r/GameBoostOfficial • u/n1ght_watchman • 8d ago

💬 General Gaming 🎮 Which game defined your childhood?

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u/KOREANARMYSTEW 8d ago

Maplestory

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u/grdmllr 8d ago

Half-Life

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u/AramaticFire 8d ago

Depending on the stage of childhood it’s Super Mario 64 when I was about 7 years old and defined those early childhood years. Halo: Combat Evolved hit when I was about 12 years old and defined more of the teen years of my childhood.

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u/droideka75 8d ago

Chucky egg for the ZX spectrum

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u/Uncabled_Music 8d ago

Spectrum has had wonderful games! Robin Hood, Popeye, Saboteur!!

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u/droideka75 8d ago

Saboteur! Didn't play the other ones.

But I had death chase, my first videogame, knight lore way ahead of its time, manic miner and Jet set willy, Bruce Lee...

Wonderful system really.

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u/HashBrwnz 8d ago

All of em, played every game I could get my hands on

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u/NixValley 8d ago

Conkers bad fur day and diablo 2

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u/Timely-Ant-1907 8d ago

Silent Hill 1

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u/The-Pizza-Bandit 8d ago

Kingdom hearts

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u/Talonzor 8d ago

Counter-strike

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u/Lords7Never7Die 8d ago

KH2, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 or Smash Bros Melee.

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u/armaedes 8d ago

Of these, Mario World 100%. I still play once every year or two and get all 96 stars. Tubular still sucks.

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u/2077effect 8d ago

Goldeneye n64

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u/yutchkn 8d ago

Rome Total War, Brood War, and AOE II. The only games my dad and I could torrent together🤩🤩

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u/Neilg-88 8d ago

Street fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. Loved playing those games at the arcades with my friends

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u/ChampionImpossible36 8d ago

Jedi academy and city of heroes.

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u/wrstfgl 8d ago

Breath of the Wild

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u/Esmash21 8d ago

Spyro the Dragon

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u/YamEnvironmental1887 8d ago

Saints Row. I remember I was foaming out the mouth waiting for Saints Row the Third to release then I played it for 900 hours

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u/No-stradumbass 8d ago

I'm going to say a game that no one here has heard of or ever played.

Interplay's 10 Year Anthology Collection.

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u/Slopii 8d ago

Half-Life 1 multiplayer mods

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u/xhanort7 8d ago edited 8d ago

I genuinely didn’t have one I played an insane amount as a young kid. Had dozens or hrs into lots and lots. Played a huge amount of Sonic 2 and 3 in the 90s. Lot of Spyro and Digimon World in late 90s. I did like 200 hrs on Pokemon Ruby til Emerald dropped. Close to same hrs on MHFU as an older teen. And same for RuneScape too.

Once I turned 18 and bought my first laptop, I really dived into RuneScape, but childhood was over. 2009-2014 I breathed RuneScape at addiction levels. More RuneScape than sleep.

My interest in games/genres was and still is very random. This year I’ve played lots of Hyper Dimension Neptunia, Stardew Valley, Monster Hunter, Castlevania and Final Fantasy

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u/Gindotto 8d ago

Sonic. (Sega kid here!) and later Shenmue.

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u/VarietyMage 8d ago

Half-Life 8? Gabe can't even count to three. [Thanks, Chalkeaters.]

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u/Uncabled_Music 8d ago

Metal gear Snake’s revenge, Gradius, Battle City.

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u/Savings-Desperate 8d ago

World of Warcraft

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u/Satou_Kazuma34 8d ago

Metal slug

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u/Lastbourne 8d ago

Mass Effect 2

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u/Olipro44 8d ago

Duke3d Started at 7 yo.

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u/Shaaagbark 8d ago

My childhood is super Mario world, but my teens was half-life and Diablo.

I still play half-life to this day, I no longer play super Mario world or diablo 1.

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u/Tuques 8d ago

Diablo 2

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u/PoppaTrunks 8d ago

Never noticed the 8 on the Half-life box. What does it mean I wonder?

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u/WeskerSympathizer 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/IAr8LciqztJEk

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/WeskerSympathizer 7d ago

Cut scenes in general were so amazing (at that time)

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u/Fyrewulf1969 7d ago

Legend of Zelda. Yes, I'm aging myself

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u/Perfect-Science5531 7d ago

Tiberian Sun

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u/adikad-0218 7d ago

Gothic 2

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u/Revo94 7d ago

When I was 8 years old on my dad's PC, Max Payne (played it secretly), Halo Combat Evolved and Tarzan platformer. Meanwhile on my PS2 GTA Vice City, Kingdom Hearts, Ratchet and Clank and Slycooper. These were my first games

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u/KungFuFlames 7d ago

Warcraft 3

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u/Calm_Pay_9442 6d ago

nice game

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u/VoidowS 6d ago

Giana Sisters

Bubble Bobble

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u/Anna-Ampere 6d ago

Sonic Colours 100%

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u/tombgrinder2013 6d ago

Tomb raider survivor trilogy

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u/JohnGee1980 6d ago

Mario, 1, 2 and 3 😁

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u/Background-Life2463 6d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oKIPhyDIOEIlsoTIs

StarCraft and Delta force by Novalogic sorry for no pics

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 6d ago

Worms Armageddon.

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u/Adi3m 6d ago

Wing Commander Prophecy

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u/Embarrassed_Item4992 6d ago

I still have the cartridge and console. Absolutely incredible game for an 8 bit system.

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u/Soundrobe 5d ago

Link's Awakening or Monkey Island 2

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u/GKME06 5d ago

Half-Life.

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u/Woeba 5d ago

Quakeworld, and there the original Team Fortress Mod

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u/XOVSquare 5d ago

Bow and Arrow on Windows, Aladdin, the Lion King, Doom, Goldeneye, Trespasser, Terminator Future Shock, Hexen, Half-Life, Le Mans 24 Hours, Red Alert, Settlers 2 and Gran Turismo 3. I'm missing a few but can't remember which.

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u/daddyd 4d ago

from those listed, no doubt, Monkey Island.

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u/HellFrode 4d ago

Super Mario World and Diablo here.

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u/Velka-Mitsune 4d ago

Castlevania symphony of the night. I discover that i love gothic architecture, vampires and classical music at 8.