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Crypt of the NecroDancer, Donkey Kong Country 2, and Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams top my list of favorite original game soundtracks.
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Seriously though, hey.
I'm a 38-year-old woman from a magical place called rural America and a massive success, having graduated high school and wound a grocery bagger, but let's get on to what you really want to know about:I've been gaming since I first played the original Metroid when I was 5. My dad had an NES he'd bought the year before, but he hadn't succeeded in getting me into games like Super Mario Bros. or Ghosts n' Goblins. Metroid's more exploratory nature though made me want to play and I've been gaming ever since. Well with some pauses here and there. Really I'd say you could divide my peak points of interest in gaming into two time periods: the fourth console generation period (essentially the early 1990s) and the last decade or so. The leap to 3D was actually tough for me to adapt to initially.
Most of my favorite games these days are indies. Think I'm biased in favor of the often more free-spirited nature of those. In the old days when I was focused on pissing off my parents, I was mostly into tournament fighting games like Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, and the classic Mortal Kombat games, brawlers like the Golden Axe and Streets of Rage games, and some first-person shooters like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. My parents wouldn't even let me buy a lot of those games, so I had to liberate some of them from the store (security wasn't what it is today) or aggressively borrow them from friends and hide 'em. But once I discovered Out of This World and Final Fantasy VI, I also began to see video games as a storytelling medium. I've also retained a soft spot for the Metroid franchise over the years, though I have...thoughts...about how it's been treated of late. Super Metroid remains one of my all-time favorite games to this day.
Here are my favorite video games organized by year of (American) release:
1977: Surround
1978: Adventureland
1979: Adventure
1980: Zork I
1981: Utopia
1982: Zork III
1983: Kangaroo
1984: Girl's Garden
1985: A Mind Forever Voyaging
1986: Leather Goddesses of Phobos
1987: The Great Giana Sisters
1988: Phantasy Star
1989: The Guardian Legend
1990: The Secret of Monkey Island
1991: Out of This World
1992: Alone in the Dark
1993: Doom
1994: Super Metroid
1995: Chop Suey
1996: Tomb Raider
1997: Tomb Raider II
1998: Magic Knight Rayearth
1999: Drakan: Order of the Flame
2000: The Longest Journey
2001: Ico
2002: Metroid Prime
2003: Beyond Good & Evil
2004: Yume Nikki
2005: Psychonauts
2006: Okami
2007: Portal
2008: Mirror's Edge
2009: Muramasa: The Demon Blade
2010: Heavy Rain
2011: Portal 2
2012: Papo & Yo
2013: Gone Home
2014: This War of Mine
2015: Crypt of the NecroDancer
2016: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
2017: Butterfly Soup
2018: Celeste
2019: Knights and Bikes
2020: The Last of Us Part II
Favorite Multi-Year Release: Kentucky Route Zero
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I'm 38, which appears to place me in the oldest 10% of the membership.
This thread makes me feel ancient.
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I was looking for a new gaming forum to join, so I Googled and this looked like the nicest one.
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Hey, thanks! Much appreciated. 😎
My screen is a heavy stylization of my real name, so aesthetically it matters if there's an extra J on the end. Okay, will complete the profile and introduce myself properly in the appropriate forum.
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Hey. I'm new and I'll post a proper introduction soon, but before I go doing that and adding an avatar and stuff, I wanted to know if there's any way to edit out the second J in my screen name. You know, the one at the end after "Jaicee". That second J was a typo and I hope I'm not stuck with it forever.
This has been a shithole day on my end, so I sorta figures I'd start out here on this kinda note. Didn't even notice it until I got my confirmation email. *sighs*
Stupidest video game bans by regulators
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How strictly are we interpreting the term "ban" here? I ask because the controversy over Rule of Rose was by far the most ridiculous I've ever seen surrounding any one video game before. There were indeed straight-up ban proposals directed toward it in France, Poland, at the EU parliament, and it wound up being cancelled in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom as a result of all the panic. The basis? Rumors that it featured children being buried alive underground and under-aged sexual sado-masochism. In reality, the game features no sexual content at all and most certainly does not feature children being buried alive. None of this stuff was true! As a result though, very few copies of the game were ever made and it is today, on average, the most expensive PlayStation 2 game one can buy second-hand. An unused copy goes for more than $900 today on eBay.