What video game did you play most as a child?

[HHH67]

i would say me between

Simpsons Hit and Run
Smackdown shut your mouth
Fifa 07

 

[EXCellR8]

Sonic 2

 

[Saylick]

Hard to say which game had the most playtime (couldn't really check like we can nowadays) but I spent countless hours on the following games as a child (i.e. OG PlayStation):

- Crash Team Racing
- Twisted Metal 4
- Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
- Legend of Dragoon
- Breath of Fire 3

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

None! There were no video games when I was a child.

 

[CalebRockeT]

SNES

• Super Mario World

PC

• All the NovaLogic titles when my parents bought our first PC in 1997 (Flight-sims, Delta Force series, etc)
• Most of the Blizzard titles since the late 90s (Primarily Diablo II + Lord of Destruction expansion and Warcraft III and The Frozen Throne expansion)
• Starsiege Tribes and all of the Tribes games that were released in the years following

Xbox/360

• Tiger Woods golf series (played this from all the way through EA releasing Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, after cutting ties with Tiger in 2013; was sad to see it die)
• NCAA Football
• Madden

 

[FaaR]

Considering the NES didn't come out until 1986 in my country and I was not far from 15 years old by the time I got mine (so don't really consider me a child anymore at that point), I'd have to say probably Donkey Kong.

...Yes, the Game&Watch version. Kind of counts as a console, doesn't it?

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Leisure Suit Larry

 

[purbeast0]

Super Mario Kart
Mortal Kombat 1 and 2
Street Fighter 2 and all of it's iterations
Killer Instinct
Mario 64
Golden Eye

 

[repoman0]

Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro the Dragon

Honorable mention to Gex 2 and Croc

 

[JPB]

NES

TMNT The Arcade Game
Blaster Master
Maniac Mansion

SNES

The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past
Contra III The Alien Wars
Super Ghouls N' Ghosts
Super Mario World

I had to list all of these because they were all played equally. Probably thousands of hours each. So can't say.

 

[digiram]

Sonic games
Joe Montana and Madden Football
Warsong (Langrisser)
Shining Force 1 and 2
Shinobi
SF 2
MK

I pretty much played all of the fighting games on Genesis. Later on won an SNES in a fighting game comp, and got into all of the SNES rpg: Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Earthbound, Breath of Fire.

As a teen, I was either chasing tail or playing games in the middle of working/school.. good times!!

 

[ch33zw1z]

Depends which stage of childhood, but I'd have to say MegaMan's were at least half of the time I spent playing games when I was under 16. I started in on fps after that with Wolfenstein, quake, then went competitive on UT99 for a while. Huge time sink when playing competitive. Then real life took over and I got thru little stages where I play a lot, not so much now....they kinda just make me really annoyed

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Combat/Tanks Plus on the Atari 2600. The eighties were a hug gap of not playing. Then ~1992 Sid Meier's Civilization on 286 PC. The Nettrek on a Silicon Graphics and then not again until 1998 with Half-Life and Team Fortress Classic in 1998/99. I then made the transition after the first year of the Xbox and played Ghost Recon 2002, and Rainbow Six 2003. I continued on with console up until two years ago when I walked away from gaming--did I grow up?

 

[JPB]

Sonic games
Joe Montana and Madden Football
Warsong (Langrisser)
Shining Force 1 and 2
Shinobi
SF 2
MK

I pretty much played all of the fighting games on Genesis. Later on won an SNES in a fighting game comp, and got into all of the SNES rpg: Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Earthbound, Breath of Fire.

As a teen, I was either chasing tail or playing games in the middle of working/school.. good times!!

I remember back in the day, everyone was comparing Shinobi to Ninja Gaiden. I liked both equally.

 

[sham63]

I almost thought the Magnavox Odyssey, but when we got the 2600 that thing never saw the light of day again. The games I played the most were probably space invaders, asteroids, and pole position.

 

[Homerboy]

Asteroids
Pitfall
Combat
... so much on the Atari 2600

 

[Oyeve]

None! There were no video games when I was a child.

ditto here.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

This

and this
The world felt so big

and this
So cool playing an old school knight, plus a hidden room with glowing letters
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6-zN_eaRd8

 

[sdifox]

Pong

 

[snoopy7548]

Probably either Super Mario Bros. 3 or Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. They are still two of my favorite games.

 

[ElFenix]

probably final fantasy. that was a long and grindy game.

 

[KentState]

I can barely remember what I played a few years ago, let alone in the 80's when I was a kid. All I know is we got a NES for Christmas and have had pretty much every console from Nintendo, Sega, Sony and MS since then. If I had to single in on a single game, I would probably beat Zelda at least once a weekend over the summer. That map is imprinted on my brain.

 

[Ray731]

Spider man on PSX. Still the best spiderman game out there!

 

[ewdotson]

Yars' Revenge!

 

[zinfamous]

Probably Street Fighter II.

But when I remember that I got to a point where I could clear Contra without a single death, I must have played that a lot to get there, haha.

I remember spending a lot of time with Super Mario Bros and SMB3, Faxanadu, Kid Icarus, Simon's Quest.

I know I played FFII way more than FFIII, and Super Metroid. I think my fastest clear time in Super Metroid was just under 2 hours.