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Seven Fascinating Facts of Nintendo History

Dive into the world of Nintendo, the gaming giant with a history as rich and amazing as the games it has graced us with, as we uncover seven fascinating facts about this iconic company.

1. The Origin of Mario’s Name: Back in 1981, Nintendo of America was preparing to release its soon-to-be iconic game, Donkey Kong. However, financial challenges led to an unforgettable visit from the company’s landlord, demanding overdue rent. This altercation happened in front of the company’s president, Minoru Arakawa. In a unique twist, the team decided to name Donkey Kong’s protagonist after their relentless landlord, hence the legendary “Mario” was born.

2. Shigeru Miyamoto’s Safety First Policy: Renowned for creating the likes of Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, Shigeru Miyamoto is an invaluable asset to Nintendo. Such is his importance to the company that they have barred him from biking to work, emphasizing that his safety is paramount.

3. Nintendo’s Hint Hotline: If you were a gamer stuck in a Nintendo game during the 90s, your best bet would’ve been the Nintendo Power Line. This hotline, active until 2010, was a go-to source for game hints, solidifying Nintendo’s support for their gaming community.

4. The $9,000 Kid Icarus: In an astonishing discovery, a man from California stumbled upon a pristine, unopened copy of a 1987 Nintendo game called Kid Icarus in his mother’s attic. Incredibly, the game, still in its original shopping bag with a receipt indicating its price of $38.45, was auctioned for a staggering $9,000.

5. The Stubborn Ape – Donkey Kong: When Shigeru Miyamoto proposed the name “Donkey Kong,” intending to convey “stubborn ape” to the American audience, he was met with laughter from Nintendo of America. Despite this initial response, the name stuck and has since become synonymous with Nintendo’s gaming history.

6. Nintendo’s Best Selling Games: Out of the 50 best-selling video games of all time, an impressive 26 were developed by Nintendo, a testament to the company’s enduring popularity and innovative game design.

7. Nintendo in a Time Capsule: In a testament to Nintendo’s cultural impact in the 1990s, a time capsule was buried at the old Nickelodeon Studios. It encapsulated items important to children of that era, including a Nintendo Gameboy, a Back to the Future VHS, and CDs from pop icon Michael Jackson. This highlights the status Nintendo had in shaping the childhood of an entire generation.

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The Extraordinary Saga of Sega: 7 Unusual Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

Born amidst the sun-kissed shores of Hawaii as an American enterprise, Sega initially served as a key distributor of coin-operated jukeboxes, games, and slot machines to military installations. The company made an unexpected move to Japan following the US government’s decision to outlaw slot machines in 1952, marking a new chapter in its corporate narrative.

Long before the era of Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, Sega was already setting the pace. In an impressive display of foresight, the company rolled out an online gaming subscription service in 1994, years ahead of industry giants Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

The compassionate side of Sega was revealed when Kenji Eno, a renowned video game designer, discovered that his creations were admired even by blind fans who played them with extraordinary dedication. Touched by their efforts, he created “Real Sound: Kaze no Regret“, a unique blank-screen game designed solely for visually impaired players. In a noble gesture, Sega distributed a thousand consoles, pre-loaded with the game, to blind individuals. The game remains a favored choice among visually impaired players today.

The New Jersey–based video-game developer Imagineering created a peculiar game in the ’90s, ‘Desert Bus.’ Players undertake an 8-hour real-time journey from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, and earn just a single point for each completed trip. Despite its seemingly dull objective, the game’s quirky charm has attracted a cult following.

The iconic Sonic the Hedgehog 3 game harbors a unique secret; the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson, was involved in its music production. His involvement was short-lived due to the contemporaneous child molestation scandal or his dissatisfaction with the sound quality of the Sega Genesis. Nonetheless, some samples of his songs still remain in the game, though.

Sega produced an RPG named Segagaga for the Dreamcast. The game’s objective mirrors the real-life struggle of the company: to ensure Sega’s survival in the fiercely competitive console market.

The tale of Sega’s resilience climaxed in 2002 when the company’s president made an extraordinary sacrifice. To rescue Sega from bankruptcy following the Dreamcast’s failure, he gave up his entire company stock worth $695 million. Tragically, his heroic effort was followed by his untimely demise after a fierce fight with cancer.

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From Silicon & Synapse to Blizzard: A Name Evolution in Gaming History

The video game developer and publisher known today as Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., originally started out as Silicon & Synapse, Inc., established on February 8, 1991. Due to unfortunate confusion with silicon-based breast implants, they altered their name to Chaos Studios, Inc. in 1993. However, to avoid conflict with Chaos Technologies, they underwent another name change in 1994. The name Blizzard Entertainment was chosen, as it cleared a name verification process. This American company is now renowned for its video game development and publishing activities.

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Acclaim

The video game maker “Acclaim” was named by its founders in such a way that it would appear before their former employer “Activision” and “Accolade,” another company established by ex-Activision employees, in alphabetical listings, following the same logic as that behind the establishment of Activision itself by ex-Atari employees.

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People Explain Which Jobs Are A Lot Less Fun Than People Think

It can be difficult to figure out what you’re going to do as a career for the rest of your life. In fact, the job you’re working in now might have started out as, “Just that thing I’ll do until I find the real thing I want to do.”

Usually, these careers are filled with long hours, difficult clientele, and a secret load of hardships the outside world is not privy to knowing. Unfortunately, as it turns out, the “dream” jobs, the ones people spend all day wishing they had while they work their dead-end feeling jobs, may not be as great as some hoped.

The smells. So. Many. Smells.

A Redditor wanted to know what jobs may not bring as much joy as some think when they asked:

“Which job is a LOT less fun than most people expect?”

Imagine The Smells. Now Imagine Them Every. Day.

“Zookeeper.”

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s awesome to be around so many amazing animals and care for them…”

“But the smells are ridiculously, insanely foul.”

“I have a really strong stomach and it’s still tough for me…we’ve had some interns quit over it.”

“I was warned about the smells when getting into the field, but thought ‘oh I’ve volunteered at animal shelters, I know what animal stink smells like’”

“Nope. Not even close.” ~ wekoo9

So, I’m Not Like Indiana Jones?

“Paleontologist. You don’t get to work with full dinosaur skeletons and do all kinds of awesome expeditions.”

“You’re mostly sitting at a desk looking at some pictures and logging stuff on your computer, maybe examining a fossil occasionally.”

“If you’re lucky you can go on a real dig, and OMG SPEND HOURS IN THE HOT SUN DUSTING OFF ROCKS!!!” ~ MidwesternMonkey

Someone Has To Make The Donuts

“Baker. Coming into work at 3/4 am so you can have a six am baked goods is miserable.” ~ haireypotter

‘”o00Oo0h y0u MuST L0vE tHe wAY U SmëlL WhEn ù G0 h0Me!’”

“nope…I go home smelling like burnt oven” ~ Vdd993

No “Smoke On The Water”

“Working in a music store ( musical instruments )”

“Your days are spent listening to 50 different people play 50 different riffs poorly simultaneously, as if they’re all putting on their own concert.” ~ [usernamedeleted]

“Some of my (least) favorites:”

“Person who thinks playing well and playing loud are the same thing.”

“Person who wants to make sure you know they are very smart and you are very lucky to be in their presence.”

“Person who goes to absurd lengths to test out drum sticks to make sure they’re pitch matched without knowing how to execute any of those techniques. Extra points if they’re just going to shred them to splinters in a week anyway.”

“People who act like you’re in their way because you’re trying to do your job.”

“People who assume you couldn’t possibly know anything about the instruments you play and sell all day long.”

“Side note – I mostly loved my time working in a music store and I enjoy helping people but the people who come in with aggressive egos and nasty attitudes are insufferable.” ~ JessicaMessica

No Running!

“Lifeguarding. Everyone expects Baywatch, act, saving lives all the time. But It’s usually just sitting there blowing your whistle telling little sh-ts to stop f-cking around.” ~ Theholynun

I Just Wanted To Smash Stuff

“Demolition”

“Everyone wants to break shit with a sledgehammer. Everyone is tired of lifting that sledgehammer by 5 swings.”

“Nobody wants to load the broken stuff into bags or a wheelbarrow and take it to the dumpster.” ~ Bill_S_Preson_Esq

The Key Is Not In The Wall!

“Gamemaster at an escape room.”

“It’s the same repetitive script, resetting the same stuff, giving clues and hints about the same things.”

“The patrons are often competitive families who argue, obnoxious impatient 13-year-olds, college students who have been drinking, idiots who break sh*t and touch sh*t that I SPECIFICALLY TOLD THEM NOT TO.”

“They never remember your initial instructions. If something gets broken during one group, you have to hurry and fix it before the next group.” ~ Reddit

You Know How Frustrated You Get When You Have To Replay The Same Level Of A Game?

“Video game tester.”

“You aren’t spending your time playing completed fully realized games. You are playing the same level of a game over and over seeing if there are bugs.” ~ Mr_frumpish

“Also, you are probably not going to test the next GTA, but something like Barbie’s Super Happy Funland 3, or some other game aimed for kids 8 and under. And you’ll have to play it for 8-10 hours a day, every day.” ~ __Hello_my_name_is__

“Lets see if I can clip through the wall in position 131, 875, -121”

“Lets see if I can clip through the wall in position 131, 875, -122”

“Lets see if I can clip through the wall in position 131, 875, -123” ~ RoboNinjaPirate

It’s Insane How Much We Don’t See On Screen

“I have seen this question before and then it was zookeeper at the top comment too. Nice.”

“Anyways, there’s this making-of Frozen 2 mini docu. Most animators work weeks for a minute of animation of one character, if not less.

“At one point they decided to leave out a piece that one person had solely been working on. Must be crappy to be part of the credits without being able to say “this is my part!”.” ~ ArrrSlashSubreddit

“I couldn’t believe it! It was even crazier to me when Sterling K. Brown recorded an entire song and it got scrapped. It’s insane how much ends up on the cutting room floor for a movie to be just right.”

“I was so psyched for the animator that did that end scene for ‘Into The Unknown’ though! She killed it.” ~ heronlyweapon

The Magic Never Leaves, It Just Changes

“Being a Character Performer at Disney.”

“Don’t get me wrong, there are some amazing perks and truly magical moments. I know I’m super lucky and tons of people would love to be in my shoes.”

“But the day to day work is EXHAUSTING in ways I never thought possible. Guests are ridiculously abusive…I’ve had things said and done to me I never would have imagined.”

“The company isn’t always great – it highly depends on your leadership. And there’s so much focus on your body and face (good and BAD) that it can be incredibly depressing and difficult emotionally.”

“Plus, you have to accept that there’s very little upward mobility. Most people “grow out of it” and it’s rough to know that one day you’ll get “too old” or “too fat” and you will have to start all over in a new career field.”

“So you constantly are thinking either, 1) what you’re going to do when you leave, 2) how you’re going to keep yourself there.”

“I personally knew it would be temporary, and I now only work there seasonally while I have a “normal career”. But Disney has a way of sucking you in.” ~ TheMarvelPrincess

They say do what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life.

It’s clear after taking a look at these entries, that is not the case and coming home smelling like burnt dough and elephant feces is not the life many thought they wanted.

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People Break Down The Best Pre-2000 Video Games

There have been some truly magnificent video games made over the past 20 years, but there are still definitely some true classics from before 2000.

Redditor carlstanza asked:

“What pre-2000 video game will always be a banger?”

Build Those Coasters

“Rollercoaster Tycoon 🎢“ -matuzo

“O how the theme park manager that wanted to kill and or trap guests till death came came out in all of us!” -Gomer428

“I made drinks free but toilets $100” -Brad_Breath

“The key was to make umbrellas cheap until is started raining. Then jack the price up to 15-20 bucks. Capitalism at its finest!” -chronoboy1985

“If I had guests who were angry I would drop them into a pit with entertainers and security guards. They could only leave if they were smiling. I didn’t want them to spread ill feelings about the park after all.” -Innercepter

“if you’re doing a mission that required a certain happiness rating, your best bet was to round up as many unhappy people as you can near the end and drop them in the lake. the trick was to kill them close to the end, so you didn’t get the safety violations dragging you down until after the mission cleared.” -skivian

“Zoo Tycoon, the original game was older than me and It genuinely was my childhood. It’s such a genuine shame you literally can’t access really anymore like Rollercoaster Tycoon. Microsoft just literally rerelease the game to be accessible everywhere and you’d make a killing.” -PyroTech11

Silos Needed!

“Command and Conquer Red Alert.”

“Granted it’s a slightly modded version I play still, but damn does it hold up nicely with a tight little community.” -schofield101

“Best. Soundtrack. Ever.” -DrainageSpanial

“I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical man… that was the one my best mate use to run around and sing 🥰“

“Age of Empires was another favourite x” -pikachu_cat

Absolutely Diabolical

“Diablo. I remember being like 5-6 years old and absolutely terrified of the butcher. ‘Ahh fresh meat!’” -AFerretWithAHuge

“And the caves had a sick metal soundtrack.” -DrunkPole

“My brother and I would watch my dad play. We were too young to be “brave enough” to play past the opening church levels, so the Butcher and Leoric were about as far as we would ever go on our own.”

“My dad used us to farm too. I managed to get the timing down on the duplication glitch, so I would just get him stacks of gold, potions, and scrolls while he was at work.” -Jester04

“I miss that! Actually having strong emotional reactions to video games. They are so much more immersive when you’re a child.” -ElbowStrike

“Diablo 2 is alive and well (if you ignore the awful servers lol). I’m playing it right now haha”

“They just remade it in more modern graphics and added QoL upgrades. Player base is extremely active right now” -ExileOnBroadStreet

“This was the greatest game of its time. I remember buying it when it said it needed a P60 but I was sure it would run on my DX4 100 that I’d recently built…it didn’t.”

“But when I was able to run it it was the best multiplayer experience I’ve ever had. Me and my mate spent weeks finishing it. Good old coaxial and IPX/SPX.” -blue_nowhere

“I was 8 when I started playing with my brother, and he said ‘go to hell’ and our mother gave him the meanest look.”

“‘No really I’m going to hell to defeat Diablo the lord of terror’” -Wyvern69

Classic Strategy, Still Going Strong

“Age of empires 2” -AdventurousExternal9

“The intro to the first game with the short clip of a guy running head first into a horse ass is still the most random shit of an intro to any game.” -Thehunterforce

“It’s got a robust community even in 2021. I will binge-watch matches on Youtube. It’s crazy how skilled the really good players are to be able to plan and execute so quickly.” -scrambled_cable

“I’ve never had much interest in the game, with maybe a total of a few hours played way back when it was new. I have watched almost all of Hidden Cup.”

“I think it’s mostly that I enjoy T-90’s enthusiasm and knowledge, but it’s also just a really good fair game for competition.” -onioning

“Very close to a perfect game imo” -aBitofRnRplease

“Definitive Edition fixes AI problems, which was one of the few issues in the original and HD Edition.” -pazza89

“Ranked multi is where it’s at. Incredibly well balanced game with how many race options?!” -Slateclean

StarCraft Lives On

“StarCraft” -Bartos565

“I often find myself thinking of cool features I’d love to see added to modern strategy games… only to remember that Brood War was already doing that 20+ years ago. Far and away one of the greatest games of all time.”

“If the pro players weren’t bored from 10,000s of hours played (and hadn’t moved on to MOBAs), I feel like it would still be one of the most-watched eSports.” -LeigusZ

“It still is one of the most watched esports and more illegal money moves through sc betting than any other esport.” -joedude

Reticulating Splines

“SimCity 2000. The music and sound effects still pop up in my head sometimes.” –Codfish_Joe

“‘YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!’ Take it easy, Reggie, they’re just roads- oh I see…” -campex

“I loved building a city, and then exporting it to Streets of Sim City so I could drive around in said city.” -Jetshadow

“There are times that I make comments about towns that would only make sense to either civil engineers or sim city players.” -MikelGazillion

“The first game I lost several days to my life to.”

“I accidentally played all through the night without getting sleep 3 times in a row. Forced myself not to “just one more minute” the game and just go to bed.” -golgol12

Wahoo! Wahaa!

“Super Mario 64.” -PrxnceZuko

“(throws penguin off the cliff)” -UnsolvedParadox

“I’ve put a lot of hours into that since I got it Xmas’98. Helluva lot of fun.” -Randyfox86

“Even when you’ve done absolutely everything there is to do in the game, it’s still a blast to just run and jump around in.”

“You can speedrun it, you can make your own challenges, you can swoop through the moat with the wing cap at maximum velocity. It’s just a crazy fun world.” -DeathbyChiasmus

Heroes

“Heroes of Might and Magic III” -joltsiboltsi

“Fell down a rabbit hole on HOMM on Friday, actually. It was so well done, used to play multiplayer with my friends and family. Brilliantly done, great story, great expansions, etc…”

“Reading up the wiki on the history, the changes with 3DO (before they went bankrupt), and so on was pretty wild.” -cavscout43

“I still play to this day.” -Jahzen6

“Same, I only play it every few years but every time I do I spend 8-10 hours straight playing. Been doing this for over 20 years.” -MrMooMooDandy

“Same. And for anyone looking to get back into it…”

“Don’t buy the HD edition on steam, buy the complete edition on GoG. And then if you want to go the distance. Go type in ‘heroes 3 HotA’ and download and install that.”

“It’s a player made expansion and balance patch. Also allows things like simultaneous turns in multi-player so you aren’t always waiting on your friends moves!”

“r/heroes3 is also a good reference!” –ApexIsGangster

It’s Truly Unreal

“Unreal Tournament is the best game nobody talks about anymore. It’s a goddamn crime that Epic just abandoned it.” -TheRealGrifter

“M-M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL” -redx1105

“I used to play UT every day for years. Just one of the best gaming experiences for me.”

“It is a shame that Epic abandoned it.” -Teleneki

“I was spending hours jumping between buildings (morpheus map) with my rocket launcher. Loved this game. (*Similarly loved Quake 3 at the time).”

“To refresh memories, a sample of someone’s gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IP909D0mlE“ -MACARLOS

I Serve The Flaming Fist!

“Baldur’s Gate.”

“Can’t count the number of times I’ve started, cheated, and stopped playing the first 4 hours of that game.”

“Edit: Just wanted to say, I actually recently(i.e.: about two years ago) bought the Enhanced Edition(and BG2EE, and Planescape, and NWN1EE and 2, and Icewind Dale….) and played through it and BG2, as well as the little bridge campaign they built (Siege at Dragonbridge?).”

“Had a fantastic time and will definitely be doing it without cheating one of these days. 😀 (I used big boy cheats to give my character like 200 9th level spell slots and just steamrolled from one side of the game to the other just to get the story)” -Alouitious

“My mother who never ever played videogames actually played through a few baldurs gates. It has to be on the list.” -BaronVonBadAsh

Hero Of Time

“Zelda OOT [Ocarina of Time]” -evilblizzardemployee

“It was that long ago? You mean I’ve been hating the Water Temple since last century?” -Kamikaze_Bacon

“Since last millennium too.” -Fission_Mailed_2

“Came here to say this. Ocarina is infinitely replayable.” -tlermalik

“Maybe I’m just a freak, but I’ve always enjoyed Majora’s Mask more than OOT. MM just feels like a more complete and vibrant world.”

“OOT is relatively unpopulated and lonely when I’ve replayed it recently.”

“Both are fantastic though.” -Piano_Fingerbanger

The graphics in older games might not be great, but some of the gameplay mechanics and stories are amazing.

They’re definitely worth giving a try if you didn’t play them when they first came out.

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People Break Down The Best Pre-2000 Video Games

There have been some truly magnificent video games made over the past 20 years, but there are still definitely some true classics from before 2000.

Redditor carlstanza asked:

“What pre-2000 video game will always be a banger?”

Build Those Coasters

“Rollercoaster Tycoon 🎢“ -matuzo

“O how the theme park manager that wanted to kill and or trap guests till death came came out in all of us!” -Gomer428

“I made drinks free but toilets $100” -Brad_Breath

“The key was to make umbrellas cheap until is started raining. Then jack the price up to 15-20 bucks. Capitalism at its finest!” -chronoboy1985

“If I had guests who were angry I would drop them into a pit with entertainers and security guards. They could only leave if they were smiling. I didn’t want them to spread ill feelings about the park after all.” -Innercepter

“if you’re doing a mission that required a certain happiness rating, your best bet was to round up as many unhappy people as you can near the end and drop them in the lake. the trick was to kill them close to the end, so you didn’t get the safety violations dragging you down until after the mission cleared.” -skivian

“Zoo Tycoon, the original game was older than me and It genuinely was my childhood. It’s such a genuine shame you literally can’t access really anymore like Rollercoaster Tycoon. Microsoft just literally rerelease the game to be accessible everywhere and you’d make a killing.” -PyroTech11

Silos Needed!

“Command and Conquer Red Alert.”

“Granted it’s a slightly modded version I play still, but damn does it hold up nicely with a tight little community.” -schofield101

“Best. Soundtrack. Ever.” -DrainageSpanial

“I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical man… that was the one my best mate use to run around and sing 🥰“

“Age of Empires was another favourite x” -pikachu_cat

Absolutely Diabolical

“Diablo. I remember being like 5-6 years old and absolutely terrified of the butcher. ‘Ahh fresh meat!’” -AFerretWithAHuge

“And the caves had a sick metal soundtrack.” -DrunkPole

“My brother and I would watch my dad play. We were too young to be “brave enough” to play past the opening church levels, so the Butcher and Leoric were about as far as we would ever go on our own.”

“My dad used us to farm too. I managed to get the timing down on the duplication glitch, so I would just get him stacks of gold, potions, and scrolls while he was at work.” -Jester04

“I miss that! Actually having strong emotional reactions to video games. They are so much more immersive when you’re a child.” -ElbowStrike

“Diablo 2 is alive and well (if you ignore the awful servers lol). I’m playing it right now haha”

“They just remade it in more modern graphics and added QoL upgrades. Player base is extremely active right now” -ExileOnBroadStreet

“This was the greatest game of its time. I remember buying it when it said it needed a P60 but I was sure it would run on my DX4 100 that I’d recently built…it didn’t.”

“But when I was able to run it it was the best multiplayer experience I’ve ever had. Me and my mate spent weeks finishing it. Good old coaxial and IPX/SPX.” -blue_nowhere

“I was 8 when I started playing with my brother, and he said ‘go to hell’ and our mother gave him the meanest look.”

“‘No really I’m going to hell to defeat Diablo the lord of terror’” -Wyvern69

Classic Strategy, Still Going Strong

“Age of empires 2” -AdventurousExternal9

“The intro to the first game with the short clip of a guy running head first into a horse ass is still the most random shit of an intro to any game.” -Thehunterforce

“It’s got a robust community even in 2021. I will binge-watch matches on Youtube. It’s crazy how skilled the really good players are to be able to plan and execute so quickly.” -scrambled_cable

“I’ve never had much interest in the game, with maybe a total of a few hours played way back when it was new. I have watched almost all of Hidden Cup.”

“I think it’s mostly that I enjoy T-90’s enthusiasm and knowledge, but it’s also just a really good fair game for competition.” -onioning

“Very close to a perfect game imo” -aBitofRnRplease

“Definitive Edition fixes AI problems, which was one of the few issues in the original and HD Edition.” -pazza89

“Ranked multi is where it’s at. Incredibly well balanced game with how many race options?!” -Slateclean

StarCraft Lives On

“StarCraft” -Bartos565

“I often find myself thinking of cool features I’d love to see added to modern strategy games… only to remember that Brood War was already doing that 20+ years ago. Far and away one of the greatest games of all time.”

“If the pro players weren’t bored from 10,000s of hours played (and hadn’t moved on to MOBAs), I feel like it would still be one of the most-watched eSports.” -LeigusZ

“It still is one of the most watched esports and more illegal money moves through sc betting than any other esport.” -joedude

Reticulating Splines

“SimCity 2000. The music and sound effects still pop up in my head sometimes.” –Codfish_Joe

“‘YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!’ Take it easy, Reggie, they’re just roads- oh I see…” -campex

“I loved building a city, and then exporting it to Streets of Sim City so I could drive around in said city.” -Jetshadow

“There are times that I make comments about towns that would only make sense to either civil engineers or sim city players.” -MikelGazillion

“The first game I lost several days to my life to.”

“I accidentally played all through the night without getting sleep 3 times in a row. Forced myself not to “just one more minute” the game and just go to bed.” -golgol12

Wahoo! Wahaa!

“Super Mario 64.” -PrxnceZuko

“(throws penguin off the cliff)” -UnsolvedParadox

“I’ve put a lot of hours into that since I got it Xmas’98. Helluva lot of fun.” -Randyfox86

“Even when you’ve done absolutely everything there is to do in the game, it’s still a blast to just run and jump around in.”

“You can speedrun it, you can make your own challenges, you can swoop through the moat with the wing cap at maximum velocity. It’s just a crazy fun world.” -DeathbyChiasmus

Heroes

“Heroes of Might and Magic III” -joltsiboltsi

“Fell down a rabbit hole on HOMM on Friday, actually. It was so well done, used to play multiplayer with my friends and family. Brilliantly done, great story, great expansions, etc…”

“Reading up the wiki on the history, the changes with 3DO (before they went bankrupt), and so on was pretty wild.” -cavscout43

“I still play to this day.” -Jahzen6

“Same, I only play it every few years but every time I do I spend 8-10 hours straight playing. Been doing this for over 20 years.” -MrMooMooDandy

“Same. And for anyone looking to get back into it…”

“Don’t buy the HD edition on steam, buy the complete edition on GoG. And then if you want to go the distance. Go type in ‘heroes 3 HotA’ and download and install that.”

“It’s a player made expansion and balance patch. Also allows things like simultaneous turns in multi-player so you aren’t always waiting on your friends moves!”

“r/heroes3 is also a good reference!” –ApexIsGangster

It’s Truly Unreal

“Unreal Tournament is the best game nobody talks about anymore. It’s a goddamn crime that Epic just abandoned it.” -TheRealGrifter

“M-M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL” -redx1105

“I used to play UT every day for years. Just one of the best gaming experiences for me.”

“It is a shame that Epic abandoned it.” -Teleneki

“I was spending hours jumping between buildings (morpheus map) with my rocket launcher. Loved this game. (*Similarly loved Quake 3 at the time).”

“To refresh memories, a sample of someone’s gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IP909D0mlE“ -MACARLOS

I Serve The Flaming Fist!

“Baldur’s Gate.”

“Can’t count the number of times I’ve started, cheated, and stopped playing the first 4 hours of that game.”

“Edit: Just wanted to say, I actually recently(i.e.: about two years ago) bought the Enhanced Edition(and BG2EE, and Planescape, and NWN1EE and 2, and Icewind Dale….) and played through it and BG2, as well as the little bridge campaign they built (Siege at Dragonbridge?).”

“Had a fantastic time and will definitely be doing it without cheating one of these days. 😀 (I used big boy cheats to give my character like 200 9th level spell slots and just steamrolled from one side of the game to the other just to get the story)” -Alouitious

“My mother who never ever played videogames actually played through a few baldurs gates. It has to be on the list.” -BaronVonBadAsh

Hero Of Time

“Zelda OOT [Ocarina of Time]” -evilblizzardemployee

“It was that long ago? You mean I’ve been hating the Water Temple since last century?” -Kamikaze_Bacon

“Since last millennium too.” -Fission_Mailed_2

“Came here to say this. Ocarina is infinitely replayable.” -tlermalik

“Maybe I’m just a freak, but I’ve always enjoyed Majora’s Mask more than OOT. MM just feels like a more complete and vibrant world.”

“OOT is relatively unpopulated and lonely when I’ve replayed it recently.”

“Both are fantastic though.” -Piano_Fingerbanger

The graphics in older games might not be great, but some of the gameplay mechanics and stories are amazing.

They’re definitely worth giving a try if you didn’t play them when they first came out.