What Games Make You Feel Most Nostalgic?

What video games make you feel most nostalgic?
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[PatTheNESpunk]

What games are you most nostalgic for? Do you get transported back to the time and place where you played them?

[edenthekii]

Link to the Past. My parents bought my sister and I a SNES but we were too young to be any good at it, so my mom started playing it. I spent so many hours sitting on her bed watching her play it and I treasure those memories.

[BeerdyBruceLeeCentral]

Final Fantasy 7. I remember running down to the local videogame store and bying it the day of release. I played it every day for months on end with my friends. That was a great year, I always get nostalgic when I think about those days and the great times I had playing Final Fantasy 7 with my friends.

[DuelingDragonAdventures]

When you're a little kid, the arcade seems like a whole other world. That's mainly because the cabinets tower over you, it felt like you can get lost in there. And it felt like you were in a place that wasn't made for adults, almost your own personal Disneyland. When you're an adult and two feet taller, and you've been jaded by decades of gaming, arcades don't seem as awe-inspiring.

[herbiehusker]

Gangster Town for the Sega Master System.

[mikemercury]

Back in the days when Arcade games had better graphics then the home consoles.

[CalebMichaelRiley]

Mario 2, Sonic 2, Castlevania SOTN, Final Fantasy 7, Duke Nukem 3D
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GANGSTER TOWN!!!

[senzomcmanus]

I just finished a restore on my Track and Field arcade and the sound of pounding buttons when we fired it up was like a wave of nostalgia hit me.

[MisterRetro]

I remember always seeing Amboy Cinemas when riding in my parents car but never was able to go there!
Most nostalgic for TMNT, Temple of Doom, Roadrunner, and Super C at the Ground Round, then there was Crime Fighters at Shoprite, Lifeforce at a local pub, Spy Hunter at McCrory's, Shinobi at a drug store, DK Jr at a hotel, and tons of game at Jenkinson's boardwalk! :D =)

[gonzomax]

Anyone remember built in cigarette holders and ashtrays on the old arcade cabs? Great memories.

[ThoseGuysPlay]

Dangit Pat. At first, when you started talking about arcades I thought, "I dunno", but when you started describing where you played these machines, memories starting flooding back. There was this bodega near my house that used to have Tekken and MVC and some other stuff when I was 9 or 10, but then they closed down the back and I stopped going haha. -Matt

[rossmorton]

Outrun does it for me. Not necessarily the game, but the music.

I used to go to the same holiday town every year when I was a kid and it had a big arcade on the beachfront, no matter what you were playing, or how loud it was, you could always hear Magical Sound Shower coming from the big Outrun machine at the front of the arcade.

[toxicmatrix]

I have a theater 10 mins from my house. They actually were blasting for a while to build the thing. Its mostly underground and has like 40 screens. The place is MASSIVE! Has cops usually directing traffic even though there are about 3 sets of lights to get out of the place. lol

[TheRicFactor]

Wow, Pat is so right in that when you name an arcade game, I can remember where exactly I played it at the first time. Tron - Diamond Jim's, Donkey Kong - Kroger's, Commando - Wallbangers, Wrestlefest - HEB, Mortal Kombat - Casa Linda Flea Market, etc... Just thinking about so many arcade games I played and where they were does bring a flood of nostalgia.

[subzero]

Super Mario Bros./ Duck Hunt and Wrestlemania for NES are very nostalgic for me, because those are the very first games I had when I got my NES for Christmas of 1989. Mortal Kombat is also another big one that brings back a lot of nostalgia. I remember going to the arcades, bowling alleys, and skating rinks to play it. I used up hundreds of dollars in quarters playing that game. MK2 and MK3 were very similar experiences. I remember my Mom letting me miss school on Mortal Monday, September 13th, 1993 and taking me to pick up my copy of MK that day. Great times!!!There are so many games that bring back a lot of fond memories for me.

[MrYTGuy]

They tore it down a couple years back but my local mall had two theater screens in the basement. And if you rounded a very shady corner in that basement you'd find a spaceport hidden away. I remember begging my dad for quarters for just one more game while he sat outside smoking.

[SamusGunship]

You said "I can remember where I was the first time I played the arcade game APB" and I immediately smiled and chuckled and thought, "I can too". Funny that

[FretzlemaniaPod]

When I was about 7, our local Beckers (Circle K) had a TMNT Arcade Unit. It made my brother and I late for school several times, as we'd walk past daily and think "hey lets grab a quick game, got a quarter?"

[Kate-E]

Tomb Raider 1 from Core Design. Played the heck out of it the summer I turned 13. I associate that time with a period right before I became a teenager and everything started to become complicated. It was my last summer I really remember being a child, full of wonder and unafraid of the world. When I hear the first few chords of the theme song, I tear up a little. I started playing it on Steam recently, and it reminded me of those simpler days.

[natemo]

Being a child in the mid 80s was awesome. I was about 5 and I would sometimes go with my older brother to one place, then my parents realized that there was a lot of drugs going on there, then neither of us were allowed to go. Wasn’t til a few years later when kid friendly arcades like Aladdin’s Castle started popping up in malls.