I am going to start mentioning nostalgic games for the first console my family ever owned which is:
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Here in Australia nearly everyone had a SMS at the time. I never knew anyone with an NES and It wasn't until a couple of years after the N64 was released that I first saw a NES game in action.
I can remember my older brothers would go to school and trade/borrow different SMS games off friends so we had different games to play almost every week, it was amazing. For some reason I used to love just watching my brothers play more than actually playing the games myself, which is odd because I find it hard to watch people play video games now.
Anyway, I was going to ramble on about Alex Kidd in Miracle World, the original Wonderboy and Choplifter; which are all so nostalgic to me, but everyone has heard about those games a million times so I decided to talk about a few games that I grew up with that don't get mentioned too often:
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I would play this game so often it is ridiculous, it almost as if this game was made for nostalgic memories. There is no way anyone who played this game as a 5yr old would not get an overwhelming sense of nostalgia when playing years later.... well that's how I feel anyway. It is such a simple action game with a decent dose of strategy and who didn't love throwing money at the enemy soldiers to get you to join them. I believe this game should be played by every kid as one of their first video games because it is a perfect introduction to video gaming.
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This Sega Master System version was the first Sonic game I played. I still enjoy this more than the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive/Genesis, I just believe it had much more creativity in the level design and the levels are much more exciting. There was also more variety in the game play compared to your typical Sonic game, for instance; you jumped into mine carts, hang glided, jumped inside air bubbles to reach a higher platform and most importantly to me in this game was that the underwater stages didn't boring. Finding the Chaos Emeralds through the levels was always more fun than playing a bonus stage and I always thought that was a great idea and should've been implemented in the future Sonic games. One thing that lets this game down compared to other Sonic games is the boss battles which can be rather dull at times. Still this was a great introduction to Sonic and I believe it is still an awesome game.
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This game is awesome and just does not get the credit it deserves. I think this game is well ahead of Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion and Legend of Illusion as the best in the series. I was fortunate enough to play this game when I was a kid and I just love every part of it. It had the amazing game play of Castle of illusion and just expanded upon it and brought in lots more exploration and secrets to the table. The Illusion series is one of my favourite video games series ever, each game is just amazing but this one seems to have been the forgotten one...well maybe apart from Legend of illusion...
...I will leave this as to be continued for now as there are plenty more games I would like to mention and not just for the SMS either.