Games

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My earliest would probably be Space Invaders on the Atari 400.

But I also did a lot of PC gaming around that time - Alley Cat, Paratrooper, Prince of Persia, Dangerous Dave, GORILLA.BAS, NIBBLES.BAS - these were some of the earliest DOS games I played and still remember them fondly.

When we got a NES later on, spent a lot of time on Duck Hunt. And Super Mario of course, but don't think I ever managed to get past level 3. Still had fun though.

Pole position on the commodore 64.

Pajama Sam: There's no need to hide when it's dark outside

Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum.

It was shit. And I don't have to tell you why. Just look it up, sound on, that bit is mandatory.

My first ever gamer was a disappointment lmao. I did get super into the Megadrive and everything was fixed. But man.

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.

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

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

The original Prince of Persia, in DOS.

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

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

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.

Sonic 1 on my newly acquired Mega Drive at Christmas when I was 5. Died to that first ladybug repeatedly for months on end but never gave up!

Let me take a personal spin on that question.

This wasn’t the first game that I played but it was the first game that I PLAYED. It really got me, made me draw stuff from the game, scratch my head and glued me to the screen.

My little brain melted from not understanding. The bitterness of every mistake and death was sprinkled by some mysterious force with the most magical feeling of solving the next level. This game explained by the example how games can be and are amazing. Before it, I just enjoyed the fun aspects of playing but here I was gaming and every level felt like a real achievement.

Now, when I think about it, this game made me skip building with LEGO for some time.

Oh, the title? Gobliiins.

First, first? Some bootleg version of Tetris.

Roadrash and prince of Persia

Probably Duke Nukem 3D, introduced by way of my uncle’s at the time high end computer.

I’d seen arcade games and things, but an actual interactive 3D world I could walk around in was wild. It was also a much bloodier and more “adult” game than anything I’d seen before.

Later that year, 1997, I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas along with Goldeneye and StarFox64. Those two games became mainstays for me at home.

We didn’t have much money when we were kids, so when I cousin brought over his SNES with LttP, my mind was totally blown.

I don’t remember exactly, but it would have been on the Atari 2600. Probably Pac-Man or Q-Bert.

Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights on the ps2, other than that maybe Freddie Fish or one of the other humongous games on mac

It was a racing game I can't remember the name of on our first computer, a TI-99.

New Super Mario Bros on my sick red Mario DS. Although Pokémon would come shortly after which I remember much more fondly.

It was an Apple ii I think and Star Trek of some sort. ASCII based graphics and words. Idk I was 6. Didn't have a clue what I was doing. It was on my bio father's computer. He used it as a way to distract me while Mom and him argued over child support. Last time I saw him thankfully. But at least I have that memory of trying to catch a "k"

Fuck I'm getting old.

Going to my step dads house when my mom first started dating him and playing Pitfall on his Colecovision in the late 80's. I was 3.

Wizard of Wor on C=64

we had quite a few carts so it might not have been first but it certainly was the most played

Asphalt 4

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.

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

x-wing vs tie fighter.

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.

Various demos on PS1 demo discs

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

Age of Empires 2 also comes to mind.

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.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and I played a couple levels as recently as a few weeks ago.

I don't know the name. In the afternoons in the early nineties after school I was at a neighbor's house. Her husband had a PC and a joystick connected to it sparked my interest. He showed me a flight game. I don't remember much detail, but it was a vector based game with fast action based flying and you had to bombard or shoot enemy bases. The next thing I remember is my mother calling our neighbor when I planned to come home because it was already getting late and I had never stayed that long before.

Combat on the Atari 2600. There are games I remember better, but I do know that was my favorite... just no one would play it with me.

Intellivision. Sea Battle. 1987.

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

Mario Kart on N64