Video Games with Nostalgic value

List games that were made before 2000, that you played for hours. Whether it be at the local arcade, your friends house, or even the family basement.

When you list these games, try to get a sense of the time you played them. Do you yearn to go back to those days? If you played the game today, would you still have the fun you did 10 or even 30 years ago?

Tell me the foods you ate while you played them, what friends/family/love-interests you played them with, and even how great or how pathetic you were at the game.

Super Mario Brothers 3 My dad bought my grandfather a Nintendo for Christmas in 1989. I remember me and my older sister would go down to the musty old basement, and sit on the old furniture, using an ancient television and would play this game for hours.

We would eat Cheetos and drink RC. I remember when my little cousin was born in the later 90's. He would always trip over the cords "accidentally". He would also get furious when I would dominate him in the Battle level on 2 player mode.

I also remember even after the years of the PS2, I still went to the basement and played that game.

Thanks to modern emulators, I can enjoy the game just as much as I did back then.

Now, what was your game?

You can make several posts, and list several games, from any era up to 2000.

Super Mario Bros. with my sister, Pac-Man and Pac-Mania with my dad, Battle Toads with my cousin, Metroid, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Lengend of Zelda by myself on the NES as a kid. Later on the SNES my fondess memories are Donkey Kong Country with my sister, Super Mario World by myself, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with my friends (we would kind of tag team it, one person would control and the rest of us would brainstorm ideas for getting past the puzzles. When we got to a boss battle we were constantly ripping the controller from each others hands after every death). N64 era was definitely dominated by Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark with my friends, and I also have many fond memories of playing Ocarina of Time in the same manner and with the same friends, only now much older, as I played through A Link to the Past with.

And that is really where my time with consoles ended and I switched to PC. Half-Life and Grim Fandango are probably my fondess video gaming memories from this short time period. They were probably just about the last games I played before retiring from video games for a while. Only picking the habit back up again just a few years ago.

I love this game. Me and my sister would always think we had the game nearly beat, to finally realize we had way more to do. It was the first 3d perspective game I had ever played. I love it.

Along with Super Mario World, this is one of the first games I have memories of playing:

Commander Keen

Still a great game!

I'm about to make you feel really old...

Still one of my favorite games, ever.  Great for a small group of friends who just wanna hang out.  1999, so it's cuttin' it close.

Octorox just made me feel really old. But that is okay, because Fink made me feel kind of young.

That's no Atari 5600 controller...

lol....Yeah - The Intellivision controller actually works! ;)

Two of my favs from the god ol' days. :D

I am neither too old nor too young.  I keep my nostalgia bottled up inside where it belongs!  There it tortures me like a festering wound.  And there it pleasures me like a miniature hooker.  However, I actually happen to be in the middle of playing a nostalgic game as we speak.

It was probably 1991 or so when this game hooked the 16-year old me. I played it on a B&W TV. The story is good, the music is great - an absolutely engrossing atmosphere. Really, the B&W probably added to the experience.

I played way too many seasons of this. I still remember a few details about some seasons I played through:

• On the last game of Dallas' season, I needed a huge game from Emmitt Smith for him to win the rushing title. I got it by rushing on basically every play despite the computer's ability to utterly shut down the run at the end of the season. It was something like a 300 yard game.
• When I played a Raiders' season, I trailed 14-3 at the half of the Super Bowl against the 49ers - the best team in the game. I clawed back into it, tying the game in the fourth quarter 17-17. Then the 49ers hit John Taylor for a long one with almost no time left. Steps away from the endzone, one of my tacklers caught up to Taylor and stripped the ball. I recovered it and regulation time ran out. I won the game in OT with a field goal.
• I wanted desperately to win the Super Bowl with the terrible Colts, but I lost three Super Bowls to the 49ers. I got back to the Super Bowl with the Colts (again versus the 49ers) and was down three points in the fourth, but I was driving for a score when I threw an interception. On the next play, the 49ers ran a sweep. My tackler hit the ball carrier and forced a fumble - and I took the recovered ball and ran it some 30 yards for a go-ahead touchdown. Seconds later, time ran out and the lowly Colts finally did it!

...more to come

I pity you youngsters, really. I consider myself lucky to be old enough to have lived through the golden age of video games.

I miss arcades...

man no one here has talked about Super Mario RPG. Possibly the best RPG ever made.

One of the 2 Star Wars games that I thought actually fit the mood of the OT.

Then this game was one I really loved to play for hours on end.

This game was a favorite of mine. I wasn't very good, but I wore this one out.

Oh yes, I loved it, will always love it. The original