That looks pretty good. There's so many great games I never heard of!etherlance said:The first game I remember playing was the one that hooked me to games for the rest of my life.
The first computer game you ever played?
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If it's experiences you're after, let me tell you about some of the games I played:SuperNashwan said:Yeah I guess its experiecnes Im after - just that burst of nostalgia of people's very first memories of gaming! I know I remember feeling so excited about all this stuff, and those memories are good
Sounds like yours and my experiecnes are pretty similar. My dad was Commodore brand-loyal so we had a few of those, then he got into PC's and we havent looked back
I remember paying out megabucks to plug in more memory in this little slot under the amiga, to take me up to a whole ONE MEGABYTE lol
The system I remember playing the absolute earliest is the Commodore Amiga, it must have been when I was 5 or so. It was my dad's work computer, I think.
He had this weird-ass game called "The Adventure Construction Set", where you could construct single-player high-fantasy RPG stories from the terrain you traversed and the castles you quested in, to what enemies you encountered in the dungeons.
I didn't understand any of it aside from loading a pre-written game, and the little guy on the screen moved correspondingly to where I pushed the joystick.
The motherlode of PC gaming I got into was when my uncle lent/gave me his Commodore64 when I was 7 or so. I still have some boxes at my parents' house full of the games: 5.5" floppies, cartridges, and cassette tapes. Ultimate Wizard, California Games, Winter Games, Wizball, Gorf, and Blueprint are the games I remember playing the most.
Blueprint was strange: you were a guy running around a 4 x 4 grid of houses while across the top of the screen a frankenstein monster slowly shuffled towards your girlfriend; you went into the houses to find parts to this machine you had the blueprint for at the bottom of the screen; once you amassed all the parts, you jumped on the machine and could drive it back and forth, spewing what looked like cartoon medicine pills up toward the monster. Once you hit the monster with a pill it was defeated, and you started the game over.
first game i remember playing is a toss up between pajama sam and........ uhh.. god i cant remember the name of it but it was a kid themed point and click about two fish and im pretty sure the main char was yellow.
all i could remember about that one is you could make your sidekick drink various drinks in a bar for some humorous responses. that was way back in early 97, when i was one and a half ish.
around three i moved into strategy games with star wars galactic battlegrounds and eventually red alert. then i got a nintendo 64 at age 5-ish and played sarge's heroes and battle tanks and smash bros and mario kart till like 2002 when i got back into strategy games and got a ps2 (kingdom hearts hands down favorite ps2 game ever, destroy all humans in close second)
HOLY SHIT i just realized i wasted my entire childhood up untill about a year ago playing videogames. though one must admit racking up 12 years of semi-hardcore gaming by age 14 is really something. something sad true but still something
all i could remember about that one is you could make your sidekick drink various drinks in a bar for some humorous responses. that was way back in early 97, when i was one and a half ish.
around three i moved into strategy games with star wars galactic battlegrounds and eventually red alert. then i got a nintendo 64 at age 5-ish and played sarge's heroes and battle tanks and smash bros and mario kart till like 2002 when i got back into strategy games and got a ps2 (kingdom hearts hands down favorite ps2 game ever, destroy all humans in close second)
HOLY SHIT i just realized i wasted my entire childhood up untill about a year ago playing videogames. though one must admit racking up 12 years of semi-hardcore gaming by age 14 is really something. something sad true but still something
Uhhh i remember a little racing game back in the day when i was little, you could come off the track and drive where ever you wanted. like right into the distance through water and towards the horizon, i thought it was badass.
Lol yeah thats the stuff right there. Those sort of random unique experiecnes, and the excitement when someone brought home a games machine, still smelling of silicon. I still remember getting my amiga with about 20 games. I found out that Amiga means "girlfriend" in spanish, which was appropriate given the amount of time I spent with the thing...Denmarkian said:
No way is that a waste, just think of all the killstreaks and unlocked perks those years of practice probably help you to get nowQuazimofo said:
The first game I played on a computer was either Lemmings or, Wolfenstein. I really can't remember which because they were both introduced to me at a younger age...I'll guess it was Wolfenstein though.
The first game I actually played was a Super Mario Brothers on the NES
The first game I actually played was a Super Mario Brothers on the NES