That brought to mind almost every 16-bit JRPG I've ever played. Sorry.

The order of the events you said are different, but the same events happen at the beginning of Secret of Mana for the SNES.

No one has listed Little Big Planet? I bought my PS3 afew weeks ago and only have LBP and MGS4. Both are very refreshing and enjoyable games.

If you have a tendancy to feel the need to be superior to another player online I would advise against playing World of Warcraft. The most addicting aspect of the game for me was the constant urge to be better than everyone else. This is an impossible achievement for most, and it will cost you alot of time.

Reader Rabbit! Yeeaaahhh...

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How can I starve? I have a collection of them.

I still play Streets of Rage 2 quite regularly.

Earliest game memories I have are of playing Dr. Mario and The Karate Kid for NES at a relatives house. First games I had in my home were Snoopy's Olympics and Blades of Steel(best christmas ever, also the first and last games my parents ever purchased for me).

I faintly recall playing a Little Red Riding Hood game on some sort of computer/console hybrid thing which predates both of the previous examples, but I can't remember what the device was called.

Half-Life 2's ending was pretty grim, before we knew how it played out of course. It was just like, damn, he got me again and my love interest is getting blow'd up.

This thread really hits home with me. This same problem has been affecting me regularly for the past year or so, and I've recently been trying to enforce more controls on my hobby. By becoming a bit more restrictive I can moderate my own sense of joy. Afterall joy is relative. A dollar may be nothing to you, but to a starving man it is (harsh analogy).

I've found it easiest to just stick to one or two games for an extended period of time (weeks). If I'm bored of the game after 20-30 minutes of playing, I just decide that I don't want to play games right now and I do something else. It takes alot of willpower, but I believe the trade-off is worth it.

Similar to what an above poster said; I'm trying only to purchase genre-defying or revolutionary games from now on. I don't need 10 FPS games, I just need 1-2 really unique ones.

It's kind of like forcing myself to play games how I used to as a kid, when I didn't have as many games available to me all the time. I'd wear a game out for months until I had enough money to get a new one.