Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you'd expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS's dual screens. It's also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I'm so sad there's no sequel :(

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[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Hard to settle on just one. In no order:

ChuChu Rocket (Dreamcast): insanely fun and manic couch multiplayer game
A10 Tank Killer II: Silent Thunder (PC): the soundtrack alone justifies the time to play this aging flight sim
Virtual On (Arcade): this was ported to Saturn and the port is good, but the giant arcade machine is where it's really at with dual twin stick cockpits
Mario Paint (SNES): Really fun non-game from a time when non-games were uncommon on home consoles. I have hundreds of hours into this
Dungeon Keeper (PC): darkly comedic evil dungeon lord management sim. I will never forgive EA for what they did to Bullfrog and subsequently the DK franchise. There have been many attempted homages and clones but none have captured the magic.
Super Tennis (SNES): an actually fun tennis game
Super Play Action Football (SNES): football game with a unique isometric view
Hank Parker's Super Black Bass 2 (SNES): super fun fishing sim. I wish there were games like this today that took fishing more seriously and less arcadey.
Brain Age (DS): a genuine sensation in its heyday and largely forgotten now. Really showed off the potential of the DS
Cel Damage (GameCube): twisted metal with zany little cel shaded cartoon characters. Never got the respect it deserved and probably never will since they butchered the game's balance with the HD re-release

[–] Ace_Addams@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I played Dungeon Keeper like mad back in the day.

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ace_Addams@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Seriously EA, WTF?

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is payday

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Your creatures are fighting amongst themselves!

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