'Twas A Vintage Year - The Bear and Badger

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WARNING: Â This thread will include various amounts of nostalgia.

What year brought you the most joy in regards to gaming? Â Was it because of a title you particularlyÂ loved or a console release that made you smile quite a lot?

Or maybe it was simply a year packed full of gems compared to no other?

For me it was 1995. Â I'll never forget opening and playing the Sony PlayStation for the first time.

Air_Hair_Lair

I picked up my Amstrad CPC 464 in about 1988.Â I instantly morphed into the nerd I have been since and never looked back.

suck my sprites biatches:

Knight

Probably one from 1998, 1999, 2000. The years of N64 splitscreen goodness.

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Air_Hair_Lair wrote:

I picked up my Amstrad CPC 464 in about 1988.Â I instantly morphed into the nerd I have been since and never looked back. suck my sprites biatches:

I was a Speccy man - never owned an Amstrad or C64.

My friends did, they used to take the piss out of my speccy but I loved it.

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Knight wrote:

Probably one from 1998, 1999, 2000. The years of N64 splitscreen goodness.

Same here I think, but more for the adventure stuff on N64 (not that MP didn't get played to death).
Either that or 1993-1996 playing Mega Drive around my mates house after school for hours.

Generally I would say all things were better in the 90s but I was aged 4-14, the glory years.

Air_Hair_Lair

Plan M wrote:

Air_Hair_Lair wrote:

I picked up my Amstrad CPC 464 in about 1988.Â I instantly morphed into the nerd I have been since and never looked back. suck my sprites biatches:

I was a Speccy man - never owned an Amstrad or C64. My friends did, they used to take the piss out of my speccy but I loved it.

The Spectrum was awesome, and I think a bit more widely used at the time.Â It had all the same games as the 464 but just a few less colours.Â Saying that I think Chase HQ wasn't available on 464... so Spectrum wins tbh.

Air_Hair_Lair

Knight wrote:

Probably one from 1998, 1999, 2000. The years of N64 splitscreen goodness.

Turok Rage wars on N64 was AMAZING 4 player goodness.

beano

It was either when we built a Command & Conquer / Red Alert LAN or it was the beginnings of Counter Strike [SpoD]. Either way around 2001/2. I had 128k ADSL for 128quid a month or something daft. My ping pwn'd which was probably the only reason why I was any good.

Fentonizer

I think back when I was in year 10 at school, going back to a friends house over lunch to play 4 player Quake 2 and Crash Team Racing on his PS1 and multi-tap.

I think the group was heavily into FFVII and PokÃ©mon at the time, as well. Not sure, time frames are hazy and that was 10 fucking years ago and now I'm sad.

[Deleted User]

Ah I've also got many good memories of 4 player goodness on the N64. Â I don't like Wrestling but I'll never forget a load of us gathered in my mate's living room playing that WCW game. Â So much fun.

afgavinstan

2001. The golden age of the Dreamcast.

Air_Hair_Lair

I loved the Dreamcast... best console imho.Â So many fun games, and it really was like having a home arcade.

Moot_Geeza

Cheating slightly: Christmas '95/Jan '96.

The best triple whammy release window ever. Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Cop and Sega Rally, with Panzer Dragoon Zwei to follow a few months later....

wonderbanana

Probably around 2005 when I realised a dream and brought my first arcade cabinet.

An old wooden Jamma upright that came with an MVS 1-slot and Metal Slug that I picked up from an arcade distributor in Birmingham.

I'll never forget storing it at my Dads & Grandads for the first week and when we fired it up for the first time I'd upped the volume on the 1-slot board. Metal Slugs gun-firing intro blaring out at full blast did not amuse my Grandad one bit but it was a landmark moment for me, a bit like a 7 year old being let into a sweet shop and told help yourself.

Edit: May of been '03 thinking about it.
Edit II: Nope 2001.

Skerret

1993. Â 1997 a close second, but 1993. Â Secret of Mana, nuff zed.

[Deleted User]

Ah Secret of Mana. Â Stunning game.

equinox_code

If i had to pick an era, it would be the earlyish 360 days of 'live and split screen fun on the '64.

Right now is probably the least exciting era. It's like im bored of games or something; totally tired of action or narrative based experiences. Give me Trials, Peggle, Braid, or Hotline Miami over the bigger releases. I like those simple, dynamic based games rather than those dependent on graphics and explosions. Total stagnation, for me.

WorKid

N64 years. In fact that first year pounding Mario 64 probably stands out.

Dark Soldier

2009. Trials HD.

n0face

2002 - halo lan partys, 4 xboxs, 4 projectors and lots of party favours.

hylian_elf

1992 - SNES, SMW, Zelda: LttP, Super Tenniz, F-Zero... best year ever ever EVER!

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I had a 10 year break from videogames, but got back into it when the Dreamcast appeared in 2000. I was living in America and one of my flatmates bought one in a Best Buy. When I got back home the Dreamcast had died, so I picked one up cheap in a Cash Converters with about 20 games for peanuts. Fell in love with Jet Set Radio, Dead or Alive 2, Soul Calibur and Power Stone.

regmcfly

1997 - Goldeneye, Zelda, Blast Corps, Killer Instinct Gold, Parappa the Rapper, GTA, Lylat Wars, Quake 2.Â

Fuck yeah.

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living in America

davyK

1992 : started working ("proper job" as a programmer) on 2nd January and got a SNES later that year. What a machine - I can vividly remember the marathon post pub Mario Kart and SF2 Turbo sessions - and even 2 SNES Super Tennis tourneys going on. Legendary.

That whole time of my life - mid 20's, pay in my pocket etc. all adds sparkly things to the nostalgia filter.

hylian_elf

I was at school. Used to sell my homework answers to fund game purchases. Those were the days.

Matt_82

The N64 years for me. Â Couldn't really pick just one. Â When it came out I was too young (and not interested) in going out drinking in parks so spent countless hours playing mp with a group of mates. Â There was a rotation of WCW: Revenge/Wrestlemania 2000, Goldeneye, ISS and Mario Kart.Â

Only when Zelda came out was there a break.

Webbins

Air_Hair_Lair wrote:

Plan M wrote:

Air_Hair_Lair wrote:

I picked up my Amstrad CPC 464 in about 1988.Â I instantly morphed into the nerd I have been since and never looked back. suck my sprites biatches:

I was a Speccy man - never owned an Amstrad or C64. My friends did, they used to take the piss out of my speccy but I loved it.

The Spectrum was awesome, and I think a bit more widely used at the time.Â It had all the same games as the 464 but just a few less colours.Â Saying that I think Chase HQ wasn't available on 464... so Spectrum wins tbh.

It was on my CPC 6128 though and it looked as good as this!

The 6128 in all its glory, could blow anything on the Speccy out of the water but never achieved anything like the popularity it should have.Â Old Sugar tits never was hot on his marketing.

Mod74

Augusta Georgia late September
One Mr Brown's hot tempered
This man's possessed
He's restless
He's armed and dangerous
Drugged and restless
Mrs Brown you got a lovely son
But he's on the run on a shotgun mission
Listen here cocksuckers mother fuckers
Pay respect to my building
It's JB's property and it could be the one you get killed in
Cops arrive what's this what's happening
What what, where's the hot shot
JB pushed his luck too far this time
His pickup truck's flat out and flying
'Oooh, I wanna get into it man'
NOT NOW JAMES, WE'RE BUSY!

That should be right
Not bad from memory.

Webbins

Those of an 8-bit nostalgic bent will go all misty eyed over this too:

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davyK

That was the business - once you loaded a game from tape - you pressed the STOP button and you could then save the RAM image to disk....thus enabling subsequent fast loading and save states on 8bit micros - magical. Was too dear for me when I had a CPC-464 though.

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