This is merely a list of games that have some sentimental value to me. The list is considerably larger than what I have listed here, but these are at or near the top of the heap. Perhaps one day I’ll get around to making this an index, with each game having their own page.
Mortal Kombat and I go way back. It’s a franchise that remains near and dear to me, and that’s all I have to say about that. I’ve started a few MK-related projects, but they’re still very much incomplete:
- Mortal Kombat Bible – This is a text document I started back in the mid-nineties that has gone through several iterations, containing anything and everything I could find about the Mortal Kombat games and franchise. At one point in time it even contained the e-mail addresses of Ed Boon, John Tobias and Dan Forden. It’s still incomplete as of this writing.
- Mortal Kombat Wiki – Using the Mortal Kombat Bible as a foundation of sorts, this is a Mortal Kombat wiki in its early development stage. I’m sure this will receive several make-overs as well, as I’m not very pleased with its current state.
- Mortal Kombat Gallery – Pretty self-explanatory. This site is devoted to images that have to do with MK, such as box art, comics, artwork, screenshots — you name it. Also serves as a depository for images that will be used for the wiki. Currently down until I find a more suitable gallery script.
I’ve also written other various things, some of which are rough drafts:
mkdfat.txt – Mortal Kombat: Deception Fatality Guide
mk_advance.txt – Mortal Kombat Advance FAQ
mk3_snes_manual_(wip).txt – Mortal Kombat 3 SNES Manual (Incomplete)
mk2snes-beta.txt – SNES Mortal Kombat II (Beta) Glitches/Bugs
mk2psx-gs.txt – Mortal Kombat II PSX GameShark Codes
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior rocked the arcades back in 1991 when I was only 10 years old. I remember playing it at 7-eleven every morning before school — when loitering wasn’t frowned upon — and have been a fan ever since. Street Fighter II: Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting quickly followed, fueling the Street Fighter II craze by adding numerous game play enhancements and playable boss characters. Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II Turbo were released a couple years later, which included even more game play tweaks and 4 new characters.
When the original SFII came to Super NES in 1992, it sold like hotcakes. My brother and I were fortunate enough to get our hands on the last copy at our local K-Mart. The excitement during the ride home was almost unbearable. It was practically a religious experience opening the box, inserting the cartridge into the console, flipping the power switch on and seeing the title screen for the first time as we listened to that familiar tune. Many, many hours were spent playing this game which, like MK, remains dear to me.
Many Street Fighter games, revisions and crossovers have been released over the years — the most recent being Super Street Fighter 4 and SSF2T HD Remix — proving that Street Fighter is still alive and well.
Alone in the Dark may have created the survival horror genre, but Resident Evil defined it. This game was nothing short of awesome. So awesome, in fact, that it saw a remake on the Nintendo GameCube just 6 years after its original release on the Sony PlayStation. I recall the many times my brother and I would rent the PlayStation from our local Blockbuster before we actually owned one, with Resident Evil being one of the first titles we played on it. We instantly fell in love with it. Who doesn’t love zombies? Every time we rented the PlayStation, Resident Evil was included. I would stay up all hours of the night just to play this game. On one occasion, I played it for so long that I fell asleep during my session, but was awakened by the guy screaming during the intro screen, which scared the shit out of me. Good times indeed. Not only did we not own a PlayStation at the time, but we also didn’t have any memory cards to save our progress on. After so many tries, however, it became second nature to me and I was finally able to complete the game without the use of a single typewriter.
Little did we know then that the game would become a huge franchise, spawning several sequels, 4 feature films (and a reboot on the way), a CGI movie, comic books, novels, and so on. The main plot and characters have kept me engrossed over the years, with the recent release of Resident Evil 5 finally bringing the major plot points to a close. Have we seen the last of Resident Evil? I certainly hope not.
Halo is yet another series I’m a fan of. You either love it or hate it. When Halo was released on Xbox, I was a hater. There, I admit it. My pre-mature judgment was based on the fact that it had similarities to Doom (green-armored space marine, anyone?), which is another series I’m fond of. Then, one day, a friend brought his Xbox over to my house along with his copy of Halo, and the rest is history. I can’t count how many Halo matches I’ve played over system link, but it was good times and some of the most fun I’ve had playing video games with friends. Ever.
Although it didn’t have the same appeal as the first Halo, I religiously played Halo 2 over Xbox LIVE with some friends, with over 4,000 matches currently under my belt. My Halo 2 days are over now, but the passion continues.
Doom is one of the first PC games I ever played, and also one of the most widely ported video games in the first-person shooter genre: starting with the original MS-DOS version (released as shareware on December 10th, 1993), it has been released officially for 7 computer operating systems and 9 different video game consoles. Unofficial Doom source ports — based on the GPL-released source code for the Doom engine and made by fans — have been created for many others as well. Although the popularity of the Doom games dropped with the release of more modern first-person shooters, the game had still retained a strong fan base that continues to this day by playing competitively and creating WADs (the idgames FTP archive receives a few to a dozen new WADs each week as of 2005), and Doom-related news is still tracked at multiple websites such as Doomworld.
Released on January 2nd, 1997, Diablo is a dark fantasy-themed action role-playing game that took much of its influence from roguelike games.
Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras, located in the world of Sanctuary, Diablo has the player take control of a lone hero battling to rid the world of Diablo, the Lord of Terror. Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen dungeon levels, ultimately entering Hell itself in order to face Diablo.
An expansion pack, entitled Diablo: Hellfire, was released in 1997, although it was not created by Blizzard Entertainment. This was followed by a sequel, Diablo II, in 2000, and a third game, Diablo III, was announced on June 28, 2008, at Blizzard’s World Wide Invitational in Paris, France.
As much as I hate it sometimes, I’ve been playing WoW for over 5 years now — since launch. I wouldn’t call it a passion as much as I’d call it boredom. I list it here merely for novelty. Although I’ve taken several breaks away from it (a practice I consider healthy), I always come back to it sooner or later. I do enjoy other games and activities, and I don’t let WoW dictate everything else. I play both Alliance and Horde on Uther. My account status is currently Frozen.
My Toons
 Derowen – 80 Night Elf Priest Edenia – 42 Draenei Shaman Gaita – 60 Human Warrior Ishbel – 66 Human Mage Ounce – 40 Gnome Rogue Priscilla – 71 Human Warlock Riri – 80 Night Elf Death Knight |
 Selvaria – 80 Blood Elf Paladin Stornetta – 33 Tauren Druid |
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- List of commercial video games released as freeware (Source: Wikipedia)
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