Once you get down to the final 10 or so, it's SO hard to pick just one. But I'd have to say my all time favorite game that I flat out would never part with for any reason is:
X-Com: UFO Defense
Bar none, no questions asked....I can play that game FOREVER.
The handful of runners up include:
Suikoden II
Rock N' Roll Racing SNES
Final Fantasy III SNES
Once you get past 4 or 5 it's hard to say this or that is better. I play and collect for lots of sytems and lots of genres too. I do love shmups, but there aren't many I just couldn't live without....except maybe Image Fight 2.
<@scootnet> if you were a real gamer, you could jerk it to Super Metroid box art
Turrican wrote:I can't name a single one - there are oh so many unforgettable games that I feel like my life would be truly miserable without...
However, just to name stay, I don't think I can stay too away from my several copies of FFVI - when every time you play you go for the absurd, masochistic quest of getting all of Gau's rages, you understand that some very twisted love is at work.
Also: Turrican II, MGS2, Castlevania III NES, Vagrantstory, ICO, Colossus, Okami, Tactics Ogre, Super Aleste... Arggh, no I can't sell them, I love them all.
So you (or someone you rally care about) get abducted tomorrow, and they'll release you for all but 1 game you own.
Just around the corner from where I still live, in 1994, someone was wanting to trade this game. I ended up hiring it out from my local video shop and I absolutely loved it, the co-op with my mother (she was always Earl), and just the overall randomness of the game which brought forward endless replayability. My neighbour, since long moved, had a kid that also had the game and brought it over a few times. We played co-op.
A local newspaper where people can list things, Trade & Exchange, had a section for gaming. I saw Toejam and Earl listed, and "or swap" at the end of it. Turns out, the guy lives 5 minutes from where I lived, and he wanted Zool. Zool wasn't a great game, so I traded it to him.
In 1998, my Megadrive and all 12 games were stolen in a robbery. But I kept Toejam and Earl in a different location, as well as Mega Bomberman. Both games survived the attack, and I still have them.
In 2001, being a Sega fan, I decided to venture out to the SNES world. Dreamcast was dying and I was getting bored, so I decided to import a US SNES, my first import. It came with Chrono Trigger and a bunch of other games - Super Metroid and Super Mario. After playing through Chrono Trigger thoroughly, I ended up playing through it a few more times. It was just as I had expected, a great game. I had previously emulated it up to the part where you meet Robo, but I stopped because I wanted the real thing.
That same Chrono Trigger cartridge was also the only game I know of which my cat Wally, passed on in 2006, touched. It was also my first true import, so it has a great deal of meaning to me.
Lastly, my Futari 1.5 kit probably won't be traded. Someone on SA sold me an AV7000 in 2006, which I promptly bought in anticipation of Futari. I had no idea when the game was going to be out, but I bought it to prepare. Couldn't afford Futari for the longest time, and when I did, there was a dry spell for about 6 months and I couldn't find one. Then the recession hit, and the thought of getting one was out of the question entirely. Then someone here was selling a Ketsui board, so I bought it instead. Fun game, but after noticing someone wanted to trade a Futari 1.5 kit, I offered it up and they accepted.
I bought the Supergun, two years ago, for one game. I sure as hell won't be parting with either any time soon.
I also don't trade gifts. Etrian gave me Heterodox Muse (Ikaruga doujinshi) as a present for my birthday recently (he lives close). That Death Smiles Agetec is something I'm going to hold on to forever as well.
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Battle Bakraid. My first PCB, bought it from Cigsthecat with artwork. COnsole wise, I've sold most all of the stuff I had but looking at the games I have now, I'd probably say the Warriors for Xbox. Captures the feeling of the movie perfectly and is just too much fun in co op. Good memories of getting stoned and just fucking trouncing the game in co op.. So much fun.
An odd choice maybe, its not rare but I've lost count of the hours I've played it and my cart has all my data on. Its the best AW game (imo) and always my holiday companion.
I often buy games, sell em, buy em back etc but I couldn't part with AW2.
Honourable mention's: JSR Future on Xbox (always cheers me up because its just so fun to play and I love the music) and my sealed tin limited edition of HL2, mainly due to my heavy HL2DM links. Can't see myself ever parting with Rez either come to think of it.
My Amiga copy of Apidya.
It's the only thing I'll bring in my tomb. Each time I see it, I open it, I smell its content... it takes me back to high school, in 1992, with my little wooden table, my mivar TV and countless hours playing it and listening to the end credits music.
rolins wrote:Zanac for the MSX1, boxed and complete. The one game I'm taking to with me to the afterlife.
Hah, that's pretty much what I envisioned when I read the title of this thread (someone clutching some game on their deathbed).
I'd have to say Panel de Pon or one of it's variants (Tetris Attack, Pokemon Puzzle League, etc.). That game accounts for probably 25% of my gaming lifetime.
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elfhentaifan wrote:final fantasy 9 (and 8 actually)
theyre both in broken cases anyway
The traces of the past, good times there.
Nice choice! I sold my copy and now I actually realised it's my favourite RPG.
The only game I would never sell is Mega Probotector!
Even if it's only running at 50 hertz and has some cuts in it I'm lovin this game.
Awesome gameplay, hard as fuck and some of the best bosses in videogame history.
For me it's Garou. It's just an incredibly fun game to power up at any time and have a go at, and at level 8 has some of the most fun AI in any fighter. It also has a pretty gentle learning curve, so people new to the game can play vs. and not get insanely frustrated immediately.
We here shall not rest until we have made a drawing-room of your shaft, and if you do not all finally go down to your doom in patent-leather shoes, then you shall not go at all.
Exe wrote:The only game I would never sell is Mega Probotector!
Even if it's only running at 50 hertz and has some cuts in it I'm lovin this game.
Awesome gameplay, hard as fuck and some of the best bosses in videogame history.
I am also partial to the Probotector games. Robots shooting robots = AWESOME. Although I'm more of a Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces guy
i think all the games i have left are the ones id "never" sell.. altho if it came down to having to sell everything for whatever reason id proboably not save a thing...
the destruction of everything, is the beginning of something new. your whole world is on fire, and soon, you'll be too..
It may be dirt cheap, but it feels like the most complete game experience of all time for me. I have played it through about 4 times so far and haven't even dabbled with the available mods yet. I plan on having another run through very soon when my back is well enough to allow extended time sitting at a PC.
Mine would be Battle Garegga. I played the game too long to still play it but still, I spent so many credits on trying to 1ccing it that even if I have done it, I couldn't slap all that time I spent with it with the back of my hand and sell it.
That game brought me too much pleasure and pain to let it go.
PS: And on a sidenote, I would NEVER sell my SFIV copy. Period.
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