Really not sure what my first was, but I remember I had a Gameboy and a N64 back in the day, so probably on one of those boxes of plastic.
First Gaming Experience?
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[edit]The very first FPS I've ever played and in my opinion one of the best
[edit]The very first FPS I've ever played and in my opinion one of the best
Wait for it, wait for it.....The Eaten Cake said:
NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUURRRRR!! (God I loved that console so much...
)My personal first gaming experience was Street Fighter 2 in arcades. Hadoken!
My dad knew I was a huge star wars fan by the age of 3 after I'd gotten to see Return of the Jedi in the theaters, I almost wet myself with excitement during the speederbike scene on Endor (maybe I actually did, I don't know).. anyway, he took me to the bar he played pool at (that was where they had arcade machines in those days unless you were in a large city with a dedicated arcade), to show me something, which was like the coolest thing ever at the time. It was a big cabinet, you could sit down, it was enclosed like the cockpit of a starfighter, well at least if you used your imagination. I got in, my dad put in the quarters.. and I heard "Red 5 standing by", dad said my face split wide open with a smile. I knew what it was, it was STAR WARS, and it was a VIDEO GAME. Now I'd seen video games before, but my mom didn't want me to play them. So this was like, the best pairing of things I liked since the Lightsaber (swords with lasers? That's my two favorite things in the world! HELL YES!).
Now, if you haven't heard of it before (this game being Star Wars, the Arcade Game made by Atari in 1983), basically, you're doing Luke's famous trench run, it's pretty short and simple, but each time you blow up the death star, you keep playing, the same trench run over and over, and it gets more difficult each time. Games were simple like that back in those days, no end, you just kept playing against increased difficulty until you lost, trying to get the high score. It had bright, colorful vector based graphics, which seem crappy yes, but on the flip side, it looked like the computer graphics in the game, the death star looked like the schematics you see on the holograms and screens in the movies, and fighting the TIE fighters felt like the scene in "A New Hope" where they're fighting TIE fighters in the Falcon, with that grid targeting system. So even with those graphics and little (horribly) digitized sound bytes ("Red 5 standing by" "Use the force, Luke" "Let go, Luke!" "Yahooo!" "You're all clear kid!" "I'm on the leader" "I have you now!" "I can't shake him!") sucked me in and immersed me in my own imaginary Star Wars world.
Now, if you haven't heard of it before (this game being Star Wars, the Arcade Game made by Atari in 1983), basically, you're doing Luke's famous trench run, it's pretty short and simple, but each time you blow up the death star, you keep playing, the same trench run over and over, and it gets more difficult each time. Games were simple like that back in those days, no end, you just kept playing against increased difficulty until you lost, trying to get the high score. It had bright, colorful vector based graphics, which seem crappy yes, but on the flip side, it looked like the computer graphics in the game, the death star looked like the schematics you see on the holograms and screens in the movies, and fighting the TIE fighters felt like the scene in "A New Hope" where they're fighting TIE fighters in the Falcon, with that grid targeting system. So even with those graphics and little (horribly) digitized sound bytes ("Red 5 standing by" "Use the force, Luke" "Let go, Luke!" "Yahooo!" "You're all clear kid!" "I'm on the leader" "I have you now!" "I can't shake him!") sucked me in and immersed me in my own imaginary Star Wars world.
BTW guys if these are your first memories of video games, and since you're on a gaming forum obviously games have some sort of impact, share some of these first moments, like mine I feel I went into a lot of detail but would like to see other people get all excited about remembering their first time, if they can remember it all that vividly of course.
I feel I went into a lot of detail but would like to see other people get all excited about remembering their first time, if they can remember it all that vividly of course.Snap - The one I played was built into a table in a bar and you could rest you drinks whilst playing (And yes I was old enough to be in bars at the time). Not sure if that was the 1st time though or if I played it 1st in the arcades - one of the benefits of living in a seaside townrenkejr said:
I used to love those tables, was a good innovative system. Arcades being in every mall in America was a few years off yet, so the arcade machines were found in bars, bowling alleys, and movie theaters and you might find a few standups in a mom and pop conveinience store (there was one I used to go to to play roadblasters when I was 5 or 6).. I used to play breakout on one of those tables at a bowling alley lounge while dad was bowling and mom was talking to a friend, watching me.ScorpionClaw said:Snap - The one I played was built into a table in a bar and you could rest you drinks whilst playing (And yes I was old enough to be in bars at the time). Not sure if that was the 1st time though or if I played it 1st in the arcades - one of the benefits of living in a seaside townrenkejr said:
My first game experience was playing Tanks on my dad's Atari 2600 when I was 3 or 4. I wish we still had that thing.
Ironically enough, he now sees no point to video games
Ironically enough, he now sees no point to video games
Good ole Tetris for the Gameboy. Shortly after that my parents bought me a megadrive with Sonic The Hedgehog when I was 6 and that's when the addiction began...
the original playstation with sypro, crash bandicoot and rayman
best games ever, still love them
best games ever, still love them
I watch my younger bro playing Mario and Contra on NES and Sonic on Sega Genesis.
But my first time playing a game was Prince of Persia on PC. I'm so suck at it and die horribly over and over. But I like that game so much it make me a PC gamer freak from that day.
When I got my own PC I long to play Prince of Persia but cant figure out how to get it(My knowledge about PC at that time is like, zero) My dad just run some random game for me and that's the first time I get introduce to FPS.
Thanks to PoP and Wolfenstien 3D.
But my first time playing a game was Prince of Persia on PC. I'm so suck at it and die horribly over and over. But I like that game so much it make me a PC gamer freak from that day.
When I got my own PC I long to play Prince of Persia but cant figure out how to get it(My knowledge about PC at that time is like, zero) My dad just run some random game for me and that's the first time I get introduce to FPS.
Thanks to PoP and Wolfenstien 3D.
Breakout (Arkanoid) on my mate's ZX Spectrum.
Mate had Robocop as well. I remember him saying that it was the most expensive game he owned (£9.99 as a hell of a lot for a Spectrum game) but it was worth it because, hey, Robocop, y'know? In 1987 there was nothing cooler than merchandise based around films you weren't allowed to see yet. The game had two options when you first inserted the cassette- you could have it load for two minutes then play the first level, but have to wait an additional 1-2 minutes to play each level after that as they were all loaded in turn, or have it load for ten minutes (with a very good chance it would crash during that time) so that you could play the game without interruption.
A couple of years back I downloaded a Spectrum games library from a French website. 200+ games in about three seconds. It blows the mind to think now how little space each of these games took up. The game mechanics that would inform pretty much every designer up till the advent of 3D were developed to fit into a single 10kb file. It's why, whenever I see a classic-looking platformer or driving game on Miniclip or somewhere with a minimum spec of a 1.2GHz processor and 1Gb of RAM I wonder what the hell the coders must be playing at.
-Nick
Mate had Robocop as well. I remember him saying that it was the most expensive game he owned (£9.99 as a hell of a lot for a Spectrum game) but it was worth it because, hey, Robocop, y'know? In 1987 there was nothing cooler than merchandise based around films you weren't allowed to see yet. The game had two options when you first inserted the cassette- you could have it load for two minutes then play the first level, but have to wait an additional 1-2 minutes to play each level after that as they were all loaded in turn, or have it load for ten minutes (with a very good chance it would crash during that time) so that you could play the game without interruption.
A couple of years back I downloaded a Spectrum games library from a French website. 200+ games in about three seconds. It blows the mind to think now how little space each of these games took up. The game mechanics that would inform pretty much every designer up till the advent of 3D were developed to fit into a single 10kb file. It's why, whenever I see a classic-looking platformer or driving game on Miniclip or somewhere with a minimum spec of a 1.2GHz processor and 1Gb of RAM I wonder what the hell the coders must be playing at.
-Nick
Starwars Episode 1 Racer... oh how obliviously flying off the beaten path and into the wild desert wilderness brings back memories..
