Gaming

Minecraft. I've been playing since Beta and host Minecraft servers in my homelab for my friends. I don't think I've gone a whole year without playing it in a very long time.

Every system I have had had Tetris on it, even my old flip phone. It’s not as good a phone game as you’d think. I still greatly prefer to play it with a proper controller.

The Secret of Monkey Island!

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I try to revisit Kingdom Hearts every few years. Same goes for Metal Gear Solid 3. I play F Zero GX pretty frequently (on Dolphin emulator now, self ripped from a modded Wii). I’ve almost completed every challenge there is on there, only a few staff ghosts left. The speedrun tech in it is pretty compelling. I also “”””speedrun”””” Super Metroid on my laptop in hotel rooms late at night when I’m traveling. I’m not very fast 😥. I’ve been playing versions of Minecraft for most of my life now, I started on version 1.3 ish. My mind was blown when they invented the hopper, so many features in one block. I’ve played vanilla and heavily modded, java and bedrock, alone and with my girlfriend. It’s a special game that will never get old.

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Every year I try to revisit some game from yesteryear that I played as a youngster

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1-4, Final Fantasy X, Halo 1, Oblivion, Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey 98', Tekken Tag Tournament, and WCW vs NWO: World Tour are some of my go-tos!

I'm playing another run of chronotrigger right now. played it on SNES (natively, believe it or not!), Playstation, mobile, pc, Nintendo DS, it's just a fun game with characters I like.

My current meta is to make it to the first time you can travel with the gate key, grind in 65M BC until I've got full screen magic attacks, then happily cruise through most of the rest of the game spamming attacks I have no business having. Later on I get charm and use double charm to get all kinds of nice goodies, finish up all the quests and lavos never saw it coming. Usually by the time I hit lavos I'll have gone through all 3 black omens.

I like to replay Pokemon Emerald version sometimes! It's fun to make up new challenges in one of the first games I played of the franchise. Those sprites and music are like a mental health cleanser for me

During a year I will probably replay one of these games: Harry Potter 2 (on PC) Jak & daxter 1 Portal 2 Kotor Gonna have to add Jedi academy to that list too

Super Mario World, for me. Donkey Country and Ocarina of Time are probably both close seconds.

There's a few too many to name a specific game, but every few months I do try to do a run of one of the NES Mega Man games. Or, for slightly later on, ever since the remastered Quake came out for the Switch I do the occasional run through one of the singleplayer episodes (particularly if I need some semi-mindless distraction and can't be at my comp)

I always return to Zelda 2 even though it's ridiculously difficult. I also airways replay Super Mario Bros. 3, Final Fantasy 6, and Castle Crashers.

I replay Final Fantasy 7 in its entirety (including Gold Chocobo and both WEAPONs) every few years. Other than that, I pull out the old NES and fire up some Tecmo Bowl every once in a while, too.

I don't think this is what you meant, but I remember the night a friend of my dad's came over and installed Doom (shareware) on our computer with floppy disks. I remember not being allowed to play it at first and then, when I finally was, being mesmerised by it. Up until that point I'd been playing Wolfenstein 3D and thought that was as good as it gets. Textured floors, ceilings, stairs and exploading barrels blew my little mind.

So my tradition is that some version of Doom I or Doom II is on basically everything I have. Android (Delta Touch as I love the voxel mod), Switch, Steam Deck - whenever I have a free moment and want to play something but I don't know what it is, I probably bash out a few levels of Doom.

It's perfect to just pick up and play and for some reason I never grow tired of it... which is weird as I generally don't replay games unless I really like them.

Every year I do a playthrough of F.E.A.R., the first 4 THPS games, and Silent Hill 1 and 4!

Spyro the Dragon
Playing the reignited trilogy nowadays, but always played them on ps1 here and there.

Around Christmas it's always Quake. Brings me back to my favorite Christmas memories. It was 1996 and playing that on my HP with Intel I processor was magical after playing Wolf3D with PC speaker sounds.

Mario Party and Bomberman are the go-to's anytime me and my out-of-state friends meet up, I would see them at specific fighting game tournaments every year but I've fallen out of FGs so I don't know if they keep it going.
Also not quite tradition but every couple years I replay Xenoblade 1. Just did my 4th playthrough last year.

Whenever I'm having a bad mental health week I'll do a run through of Psychonauts. Psychonauts 2 was amazing and I've got 103% on it but the original just scratches that itch. Especially Black Velvetopia.

Used to do the original Ninja Gaiden. 6-2 reminds me why I hate birds.

Most times when a friend comes over I play some fighting games usually Street fighter 3.

Super Mario 64! I still have a functioning Nintendo64, but I also have the official switch version!

Portal 2! I really wish valve would make make a portal 3, fortunately community mod like portal reloaded exist

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Illusion of Gaia, both for SNES.

Two of my favourite games growing up, still have both complete in their boxes. Have bought and sold a lot of games over the years but these two were just something special that I could never get rid of and I still play em almost yearly.

Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask. Was the first console game I ever played, and it holds a very special place for me.

Every Christmas I sit down and play the same map Christmas map in Viscera Cleanup Detail.

As for playing tradition. I will always fall back on Tyrian 2000, which I have dubbed as the best use of 15 megabytes you can use. It's a top down shmup from the way back that has a lot of gameplay, plenty of awesome weapons, secrets, and a decent mobile port.

Oh man every now and then I’ll break out a classic for nostalgias sake. In no particular order

1. Super BomberMan
2. MinerVGA
3. Warcraft II
4. Super Mario World
5. City Connection

Crash Bandicoot 2. I used to play it once a year, not so much since the remakes came out. I need to bring out the OG soon.

Baulder's Gate Dark Alliance, but it's not a childhood tradition as I'm far too old for that. My wife and I play it every new years eve.

Either Minecraft or Sonic the Hedgehog 3 would take that title for me

Both of those are games I've played LOTS of when I was younger (well, I am still quite young) which provided me with lots of fun and I just kind of come back to playing them periodically.

Either because there is some cool new community project I want to try or because I just miss playing the games.

There's not one specific game but every year I revisit at least one game from my childhood. Crash team racing, tony hawk 4, resident evil 4, metal gear solid 3, crash twinsanity, guitar hero 3, cold winter, medal of honor vanguard. I'm thinking of revisiting croc, mercenaries 2, prince of persia, or marvel ultimate alliance this year.

Not really childhood more like teenage but mass effect is one I regularly go back to.

Final Fantasy X is a game i always come back to. Have played it already serveral times.