What game do you have the fondest memories of? No GAs here sorry bots, only reading for bored humans

the time when I play worms blast with my cousin.That was so fun

Taking turns playing GTA 1 with a buddy when it was newish. Never completed any missions but had an absolute blast killing people and trying not to get busted or wasted...it was 'theshit'.XD

Diablo 2, Cruis'n World (N64) and Mario Kart 64. It's the people I had the fortune to play with that made those games rather special.

I would absolutely love it if Cruis'n World was included with the Nintendo 64 mini!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis). My brother and I used to play it a lot when we were kids.

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Getting together at a friend's house and playing tournaments in the old Pro Evolution Soccer games.
As for solo gaming, probably losing track of time completely absorbed in the atmosphere of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

There are so many titles I have fond memories of over the years, from Populous: The Beginning and Crash Bandicoot Tag Team Racing to Mass Effect and Planet Coaster, that would take forever to list them all.
The one that I feel deserves it's own mention though is the Pokémon franchise. Especially the first couple generations. That is for a very similar reason as the one you're highlighting and that was that the whole gang got together with their gameboys and battled, traded, compared and generally had a blast together. There was even a certain point during the second Gen(Gold&Silver) that we decided that we'll collectively create a full team of Eeveelutions that we'd all use and divided each eeveelution to a member of the gang. The day we were all finished and got together with our brand new Vaporeons, Umbreons etc. and traded(and cloned) them among us so we all had all 6(then) of the eeveelutions, one from each of us, is still a day I vividly remember 18 years later.

Hi Reaper, how are you? I remember Nascar very well. I painted my car too ... but what was marked in my memory was once that my parents were traveling and I played for a week with 2 friends, practically no sleep, believe it or not, Civilization 1 ... hehehe. How do we achieve this feat? I do not know either, but we really enjoyed it.

For me it's EarthBound. At the time I never really cared for RPGs, but I started off with Super Mario RPG. I was enjoying it, but never actually finished it. Super Smash Bros. Brawl was one of the main games I was playing at the time and all the different characters made me really curious. It previously made me get into Zelda, and at some point I came across finding Ness's game.

I think I first tried the game on an SNES emulator for IOS. I had no clue what I was getting into only knowing it was an RPG and that Ness is in Smash Bros.. Maybe it intrigued me because it didn't have the fantasy setting most RPGs are known for. Also having enjoyed the part of Super Mario RPG I did play and knowing this was a Nintendo game made me willing to try it. I instantly enjoyed the game. I played up to beating the Franky boss, and decided I had to play it on something better than a IOS SNES emulator.

Back then I played pretty much all games through my Nintendo Wii. This includes emulation as I don't think I had my own computer at the time (and even when I did, I liked playing on the TV with a controller). So I continued the game on my Wii through emulation and was hooked the whole time. Played it everyday from that point for many hours.

The game has funny dialogue and I've always enjoyed its clean and simple art. Music is great and has lots of variety. I think in the end, the main reason I liked the game was because it let me be a little kid go on an adventure in an almost real-life kind of world, even though there's wacky stuff everywhere. I think the reason why this works so well is because I think it still tries to portray real-life, but everything is essentially exaggerated to the point it's weird. Your playing as children so you could say it's simply the way they view the world. The game doesn't go for a complex story, rather the story is all the little moments and the people you come across through out the journey.

Toejam & Earl by far. My sister and I played this game all the time in our younger days, and even still almost 30 years later, we're still playing it.

The reboot im eagerly awaiting, though the new art style and voices really leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Fondest memories of playing with friends from childhood are primarily related to Battle City, Contra, Battletoads, Mortal Kombat. Later - Diablo, HoMM 3, Serious Sam, WoW (still playing).

KOTOR 1 & 2. I learned most of my basic english out of it.

I was sitting in front of those super-long dialogues with dictionary, and translating them word by word to be able to progress further :D

There was a snake game on the VIC 20 that came as source code in some magazine and was really fun because it remembered key presses, so it was possible to plan the movement path in advance. One of the few games that my father also enjoyed and remembered in later years.

The Sentinel on the Commodore 64 (well, C128, but it was a C64 game) was amazing because it had shaded 3D graphics instead of just wireframe, and even though frame rate of 2 FPS was common it was still great fun.

Nine Princes in Amber, a C64 adventure game, was a favourite of mine because, first of all, it was Nine Princes in Amber (and Guns of Avalon), because it had lots of text, with conversations that you could advance, and you could walk the Shadows randomly and get stuck, and you could fight using text. Beyond that, it had some animation in its images, which was mind blowing for an adventure game. The text was also very lightly compressed (just some common words replaced by codes), so it was easy to discover really offbeat text that was in it. Unfortunately I had no idea how to get to it in the game.

Knightmare was a favourite Amiga RPG. Unlike the previous games it was a pirated copy, and it had a problem (which I attributed to that) where any hit with poison crashed the game. That made it more intense, with lots of save scumming needed when fighting poisonous creatures, or clever ploys of drawing them into traps.

City of Heroes - forgot this when I first posted but it has to be here. Played it for a few years. It's the MMO I liked best. I loved that it allowed creating dozens of characters and had an actual character background box (unfortunately, typing in it was buggy), which, together with the large selection of costumes, and of course the superhero genre, it really enabled creating interesting characters, and not just the generics that I end up with in most MMOs.

Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (another late addition) - the game that's remembered for the longest gaming session I ever played, around 16 hours.

Adding a couple more that can't be left behind:

Jedi Knight - Although the overly polygonal characters bothered me, the sense of scale in that game was amazing, and it was generally possible to avoid fights by shooting enemies from afar, which helped because I'm not a big fan of shooters in general.

Unreal Tournament 2003 - that's the only online shooter I ever played to any extent. Started playing it with the guys at the office, and later played it online (and offline against the AI). I was mediocre, but I enjoyed it. I went by the handle 'Cookie', and I remember a couple of guys chatting: "Cookie? What does it mean?" "It's like a biscuit." I eventually stopped playing it because it put me in paranoid mode and was giving me nightmares.

Peggle Deluxe - the first game I bought (for myself) on Steam. A great way to pass the time. I finished it at least twice, and played it on numerous platforms (including Nokia S60).

Deathchase on the ZX Spectrum. I didn't have a Spectrum but a friend of mine had, and I remember spending quite a bit of time on that game.

It's a toss-up between Animal Crossing: City Folk and Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for me. Feel-good Wii games played on a couch under 50 blankets in winter was the life. I remember so much of Animal Crossing. Like catching my first coelacanth, nearly tearing up when my fave villagers left - that is, Roscoe and Punchy, bless 'em - and this weird bug that made it so all patches of grass eventually faded away. The grief and joy of nostalgia at its finest.

And Animal Parade, Christ, that game had so much content. Took me ruthless hours to finish the main storyline and finally get rid of that Navi-esque character (my fave moment, cheered loudly), and the bonkers ritual needed for NG+ where you casually, y'know, sacrifice your child, and all the rival event shenanigans that I never even saw all of, and arguing with my sis because god damn it, Gill was the best marriage candidate and I didn't want to compromise but I did. And the animal funerals... I love Stardew, but the little moments can't compare.

Not to mention unlocking fast travel. Had to make a bloody vegetable pizza, which took more than a whole damn year, because you needed a vegetable from each season and to finish a certain part of the story and oh man, it was annoying as hell, but the joy of never needing that slow ass horse again... I was a changed man that day.

Disciples 2 Dark Prophecy and Disgaea. So much fun on those two games. Played both for at least 100 hours. Probably more than 500 each. I used to have so much free time. Too bad I haven't enjoyed any game as much recently.

Morrowind by far the best game ever.

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with my mother and grandmother.
Also. Act Raiser 2, Zelda 1. various Super Mario games including 1-3, All-Stars, and World. one of the older Ultima games (tho I mostly just watched them play) among others. They also played Zombies Ate My Neighbors a lot. Particularly appreciate these memories because my grandmother passed away about ten years ago.

Tetris purely for being a classic. Oh. And Super Mario Kart was my jam. Aero the Acrobat (mostly it was my mother and I who played that). Others are Donkey King Country (first two I think), FF8, and FF9, because they're among the first games I completed on my own.

Can't pick just one. #notsorry. :P

Least fond? Eek! the Cat and Home Alone 2 (srsly; that damn tree boss). UGH.

double dragon trilogy on NES. Actually might be the first coop action game I played. (this or contra?) Coop is always fun

Interstate 76, the online community was awesome
Everquest, the early months were phenomenal, the community wasn't toxic yet, met and made many good friends.

Easily Final Fantasy VI (III in the US), it was the only game I ever rented that I eventually purchased for the SNES. I spent countless hours playing that game; now I own the newer version on steam, but I really do prefer the original/emulated copy. I guess my best memories of that game would have to do with figuring it all out. I didn't have a guide, or even the instruction manual. I liked that game so much, that I pre-ordered FFVII, and received it, a few months before I owned a Playstation.

For me it's Elite, which I played on Commodore Amiga with my childhood best friend.

We would turn off the light, put two kitchen chairs in front of the screen and feel like we were on a spaceship. We shared the keyboard and each of us was in charge of some aspect of the ship while we took trading decisions together.

Fun times~

Listen, I know this is an unpopular opinion. But I adored FFX-2 (and FFX as well). Before I had finished X, my sister told me what happened and still when I finished I was so sad I couldn't stop crying (I was an emotional teen).

One of my fondest memories is of fully-completed FFX-2 and seeing the ending where they are reunited. I felt such a wave of happiness, it was one of the few times I've cried from happiness. For about two years afterwards, everytime I was sad, I would watch it and suddenly I would feel so happy. I had a rough time as a teen and literally no romantic prospects, so I tended to live out romance through games, novels and other media. Seeing their happy ending and being able to imagine the feelings involved was very powerful to me. I had gone on the journey with Yuna, I wanted to protect her, for her to be happy and finally she was. She had grown, become her own person and then when you least expected it, she had got back the love of her life.

It was so satisfying and made me smile so much.

Yes, I am a massive nerd. Please feel free to judge me :P

On consoles probably Lunar: The Silver Star (Mega-CD)
my memories are not complete anymore, but for me still one of the best JRPGs ever

On the PC either Unreal Tournament 99 or Diablo 2
UT was the first Game I played in a league, so there are a lot of memories of good times for me, still the only really pure skill based shooter
But Diablo 2 is very memorable, I skipped school regularly If I had been there or not, I would not have been able to concentrate anyway
I always just wanted to go home and play D2 and test the new builds which I thought about the whole school day

Operation Flashpoint : Cold War Crisis. Probably , most probably ... the best game i have ever played in my life.