10 most important video games of all time

[mpfunk]

Originally Posted by smokymountainrain

You're good. Now that you mention it, I do think Soda Popinksi was the guy who spun before he punched. I believe the guy with the turban would disappear before he punched you.

I think you got all the others. I don't remember any specific power moves from Mr Sandman or Piston Honda.

I think you are mixing Soda Popinski with Super macho Man or perhaps both did the spin punch, because Super Macho Man was essentially a faster Soda Popinski.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by mpfunk

I think you are mixing Soda Popinski with Super macho Man or perhaps both did the spin punch, because Super Macho Man was essentially a faster Soda Popinski.

dude, was there super macho man? that kind of rings bells now.

Can anybody clear this up?

I need to play this game on an emulator....right now...

[smokymountainrain]

Originally Posted by mpfunk

I think you are mixing Soda Popinski with Super macho Man or perhaps both did the spin punch, because Super Macho Man was essentially a faster Soda Popinski.

Was he the guy you fight just before Tyson?

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by smokymountainrain

Was he the guy you fight just before Tyson?

Yes. And he flexed his muscles or something like that right before he punched.

[smokymountainrain]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Yes. And he flexed his muscles or something like that right before he punched.

"Oooh, yeah!"

I know, different Macho Man, but this is really bringing back some memories.

[JohnnyLingo]

Originally Posted by Filsdepac

Most influential games for me:

Lode Runner
Pitfall
Mario Bros.
Zelda (see avatar)
Contra (up up down down left right left right a b select start)
Oregon Trail
That Olympics game that you needed the pad for (Nintendo)
Monkey Island (where I learned what hemorrhoids are, funny game)
Descent (first experience playing others over internet)

Most hours: Civilization and Starcraft!

Outside of Civilization, your video game upbringing closely resembles mine.

I remember playing Lode Runner and Pitfall on either the Apple IIgs my grandma had or the Commodore 64 my cousin had.

Mario Bros. was hugely influential as my best friend growing up and I played it every day for about a year, it seemed. We sucked it at (or at least I did), but never tired of stomping on Goomba heads. When his mom made us spaghetti with mushrooms for dinner we'd "grow" in our chairs until she got annoyed and told us to sit down.

My other cousin had Zelda and I spent more time watching his older brother play than I did playing myself. Tough game. I think I'd still have a tough time with it if I played today.

Contra... I think every male under 30 knows that code.

Oregon Trail was one of those games that girls were interested in, too. My wife has fond memories of dying of cholera. I liked shooting the buffalo.

Monkey Island/Space Quest/King's Quest all mush together in my mind. Awesome graphics and PC-speaker sound. What more can you ask for?

A guy in the ward built us a computer (486! With 252 mb of RAM!) when I was 12 or so and introduced me to Descent. Awesome game... I've tried getting it for my laptop, but can't get conversions to run properly. A common lament for most classic games.

And there's Starcraft and Warcraft. I played Warcraft II for countless hours... I remember playing certain levels against the computer that were so tough for me I just built up a killer defense with cannon towers and ballistas and sat back while the computer exhausted its resources bashing its forces against the wall.

Then Starcraft came along and I haven't played WCII since. Just a fantastic game... strategy required at both the micro and macro levels... cloak, high ground, siege tanks, firebats, archons, the zerg... and the balance among the three races was amazing. A good player could beat anyone with any of the races. Unit balance was important, too... in other RTS games like Command and Conquer, the game was always about who could build the most (battlecruisers/blimps/knights) fastest. In Starcraft, there is no dominant unit. 100 siege tanks can be beaten by 400 zerglings. 400 zerglings can be handled by a couple High Templars. High Templars are easily beaten by a couple Queens of Science Vessels. And it goes on and on.

Starcraft is still played and Koreans hold SC tournaments all the time... broadcast on television.

Ten years after the game was released.

Now that's staying power.

Oh, and then there's World of Warcraft.

I believe Blizzard has taken more of my life than any other single pursuit, outside of sleeping.

Good times with nostalgia.

[Surfah]

Originally Posted by smokymountainrain

You're good. Now that you mention it, I do think Soda Popinksi was the guy who spun before he punched. I believe the guy with the turban would disappear before he punched you.

I think you got all the others. I don't remember any specific power moves from Mr Sandman or Piston Honda.

Piston Honda would raise his eyebrows a la The Rock before he punched.

Soda didn't really spin but he'd wind up until his back faced you and then throw his hook. And he'd dip way down before throwing an upper cut that looked like Ken and Ryu's dragon punch.

Mr. Sandman was a bad ass and to be honest I never beat him to get to Tyson without the code. And I only lasted one round with Tyson before having Little Mac's face look like he was melting in the corner with the trainer that must have been the inspiration for Cleveland from the Family Guy.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by JohnnyLingo

I believe Blizzard has taken more of my life than any other single pursuit, outside of sleeping.

Good times with nostalgia.

Blizzard World HQ is right here in Irvine. It is like a nerd mecca with WOW statues in the lobby and stuff. People go there and take pictures and the receptionist gives out free WOW swag.

I just read that Blizzard bought a major stake in Activision, so look for Blizzard to basically own the gaming world outright in a few years.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by surfah33

Piston Honda would raise his eyebrows a la The Rock before he punched.

Soda didn't really spin but he'd wind up until his back faced you and then throw his hook. And he'd dip way down before throwing an upper cut that looked like Ken and Ryu's dragon punch.

Mr. Sandman was a bad ass and to be honest I never beat him to get to Tyson without the code. And I only lasted one round with Tyson before having Little Mac's face look like he was melting in the corner with the trainer that must have been the inspiration for Cleveland from the Family Guy.

Beating Tyson was only slightly less disappointing than the lame non-ending when you finally beat Super Mario Bros. Tyson basically tells Little Mac that he has great finger speed. A homo-erotic double entendre if there ever were one.

[Filsdepac]

Originally Posted by JohnnyLingo

Then Starcraft came along and I haven't played WCII since. Just a fantastic game... strategy required at both the micro and macro levels... cloak, high ground, siege tanks, firebats, archons, the zerg... and the balance among the three races was amazing. A good player could beat anyone with any of the races. Unit balance was important, too... in other RTS games like Command and Conquer, the game was always about who could build the most (battlecruisers/blimps/knights) fastest. In Starcraft, there is no dominant unit. 100 siege tanks can be beaten by 400 zerglings. 400 zerglings can be handled by a couple High Templars. High Templars are easily beaten by a couple Queens of Science Vessels. And it goes on and on.

Starcraft is still played and Koreans hold SC tournaments all the time... broadcast on television.

Ten years after the game was released.

Now that's staying power.

Oh, and then there's World of Warcraft.

I believe Blizzard has taken more of my life than any other single pursuit, outside of sleeping.

Good times with nostalgia.

-Nerd Alert-
Can't agree more about Starcraft, the balance was truly brilliant. My name was -=Sublime=- and had a record of about 275-45, usually on Big Game Hunters. I loved the different strategies, especially being zerg and making the flying guys, then go attack the terran base enough so that the queen could take it over, that was always fun. There's nothing like having 10 tanks all put into seige mode at once and firing away. Oh, and building photon tours as Protoss in a terran's base, that was fun. I gotta find that game and play it.