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The first one I remember was Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Sega Master System on Christmas 1991, but I might have played an arcade machine of some sort before that.
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Negrostrike posted:drat Secret Agent is loving HARD We had one of those massive shareware CDs and I used to play the poo poo out of Secret Agent as well as Crystal Caves which runs on the same engine. I never beat either of them lol
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Oct 29, 2019 14:05
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Most likely some arcade port on my dad's ColecoVision in the late '80's. I would have been pre-school/kindergarten age back then. Donkey Kong, Defender, Zaxxon, (Ms.) Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaga, Galaxian, he had them all. We'd play together, or alternate lives.
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My dad bought "me" a VCS when they came out (I was 1). I have no idea what my actual first game was but my earliest memories of games on the Atari are Maze Craze and Air Sea Combat. Pretty much every birthday and Christmas brought more games until I was buying them for a dollar each at the local pharmacy/junk store with my paper route money in the late 80s.
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Our local supermarket had a racing game that I remember playing when I was 5 or 6. It was black and white and had a steering wheel and I loved it. Had to look it up because I couldn’t remember the name, turns out it’s an early 70s Atari arcade game called Gran Trak 10.
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I think my great grandfather had an atari 2600, but I don't remember what games I played on it. The one game that sticks out the most to me was Dungeon Master on an Apple II GS. Not surprisingly, first person dungeon crawlers is my favorite genre of video game to this day.
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Oct 31, 2019 03:58
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Super Mario Bros. I was watching my uncle play it and he let me play the warp zone in 1-2, he told me very explicitly "Do not go into the pipe" presumably because he wanted to get the ten coin block right before the pipe. I went into the pipe. Node posted:I think my great grandfather had an atari 2600, but I don't remember what games I played on it. The one game that sticks out the most to me was Dungeon Master on an Apple II GS. Not surprisingly, first person dungeon crawlers is my favorite genre of video game to this day. My uncle had an Amiga and the game I remember most was Black Crypt, which is an FPS dungeon crawler similar to Dungeon Master. That game had an amazing soundtrack and ambience, and to this day I wish there was a version I could get running to play through myself.
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Oct 31, 2019 04:15
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PneumonicBook posted:Super Mario Bros. Please forgive my pedantry, but: there is no “10 coin block” in the OG SMB. Instead, it is a timed block where you can squeeze as many coins as jumps within a span of time. You can usually net 13 pretty comfortably. 10-coin block is Mario Maker Revisionist History.
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Oct 31, 2019 05:04
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Please forgive my pedantry, but: there is no “10 coin block” in the OG SMB. Instead, it is a timed block where you can squeeze as many coins as jumps within a span of time. You can usually net 13 pretty comfortably. Ahahah, no worries. I always referred to those blocks as 10 coin blocks, but I suppose I've never counted. The important part was that I was scarred terribly for screwing up the one thing 4 year old me was told to do lol.
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Chrs posted:It was either Sonic 1, 2 or Streets of Rage but I’m not sure which
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Christmas 1982, we got a Colecovision. Came with Donkey Kong as the pack-in, but we also got Smurf and Carnival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcoxH4QLcLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXsCgbd6d3g Owning a Colecovision at the time was awesome because the video game crash meant games were dirt cheap, so we’d get new ones all the time. Looking at a list of games, I can count 35 that I remember owning, which is like a quarter of the library.
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My parents had an Atari 2600 so the first video games I ever played was probably Pong, Pacman, or something like that. The first time I remember thinking video games were really cool though was at my friends house seeing Mario and Duck Hunt!
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Ok, so I got to thinking again and I figured out that my first memories of playing video games is a mashup of Adventure for the Atari 2600, and Rocky’s Boots for DOS or the Apple II, by the Learning Company( an educational game about logic gates and poo poo). The guy that made Adventure also worked on it, and it includes a loud rear end duck, which I assume was maybe a reference to Adventure and the dragon looking like a duck. https://youtu.be/a-NLh58bIIk It feels great to have finally figured this out. A bunch of memories are trickling back in. Also, Atari 2600 is for the children. Click to hear RZA sing about his childhood. I think there’s a whole album. https://youtu.be/r8LbtuabMuY Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Nov 10, 2019 |
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Nov 10, 2019 10:12
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The first game I got was the Super Mario All-Stars cart that came with the SNES bundle I got for Xmas when I was 4 but the first game I remember beating was Zelda LttP. I died 139 times! 
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My parents had an Atari 2600, but it was theirs. My first game may well have been Combat. The first games I remember playing, however, were in arcades as a slightly older kid: Moon Patrol and Gyruss. They were right next to each other in some arcade, and the mists of time have fogged which came first. I grant them both pride of place, and I grant Gyruss credit for my later love of Tempest.
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Nov 11, 2019 04:54
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I inherited my aunt's Nes (my aunt is only 10 years older than me) with super Mario Bros. But the first game that was truly mine, got it in Christmas: a 2nd generation SNES (the smaller one) with SUPER STAR WARS That loving GAME was what I cut my teeth on. I used to play it until my thumbs BLED. My thumbs can, in fact, bend backwards because of that game.
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Nov 13, 2019 16:51
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lol if you didn't play that hard as gently caress Star Wars game for the NES, featuring Darth Vader turning into a snake
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Nov 13, 2019 17:52
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Randaconda posted:lol if you didn't play that hard as gently caress Star Wars game for the NES, featuring Darth Vader turning into a snake More like Darth Viper, amirite?
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Nov 13, 2019 17:56
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Randaconda posted:lol if you didn't play that hard as gently caress Star Wars game for the NES, featuring Darth Vader turning into a snake It was a Scorpion which introduced itself as "fake Darth Vader"
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Im imagining someone’s first game being SNES empire strikes back- you’d either get so sick of it you’d never pick up another game ever or totally dominate the game to the point where nothing else can challenge you
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Nov 13, 2019 19:18
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Shibawanko posted:It was a Scorpion which introduced itself as "fake Darth Vader" alas, i am undone
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Nov 13, 2019 19:40
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A scorpion is the most classic early game boss design imo. Every first dungeon boss should just be a big scorpion or maybe a lizard man
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Nov 13, 2019 19:59
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That Star Wars game was only released in Japan
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Pablo Nergigante posted:That Star Wars game was only released in Japan Yeah, but my Nintendo worked at Uncle.
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Siegkrow posted:I inherited my aunt's Nes (my aunt is only 10 years older than me) with super Mario Bros. And wanna know what's worse? THIS WAS MY ONLY loving GAME FOR 2 YEARS. Excusing renting one or another game in blockbuster? This was it.
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It was either a handheld Battlestar Galactica game or Shufflepuck cafe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di8P3skzq2A The joystick on the battlestar game was incredibly loving painful to use. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Nov 14, 2019 |
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My young self's choices w/r/t which games to ask for for my birthday were actually pretty good, I knew to avoid licensed games already back then and just went for the ones that seemed the most imaginative and weird, like the Quintet games and so on.
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Please forgive my pedantry, but: there is no “10 coin block” in the OG SMB. Instead, it is a timed block where you can squeeze as many coins as jumps within a span of time. You can usually net 13 pretty comfortably. I knew that I had basically assumed this forever and was only disabused of it when I played Mario Maker, so I decided to go back and see if I could determine the origin of this myth. I believe that it was Nintendo Power July ‘90, where on page 10 it says levels contain ‘10 coins block’. If you look in the SMB and SMB3 manual it doesn’t suggest it in either, both merely say that if you collect 100 coins you get an extra life.
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Nov 14, 2019 20:10
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Mario games peaked with Super Mario World edit: 
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Randaconda posted:Mario games peaked with Super Mario
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Randaconda posted:Mario games peaked with Super Mario World 2
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Randaconda posted:Mario games peaked with Super Mario Bros 4
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Randaconda posted:Mario games peaked with Super Mario Land 2
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Actually, they peaked with Super Mario Land 1, the absolute perfect Mario experience.
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 is objectively the best Mario game.
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Pong was the only good game.
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ultrafilter posted:SpaceWar was the only good game.
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The very first game I can remember at all (I was like 2? so it's really fuzzy) was one of those early consoles with paddles and a few mutations of Pong-like games. I can't find the model at the moment but I remember it being integrated paddles (no separate corded ones), orange ones on the side of a black tubular front part of the case. If anybody knows wtf I'm talking about, I'd appreciate a link. Games I can remember clearly were Battle Zone (the first one with the periscope controls) and Phoenix for arcades, and 8-bit Atari I played on at my cousin's - World Karate Championship (better than any Street Fighter and Tekken combined  ), Draconus, Montezuma's Revenge and its different demo version, Ninja, Zybex (the first one I ran on my very own Atari), Ballblazer. Also I almost shat my pants when the alien jumped out in Behind Jaggi Lines and refused to play that scary game anymore.Palpek posted:I remember how we were waiting completely frozen and silent while it was loading because the smallest movement could interrupt the cassette loading process.  Don't sneeze or it won't load.
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Shibawanko posted:Actually, they peaked with Super Mario Land 1, the absolute perfect Mario experience.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Every time a Mario game pauses for a power-up I scream at my screen that I wish I was back in Sarasaland The superball was the best powerup in any Mario game. In the pyramid level there's a part where a sphinx guy sits on a ledge and there's some blocks above you. You can shoot the ball in a certain spot so it bounces off the ground and onto the blocks a few times, then up on the left side of the screen and up and down on top of the blocks a few more times, before bouncing off the right hand wall and into the back of the sphinx guy. It's the ultimate own.
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