Spring Favorites: Games

 Hey Y'all!

Hey Y'all!

In our spare time, when weather makes it hard to go "out", or we just need to chill, hubby and I like to play video games. For him this started in early childhood, and while we (my sister & I) had a used NES one of my Dad's friends gave us I didn't really play video games much before hubby and I got together.

Here's a list of our favorites by console brand. So our favorite out of all the Nintendo Systems, Xbox Consoles, etc.

Atari: This console is older than both of us!

Sega: 

Neither of us had this system, but cousins or friends did. Hubby picked up a Sega Genesis w/ The Lion King at a Yard Sale, but it's in storage. 

We don't own these (yet) but they are our favorites from Sega~

Hubbys favorite.

My favorite!

Nintendo:

This is where it all started for both of us. As I mentioned above sis & I got a used NES as kids, it came with Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, Jaws, Disney Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, & Super Spike V'Ball. We didn't ever get any more games than that, and didn't have a gun for Duck Hunt. I remember laying in the living room floor with my sis and Dad, and playing Jaws for hours on the freezing cold Ohio winter days. Sis & I played the others as well, but Jaws we always played with Dad. This was the only game system I had, and as teens I don't remember ever playing much. 

Hubby had all the Nintendo Systems, but not a ton of games. His favorite was always Mario Kart.

When we met he was up to the N64 and we'd play Wave Race. His brother had a PlayStation, and occasionally we'd all play together. (I don't remember which games, but this was 2001-2002.)

Since then we've had every Nintendo (we wore that Game Cube out doing game nights with our friends in our first apartment, especially NFS Underground 2), though we didn't do much with the WiiU. Favorite Switch game for me is probably Mario Kart, hubby really likes Zelda.

I don't remember when he/we got the Game Cube, we both worked allll the time then. The Wii we got on release at WalMart an hour from home, because they were the only store that still had it in stock. We bought the WiiU on a whim because we had all the Nintendo consoles and we wanted to play ZombieU, we really only ever got a handful of games for it. Hubby got a Switch on ebay pretty soon after release, then won mine through Lunchables the last time they did the instant win game. They (Lunchables) were on sale, so we bought 5/$5, and that's what he took for lunch that week. He won on day 3, and I figured he was joking. He wasn't.

*I could go on with awesome Nintendo games we both loved, but this is supposed to be just our absolute favorites.

PlayStation:

Hubby's Brother owned one, and eventually we got a PS2 used through one of Hubby's friends at work. We then got the PS3 on a Black Friday Sale, the 4 I won in an arcade claw game. I liked the PS2, but haven't really played the PS3 or 4 much. (I prefer XBOX, hubby likes them all pretty equally.)

Fav Games~

Hubby likes all the Twisted Metal games, I like this one and Black the best.

I probably have all the Soul Calibur games, just on different consoles. 2 & 3 are my favorite.

We have a ton of PS 2 games, and so some honorable mentions here are the GTA, and Resident Evil series.

XBOX:

We never got the original XBOX, but got a refurbished 360 at GameStop in 2007 (?) and it's still running strong. We "bought" hubby's XBOX One Day 1 Edition with Mt Dew/Doritos points. (Remember when that was a thing?) We got points from friends, family, his work buddies, just about everywhere, to make it happen. Mine we bought years later when hubby decided he'd rather play on separate screens.

Favorites~

For me it's both Left 4 Dead games, by far my absolute favorite.

I was a bit disappointed in Back 4 Blood. What'd you think?

Hubs favorite is Dead Rising 3.

My favorite version of Diablo 3 is also XBOX One, which is where we play together. Another honorable mention here is the Burnout series.

PC Games:

My sister and I got an older computer off that same friend of my Dad's, he was very into technology/gaming and didn't have kids of his own. We'd play (floppy floppy disk, what's now referred to as floppy was called hard disk then) Flight Simulation games, Wheel of Fortune, and use Quicken to run pretend businesses.

 

Hubby had a few computers before we got together, but we are old. We (together) got our first "good" computer, an emachines, (lol) in 2001. I make fun, but we had that computer for several years. I didn't do much with it (we didn't have internet) until we moved (back for me) to Ohio (from VA) and hubby introduced sis and I to The Sims! 

PC Favorites~

Sims 2 is the best version by far. Love it! Still play it.

We both play all 3 Diablo games on PC.

This was a runner up for both of us.

This was another favorite!

Board Games:

We hardly ever play board games unless it's a whole family game night. Playing most games with just two people is kinda boring, but our favorites for game night are Monopoly, Clue, all the different versions of Uno, any trivia type games, and Apples to Apples.

What are your favorite games? What new games are you excited to play? Let me know in the comments below!

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife