What was the 1st video game you ever played.
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The frist game i ever played was some really old platformer where you juped over gaps and pelicans occasionaly vommited, it was either on the spectrum or an old pac. either way it was owned by my grandfather.
the oldest game i can remember the name of is the adventures of alex kidd, a bit of a mario rip off but with epic boss battles like paper scissosrs stone with a pirate, who cares!
the oldest game i can remember the name of is the adventures of alex kidd, a bit of a mario rip off but with epic boss battles like paper scissosrs stone with a pirate, who cares!
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Yeah, when I started pokemon blue I couldn't figure out how to get out of your starting house for five hours because i had no clue you were supposed to head to the rug and press down. Rather embarassing, that.blackflare said:
OT: I think it was an extremly obscure game boy game called "Ultima, runes of virtue 2" my dad got it and let me play it also. For the longest time I couldn't get the timing right on the pie factory in the final dungeon. Finally beat it a couple of years later.
First ever?
Something on the spectrum. Probably some stupid thing my dad coded up in BASIC on a borrowed one (before he put us to work typing code in for him). Or take your pick of Daley Thompson, Turbo Esprit and some horse-race betting thing. Far too young to really understand much of it though, apart from enjoying the colours, the ability to drive around a virtual city, and out-tug-of-war some dude called Gus.
First which made any impact?
Donkey Kong on a teacher's Atari 800. Or the educational stuff on the classroom IBM. Both of which were pretty captivating and led to:
First on "our" own machine, that I'll still happily dig out and play today, being a bedrock of my gaming psyche?
Xenon, on the ST. It was the disk that the previous owners demoed it to us with, and one of our most played titles. It's still a reasonably solid vertical scroller, fun and endearingly wierd, and makes good use of the machine's capabilities.
Second disk we slipped in the drive after returning home would have been a twin-pack of Buggy Boy and the old unshaded/hidden vertice removal vector-based Star Wars arcade shooter. Also classics. After that, Speedball? (...and then the BASIC disk and a baffling CPM emulator
)
We got pretty lucky with those four, given how much sheer crap was actually released around that time I've since had to wade through to find any more gems.
Nope, no Mario, or Tetris, or Space Invaders, or Jet Set Willy, or Oregon Trail or anything like that. Unforgivable I know.
Hell, didn't play Space Invaders for the first time until maybe a year after we got that machine and a clone was on a magazine cover disk.
Something on the spectrum. Probably some stupid thing my dad coded up in BASIC on a borrowed one (before he put us to work typing code in for him). Or take your pick of Daley Thompson, Turbo Esprit and some horse-race betting thing. Far too young to really understand much of it though, apart from enjoying the colours, the ability to drive around a virtual city, and out-tug-of-war some dude called Gus.
First which made any impact?
Donkey Kong on a teacher's Atari 800. Or the educational stuff on the classroom IBM. Both of which were pretty captivating and led to:
First on "our" own machine, that I'll still happily dig out and play today, being a bedrock of my gaming psyche?
Xenon, on the ST. It was the disk that the previous owners demoed it to us with, and one of our most played titles. It's still a reasonably solid vertical scroller, fun and endearingly wierd, and makes good use of the machine's capabilities.
Second disk we slipped in the drive after returning home would have been a twin-pack of Buggy Boy and the old unshaded/hidden vertice removal vector-based Star Wars arcade shooter. Also classics. After that, Speedball? (...and then the BASIC disk and a baffling CPM emulator
)We got pretty lucky with those four, given how much sheer crap was actually released around that time I've since had to wade through to find any more gems.
Nope, no Mario, or Tetris, or Space Invaders, or Jet Set Willy, or Oregon Trail or anything like that. Unforgivable I know.
Hell, didn't play Space Invaders for the first time until maybe a year after we got that machine and a clone was on a magazine cover disk.
Uff, that is hard to be sure about in my case, because i dont even clearly remember when i started to play videogames (I suspect it must been at an age of 3-4). It may have been pitfall or pacman on an atari 2600... not sure.
First game that made a big impact on me? I guess that would be either Choplifter or Falcon Patrol.
First game that made a big impact on me? I guess that would be either Choplifter or Falcon Patrol.
it was definatly atari but i don't know the game exactly either pitfall maze craze or mario bros.
