Snake Plissken said:
My mom and I used to play Bubble Bobble all day sometimes, which is my favorite NES game by far.
Word. One of my friends and I played that for months back in the day. I was surprised how much easier it was than I remembered when I played it again a couple years ago. Still fun, though.
Unrulyhandbag said:
repton (Hardly anyone knows about it when mentioned it but it was pretty cool)
My friend's dad still has their old BBC Micro set up in a corner of their basement. Sometimes when we go over there to visit we fire it up to play stuff like Repton. It's been a few years since the last time I've gotten to at this point, but hopefully it still works.
As for me, I kind of want to say it all started with pinball machines in general. I may be older than average on here, but I'm not
so old that video games weren't already all over the place. Pinball machines were still everywhere, though, and they were still making new ones, and the ones in arcades were actually maintained by people who knew what they were doing (at least if you went to the right places, which sadly almost don't exist anymore; if you can even find pinball machines at all now, good luck finding one that's not half-broken outside of a few specialist/old school arcades and people's private collections). There's just something satisfying about a physical, mechanical game machine you can whack around, full of moving parts and
literally all the bells and whistles.
But then there were a bunch of good arcade games, including a pretty much endless list of shmups, and I eventually got an NES at home and had unlimited access to stuff like Mario and Zelda, and it's all kept going from there.
I got into gaming early, heh.
