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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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[–] Avorn 2 points 9 months ago

Good old Pokemon Yellow

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

Jumping Flash (ps1) was my first ever game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Flash!

It was pretty hard as a 5 year old.

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

First game I remember playing is a DOS game called Snipes. It was at my stepdads work and I remember getting smoked by his workmate as we were playing it LAN and I remember crying haha.

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

Earliest memory is c64 gridder

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

My first game was Yoshi's Island for the Game Boy Advance! I still go back and play it every few years, I love that game.

[–] Varyk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Duck hunt with the gun. That shit ass dog. Oh wait no....

There was a typing game with a frog that ate letters?

Not fun.

But that is the first game I remember. In school.

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

Hard to say, but possibly Spectron for the Spectravideo SV-328. The first game I remember really having an impact was Super Mario Bros. Played it at my friend's house and afterwards I begged my parents for a NES. That was a happy Christmas.

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

That brings back memories. I remember playing Spectron on the monochrome green monitor we had. I didn't know the name of the game, and I was too young to care, but I always thought it was Space Invaders, which was not on Spectravideo.

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

Backyard Football and Baseball for PC. I'm pretty sure there were some earlier puzzle games but those two had me loving sports and stats for years.

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

Sheesh. That's a tough one. My memory is trash from TBIs... Maybe pong, or space invaders? I think it would be something that was in an arcade. Our first console was the NES with SMB, but we definitely played in arcades before that.

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

First i remember playing was Pitfall Mayan Adventure on pc, through an emulator. First I finished, Dark Souls Remastered, last year

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

Minecraft Buzzy Bees update. I still remember my first few days on the school computers, getting ore, digging a hole, finding a village...

I don't have the world anymore, but I have, as you say, fond memories.

[–] [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] 1 points 9 months ago

Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door on GameCube. I am super excited for the switch remake.

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

I think it was Adventure on the Atari Flashback 2

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

Jet Set Willy on the Amstrad CPC6128

[–] [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] 1 points 9 months ago

Math Munchers on one of the old school Mac desktops.

[–] [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

Either btd5 on pc or Block dude on a ti calculator

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

VS. Super Mario Bros, aka the arcade version of NES Super Mario Bros

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

I can't remember which came first, my mom got some games for her Commodore 64, or my dad getting a used Intellivision from one of his buddies at work.

It was either Pitfall or Frog Bog depending on which came first.

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

super mario bros on one of those NES bootlegs that have "16000" games while in reality it's more like 50 60 pirated games repeated across the whole list. remember i couldn't finish the second level really couldn't time the moving platform jump over the hole. it was fun.

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

Probably "ports of call" on PC. Still haven't found an actual modern version of it. There were some half assed attempts in recent years, all with such huge flaws that they still haven't managed to be considered "playable".

[–] [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* (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* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mostly flash games on some websites. However, the main one I remember was Colin McRae Rally 2.0. Getting a cheap controller with force feedback was amazing.

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

Boulderdash 2 and Kickstart 2 on the Commodore 64.

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

either Super Mario Bros. on a famiclone or Circus Charlie.

I remember being spooked the fuck out by those "fire rings". man, they looked and still look otherwordly. the whole game gave me creeps.

[–] [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

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

Probably The Ultra on an Oric-1.

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