Gaming history you missed out on

[Spirit]

There's an unwritten list that almost every gamer can recite; the games that are staples of history.

Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy 7, Journey, Shadow of the Colossus, Tomb Raider, Call of Duty, Tetris, Super Mario Bros. Metroid etc etc,

The elite, the famous, the historic... these and many more games are ones that, as gamers, we know are important to the medium and without these games the gaming medium would be a lesser thing.

But which have you missed out on?
Were you born too late to play them at the time, or did you simply just miss your moment?

Conversly, which games have you picked up and played only because people have said you had to?

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

of those mentioned,call of duty is probably the only one I was there to remember [I was around for shadow of the colossus,but didn't hear about it til 09/10]

 

[Agent of Majora]

I'm still annoyed that I missed out on Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device. They don't even have it on Steam for some reason.

 

[Kylo Ken]

You forgot Ethnic Cleansing in that list @Spirit

 

[DodoEgg]

Metal Gear Solid. I missed out on the series, I watched my brother play it when I was really young, but I never played any of them until early 2015. I've played 1,2, 3, Peace Walker and V since, and I've loved them, with 1 being one of my favourite games of all time now.

 

[VikzeLink]

Well, I was born 1993, so anything before 1996 (I got my first console and games 1998, N64) I missed out on.
I also tend to stick to Nintendo, Blizzard and a few PS series, so I've probably missed a lot of what most would call gaming history

 

[Din.Farore.Nayru]

I haven't played a lot of those games - Shadow of the Colossus, Tomb Raider, Call of Duty, Metroid - I've never played any of those. I've never owned a GTA game and have only played an hour or two tops with friends and that was one from a few generations ago.

I've said this before on here, I was really into gaming as a kid and played most of the N64 & Playstation classics, but I never really played much in high school and college and just in the last 3 years have I started to get into gaming again. I'm trying to play what I've missed but I like to go one at a time and really enjoy a game.

So I guess you could say, besides classic N64, I've missed a lot of gaming history.

 

[pyjamas5189]

I never owned a N64 or gamecube so missed on the original OOT MM and WW

 

[Cartoonmaniac]

First console I got was the Gamecube, so I missed out on a huge chunk of gaming history. I also haven't played any Final Fantasy games

 

[Roger Rad]

I missed out on most of the games from 2005 till 2011, since that was when I was fulltime occupied WoW.

 

[Dio]

I started on the N64, anything before that I would have missed out on. And also anything that wasn't on Nintendo until I got my 360 with the exceptions of games I played at my friends houses on their consoles.

 

[selicyc]

I was too young for the start of the golden age of Squaresoft games and by extension, too young to experience the RPG genre take the gaming world by storm for the better part of the 90s and early 2000s. I didn't play some of the greatest RPG hits like any of the Final Fantasy games, Planescape: Torment and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night until I was about 13/14 years old, and that was when the traditional JRPG had began to fade into obscurity.

Many people regard Chrono Trigger (myself included) as one of the best RPGs ever created and was released for the SNES in 1995, and I didn't have a crack at it until it was ported for the DS in 2008, almost two decades later.

 

[MW7]

I missed virtually everything not on a Nintendo console. The most notable for me would be Metal Gear Solid because I love stealth games and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I did eventually play Symphony of the Night on an Xbox 360 compilation disc. I also missed a lot of Nintendo games until years later. I think I missed Super Mario 64 until 2002 when I bought it used. In my defense I received my N64 when Ocarina of Time was released and since I was young, I had no concept that there were lots of great games on the N64 earlier.

I missed Banjo Kazooie and Tooie until something crazy like 2011. I also missed virtually every Metroid game and have had trouble getting into them. For some reason even though Symphony of the Night supposedly took it's style from Super Metroid, I thought Symphony of the Night was a masterpiece whereas every Metroid game just isn't my favorite. Banjo Kazooie in my opinion was better than most games being released in 2011 save for maybe Skyward Sword and Skyrim.

 

[ToonJake]

AAA PlayStation 3 titles, because I didn't play "violent" video game when I was younger.

 

[Night Owl]

If it isn't Nintendo I probably missed out on it. Up until recently my only experience gaming has been on nintendo systems.

I do have tomb raider on steam, but haven't finished it. I got it on a steam deal where I got the tomb raider bundle for cheap, 11 games for like $10 or something.

If the game was rated M, I likely have never played it.

There is way too much video game history that I missed for me to have time to catch up.