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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 11:27 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 11:31
Like most people here I've grown up playing video games, and certain ones really stick with you. Simply playing them for a little while makes you feel better after a stressful day. They don't necessarily have to be GOOD games, just ones that put you in a happy place.


Just a few of mine are:

Colecovision: Miner 2049'er, Smurf Rescue (don't ask, it just works for me)

NES: Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Rygar (too many to list) After playing these for a few minutes instantly I'm 12 years old again.

Arcade: Ms Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Jungle Hunt, Ghosts n Goblins, Pole Position

N64: Zelda Oot, Diddy Kong Racking, Goldeneye - and I'm back in college checking out the freshman girls

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Bubble Bobble (currently NDS version, although I've completed it on most formats)
Manic Miner (Speccy Emu on NDS, and revamped GBA version)
Pikmin (Gamecube)
RE4 (Gamecube)
Farcry (XBox)
Dead Rising (360)
GTA:VCS (PSP)

All these games I can curl up with and play for hours - I just wish they'd make a waterproof case for the NDS so I can play Bubble Bobble in the bath.


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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 16:34
Mario Kart Double Dash is rarely turned off in my house.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 17:07 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 17:08
Colecovision : Cabbage patch kids
NES: Metroid, Zelda 1
Master System: Golvellius, Spell Caster
Atari 130XE: BlueMax, Star raiders
Amiga: Turrican, Beast 1, Bubble bobble
SNES: Valken
Arcade: Ninja Spirit

And many others :p

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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 17:47
I just revert to comfort eating instead...Not a good idea. If I've played to relieve stress, a shoot-em up usually works, or one that gets you thinking, like an adventure game or a puzzle game because you focus on that instead of stress, but of course if it's a frustrating puzzle you may end up repeating words the young ones here should not be subject to.

But if I'm particularly stressed, games don't help, I normal put on loud heavy music and lay on the bed thinking about it, that I think can be a better solution to a stressful day. (Because games are a more immediate relief, thinking about it can make the stressors less stressful)

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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 18:14 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 20:19
pacman (many consoles)
Ghost recon (GR1 on pc)
bloody roar:primal fury (GC)
worms 2 (PC)
armed and dangerous (not always) (pc)
super mario bros. deluxe (gameboy colour)
worms armageddon (gameboy colour)
and alot of other GBC games too


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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 19:36
Alpha Centauri
Beachhead
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Thief, its probably the only game where I laugh when I die rather than becoming more stressed out. Probably because you can only die if you do something stupid to begin with, like shoot a guard standing at the end of a hallway only to find out there were 10 other guards around the corner who just witnessed it who are now after you.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 21:18
If I'm stressed after a long day at work, I just want to play some casual games. Chuzzle, Bejewelled, Zuma, Darwinia, etc. which is why I have a Shockwave Unlimited pass

A crazy game like Crackdown or GTA requires me to be in a stress-free environment hehe.

Games I played when I was a kid are great comfort--- Space Quest series, SCUMM games, etc.

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HL2 and Black & White I find great for stress relief: Set HL2 to a real easy mode, and just fill your opponents with lead. Black & White has an almost ambient relaxing nature to it - I have a modded map with just a single player (me) on it, so I just build stuff and teach my creature without any specific aims. Both are great for relaxing


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Quote: "Set HL2 to a real easy mode, and just fill your opponents with lead"


Also my no.1 comfort fix! In fact I'm playing it through from the beginning at the moment - 3rd time.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 22:07 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 22:08
Bards Tale I
Might & Magic I
Ultima I
Age of Empires I & II

And recently quit EverQuest, after about 5 years of playing a Cleric, and ventured into WoW. Really enjoying WoW.

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Quote: "Bubble Bobble (currently NDS version, although I've completed it on most formats)"


I think BB is one of the best games ever and I too have completed it in 3 or 4 formats. I even humoured the idea of buying it for the DS, but I read somewhere that the DS version is abysmal and that one couldn't even get past level 30 on the remake. Is that true?

Quote: "RE4 (Gamecube)"


Though I absolutely LOVE RE4, playing it somehow tenses me out _a lot_. I really get stressed out when I play it in the evening after a day's work. So, I really try to limit it to Saturday afternoons...

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Super Mario Bros 3, for the SNES!

That was one of the games I played the most as a kid, but I also played the first and second mario games on the NES. But Supuer Mario Bros 3 was my perfect Mario game.
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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 22:28
Minesweeper!

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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 23:06 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 23:13
Super Mario 64
Mario Party
Mario Karts
Super Smash Bros. Melee
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Wolfenstein 3D
Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri is by far the most complicated game I've ever played. The instruction booklet is 247 pages. Launching atomic bombs at your evil enemies' cities certainly is good for reliefing stress, but I usually completely ignored all the complicated things, the challenge of surviving was complicated enough, let alone achiving total conquest.

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Quote: "Minesweeper!"


I hope you're joking.

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It's hard for me to find a game that destresses me. I mean, I usually have to be in a calm and relaxed envirnoment for me to actually want to start playing. Same with me coding.

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Atari 2600: Combat, Joust, Pitfall
IBM PCjr: King's Quest, Space Quest, (I don't remember the name of the third, it was a game where you were a cat, swimming in fishbowls and hanging out on fences... totally cool. There was also a boxing game where you could play as a kangaroo, I loved that one as well)
IBM XT/AT through the old Pentium I's: F-117, Wolf Pack, Space Quest 3, Myst, Under a Killing Moon, Phantasmagoria (Note: This was my "golden age" lol, that pre-teen/ early teen age of discovery hehe)
NES: Duck Hunt, TMNT, Ninja Gaiden
SNES: Shadowrun (probably my all-time fav, took me a long time to re-find it on E-Bay... was this the first game where you could explore an entire city?), FF3, Doom
PS1: Syphon Filter, MGS, GTA2, Knockout Kings 2000
PS2: Any GTA, Getaway 1 or 2, MGS-SE, GT4, Gun
"Modern" PC (1995+): R6 Rogue Spear, BF42 and BFV (don't really like BF2 or BF2142), MSFS 200x/10, R6-3 (Raven Shield mostly), Worms Armageddon, Civ 3 and 4, Multi-Theft Auto (okay, it's a mod, but it's an awesome mod), TOCA 2 Fallout 1 and 2, Gangsters 2 (XP, grr, #$%@*@#$%^&$!), The Movies, The Sims

^ Any of those games either take me back to a certain time in my life, or can help me relieve stress. Not many people know this, and I'm sure I'll get picked on for it (and I could avoid being candid but eh): When I'm playing GTA or Getaway, sometimes I drive around just to drive, obeying traffic laws and everything. I've always wanted a massively-multiplayer version of GTA where I could play as a traffic cop, sitting there along the Los Santos Expressway pulling people over for speeding. I have a save right now where I'm beating the entire game without killing a single innocent civilian, not car-jacking (I can only take parked cars)... only killing people who I absolutely have to kill. And unless a mission (or my life) depends on it, I don't speed and I obey all of the traffic laws that would apply in real life, to the best of my ability anyway. The best part: no cop-killing. And this is extremely relaxing and a great way for me to wind down after a long day. No one "gets" me


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any Leisure Suit Larry game... (except MCL)

GTA 1,2, and London

the old Mortal Komabt games

and a whole bunch more

Quote: "I don't remember the name of the third, it was a game where you were a cat, swimming in fishbowls and hanging out on fences..."


Alley Cat?

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Rock n' Roll racing on the snes...

Uplink on the pc... I can't even begin to count how many times I've played this since buying it...

Although, more recently, I have become hopelessly addicted to Guitar Hero 1 & 2...
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Miguel,
That's true of the remake, BUT - the original Bubble Bobble is included, with wifi 2 player mode it's damn good fun. It is pretty identical to the GBA version, bar a few little polishes, it's classic BB though, can't ask for much more than that.

Avoid the Rainbow Islands DS port, they completely killed that game like some lame rabid dog - New Zealand Story DS is pretty authentic, but see my sig, I hate that yellow git .


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Sonic 1, 2, 3 on Genesis

Zelda OoT
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Tooie
Goldeneye
Beetle adventure racing
StarFox 64
Tetrisphere
SSB
^All 64


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Quote: "Alley Cat?"

Sounds right... I'm glad to know someone else knows that game, I've been trying to find it for years lol. I want to find the original King's Quest as well, but all I can find is some VGA version someone made. CGA FOREVER!!!


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Pacman - Atari 2600
Space Invaders - Atari 2600
Galaxian - Atari 2600
Asteriods - Atari 2600
Arkanoid - Atari ST (Breakout - Atari 2600)

Argh I'm stuck in the golden age of Atari I can play this stuff with my eyes shut I even managed to clock the score on Pacman right round back to zero, nice coding Pacman programmer dudes it didn't crash!

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Quote: "I want to find the original King's Quest as well, but all I can find is some VGA version someone made. CGA FOREVER!!!"


Sierra remade the original King's Quest in VGA

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ugh, I didn't know that! I found a VGA version that looked like it was made by some random guy back in 1998 or 1999, but tossed it shortly after I installed it when I saw how funky it looked. Or maybe it was the Sierra VGA version and I didn't know/ notice it. Ack, well, I'd still rather play the original . I love those old-school blocky-head games.


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Posted: 8th Mar 2007 05:25 Edited at: 8th Mar 2007 06:05
I dont realy have a comfort game but im a sucker for online pictionary

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Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, or 3 (NES)
Donkey Kong Country 1 or 2 (SNES)
Donkey Kong 64 (N64)
F-Zero (SNES)
Banjo Kazooie (N64)
Banjo Tooie (N64)

And there was a triple arcade game that we had for the Intellivision. It has a racing game, tanks, and biplanes. If I could play that one again it would give me a great sense of nostalgia...anyone know what I'm talking about? Has anyone else played on an Intellivision? That was probably where I did my first BASIC now that I think about it.

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whats wrong with minesweeper?

I used to have an Intellivision. Though I don't know how you would do BASIC on it.

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Quote: ""I want to find the original King's Quest as well, but all I can find is some VGA version someone made. CGA FOREVER!!!""

@Matt Rock: I may have some of the original amiga version in my cave :p

I did forgot this one that I played so many times :
Apple IIc: Lode Runner

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I don't really have a comfort game, but one of the games with the most memories attached to it for me is strangely enough Mario Sunshine.

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Quote: "most memories attached to it for me is strangely enough Mario Sunshine"


That _is_ strange... I like SMS quite a lot, but since it's (relatively) recent, it doesn't hold the same memories as a lot of other stuff.

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Sim Theme Park -pc
Homeworld -pc
Mario 64 DS -ds
Links Awakening -gb
Super Mario Land -gb
Fable -pc
Sonic Rush -ds
Golden Sun -gba

edit:
oh yeah-
Tony Hawk 3 -pc
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 -pc

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Mario kart -N64
Donkey Kong 64 -N64
Daytona 64 -DC
Tony Hawk -N64
Midway Arcade Treasures 3 -Xbox
Pokemon Ruby -GBA
Freedom Fighters -Xbox
Tony Hawk Project 8 -X360
Pokemon Pinball -GBA
Starfox 64 -N64
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Blood and gore always puts me In my happy place lol jk



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Alley cat was a classic. Think Ive still got the 5.25" disk somewhere which also had some dodgy wrestling game and a bruce lee game that I could never complete due to some dodgy indestructible guy popping up near the end and whooping my ass.
Sometimes I like the windows pinball game, it is seriously sad but also relaxing in a strange kind of way.

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Oh, my 5.25" collection. I still have all of my old computers, maybe I could figure out some way of hooking up a 5.25" in my Vaio, how sweet would that be . Except I'd have to take one of my DVD drives out... bummer. My dad used to work at IBM, and every time they came out with a new desktop, from the PCjr up to the first Pentium-based Aptiva, we'd get it brand-new. The attic in my mom's house could easily be transformed into an IBM desktop museum lol.

Someday E-bay... someday.


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After thinking about this some more I went to the cupboard got out my OLD acorn electron and tape player... hooked it all up... got out my copy of THRUST on tape, waited 30 mins for it to load up and played it again...

I have lots of memories of this game... it's still awesome
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Has to be:

Pokemon Blue/Gold - GBC
Super Mario World 2 - SNES
The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past - SNES

Short, but sweet

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Quote: "I used to have an Intellivision. Though I don't know how you would do BASIC on it."


We had a keyboard that we could plug right into it, and we had a cartridge for BASIC. It was pretty basic....haha...bad joke. It was pretty much QBASIC.

I forgot about Need for Speed...
Need for Speed Road and Track Edition
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Need for Speed High Stakes
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2

I still have all of those games...but sadly I have tried to get them to work with no luck...except for the last one. I played those games a lot when I was younger. In my opinion Carbon was a let down.

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My first post in a long time x_x

And I don't have any Gamecubes, or PS3s, or anything besides the computer. So The N Game (Its the current fad...) and the Halo Trial (I'm to lazy to buy it) are good enough for me. But I usually don't have enough time to relieve stress

Quote: "Blood and gore always puts me In my happy place lol jk"

Just as long as it is tasteful, it does

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I posted some of my old favorites, but seeing people posting new games, I'll give you some of my Favorite Recent Games.

1. Fable: The Lost Chapters
2. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay- Developers Cut
3. Half-Life 1
4. Gun Showdown

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Bad days = Pwnage on CS:S. If I get raped on CS:S on that bad day, then that calls for a RTS or SP FPS.

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I don't really have any comfort games. Well, not REALLY. Pretty much any game That is very immersive can make me feel better on a bad day. I think it's just that it gets me away from other problems. I could even feel better playing a violent and gorey game, lol.

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Katamari Damacy for the ps2.
Most bizarre addicting game ever.

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