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Just like your first time getting laid, you always remember your first one.
Choplifter on the Atari 2600 was that for me. My neighbor had it hooked up in their basement and I played every time I was over.
ITT: Games that broke your cherry
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No.5060
>>5055
I could never beat that shit, it was ridiculous how large and tank like the characters were.
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No.5061
>>5060
It was still pretty damn fun, even if it really is a product of it's time in lots of negative ways.
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No.5086
An upright Outrun arcade in a 7-11 as a tiny kid. Then Outrun on Sega Master System in a Sears.
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No.5099
A SNES with Killer Instinct and SMW.
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No.5101
Shit yeah, Aztec.
You venture into some ancient Aztec tombs. Gotta get something like 8 screens down, get the mysterious idol and get back up. Randomized levels, enemies and traps, destructible terrain and some seriously wonky mechanics that make the game even better.
It did most of its collision detection by graphics, meaning you could jump and climb on trash, explosions, try to jump down and end up walking on the little HUD graphics and just about anything visible. And I think there was some way to bonk your head against a wall to fall through a level as well.
Enemies sometimes floated and phased through walls, and I think it didn't check enemy collision at all when they were off-screen, so they could end up on little platforms with no way off. Sometimes you get a monster or something blocking important stairs, so you could go away and hope they swooce through walls outta there.
Even if you horribly fucked up and blew up a set of stairs, sometimes you can still ride a flooding trap room upward or climb on boxes or something.
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No.5245
Fatal Fury
A Neo Geo Arcade cabinet was installed at a local grocery store, just across the street, since then my life changed, maybe that is the reason fighting games are my favorite.
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No.5330
That feel when you think about posting in a thread but then realize you've posted in it already, more than a year ago.
On the other hand, I haven't posted my first one. Which is either Last Mission or Shamus.
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No.5331
>>5330
Is that the Vic 2.0, Tandy model II, or IBM PC CGA version?
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No.5341
>>5331
Looks like CGA to me, but I haven't seen a CGA monitor in a while. Played it on a CGA and I remember it looking exactly like this. First time played it on a monochrome though, I believe.
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No.5376
There are a bunch of other games I remember, but these two (one arcade - one console) stand out.
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No.5377
This original piece of work right here.
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No.5381
>>5377
That castle in the distance reminded me of Dyna Blaster for some reason.
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No.5468
Youngfag here. I remember getting my first GBC, the gray one with pikachu and pichu on the front. I think my first game were Pokemon Yellow and Super Mario Bros Deluxe. After that I got a bunch of other games, but I remember my cousin giving me his old gameboy games like that baseball one, the rugrats game, and plenty more
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No.5476
I think it was Epic Pinball. It might also have been Timone and Pumba's Jungle Pinball.
I like pinball okay
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No.5502
I think it was either Pocket bomberman for Game boy, or Tonka Space station on PC.
Also, anybody notice that the 1st and 2nd eras/generations of video games(and the very start of the 3rd) took place at the same time when animation in the Western world was going through a dark age? Quite interesting to know. No, I'm not making that part up.
The Dark Age of Western animation:1962-1983 While video games were just budding out into the public market via the original Magnavox Odyssey, the subsequent Odyssey 100's and 1000's series, Atari Pong, Atari Stunt Cycle, and the Fairchild Channel F, animation in the west for the most part, was faltering and becoming widely perceived as being meant primarily for children. This "animation is for kids only" mentality wrecked the most havoc through the late 1960s and most of the 1970s mostly via TV becoming a viable outlet, many idiotic bitchy parent's groups, and studios such as Warner Bros. cutting back on animation(the latter happening early in the 60s with WB shutting down their animation department). Disney animation also faltered during this time, especially in the 1970s, though they did manage a hit or two from time to time.
And for a short time, it switched around. When western animation was starting to recover its relavancy and general recognition as a worthwhile endevour circa 1979-start of the 1980s, the video game crash of 1983-1984(which might have lasted into early 1985) occurred, and now it was video games(particularly home console and arcade games) that were losing relevance, especially in the Americas, though the European and Aussie/NZ markets did get hurt as well. It wasn't until the days of the NES, SMS, and Atari 7800 that video games and animation were both more or less on good footing. Odd isn't it?
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No.5504
Super Mario World. I only remember because I didn't really care to play it.
Just watching my family play it was great at the time; far more interesting than any television. SMRPG was always more fun to watch, but too much to figure out for such a young kid (3 or 4 years old?) or something.
They didn't feel like playing one day and told me to play myself. It wasn't very fun that time, but pretty cool later. Especially two player, watching one another complete worlds and communicating who would do what in what order.
My first favorite game was SimCity 2000, on my grandpa's Win95 computer. One of like 300 games installed on it beforehand, mostly from XXX in 1 shovelware disks.
The first game I actually owned was Zelda Oracle of Ages. A neighbor actually left his GBC at my house, me and my siblings played it quite a bit without his permission or anything. Returned it with a feeling of guilt. Then suddenly for my birthday he just gave it to me. Rich kid didn't really care for his possessions at all apparently.
Actually owning a game that could be played without a TV or computer, or even being plugged into the wall, was such an amazing feeling. "This is all I need? No interrupting other people, no being stuck in one place? Wow."
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No.5646
Probably this game that came out the same year I was born.
I remember having to balance on a barstool just to see the screen, good times.
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No.5655
>>1703
women are into centipede in my experience, I dunno why
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No.5699
>>5655
Maybe because Centipede was made by a woman.
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No.6996
>>1663
Super Mario Bros. 3
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No.7061
The first game I played was either Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt, at a neighbor's house. The first game I ever owned was Sonic the Hedgehog 2, a few years later.
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No.7072
Parents got me a second hand Master System when I was five to distracts me from their fighting. Had five games, never any more. Sonic Chaos, Basketball, Safari Hunt, WonderBoy and Teddi Boy.
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No.7105
Mario 64, at my grandfather's house. First game I owned? Mario Sunshine.
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No.7113
>>5699
Ha, that's funny. My wife used to like to play Centipede when she was little. She'd ask her parents if she could play the "Pede".
Me, I prefer Millipede. Something about shooting those barrels of agent orange gets my blood pumping.
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No.7114
This Game was one of my first. This and Blue Max and Forbidden Forest.
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No.7165
>>1663
Don't remember. It was possibly a SNES game, my parents had that console. The first thing for me is the game I do remember playing, Crash bandicoot 3 when I got a PS1.
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No.7190
>>1663
All I remember is that the PS1 was the first console I every played. First game was probably Crash Bandicoot 2 or something
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No.7191
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No.7225
My first was Sea Wolf, on the Commodore VIC20.
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No.7366
Ice Climber. It came bundled with the NES.
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No.7498
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No.7528
First game at all? 168-in-1 on Pegasus. Knockoff games on knockoff NES. First game I actually understood it's a video game and that I'm supposed to do something to win, that would be Earth 2150 demo, much later.
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No.7537
Probably Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Regardless of the game, the NES was definitely my first console. I soon became more of a PCfag, though, and some of my earliest vidya game memories are of watching my brother playing DOS games.
The NES is still my favorite console to this day.
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No.7545
And to this day I remain terrible at all 2D Mario games.
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No.7563
>first video game
It was on a really old console impossible to remember. before 1988, maybe ZX, but definately before c64 or amiga. It had flames below and you had to walk up descending escalators dodging devils that dropped you to the flaming pit below if you touched them. Really good game, but on later stages, it got really hard. It had basic bleep music, that was just a 5sec loop of some classic track.
Funny thing is that it could be a mid tier phone game today. We have fallen so low.
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No.7565
Super Mario Bros. on a chinese counterfit console that had 9999999 in 1 cartridge that repeated games after 30 or so.
Controllers looked like sega genesis ones
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No.7581
It was either Commander Keen 1 or Word Rescue
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No.7638
Fuck this game, only ever beat it once and i switched to SEGA, best decision ever getting to play streets of rage and MK with blood
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No.7640
>>7638
why would you play these masterpieces on console versions? nes? sega? snes?? ummm no.
Please get mame and play the arcade perfect versions.
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No.7641
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>>7638
MAME is just bullshit project that keeps needing more and more botnet computer to run 80's game that ran fine on an 8-bit Z80 processor. MESS is also just as bad. They're just fucking insane people running those projects. They don't care how well games play on average person's computer, just how "accurate" it is on their $5000 botnet gaming rigs.
Anyway, I played the arcade Ghouls 'n Ghosts in 1989-90, but shortly after bought the Sega Genesis and that game for it, so I could finish it without spending $100 in quarters. The game plays just fine on that console. In fact, Sega has really fantastic arcade ports for the most part. Even the PC Engine had amazing arcade conversions. And emualator for the 16-bit systems run fine on any old potato toaster, unlike the MAME disaster.
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No.7647
>>7640
Agreed. It puzzles me as well when people ask which is the best console version to play, when there exists and arcade version. The SNES Ghouls 'n Ghosts is very much it's own game though with new enemies, new levels, new armor, new mechanics and so on. While I much prefer the arcade version, the SNES game is worth playing too, if you can stomach the occasional slowdown.
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No.7648
>>7641
The Sega version plays find but it has shit tier graphics and I wonder what kind of toaster you have that you can't run 2D games on MAME.
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No.7649
>>7648
The Sega Genesis graphics are actually fucking good compared to other ports. I couldn't even tell the difference back in 1990. Well it's not like I played it side-by-side with the arcade machine, but it was close enough that I was fucking impressed and spent a week playing until I beat it. Anyway we didn't have screenshots and videos to compare every minor detail. If the game played good, sounded good, and looked good, it was a good game, and this one fit the bill on all accounts.
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No.7655
>>7649
>The Sega Genesis graphics are actually fucking good compared to other ports
>compared to other ports
I'm not comparing it to other ports. It's 2019, MAME is a thing, I'm comparing it to the arcade version.
>Anyway we didn't have screenshots and videos to compare
Video game magazines had screenshots and there also sometimes were promotional VHS tapes with gameplay footage as well as TV commercials.
>If the game played good, sounded good, and looked good, it was a good game
Sure, back then but not today. I played SF2 on SNES till I had blisters on my thumbs but that doesn't change the fact that it's a shit version compared to the arcade original. I've got nostalgia for the game, but not the shittiness of the version I was forced to play back then.
If you prefer inferior versions nowadays just because you grew up with then, you're taking nostalgia too far. The kid you from back then would smack you in the head for choosing the inferior version to the superior one now available to you.
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No.7656
>>7655
Kek, you're assuming everyone subscribed to video game magazines or something. No, I rarely ever saw these in the 80's. One guy I knew had a Nintendo Power stash, but that's about it, and I only leafed through those once at his house. The idea that everyone had as easy access to information back then as today is laughable, and really makes me question if the people pushing this line were even alive at the time. So you played some games at the arcade or someone's house, and you saw some things at the store.
Anyway just look at this shit you write man, look how fucking full of yourself you are:
> If you prefer inferior versions nowadays just because you grew up with then, you're taking nostalgia too far.
WTF does that even mean? I'd play the MAME version if it wasn't such an unoptimized piece of shit that needs a fucking iBotnet computer to run at above single digit frames per second. But no, I have other priorities, and I don't give a fuck about MAME anymore (or MESS since they fucked it up too). They fuck up everything they touch! To them, *that* is the game, to see how shitty and slow they can make their code, and they outdo themselves every fucking new release, just like Microsoft, Linux, etc. So you can keep sucking their dicks, but I'm done with their stupid shit. If someone else makes a non-shitty arcade emulator, maybe I'll use it, but for now I'm happy with the Sega Genesis.
Also why the fuck are you even in /vr/ if you like modern shit so much? Old crap is bad, and everything new is superior. <- that's what you say, so just go to /v/ and play those "great" graphics games that are so fucking awesome
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No.7667
>>7640
>>7655
>just emulate, bro!
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No.7755
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No.7756
I played it on the NES when I was a wee lad, that game transported me to a world I had never been to before and I never wanted to leave.
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No.7758
I don't remember whether it was Pokemon Blue or Mario Party 2. All I know is that I spent most of my younger childhood playing sports games, Pokemon and the occasional movie licensed game. I didn't really start branching out unti I was a teenager. I regret my lack of taste as a child.
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No.7780
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