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Hm, to go back over the consoles and computer platforms I've owned:
C-Vic 20 - Strange side scrolling shoot em up which was I think technically as old as me.
PC - Damn, it's so long ago it predated the age of solitare. I believe that one of my first games though was a Zork one, or possibly a Zork clone...it's so long ago.
Sega Mega Drive - Sonic the Hedgehog, spikey, blue and incredibly fun.
Gameboy - Tetris, and as a result I can usually manage to pack shelves really well...who says video games teach us nothing?
SNES - Zelda: A Link to the Past, one of my favourite games of all time.
Playstation - Final Fantasy 7 and 8, all purchased together for almost nothing from a second hand place.
N-64 - Zelda 64.
C-Vic 20 - Strange side scrolling shoot em up which was I think technically as old as me.
PC - Damn, it's so long ago it predated the age of solitare. I believe that one of my first games though was a Zork one, or possibly a Zork clone...it's so long ago.
Sega Mega Drive - Sonic the Hedgehog, spikey, blue and incredibly fun.
Gameboy - Tetris, and as a result I can usually manage to pack shelves really well...who says video games teach us nothing?
SNES - Zelda: A Link to the Past, one of my favourite games of all time.
Playstation - Final Fantasy 7 and 8, all purchased together for almost nothing from a second hand place.
N-64 - Zelda 64.
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"It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president."
"I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..."
"All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism.
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First game that I owned and played alot.....
That'd be Blackhawk on the Commodore 64.
That'd be Blackhawk on the Commodore 64.
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Let's see... First, there was Hugo 3. Then there was some weird horror game I don't remember the name of. Then there was Commander Keen. I got all three of these at the same time. I played them on my dad's 486 laptop, on a monochrome monitor.
Shortly after that, we got a brand new Pentium 166 with Full Throttle, my favorite game to date. Too bad the sequel was cancelled. Grrrrrr.
Shortly after that, we got a brand new Pentium 166 with Full Throttle, my favorite game to date. Too bad the sequel was cancelled. Grrrrrr.
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Dang, I can't remember... I'm almost certain we had an Atari before the NES, but I can't remember what my first games for it were...
Only vague memory I can actually recall is repeatedly trying to lassoo the bleached cow skull in Stampede. Heh.
Only vague memory I can actually recall is repeatedly trying to lassoo the bleached cow skull in Stampede. Heh.
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First omputer game was....Loom, I think.
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Hmmm, let me think. My parents got me and my brother a computer for Christmas (an Apple II C+) when I was around 8-9 years old. They also got a bunch of the old learning games for it from school (Number crunchers and things like that). The first real game they got for it was either Oregon Trail or the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy text game. To this day I still remember how to get through the H2G2 game.
The first game I remember playing was Ms. Pacman at the local pizza place. They also had Centipede and Dig-Dug there, but Ms. Pacman is the first one I remember playing. One of the neighbors had an Atari 2600 when I was pretty young (4-5 maybe), we used to play Frogger on that all the time. My parents also got me a NES when I was about 6-7, with Super Mario Brothers. I remember spending hours playing that damn game
This thread is reminding me of another game, but I can't think of what it was called. It was in a box of games that one of my uncles gave me for the Apple computer (looking back, I think they were all copies of things he had, as they were all on generic 5.25" disks.) I think it was called "The Adventures of Odysseus" or Ulysses or something like that. Basically you start out on a "randomly" generated island (In reality there were like 12 maps and the game picked one at random.) You start with a handful of soldiers and some food/water. You can adventure all across the map, picking up allies and fighting bandits/legendary creatures. You can also buy supplies in three towns scattered across the map, or run into various old ruins that would give you treasure if you had the right item to get into them (Crypts required a crowbar, caves required a rope, that sort of thing.)
The point of the game (as near as I can remember) was to get off the starting island and go to several nearby islands. To do that you had to buy a boat, and the standard sort of gear a boat needs (extra sails, plenty of food/water, an extra anchor for when you lose yours because the game cheats.) When you finally did that, you could go explore the other nearby islands. Two of them would just resupply you with food and water, but there was an adventure on the third island. Unfortunately, my copy of the game had a bug and would always crash at that point, so I never managed to beat it. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? I'm at work and can't look for it right now, but I'd love to find a copy of this and play it again, just for old times sake.
The first game I remember playing was Ms. Pacman at the local pizza place. They also had Centipede and Dig-Dug there, but Ms. Pacman is the first one I remember playing. One of the neighbors had an Atari 2600 when I was pretty young (4-5 maybe), we used to play Frogger on that all the time. My parents also got me a NES when I was about 6-7, with Super Mario Brothers. I remember spending hours playing that damn game
This thread is reminding me of another game, but I can't think of what it was called. It was in a box of games that one of my uncles gave me for the Apple computer (looking back, I think they were all copies of things he had, as they were all on generic 5.25" disks.) I think it was called "The Adventures of Odysseus" or Ulysses or something like that. Basically you start out on a "randomly" generated island (In reality there were like 12 maps and the game picked one at random.) You start with a handful of soldiers and some food/water. You can adventure all across the map, picking up allies and fighting bandits/legendary creatures. You can also buy supplies in three towns scattered across the map, or run into various old ruins that would give you treasure if you had the right item to get into them (Crypts required a crowbar, caves required a rope, that sort of thing.)
The point of the game (as near as I can remember) was to get off the starting island and go to several nearby islands. To do that you had to buy a boat, and the standard sort of gear a boat needs (extra sails, plenty of food/water, an extra anchor for when you lose yours because the game cheats.) When you finally did that, you could go explore the other nearby islands. Two of them would just resupply you with food and water, but there was an adventure on the third island. Unfortunately, my copy of the game had a bug and would always crash at that point, so I never managed to beat it. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? I'm at work and can't look for it right now, but I'd love to find a copy of this and play it again, just for old times sake.
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