Nice list :) I have to include Pokemon red in mine too because I played and finished it around the same age :) I think hunting for missing Number corrupted one of my saves!
- Christmas when I was even younger we got a NES with Mario 1 on it and I was the first in my family to finish the first level. This was the first game I'd played.
- During the 90s playing various RTS games like Age of Empires over LAN was awesome. As well as making horrid bitmap skins for doom mods and then later on it was all about Quake.
- Recently I've been enjoying anti-games like Dear Esther and Firewatch that are not really games in the traditional sense but provide a lovely narrative to enjoy. Also great indy titles like Owlboy have really captivated the spirit of early platformers but with glorious pixel art.
- Nowadays I do some 3DCGI but making custom stuff for games to use online when I was a child is probably the best experience, not to mention a steep learning curve, of my gaming life. :)
Awesome! Yes! Games like AOE were absolutely awesome playing over LAN (I got my copy from a cereal box), all of the games you've mentioned are definitely memorable and have I have played quite some hours of.
I'm interested in checking out the re-release of Starcraft. RTS really fell down when they stopped doing pixel based art and switched to low-poly 3D IMO.
Remember Realms of the Haunting? Oh wow I replayed it recently and, although it has aged, still enjoyed it considerably. ROTH's story and general horror is totally missing from today's more atmospheric/lighting-driven narratives. :)
Oh definitely, the 3D based RTS' are pretty rubbish, and yeah SC Re-released would be pretty awesome. I definitely remember RotH and was an absolutely awesome game especially for it's time :)