Favorite 8 bit / 16 bit game?

[Chef_Baker]

Guys lets make a list. What is your favorite 8 or 16 bit game. It can be new, old, on steam, off steam, in development, etc.

[104th_Knight ¦ вlϊтz]

mario

[Kargor]

Back in the "8 Bit" days I didn't have a commercial system -- that was still my "build my own" phase, so there wasn't a lot of gaming going on.

However, one game I played quite a bit elsewhere was a thing called "Gemstone Warrior" on an Apple II, where you had to fight your way through a dungeon and collect... well, take your guess :-) It wasn't too difficult, so I just kept on going until it started screwing up. They didn't have a level limit set in code, but when you levelled up after being "Demigod" it started giving you titles like "treasure" or "sword" and stuff like that -- basically other strings from the game, and at some point it crashed :-)

16 bit was Amiga, and I don't have a real "favorite" there. Played "Xenon 2 Megablast" a lot. "PP Hammer", "Lemmings II" or "Twinworld" come to mind without doing any research, so maybe that counts for something.

[Kaede[x00]]

I've always been partial to Final Fantasy VI (or, rather, Final Fantasy III US). Aside from it being a great game, I've always had a bit of a sentimental connection to it.

My brother is five years older than me and, back in those days, he used to play games while I watched. I was too young to read the text in FFIII, so he would read it aloud to me as he played -- and, much to my amusement, he would often do specific voices for many of the characters. He would also let me control one or two characters in combat with the second controller (which was pretty generous of him considering I was nowhere near as fast as he was at navigating the menu).

Once I got a little older, it was one of the first games I went back and played by myself due in no small part to the fond memories I had of him playing it with me. -:) So, yeah. Great game by itself, but when you add in the brother/sister bonding memories? It's pretty hard to beat in my book.

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marioo

[Rhass]

8-bit I would say Faxanadu
16-bit Unirally.

[Zuxzy]

Risk of rain, one of the best games out there

[El Kid]

mario bros

[morgobanyasz]

A game from 8 bit / 16 bit era, or just the "looks" count?

[Digital Bath]

Metroid and Super Metroid. I would also add The Legend of Zelda and Zelda Link to the Past.

[Joker]

Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Super Mario Bros
Earthworm Jim

[Nec]

Final Fantasy 1 (original NES version)
Earthbound
Breath of Fire II
Shining Force 1 & 2

Sorry those are all my favorites can't really pick one that is better than the others. :D

[AntDude]

Publicado originalmente por Kargor:

Back in the "8 Bit" days I didn't have a commercial system -- that was still my "build my own" phase, so there wasn't a lot of gaming going on.

However, one game I played quite a bit elsewhere was a thing called "Gemstone Warrior" on an Apple II, where you had to fight your way through a dungeon and collect... well, take your guess :-) It wasn't too difficult, so I just kept on going until it started screwing up. They didn't have a level limit set in code, but when you levelled up after being "Demigod" it started giving you titles like "treasure" or "sword" and stuff like that -- basically other strings from the game, and at some point it crashed :-)

16 bit was Amiga, and I don't have a real "favorite" there. Played "Xenon 2 Megablast" a lot. "PP Hammer", "Lemmings II" or "Twinworld" come to mind without doing any research, so maybe that counts for something.

Yeah, I am late to this thread. Great games though. I got to Demigod title too in Gemstone Warriror on my Apple //c. I guess this game goes forever until it crashes. Haha.

[chibilibi]

Publicado originalmente por AntDude:

Yeah, I am late to this thread. Great games though. I got to Demigod title too in Gemstone Warriror on my Apple //c. I guess this game goes forever until it crashes. Haha.

About 2 years too late.

[Toad Mooks]

Wow, 2 years and no one's shouted "NECRO" yet?

[Grey Mouser]

Steel Panthers