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- 10goto10, on 02/05/2008, -1/+79This is a list of ________ I like: ________ and ________ and ________ and ________.
What? No ________? Your list sucks!
Repeat several times a week. - SpaceDreamer, on 02/05/2008, -3/+53no Civilization? no WoW?
Where are the games that really change your life
by eradicating any hope of social life you had? - MewTwo, on 02/05/2008, -5/+53Can we stop submitting articles about some bloggers' favorite videogames? Yawn.
- SeventhSon, on 02/05/2008, -1/+37Age of Empires. Those games taught me more about history than any class I've ever had. I actually cited the game in my bibliography.
- spammishking, on 02/05/2008, -2/+36FF7 changed my buddies life too. He played it too much in college and failed out..... He's now paying back his college loans w/o the fat paychecks, but he did beat the ENTIRE game
- whiteguysamurai, on 02/05/2008, -15/+44No shining force?
No doom?
No civilization?
No street fighter 2?
This guy is a poser! - projjalc, on 02/05/2008, -1/+24It's 10 video games that changed HIS life ... not yours or everyone else's.
- minnymoo, on 02/05/2008, -0/+20Tetris; from Russia with fun!
- estvir, on 02/05/2008, -1/+19Re-read the title and put emphasis on "my."
- honeymustardn, on 02/05/2008, -2/+18It wasn't your list, it was his list.
- cnot3, on 02/05/2008, -2/+17Crysis changed my life by making me spend $2500 on a new PC.
- Whiteknight117, on 02/05/2008, -0/+13WoW almost destroyed my life, that was a change...
- SpaceDreamer, on 02/05/2008, -0/+12and the Tycoon games that mercilessly destroyed my sleep cycle...
- mal1964, on 02/05/2008, -0/+12Anything you interact with will change your life in some way.
- insllvn, on 02/05/2008, -1/+12Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was the game that changed my life. I mean THE game. My dad had a NES when I was young, but I never really got into it. Duck Hunter was fun, but I would get bored after a while, and I wasn't coordinated enough to get very far in Mario. Those were the only games that box played as far as I knew. One day it broke, and for my next birthday I received a SNES. I think it was for my dad as much as it was for me. It was early in the run of SNES, although I don't remember exactly when we got it. Point was, it came with one game. LoZ:aLttP. I played hours every day. My dad and I would take turns, each working hard to inch out a little more progress than the other. When I completed the game first, it was the first time I beat my dad at anything. I have been a gamer ever since. I tried every other SNES game after, but nothing captured my imagination the same way until Mario 64, and shortly thereafter OoT and GoldenEye. I still return to LoZaLttP every so often. I don't have my SNES anymore, but I bought the release for the GBA. It takes me back to a simpler time, a time when my biggest worry was were that last damn bottle was. Good times.
- inactive, on 02/05/2008, -3/+14The guy has only gotten to level 13 on Tetris and he thinks he is credible to talk about video games?
- xdeliriumx, on 02/05/2008, -2/+11I cant believe Doom wasn't on this list. It is definitely not my favorite game, maybe not even my top 10 favorite, but it definitely changed my life.
- SirMolle, on 02/05/2008, -1/+10Doom made me buy a VGA Monitor 3 months after I JUST bought a EGA one ( ExWifey was pissed :)
Duke Nukem ..and Doom Friday nights on 10BaseT coax talk about a Blast! Large Pizza, A Case of Beer and a PC ;) - homesickalien, on 02/05/2008, -1/+9That was really lame and poorly written. The writer doesn't really get into how each game changed his life.
- Zera, on 02/05/2008, -0/+7Where is this heaven you speak of??
- KMye, on 02/05/2008, -0/+7Um, how the ***** does not using a mouse until 1992 (when Mario Paint came out) make this guy "feel old?" I can see computer illiterate, but old doesn't make any sense.
- danbowden, on 02/05/2008, -0/+6The guys comments match up with my ages I think. I am 25. You ageist prick!
- MrsButtersworth, on 02/05/2008, -0/+6Metal Gear Solid. Because Tactical Espionage Action never gets old.
- Billistic, on 02/05/2008, -1/+7MARIO paint is in the list, you could maybe sorta call that a mario game....
- Dmaulchris, on 02/05/2008, -2/+8wtf Goldeneye?
- noumuon, on 02/05/2008, -0/+5$2500? you got ripped off :P~
- hansolo007, on 02/05/2008, -0/+5Lets just say Video Games in General changed my life. I'm still a gamer today at 25.
- Tippis, on 02/05/2008, -0/+5This tip may come roughly 15 years too late, but still:
Don't order pizza while having a Duke or Doom DM gathering in the same room -- not because it will get you killed, but because the guy at the other end of the line will react strangely to background noise consisting of chainsaws, screaming, squishy chunky splat sounds and maniac laughters...
Trust me on this one... - caddyalan, on 02/05/2008, -4/+8I admit that I liked Zelda 2 when I was young, but when I replayed it a year ago, I felt let down. I'd forgotten that the game required 100% item collection.
FF7 was a game I reluctantly liked (since I was initially a 16bit fanboy). It was enjoyable, but after finishing it I moved on to other RPGs. - theuber1337, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3Ah yes, those were the days good sir.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3"no WoW?"
I was gonna say - I almost ended up in a divorce over this one (no, I'm not a guy, which is perhaps even sadder); I think that definitely counts. - SaladCactusKing, on 02/05/2008, -1/+4This is a pretty strange list.
- Hangly, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Ultima V. Blackthorn's Virtues prepared me for life under the Bush administration.
- kickcows, on 02/05/2008, -1/+4i hope they release mario paint for the virtual console.
- RobbieF, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3I have no idea why you've been dug down. C= was the bomb back then.
- stonedgeek, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3This guy had his life changed a lot a few decades ago, then not so much lately.
- ineptsavant, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3Xenogears would be my number one. The other nine would have run away in shame, so I guess that'd be the only game in my list.
- Shadic, on 02/05/2008, -1/+3I'm glad that somebody finally puts Zelda II on one of these lists. People like to complain that Nintendo just redoes their franchises over and and over again.. But when they make a change like this.. People complain that it's too different. :(
Zelda II is actually my favorite game ever, and I'm glad to see some praise of it... Also, the music in the game is amazing... (And like him, I have memories from my childhood of this game.) - Nacelle, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2I remember drawing the enterprise being chased across the screen by a borg ship. They where firing and the enterprise's Shields were lighting up from the hit. I spent so much time with Mario Paint
- sovietninja, on 02/05/2008, -1/+3Games that actually changed my life and how they did.
1. Shenmue : Almost failed Alg2 / Trig Honors. Beat the game and spent 3 days doing make up work. It showed me how to lie and convince my teacher to let me make up a months worth of work. Sadly this work did not consist of QTE or forkliift driving.
2. Call of Duty 4 : Halo3 : missed most of my classes last nov and showed up to class on uni finals. I applied som Iraq/Al-asad BS in my final papers. B+ average.
- splinter09, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2A video game that changes my life or lets say influenced me was pacman
keep running around in a dark room eating pills listening to repetitive music. - jimjoke, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Battle. Toads.
- benroy, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Lame List.
And not just because it didn't include Deus Ex. - comineeyeaha, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2that was stupid. F-Zero GX? Is he seriously trying to convince me that his life changed after that game? My little brother's oft repeated story of his first memory is more exciting than this, and I hate that story.
- Tripper44, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2haha so true, but somehow i can't see lan games becoming part of history lessons anytime soon :P
- LiquidShield, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Do this. On March 25th go out and get Final Fantasy: Crisis Core for the PSP... Play the whole thing... Then play Final Fantasy VII, then watch Final Fantasy: Advent Children... Then the story line becomes quite clear... Yes I am a FF fanboy as people like flame other for I have played every FF made so far, and the story line that is the most confusing to me was FF-X and X-2 that was confusing. ... I've been a gamer for a very long time and I'm only 24... I started out on the Atari 2600, then moved to the NES when I turned 7, and its just snowballed from there... Now I have PSX, PS2, Xbox360, SNES, N64, G-Cube, PSP, Gameboy, the original Pong from the 70's, NES, Sega Genesis, and my computer... I have like many played about every game console. and owned every game console made for the US to this date...
I do have to say that this list is right up there... I've played every single one of those games and owned just about all of them... That's what I love about retro junk it just takes you back to the good-ol-days... - inactive, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Of course not. He wrote it for Digg. And "10 games that I used to play a lot" would not get as many hits/ad sense money
- LiquidShield, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Yeah Baldur's Gate, Warcraft III, and Frozen Throne, Diablo, Diablo II, WoW, great games, but you can't beat the classics so don't be a douche bag... If you read the title "10 Games That Changed MY Life" not the 10 games that changed your life... Don't flame people because your a snobby emo brit that doesn't happen to like the same things that other people do... Why don't you teach my lawn to be emo so it will cut it self...
- perryjoyce, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Tear...
(And a totally non-sarcastic one at that.) - Shiftyeyedgoat, on 02/05/2008, -1/+3Agreed with others in that the list is not very good; the list is all retro games that changed his life, and further, mostly old, old, old console games. Thusly, the anachronistic list needs to be updated less for nostalgia and more for life-altering moments. If you need a recent example of this, see Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It still gives me chills.
The one item I do agree with is Final Fantasy VII, exactly as the author worded his praise of it. I played through the game in the 7th grade and it has been running through my mind ever since. I had to replay it in college just to remember how majestic it truly is.
It is truly the most epic RPG ever created and anyone would benefit from playing through it. -
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