Shooter
Quake 3 Arena - The first completely smooth online shooter in my mind. Matching was a breeze and the map design was beautiful. The BFG was born. Who needs a story line when you have this kinda gameplay?

RPG
Baldur's Gate - The big leap from Ultima games to a real RPG that felt like a true D&D experience. Before there was FF, there was the Gate.

Real-time Strategy
Age of Empires 2 - There were many RTS that were good, but none that were this balanced, which is the name of the game in RTS. A true multi-dimensional game of chess.

Sports
Sega NHL 92 - Great game... before Tipper Gore made them take the bleeding head twitching bodies out. Nothing felt as great as getting a one-timer... and it helped that Roenick and the Blackhawks were great back then.

Shooter: Doom.

RPG: Shining Force II

RTS: Command and Conquer/Sim City. Can't pick between them.

Sports: NHL '92 is a great pick.

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Team Cutler.

Sports: it was probably NHL 97 for the sage saturn, with some Panther's goalie on the cover...

FPS: Original Medal of Honor...

Driving: Driver

Racing: Gran Turismo 2

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

This obviously is influenced by age. I grew up on Atari 2600, but it wasn't until the mid-1990's that I really got into gaming. I suppose if you were born in the 1980's your list is quite different.

Back when I had time to play games.....this is the winner. Spent endless hours playing this in col......um, when I was younger.


Mud, you have like 16 kids. How do you have time to play games?

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Dude... when everyone is in bed. I'll grab an hour or two at night. Makes for a sleepy morning. I probably only game 4 hours a week, if that. Back in the day, I could game 4 hours a day.

#fasttrack

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Shooter - Wolfenstein 3D: PC

Sports - Madden 91: Genesis

Platform - Burgertime: Intellivision

RPG - Dragon Warrior: SNES

RTS - Ceasar 2: PC

MMORPG - Ultima Online: PC

Racing - Pole Position: Arcade

Looked it up to see if it was 2 or 3 and was going to edit it to Sim/Strategy/whatever but forgot

RPG: Final Fantasy I

Adventure: Blaster Master / Legend of Zelda

Racing: R.C. Pro Am / Gran-Turismo I

Shooter: Guardian Legend


Platform: Castlevania

RTS: Warcraft

FPS: Wolfenstein 3D

Flying: Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter / Wing Commander

Sports: NHL '93 / FIFA Soccer for 3DO

Shining Force II is one of the best.

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rpg- Final Fantasy
fps- Doom 64
driving- Pole Position
fighting- Street Fighter II
platform- Super Mario Bros.
Adventure- Legend of Zelda
Sports- Baseball on Atari 5200

Shooter - Doom
RPG - Final Fantasy 2
Adventure - The Legend of Zelda
Sports - Tecmo Bowl
Racing - RC Pro AM
Platform - Super Mario Bros

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"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."

Anyone remember the PC game Descent? Loved that game.

What launched the genres for me....enough quarters to pump into the games.

Especially the games that cost a whole fifty cents.

Oh....then Pong, Breakout, Pitfall (on the original Atari) and Football on Intellivison

Now I feel old

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.