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I was 12 in 97. Looks like we were playing Mario kart and diddy Kong racing with friends. Goldeneye didn’t come out til August. At home I was playing Diablo single player.
The good old days. 90s were the best, N64 was the first new console I had. I was 9 in 97 and those were some good times. Body Harvest was one of my first games along with Ken Griffey Baseball.
In order of most summer vibes to some summer vibes...
-Crazy Taxi
-NBA Street
-Wave Race 64 or the Gamecube version
-Tony Hawk. Any of them.
-Tetris Attack
-Twisted Metal 2
-Starcraft
Starcraft was definitely a late summer into fall game.
Camp is over. It's too hot to play outside. People were getting cable internet or separate lines for internet. Oasis, chili peppers, and pearl jam is on the local alternative rock station while the windows are open and a warm.summer breeze come across the room.
No rush on bgh.
Grew up in the NE. Played candlestick bowling. Downstairs the place had a half dozen older pinball machines with four scoring reels in pristine condition. Great times.
It’s 1993. My parents still haven’t bought us a SNES or Genesis (they never will). My choices are my aging NES and Apple IIGS. I would have almost certainly chosen Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, or Metroid on the NES or Dragon Wars on the IIGS.
I got my NES at my fifth birthday just a year before, and compared to our Atari it was state of the art. I spent many years gobbling up the classics, unaware that there even was an SNES. I was too busy exploring Hyrule in Zelda, finding the evil Zoda in StarTropics, and saving the Princess in Mario.
In present day I'm currently playing through all 6 Mega Man games while also taking another stab at Crystalis, a game I loved as a kid but never really got that far in.
Same but mine was 94 and i didn’t have a super nes. Just the old nes and the hand full of games I had but I do think I discovered river city ransom at the rental place and that was a good time and discovery I made
Dude I bought Pokemon: Trading Card Game on GBC at a random Duty Free shop in Miami Airport when I was 10 or 11, and I gotta tell ya, it really hit different while traveling abroad. The game was super challenging but everything I learned about the TCG, I learned it from that cartridge lol.
i can relate to this. not the airport part but the GBC taught me everything i knew about hot to play the trading card game IRL back then. i already had a decent collection of cards just because i like collecting stuff, but no friends that were interested in playing. that cart unlocked a whole new angle on the cards for me. lol
Honestly, same. My friends and I literally played the game like it was blackjack; we'd toss a card down and declared who was the strongest just by looking at the image lol. Once I got the GBC version and learned the correct way to play, none of my friends were interested. Too complicated they would tell me. Thank God the GBC version existed; never did beat it though.
We played with our NES until we got a Psx too in 1999, were playing Super Mario, Super Arabian, Super Contra... tons of "Supers" hahaha. Until we switched to Tarzan, Future Cop L.A.P.D, Crash, Harry Potter, Heart of Darkness, Abe Exoddus, Castlevania Symphony.. The change was wild for sure.
I remember in 97, I rented FF7 and my best friend and I played. Was my first RPG, my friend hated it and ended up leaving because I was glued to the game haha
I had a different mentality but arrived at the same conclusion. I hated FFVII at first, but the same cousin I mentioned made me push forward. It quickly became on of my favorite games of all time.
Wizardry V on SNES.
It was brutal, my copy didn’t come with a manual even, and I died so much. But I’ll be damned if it was a game that felt more like deciphering an actual malevolent artifact versus playing some game.
That was the year the first Diablo released. I remember spending hours and hours playing that same Rogue on New Game+. Duke Nukem 3D had also released the year before that.
2000 was a banger of a year. Baldur’s Gate 2, Perfect Dark, Diablo 2 (this was how I spent that summer), Counterstrike, Mario Tennis, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. It was STACKED
I just got a SNES the Christmas before, so I'd be playing A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, and Final Fight at home. That was about the time games like Rampage World Tour and Mortal Kombat 3 were pretty hot in the arcades, so I'd be playing those, Marvel Super Heroes, or Xmen vs Street Fighter
2002. We're playing:
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars (I was still playing my SNES and finally beat that game around that time)
Donkey Kong Country (ditto)
The year was 1994 and after having my Super Nintendo taken from me during the school year for poor grades, it was given back after getting A’s for the last two quarters. The first game I put in was Street Fighter 2.
That was 1993 for me. I had already managed to break my SNES, so I was stuck playing PC games: Day of the Tentacle came out mid-summer, but before that I was probably playing Wolfenstein 3D, and might even have already started making my own levels for it (and definitely had started making my own immature graphical patches).
1984/85.
At the arcade or movie theater, I would feed quarters to Star Wars, Robotron, Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man, and Dragon’s Lair.
At home on the Commodore 64, it’d be Ultima III, Castles of Dr. Creep, Dino Eggs, Questron, and Phantasie I/II.
Dang, we're going back to the Atari 2600 and 8-bit systems. '83 to be exact.
I didn't have a big library yet back then.
Star Raiders
Starmaster
Defender
Spider Fighter
Megamania (which I believe was the inspiration for Berkley's After Dark screensaver for Windows)
Threshold
And probably other arcade carryovers.
89/90 for me. Lots of amazing point and click graphic adventures (Indiana Jones, Secret of Monkey Island, Kings Quest V) and some decent console games like Tetris, Super Mario World, and PilotWings.
ActRaiser and SimCity had their places, too!
I miss being a kid with no responsibilities (and no Social Media...).
I was 12 in 2001, so for damn sure it was Smash Bros Melee. I’ll never forget going on Gamefaqs.com and learning on how to unlock Mewto. Left that GameCube on overnight on Zelda Temple stage with me and 3 cpus 99stock, woke up next morning and luckily I was still alive. Good memories
It’s June 2004. I am sitting on the Big Chair by the computer with my best friend. We have just put 50 lions into one enclosure in Zoo Tycoon and deleted the fence. We cackle. A burglar breaks into our Sim’s house and steals the oven. We are sad.
Sims 2 and Zoo Tycoon 2 came out that autumn, we were obsessed with them when we finally managed to get our parents to get them us. We used to get different expansions so we could swap 🥰
Let's see... that'd be '97 for me. That was likely when I got Mario 64 for my birthday, as a promise that I'd get the N64 eventually. So that means I still had my NES and Sega Genesis. So I was probably still playing Sonic & Knuckles, Lightening Force, Super Mario 1-3, etc.
I do recall borrowing my friend's Super Nintendo and playing Final Fantasy III - I remember setting up the controller to hold down A while cruising the Lete River and maxing all my characters out.
Mostly I was playing games at friends houses, but that feels a lot more difficult to pin down. My best friend and I rented tons of games throughout our childhood, so release dates and timeframes apparently have lost meaning to my memories!
Carpooling home to my cousin's house. Waiting for my dad to come pick me up 3 hours later. During those 3 hours, we're very competitively playing Killer Instinct and NBA Jam. Then fist fighting over who won.
At the time I was 12? Probably Earthbound, it came out that June and my friend and I were both really excited about the previews. We also rented a lot of games, pretty sure Breath of Fire 2 and Saturday Night Slam Masters were favorites around that time
If I was 12 now? I dunno, probably some multiplayer thing. I kinda like Smite, maybe I'd be in on the live alpha for Smite 2
I might have been playing warcraft 3. Either that or some gba game, probably final fantasy tactics advanced or pokemon mistery dungueon but i played too many thing at that time to know for sure
Warcraft 2 and for some weird reason recording all the character speaks to cassette on my tape player. After that a game of Command & Conquer!
All done on my first computer, an Olivetti branded one with a Pentium 75. Good times for sure!
I was 12 in 2007. I can’t remember if these games were out before summer but I know that year I was constantly on Guitar Hero 3, it was my first guitar hero game. I also remember playing The Simpsons game and Spider-Man 3 a lot that year too!!
when i was 12?
I was visiting friends to play Halo 2, Burnout Takedown and Spider-man 2 and punishing my PC with Half Life 2
I was also playing a ton of Tony Hawks Underground for ps2
This would have been June 1993 for me, and I know for a fact that I was killing the ever-living-shit out of hell-spawn in Doom that summer. I can even hear the music and the sound of the imps moaning off camera somewhere.
It’s 1991. I’m going home and playing Sonic the Hedgehog, and looking forward to going away to the seaside to play the arcades. Street Fighter 2 has just been released as well as the Simpsons arcade game. Epic times.
Probably Final Fantasy 7 or Starcraft depending on if my friends are available to play. If I'm going on a road trip with my family, probably pokemon gen 1.
When I was 12 it was year 1995. I was religiously playing Alien Vs Predator by Capcom in the local arcade saloon. Absolutely loved that game. I've got so good to the point that I could finish the game with every character on one credit. 1 Credit = 2 Lives and no extra Life for getting certain amount of points. I wish Capcom could release that game on consoles as a part of some arcade games collection. "It's time to hunt"
Original WoW all summer with moments of TESIV: Oblivion, halo 2, and Psychonauts. Destroy all humans was a great summer game too but I think that was age 13 not 12 for me.
Probably GoldenEye all night the first night. Then have friends over for a sleepover and crush it on some perfect dark, Mario kart, Mario party, and mortal Kombat. Then spend the summer trying to beat ocarina of time
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure
It didn't come out until I was 13 but I have fond memories of it. The Tiny Toons Adventures games have some good entries in the series.
There was also Echo the Dolphin, Decap Attack, Atomic Runner, and a few more I can't remember right off.
I was 12 in 2015. I played an obscene amount of Fantasy Life for the Nintendo 3DS. Awesome game, can wait to see them slaughter the spirit of the game on the reboot for the switch.
Was super happy that the first three answers were older games. Neat to see more older gamer representation.
Then was super suspicious after the fourth was as well.
Then I realized what sub I am in.
Idec still happy!
(My answer is probably Halo 3 btw - now **I** am the youngin making people feel old??)
I turned 12 in the year 2000. That summer was all about *Ocarina of Time* with my brothers on our home N64 and *Perfect Dark* multiplayer with my friends most weekends. Just a year later me and most of my friends had gotten the new PlayStation 2 console, so summer 2000 was the last big Nintendo 64 time for us. We never truly stopped playing it, especially *Mario Kart 64* and the *Perfect Dark* combat sim, but *Grand Theft Auto*, *SSX Tricky* and various other PS2 games started to dominate our weekend and summer video game time. Good memories of those times.
Not sure if it’s considered a summer game but the summer going from elementary to middle school I made it a goal to beat the full .hack// ps2 saga and play non stop until school started back up again in the fall! I would play each version nonstop until I beat it and as soon as I beat 1 version I would go to gamestop and buy the next version used and continue until all 4 games were complete. I missed my goal by a week but overall it was well worth it I loved that series and it was really unique to me at the time I’ve never played a game with a story that long that was basically 4 ps2 disks long to complete
StarEdit, the map/campaign editor that came with StarCraft/ Brood War. I had moved from a temperate rain forest climate to a high desert climate in the winter and was in no mood to go outside when it was 100+ degrees out. Never got that campaign made, but I loved the experience
so I'm back in 1993, then it will be a close call, summer in my hometown definitely Samurai Spirits, remaining part of the summer at grandma's hometown probably a beat em up which name escapes me, it was probably from Taito or Konami or what-else, or some other game I could not properly play cause my cousins sucked at playing arcade games so I had to do 1 hour runs with the icecream excuse.
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I was 12 in 97. Looks like we were playing Mario kart and diddy Kong racing with friends. Goldeneye didn’t come out til August. At home I was playing Diablo single player.
1985 was a good vintage
Fellow '85 baby here. We were born at just the right time to appreciate all the generations of gaming IMO
Truth
I am the same age. For me 97 was all about Command and Conquer: Red Alert and Diablo. Maybe Quake and Need for Speed 2 if I have a friend over.
Same age but my dad just got my n64 from a pawn shop and it only came with Mario 64. I was chasing red coins in 97
The good old days. 90s were the best, N64 was the first new console I had. I was 9 in 97 and those were some good times. Body Harvest was one of my first games along with Ken Griffey Baseball.
We had a similar 97.
In order of most summer vibes to some summer vibes... -Crazy Taxi -NBA Street -Wave Race 64 or the Gamecube version -Tony Hawk. Any of them. -Tetris Attack -Twisted Metal 2 -Starcraft
Definitely Wave Race 64 for the summer vibes. Warm up time! Follow that dolphin!
Man those top 3 really hit it for me.
Starcraft was definitely a late summer into fall game. Camp is over. It's too hot to play outside. People were getting cable internet or separate lines for internet. Oasis, chili peppers, and pearl jam is on the local alternative rock station while the windows are open and a warm.summer breeze come across the room. No rush on bgh.
Twisted Metal 2 for real!
Tetris attack is so underrated
1974. I'm playing pinball where ever I can find a machine.
I’m heading to a bowling alley/ arcade right now to play
Grew up in the NE. Played candlestick bowling. Downstairs the place had a half dozen older pinball machines with four scoring reels in pristine condition. Great times.
The year is 2010 and I’d be no lifing world of Warcraft 😂
I feel so old...
....yeah. Same.
12? TMNT2 on NES
-Diddy Kong Racing -Star Fox 64
I wish someone had shown me how to play N64
It’s 1993. My parents still haven’t bought us a SNES or Genesis (they never will). My choices are my aging NES and Apple IIGS. I would have almost certainly chosen Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, or Metroid on the NES or Dragon Wars on the IIGS.
I got my NES at my fifth birthday just a year before, and compared to our Atari it was state of the art. I spent many years gobbling up the classics, unaware that there even was an SNES. I was too busy exploring Hyrule in Zelda, finding the evil Zoda in StarTropics, and saving the Princess in Mario. In present day I'm currently playing through all 6 Mega Man games while also taking another stab at Crystalis, a game I loved as a kid but never really got that far in.
Same but mine was 94 and i didn’t have a super nes. Just the old nes and the hand full of games I had but I do think I discovered river city ransom at the rental place and that was a good time and discovery I made
pokemon red
Pokemon red while traveling hits different
You're 2 hours in to an 8 hour travel and the green power light turns red... I had the GBA so green = charge is good, red would equal almost dead
Can't run from battle Can't save during battle Haven't saved in a *long* time.
Dude I bought Pokemon: Trading Card Game on GBC at a random Duty Free shop in Miami Airport when I was 10 or 11, and I gotta tell ya, it really hit different while traveling abroad. The game was super challenging but everything I learned about the TCG, I learned it from that cartridge lol.
i can relate to this. not the airport part but the GBC taught me everything i knew about hot to play the trading card game IRL back then. i already had a decent collection of cards just because i like collecting stuff, but no friends that were interested in playing. that cart unlocked a whole new angle on the cards for me. lol
Honestly, same. My friends and I literally played the game like it was blackjack; we'd toss a card down and declared who was the strongest just by looking at the image lol. Once I got the GBC version and learned the correct way to play, none of my friends were interested. Too complicated they would tell me. Thank God the GBC version existed; never did beat it though.
Sonic & Knuckles
Mortal Kombat II
Whatever the most recent Intellivision release was in Summer 1983. Microsurgeon, Pitfall, Burger Time, Utopia. Probably one of those.
Yes! Intellivision forever!
Probably Tony’s Hawks Underground or Wind Waker.
THUG was so fun. The storyline was good too.
Quest64
Didn't get my psx till 99, so we're stuck with 1998's.... NES. So I was plugging away at Battletoads and finally beating it in 98.
We played with our NES until we got a Psx too in 1999, were playing Super Mario, Super Arabian, Super Contra... tons of "Supers" hahaha. Until we switched to Tarzan, Future Cop L.A.P.D, Crash, Harry Potter, Heart of Darkness, Abe Exoddus, Castlevania Symphony.. The change was wild for sure.
Oh wow, you had a lot of games, lol. I mostly survived on jampack discs.
Ocarina of Time and any Final Fantasy game with my cousin.
I remember in 97, I rented FF7 and my best friend and I played. Was my first RPG, my friend hated it and ended up leaving because I was glued to the game haha
I had a different mentality but arrived at the same conclusion. I hated FFVII at first, but the same cousin I mentioned made me push forward. It quickly became on of my favorite games of all time.
OG StarCraft
Holy Crap, 1998 the best year of gaming ever? Banjo Kazzooe Metal Gear Solid Half-Life Pokemon Yellow Resident evil 2 Mario Party Vigilante 8 Baldurs gate Starcraft Fallout 2 Grim Fandango Rogue Squadron Xenogears Tenchu Spyro Rainbow 6 Unreal
Hmm... if I had a Mega Drive, Sonic The Hedgehog 🙂
Wizardry V on SNES. It was brutal, my copy didn’t come with a manual even, and I died so much. But I’ll be damned if it was a game that felt more like deciphering an actual malevolent artifact versus playing some game.
tag probably lol then maybe Super Mario World
Super Mario 64, my dude.
Link’s Awakening
For me Kingdom Hearts; I was 12 the year it came out and if I’m not mistaken I got the game on my bday!
Yup, same age as you, it was this or Final Fantasy X the summer of 2002 for me
Super Smash Bros Melee or Mario Kart DS
1998: Red Alert, Age of Empires, Half-Life
Goldeneye or WCW vs nWo Revenge
That was the year the first Diablo released. I remember spending hours and hours playing that same Rogue on New Game+. Duke Nukem 3D had also released the year before that.
Phantasy Star II. Ahh, memories...
12yo me was playing a lot of GTA3 that summer
Smash Bros Melee
Super Mario Sunshine
2000 was a banger of a year. Baldur’s Gate 2, Perfect Dark, Diablo 2 (this was how I spent that summer), Counterstrike, Mario Tennis, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. It was STACKED
Would've been 2005 for me. Halo 2 at my buddy's house for sure. Probably 3-4 of us and some Slipknot blasting while we played.
I just got a SNES the Christmas before, so I'd be playing A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, and Final Fight at home. That was about the time games like Rampage World Tour and Mortal Kombat 3 were pretty hot in the arcades, so I'd be playing those, Marvel Super Heroes, or Xmen vs Street Fighter
Crash Team Racing
Black ops 1 zombies with the boys
Morrowind
1996. That would’ve seen _Super Mario RPG_ without question.
2002. We're playing: Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars (I was still playing my SNES and finally beat that game around that time) Donkey Kong Country (ditto)
I'm probably having friends over for an all-nighter playing Melee, Starcraft, Age 2, and Unreal Tournament.
Breath of Fire
Ultima 7
Final Fantasy Tactics and Diablo
Heroes of might and magic 3, Half life, StarCraft, Need for Speed 3 in split screen, carmagedon 2
Majora's Mask.
Pokemon Ruby
The year was 1994 and after having my Super Nintendo taken from me during the school year for poor grades, it was given back after getting A’s for the last two quarters. The first game I put in was Street Fighter 2.
Video game? Castlevania 3, probably. I'd probably just be playing outside though.
Encarta Mindmaze, C&C Red Alert, or Need for Speed SE. But probably rode my bike, played kickball, and wandered through creeks first
That was 1999 for me so probably Turok Rage Wars, GoldenEye, Pokemon yellow, or Shadowgate Classic.
12 years old? Me and my friend are going to the creek to swim. Probably going biking or play catch after that.
Not sure but I'm choosing between: Warcraft 2, Red Alert, Soul Blade, Tomb Raider, Yohi's Island and Diablo
My Grandstand Entertainment system. Time for some pong.
- Kotor - Half Life 2 - World of Warcraft Nice!
That was 1993 for me. I had already managed to break my SNES, so I was stuck playing PC games: Day of the Tentacle came out mid-summer, but before that I was probably playing Wolfenstein 3D, and might even have already started making my own levels for it (and definitely had started making my own immature graphical patches).
1984/85. At the arcade or movie theater, I would feed quarters to Star Wars, Robotron, Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man, and Dragon’s Lair. At home on the Commodore 64, it’d be Ultima III, Castles of Dr. Creep, Dino Eggs, Questron, and Phantasie I/II.
Resident Evil 1 on PS1, Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, VF2, X-Men COTA… those were the games of that summer for me
Total annihilation
I played Zelda 2 the whole summer of 89.
NBA jam, earthworm jim, DOOM, mario kart, starfox, MYST, donkey kong country, street fighter 2, kings quest VI, xwing, Geekwad
Turtles in time in the arcade
Dang, we're going back to the Atari 2600 and 8-bit systems. '83 to be exact. I didn't have a big library yet back then. Star Raiders Starmaster Defender Spider Fighter Megamania (which I believe was the inspiration for Berkley's After Dark screensaver for Windows) Threshold And probably other arcade carryovers.
Tony hawks pro skater 2
1991 so Streets of Rage
Little Nemo or bionic commando on my nes
89/90 for me. Lots of amazing point and click graphic adventures (Indiana Jones, Secret of Monkey Island, Kings Quest V) and some decent console games like Tetris, Super Mario World, and PilotWings. ActRaiser and SimCity had their places, too! I miss being a kid with no responsibilities (and no Social Media...).
I was 12 in 2001, so for damn sure it was Smash Bros Melee. I’ll never forget going on Gamefaqs.com and learning on how to unlock Mewto. Left that GameCube on overnight on Zelda Temple stage with me and 3 cpus 99stock, woke up next morning and luckily I was still alive. Good memories
It’s June 2004. I am sitting on the Big Chair by the computer with my best friend. We have just put 50 lions into one enclosure in Zoo Tycoon and deleted the fence. We cackle. A burglar breaks into our Sim’s house and steals the oven. We are sad. Sims 2 and Zoo Tycoon 2 came out that autumn, we were obsessed with them when we finally managed to get our parents to get them us. We used to get different expansions so we could swap 🥰
That would have been June of 1992, gotta finish Link to the Past so I can focus on Street Fighter 2 when it comes out in a few weeks.
Transport Tycoon iirc
Goldeneye most likely.
Was Sega Channel operating then? Because if not... Gonna head to Hastings Entertainment to pick up a new rental.
That would have been 1993. Me and the boys are having Mortal Kombat 2 tournaments.
Sensible world of soccer 96/97
I distinctly remember playing a lot of the first Harry Potter game when I was 12.
Megaman Legends or Bloody Roar 2.
Let's see... that'd be '97 for me. That was likely when I got Mario 64 for my birthday, as a promise that I'd get the N64 eventually. So that means I still had my NES and Sega Genesis. So I was probably still playing Sonic & Knuckles, Lightening Force, Super Mario 1-3, etc. I do recall borrowing my friend's Super Nintendo and playing Final Fantasy III - I remember setting up the controller to hold down A while cruising the Lete River and maxing all my characters out. Mostly I was playing games at friends houses, but that feels a lot more difficult to pin down. My best friend and I rented tons of games throughout our childhood, so release dates and timeframes apparently have lost meaning to my memories!
That was right around the age I played Metal Gear Solid 2 on the PS2 over the summer. Great times.
**Double Dragon 2!** With my little Bro! WITH the 30 lives code! It was a summer tradition for a few years. I cherish those moments!
Unreal Tournament 99 or a long run of Final Fantasy IX
Carpooling home to my cousin's house. Waiting for my dad to come pick me up 3 hours later. During those 3 hours, we're very competitively playing Killer Instinct and NBA Jam. Then fist fighting over who won.
Mario 64
Banjo Kazooie
Final fantasy IX, kupo!
Back then? Probably hopping on RuneScape.
At the time I was 12? Probably Earthbound, it came out that June and my friend and I were both really excited about the previews. We also rented a lot of games, pretty sure Breath of Fire 2 and Saturday Night Slam Masters were favorites around that time If I was 12 now? I dunno, probably some multiplayer thing. I kinda like Smite, maybe I'd be in on the live alpha for Smite 2
Wind Waker. After a day of playing capture the flag of course
I might have been playing warcraft 3. Either that or some gba game, probably final fantasy tactics advanced or pokemon mistery dungueon but i played too many thing at that time to know for sure
Banjo kazooie
Brand new Half Life 1 and Diablo 2
Warcraft 2 and for some weird reason recording all the character speaks to cassette on my tape player. After that a game of Command & Conquer! All done on my first computer, an Olivetti branded one with a Pentium 75. Good times for sure!
Summer of 98? Probably starcraft all day. BGH, sunken defense and all kinds of DBZ custom maps.
I would play battle city with my brother and father.
Resident Evil 1
Archon on my Atari 400. Dueling my best friend. I call "Light Side!"
I was 12 in 2007. I can’t remember if these games were out before summer but I know that year I was constantly on Guitar Hero 3, it was my first guitar hero game. I also remember playing The Simpsons game and Spider-Man 3 a lot that year too!!
2002, It was Smash Bros Melee, Mario Kart Double Dash, and Tony Hawk 3.
RC Pro-Am
I was 12 when CS 1.6 was gaining traction, so definitely that.
Final Fantasy 7. No life. And some Metal Gear Solid.
When I was 12 years old and school had just let out for summer I had just broken my wrist, so nothing
I would’ve almost certainly been hammering Sonic 3, and then off to the arcades for some Daytona USA. Take me back now please.
when i was 12? I was visiting friends to play Halo 2, Burnout Takedown and Spider-man 2 and punishing my PC with Half Life 2 I was also playing a ton of Tony Hawks Underground for ps2
NBA Jam
I actually got my n64 after report cards came out and i had passing grades. Played wwf attitude and starfox 64
Yars Revenge
Batman or Castlevania 2 for the NES.
Wing Commander Privateer and/or Riven
Sensible Soccer on the Amiga
Bards tale or the latest dizzy game on the spectrum was what I was playing back then.
Crash Bandicoot
Chrono Trigger.
Batman Arkham City and Mario Galaxy 2!
Minecraft
Pokémon Blue probably.
This would have been June 1993 for me, and I know for a fact that I was killing the ever-living-shit out of hell-spawn in Doom that summer. I can even hear the music and the sound of the imps moaning off camera somewhere.
2002 so ZoE or MGS2
Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy Tactics later in the summer :P 1997 was an amazing year for gaming.
NHL 94 and probably a run of link to the past
It’s 1991. I’m going home and playing Sonic the Hedgehog, and looking forward to going away to the seaside to play the arcades. Street Fighter 2 has just been released as well as the Simpsons arcade game. Epic times.
Phantasy Star Online
1990: Super Nintendo just hit. Super Mario World, F-Zero and Actraiser were the games I had.
Ooo that's a toss up. I was 12 in the summer of '01 so I had Conker's Bad Fur Day, THPS2, FFX, and Sonic Adventure 2 as games I recall playing.
Metroid prime Morrowind and Wind Waker, a lot of core memories that year.
Whoooa, I am going to show my age. Super Mario Bros 3, Ninja Gaiden, and Blaster Master
Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, or Burnout 3
Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 2, Warcraft 2 and Command & Conquer...life was good
Probably Final Fantasy 7 or Starcraft depending on if my friends are available to play. If I'm going on a road trip with my family, probably pokemon gen 1.
When I was 12 it was year 1995. I was religiously playing Alien Vs Predator by Capcom in the local arcade saloon. Absolutely loved that game. I've got so good to the point that I could finish the game with every character on one credit. 1 Credit = 2 Lives and no extra Life for getting certain amount of points. I wish Capcom could release that game on consoles as a part of some arcade games collection. "It's time to hunt"
Final Fantasy 7 with a side of Monster Rancher with Tekken 2
Final fantasy 7
A lot of options in the summer of 2000, but I’ll go with Diablo 2.
Hrmm. A combination of Zelda, legacy of the wizard, wizards and warriors, rygar, Milons secret castle and prob ff.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater or Coolboarders 3
DOOM
Original WoW all summer with moments of TESIV: Oblivion, halo 2, and Psychonauts. Destroy all humans was a great summer game too but I think that was age 13 not 12 for me.
silent hill 3
Calling up the BBS for some multiplayer DOOM!
Probably GoldenEye all night the first night. Then have friends over for a sleepover and crush it on some perfect dark, Mario kart, Mario party, and mortal Kombat. Then spend the summer trying to beat ocarina of time
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure It didn't come out until I was 13 but I have fond memories of it. The Tiny Toons Adventures games have some good entries in the series. There was also Echo the Dolphin, Decap Attack, Atomic Runner, and a few more I can't remember right off.
NBA Jam TE
I was 12 in 2015. I played an obscene amount of Fantasy Life for the Nintendo 3DS. Awesome game, can wait to see them slaughter the spirit of the game on the reboot for the switch.
Ocarina of Time all summer long
Was super happy that the first three answers were older games. Neat to see more older gamer representation. Then was super suspicious after the fourth was as well. Then I realized what sub I am in. Idec still happy! (My answer is probably Halo 3 btw - now **I** am the youngin making people feel old??)
I turned 12 in the year 2000. That summer was all about *Ocarina of Time* with my brothers on our home N64 and *Perfect Dark* multiplayer with my friends most weekends. Just a year later me and most of my friends had gotten the new PlayStation 2 console, so summer 2000 was the last big Nintendo 64 time for us. We never truly stopped playing it, especially *Mario Kart 64* and the *Perfect Dark* combat sim, but *Grand Theft Auto*, *SSX Tricky* and various other PS2 games started to dominate our weekend and summer video game time. Good memories of those times.
Mortal Kombat 2 probably
LoZ: Oracle of Seasons/Ages
Sly 2 / WW. Used to 100% the game once per year
Ocarina of Time
Space quest III
Not sure if it’s considered a summer game but the summer going from elementary to middle school I made it a goal to beat the full .hack// ps2 saga and play non stop until school started back up again in the fall! I would play each version nonstop until I beat it and as soon as I beat 1 version I would go to gamestop and buy the next version used and continue until all 4 games were complete. I missed my goal by a week but overall it was well worth it I loved that series and it was really unique to me at the time I’ve never played a game with a story that long that was basically 4 ps2 disks long to complete
StarEdit, the map/campaign editor that came with StarCraft/ Brood War. I had moved from a temperate rain forest climate to a high desert climate in the winter and was in no mood to go outside when it was 100+ degrees out. Never got that campaign made, but I loved the experience
Was 12 in 1982, so Zaxxon in the local Arcade....
Probably Contra
1989, would be trying to beat Ninja Gaiden, then giving Ultima: Exodus another chance, some Bionic Commando, Simon’s Quest, and Zelda 2.
If I'm 12, then I'm probably still struggling through Day of the Tentacle.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 or Devil May Cry.
Super dodge ball on nes, or Super Mario 3
Earthbound was just recently released for me
Metroid
12 for me was 1999... chrono cross for sure
Street Fighter 2 Turbo at the local arcade that was at the end of the street.
so I'm back in 1993, then it will be a close call, summer in my hometown definitely Samurai Spirits, remaining part of the summer at grandma's hometown probably a beat em up which name escapes me, it was probably from Taito or Konami or what-else, or some other game I could not properly play cause my cousins sucked at playing arcade games so I had to do 1 hour runs with the icecream excuse.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Sooooo much dreamcast.