What game made you say WOW?

mkjones · Post by **mkjones** » Fri May 16, 2003 4:41 pm

ok, theres plenty of consoles out there.... but what game did you see, in a magazine, or gameing store, or on TV that made you say WOW, I must have that console!

remember, these have to be CONSOLE SPECIFIC games, i.e. Sonic = MegaDrive, Mario = NES,

so, you cant say multi console games like StreetFighter 2 or something like that...

for me I reccon:

Dreamcast : has to be JSR..

Xbox : well I would like to say JSRF, BUT its 'HALO'

GameCube : Zelda made me say wow for weeks

GBA : Super Mario World 2 (portable SNES games!?!)

PlayStation : ermm, this is hard? cant think of ANY!?

N64 : Maro 64 (did you just say 3D Mario?!)

PS2 : probably GTA3... I have the PC version...

old school:

MegaDrive : Sonic 1 ("wow! its like a cartoon!")

SNES : Super Mario World, I know I said it for the GBA but

wow..

Atari : PitFall.. what a game

GameBoy : Tetris.. not the looks but the playbility...

I GUESS THATS IT?!

you?

Mugworm_Griblick · Post by **Mugworm_Griblick** » Fri May 16, 2003 4:45 pm

at the time i bought each system, all these games were console specific.

Dreamcast: Soul Calibur and Shenmue
Saturn: sonic 3d
n64: Mario Kart
PC: Quake 3, medal of honor, and RTCW

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Fri May 16, 2003 4:48 pm

DC - soul calibur (9-9-99)
sega genisis - sonic 2
sega master system - outrun
nes - tmnt 2
snes - super mario world
pc - hl mod: counter strike

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Fri May 16, 2003 4:49 pm

Oh man...

Hitman2... PSO.... Midtown Madness (the first one)... BF1942..

Basically any new-release that i've ever gotten.

Post by **pixel** » Fri May 16, 2003 4:50 pm

The game I really freaked out about was Super Mario World... it was soooo different and beautiful
Mario 3 had that same effect

Post by **|darc|** » Fri May 16, 2003 5:07 pm

PC - Doom 3. Wow.

mkjones · Post by **mkjones** » Fri May 16, 2003 5:35 pm

I never said about the PC so....

I suppose it was Starfleet Academy

Firthy2002 · Post by **Firthy2002** » Fri May 16, 2003 6:27 pm

NES - Super Mario Bros 2 (AFAIK the first game I played ever!). Took me 14 years to get one though!

MegaDrive - Sonic The Hedgehog & Streets of Rage.

SNES - Super Mario World.

PSX - Tekken 2.

GameBoy - Tetris.

N64 - Mario Kart 64 & Lylat Wars (Starfox 64).

DC - Sonic Adventure.

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Fri May 16, 2003 6:36 pm

Unreal Tournament (original) - PC
Soul Calibur - PC
Transport Tycoon - PC (Hey, I was a kid and it looked like a big trainset

)
DK Country - SNES
Stunt Race FX - SNES (wow, 3D!!!!2)

Edit:
Oh yeah, Tekken 2 on the PSX (which looked so damn good back in the day)
SMB 1 - GBC ("Wow! Looks just like the NES! cool!")

Post by **Specially Cork** » Fri May 16, 2003 8:09 pm

OK, these are not my favourite games (well some are) these are just ones that for me, have a high wow factor...

Dreamcast:
Shenmue (The opening sequence, the graphics, the emotion)
Shenmue II (Disc 3 and the ending)

PS2:
GTA: VC (I played this before GTA3, and everything I did was just so cool)

Gamecube:
Super Smash Bros Melee (I hated the original, and I was amazed how much i loved this)
Zelda: WW (Just the size of it)

PlayStation:
Wipeout (Playing this for the first time, showed me the dawn of a new videogame generation)
Metal Gear Solid (First game I played through with a proper story, beautiful)

N64:
Perfect Dark (Not as good as Goldeneye overall, but everything new amazed me)
1080 Snowboarding (The speed and the landscapes)

Mega Drive:
Sonic 2 (The first game I ever full completed)

SNES:
F-Zero (I didnt have a SNES, but this game wouldve amazed me at the tme)

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Fri May 16, 2003 8:28 pm

NES: Kirby's Adventure - I played this around the time that I was starting to get bored of my NES, but it was the first game I played with a save feature. WOW!

Genesis: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - first game on Genesis I played since it came with the system and the first game I played that wasn't 8-bit. I couldn't believe how great the graphics looked and how fast it was.

SNES: Mario All-Stars+Mario World - all the best Mario games on one cartridge. 0_0

PSX: Final Fantasy VIII - I had my PSX since it first came out but this was the first game I played with a really great story, I couldn't believe how great a game it was after I beat the first disc.

N64: Super Mario 64 - the first 3D platformer game I played (Crash Bandicoot doesn't count) and it had great music too, just listening to the soundtrack brings back really good memories.

DC: TIE for Sonic Adventure and PSO - Sonic Adventure for its graphics and speeds, the smoothest game I had ever played at the time, PSO for being so interactive online, that game isn't just a game, it's like a community

GC: Metroid Prime - this and SSBM were the first two GC games I got, but I had played SSBM at a friend's house before and the graphics don't really show off GC's power, but when Samus did the morph ball for the first time on Metroid Prime I knew how awesome the GC was.

PC: Nothing yet, my PC is crap and doesn't play games past the speeds and graphics of Duke Nukem 3D.

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Fri May 16, 2003 8:44 pm

ps2: FFX
ps1: FF7
SNES: Super Metroid
nes: Zelda
Gamecube: Resident Evil 1
Xbox: None yet
GBA: None Yet
N64: Mario 64 (Very impressive for its time)
Genesis: Good ole Sonic 1

Tank-X · Post by **Tank-X** » Fri May 16, 2003 9:36 pm

NES - Crystalis
SNES - Chrono Trigger (first RPG experience.....I just walked around the fair for a long time at first)
N64 - Conker's Bad Fur Day (They talk! Their mouths match the words! The bad king guy's fingers individually tap his glass of milk! You can urinate on your foes!)
GC - The only game I've played is Star Fox Adventures....Metroid looked pretty sweet though
GBA - Lunar Legend

PS 1 - Final Fantasy VII
PS 2 - ICO (Simply beautiful looking game)

FFgamer · Post by **FFgamer** » Fri May 16, 2003 10:55 pm

SNES - FFVI
PSX - FVIII
GBA - Golden Sun, Lunar
PC - Warcraft 3
DC - Shenmue

SadisticSaviorX · Post by **SadisticSaviorX** » Fri May 16, 2003 11:24 pm

ps2: Vice City
ps1: Metal Gear Solid
SNES: Super Metroid
nes: Rush n' atack
Gamecube: Resident Evil 1 / 2
Xbox: Halo!!! / Mechassult
N64: Goldeneye
Genesis: Sonic 3
PC: Red Faction 2 (you can blow holes in walls!!! shortcuts (need i say more?!?)
Dreamcast:Resedent Evil CODE : Veronica / Phantasy Star Online (i loved pso but my mom broke it

does anyone have that game so i could buy it off you?)

MetalGearRay · Post by **MetalGearRay** » Fri May 16, 2003 11:50 pm

DaWhiteNigga wrote:Gamecube: Resident Evil 1 / 2

Resident Evil 2 for Gamecube made you say wow?

Mountain Dew · Post by **Mountain Dew** » Sat May 17, 2003 12:02 am

PS2 GTA VC WOW

Xbox Splinter Cell WOW

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sat May 17, 2003 4:56 am

BMXXX.

When I heard about it.

You didn't say we had to say 'wow' in a good way - I went 'wow' in such a shameless and cynical product getting green lighted and actually ever making it into the shops.

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sat May 17, 2003 5:12 am

Nyar, if you are considering that fact that it uses topless women to seell a crap product, I could give you a list of games that go one step further than that...of course, theyre all dodgy hentai ones, but still. they're not exactly up in the higher echelons of gaming...

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sat May 17, 2003 6:20 am

BoneyCork wrote:Nyar, if you are considering that fact that it uses topless women to seell a crap product, I could give you a list of games that go one step further than that...of course, theyre all dodgy hentai ones, but still. they're not exactly up in the higher echelons of gaming...

They're also not released by one of the major software company / publishers on the planet (Acclaim).

Its like Warner Brothers releasing a Snuff movie at the Box Office.