#35 | Guessed by UnderwaterFunktown My Pokémon career was short but turbulent. I religiously watched the anime, collected the playing cards, and of course played the video game. I had Pokémon Blue Version, with Blastoise proud on the cover. For a short time, this was my most played video game ever, and probably my favourite as well. When this game was relevant our dog, now long since deceased, was still young and well, difficult. He had a hand in the destruction of many things in our household. Sadly, one of those things was my GameBoy Color and I once found it all in pieces. Screen broken, speaker punctured. One thing survived. My Pokemon cartridge. A big hole in the top right corner, it still worked. I still have that cartridge, as a permanent reminder. |  |
#34 | Guessed by UnderwaterFunktown One of the greatest real-time strategy games is surely Age of Mythology. A spin-off of the Age of Empires series, I was also attracted to the game's classical, mythological theme. I was already interested in these things, and playing a game where you choose Gods for each tech advancements was right up my alley at that point. This game would become part of a small group of games we, which is me, my parents and some family friends would play together. At one point, we rented a house somewhere and brought all our computers, which during this time were huge with even huger monitors. The entire house was filled with desks, computers and many, many wires. |  |
#33 | Guessed by UnderwaterFunktown I spoke of Pokémon, but that ended for me after one generation. My other great gaming addiction was Guitar Hero, and for me this started at Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. It lasted longer too, and I would buy pretty much all the new games that would release for the next few years. And there were plenty. Novelty wins usually, and with this it's no different, though on the other hand I do also genuinely feel that the setlist of songs was best in this game, of the ones I played at least, and it's the songs that made the games. Did they overdo it with the amount of notes that needed to be played in this one? Maybe, but hey, it looked really cool when you did it. |  |
#32 | Guessed by haxxiy SimCity 3000 was a game that shaped my life. There have been a few, and I've written this sentence down for multiple games now, and there will be more, but it is true nonetheless. Together with those other games, it would help shape my life's interests and even personality. The game itself was well balanced and an innovative way to create whatever city you could think of. I made many cities, and some I'd play long enough to become quite huge. I think my largest had over 400,000 inhabitants, which is quite a lot in this game. Still though, as this game completely supplanted its predecessor because it was superior in every way, the life of SimCity 3000 would also be fairly short... |  |
#31 | Guessed by drbunnig When I was turned off from home consoles, and handhelds as well more or less, the seventh generation of video games would come along with a renewed sense of wonder. Finally, new, original and unique stuff would come out again across the board. Nintendo as well, would finally regain some former glory with the Wii with some of its great games. Super Mario Galaxy was one of those, and it was absolutely stellar. Pun intended. I was disappointed by Sunshine, but Galaxy would again make me feel like when I was playing Super Mario 64 and it helped bring me back into the fold. I loved the soundtrack, and the Observatory hub world. The combination of those is especially great. I think I'll have the Observatory theme song at my wedding. If that ever comes. |  |
