double dragon was fucking superb, especially in 2 player, always ended in us beatin the shit outta each other instead of the bad guys, and throwing flares at each other and shit, great! i had a commodore64, games cost like $5 and took at least 15minutes to load, anyone remember the dizzy games? the platform games with that little egg type guy, those games were sooo much fun, then i got a nes, omg mario 3! hehe, then i got a sega megadrive or "genesis" and was blown away by sonic2, grahics were amazing for the time, and one of my fave games of all time golden axe! was almost exactly the same as the arcade version, hehe i loved riding those fire breathing dragons! then of course the super nes and super mario world, i played that game non-stop for months until completing all 97 levels, anyone remember that fucking huge bazooka type gun thing that you used with the super nes, it was shittt!!! then i remember getting street fighter2 and i thought it was superb until mortal kombat came out, i dont think anyone ever beat me at that game muahahaha, then i got a playstation when they first came out and had wipeout, ridge racer, die hard trilogy, tomb raider, resident evil etc... they were completely different to anything that had gone before it, and made a nice change from button bashing and bleeding fingers
then i got an n64 just to play goldeneye, all the other games were shit, and then i got a ps2 the day they came out and wasnt very impressed, have yet to find a good game for it, it really only gets used for playing dvd's now
i've given up on consoles now, would much rather frag someone over the internet, single player games are very very boring these days, not much skill involved in completing them, just a matter of sitting back for a few hours watching the fmv sequences and all the dialogue, i got max payne and it took me like 10hours to complete, probably spent more time watching the cartoons than i did shootin bad guys, and the sad thing is its probably one of the best games in recent years...in terms of quality and gameplay, the old lucas arts puzzle games like monkey island and day of the tenticle were probably the best ever made, the graphics were not great, there was no complex plot, no great story, just great puzzles that took ages to figure out, but when you did figure them out the feeling was fantastic! and they had great, funny scripts, they didnt take themselves too seriously and were not so totally over dramatic like most of the games are today
