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[RCmodeler]

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For me it was H.E.R.O. I didn't even know it existed! I was a huge fan of Atari, Commodore, and Activision. How on earth did I miss this cool game??? I finally discovered it in 2002... 18 years after release!

The other is Final Fantasy. I'd nevr heard of this game until I saw the FF10 commercial. It was the sexy girl that caught my eye.

[NE146]

Pitfall 2.. I was never too impressed with Pitfall (the game, not the graphics which of course impressed me). It just seemed a lot of walking and no action to me at the time, so I passed on Pitfall 2.

Bad idea, Pitfall 2 was far and away a better game. I'm sure I would've been blown away had I tried it back in the day

[Raijin Z]

Shit, almost every NES game ever made. SUCKS GROWING UP POOR, IN CHILDREN SERVICES' "CARE".

[Adrian M]

For me it would have to be...
DARK CHAMBERS for the 2600.
It featured all the classic gameplay of
the 2600 version of Berzerk, but with adventure
elements and a long quest! Sadly, I passed this
great game up during my NES phase, only to rediscover it
a year ago.

[Ze_ro]

Hmm... lets see... Berzerk and Wizard of Wor come to mind. A lot of the early arcade games were just slightly before my time (I was born in 1980), so I only really got a chance to play them when I found MAME.

--Zero

[SS]

I used to play HERO all the time on my 800XL back in the day. I never knew that it had been released for the 2600 too. What a pleasant surprise back in '97 or '98 when I stumbles across one!

[bergbros2]

Would you believe Super Mario 3? I never played it until the GBA Super Mario Advance 4 came out. It is one of those things that I'm glad being late than never. Same thing with Zelda, Link to the Past.

[tyranthraxus]

Wizard of Wor, just got it for the 5200 never played it before. I
discovered the excellent CRPG Wasteland on a Computer Gaming
World CD-Rom in the late 90s. I had wanted that game badly for my
64 but just never got it.

[Bivotar]

For me it would probably be Beamrider. I love that game. Never played it or even recall hearing about it back in the day.

Also I would have to say discovering the Intellivision was a lot of fun. I grew up with the 2600 and moved on to Colecovision and C64. Pretty much skipped the whole Intellivision era, except a few times at friends houses. I really enjoyed discovering the many unique and fun games on the Intellivision.

[joeybastard]

Space Dungeon on the 5200. I only knew one kid growing up who had a 5200 and he didn't have Space Dungeon. When I got mine from an auction that was one of the 36 carts I got with it. I love that game but unfortunately my cart of it died recently.

[Room 34]

Circus Atari and Stampede... 20+ years later!

Both games looked boring to me as a kid so I was never interested in them. Got 'em both last year and they're now among my favorites!

Also, anything NES. I played my friends' NES games as a kid but didn't have my own until this year.

[DracIsBack]

NES - THE LEGEND OF ZELDA. It was one of the few NES classics I hadn't played before.

[Famicoman]

That game Yoshi, or Yosi Land for the NES, just saw it at EB yesterday.

[candiru]

Indy 500 and Warlords come most noteably to mind. I love simultaneous play on the 2600.

We only had about a dozen cartridges for our 2600 back in the day, and I never had a chance to become familiar with a vast majority of the games available. That's what makes this hobby so fun for me, almost every new acquisition is a surprise.

[Xot]

Rally-X. I'd never even heard of it before Namco Museum... and I can't believe I missed out on this great game.

[Big Player]

I add Beamrider as well. I knew of the Intellivision version since it came out but I had no idea until a year or two that they made a 2600 version.

It's a great game too.

[Video]

I don't know when it come out on Atari, but Gravitar was the one for me. I was sick of all the side scrolling space shooters at the time. And I was like "wow, defender with gravity" so I passed it up. Wasn't untill 98 that I finely got a cheap copy of the game and played it. It's gone to one of my more favorite games on the system.

[Jasoco]

Sonic 1, 2 and 3. Being a Nintendo fanboy caused me to miss a lot of good games.

[davidcalgary29]

I didn't discover the joys of "Mr. Do!" for the A8 until 2002. I had shied away from the game for years, thinking that the inferior "Mr. Do!'s Castle" was representative of the entire Do! family.

[cimerians]

-- many many arcade games thanks to MAME and the loads of roms that were available years ago, Guzzler comes to mind.
-- Final Fantasy (original NES)
-- Legend of Zelda (original NES)

Yes, I never owned or played through the original NES Zelda until I finally got the collectors CD (that comes with the GC) a few weeks ago.

[Numan]

So many of them.

2600: Beamrider, Private Eye, Dragonstomper, Starpath Frogger
INTV: Thunder Castle, World Series Baseball, Slam Dunk
O2: KC Munchkin, Quest for the Rings

[Shannon]

NE146 said:

Pitfall 2.. I was never too impressed with Pitfall (the game, not the graphics which of course impressed me). It just seemed a lot of walking and no action to me at the time, so I passed on Pitfall 2.

Bad idea, Pitfall 2 was far and away a better game. I'm sure I would've been blown away had I tried it back in the day

Hehe... funny you should mention this. I was gonna bring it up in a 2600 thread I was thinking of starting.

[Shannon]

2600 ms. pac-man, jr. pac-man, klax, centipede, millipede, and several later activision titles including pressure cooker and crackpot.

I'm sure there are more. When these came out I had long moved onto the 8-bit atari computers

[VidGameKing]

pretty much every game and most systems. You see I was never privilaged enough to have a gamming system growing up. I had a old PC 8088 I think, and a Apple IIgs, and a MAC and a MAC Classic. it was quite some time before I left MAC computers as my main computer.

[Jasoco]

I'll change my reply from "Sonic 1, 2 and 3" to "Every game on every system that wasn't made by Nintendo."