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some favorites of mine:
Video Games:
1. Ocarina of Time--game play, replayability, music, characters, bad guys. The gold standard of gaming. I often have these songs in my head.
2. Tetris--if you play this enough you will see it in your sleep. enough said
3. Dr. Mario--poor man's tetris, but still brilliant
4. Final Fantasy 7--this is the closest I came to leaving this world for another
5. Final Fantasy 3--made everything in FF7 possible. i still "know" these characters like you would good fiction
6. Adventures of Link--totally reworked gameplay, and the world was HUGE for a 1980's game. Really opened the idea of having to walk FOREVER to get somewhere in RPGs
7. Faxanadu--similar to Link 2, sprawling worlds that are ONLY 2D--kind of like Castlevania. Also lots of fun things to collect
8. Guardian Legend--I have replayed this game dozens of times. Great creepy 8bit music, alternate between overhead shooter (aka 1942/43/44) and overhead first person (aka Legend of Zelda/A Link to the Past)
9. Adventures of Lolo 1/2/3--these are fun and frustrating and exciting (i still get goosebumps when medusa or king medusa kills me with death rays)
10.Dragon Warrior--the first RPG I ever played. Fortune smiled upon me, cuz I loved this game (and the 2 sequels I played as well)
11.Megaman 2--the clear cut favorite, though MM3 and MMX are also a lot of fun. More to do than the original but not so difficult you wanna quit.
12. Star Tropics--not appreciated for how great it is. Fun. Different. Nuprin.
13. Secret of Mana--little appreciated action RPG aka Zelda, kind of similar to Startropics in fact
14.Sim City--with a million dollars i can get LOTS of amusement parks, police HQs, and zoos and yet, i can only get to 485,000 people. move here!!
15. Goldeneye 007--first game with lots of funny deaths and shooting and holy balls it is hard as hell to beat anything on Secret Agent or 00 Agent. I got the golden gun. (Perfect Dark: I don't BELIEVE it! I never liked him anyway! He was my best friend!!)
16. Bully--music, gameplay, realistic, hilarious. just like being the punk kid you were too pussy to be in high school
I realized a few months ago that I devote myself pretty equally (time wise) to all forms of media.
I have read about 300 books x 8-10 hours a book = 2700 hours
i have seen about 1800 movies x 100 minutes each = 3000 hours
i have played about 50 video games x 40 hours = 2000 hours
i have heard about 8,000 songs x 4 minutes = 5000 hours
of course i listened to those songs 3-100 times each, so that's a lot of time devoted to that. movies also seen some many, many times. books i read only once so far (except Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby). And video games I have played a few for 100+ hours, and some 4-5 times (especially FF1,2,3, Zelda 1,2,3,4,5, DW1,2).
anyway, later I can write about my favorite authors.
Video Games:
1. Ocarina of Time--game play, replayability, music, characters, bad guys. The gold standard of gaming. I often have these songs in my head.
2. Tetris--if you play this enough you will see it in your sleep. enough said
3. Dr. Mario--poor man's tetris, but still brilliant
4. Final Fantasy 7--this is the closest I came to leaving this world for another
5. Final Fantasy 3--made everything in FF7 possible. i still "know" these characters like you would good fiction
6. Adventures of Link--totally reworked gameplay, and the world was HUGE for a 1980's game. Really opened the idea of having to walk FOREVER to get somewhere in RPGs
7. Faxanadu--similar to Link 2, sprawling worlds that are ONLY 2D--kind of like Castlevania. Also lots of fun things to collect
8. Guardian Legend--I have replayed this game dozens of times. Great creepy 8bit music, alternate between overhead shooter (aka 1942/43/44) and overhead first person (aka Legend of Zelda/A Link to the Past)
9. Adventures of Lolo 1/2/3--these are fun and frustrating and exciting (i still get goosebumps when medusa or king medusa kills me with death rays)
10.Dragon Warrior--the first RPG I ever played. Fortune smiled upon me, cuz I loved this game (and the 2 sequels I played as well)
11.Megaman 2--the clear cut favorite, though MM3 and MMX are also a lot of fun. More to do than the original but not so difficult you wanna quit.
12. Star Tropics--not appreciated for how great it is. Fun. Different. Nuprin.
13. Secret of Mana--little appreciated action RPG aka Zelda, kind of similar to Startropics in fact
14.Sim City--with a million dollars i can get LOTS of amusement parks, police HQs, and zoos and yet, i can only get to 485,000 people. move here!!
15. Goldeneye 007--first game with lots of funny deaths and shooting and holy balls it is hard as hell to beat anything on Secret Agent or 00 Agent. I got the golden gun. (Perfect Dark: I don't BELIEVE it! I never liked him anyway! He was my best friend!!)
16. Bully--music, gameplay, realistic, hilarious. just like being the punk kid you were too pussy to be in high school
I realized a few months ago that I devote myself pretty equally (time wise) to all forms of media.
I have read about 300 books x 8-10 hours a book = 2700 hours
i have seen about 1800 movies x 100 minutes each = 3000 hours
i have played about 50 video games x 40 hours = 2000 hours
i have heard about 8,000 songs x 4 minutes = 5000 hours
of course i listened to those songs 3-100 times each, so that's a lot of time devoted to that. movies also seen some many, many times. books i read only once so far (except Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby). And video games I have played a few for 100+ hours, and some 4-5 times (especially FF1,2,3, Zelda 1,2,3,4,5, DW1,2).
anyway, later I can write about my favorite authors.