A Sequential List of Game Experiences that I Remember

todo: fix indenting
House games:

the floor is lava (also played at playgrounds)
Playground games
tag, tag variants, four square, HORSE
Board games:
Carom, Monopoly, Mouse Trap
Card games:
Speed (aka Slam, Spit)
Sports
Early games:
playing video games at Jacob’s house or at my house
- Toejam & Earl, Goof Troop, Earthbound, Track & Field, anything cooperative
playing video games at Andrew’s house
- anything
playing video games at Parth’s house
- Herc’s Adventures, single player playstation RPG games played cooperatively, anything multiplayer
  Trend games:
CrossFire, that ball with strings in the center and you had to pull wide once the ball came close
Arcade games
PC Games:
Diablo I and II, Starcraft, Caesar III, Settlers II, Age of Empires II, Team Fortress [Classic], Sim City 2000
Nintendo 64 multiplayer games
Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Mario Party
JRPGs
Final Fantasy VII and IX, Super Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger
Emulator games:
Harvest Moon, older JRPGs (Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Mario 64
Pokemon Red and Blue
[first year college]
Halo 3
World of Warcraft
Team Fortress 2
[after first year]
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Shadow of the Colossus (and Ico)
Braid
lectures by Jonathan Blow, Jenova Chen, Chris Crawford, EGP, and everything else
advent of indie games
Jason Rohrer, Anna Antropy, etc.
IGF games
playground games revisited
New York:
lectures by indie artists and professors
Babycastles
- every game exhibition
  - that time where Wu-Tang member had a concert at 285 kent with Pole Riders and MEGA-GIRP in the lobby
  - Atari game exhibition with lecture by Ian Bogost and that one dude who spilled his heart into making games for Atari
  - Space Cruiser
  - that time where Keita Takahashi designed a bunch of games and they made it forreal (was not there, only read article)
- many interactive art exhibitions
  And then I started traveling and stopped consuming media, especially games.

May 30, 2014 ·