These probably occupied the most of my time over the years

Elite (BBC)
Chuckie Egg (BBC)
F15 Strike Eagle 2 (Atari ST)
Doom (PC)
Halflife (PC)

Honerable mentions to:

Midwinter 2 (Atari ST)
Quake (PC)
Sim City (PC)
Syndidate (Atari ST)
Robotron 2084 (Arcade)
Transport Tycoon (PC)
Rollercoaster Tycoon (PC)
Grand Theft Auto (PC)
Red Alert (PC)

Probably missed a load..

Harrier Attack
Fantastic Adventure (or was it amazing adventure? collection parts of a ship from inside a body while fighting of lurgies?)
Wipeout on the Playstation

Golden Eye
Horace Goes Skiing
Manic Miner
Gran turismo
Resident evil

Chronologically:

1) Manic Miner (speccy)
2) Deuteros (Amiga)
3) Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga)
4) ICO (PS2)
5) Super Stardust HD (PS3)

I'm playing one now – Demon Souls on PS3 – that could break in to that list even though it's an unforgiving, maddening, makes-you-want-to-throw-it-in-the-bin bastard of a game.

Golden eye
Horace goes skiing
Manic miner
Gran turismo
Resident evil

Half life series
Colin Mcrea series
Far Cry
Medal of Honor series
TF2

Pretty much only play HL2DM and TF2 these days though. HL2DM consumed all my gaming time over the last 4 years.

Elite (C64)
Rogue/Nethack
Doom
Quake I & II

Goldeneye
Counterstrike
Dawn of War
Rise of nations
Rage Racer

Three of which I still play!

Going to add Grim Fandango to my original 5.

Civ is crap anagellis, wtf are you on about? Closed game, no mystery, no open-endedness or exploration. Yawn.

Halflife was a great game btw but didn't last long enough. Halflife two was mindblowingly good too but I didn't finish it cos my puter played up 🙁

i should have also added zelda the wind waker to my post.it is a fantastic game.(i actually thought that the art was fantastic/different.was quite a brave move by shigeru miyamoto.)damn,why did i only say 5 games.

battlefield 1942 with or without desert combat add on
GTA Vice City- PS2. Was amazed at this game, never gave it back after borrowing it from a friend. haha
COD 4- ps3
Rollercoaster tycoon
The Sims

COD 4- xbox360
Mario Kart – SNES
Wipeout 2097 – PS2
Speedball 2 – amiga
Gran Turismo – Playsation

Arg, I missed off Unreal Tournament 99 and Quake 3 Arena!

Elite
Doom
Diablo 2
Gunship 2000
COD4 can't wait for the new modern warfare out in November

Freecell
Solitaire
Minesweeper
😉

1. SWOS (Amiga)
2. Prince of Persia (Amiga)
3. Secret of Monkey Island (Amiga)
4. Half Life (PC)
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

Ooh just been reminded of Portal.

Can i swap HL2 for the orange box, then i get portal as well.

Portal is great as a concept game to show it off. I think they are looking to include it in the next episode of HL or poss HL3.

Its a mind bending thing use, one step up form the grav gun. If they introduce it to a fast paced online DM game it will take some getting use to.

SmashTV on the SNES. I spent A LOT of time playing it, usually at about 3am on a Saturday morning after clubbing 🙂

Gauntlet worth a mention too – I never got tired of hearing "Wizard needs food, badly!" 🙂

God what a great thread… im a total geek still after all these years after my zx spectrum!

impossible to answer but i'll give it a go going in a time line styleee

1 – Manic Miner (zx) – the original classic
2 – Bubble Bobble (Amiga)- jump from spectrum 128k to amiga was huuuuge!!
3 – Tomb Raider (PS1)- amazing graphics and was just such a jump!
4 – Grand theft auto – (PS2) again amazing jump, open world environment!
5 – Call of duty – massive jump again with graphics and online play

again i agree with most of the above…

gauntlet – amazing
populous – first proper point and click
gran turismo – (ps2) wasted my life on that
syphon filter (ps1)

thing is these days the graphics are in another world but most of the games dont have the gameplay the old ones did?

For all of you that miss Elite…

Oh yeah, Day of the Tentacle. Took me months to complete but was so worth it.

Elite, BBC disc version. You could not become Elite on the tape version. Analog Voltmace joystick, hmm i played that most days for years.

Half Life Orange box

Gran Turismo, can't decide which version. Probably one with the Pikes Peak Escudo in it.

Command and Conquer, probably Generals/Zero Hour +/- some mods.

Goldeneye.

C64:
Elite
Raid over moscow

PC:
Max Payne

Console:
Motorstorm 2 (PS3)

Handheld:
Mariocart

i'm not a gamer but i remember a fantastic game that took my imagination when i was about 16 (19 years ago) it was called slaughterhouse, anyone else remember it? we used to play it in arcade version when the shows (fair) came to town. another one i remember fondly was 1941 a ww2 plane shoot-em up probably from when i was 10 years old. i'd be interested if anyone knew where to download these games for pc……..

1) Elite – BBC Tape version, killed how many thargoids before realising couldn't become Elite until I bought a disc drive 🙁
2) UFO Enemy Unknown
3) Ultima Underworld
4) Max Payne
5) Half Life series

There was also a PC flight sim that took many hours of my life where you flew an F22, but also got to conduct the war from an Awacs in a persistant campaign etc, forgot the name though

Too many to choose but this thread brings back some good gaming memories

Not really ever been into 'puter games but I really liked European Air War – more of a sim than a game. Unfortunately the Dell we've got now won't play it though.
Don't think I've played five games other than Space Invaders and Pacman.

1) Joint Operations
2) Joint Operations
3)Unreal Tournament
4) Age of Empires 2
5)Call of Duty 4

Seriously Everyone should try Joint Operations online, amazing! 😯

Guess I would like to put MS Combat flight simulator with the joystick in too, but Joint Operations must be recognised!

falcon 3 and 4
richard burns rally
GTA san andreas
oblivion
halflife 2

matt-p

f22 adf and total air war. great games

fellow sim freak, you are not alone :O)

The first Delta Force playing online with 16 others on 56k it was mind blowing.

1) Mortal Kombat Deception (PS2)
2) Burnout 3 Takedown (Xbox)
3) Metal Gear Solid (PSX)
4) SWOS (Amiga)
5) Resident Evil 2 (PSX)

Just thinking of the speccy/C64 games I've missed out…

Times move on!

Speedball 2 (Amiga)
Kick Off 2 (Amiga)
Nemesis (MSX)
COD4 (360)
PGR3 (360)

Then I suppose:

Manic Miner (and JSW)
Falcon 4.0
F1/11 Interceptor (Amiga)
Eric and the Floaters (MSX – just liked the name)…
The Great Giana Sisters (Amiga – just cause it looked so good)

No one put in for World of Warcraft yet?

1 WOW
2 Elite
3 IL2 Sturmovik (way better than MS Combat 3 flight sim)
4 Sim City 2000
5 TV Sports football on my mates Amiga.

WOW No sorry it's evil wasted weeks of life playing that, gaming buddies back playing it I can here them now on our VOip trying to do an instance.

Never mind they'll wipe soon and then we'll play worms.

Bollocks. I've just remembered I loved R-Type too. Oh, and Stunt Car Racer (good call).

I never considered myself much of a gamer but I'm tempted to bin the wife tonight and break out the Mame emulator on the original XBox for a bit of R-Type and Gauntlet…

In no particular order :

Resident Evil 2
Half Life 2
Medal of Honor : Allied Assualt (SP & MP)
Call of Duty & United Offensive expansion (MP – before they broke it)
Battlefield 2 (MP)

with honoury mentions to :

Rogue Spear (first steps into MP)
Soldier of Fortune 2
The other Resident Evils
Silent Hill 1 to 3 (currently playing "Homecoming" which looks pretty good too)
Metal Gear Solid
Tomb Raider 2 & 3
Battlefield 1942 (esp. Desert Combat Mod)
Colin McRae Series
Tony Hawk Series
Lock On
etc.