Top 15 Video Games People Were Obsessed With as Kids

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So I called the Nintendo Power Hotline, and the guy informed me that no one had ever gotten as far as I had in the game there, and they couldn’t help me, but he was impressed. OBSESSED.

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I’ll go first—Adventure Island for NES. I still remember a jump in level 8-2 (before saving progress days) that I could never beat.

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1. GOLDEN EYE 007 (1997) My brothers and I played Golden Eye 007 thousands of times with friends, never did anyone play as Oddjob. But I learned how it could give a huge advantage,” admitted one.

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2. THE SIMS (2000) The Sims had AMAZING music. So if you’re any musician, or if anyone else in this thread is, and you want to nerd out completely, Charles Cornell did a quick, less than four-minute video on how they created the Build Mode soundtrack for the game

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3. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME (1998) I still remember the trick for getting ‘infinite’ Skulltula tokens in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. There’s this one hole with a Skulltula in the right position that you can kill

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4. POKEMON BLUE (1996) I had a PlayStation and a Super Nintendo, but I still remember my grandfather bringing me to Toys R Us and buying me a Game Boy Advance and any game I wanted.

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There has never been anything like Diddy Kong Racing since then,” one replied. “I even enjoyed exploring the tracks; they were like smaller worlds instead of just a track to pass through

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6. COMMAND AND CONQUER: RED ALERT (1996) My buddies and I played endless Command & Conquer: Red Alert hours. We even assigned ourselves as different military branches and methodically beat every mission

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Amazing Video Games No One Seems to Remember

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Top 15 Video Games People Were Obsessed With as Kids

So I called the Nintendo Power Hotline, and the guy informed me that no one had ever gotten as far as I had in the game there, and they couldn’t help me, but he was impressed. OBSESSED.

I’ll go first—Adventure Island for NES. I still remember a jump in level 8-2 (before saving progress days) that I could never beat.

1. GOLDEN EYE 007 (1997) My brothers and I played Golden Eye 007 thousands of times with friends, never did anyone play as Oddjob. But I learned how it could give a huge advantage,” admitted one.

2. THE SIMS (2000) The Sims had AMAZING music. So if you’re any musician, or if anyone else in this thread is, and you want to nerd out completely, Charles Cornell did a quick, less than four-minute video on how they created the Build Mode soundtrack for the game

3. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME (1998) I still remember the trick for getting ‘infinite’ Skulltula tokens in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. There’s this one hole with a Skulltula in the right position that you can kill

4. POKEMON BLUE (1996) I had a PlayStation and a Super Nintendo, but I still remember my grandfather bringing me to Toys R Us and buying me a Game Boy Advance and any game I wanted.

There has never been anything like Diddy Kong Racing since then,” one replied. “I even enjoyed exploring the tracks; they were like smaller worlds instead of just a track to pass through

5. DIDDY KONG RACING (1997)

6. COMMAND AND CONQUER: RED ALERT (1996) My buddies and I played endless Command & Conquer: Red Alert hours. We even assigned ourselves as different military branches and methodically beat every mission

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Amazing Video Games No One Seems to Remember

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