We’re almost finished our Sweet 16 Giveaway (read more about it here), where we’ve been handing out awesome prizes to lucky winners each day since the beginning of August. Friday the 16th is our birthday, so we’ve only got two prizes to go before our main prize of a Macbook Air.
Today’s prize is for the gamers! We’re giving away a Wii Mini Console worth R1477. We’ll pick the winner at 10am on Thursday 15 August.
To enter, all you have to do is answer this question in the comments below:
What your favourite game was when you were 16?
Letitia Windvogel
has to be mario bros. that was so awesome on the old tv game lol.
Mario Pinto
Unreal Tournament. Still one of the best FPS.
Madeline Feuth
Mario brothers, I was obsessed with finishing it, it took many hours, many sleepless nights but I finally did it. Now I have 3 children who are just as obsessed with Mario brothers.
Scott Matthews
My favorite game when i was 16 would probably be Counter Strike. Had a friend with a bunch of computers hooked up to a network and we used to run around and blow each other up. Too much fun, actually downloaded the original one the other day.
Tanya B
Has to be kissing 😉 But serious – it would be mario brothers – everyone played that game when I was 16.
Randy
Pokemon Silver on Gameboy Color (y)
Aubin De Jongh
I had my Nintendo Donkey Kong with me. Even as old as it was it was my favourite. Still works!!
Fatima Sait
wow! well done!
Joel Griffin
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
Johan Van Niekerk
Those 20c games Tiger Helli was the bomb 🙂
Munsif Davids
Can’t decide if it was Slap Fight, H.E.R.O. or Way of the Exploding Fist. Meh. Flip of the coin…
Alon Nitzan
Call of Duty
Arian Ebrahimi
It would probably be Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory online!
Ashley Wainer
My favourite game at 16 was Quake 1. We would play the DM levels at school during breaks etc. I also played Super Mario 3 on NES, but Quake trumps everything.
Adam Collingwood
ha ha Donkey Kong, I think I am old 🙂
Candice Maree Amos
My favourite was definitely Mario brothers when I was 16. Couldn’t get me away from my tv game at the time
Chris Savides
The first Tomb Raider blew me away. I played it for hours on end.
It opened up a whole new world of exploring and back then I couldn’t believe how real the graphics looked lol
Monique
Minesweeper was my favourite!!! Always a challenge.
Colleen Collins Van Schalkwyk
My favourite game was Contra. Think its was on the 16 bit gaming console
Riyaadh Kajee
Has to be Crash Bandicoot, game was really addictive
Rael
Call of Duty
Shannon Colavita
Sonic the Hedgehog!!!
Jaco Olivier
mine was between mortal kombat on sega and super mario
Jonathan Szoke
The curse of Monkey Island. That whole series had me hooked!
Dawn Wallenkamp
Mario Brothers – still a firm favourite as well as Bomber Man
anisha_singh
Mario Brothers-addictive,cute and fun!
Matt Litkie
Easily Final Fantasy VII (7) and it is still one of my favorite games today!
Marius Bock
Ok so this is going to be very difficult since I was 16 in 1974, well before computers, well PC’s and fancy cellphones so my favourite was real life board games like chess, snakes and ladders etc.
Wesley Farmer
it’s between Mortal Kombat 4, Age Of Empire: The Rise Of Rome (Demo), and Duke Nukem 3D.
Zakiyya
When I was 16 Mario Bros was already old so I would def go for the Harry Potter series.
Carryn Williamson Paikin
My favourite game at 16 was Mortal Kombat!
Meagan
Mario Bro’s
Carl Wessels
Diablo 2!
Ashton Obery
My favourite game was definitely Gran Turismo on the PS1. Before that it was Mario brothers, Gunsmoke, Sonic, Mortal Kombat, Contra. The list is endless. There was so many to mention. Man i wish i could get an old console and play these games again!!! Feeling nostalgic. Another classic was Adventure Island:)
Arisha Ray Singh
Keen Adventurer on my old Mercer 286 😀
Fatima Sait
Tetris!
Mark
Asteroids!
Khulani Ndlovu
Mario Brothers followed by Mortal Kombart & Street Fighter, 🙂
lauren
Honestly it was Juke Nukem as a 16 yr old female teenager I loved blowing off peoples heads and pretending they were my classmates (usually the jocks) . as a 16 yr old female teenager I loved blowing off peoples heads and pretending they were my classmate You can just imagine the graphics which at the time I thought was BRILLIANT lol, I would come home from school and play Juke Nukem. lol
mogamat
Mario bros insane and very addictive game
JACKIE NAIDOO
Super Mario was my ultimate favourite, loved it!
Chris Kitsopoulos
I jammed Carmagedeon and Command and Conquer for ages as a 16 year old, I am sure there were more but that was a very long time ago, my memory is not what it used to be 😛
Annemarie Redelinghuys
Need for speed
ElaineS
When I was 16 in 1991 we played Arcade games. My Absolute favourite was Golden Axe. I managed to clock it with a ton of “recoins” 🙂
Adrian Phipps
In 1996 I bought a game called “Duke Nukem 3D”, it signified the end of my innocence, this game had me questioning my morals but I could not put it down.. The original GTA in my eyes… Ahhhh, good times, good times… #webafricasweet16
MaO
Final Fantasy 7 ! 😀
Adele
Sweet 16! Mine back then was probably Sonic the Hedgehog, or pac man. We used to spend hours playing! A very happy Birthday!!
Janine Pearton
Definately Tetris and some random arcade game with a little car that had to dodge things .. I spent alot of 20c pieces on that game !
Dylan
At 16 i enjoyed my flippen awesome 1kill:54 deaths ratio on CS 1.6, But my greatest memory is getting my uncle’s Game & Watch Snoopy Tennis Nintendo Game when i was 8, which i still have and get to play when I manage to pop into the chemist and purchase hearing aid batteries. Poor thing is that old. Please enjoy this little time machine. It’s all the Game & Watch games – http://pica-pic.com/#
phatfossil
Unreal Tournament was a network game that opened up millions of people’s minds all over the globe. Headshot!
Darryn Lee
It has to be the first edition of Diablo! It is still one of my top 5 all time games – excellent game play, detailed story line and intense baddies. I spent a good 2-3 hours per day during my high school years playing and replaying, it never got old. Awesome competition!
Jolani Van Wyk
Adventure Islander! 😀
Zubeida Khan Dawood
My favourite game was Grand Theft Auto Vice City. As a teenager, with school and family stress, this was the perfect opportunity for me to blow off some steam, and do all kinds of crazy things that I’d never do in real life, like drive on pavements, take part in rampages, headshots, extreme stunts etc. It was the perfect game because it combines fighting, shooting, socialising, racing, running businesses, being an ambulance drive, and even selling ice-cream in an old ice-cream van. If you have not played this game, you have not lived.
Zafar
Contra
Faeza
Mine was Need4speed
Jacques
For me that’s 7 years ago and it was around that time World of Warcraft was released and I was instantly hooked. Anything Blizzard I play but WOW is probably my favorite ever since!
Happy Bday guys, awesome giveaways!
Salma Mansuri
at 16 it was still hop scotch and playing marbles with my cousins ..we did not have nor own any games ..all we did was have have fun outdoors ….and when we had a little spending money we would all combine it togrether and go to the nearest store to play whateva games they had there like pool and soccer table .and pac man ..ahhh the good old days …and not forgetting the yo yos ……im never to old to learn todays modern games ..this prize is so awesome to win …..its getting me so excited ..well wishing you a very happy sweet 16 birthday .may it be filled with awesome memories xoxoxoxo
Clive Corbishley
Half Life. Still is in fact!
Gary Gerber
My favourite game when I was 16 was Space Invaders on the machine that stood in the corner at the cafe down the road 🙂
Dane Perring
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater! Hands down the best game ever!
Taryn Gavin
When I was 16 we didn’t have a gaming console. We only had games on the PC – I was totally addicted to SimCity – the original one, where you had to build a little town. Power stations, power lines, roads, plant trees, build houses, factories, shops, the works! Loved it!
Miles John Ellery
My favorite game when I was 16 was DotA, still play it today 🙂
freydo
When I was 16 my favourite game was Counter-Strike 1.6. We used to go all over the place to LAN it! It was so much fun but it was also very competetive. I don’t think any other shooter will ever be as popular as CS 1.6 once was.
Ling Ling Addison Sheperd
Adventure Islander and Mappy lol! oooh showing my age here lol
Ross Howard
Donkey Kong 🙂
Michelle Sanders
I love the Super Mario Bros.
Jacques Mostert
Metal gear solid 2!
Rudi de Lange
When I was 16? Eish.
Warcraft 3 is right up there. So is CS 1.6 and Unreal 2004.
Reckon I played quite a bit of Sims as well then xD
Peter French
Counter-Strike! Without a doubt
Hc Oostveen
Wolfenstein 3D… I got addicted to it at a friends house and I had to buy a new PC to be able to play it at home.. no other shooter since has ever lived up to that game
Melissa Fleetwood
Tony Hawk 🙂
oomjan
Duke Nukem 3D! “It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I’m all out of gum.”
cirsten van den heuvel
Sims
Kerry-Lee Gurr
Sonic the Hedgehog
James Philip Lawrence
My favorite game was easily Final Fantasy X 😀
Melanie McLaren
That would have to be Space Invaders or Donkey Kong
Sean Munoo
Mappy & Super Mario Bros…damn I still love them…
Matt Ävæddön
Carmageddon! ^_^
Michelle Gurr
Mario Brothers!
Cindy Bright
Heroes of Might and Magic
Desray AndNeil Gurr
Sonic the Hedgehog!
Guest
Mine would be STAR WARS®: Knights of the Old Republic™ II .. With all those mechanics — the moral slider, the influence system, combat, etc. — are surrounded by a first rate story that’s almost as mythic and fantastic as the films themselves. If you like RPGs or if you like Star Wars, you’ll definitely like Knights of the Old Republic II. And if you like both? Man, oh, man. Get this game.
Andries J Els
Think it was Space Quest damb looong time ago hehe mite be off a few years lol
TheOtherWolf
I was playing KoToR 1 at that age. 😛
Sara Essop
Super Mario Bros was my favourite game at 16!
Mark Mathew Hoppe
Unreal tournament!
Bryan Smith
At 16 it had to be Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament !!
Ofentse Jazz Khaole
Metal Gear Solid (i love this Series). <<— Gave me the "5 more minutes syndrome" and Pro Evolution Soccer
Gabi
Super Mario Bros was my best! Happy Birthday 😉
Ayran Thane Olckers
Mine would be STAR WARS®: Knights of the Old Republic™ II .. With all those mechanics — the moral slider, the influence system, combat, etc. — are surrounded by a first rate story that’s almost as mythic and fantastic as the films themselves. If you like RPGs or if you like Star Wars, you’ll definitely like Knights of the Old Republic II. And if you like both? Man, oh, man. Get this game.
Sasha Ohlms
Counter-Strike Source
Wessel Pieterse
Quest for Glory… Ah those where the days
carlgordon
would have to be Street Fighter. Classic!
Johan Van Niekerk
Those 20c games, Tiger-Heli was the bomb 🙂
Llewellyn Hulk-seMoer Johnson
HOGS OF WAR. I still love that game. I used to enjoy playing it alone or against someone else. Nothing like a few pigs trying to make bacon out of one another. lol
Onelargeprawn
When I was 16, I was obsessed with the “game of love”. Severely under-prepared and lacking important attributes like strength, endurance, and persuasion, I lost more “games” than I care to mention.
jack shiels
Call of Duty 4!
Clement
Contra was my favourite
Phillip
The Hitman series and Quake
disqus_5Ir00LiI1E
Lode Runner > A friend of mine’s dad used to work for Olivetti, so he was the only kid on the block with a PC. I loved making and playing my own levels…
Dean Alcock
Used to own Nintendo Donkey Kong, was obsessed with it, so that would have to be my fav.
Elmarieke
MortalKombat.. old school but I kicked everyones butt at that game.. hahah.
Alicia Buckle
Without a doubt Road Rash, Adventure island and Mario Bros
Michael Prinsloo
Digital Anvil’s “Freelancer” ROCKED MY WORLD!
Johannes Richter
Hope you’ve signed up for Star Citizen then!
Michael Prinsloo
I have, and I can’t wait, it looks like its going to be AWESOME
Alex van der Valk
Elastomania! It must have been one of the most frustrating, but rewarding games.
Mike
Was probably StarQuake was a game on my old ZX Spectrum. Thankfully I had a disk drive so loaded quicker vs the 5-10min+ wait other people had. Was a platform/levels game that was super addictive. Recently played it on an emulator which was great fun. To think what they did with 48kb RAM (and was even less after the video RAM was taken off) and he quality games that came out.
Ashley
Resident Evil 1. The title that started one of the most epic, addictive, thrilling and cerebrally captivating game franchises of all time. The grand daddy of all survival horror games! It had an amazing scare factor and many elements that had not been seen in games before it and has been hard to equal or surpass in all titles since it’s release. You’re not a gamer if you haven’t experienced RE1. Yes RE1 is more than a game, it’s an experience!
strandloper
I was still playing pinball machines when I was 16.
Annelien Van Schoor
Super Mario Bros was my favourite and old time classic at 16. Played hours and hours on it. The last game I played that I love was World of Warcraft. My husband and I met each other through WOW! We are still madly inlove today and share a gorgeous baby boy.
Jo Holroyd
16 years ago I was 16 and while we had a computer I wasn’t much of a gamer track then.. I did love playing UNO with my family. I love board games
raghiemah
Just has to be Circus Charlie 🙂
Grant Linfoot
Hi yeah tennis with the paddles that were on either side of the screen that moved up and down the screen with a little ball that u had to stop going off the screen. All black and white. Do u remember it
Roxanne Chutthergoon
It would definitely be Ultimate Mortal Kombat (UMK) 😀
Bevan
I can’t say I had a particular favourite, I played anything that tickled my fancy from fantasy to reality, but I was playing a lot of Call of Duty 4 around that time and a lot of Warcraft III.
Johannes Richter
Dune 2. Then Legend of Kyrandia, Space Quest 4 and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Back then almost every new game that came out was an instant favourite 🙂
Michelle Rademan
I played Diablo for hours and hours!!
Jandré Pretorius
Halo CE / Half life tie.
Dylan
CADILLACS AND DINOSAURS! Holy flip, that game was DABES! Picking up steel polls, grenades and shotguns, battling a triceratops and mad biker gangs from a cadillac. I think i just had a moment. Thanks and Happy Happy WebAfrica!
Tracey-Lee Joubert
Oh my hat ! Just has to be TETRIS ! My all time favourite !
Ross
Crash Bandicoot 😀
garyvdh
16? That would be 1984. There were not many computer games around back then, so my favourite game at that time would have been Trivial Pursuit the board game! 😀
Arno Esterhuizen
Mine was either Bobble Bubble or Prince of Persia. Good times…
REDinCPT
Super Mario Bros. on my classic Nintendo Entertainment System!
Gareth H. Graham
Monkey Island 2: Lechuck’s Revenge
Yolande Murphy
GTA Vice City!!
flo
Half life and skyrime
Colleen Grove
Ummmm….when I was 16? My memory is fuzzy going that far back but I swear I remember skipping ropes, hula hoops were a big craze and I was always in competition against my brothers with yoyo tricks. Of course there were the Beatles and Rolling Stones and the “twist” was big at that stage! And snakes and ladders, ludo and snap! Oh the games we played!
Alastair Radloff
Alone in the Dark (PC) (the original)
Jason Burke
Diablo 1, such a great game. I might have just been sneaking into 17 at that point, but close enough.
Juan Engelbrecht
Counter-Strike was the ultimate game. Especially when you get it going on a LAN
Joan Medcalf
Feeling Safe and playing with all the children in the street even though it was dark and after 7pm!! This was in the 50’s era ! Feel sad for the children today who never experienced this carefree way of life!
Rentia
Mmmm 16 is a looong time ago LOL!
My all-time favourite is and will always be Mario bros – I was the ultimate
player, even beating the boys in the neighborhood!!
Noel Peter
Tekken
Andrew Titus
Tekken for SURE!!!
Annabel Biggar-Davids
Tetris 🙂 ….i still love it
Gideon Jordaan
Tekken 3 on PS One, played the shizznet out of that game! Yoshimitsu FTW! Me and my friends knew almost every combo from every character, I made a study out of it. Practised the counters, everything!
And we didn’t have a Memory Card, so we used to play and then only pause now and then for bathroom / cool drink / snack breaks. Unlocking all the characters and then duelling like mad people!! 😀
Andrew Johnson
Has to be Donkey Kong – used to spend hours with it!
MrMuts™
Mortal Kombat II. On Sega genesis
Kevin Lawrie
Morrowind – Elder Scrolls
NiveouS
Must have been Counter Strike: Source at that time. 😀
Drystan Hallas
Freelancer!
Mark John Kerspay
mario brothers 🙂
Zubair Davids
Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time. I bought a 3DS on release date just to play that game in 3D and I will play it again and again.
Nico Loubser
On the IT side it would have to be Donkey Kong, non IT, probably Hide and Seek. 🙂
Waldemar Muhl
My PC at the time wouldn’t run Morrowind so I spent days sitting at the neighbour’s house watching him play it on his flashy 1GHz Pentium 3. When I wasn’t there I was home doing my umpteenth playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 2.
Duane Matthee
I didn’t have games – my favourite game was kiss and touchers 🙂
Simon Bloomer
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Marc Mustard
super mario world
Rob Munro
My favorite game @ 16 years old was PacMan!
Leon
Dune 2
Jonathan
Halflife
Sapna Dass
TETRIS just love that game
Jaco Hamilton-Attwell
Quest For Glory and King’s Quest. All of them!
Hannes Nel
Most definitely Diablo 1 – and now – Diablo 2/3 🙂 m/
Norman-Wynne Damstra
~ Half-life 2 ~, man having the friends round for a LAN and using the gravity gun to fling toilets as a weapon. Good times, goood times.
Lance Muller
Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lyle Van’Dango
Final Fantasy VII, was my favorite game. Possibly spent more hours in that game than I spent outside during my teens. Ah, man! What great nostalgia that games soundtrack brings back… 😀
Jean-Pierre Damstra
Ah 2007, this was a great year for me. I was 16, had just built up my very first gaming PC with the hard earned cash I had saved up for, which felt like ages, and was ready to take on the world of gaming – this time for real. I remember finding a copy of Game Maker on some pc magazine’s cover disk. I, having no programming knowledge to speak of at the time, decided to make a game. I didn’t have access to the Internet at the time so all I had was the manual for reference and my mind for ideas. Swirling around the proverbial enigma that were my game ideas, I came up with something. It was a top down adventure where the player would control a little gnome called Roger, a one-life defender of a mythical land who had to fight off treasure hoarding bears, who were presumably evil. I called the game “Evil Bear Takeover”. I remember at a LAN party, after a good weekend of no sleep, showing my friends this creation of mine. It was either the sleep depravity or the fact that the bears would randomly spawn in each room (even on the player sometimes) that made my game a hit amongst them. It may not have been the best game or having most flashy graphics, or logical plot for that matter, but it was my game. And this moment lead to something great.
Rephaim Mpofu
WHAT? WHAT? *looks eagerly in anticipation*
Rafiqua Mosaval
Donkey Kong and Tetris, I was 16years old about 2 decades ago…
Daniette Horwood
it was Need for Speed Underground 🙂
The_Lurch
DOTA. Still playing it to this day though DOTA 2 now.
bokka1
Ghosts ‘n Goblins
Kirsty Huth
Besides from “Truth or Dare”, it’s gotta be Sims!! I loved building the houses 🙂
Chrisna
Sims
Pearl M. Ackerman
Gosh what a long time ago. I loved tetris and super Mario brothers.
Ryan Quevauvilliers
Definitely battle tanks and earthworm jim
Ryan
Mine was the original Warcraft!
Vicky Pheiffer
Absolutely LOVED Super Mario Bros when I was 16. Used to play with my little nephew, who was only 3 yrs old at the time. Aaah…fond memories. 🙂
MadrushSA
Pacman
theseasonswither
Such a hard choice! I couldn’t choose between playing the following: Quake 2, Tomb Raider 2, Final Fantasy 7 and Jagged Alliance!
It’s also sad because Seaga announced it was discontinuing the Sega Genesis :'(
Ryan Bell
Mario Bros, Islander, Donkey Kong, Tetris
Rob
Ghostbusters on ZX Spectrum! Beeeeep!
Raymond Haycock
Showing my age here 🙂 when I was 16 my fav game was Kings Quest 2 from Sierra Studios. I had just gotten my 4 color screen (yes 4!) and a 20 meg hd. First time I had played a game on my pc in color lol and so began my love for games. Actually that’s a super memory for me thinking about it, thanks Web Africa for reminding me :):)
Kathleen Germaine
It was donkey kong and it was the best… Oops now I’m giving away my age
Benji Caister
My favourite game at the time was Need For Speed Underground 2 although I was just getting into Call of Duty 4.
Marc Bellamy
Diablo 2. Amazing game. Still a classic.
Barrie Paine
Leisure Suit Larry on the old 286. Lol!
Hendrik de Wet
Larry was legendary! I played all of them! I remember my first 286 had a turbo button, to go from 8Mhz to 16 / 20Mhz in speed… Hehehe!
Rephaim Mpofu
Pro evolution Soccer 6 DEFINITELY!!! At the time Konami was performing star jumps around FIFA! #nocompetition They really changed the football gaming world with intelligent animation, player movement and fluidity of gameplay
Llewellyn Abrahams
Aaaaah this was The Curse of Monkey Island , i was worse than a school gril giggling and drooling over lip gloss and glow in the dark stickers. This was epic this was awesome, those words did not even exist that time so I had to call this game “KIEF”.
Ruweida
My favourite game when I was 16 was Mortal Kombat; it kept me entertained and my adrenalin pumping for hours.
Warren Garnett
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Ricardo Botha
Popeye, tetris, Mario and Chip and Dale. Epic times!!
Cristian Stelea
River Raid (on Atari), Alone in the Dark (on PC 80186), Maniac Maison (on Commodore Amiga 500)
Hilton Daries
On PS1, all the Crash Bandicoot’s and Crash Team Racing was at the top of my list but my favorite was Medal of Honor, miss those days.
Badru Abdul
Such a long time ago, I would have to say pacman lol
Rui Valentim
Well, we weren’t privileged to have any games when I was 16. We lived in a small town in Zims, so we had to find our own form of amusement. As we stayed on a hill, we would all get together and roll our bikes down the hill and see who’s would go the furtherest without crashing. Then the bonus would be who’s folks would take the longest to find out your bike was trashed. Was really hilarious at the time!……lol
Zakeera Parker
super mario bros, and I would jump up and down, move left to right with the joystick in my hands !!!
Tamaryn Stegmann
GTA3 and Warcraft 3 all came out when I was 16. I used to play GTA3 on my PS2 until I had blisters on my hands… That was when my life turned around towards video gaming and I also got my first PC back then. Although the PC was made up of old scrap from my brother’s old PC’s, it was still an epic year 🙂
Brian Ellis
Olympic decathlon. The bomb man.
George Wolhuter
The Dungeons of Moria … text based dungeon crawling… awesome!
Doné Else
pac man. Could not get better than that
Bruce
Donky Kong………………………………………..
Josh Miltz
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Depashni Marie
Super Mario was and still is my favourite game
Brad
Need for Speed: Most Wanted!
Chris Rideal
My favorite game was EVE Online played it for 3 years tell this day i play it.
Gretha
Pac Man – that big old arcade game – had the closest thing to surround sound back in the 80’s!
Janay Snyman
It would have to be the video games like Pacman and the Race car game at N1 City Mall. Even today, we still dont own a game console as we were 5 girls in the house and our dad just didnt think it a “girl” thing to buy this, so we were left to go to arcades. I recently turned 21, so happy birthday to you and me and hope that finally I can get the console I have wanted and dreamed of getting among all those dolls since I was a child.
Angelica Blake
Donkey kong, Mario bros and pac man 🙂
TheOtherWolf
Jedi Academy rocked! 🙂
@rty
I was 16 in the mid eighties – Standard 8 (Grade 10). We
were still struggling to deal with a lot of issues in the country and often it
lead to unrest and it was unsafe to go to school for days at a time. Arcade
games cost 20c and this is where I headed; the café down the road was a haven
and provided me with Donkey Kong, Popeye, Golden Axe and of course, Double
Dragon! Man, I elbowed my way through many, many enemies including bosses 😉
Of course I owned a handheld Nintendo Game&Watch and
Fire Attack was my favourite. Boy those black and gray LCD graphics ate up
hours of my time after school! Alas, I think a bully stole mine eventually.
A mate owned a ZX Spectrum and RoboCop was a firm favourite
(oooh, I can still hear the Midi theme reverberating around my head – ta ta ta
ta ta taa).
I think the Pentium processor was still a way off haha.
…but I think the most popular console was the cartridge game console which
promised one MILLION in 1 games – oh boy, I don’t believe it ever delivered on
that promise!
Game of choice – CONTRA!
Wow I am having such a blast reliving those memories that I am actually
experiencing goose-bumps here.
And if you had told me then that 20 years hence a person
could control a game without even a remote never mind without wires in your own
home I would have laughed in your face – that’s Star Trek territory man! Guess
we are living it now…
Great give-away Web Africa 🙂
Donovan Steyn
final fantasy 7!
Cathy Badenhorst
Geez that was a loooooong time ago but yeah was definitely hooked on Super Mario Bros.
Jean-Pierre Damstra
Oh, I see one can add an image to these comments 😀
Here’s a pic of Roger the one-life defender that I described in my post further down 😀
Hendrik de Wet
Mean Streets was one of my favourite games. It was one of the first PC games to feature 256-color VGA graphics, at a time when VGA cards were not common.
Hendrik de Wet
Another favourite was Crime Wave by Access in 1990. ” Determined to save the girl, LUKE first checks his Crime Computer”… This blew my 16 year old mind. Nothing was this violent at the time!
Check out the video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgDJ6EH-CBI
Ingrid Parker Clark
Pacman and Mario Brothers
Johan V D Westhuizen
pack man, tetris, love it still play it
Daniela Cardoso
Super Mario Bros. , Sims and CSI
Devin Astbury
Best game when i was 16 was definitely Grid! Bought the original when it came out as an early birthday present to myself and a few months ago added Grid 2 to my collection! What an epic way to spend your 16th and 21st birthdays!
Nür Stoffels
awesome bud!
Sasha Ohlms
Counter-Strike Source 😉
Zakaria
I think these questions are really designed to show ones age! 😛 Nevertheless 1994… That was still the era when FPSes were in its infancy with Castle Wolfenstein. The games that ruled back then were the adventure games from Sierra and LucasArts and your side scroll platformers. On the top of my gaming list back then was
Kings Quest 5,
Monkey Island,
Wing Commander,
Gabriel Knight,
Prince of Persia (the original),
UGH! (phenomenaly addictive game that was just 160k… yes kilobytes),
Juju (arcade game),
Flashback.
The one game however, which I played then and many times since and will play again is GODS. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_%28video_game%29). For me one of the best puzzle platformers at the time. Finishing the game on one play-through was a huge achievement!
wion
t.v games( contra) was an awesome game.
Gareth
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2..
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