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Title says it all, what was the first game you remember playing and had fond memories of?

For me it was the PS1, and hearing the OG Crash Bandicoot theme song never gets old for me, got it as my ringtone too!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Rocky's Boots on Apple II. It was an educational logic game using logic gates to complete puzzles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Lunatic Fringe, it was a screensaver so to play it you had to wait for your computer to go to sleep, and if you moved the mouse the game would end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Crash Bandicoot was also my first game! I was only around 2 years old give or take. I enjoyed the NES and Sega genesis a lot more until I got a bit older as it was easier to get the hang of.

The second game I saw(but did not play) was tomb raider. It made me cry when the wolves jump scare you in the first level lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The home version of pong when I was 4 years old.

My friend's dad owned a small local cable station so he had access and money to get all the latest crap.

I remember he also had a brand new beta max, and I was just this innocent 4 or 5 year old kid and I was asking why the time was flashing and the adults didn't know. So I just walked up and programmed it. They praised me as being a literal genius and I was like you idiots It's just a fucking clock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think it was Adventure on the Atari Flashback 2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

First game I remember:

Playing a friend's copy of Pokémon Red. Many a late night was spent getting as far as I could without being allowed to save.

First games I remember owning:

Sega Genesis 6-PAK with Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi, Columns, and Super Hang-on. Mostly played Sonic. Mom forbade us from playing the "violent" games, so we'd get in trouble if we were caught playing GA, SoR, or RoS.

First game I have fond memories of:

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. This was one of the first games we got when we upgraded from the Genesis to a PS2, and I played it many times over from the start before we invested in a memory card. The first game I actually beat start to finish without saving. I fondly remember 100%ing it over a weekend, leaving the PS2 on overnight while I slept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

My first gaming experience was when I was stuck in the hospital for days due to surgery on my feet when I was super young. My mom's friend let me borrow her kid's NES and, as I couldn't get out of bed, I did nothing but play River City Random, Super Mario Brothers, and one other game I no longer remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Either Combat or Pitfall on Atari 2600.

Blew my toddler mind. Which happened again the following year when Santa delivered an NES for Christmas with Super Mario & Duck Hunt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Descent. My dad had a joystick setup for it and I remember being stunned by the graphics and the ability to fly around

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Good old Pokemon Yellow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Mario Kart on N64

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I think it was Lost Vikings on an old DOS laptop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Intellivision. Sea Battle. 1987.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Original pong, at the Toronto international boat Show, probably in about 1977.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Super Mario Bros on an old NES that my cousin gave me when I was a kid in the mid 90s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. I understand the complaints about that port, but I'll always have a soft spot for it for getting me into the hobby way back when.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure it was either Excite Bike or Contra on NES at my neighbours house. Also had Radio Shack pong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

PONG in the late 70s, at a pizza parlor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Potentially HOVER! on the ol' Windows ME machine iirc.

Age of Empires 2 also comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The cart said Final Fantasy 2. We now know it as Final Fantasy 4.

My father had my playing it and reading all the text out loud. I played that game over and over and over. I have all the hidden paths and treasures memorized.

The opening scrawl ended in something about Cecil and Kain vanishing "into a deep fog." For years and years I thought it said they vanished "into a deep frog." Let me tell you... the hours I spent lying awake at night wondering what that meant...

And of course my Dad didn't correct me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The original Prince of Persia, in DOS.

Played the shit out of that game. I could probably draw maps of every level from memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Same, had a lot of great times with this one af a kid!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mine was a point-click quest written in visual basic that taught Russian alphabet. I was 2-3 years old, playing while sitting on my father's lap. Apparently this created some core memories since once I was 15-17 I found it and still remembered every dialogue word-to-word

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x-wing vs tie fighter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

King's Quest 6, on my dad's old Compaq Presario Windows 98 laptop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

While I had probably already played a couple of counterfeit NES games at a friend's house before that, the first 2 games I clearly remember playing on PC were Tux Racer (on my dad's Linux setup) and Warcraft 2.

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Mario kart on the Wii. still load it up on occasions to play with friends

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I think Pong, but I can't remember if I played it before getting the Atari XT. The first game I played on that was Galaxian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES. I was five and at grandma's house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Either btd5 on pc or Block dude on a ti calculator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Probably The Ultra on an Oric-1.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jump Man, Space Taxi, and Ghostbusters on Commodore 64. I was using that version of the Ghostbusters song as my ringtone for years, back when I got phone calls ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ghost busters!

Nyahahaha ha ha haa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The first game I played was somewhere between those Disney Storybook Games on PC, and the Tonka games. And sitting on my Dad's lap playing Police Quest and Wolfenstein 3D Shareware. Eventually we got a PS1 with non-point and click games with Spyro the Dragon and I think Crash Bash and CRT. Can't remember which one we played first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Fond memories i have of Golden Axe and Warcraft 2. They werent my first games. But ones i played alot. My Dad had an Amiga and the only game i can remember by name is Golden Axe :) maybe Gianna Sisters too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

All of the games in the 42 in 1 cartridge for the Nintendo Famicom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Man I don't remember I was like 1. Probably kidpix or something like that lol. Some of my earliest memories are watching my dad play Doom though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Probably something on the Amstrad CPC computer, and I couldn't tell which game specifically.

I had the Donkey Kong arcade port on it, ironically better than the NES one because it had the full 4 levels instead of just 3.

Other game of note was Jet Set Willy. Despite the simplistic style that game was creepy as hell to me. The intro music was a pretty good 8-bit rendition of the Moonlight Sonata. Not sure how much of this is due to the game, but that music still kind of gives me the creeps.

Then on that computers I had lots of forgettable games, often in compilations. And a few bad ports (Salamander a.k.a Life Force), okay ones (Contra) and a very late addition of Lemmings, probably the best game I had on it yet not the best version of the game by far.

I got a NES as a secondary gaming platform at some point. Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 were not the first games I played, but after playing so many crappy platform games on the CPC they definitely had a huge impact on what I still consider good game design now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mazogs on my godparents ZX81. The game was basically navigating a maze and occasionally fighting spiders. Which was a luck based thing where you just ran into them and waited for the result. Not very exciting but novel at the time.

But it probably wasn't the very first game. I grew up in a tiny coastal tourist town that had four arcades. So it's more likely the earliest games I played were in them but I don't have a defined 'first' memory. They were fairly ubiquitous arcade games so: Space invaders; Donkey Kong; Pac-man; Asteroids; Frogger; Pole position; Paper boy; Lunar lander, etc.

I think the first game that I ever got addicted to (partly because I had the pocket money to sustain the addiction) was Ghosts and Goblins. Been chasing that buzz ever since lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Mario/duck hunt for NES

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Probably The Incredible Machine (aka TIM)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I doubt it was the literal first game I played, but Ghouls n' Ghosts for the sega genesis was my favorite as a kid, with sonic 2 as a VERY close second

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Iirc it was a Sega Master System racing game. Can't remember the name.

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