YOUR FIRST GAME?

Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:49 pm

That I played? The original Pitfall.

That I owned? Die Hard Trilogy on the PSX.
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kirsty joanne hines
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 10:56 pm

I know we had an atari, and I sort of remember trying to play Pong. But the game I mostly remember truly playing first was Sleuth on our orange screened DOS computer. (No idea what type it was, whatever they made back in the last 70's, early 80's.)
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Lindsay Dunn
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 1:41 am

I think it was an Alladin game for the SNES. That was around 1999, which makes my dad's choice of getting me an SNES a tad suspicious...
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Jon O
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 8:03 pm

I think it was an Alladin game for the SNES. That was around 1999, which makes my dad's choice of getting me an SNES a tad suspicious...
Don't worry my dad was too cheap to get me an N64 also. The SNES is still my all time favorite console.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 2:11 pm

http://www.retrogamesnow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Donkey_kong.jpg - (Game & Watch handheld), was my first gaming experience.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Llkk4j3fQOw/Tgns0afuglI/AAAAAAAAArg/yxDEPH5hhr0/s1600/sonic5.jpg - (8 bit on the Sega Master System) was my first console game.
and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Chip%27s_Challenge.png/250px-Chip%27s_Challenge.png - (PC) was the first PC game I remember playing.
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Sarah Knight
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 1:45 am

First actual game I recall playing was Duke Nukem on N64. I was really young
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Vicki Gunn
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 2:57 am

I think Pokemon red, on the really old gameboy. Or rollercoaster tycoon
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:18 pm

A Pong game, not sure what platform. It was the only game that thing played. Probably around '76?

First console game with a cartridge was Atari 2600 with Combat. It made having a broken leg over summer vacation a bit more bearable ;)

A few years later I shifted to computer gaming with Wizardry on an Apple IIe. That's where I've spent most of the electronic gaming time...on computers. Many hours, but only a few games.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 2:22 pm

My first game was Spyro at the age of 2. Then I started playing Chip's Challenge on the computer and later started playing Tomb Raider series at the age 4.
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Ian White
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 8:27 pm

First spot of games in my life was on the gameboy color but I don't count that. My first console was a Playstation which my cousin gave me. I was in 1st grade when I got it. I remember plugging it in and it had the game "Syphon Filter 2" in it which I played for a bit until I came to the dinner table saying "I figured out how to get the gun!" and after that I was only allowed to play it one more time after that. I proceeded to destroy the disc a year or two afterwards in my room because I knew I wasn't supposed to have it :shrug:
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 11:43 pm

I remember very vividly it was Cruisin' the World for the N64. :P
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jessica Villacis
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 3:44 am

Pac-Man on the Atari 5200 I think----it's been wwwwwaaaayyyyy to long to remember the exact first game I played. Now the first game I beaten was Outrun on the Sega Master System B).
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 2:32 am

Space Invaders, arcade. Can't remember which arcade game I tried first, actually, just a guess. Didn't play arcade very much either.
At home: Pac-Man, Atari 2600, 1979ish. (edit: make that 1980-1981-ish. Memory for dates not what is used to be)
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 12:51 pm

The first game I played was pong, it had it's own console .. basically all you could play was pong on it.

I had TRS - 80 and played Zaxxon on it a lot, the game was loaded into the computer with a casset tape :biggrin:

I had another computer around that time, for the life of me I cant remember the name of it or the game I played. It was some dungeon crawl were the creatures you tried to kill were just outlines. If you ran to far your heart rate would go up and you would eventually pass out. That one was plugged into the tv so even though it had a keyboard I still consider the TRS - 80 my first real computer.

Had an Apple II E after that and played a lot of Bards tale then Pool of Radiance on that one.

EDIT: Hmm, evidentaly my memory is a bit foggy. Turns out the dungeon crawl was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_of_Daggorath and that was for the TRS -80. Zaxxon must have been for the one I forgot :shrug:
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 1:26 pm

That I played? The original Pitfall.

Been so long since I played Pitfall! Need to find it again!
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Sarah MacLeod
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:28 pm

me - teenage mutant hero turtles, amstrad cpc 464, 1990 (yes, im old)
I've got you beat. Pac-Man on the Intellivision II (we also got Burger Time, Night Stalker & Astrosmash, but Pac-Man was the first one I played). I was about 5 when we got those.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 2:50 am

I don't remember, to be honest. We had a couple of family consoles. The first system that was actually mine was a Commodore 64...I believe the first game I got for it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_%28video_game%29. It was a cartridge. I didn't have the cassette drive yet, and I didn't get the disk drive until much later. I believe it was 1983 or 1984.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 11:09 pm

I remember trying to write my own Defender game way back.

It was crap.
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Jessica Phoenix
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:01 pm

I can bet mine was a Dizzy on Spectrum, not sure which one. Probably Dizzy Treasure Island.
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Annika Marziniak
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 12:06 am

It was Pirates! Gold in 1993.
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Hilm Music
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 3:04 pm

Life.

More seriously, it was http://images.wikia.com/nintendo/en/images/8/87/MarioCementFactory.jpg
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 1:19 am

Age of Empires I think
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Sebrina Johnstone
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 5:59 pm

Doom. Dad and I worked together on that one. He would steer and shoot and I would open all the doors.

Really, that was all I wanted out of the game at the time; the game's sense of space and exploration was mesmerizing, and the wonder of what lay beyond each door thrilled my little 5-yo mind. :smile:

The game scared the crap out of me though. After my dad lost interest it took quite a bit of courage to play the game on my own, even with IDDQD + No Monsters. My brothers tell me I would have nightmares, but I can't remember any of that. All I remember is being utterly lost in a world whose more disturbing elements were completely lost on me.

I remember trying to write my own Defender game way back.

It was crap.
I've written a lot of crappy Defender clones over the years. But I've gotten better, because now I write crappy Doom clones! Woo hoo!
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 8:34 pm

The first games I ever played were point and click adventures that I would play with my grandma, I played games like Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo and Spy Fox. Then I played Mechwarrior 4 on my dad's PC and joystick. My first console game was Crash Bandicoot for the PS1 and my first Xbox game was Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc.
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Talitha Kukk
 
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 2:09 am

Escape the Womb. It's a classic.
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