Brotherhood
Dragon Age I & II
Mass Effect I & II
Portal 1 & 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Call of Duty 1 + Expansion
Metal Fatigue
Pharaoh
Neverwinter Nights
Age of Empires II
Tribes 2 & Vengeance
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Oblivion
Vietcong


Also, as a rule, anything Bioware is good.

[Enormous Hatred]

There are two video games that I can readily claim had a profound influence on my life and who I am. Despite being linear experiences I can play them over and over and have new realizations concerning the plot/symbols every time.

One, I proudly note has been mentioned at least once already: Xenogears. Existentialism, psychology (including, surprise... Jungian), religion, but with a fair share of feeling, all not-so-cleverly hidden beneath the guise of ridiculous mechs. It's basically a bunch of Star Trek plots clumped into one and then explained backwards, but it's still a great work.

The other is The Longest Journey. This one is a little less overt in its points but I truly believe it may have warped my emotional and psychological landscapes to some degree. A game ostensibly about technology vs. fantasy, law vs. chaos, and other tired armors, but hides stronger points about discovery (self or otherwise), loss, responsibility, truth, and a good deal more.

These games are pretty deeply embedded in their respective genres (Japanese-style RPG and point-and-click) and I've often seen them turn off different gamers, but I'd always recommend them to thinkers and they'd probably be forefront in some sort of video game museum.

[sherkanner]

Microprose games comes to mind immediatly. I still play them ^^
Civilization
Colonization
Master of Orion
Sim city
UFO ennemy unknown how many hours have I spent on this game. I still play it often, nothing really exists to replace it.

Dune done by Cryo Interactive, truly an interesting mix between adventure and strategy (both military and economics)
Dune II: The Building Of A Dynasty <= the first Real Time Strategy game, prior to C&C and warcraft
C&C and the next ones
Warcraft I & II
BF1942 The only FPS I find fun
Alpha Centuri
Outpost: Outpost (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wing Commander: Privateer
The X universe, X² the trheat and X³ reunion/TC by ergosoft: Space opera, wonderfull game, good replacement for the above mentionned.

The Tomb Raider saga.

The NFS saga

That is about all.