5 posts tagged “childhood”
What was your most memorable or favorite school field trip?
25 years ago I went on a field trip to the Zoo with my class from the American School in Vogelweh, Germany. When we got to the Orangutan cages, the beasts uncerimoniously started hurling feces at the military brats. Your narrator was singled out by one particularly vicious mother orangutan for a rather nasty shit missle. I hated those stupid monkeys for a long time.
In no particular order, my favorite games of all time:
- Marathon (1, 2 and Infinity)
- Quake 3: Arena
- Quake 1
- Katamari Damacy
- Rez
- Ico
- Burnout 3: Takedown
- Carmageddon 1
- Trackmania
- Doom (1, 2 and 3)
- Unreal 1
- Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Metal Gear Solid
- Troubled Souls
- Tetris
- Columns
- Marble Madness
- Lemmings
- Space Quest (1, 2 and 3)
- Secret of Monkey Island
- Prince of Persia (1 and 2)
- Karateka
- Wipeout (1 and XL)
- Adventure
- Resident Evil 1
- Silent Hill 1
- Super Mario Bros.
- Star Wars: Dark Forces 1
- Far-Cry
- Out of This World
- Half-Life (1 and 2)
- Deus Ex
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
- Adventure Game Construction Set (Apple II)
- Pinball Construction Set (Apple II)
- Need for Speed 1
- Ridge Racer 5
- Final Fantasy for Game Boy
- Final Fantasy VII
- Tekken 3 (PS1)
- SimCity 1
- SSX 1
- Ultima Underworld
- Halo 1
Mushrooms. Hated them. Now I still hate button mushrooms, but have a newfound appreciation for chanterelles, porcini and shiitakes. Especially with eggs.
I like lots of board games. The first one that comes to mind is Backgammon, but I assume like Chess and Dominoes, this can be ruled out on a technicality that it isn't truly a board game.
That said, Scrabble probably edges out Monopoly, but the Eurails "train game" comes in a close third.
Or Trivial Pursuit. Or my latest obsession with the game Set. Does Poker count? What about Candyland?
Sigh.
