memories of games as a kid ?
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I remember when my bro and I got Hexen 64. We played that game to what would be considered now 100% completion. There are 3 characters; a mage, cleric and fighter and you can each choose any of them, meaning you can play as two fighters, two mages, a cleric and a mage, a fight and cleric, etc...
We played through ever single difficulty, Easy--Nightmare, with every combination of characters each. Because we loved that moody game so much. I can play through the Seven Portals, or the Darkmere, or the Castle of Grief with my eyes closed.
Every time we get together for the holidays we play through it again, and its not a short game.
We played through ever single difficulty, Easy--Nightmare, with every combination of characters each. Because we loved that moody game so much. I can play through the Seven Portals, or the Darkmere, or the Castle of Grief with my eyes closed.
Every time we get together for the holidays we play through it again, and its not a short game.
My mom used to kick my ass at Pitfall on the Atari 2600 when I was a kid. She sometimes gloats about it to this day, to which I mockingly reply, "Congratulations, mom, you beat a five-year-old. I hope you're pleased with yourself."
I'd love to see her play Dark Souls.
I'd love to see her play Dark Souls.
Nobody was at home when I was in third grade so I had a friend of mine from school and his brother come to my place. We hung out in my room and they watched me beat Link to the Past. Then Mom called and found out I had friends over and told me to tell them to leave. Eh.
Other than that there was this time when I was five. I had just turned five...well...it was probably about 3 months after...anyway, I was mini-golfing with my Dad and other family people from his side when I decided to be an asshole five-year old and ram him with my golf club while his back was turned. The thing is, I tripped over a brick barrier surrounding the green and cut my right forearm open. I probably needed stitches but instead I was taken back to our hotel room, bandaged and bactined up and, given a brand-spankin' new copy of freaking Star Fox.
Then there are a pair of Christmases that come to mind...one was the X-Mas of...probably 1997...definitely 1997...Dad, my Uncle, and N64 and the trifecta that was Cruisin' USA, Star Fox 64 and, Turok: The Dinosaur Hunter. The other one was 2001: Xbox and a shit-ton of rented games like Dead or Alive 3, Halo: CE, Project Gotham Racing and Amped. What ever happened to Amped? That game series freaking rocked! Much better than Nintendo's snowboarding thing that didn't last very long...1080 I think.
Other than that there was this time when I was five. I had just turned five...well...it was probably about 3 months after...anyway, I was mini-golfing with my Dad and other family people from his side when I decided to be an asshole five-year old and ram him with my golf club while his back was turned. The thing is, I tripped over a brick barrier surrounding the green and cut my right forearm open. I probably needed stitches but instead I was taken back to our hotel room, bandaged and bactined up and, given a brand-spankin' new copy of freaking Star Fox.
Then there are a pair of Christmases that come to mind...one was the X-Mas of...probably 1997...definitely 1997...Dad, my Uncle, and N64 and the trifecta that was Cruisin' USA, Star Fox 64 and, Turok: The Dinosaur Hunter. The other one was 2001: Xbox and a shit-ton of rented games like Dead or Alive 3, Halo: CE, Project Gotham Racing and Amped. What ever happened to Amped? That game series freaking rocked! Much better than Nintendo's snowboarding thing that didn't last very long...1080 I think.
My little sister breaking the Mario Paint mouse, watching the cool kid beat Super Mario World, playing Goof Troop co-op with my dad, being stuck forever in the inferno boss fight in Mickey's Magical Quest, discovering the BARRY cheat code for The Lion King...
The earliest is of my older brother playing a Rambo game on his computer.
I also played the shit out of that penguin game made by Hideo Kojima, whenever I was visiting my aunt.
I also played the shit out of that penguin game made by Hideo Kojima, whenever I was visiting my aunt.
When I was a kid, I had very strictly controlled "Screen time", this included computers, TV and video games. This limit was something like 2 hours over the weekend, and half an hour on Wednesday. It was kind of ridiculous, and it totally backfired. If anything, it made us more obsessed with games, and we'd take every opportunity we could to cheat the system. The limit didn't apply at friend's houses, so when we went to friend's houses the only thing we'd want to do was play games. We'd also wake up super early on Saturday mornings and pretend we had woken up later. I'm honestly not sure if I'd care nearly as much about them if we didn't have that limit turning them into something forbidden and coveted.
In any case, one memory I have involving this was when we bought a Gamecube and Metroid Prime. We were excited to play it, but we didn't have any allotted screen time that day. We managed to bargain for an alternative, we weren't allowed to play it, but we could just turn on the system. So we spent an hour watching the title screen psyching ourselves up for the game. Good thing we had all of those rules in place to prevent us from wasting our time watching tv.
In any case, one memory I have involving this was when we bought a Gamecube and Metroid Prime. We were excited to play it, but we didn't have any allotted screen time that day. We managed to bargain for an alternative, we weren't allowed to play it, but we could just turn on the system. So we spent an hour watching the title screen psyching ourselves up for the game. Good thing we had all of those rules in place to prevent us from wasting our time watching tv.
I have fond memories of playing street fighter 2 and mortal kombat and killer instict with my dad.
Also every once in a while, me my mother my sister and my dad would play bomberman on the snes together. It was the only game my mother liked.
I also remember my dad calling me an amateur because i was playing Contra 3 on easy mode. I immediately reset the console and started it on hard. He's the one who got me into playing games on hard mode, to appreciate a challenge and the overcome obstacles. Oh at to gloat at casuals, before casuals was a thing.
I also remember watching him play the original final fantasy for hours on end. And wanting to play myself. I was about 3 at the time. He told me i could play but he wasn't going to read the words for me or explain what to do. That in turn pushed me to learn to read, and by time i was 4 i could complete the game on my own ( except for hard words which he would gladly explain the meaning to me. So final fantasy taugh me to read.
Then there were the sessions of Goof troops me and my dad would play.
Sorry i went on a bit of a nostalgia trip.
Also every once in a while, me my mother my sister and my dad would play bomberman on the snes together. It was the only game my mother liked.
I also remember my dad calling me an amateur because i was playing Contra 3 on easy mode. I immediately reset the console and started it on hard. He's the one who got me into playing games on hard mode, to appreciate a challenge and the overcome obstacles. Oh at to gloat at casuals, before casuals was a thing.
I also remember watching him play the original final fantasy for hours on end. And wanting to play myself. I was about 3 at the time. He told me i could play but he wasn't going to read the words for me or explain what to do. That in turn pushed me to learn to read, and by time i was 4 i could complete the game on my own ( except for hard words which he would gladly explain the meaning to me. So final fantasy taugh me to read.
Then there were the sessions of Goof troops me and my dad would play.
Sorry i went on a bit of a nostalgia trip.
My childhood is just filled with Nintendo. I remember my dad coming home from work with the SNES and super Mario Kart and us both just spending hours playing it, I remember the christmas that we got an N64 with Banjo-Kazooie and my parents allowing us to spend all day playing it, and I remember getting a Gameboy color with Pokemon pinball, Pokemon red and Pokemon Blue, and just going to my grandparents house and playing it all day, with my dad playing Pokemon Yellow next to me so we could trade and get a full Pokedex.
I also remember my family going to the local pub and it having an arcade machine and The House of the Dead, with me and my dad playing it together and getting the high score. That was a real bonding moment. Looking back now, my childhood was pretty damned awesome, and it definitely helped having parents that played videogames as well.
I also remember my family going to the local pub and it having an arcade machine and The House of the Dead, with me and my dad playing it together and getting the high score. That was a real bonding moment. Looking back now, my childhood was pretty damned awesome, and it definitely helped having parents that played videogames as well.
My first real gaming machine was a 1st gen PS2, and i played a lot of both PS2 and PS1 games on that thing. The ones i really sunk my teeth into:
-megaman legends
-yu-gi-oh forbidden memories
-the jak series
-the spyro the dragon series
And by sunk my teeth into, i mean like, all day all night kinda stuff. Really getting immersed in the game. Some really good memories.
-megaman legends
-yu-gi-oh forbidden memories
-the jak series
-the spyro the dragon series
And by sunk my teeth into, i mean like, all day all night kinda stuff. Really getting immersed in the game. Some really good memories.
I'm old, so I grew up a mystical time called "The 80's". Hair was big and ties were skinny. And PC gaming was more a hobby than an industry.
My best friend and I used to trade copies of games (before pirating was actually a "thing" or relevant enough to become illegal) every time our families got together.
As such, we never had instruction manuals (and there was no "online" from which to retrieve them). So there was this thrilling sense of discovery whenever I popped a disk into the old Apple IIe and tried to figure out how to play the game.
My favorite memory of this playing is Ultima II. I remember exploring every inch of the first continent and thinking "I must be missing something". So I bought a ship, set sail for the East and hoped for the best. After a couple of brief scrapes with a kraken or two, I was overjoyed to discover a whole other continent! The whole experience just added to the in game Fantasy Adventure narrative.
And when I finally consulted with the gaming community (which, at the time, was four kids in my Computer Science class), they indeed confirmed that there were four continents to explore!
Good times...
My best friend and I used to trade copies of games (before pirating was actually a "thing" or relevant enough to become illegal) every time our families got together.
As such, we never had instruction manuals (and there was no "online" from which to retrieve them). So there was this thrilling sense of discovery whenever I popped a disk into the old Apple IIe and tried to figure out how to play the game.
My favorite memory of this playing is Ultima II. I remember exploring every inch of the first continent and thinking "I must be missing something". So I bought a ship, set sail for the East and hoped for the best. After a couple of brief scrapes with a kraken or two, I was overjoyed to discover a whole other continent! The whole experience just added to the in game Fantasy Adventure narrative.
And when I finally consulted with the gaming community (which, at the time, was four kids in my Computer Science class), they indeed confirmed that there were four continents to explore!
Good times...
Well for the first years I was super sheltered, but thanks to a certain friend with a PC gaming habit, I have had quite a few moments. My favorite ones however...
Modding a game for the first time. Jurassic Park Operation Genesis had most of it's config in text files, so I could do what I like. I had a park so overloaded with dinos it would crash my game all the time. Also made it so the jeeps could drive literally anywhere. But it wasn't until I figured out how to add/remove new dinosaurs that I really learned the potential of modding things. My only BIG change other then writing "CHEATER" all over the spino texture was coloring the raptor texture brown and getting rid of the main stripes, to make it more like the first movies style. After that the world opened up to me, and I have been obsessed with modding ever since.
Fallout has always been a staple of gaming to me, and I have my first experience with it to thank. I was getting to the age where the same platformers I had played a hundred times over (Crash Bandicoot, Spyro) were fun, but no longer challenging, since I had done it so much. I had been on the PC with a copy of Fallout 2, which became my first RPG experience. After a quick character customization (Lets put it all in Luck so I always win! -young me), I spent hours getting through the Temple of Trials, talking to EVERYONE, and even getting that dog back. With my sharpened spear and healing powder, I was ready to face the wasteland! I walked out of camp, and was immediately SMG'ed to a million pieces before my eyes. 6 character setups later and a rage quit or two, I was on my way! I liked that the game had many routes of play, but they all required thought and planning. I had never experienced that before.
Modding a game for the first time. Jurassic Park Operation Genesis had most of it's config in text files, so I could do what I like. I had a park so overloaded with dinos it would crash my game all the time. Also made it so the jeeps could drive literally anywhere. But it wasn't until I figured out how to add/remove new dinosaurs that I really learned the potential of modding things. My only BIG change other then writing "CHEATER" all over the spino texture was coloring the raptor texture brown and getting rid of the main stripes, to make it more like the first movies style. After that the world opened up to me, and I have been obsessed with modding ever since.
Fallout has always been a staple of gaming to me, and I have my first experience with it to thank. I was getting to the age where the same platformers I had played a hundred times over (Crash Bandicoot, Spyro) were fun, but no longer challenging, since I had done it so much. I had been on the PC with a copy of Fallout 2, which became my first RPG experience. After a quick character customization (Lets put it all in Luck so I always win! -young me), I spent hours getting through the Temple of Trials, talking to EVERYONE, and even getting that dog back. With my sharpened spear and healing powder, I was ready to face the wasteland! I walked out of camp, and was immediately SMG'ed to a million pieces before my eyes. 6 character setups later and a rage quit or two, I was on my way! I liked that the game had many routes of play, but they all required thought and planning. I had never experienced that before.
Playing Mario Smash Football, Mario Kart Double Dash, James Bond: Nightfire, and Smash Bros. Melee with an older friend. I actually only got a games console of my own when I was eleven. A DS Lite. The first game I had was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That game sucks.
I used to be that one 6-year-old black kid who could not only perfectly beat The Oregon Trail in one go, but also Lemmings in one go... Also, my first sleepover consisted of me and a friend staying up all night playing nothing but Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast and it's drifting time challenge only to drift off the road and into the water...
Other than that, I bought my first console [the GameCube] in nothing but the one-dollar-bills I obtained from demonstrating a potential prize in a middle school order drive, I would use most of my time hanging out with my cousins to play with their PS2 and their collection of PS2 demo disk, and my first major JRPG [Tales of Symphonia] was not only bought and played as a means to one-up my middle school rival, but I ended up being the only one of my friends [who have played that game] to beat the hardest sidequest in the game on the first try...
Other than that, I bought my first console [the GameCube] in nothing but the one-dollar-bills I obtained from demonstrating a potential prize in a middle school order drive, I would use most of my time hanging out with my cousins to play with their PS2 and their collection of PS2 demo disk, and my first major JRPG [Tales of Symphonia] was not only bought and played as a means to one-up my middle school rival, but I ended up being the only one of my friends [who have played that game] to beat the hardest sidequest in the game on the first try...
When I was a kid, This was the Dark Knight -
And it was AWESOME. My first real experience with videogames was playing Mike Tyson's Punchout with my brother-in-law. I just had to have an NES after that and even kept a comprehensive list of the games I'd beaten - so I wouldn't rent the same one twice. I stopped once the list passed 200 or so.
And it was AWESOME. My first real experience with videogames was playing Mike Tyson's Punchout with my brother-in-law. I just had to have an NES after that and even kept a comprehensive list of the games I'd beaten - so I wouldn't rent the same one twice. I stopped once the list passed 200 or so.
Although I briefly had the NES, and not-so-briefly had the SNES, cost of the games was always kind of prohibitive, and much of my console playing was done with weekend rentals, which didn't entirely stick with me.
I had a pretty good run with the early days of Shareware games (Apogee and its like), even learning how to use BBS servers when I was six to download the things like your Commander Keens, Duke Nukem (the side-scrolling one), Wolfenstein (which I had to mod all the textures of to make the nazis into robots/zombies, because I wasn't allowed to play games killing people, lol), Doom, etc. Also buying those silly 100 shareware games/demo discs, which was where I ended up playing a demo of one of the Ultima games, which became my first real PC game (in the 1-6 Compendium Box set released at the time).
After that, I mostly kept up with the RPG genre, including Wizardry and the Gold/Red box D&D games. Aided by my other becoming interested in them too, which led to more getting bought. Some dabblings in Warcraft and Heroes of Might & Magic threw strategy games in the pile as well. Real-time started overwhelming my mom's ability to play the strat/rpgs, so she became more of an audience.
My own early job delivering papers, and pressure from friends led me to get the N64, which became my system of choice for the last of my childhood, racking up many completions of Star Fox and F-Zero, and some ungodly (I think over 1000, maybe even 2k) hours in Perfect Dark.
I had a pretty good run with the early days of Shareware games (Apogee and its like), even learning how to use BBS servers when I was six to download the things like your Commander Keens, Duke Nukem (the side-scrolling one), Wolfenstein (which I had to mod all the textures of to make the nazis into robots/zombies, because I wasn't allowed to play games killing people, lol), Doom, etc. Also buying those silly 100 shareware games/demo discs, which was where I ended up playing a demo of one of the Ultima games, which became my first real PC game (in the 1-6 Compendium Box set released at the time).
After that, I mostly kept up with the RPG genre, including Wizardry and the Gold/Red box D&D games. Aided by my other becoming interested in them too, which led to more getting bought. Some dabblings in Warcraft and Heroes of Might & Magic threw strategy games in the pile as well. Real-time started overwhelming my mom's ability to play the strat/rpgs, so she became more of an audience.
My own early job delivering papers, and pressure from friends led me to get the N64, which became my system of choice for the last of my childhood, racking up many completions of Star Fox and F-Zero, and some ungodly (I think over 1000, maybe even 2k) hours in Perfect Dark.
Let's seee...well, first game I ever played was probably something on the game boy. Metroid 2, SuperMarioLand or Pokemon Red. I remember a time I nearly failed to beat the Pokemon league with my brother's save...I remember switching to his Zapdos as a sort of "panic mode" and thundering and drill pecking my way to victory.
First controller I ever held was the Mega Drive, the reason I say I merely held the controller is because my brother would hand me the controller to play 2-player, and dumb less than four year old me just watched his side of the screen as normal...
I also have early memories of watching my dad play Doom, Quake and Chasm: The Rift.
I have the most memories of Crash and Spyro on the PS1. We played quite a variety of PS1 games, though. First game I ever personally owned was bubble bobble (bust a move? The game with bub and bob) for PS1. I remember playing it while my mum and older brother watched. I beat a level, my mum and brother congratulated me, being a shy kid, I cried. Crushed by attention.
I also remember summer times spent inside after my little brother was born, playing lots and lots of PS2 games.
First controller I ever held was the Mega Drive, the reason I say I merely held the controller is because my brother would hand me the controller to play 2-player, and dumb less than four year old me just watched his side of the screen as normal...
I also have early memories of watching my dad play Doom, Quake and Chasm: The Rift.
I have the most memories of Crash and Spyro on the PS1. We played quite a variety of PS1 games, though. First game I ever personally owned was bubble bobble (bust a move? The game with bub and bob) for PS1. I remember playing it while my mum and older brother watched. I beat a level, my mum and brother congratulated me, being a shy kid, I cried. Crushed by attention.
I also remember summer times spent inside after my little brother was born, playing lots and lots of PS2 games.
Two come to my mind-
My bro playing Tetris on the Gameboy.
Me crying my eyes out cos my bro keep beating me in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (yes I was a sore loser).
My bro playing Tetris on the Gameboy.
Me crying my eyes out cos my bro keep beating me in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (yes I was a sore loser).
Me as a kid: watching my dad find all the warp zones in Super Mario and beating the game in literal minutes. He was better than I am now and he just stopped. Also, playing Super Mario 64 for the first time, holy shit! 3D!
My brother as a kid: I gave him my xbox with the huge duke controllers and we spent a few weeks going through beating the hell out of KotOR and KotOR 2. Fun times
My brother as a kid: I gave him my xbox with the huge duke controllers and we spent a few weeks going through beating the hell out of KotOR and KotOR 2. Fun times