What is the first game you remember playing?

Tar.Aldarion

ionapaul wrote: »

California Games? We had this on our C64 back in the day, great game!

that's it, loved it!

stevenmu

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You had a tough childhood.

You don't know the half of it. The cassette player we used for it had a dodgy jack, so if it moved even slightly during the 30 minutes it would take to load a game you were screwed

Conbhar

Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt for the Nes. Got the console with the game and a big ass tv from "Santa" Think it was around 89 or 90 and I was seven or eight.

Still the best present I have ever received in my lifetime!

CrazyRabbit

Some version of Pong on a little black console with two controllers that had twisty knobs for moving the bat up/down on the screen. It would have been the early 80's.
My dad brought it home and myself + sisters had never even imagined anything like this could exist. Being able to actually make something move on the TV was jaw-dropping!

nbar12

Die Hard on the Playstation! Oh man, I remember sneaking upstairs when my brother would be playing it and just staring at the screen. I was literally in awe of the game, such a kick ass game!

When I got my own console the Nintendo 64, Goldeneye was unreal. Putting on the cheat where the characters would have big heads, I thought I was the funniest bastard ever, I don't know why!

Retr0gamer

I would like to say to everyone that played their first game on a Playstation to change your nappies. However I'd then realise that they are all legally able to buy alcohol and feel even older

Morag

Asteroids there was a cabinet out in Dublin airport, I would have been about 7.

CastorTroy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I would like to say to everyone that played their first game on a Playstation to change your nappies. However I'd then realise that they are all legally able to buy alcohol and feel even older

Yup I feel old talking to people who don't remember that piracy used to simply involve a double deck tape recorder and fitting multiple games onto a 90 min cassette.


Not that I ever did that. :eek:

NTMK

CastorTroy wrote: »

Yup I feel old talking to people who don't remember that piracy used to simply involve a double deck tape recorder and fitting multiple games onto a 90 min cassette.


Not that I ever did that. :eek:

I honestly thought i would be on the older side of this thread with a GB/megadrive

i cant believe im one of the younger ones considering those two consoles are >20 years old now

o1s1n

The first games I ever came across were in the arcades on Bray Seafront. (I think) Operation Wolf is one that really sticks in my mind. Around the same time, my cousin got a Speccy. Barbarian, Punchy and Target Renegade were the first ones we really spent a lot of time playing.

So the first game I ever played would be one of them. Hard to know though. Around the same time my Aunt had a 2600 so it may have been Yar's Revenge or that crappy Pacman home port.

Dale Parish

This crapolá

kingtiger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2jLrNYzyr8

Josey Wales

o1s1n wrote: »

Barbarian, Punchy and Target Renegade were the first ones we really spent a lot of time playing.

Wow, Target Renegade. Now there is a game that I had forgotten all about. I used to have that game on the C64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDwmvJOW4xA

There was another game I had on the C64 that I loved but I can't remember much about it. I know it was some sort of kung-fu beat'em up and I think it had 'cheese' in the title. Any suggestions?

super_furry

Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. For years I thought it was the definitive version and wasn't aware of any kind of arcade or other version. The thing is, that as bad a conversion as the 2600 version is, it's still my favourite now.

Yar's Revenge was the first game I ever bought myself - got it from my communion money - and I still think it stands up as a great game.

Mr.Saturn

Street Fighter 2: World Warrior. The brother used to get lamped with babysitting me, and most arcades would have more than one machine. Off he'd todd to his games, and me to mine. I'd get elbowed off by a couple of guys whenever I'd stand there gawking at the attract-screen after burning through whatever change I'd been given. I continued this habit all the way through to Super Turbo. I didn't go near Quirkey's for yonks, and when I returned, it was all Tekken cabs surround by the same eight guys who'd formed impenetrable fortresses around the things.

SouthTippBass

Cant remember exactly the first game I played, but it was on an Atari 2600 over at my cousins. Could have been pac-man, could have been this scroll up the screen helicopter shooter. Good times.

Adyx

Centipede on the 2600. Good times trying to shoot the centipedes to form what we called "chimneys" to funnel them into a killing zone.

SeantheMan

Crystal Castles or Kung Fu Master on the Atari 2600
International Karate Plus on the Amiga
Mario Bros on the NES

One of the above, can't remember exactly which

Stokolan

PONG

I remember it well. Think still have it somewhere. A hand held controller that you tune into the tv.

Cravez

Flimbo's Quest on the Commodore. The Commodore came with a cartridge that had a few games on it, Flimbo's Quest being one of them. (Fiendish Freddies Big Top O' Fun was another, fucking game scared me off circuses/clowns for life)

Grimebox

Dizzy's Fantasy World was another I played to death but never got close to finishing as I was too young. I remember it being very unforgiving. Some of the enemies used to terrify me

Dravokivich

Not entirely too sure, was either 1943 or Outrun on C64.

Jamie Starr

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf was another game that mesmerised me as a child. Kinda still does now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRyroMNYO8

CastorTroy

Agnostic Mantis wrote: »

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf was another game that mesmerised me as a child. Kinda still does now.

Since didn't see the video because I'm at work, I thought you were talking about a Desert Strike remake or something. Never even realised it had a subtitle. I always remember the guys from it shouting at you. "Over here"

There was a sequel in the form of Jungle Strike. Never played it or any of the other sequels wiki says exists.

alanmc

Dessert Strike was one of my first Amiga games (if not the first). It was either that or Cannon Fodder. Loved both of those games on Amiga.

Adyx

CastorTroy wrote: »

Since didn't see the video because I'm at work, I thought you were talking about a Desert Strike remake or something. Never even realised it had a subtitle. I always remember the guys from it shouting at you. "Over here"

There was a sequel in the form of Jungle Strike. Never played it or any of the other sequels wiki says exists.

There was Urban Strike as well. I had it on the GameBoy but it had extra colour if you used it with a Super GameBoy on the SNES. It even had some crappy on-foot levels as well. You could also fly an F117 stealth fighter in Jungle Strike.

BeanFlicker

First game I remember playing for hours on end on dos

GODS, classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dv5UlxQwjE

Josey Wales

BeanFlicker wrote: »

First game I remember playing for hours on end on dos

GODS, classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dv5UlxQwjE

I think I used to play that too. Although I'm not sure if I played it on a PC or the Mega Drive. Funny how you forget things like that.

SouthTippBass

CastorTroy wrote: »

Since didn't see the video because I'm at work, I thought you were talking about a Desert Strike remake or something. Never even realised it had a subtitle. I always remember the guys from it shouting at you. "Over here"

There was a sequel in the form of Jungle Strike. Never played it or any of the other sequels wiki says exists.

Desert Strike
Jungle Strike
Urban Strike
Nuclear Strike

If I remember correctly. You missed out with Jungle Strike, that game was amazing. First thing you do is blow up the white house!

lazlo

Citadel on the BBC Micro.