8 Bit Memories

So I was reading another blog by CaptJB about looking back at old games and it got me thinking.  I have done a ton cool stuff that new games might not get to do again for a long time.  Most of my favorite franchise stuff went away, never to return.  I thought I would take a look back at some of my favorite things I have done in video games.  Feel free to post your own.  I will probably try to keep this updated as I think of more in the future:

this post will be 8-bit memories:

made a map of the towns and dungeons in Bard's Tale
custom made my entire party in Bard's Tale
Found the Bell, The Book, and The Candle in UO
Spent hours mediating because I stole Lord British's goods
Created a massive car gang in SSI's Road Wars and terrorized post-ww3 america
used Bruce Lee to go thru a massive platformer, and killed a ninja and fat samurai
Went to various vector planets in Stellar 7 and kicked some butt with my wireframe tank
played side-scrolling shooters and vertical shooters
Played Commando and whiped out an entire army by my lonesome
played with little computer people
almost beat mission impossible (my friend did)
Played a game called Hacker.  A game with no instructions and no directions.  It took us like 3 weeks just to crack the password to start the game!
made over 100 tracks in racing destruction set, and they where awesome!  No racing game since was as flexible :)
made my own pinball machines with pinball construction set (come on EA it's 2007 already)
played computer chess with pieces that had to fight each other (archon)
played a game that you only read and click.  It was called portal.  nothing ever like it was made again.
Competitive kung-fu fighitng (kung-fu, Iron Fist, karate champ)
I played infocom games.  That's right I played Zork.  Also played a few other weird ones.
A friend and I made our own Text Adventure game engine in basic that worked.  He never forgave me for not writing out the whole game that used his engine.
I flew an F-15 (microprose) into the Gulf and bombed Lybia!  I remember college people coming over when I was in 6th grade and we would do real time missions where we would fly that plane all day!
I flew the first stealth fighter! (microprose)
Chuck Yager taught me how to fly.  I took an SR-71 into space, and re-entered earth orbit to fast and ripped off a wing.
I built a space station.  I had to fly the space shuttle, develop technology, and plan every little detail ( and it ruled)
I played elite.  People tell me there are missions in the game.  I played that game for 2 years and never found one mission, but I sure did a lot of slave trading and pirating!  Black market good where awesome!
Track and Field (I hate that game)
EPYX GAMES---SUMMER, WINTER, CALIFORNIA---many a broken joystick
I played test drive.  It had one track.  You went up a mountain.  and that was it!
River Raid!
OMG!!!!  Bugle bay!!! that game was awesome!!!!

There are to many good games.  We need to bring back more games that create awesome memories...

That's enough for tonight...I have to go play some modern games.  But look out for a 16-bit memories post sometime in the future.

Meet in public buildings with a box full of old games and traded them for other peoples old games (computer swap meet, before the internet :) )