I only had a NES as a kid, but some games i really did love playing
Super mario 1 and 3
Contra
Megaman 2
Gremlins
When i got myself a PC, i don’t think i had that many games, but some that i spent way too much time on:
Ancient domains of mystery (still my favorite PC game of all time)
Heroes of might and magic 2
Command & conquer: red alert
“Merien valtias” by target (i can only remember the finnish name for that one)
I’m like @trohde (only older!) and during my childhood not only were there no video games, there was only video for the select few who had the money – and it was called television.
@Musash1 beat me to my line: Not only were there no video games when I was young, but there were no personal computers. I grew up on checkers, chess, Chinese checkers, mancala, dozens of card games, and all the usual board games, but spent most of my time outdoors. Favorite board game for pure fun was and is Chinese checkers. Only computer game I have ever played (as an adult) was Civilization 1 and 2, which is too addictive and takes a ridiculous amount of time, so I don’t play it anymore.
I have to chime in on the two mentions of Heroes of Might and Magic.
I spent so much time on HoMM3, which was really the golden age of the series.
Later I finished the HoMM1 campaign and sporadically progressing in HoMM2 still.
So when I was a kid in the 80’s, my dad was a computer programmer. We were pretty spoiled and always had a ton of computers and games that nobody else did. My favorites were mostly old DOS games like The Flintstones, The Chase on Tom Sawyer’s Island, Reader Rabbit, and Donald Duck’s Playground.
I also had an NES and loved Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Paperboy, Tetris, Gyromite, and Kid Icarus.
In the 90’s I played Gizmos & Gadgets, Myst, Pokémon red and blue, Fallout 1 & 2, Wolfenstein 3d, SimCity2000, lots of SNES games and Sonic at my cousin’s house cause she had a Sega.
The Golden age of LAN parties brought Starcraft (OMG ) and I also gorged on other RTS games like Homeworld and Cataclysm.
I played a lot of Halo in high school, and it was like the dawn of a new age when Halo 2 came out and my local group could play as a team against strange new people over the Internet.