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my favorite video game would probably be final fantacy 10 and 10.5 because there the type of games that when you get stuck because you dont have the right things to play with, you cant beat it, unless you do exactly what you need to do. It makes me use my head a little more and makes it so i have to try harder. Plus, they are the only final fantacy games to go back and back, all the other ones just have characters from previous ones, like cloud appears in every other one it seems like.

I don't play a lot of video games, but my absolute favorite game I have ever played (and sadly I don't own this) "The Beatles Rock Band." The Beatles are my favorite band and I really like Rock Band, so this is a match made in heaven. I love the "dreamscapes" used for the background when playing the songs ingame. They look great, especially the ones for "With a Little Help From My Friends," "A Day In The Life," "Dear Prudence," and "Golden Slumbers."

Ill just make a random list of five should give you a good idea :p

Advance Wars II Black Hole Rising GBA
Fire Emblem VII GBA
Empire/Napoleon Total War PC (the Line Infantry combat is just so much fun!)
The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind (Hands down best open world game ever made)
Fallout I PC

Whoa. This is a heavy one.

I'm going to say Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It's decently hard and has tons of replayability, as well as a pretty lengthy campaign (at least for the series). The story is even better with Path of Radiance, but is pretty good at catching you up to speed.

Honorable mention to Pokemon Gold. Or Heart Gold. You can play that game forever or start over every day and it's still fun.

Pokemon Fire Red. Funnest game ever to speed run.

I'm gonna show my age here:

4-player Asteroids with my cousins on their brand new Atari (early 80s)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on original Nintendo at my neighbor and friend's houses (late 80s)
Sega Turbo at the Show Biz Pizza (precursor to ChuckECheeze) arcade (late 80s)
Scorched Earth in the back of computer class in High School (early 90s)
Madden '96 on my hallmate's Sega Genesis in college (late 90s)
D-blocks (tetris clone) with best friend in college (late 90s)
Multris (tetris clone) at Spogg.com (mid 2000s-present)
Soul Caliber on Dreamcast with the students in the dorm on breaks (late 2000s-present)
Pac-Man with the president of my school (10's-present)
Mariokart with my kids on our gamecube (10's-present)

The pattern of why these are 10 of my favorite videogame memories is because they are shared with people who I care about.  Good times with good friends = winning

To expand upon my favorites list, I typically prefer first person shooters that give you freedom of choice. Call of Duty, Battlefield, and other hyper-linear games can be fun, but I hate when a game constantly restricts you.

I love the intro to most recent Bethesda games: you complete the tutorial and then the game says "Here is this giant open world, have fun." Compare that to the new Medal of Honor where you instantly die if you walk off the linear path you're supposed to travel.

I'm certainly a casual video gamer. Some of my all-time favorites include, in no particular order:

DDR (well, StepMania, but whatever): More a sport than a game; coordination, rhythm, and terrible J-Pop are a wonderful match.
Might & Magic VI-VII: My first American RPGs, formative in my gaming life.
Heroes of Might & Magic III-V: Wonderful turn-based combat with exciting exploration and a hodgepodge of mythologies.
Clash of Heroes: Addictive competitive puzzling goodness, great for relaxing or strong competition.
Puyo Puyo Fever: The best puzzle game I've ever played.
DragonQuest IX: A recent acquisition for me, one of my first forays into JRPGs and super addictive.
Skyrim: There's just so much you can do. So much freedom, so much epicness.
WarioWare Twisted: Raw fun and (manageable) chaos.
Bastion: Love the presentation, love the combat. Some fascinating unique elements in this.
Disgaea DS: Some of the best turn-based combat I've experienced, including in board games.

And a few that I once loved - and you really should at least look these up if you don't know them:
One Must Fall 2097: Keep your Street Fighter, I'll take giant fighting robots with human brains inside thank you very much.
ZZT: ASCII never played so well.
Moraff's World/Dungeons of the Unforgiven: Terrible graphics, questionable gameplay, and terrible graphics (again; seriously, look it up), but my first dungeon crawler.
The Commander Keen series: Along with Duke Nukem 1 & 2 and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, these were side-scrollers I grew up with.
Kingdom of Loathing: I was addicted to this in college, until I realized I wasn't having fun.

Except E.T. he is the red headed step child of video games.

The step child that you bury in a New Mexico landfill?

Minecraft 360 addition!

PC version is better in every way.

How so?

1. More content
2. Nearly weekly (optional) updates
3. Infinite potential due to mods. Feel like playing Portal? Download the portal gun mod. Want more mechanical stuff? Download Better Than Wolves. Want machines, magic, new weapons, transportation tubes, auto-miners, and computers? Download Tekkit.

Did anyone ever play PLOK for supernintendo

That game was awesome and is the only video game I never beat.  It's ridiculously hard. Did any of you have it, play it, beat it?

Galaga is my favorite though

Minecraft 360 addition!

This game never gets old (even though I have only had it 2 weeks) there is always more to think of and build!

I am in the middle of building this house out of bedrock and doing a jeopardy style thing going on where each room has a certain subject, for my eight year old, and the answer is on a pressur plate and it shows up as a check or an x. It is real cool. Shell love it