What is your favorite retro (pre-2000) video game?

[Gernia 690]

First one that comes to mind is Street Fighter Alpha 3.

[Applezack 3]

Final Fantasy Tactics gets my vote. I still haven't beat it...

[Jennabun 1,578]

POKEMON SNAP. Boom. No contest.

[Snow Frostflame 3,567]

Mario Party 1,2, and 3..... Legends of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask....... and Super Mario 64....

 

I can't decide which one is favorite.... they're all good

Edited June 4, 2015 by Snowflake Frostflame

[IcyHaze 593]

So many to choose from...

 

Metal Gear Solid, Spyro the Dragon, Age of Empires, MediEvil, Dark Colony...

[King Sejong 858]

   I like arcade games like Pac-man and Asteroids, then I got my Super Nintendo with my favourite games, Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario World, the Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past, Star Fox, then I got PlayStation I liked playing Resident Evil one and two, on the Apple II I liked Chip's Challenge and Prince of Persia.

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,329]

I can't really put my finger on one. I mean, I could just cop out and say Gen 1 Pokemon games, but even those have a lot of problems.

 

I guess I'll got with Super Mario World.

[LeonShi500 155]

For 2D games, the Sonic the Hedgehog games that were on the Sega Genesis.

 

3D wise, Probably Star Wars - Dark Forces, Majora's Mask or Super Mario 64. I'm slightly leaning towards Dark Forces as my favorite of the three.

[The Real Minty <3 217]

My two favorites would have to be
 

Pokemon Yellow

Final Fantasy IV (known as 2 in america for the snes)
 

[A Black Circle 1,585]

For 2D games, the Sonic the Hedgehog games that were on the Sega Genesis.

 

3D wise, Probably Star Wars - Dark Forces, Majora's Mask or Super Mario 64. I'm slightly leaning towards Dark Forces as my favorite of the three.

Another DF fan! Yaaaaaay~

 

I always call Doom "Dark Forces Beta" or "Dark Forces: Inferior Edition"

[LeonShi500 155]

Another DF fan! Yaaaaaay~

 

I always call Doom "Dark Forces Beta" or "Dark Forces: Inferior Edition"

Lol, yep. I didn't play it during it's heyday, but a just a few years ago. I first learned about it from a mod for Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy that recreated the first six levels and after finishing it, I thought the story was pretty darn good. I especially liked the whole Idea behind the Dark Troopers. I thought that the Dark Trooper project was one of the coolest ideas the empire ever thought of. I decided to play the game and I really enjoyed it. The Dark Troopers are still my favorite droids from Star wars... well, I don't know if that last one counts as a droid. 

I liked the idea behind the Dark Troopers so much that I wanted to buy a Phase 3 figure of one. Unfortunately, the one that I've had my eye on for so long goes for prices typically over 90$. I'm not going to shell out that much money for a toy, even if it does look this good.

Edited June 4, 2015 by LeonShi500

[Sir Cal Stonehoof 596]

Since when did games before 2000 become considered retro? lol

 

I have several ones on my list.

 

Chrono Trigger (SNES)

Harvest Moon (SNES)

Final Fantasy 3/6 (SNES)

Harvest Moon 64 (N64)

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past (SNES)

Super Mario Bros. (NES)

Super Mario World (SNES)

[Sugar Pea 2,681]

I don't know the specific name, but I used to play the crap out of Kirby! Cutest retro game ever.

[Omar 692]

I would have to say Chrono Trigger is my favorite.

[TubeSock2018 325]

Man, a lot of you keep mentioning games I wanna mention, but for the sake of going with the flow, I'll just go out and say Earthbound simply because it's the only game I've ever beaten and immediately started a new file. Like, beat the final boss, credits rolled and started up a new file. It was like my mind wasn't sure what it had just experienced and wanted to do it again. I think that's the sign of an amazing game and I assume that should give it the spot as my favorite.

 

But there are so many games that are right underneath it that I hold near and dear to my heart like Turtles in Time, Earthworm Jim 2, Banjo-Kazooie, Ocarina of Time, TMNT 2: The Arcade Game, Donkey Kong Country 2, yadda yadda yadda. I could go on talking about games that I couldn't see myself ever turning away. Any of these games could easily be considered my favorite, but I'll give that distinction to Earthbound. I love it.

I stood in line for like 3 hours just to pre-order the Ness amiibo. 

[KirbyFluttershy 2,517]

Well out of the top Favorites and by system, I would go with

 

NES:

Legend of Zelda

Wizards & Warriors 2: Ironsword

Super Mario Bros. 3

Dragon Warrior / Quest 3

Kirby's Adventure (which is also Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland as a GBA remake)

Mega man 5

Donkey Kong

River City Ransom

Gradius

Life Force (Salamander in Japanese)

 

SNES:

Super Mario World

Super Mario RPG

Yoshi's Island

Kirby Super Star

Kirby's Dreamland 3

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Final Fantasy 2/4

Final Fantasy 3/6

Earthbound

Chrono Trigger

Secret of Mana

Secret of Evermore

Mega Man X2

Gradius III

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

and WWF Raw

 

N64:

Quest 64

Diddy Kong Racing

Harvest Moon 64

Banjo-Kazooie

Banjo-Tooie

Jet Force Gemini

Donkey Kong 64 (DK64)

Star Fox 64

Super Mario 64

Yoshi's Story

Perfect Dark

Super Smash Bros.

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Pokemon Stadium 1

Pokemon Snap

Pokemon Puzzle League

Bomberman 64

Bomberman Hero

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour

Duke Nukem 64

007: The World is not enough

 

PS1:

Final Fantasy Tactics

Legend of Mana

Digimon World 1

Castlevania: Symphony of The Night

Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy IX

Future Cop L.A.P.D

The Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norsewest

Mega Man X4

R-Type Delta (happened to play it on my cousin's PS2)

Saga Frontier

Twisted Metal 2

UmJammer Lammy

Wild Arms 1

Xenogears (Only played the Vs. Mode)

Xevious 3D/G+

 

Gameboy & Gameboy Color:

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Both Original and DX)

Final Fantasy Legend III

Tetris

Pokemon R/B/Y

Pokemon G/S

 

That's pretty much all of my Favorite games, but some games were released in the year 2000 so I'm not even sure if they can be an exception or not so they were on the mark based on the release date.

[CosmicSpark 2,120]

Snes:

 

Super Mario World

Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island

Donkey Kong Country 1 - 3

Terranigma

Killing Instinct

Mortal Combat 1 & 2

 

N64:

 

Super Smash Bros

Mario 64

Donkey Kong 64

Yoshi's Story

Mario Kart 64

 

PS1

 

Spyro The Dragon

Croc

Crash Bandicoot 3 Warp

GTA 1 

[KraznorG 28]

Well, my favorite retro game is Super Mario World, which is my favorite video game of all time.

 

Like I've said countless times before, I've replayed it TONS of times, and I still find it fun to play.

Agree wholeheartedly, recently played the GBA port for the first time which added some Yoshi coins. Was fun seeing the same levels with a slight SLIGHT twist to them. Still haven't completed everything in that version of the game, think I missed one of the alternate completions in World 6. 

 

I really feel its the best Mario game. They avoid some of the formula (specifically, no dedicated ice world. Why have a garbage world that isn't fun to play?) and Yoshi has never been better in any subsequent title. Biased horribly I guess, too many hours playing it in my formative years, but I still stand by that game being profoundly fun which can't be said of all games from that era. 

[Discordian 6,013]

Eeeeeeh. Most of my favorite games are from post-2000. I've been playing video games since long before then but older games just don't stand up to the games of today anymore.

 

But to be on topic, I'll throw Wild Arms 2 in as my favorite since that's literally the game that got me into the RPG genre.

[ponylaces 1,869]

Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and Super Mario Bros 3.

I've heard some people say SMB3 was boring, but I actually really liked it.

[Axel 1,053]

the original super smash bros.

[Dynamo Pad 10,777]

My favorite retro game would probably have to be Mario Party 2. 

[Guest]

RTS: Starcraft, Warcraft III, Age of Empires 1 & 2.

 

Action/RPG: Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Icewind Dale, Diablo II, Fallout 1 & 2, Divine Divinity, Dungeon Siege.

 

Shooters: Medal of Honor Allied Assault,Counter Strike Anthology.

 

Other: Sim City 3000.

[Sommar 1,289]

These games. I played with them throughout my childhood. I couldn't just pick one; they were all awesome.

 

[FlutterVi 2]

More than I could name...

But I'll just say Super Mario Smash Bros and Adventure Island 3