I started writing my top ten yesterday and then had to give up as i was finding it very hard to decide on what i wanted to chose. Hopefully this will be a better attempt. In no order, just as they come to me.
1).Elite on the BBC Micro - The first time i left Lave space station, followed quickly by the realisation that i was viewing a 3D universe in which i had an unprecidented amount of freedom to blaze my own path. Still my favourite game of all time.
2.)Seeing Tomb Raider on the Saturn running for the first time. A friend and I watched it running in a shop before it was on general release and my friend completely missed the point of the graphics and what was happening on screen by simply saying "Graphics look a bit jaggy". The fact that it was a 3D character acrobatically moving around a fully 3D world which looked like nothing i'd seen before simply amazed me. It was a bit of a jaw dropping moment for me. Obviously i picked up the Playstation version a short time later and it looked even better than the saturn one. Who can say T-Rex
3.)The Chaos Engine - I just loved the Ending complete with sampled speech "I have guided you here so that you may set me free.... the chaos has ended. You will be remembered..." The overall style of the game was just amazing as well.
4.)The first time i heard a computer speak. I think it may have been Ghostbusters on the C64. Press the space bar in time with the music.
5.)Call of Cthulhu : Dark Corners of the Earth - A fairly new game which i play on XBox (shortly to be released on the PC and i'd recommened it to everyone). The escape from the village hotel is one of the most frightening and stressful parts of any game i have ever played, and i've been playing a long time
6.)Shadow of the Beast - Another Jaw dropping moment for me, much in the vein of Tomb Raider. It was simply just amazing i'd never seen or heard anything like it. I'd been used to playing on the C64, Spectrum, Beebs etc at the time i first watched it. To see Beast running on the Amiga was just a world apart. The music was, and still is amazing. How many layers of parallax scrolling ?
7.)Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain - When i first heard Kain speak, i just knew that i would love the game. A prime example of what a difference talented voice actors and good dialogue/story can make. The 3D Kain games continued with this tradition but didnt have such an effect on me as Blood Omen.
8.)Pro Pinball : Timeshock - Who needs a real pinball table, it looked and sounded for all the world like a real table. One of my favourite games of all time. A quick mention of my old pinball favourites on the Amiga as well, the Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions series.
9.)FF VII - The story in general and the death of course. Much like everyone else.
10.)Eye of the Beholder - Although i had played Dungeon Master on the Amiga and the Bards Tales game on the C64, i really class Eye of the Beholder my real introduction to computer Role Playing. I suspect that its down to it using the D&D rules and something about it just caught my interest. Never did finish it though which is something i keep meaning to correct. I almost completed the sequel but could never quite beat the final boss.
1).Elite on the BBC Micro - The first time i left Lave space station, followed quickly by the realisation that i was viewing a 3D universe in which i had an unprecidented amount of freedom to blaze my own path. Still my favourite game of all time.
2.)Seeing Tomb Raider on the Saturn running for the first time. A friend and I watched it running in a shop before it was on general release and my friend completely missed the point of the graphics and what was happening on screen by simply saying "Graphics look a bit jaggy". The fact that it was a 3D character acrobatically moving around a fully 3D world which looked like nothing i'd seen before simply amazed me. It was a bit of a jaw dropping moment for me. Obviously i picked up the Playstation version a short time later and it looked even better than the saturn one. Who can say T-Rex
3.)The Chaos Engine - I just loved the Ending complete with sampled speech "I have guided you here so that you may set me free.... the chaos has ended. You will be remembered..." The overall style of the game was just amazing as well.
4.)The first time i heard a computer speak. I think it may have been Ghostbusters on the C64. Press the space bar in time with the music.
5.)Call of Cthulhu : Dark Corners of the Earth - A fairly new game which i play on XBox (shortly to be released on the PC and i'd recommened it to everyone). The escape from the village hotel is one of the most frightening and stressful parts of any game i have ever played, and i've been playing a long time
6.)Shadow of the Beast - Another Jaw dropping moment for me, much in the vein of Tomb Raider. It was simply just amazing i'd never seen or heard anything like it. I'd been used to playing on the C64, Spectrum, Beebs etc at the time i first watched it. To see Beast running on the Amiga was just a world apart. The music was, and still is amazing. How many layers of parallax scrolling ?
7.)Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain - When i first heard Kain speak, i just knew that i would love the game. A prime example of what a difference talented voice actors and good dialogue/story can make. The 3D Kain games continued with this tradition but didnt have such an effect on me as Blood Omen.
8.)Pro Pinball : Timeshock - Who needs a real pinball table, it looked and sounded for all the world like a real table. One of my favourite games of all time. A quick mention of my old pinball favourites on the Amiga as well, the Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions series.
9.)FF VII - The story in general and the death of course. Much like everyone else.
10.)Eye of the Beholder - Although i had played Dungeon Master on the Amiga and the Bards Tales game on the C64, i really class Eye of the Beholder my real introduction to computer Role Playing. I suspect that its down to it using the D&D rules and something about it just caught my interest. Never did finish it though which is something i keep meaning to correct. I almost completed the sequel but could never quite beat the final boss.
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!! I was absolutely buzzing after that fluke. Lol.
Best moment? When you go into the toilets and look in the mirror. I had to go take a shower and change my underwear.
