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Hard to settle on just one. In no order:
I played Dungeon Keeper like mad back in the day.
It is a seriously incredible game. Such a clever concept so well executed. I know I already said it, but fuck EA, seriously, for ruining this franchise and any chance of a proper revival.
Seriously EA, WTF?
It is payday
Your creatures are fighting amongst themselves!
I played chu chu rocket on the game boy advance obsessively after falling in love with the Dreamcast one one fair blockbuster rental weekend
Wait a minute. It was ported to gba???
https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/2010/02/chuchu_rocket_retro
<3 Enjoy
It was the very first third party game Sega released after pulling out of the hardware race. It was a GBA launch title if I remember right and it was seriously fucking weird booting up my new Nintendo handheld and seeing SEGA on the screen!!!
That's a cool bit of trivia, I had no idea. Just goes to show how eras change as far as how you get information. Back then if it wasn't something that caught my eye in that months issue of EGM, it wouldn't really be on my radar. I'm still waiting for the GBC port of RE1 that got previewed in EGM and never released :)
Honestly it's still surreal to me to see the Sega logo (or hear the voices "Seeeeegaaaaa" when they use it) on a Nintendo system. It was such a bloody divide back in the day.
Heh yeah, I don't know if you're in the UK, but we had a service called Ceefax/Teletext, which was a text based service sent through to your TV (sorry if I'm explaining obvious things)
Digitiser was the games magazine on Channel Four's Teletext service. It was about 30 pages in total, split between news, reviews, features, and letters. It was updated every day. I was the very first person to know about Sega pulling out back at school in my class because Digitiser had the news that very same day.
Digitiser was also fucking hilarious. They got pulled from air more than once due to their content constantly pushing boundaries. A feature each week had a different guest writer (all fictitious), such as Mr T (constantly shouting about people messing with his bins), Fat Sow (a pig), George Michael and Phil Mitchell from EastEnders. I genuinely miss it so much. At least we have it mostly backed up online! Here's one day during the CD32 era, including a contribution from Liam Gallagher: https://www.superpage58.com/digitiser-vault-teletext-screenshot-image-archive-2018-01-03.htm
When they finally got cancelled, they had a final message, asking you to press reveal on the remote. When pressed, it showed you the channel Four Teletext mascot, turner the worm (a pink worm), being sick (white fluid). Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like: https://live.staticflickr.com/212/506622777_1b9520378f_z.jpg
And it was fucking insane
Lol wow. I'm from the US so that is all completely unknown to me. I'm very sure we didn't have anything quite like that. Fascinating!
You've named some classics there!
chuchu rocket - I first played this when it came out on the GBA as a launch title. It was the first Sega game released for a Nintendo console, ever, after they discontinued the Dreamcast. Aside from being a fantastically addictive bastard of a game, it was also a surreal experience seeing sega on a Nintendo console. Seems normal now, but back then it was fucking weird.
Mario Paint - had this on the SNES with the mouse! Great memories. Been playing it again recently on my MiSTer FPGA along with a modern optical mouse!
Super Tennis is indeed awesome and the 3D effects were mental back then. Still great fun
Cel Damage I got as a rental along quite a few times as our blockbuster had a three for price of two deal back then. I never bought it but it was great for occasional parties and shit
Brain Age I never got along with, not interested in fishing, and not played the football game (is that really football, as the ball being kicked, or American hand-egg? No idea, but I'll give it a go!)
I love hearing that others have memories of these games! I actually kind of forgot how great the 3D effects are in super tennis. I need to go back and play it again, it's been many years.
Super Play Action Football is indeed football of the american variety. I have no idea if it will appeal to someone who isn't a fan of the sport but it's a fun approximation and IMO it stood out from the very crowded pack of that era.
DK2 took up far too much of my teenage life
Play action football on NES was our game. It was the only 4 player football game around until Madden