First game ever played?
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Shadow Warrior on the PC.
It was sort of a spiritual counterpart to Duke Nukem, both are from 3D realms, and I still enjoy both of them. Though it's violent to the extreme. =D
It was sort of a spiritual counterpart to Duke Nukem, both are from 3D realms, and I still enjoy both of them. Though it's violent to the extreme. =D
My earliest gaming memories come from a trio of games for computers, before it was even remotely fashionable for computers to play games (mid 80's). One was castle - an graphic adventure game of primitive quality. The objective was to simply escape a castle. The graphics were given courtesy of the ASCI special character set. I know not how much progress I made in the game but as far as I was concerned it was damn near unbeatable.
The second was alley cat, a slightly more advanced game. I cannot recall what the objective was though I do know the game involved avoiding junk being thrown out of windows while climbing up a series of obstacles.
The third was bouncing babies, and I have seen this concept reiterated many times over. Basically, you controlled a pair of firemen holding a trampoline. Babies were being tossed out of a burning building. Your goal was to use the trampoline to bounce the children to the safety of the waiting ambulance. As the game progressed you were forced to juggle many children at once.
None of those games really had much of an impression on me though. When the NES first came out and my parents picked one up, the only games we had were Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt (which came bundled with the console) and Golf (my dad's pick). For quite awhile these games failed to draw me into the fold.
The first game that I truly loved, and what probably represents my first step into geekdowm was Captian Skyhawk, which I got for christmas in 1990. As luck would have it, there was a war on at the time and the news was full of coverage of Allied planes bombing some target or another. I don't recall ever really connecting the dots in a specific way, but I can only assume the Gulf War probably had more than a little bit to do with my love of that game.
Other memorable milestones include the first game I played on the internet (Duke Nukem 3d, thanks to the third party program internet commit), the first game I purchased myself with money from something resembling employment (Unreal), my first MMO (Arctic, a MUD), and the first online game I actually became good at (Team Fortress/TF Mega for Quake I).
The second was alley cat, a slightly more advanced game. I cannot recall what the objective was though I do know the game involved avoiding junk being thrown out of windows while climbing up a series of obstacles.
The third was bouncing babies, and I have seen this concept reiterated many times over. Basically, you controlled a pair of firemen holding a trampoline. Babies were being tossed out of a burning building. Your goal was to use the trampoline to bounce the children to the safety of the waiting ambulance. As the game progressed you were forced to juggle many children at once.
None of those games really had much of an impression on me though. When the NES first came out and my parents picked one up, the only games we had were Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt (which came bundled with the console) and Golf (my dad's pick). For quite awhile these games failed to draw me into the fold.
The first game that I truly loved, and what probably represents my first step into geekdowm was Captian Skyhawk, which I got for christmas in 1990. As luck would have it, there was a war on at the time and the news was full of coverage of Allied planes bombing some target or another. I don't recall ever really connecting the dots in a specific way, but I can only assume the Gulf War probably had more than a little bit to do with my love of that game.
Other memorable milestones include the first game I played on the internet (Duke Nukem 3d, thanks to the third party program internet commit), the first game I purchased myself with money from something resembling employment (Unreal), my first MMO (Arctic, a MUD), and the first online game I actually became good at (Team Fortress/TF Mega for Quake I).
Teh first game i SAW was a really old silent hill being played by my brother,and the first one i played was pitfall on sega,or pong,cant remember...
Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt where the very first games I ever played if I'm correct. Soon after that it were shareware games on floppy disks and console games on the NES, SNES and Mega Drive. The first non-PC game I really owned was Pokémon Yellow, when I was 10 years old.
My entire childhood is a blur of old NES games. But my favorites were Metroid, Sector Z, Life Force, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Legend of Zelda.
