The first games that come to mind from my childhood are the first games I've ever owned for the Gameboy, which were Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, and Mortal Kombat 2.

For Sega Genesis - I remember the Sonic Games, as well as Dune: the Battle for Arrakis.

I never owned a Super Nintendo (blasphemous, I know)

For PSX, there of course were the Final Fantasy and Parasite Eve games, as well as this 1 game I played over at a friend's house which name escapes me (It was a point and click where you play as a talking dragon in a mid-evil era, where you are trying to become a knight)

Cyborg Justice
Star Flight
...
First game for the PSX was X-Com

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiUsahx2vBI (and Lego Island 2!)

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter

Pantsylvania (If you played this, you are awesome.)

Tonka Construction (Very early in my childhood!)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Later/last few years of my childhood)

Many many maaanny more but that's all I can remember

I got Morrowind free with a video card when I was in my late 30s / early 40s. Has anyone seen my walker? Also, you kids stay out of my yard.

This & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall_II:_Lost_Caverns

Any of the mainstream NES games and shovelware, as well as some more obscure titles. My favorite will always be the classic Mega Man series.

I played this to dead back in 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNlzMOwhraY

Aren't those the games that people used to play....o....out....side I think they called it? Something about.....fresh air?

I've never been a fan of extreme sports.

Dominoes
Checkers
Marbles
Kick-the-Can
Catch

Super Mario RPG (My first rpg and favorite game of all time)
Super Metroid
Kotor 1&2
Donkey Kong Country 1,2&3
Contra
Xenophobe
Pokemon
Dodgeball
Final Fantasy X
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Anything Mario
And the list goes on.

Go play this old man haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqalcHTfN94

Toejam and Earl!

Age of Empires
Super Mario Bros for the NES
BurgerTime for the Intellivision
Triple Action for the Intellivision
Heroes of Might and Magic
Grand Theft Auto
Rollcage
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
others that I cannot remember at this time...

Ha! I don't remember the MSX. I went from, sticks and stones in the dirt, to the TRS 80, to the Com 64, to the Atari, to the Atari 2600, to the Nintendo.

Chutes & Ladders was the bomb.

Monopoly, RISK, Rack-O, Scrabble, Checkers, table rod soccer (parents had folding wooden one that you could play sitting on the floor, it was awesome), Pente, Chinese Checkers.

...and Atari PacMan & Breakout, of course.

I can remember Age of Empire, Zoo Tycoon 1, 2 and 3, Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Park_World, Minesweeper, Pinball and GTA1 and 2

Sunday mornings playing Stratego with my younger brother... always ended up in a fight.

Crash Bandicoot
Panzer Front
Sim City 2000
Age of Empires 1/2
Might and Magic VII
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Worms Armageddon
Combat Mission from Barbarossa to Berlin
Close Combat
Medieval: Total War
Super Mario World
Donkey Kong Country


In no specific order of preference, age or system.

maybe 20 years ago on amstrad cpc 464 (dinosaur)

ninja turtles
dizzy
back to the future 2
terminator 2

Yeesh, video games I played "when I was young" is Apple II games starting in 1980. Can't really remember most of them, but some of the biggies were Ultima 1 (through 7), Wizardry 1/2/3, the original Bard's Tale, some of the SSI "Gold Box" D&D games. Some of the Sierra Online "graphic adventure" games like Mystery House. EA games back when EA was just Electronic Arts.... Hmm, what else.... the original Prince of Persia and Karateka.

(And then plenty of small games - the Apple II was chock full of little arcade, platforming, and strategy games. Many of them pirated... computers were pretty "wild west" in those days. )


edit: you know, it's pretty amazing what they were able to do with 48k of RAM and 140k disc drives.

Did anyone in the 80's play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleuth_(video_game) on their awesome old school computers? Took me a while to remember what the name of that was, but it was the only "pc" game we had as kids.

Spyro the Dragon
Spyro: The Year of the Dragon
Crash Bandicoot
Zoo Tycoon
The Sims
Pokemon
Super Mario
Donkey Kong
TES: Morrowind (still one of my fave games ever)

Born in 1991, so of course, I remember all the Nintendo 64 games like a cloud over my childhood.

Especially Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, etc.

I was... 12 or 13 when I played Morrowind. Not necessarily my childhood, but I was pretty young, and I spent a good 6 or more years learning everything about that game. Still my favorite game ever, and most likely will be for the remainder of my life.

Oh yeah, Stratego! That was fun.
I had a Stretch Armstrong doll once too. And Star Trek:OS action figures. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty & Sulu had many a phaser battle in my parents living room.