games from my childhood
i was a '00s kid and only had a ds lite and a computer (and a ps2 but with only 2 games but they were good ones) so i barely played anything older than 2000 or not on those systems until i was a teenager. i did have that one friend with every console so i occasionally played stuff at his house, and at one point he lent me his ps2 (and i never returned it) but for some reason i never got around to buying or asking him for anything more than those 2 games. on pc i just had my parents' games (my dad liked rpgs and my mom liked strategy), but flash games were at their height in the late 2000s so i played tons of those.
i'm definitely forgetting a lot so i'll probably update this
i'm definitely forgetting a lot so i'll probably update this
38 Games
my first pokemon game! i'm still very fond of sinnoh and excited for the remakes.
this is my favorite pokemon game to this day. the story felt much more personal than any other game i had played at that age. the characters had more personality than any mainline pokemon game - and certainly more than than the pokemon themselves in mainline games! i had a zigzagoon in my party that i got early on and was absolutely delighted by how he walked in a zigzag in dungeons. he was kinda shit later on but i never did evolve him or take him off my party except in dungeons where i needed a very specialized team. zigzagoon is still my favorite pokemon. the soundtrack was kind of a bop too. for some reason i never did get any further pokemon mystery dungeon games, though.
very good, even without any gen 2 nostalgia appeal. just an extremely solid pokemon game.
i didnt play this one until after heartgold so it was weird realizing "wait, they didn't make up kanto in 2009?" i initially didn't like this one that much. eventually my ds's card slot broke so i could only play gba games on it and this was my only gba game so i played it a ton. i still don't like it as much as the gen iv games but it did grow on me.
wasn't a fan of this one aesthetically; i was too attached to the gen iv style. dunno how i would feel about this one now, i never came back to it after the first few months so i don't remember it all that well.
this was my shit. i adored this game. i played this a million times. i had a fucking raposa oc. i was a hardcore drawn to life fan at like age 8 or whatever.
... which is why i was so bitter about the sequel. the stuff it did with the story wasn't exactly bad (weird for a kids game tho!) but it felt like it devalued the first game so it really soured me on this one. loved the space level though.
this was fun but i only actually remember anything about the sequel.
this game ruled. everything good about the first with lots more possibilities. kinda wanna dig it up an replay it right now.
this is somehow one of the most memorable ds games for me. i can remember every level distinctly. i have no idea why; it was just an unremarkable licensed puzzle platformer.
at some point i misplaced my whole stash of ds games except for this one so for a few weeks including one road trip this was all i had to play so i played it several times. this is where my deep hatred for rising water levels comes from. also i didnt even realize this was based on a movie until last year.
i fucking hated this game. i would always lose my stylus like 2 days after i found it and doing the minigames with my finger was hell so i would always starve to death.
this game had some fun minigames and a talking car. thats all i remember. i am vaguely very fond of it but couldnt say why
this is one of the most important games to me in terms of how it shaped my tastes, although i was definitely not aware of it at the time. there's a whole essay i've been wanting for a year or so now to write on why that is, but this isn't really the place to finally write it out.
this was one of just two ps2 games i owned, and that's fine, because it was fucking amazing. i don't think i need to go into detail about why katamari is great, but i will say it's one of very few games i've played that were just as good, and in mostly the same way, when i played as a child and as an adult.
the other ps2 game i owned. like the first one but even better. we ♥ katamari is a masterpiece.
i definitely played this as a kid but i don't remember it that well because once we got civ iv i never went back to this one.
i liked civ iv, but i never stuck with a single game long enough to win because i just didn't have the patience.
this was my shit. i didn't have the patience as a kid for civ, but an rts was much easier to get into. i spent countless hours on this. my mom wouldn't let me stay up late playing it so i started getting up at like 4am instead to play until i had to go to school.
ok i'm actually using this as a stand-in for multiple homm games because i don't remember which ones i played. i'm pretty sure it was more than one of them though, and didn't include 1. these were really fun and i've been meaning to replay them for years now.
i had no idea what i was doing at all in this game but it sure was fun!
i have great memories of this game, but i don't remember a single thing about the story. i just liked making characters, fucking around for a while, and then abandoning that save never to look at it again. i also played neverwinter nights 2 and icewind dale a little bit, but not as much as this one.
backloggd is missing so many eyezmaze games! absolute top tier flash games. the grow series, obviously, which there are a few of on here, but also tontie, dwarf complete, meet in, transform, and that one 3d maze game i forgot the name of that i can't even find on flashpoint. all good shit that i had tons of fun with as a kid. the kinds of flash games that aren't just idle time wasters to play in school.
using this as a stand-in for a ton of other nitrome games. i count 170 on flashpoint (i didn't play anywhere near all of those, of course) and i know it's missing some. they vary in quality a lot, of course, as is inevitable in any body of work this large, but even at their minimum they were above the average flash fare and the best of them were some of the highest quality flash games out there. highlights: twinshot, test subject, swindler, steamlands, sky serpents, final ninja, double edged
i never played fancy pants a whole lot, actually, but what i did play was very good. just wasn't my thing back then.
now this one... definitely was just a time waster. decent one, though.
this fucking ruled. i played chibi robo and sucked so bad; my friend played sora and always beat me. good times!
this random flash game was my introduction to metroidvanias. it was quite good for what it was; i would put this in my top 5 flash games.
my mom was the one who really loved this one, actually, i never cared much for it.
playing this with my friends was a blast. i don't think it's as good a game overall as ultimate, but it was really fun as a party game and subspace emissary absolutely ruled even though i only ever played little bits of it while over at my friend's house.
this game ruled, i loved crashing into things. i sucked at it though, probably because i loved crashing into things
