No.1663 [Last50 Posts]
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.1668
>tfw can't remember
I'll just pretend it was Quake 2
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No.1701
1988
My father got NES for Christmas;
One game - Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. If I remember correctly he bought the first Zelda a month or two later for my second game. Before that I never knew of what a "video game" was, I had never heard of the word and I had no concept of it.
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No.1703
I always say it's Centipede. I remember getting an Atari 2600 (the Junior version) with a bunch of games for my birthday, choosing Centipede to play first and my parents reacting because they remembered the arcade version well - it had been a particular favourite of my Mother.
Truth be told, I've got a feeling I'd played games before then but can't remember anything specific.
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No.1720
When I was four or five, my uncle had his birthday party at this restaurant that had a Moon Patrol cocktail cab, and I spent all evening begging my relatives for change.
That uncle was god-tier in general: the old bastard even chipped in for an Atari 2600 on my next birthday. Strange, then, that I never owned a home version of Moon Patrol…
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No.1734
TMNT on the Amstrad CPC
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No.1736
apparently the first system i ever touched was an N64, but the first one i remember playing was the Mario Bros./Duck hunt cart on my brothers NES when my family was moving to a new place.
after that it was still NES and sneaking in some ps2 games until i got a GC
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No.1737
I remember when I was young that I played the original Mario on my mom's friend's NES when he brought it over, got to play it for a good couple of hours with the family, I never made it pass the third stage since I was so young.
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No.1779
I genuinely don't remember. No blur nothing.
I wake up one day finally becoming conscious of my thoughts and actions and I look at my NES and Genesis. (No SNES)
and I notice a bunch of cover ripped cartridges with whitened out pictures like somebody dropped water on them. (It was Gunstar Heroes and Sonic the Hedgehog 2). I also had two, well not cartridges anymore, two NES chips with 9999/100 in 1 games.
I think it might have been Contra, Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Olympics games, Pacman, Wild Gunman, Soccer, Excitebike, Donkey Kong 3, (the shitty one where you bug spray donkey kong)
The cartridges were dirty and shit like they were used before, but I played those games like I played them for the first time.
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No.1786
Tetris when my cousin let me try it on his Gameboy.
My first console (that I got) was the GBC and pretty much all I had on that was Pokemon for a while. Complaints: zero.
I don't remember at all when I got my N64 but I remember my dad buying my SNES - from a nice man at a car boot sale. Came with Starfox, Super Mario, the tennis game and some other bits I don't remember.
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No.2198
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Posting this because OP's picture reminded me.
BTW, no one gave a single fuck that's a Japanese plane in WWII.
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No.2200
No idea, it was just too early in my childhood. I think the earliest memory of vidya games I have was playing Test Drive on my brother's… c64? NES? I don't remember clearly. I was 3 years old at the time.
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No.2201
>>2200
Just looked it up, must've been c64. And holy crap, the nostalgia hit pretty hard when I saw some screenshots of it.
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No.2213
I have no clue. I do remember watching my brother playing the original WarCraft when I was like two or three. I think I might have already been playing games by that point, though.
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No.2216
I couldn't remember if I played Marble Madness or Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt first.
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No.2241
Gen Y here
Dis mah furst gam :3
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No.2260
Gorillas.bas running in QBasic on my dad's IBM PC/AT 5170 running MS-DOS 5.0
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No.2282
Wolfenstein 3D: The Second Encounter on Mac. It's different than the version for Windows, but I didn't know that until years later.
There's a rocket launcher and a flamethrower, and apparently the levels are ripped from the SNES port. Some of the bosses are changed too.
Speaking of Wolf 3D, what's the best way to play it on modern systems? DOSBox or is there a better way?
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No.2283
Pic related, on Sega Genesis.
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No.2288
I was pretty deprived of most video games till the mid 00s. Such is growing up in lower middle class. sometimes I pretend I got to play games when they came out to make myself feel better for missing out on so many games. I'd go to a friends house and want nothing more but to play all their games and drool over them getting an N64 AND a PS1.
I was lucky to have a PC in my room as a kid though, so I played a lot of PC games
One of these had to be the first game I played
It was Doom or SimCity 2000. I never liked playing outside. I spend hours in front of that old girl. It's odd when I think about it. I'm still the same as that kid. Sitting in the same spot. My desk is newer along with my chair ( none of them are ever as good as my first) and a new PC, but some things never change.
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No.2437
Dungeon Master on dad's friend atari ST.
>how do I play ?
>You're on your own, you filthy casual faggot.
>mfw
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No.2447
Defender on my step-grandfather's Gameboy knockoff. I still have it.
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No.2449
>>2288
>lower middle class
>no vidya
For real?
Growing up, even the families I knew who were pretty pov had at least a NES towards the end of the SNES' life, or a SNES towards the end of the N64's life, etc.
And then it seemed pretty much every one just wound up with a PS2, regardless of their economic situation.
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No.2463
>>2449
Yes for real. Maybe it was more that they didn't want to buy me so many videos games. I had a Gameboy color when I was 6. It fell behind my radiator and melted. I didn't throw it away as far as I remember. I mostly played handhelds I'd get for Christmas or PC games that were real copies or bootlegs my mom got from somebody at work.
I'll post some of what I dug up. I found a stack of CDs that seem blank too. Can't find my Slave Zero. Maybe it was thrown away.
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No.2464
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No.2465
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No.2479
>>2463
>I had a Gameboy color when I was 6
>It fell behind my radiator and melted
That is the shittiest luck I've ever heard of.
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No.2482
>>2463
>it fell behind the radiator and melted
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No.2493
>>2463
Lego racers
You're a cool guy
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No.2494
>>2479
>>2482
Yeah
>>2493
loved making the best looking car I could. The best feeling was unlocking everything.
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No.2707
>>2288
>I was lucky to have a PC in my room as a kid though, so I played a lot of PC games
I was you, but minus the PC except for a period of a few months when a family friend let us borrow theirs and I would play monopoly on one of those disks you'd get inside of the cereal boxes for free.
>>2447
Keep it forever, anon.
>>2463
Oh fuck, Lego Racers. I wish I hadn't sold my Yellow Version
Nice gameboys.
>>2494
I remember my older sister's BF at the time gave me Lego racers (this was later on in life when I had N64) because he thought it was lame and stupid. I was happy.
Then he came over once and I was playing and kicking ass and he got interested, so I taught him how to play, and he seemed to be having fun with it "You're not gonna take it back are you?"
"Uh….nah"
He took it back with him.
I still rock back and forth on my feet a little bit from those menus when I'm waiting for crosswalk lights to change. Feels good to have autism.
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No.2749
>Just like your first time getting laid
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No.2779
Barely remember it, but I'm pretty sure it was either Mario Kart 64 at a friend's house or Medal of Honor: Allied Assault with the Spearhead expansion at my own house
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No.2786
Space Invaders Atari 2600
Was 4yo
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No.2838
My brother told me that the zerglings are rats and that the minerals are made of sugar. Everything seemed to be made out of marshmallows, sugar or jam and we had to prevent the rats from eating everything. He used me as a human autofire and it was my job to hit "a"ttack.
We also played some apocalyptic capeshit game that gave me nightmares, but i don't remember the name.
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No.2841
>>2282
I think there's a source port out there. There's also a free Android version, though I'm not sure if it's related.
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No.2843
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No.2845
This piece of shit.
>Amstrad CPC
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No.2846
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No.2861
Either Sonic 3 or Mario World. I was second banana to my bro in both games. First game that I really played a lot was Mario Land 2, and first game that was truly mine in my mind was either Wario Land or Mario Tennis.
I don't know if I played Choplifter, was that one of the various Defender clones on Atari? I remember the official port was lackluster so I can understand why people tried to outdo it.
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No.2862
>>1720
Maybe your uncle looked out for you and said 'eh, that version isn't worth playing anyway'
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No.2863
>>2838
Chakan the Forever Man?
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No.2867
Got it when I was 5 or 6. Took me until I was a teenager to beat the Death Star trench. Surprisingly good for a movie based game.
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No.2882
>>2862
You know, you're probably right.
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No.2890
A toss up between mickey mouse and the great circus mystery, Sonic 2, or street fighter 2, i was fucking 3 at the time so i can't remember what came first.
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No.2908
pick a dilly pair on the apple ][e.
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No.2914
>>2908
I was a console idort at home, so my first experience with PCs was at school, with these fucking tunes
I can't remember the others in that year level, but later on, I can vaguely recall some adventure games; Kraken and a Carmen Sandiego game. The latter two were boss, because we had to form groups and work together to complete them quickest.
Fuck but I was never taught typing in primary school…
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No.2918
>>2914
yeah we had kraken and carmen sandiago in my primary school computer class too. and print shop. and the desperation of wanting to printout some stupid banner on a form feed printer.
and birthday cards you'd print out and fold.
and kids who would break the 5 1/4 floppies by folding them in half.
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No.2970
>>1668
I know that feel.
I think It was Alex the kidd, though
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No.3446
>>1663
Missile Command on 2600
feels good, still one of my favorite games till this day
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No.3452
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No.3482
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Nothing will ever be as nostalgic to me as this track from my first game. Lock n' Chase for the Gameboy.. hidden gem, or peice of shit? I dont care. I fuckin love it.
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No.3483
Super Mario World as far I as can remember.
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No.3484
>>3482
>load that expecting a Chase HQ rip-off
>it's a Pac-Clone
You could've done a lot worse than a Data East GB puzzler for your first title, anon.
Did it do anything especially different to Pac-Man?
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No.3523
Mine was Super Mario World. My dad used to play it with me. Actually, he still does
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No.3532
it was one of the following:
- captain cosmic
- space invaders (2600)
- paratrooper
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No.3898
>>1663
Slalom. My uncle had rented an NES, and all the games they had, and brought it over to our house. I wanted to play Super Mario Bros. because just look at that fucking cover. That shit looks awesome as shit. What Nintendo of Murrica were thinking when they just slapped the Mario sprite on the cover I have no idea. Anyway, my uncle thought SMB was too hard (filthy casual), so we played Slalom for a while. Then I finally got SMB, and that's what really got me hooked.
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No.3899
>>3898
I fail at posting multiple images. Here's that sweet SMB cover, for you poor deprived Americans.
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No.3904
>>3898
>What Nintendo of Murrica were thinking when they just slapped the Mario sprite on the cover I have no idea
Probably had something to do with the Murrican video game crash, and from that the general mentality that games never live up to their covers. They were honest about what you were getting, even if they did look like shit.
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No.3906
>>3899
Fuck me! How come Australia didn't get the superior PAL cover?
>>3904
>They were honest about what you were getting, even if they did look like shit.
Graphically representative, maybe, but in terms of gameplay it's an odd choice: it looks like Mario's just about to ineffectively bump into a block, and his fireball has somehow embedded itself into the masonry.
If you hadn't played it, maybe you might think he was about to liberate a powerup, but look closer.
Bottom left.
That's lava.
Mario is about to eat shit after missing a crucial jump.
OK, so it is actually representative of my playing style, at least.
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No.3913
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No.3920
>>3913
But that doesn't actually clarify much, Shiggy.
What's happening in this pic?
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No.3933
This is usually one of the older games posted in these threads on /v/, but I feel late to the party here.
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No.3937
>>3933
>tfw you rented a retro title a whole bunch of times and still can't remember if it was halfway decent
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No.3938
>>3937
It's not bad, but it's really easy. It's a good way to kill 20 minutes.
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No.3939
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No.3944
>>3939
You lucky beggar of Baghdad
How did you take it, as your first game? Did you get totally wrapped up in it?
I know when I rented it (for the SNES) as a child, I found it slow and cumbersome. Years later, I really grew to like it and it's probably one of my fave GCCX sagas. But it definitely took me a while to come around.
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No.3949
Pretty sure it was that old Ghostbusters game for Commodore everyone seems to think is irrevocably shit. I dunno, I kinda liked it.
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No.3951
>>3933
I love the story of how I got this game.
I think I traded some kid either Donald Duck Goin Quackers for the GBC or Buzz Lightyear for this game with the intention of giving each other their game back. We never did and I still have Fall of the Footclan.
This was 2001-02 and I was in second grade
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No.3956
>>3939
Dad was probably one of the first speedrunning autists, before the word was even conceived. Beat that shit in slightly under 15 minutes IIRC. The best I could do was around 22 or something like that.
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No.3957
>>1663
I can't even remember I was so young. Something on the C64 probably. Pole Position, maybe Fort Apocalypse:
https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Fort_Apocalypse
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No.4125
Pickaxe Pete for the Odyssey 2 was the first console game I ever played but I might have played Centipede at some pizza parlor first. I was in preschool so it's hard to remember.
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No.4151
>>3956
Hah, I was also introduced to that by my dad. I could never beat it at my young age though.
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No.4185
>>4151
It was the other way around. Back then he sometimes took interest in whatever I was playing at the moment and went hard on it.
The only other game he started playing because of me that I can remember is Might & Magic VIII. I was more of a VI and VII fan but he liked the then-latest one in the series better for some reason.
Later on he picked up IX with the usual levels of autism and was trying to convince me to give it a go from time to time. But I had the benefit of watching him play it for some time already.
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No.4188
My earliest game memory was Super Mario Kart when I was like four, but my mom says she let me watch her play Mario when I was like 2 or something.
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No.4190
Pic related. I watched the show a lot as a kid and always played and talked about it with my cousins, showing off stuff like the mew glitch.
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No.4205
>>4190
>mew glitch
wasn't that glitch found relatively recently? compared to e.g. missingno glitch that everybody knew at the time.
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No.4465
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>4205
I remember following my big bro to the arcade and trying this for the first time. I remember getting my mind blown.
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No.4466
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No.4513
The Original Prince of Persia, but on an amber-colored monitor, on my cousin's house.
They also had a pool game and a racing game in the desert.
this was actually back in around 1994-5 maybe, I'm not that old.
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No.4514
>>1663
>Just like your first time getting laid, you always remember your first one.
>implying I've gotten laid
I'm pretty sure it was Ultima II.
I barely even remember anything about this game other than the title screen, I haven't played it in like 30 years.
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No.4634
My aunt's Pong console. She had it hooked up to a small black & white TV in her room at my grandparent's house.
Nothing really fantastic, but it was pretty cool at the time, since there wasn't anything else anyway. It didn't interest me as much as playing outside though. Had my sheriff badge & cowboy hat, and my six-shooter to hunt all them injuns trying to take over the neighborhood. Also roller skates, softball, etc.
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No.4872
Sonic 2 or Pitfall, I can't remember which came first since I had gotten both of them around the same time.
Never got past Chemical Plant Zone in Sonic as a kid and I hated Pitfall so I never got far in that, either.
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No.4874
Starfox for the SNES when I was 5. Beat it too. Fun times.
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No.4878
A hand me down Super Mario World with a full save.
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No.4901
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No.4910
Too young to recall EXACTLY what it is, since I was only like 2 years old.
Either Space Invaders (SNES) or Ms. Pac Man (SNES)
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No.4912
GPolice from a shareware disc
dat 3dfx graphics though, they never got old
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No.4929
First game I can ever remember playing was Donkey Kong at the local pizza joint.
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No.4937
Got me into fighting games
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No.4939
>>4912
The PSX version looked better at the time.
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No.4962
>Just like your first time getting laid
Stop virginshaming me you normie
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No.4974
First game was MGS1 back when i got my ps1 in 1999. Loved vidya ever since.
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No.4991
I still haven't beaten it.
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No.5040
Got an Super Nintendo and pic related Christmas day '95.
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No.5042
Either Choplifter or Donkey Kong on the VIC20, or TI Invaders on a TI-99/4A. I played other games before, but these three are the first games I have clear memories of.
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No.5043
>>5042
Oh, and Defender. I really liked Defender.
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No.5044
Them was the days, son.
>Be six
>got time before walking to kindergarten and being sometimes beaten by black kids
>have just enough time for cocoa wheats and super mario
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No.5049
It was a long time ago, but I think it was Doom.
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No.5055
Altered Beast came with our Megadrive in 1990.
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No.5059
Bought a copy at a convention last sunday since my original copy is long gone. God damn I'm so rusty at it
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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
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>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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