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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Halo/a slew of freemium MMOs I'd play on my dinky laptop in the mid 00s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flash games. Like the ones on Newgrounds, Y8, coolmathgames…

[–] pomodoro_longbreak 1 points 1 year ago

Remember Fancy Pants? That game was so slick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sly Cooper.

Zillennials rise up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Minecraft, and then Cuphead again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Probably space invaders on the Atari 2600

I didn't have an Atari new I believe it was already an old system when me and my sister got it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Played my first game on a dedicated Pong console but my first transformative gaming experience was either Ultima III, Archon or Starflight. Those games were on IBM DOS machines with only 4/16 colors and a floppy drive. In the arcades it was Dragon Slayer and a little later the original Street Fighter.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

super mario brothers 2 baybeeeeeeee

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

gaming chooses you. you wake up one day and youre grinding something and u have a vague memory of games you played on these "old consoles"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The first game I ever played was Mario on the NES, but the ones that really got me into gaming were Duke Nukem 3D and Quake on PC. It's been 27 years and I still enjoy them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Believe it or not, Angry Birds.

[–] MyDogLovesMe 1 points 1 year ago

Deathmaze 5000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The first game I ever played was Mario Kart DS. I have been a Mario fan ever since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Adventure on the Atari 2600, also Pitfall and Chopper Command. Sort of fell out of it for a while until I played Halo. I've been on Xbox ever since

[–] OrganicMeatbag 1 points 1 year ago

WoW - just prior to BC release

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pilot wings 64 and mario 64 played at my friends house. Only access to games prior to that were Prince of Persia, Myst and spooky-ass Iron Helix on an old Mac II and they were not particularly exciting for a pup of that age.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Commander Keen in my early years. But the first game that really got me into 3D gaming was probably Acclaim's ShadowMan. It's still an absolute masterpiece. Great visuals, amazing storytelling...and that creepy soundtrack is just burned into my brain. Probably had some nightmares from that when I was a kid. πŸ˜„

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it was Tetris on the GameBoy, then Super Mario Land 2 and Kirby's Dreamland.

After the mandatory army service I stopped, studied and began gaming again with Portal 1&2.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente 1 points 1 year ago

Bubble Bobble

[–] zeusbottom 1 points 1 year ago

Laser Blast and Pitfall 2 on the 2600

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't remember a particular first game. Nethack, various MUDs, Descent 1, Starcraft, and Unreal Tournament (1999) were all reasonably early.

[–] UrPartnerInCrime 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cruisin' the world. Would sit and drive for hours

Edit: just looked it up and it's actually called Cruis'n World

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The first one for me was Alley cat in the early 80s. Later test drive for DOS and Mario bros.

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