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My first was Tetris GB because my parents bought me a Gameboy for my 5th birthday. That was quickly followed up with Donkey Kong Land 1, and I'd consider that my true first video game. No hard feelings towards Tetris or anything, but DKL actually had levels and platforming and a final boss! I loved that game even if it took me weeks to beat one of the ship levels in world 1 and then more weeks to beat one of the sky levels in world 3. It was just such a fun game, and definitely contributed to the Donkey Kong series being my favorite series for a long time.
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It must have been some terrible game on the Atari 2600. But for something I actually remember it was either something on a Gameboy or, if my parents bought a Macintosh Classic before they bought us a Gameboy I vividly remember playing a card game called 1000 Miles on the Mac Classic more than anything else.
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Oct 20, 2019 22:19
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First game I can remember is the SMB/Duck Hunt twofer cartridge. My dad had an Atari 2600 before we got that, though I don't remember it all that well.
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Oct 20, 2019 22:26
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First game I remember seeing was Mario 3, first game I played was Super Mario Kart I had only ever seen/owned the SMB/Duck Hunt duo cartridge so the first time I saw the one that included World Class Track Meet I was  
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Oct 20, 2019 23:03
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:I had only ever seen/owned the SMB/Duck Hunt duo cartridge so the first time I saw the one that included World Class Track Meet I was Same I remember thinking man that extra game must be killer if it’s rare! Pretty sure my first game was Ikari Warriors on the NES. It’s one of my earliest memories I can recall.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:59
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I believe it was Mario Bros (not super) on the NES, cousin brought over his console. I remember when we got a Game Boy and from reading the box I thought a “link cable” meant there was a hidden Zelda game in the box.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:29
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Mine probably would have been Dark Castle on the Mac Plus, one of those old platformers with wonky-rear end controls where you attacked by throwing rocks in a parabolic arc based on the position of your mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0
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Oct 21, 2019 00:55
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I just remember playing a lot of Atari 2600 when I was 3, so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umlhBPNrpak&t=42s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZDRELOqoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dfWCkyf70Y Pretty sure I got all of these for Christmas that year at the same time.
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Oct 21, 2019 01:58
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Prince of Persia on the 286 PC we had back then. At least that's one of my first memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkLwt9xwMA I also barely remember this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3wA-L7Uh2s Still can't figure out how to play this thing. Some European-made computer games have some really arcane controls and gameplay.
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Oct 21, 2019 02:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSC7K6nbD90 Bouncing Babies. For the longest time I thought I had imagined this game entirely as a fever dream, but it existed. One game I'm still not sure is real is another old DOS or Commodore game about sorting luggage at an airport. It might have been one part of that Donald Duck game which has a minigame like that but I'm not sure. I remember it looking a lot worse. Might have been a knock off or pirated version (my parents definitely copied that floppy). I was incredibly bad at all these games, but the hardest part was memorizing the dos commands to actually start the game.
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Oct 21, 2019 04:23
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My first game system at home was one of these Radio Shack multi-game Pong/Skeet knockoffs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoE0Ch6hEmQ
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Oct 21, 2019 05:31
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Number_6 posted:My first game system at home was one of these Radio Shack multi-game Pong/Skeet knockoffs: Now that is what I call a light gun.
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Oct 21, 2019 05:58
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The earliest game I remember was Defender. My dad played that on either an Intellivision or ColecoVision, but I don't remember exactly which one. I didn't really get into games until we got an NES a few years later. I think it was in '88 but the details are a little fuzzy. It came with the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge and I think I got Ghosts n' Goblins around the same time.
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Oct 21, 2019 06:01
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Castle of illusion was the first game I played and the first one I owned. My aunt gave me her Genesis and her copy of it the same year my dad got me a Pocket and Donkey Kong Land
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Oct 21, 2019 10:17
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The Kins posted:The earliest I can remember off the top of my head is this: Didn't expect anyone else to come in with this before me, but yeah, this
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Oct 21, 2019 11:41
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My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, which came with a bunch of games, but the one I remember is this: https://youtu.be/Bldyu897snI.
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Oct 21, 2019 12:36
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Conquest of the Crystal Palace
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Oct 21, 2019 12:55
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Not sure what the exact first game was but the first system was Colecovision. I don't remember much because I was really young, but I do remember Donkey Kong and Smurfs. It also had a good Pac-Man port. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9WwdVb-_A
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Oct 21, 2019 13:31
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River Raid on C64 is the first one I remember. The first one I owned was Logical on Amiga. A pirated diskette because it was in early 90s Poland and there weren't any copyrights in play after communism was toppled in '89. The first legit game I bought was a 2 disk Dizzy Collection. Wish I still had it, just for the box.
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Oct 21, 2019 13:41
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Sitting next to my dad and older brother as they played GORILLA.BAS. Some old MS-DOS game where you two gorillas on buildings threw exploding bananas at each other. The YouTube video below isn’t even worth watching unless you vaguely remember this and want to see what it was. https://youtu.be/UDc3ZEKl-Wc My first real game was probably something like SMW. I think we got an SNES at launch so that was probably the first one I smashed buttons on. I played a lot of SNES, but all the memories run together - either way I inherited my brothers love of RPGs, so I definitely played more of those than anything else. Oh poo poo in Googling for Gorillas I found Nibbles, basically Snake for MS-DOS - definitely played that
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Oct 21, 2019 13:56
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My first game is debatable because back when I was five my cousin gave me a box with an NES and like 30 games in it, all I remember about that stack now is that it included Rad Racer 2 and Friday the 13th so even back then one of my first games was probably from Square or Atlus. He also at one point gave me one of those Coleco mini arcades for Galaxian and I no longer remember which was first.  Every now and then I think about buying one of these on eBay and always decide not to. Julius CSAR posted:First game dang where were you a couple years ago when i was trying to remember the name of this game? hard to look up their games when they're just called Number Maze and Reading Maze.
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Oct 21, 2019 14:54
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KC Munchkin on the Magnavox Odyssey II. Also there was Nimble Numbers Ned which taught me shapes like trapezoid. Trapazoid.
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Oct 21, 2019 15:09
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3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
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Oct 21, 2019 15:25
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When I was reaaaaalllllyyyyyy little I used to watch my dad play Mario 3, and level 8 scared the gently caress out of me with the creeper hands that grab you over the bridge  After I finally successfully begged my dad to play he started me on Mario 2, which is really funny in hindsight since its my least favorite Mario game (I've never even beat all the levels, just used end warps to get to and beat the final boss)... so Mario 3 is the one that sticks to my heart. Man I feel like a young'un, since everybody else is talking about stuff before that. Feldegast42 fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 15:48
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First video game I ever played was Sonic 2, got it for Christmas in the early 90's, bundled with the Sega Genesis iirc. I was so hooked on that game, but could never get past the final boss. Not till much later in life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cr1rqVcIhA I also got Aero The Acrobat, which I thought was also pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG1phNXPm_o
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Oct 21, 2019 16:22
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My family's first computer was an Amiga and I started playing it when I was like 3. By which I mean I'd sit on my mum or dad's knee and they'd help me figure out which buttons to press. I remember we already had a few games for it but the first one we played was Barbarian by Psygnosis, who would later go on to do the Wipeout series. There was a frog on screen 3 which took me months to get past cause it required precise timing then after that there was a tin man guarding the bow that I could never get past. I keep meaning to go back and finish it off at some point but always got other games on my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5zBNNLSqbQ This was of course the game famously advertised with this porny boxart: 
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Oct 21, 2019 16:42
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Sabotage on a 64K Apple ][ Plus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lureEEqXxaQ My favorite was to finesse the shot so I would take out the parachute and the invader would fall to their death.  If too many invaders made it to the ground, they'd form a pyramid and blow up your gun. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 17:24
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Kibayasu posted:But for something I actually remember it was either something on a Gameboy or, if my parents bought a Macintosh Classic before they bought us a Gameboy I vividly remember playing a card game called 1000 Miles on the Mac Classic more than anything else. https://macintoshgarden.org/games/1000-miles Still downloadable and playable via an emulator.
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Oct 21, 2019 17:31
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First system was my dad's Sega Master System and he had a bunch of sports games for it. Most of them were pretty bad. Reggie Jackson Baseball was actually pretty good.
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Oct 21, 2019 18:53
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First game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. One of our neighbors across the street bought an NES for himself - this must've been late '88, early '89 - and invited us to come check it out. Cut to an hour later and my parents are carrying me back home, literally kicking and screaming, because I was already completely and hopelessly addicted. I didn't actually get an NES of my own until fall of '90, but I was completely obsessed with Nintendo and anything Mario-related for the next year and a half. One Friday my Mom picked me up from Kindergarten and she'd brought me a Nintendo-branded ice cream sandwich. It had Mouser on it. I'd never played (or even seen) SMB2 but it made me basically as happy as I'd ever been to that point.
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Oct 21, 2019 19:17
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Somebody down the street had an Odyssey and I watched them play Haunted House (or whatever the game was called) when I was very young, to the extent that I thought for a long time I must have imagined the system existed until I saw one at the Computer History Museum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsz6hv8--sE&t=5m59s If ELIZA is a game, the first one I played on my own was that, on the PET my dad had at the school office. The Animal guessing game too, which is arguably more of a game. I'm trying to recall the first game I actually purchased. I would have relied a lot on what my older brother got, but I think I might have been Temple of Apshai (C64) or one of the Zork sequels. Kangra fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 20:14
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Phantasium posted:
Like sometime last year I just googled "maze game mouse cheese castle MacSE" and I had totally forgotten that there was even math involved. When I saw a screenshot that clicked for me it was like finding the ark of the covenant.
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Oct 21, 2019 21:36
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It's hard to say exactly, because my early memories aren't ordered properly about what game was when. There's maybe four or five I could say (two or three of which I can remember), but the one I'll spotlight: SimCity. (Honorable mentions: SMB/Duck Hunt cartridge, Welltris.)
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Oct 21, 2019 23:07
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Either Streets of Rage or Sonic 1, on my mum's Mega Drive. First PC game that wasn't a kid's learning 'game' was I think either Red Alert or Duke Nukem 3D. Age ratings never meant much to my parents. 
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Oct 21, 2019 23:30
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Sonic 2 on Game Gear, the unreasonably hard one that no one likes. People like to talk about their childhood hard games toughening them up or whatever, but I just didn't get anywhere with it until about twenty years later. Played the first stage a whole lot and that was basically it. Bad level design aside, it actually plays pretty well for a Game Gear game. The ones that came after it are incredibly slow and unresponsive in comparison.
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Oct 22, 2019 00:02
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 Even at 5 years old I knew this game was poo poo but I loved Ghostbusters so much I played it all the time.
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Oct 22, 2019 00:05
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First game I ever owned and remember playing with an actual awareness of it was Jazz Jackrabbit for the family's DOS PC. Definitely formed my love for platformers from there on, and I still have a weird fondness for all those goofy mascots the 90s barfed up.
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Oct 22, 2019 01:40
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magikid posted:Sonic 2 on Game Gear, the unreasonably hard one that no one likes. People like to talk about their childhood hard games toughening them up or whatever, but I just didn't get anywhere with it until about twenty years later. Played the first stage a whole lot and that was basically it. I recently played through the Sega Master System version of Sonic 2. Same game, but due to the higher resolution, you see more of the level on screen. It's much easier.
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Oct 22, 2019 01:51
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First FPS that I actually owned goddamn I love that game
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I think technically it was the Colecovision game Learning with Leaper but I don’t remember a thing about it really. King’s Quest on the other hand I remember being so enamored with that my parents wrote out a bunch of different words that I would need for the game and just let me go to town. I ended up learning to type before I learned to write, and now my handwriting is dogshit because gently caress writing anything.
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