Nostalgia 101: 8 Old Games Close To My Heart |

 Remember those times when games used to be more fun than competitive? Yeah, I miss those days too. If you were a 90s or early 2k kid, theses 8 games will send you to a trip down the memory lane!

1. 3D Pinball: Space Cadets

Okay this is probably known by everyone. Launching the ball with all of god's might and then goes into the sky, hitting the flappers when it comes down or just holding them up like the filthy camper that you are. In any case, this was the arcade game digitalised and one of the first games I played on my home computer as a kid. 

2. Super Mario

This game needs no introduction. Most of us had this as our first game and grew up with various versions of it. Jumping from pipe to pipe dodging turtles and hitting our heads on the bricks for points and coins to save the princess kidnapped by an even bigger turtle boss all while jumping (and falling) from cliffs. I think this game may have sparked my ragequit tendencies...

3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice city and San Andreas

Probably your first open world game. Released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, these two are responsible for creating a legacy of videogames that caused the huge first 24 hours profit for GTA V. Be it following "the damn train" or planting helicopter bombs, the Grand Theft Auto games were certainly challenging. They taught me patience in life.

4. Contra

Contra is a run and gun video game developed and published by Konami, originally released as a coin-operated arcade game. The player's default weapon is a rifle with unlimited ammunition that can be upgraded into one of four other guns. These can be obtained by destroying the pill box sensors and flying item capsules containing them, or by defeating the red-clad guards in the enemy bases. 

-Wikipidea

5. Road Rash

This was my first driving game. Cruising through the streets of various maps racing against your friends, constantly upgrading your bikes and KICK. One of the games that just make you calm and extremely agitated at the same time. If you're good, you play in the City. If you're not good, you play in Napa valley. Hideous artwork for loading screens was funny. This game taught me competition.

6. Purble Place

A fairly newer game yet not so new to not be included. Primarily made for small kids, purble place had the make a doll, same tile identification and, my personal favourite cake shop. This was THE game to play sneakily on your school computer.

7. Counter Strike 1.6

Predecessor to the highly popular CS:GO, this first person shooter was also very popular among the kids and adults. Be CT or T that was your choice. Playing on the local server with your friends during the good old days with various maps and guns to buy with your earned money. This game taught me FPS for future games.

8. Pac-Man

And to properly conclude this list, we have the iconic Pac-Man, it's innumerable sequels and fan versions. Be a yellow disk that eats things and evades from being eaten by ghosts, hide in a maze of tunnels and hope you don't lose because, mind you, the ghosts are fast.

Some quotes:

"Lat marayla jam Maja yaychi." ("It was fun to kick the opponents")

-Aasawari, on Road Rash

"Games in whole time used to be like a much more entertaining than games now games now have many glitches and the game freezes the device doesn't support it but the games in our time used to be like Super Mario Contra that we used to play that a lot but games now doesn't have that kind of entertainment and it doesn't energizes like that only."

-Harshit Sharma, local OG gamer 

What were your favourite old games? Tell me in the comments and follow for more lists and articles.

Good game to you!