So..I read GTR's blog on getting nostalgic over FFVII. Got a little inspired and started thinking about when/what my first video game was. I didn't want to hijack that thread soooo..begin random blog:
When I was about 5 years old I was introduced to videogames by my uncle, Marko. No, it wasn't Reader Rabbit. He used to live in our basement, since he was going to school nearby. Anyway, around the age of 3 I had my first computer, so by the time I was 5 years old; I knew how to not chew on a 5.25 floppy disc.
One day Marko was on my computer and had brought home something out of my daily C:/run/rr routine. He came upstairs, sat at my computer and for a minute my screen went blank. I sat down beside my Uncle as I watched my computer come to life with one simple word on the screen, Illustrated by a man wielding a shotgun in his left hand while firing at something below:
DOOM.
I remember specifically watching my Uncle play the first level, which I would soon become greatly familiar with, over and over. I remember the creature that guarded a door near the end of the level, which reminded me of Chewbacca. I remember wanting to be the one who disposed of the enemy with just enough time to spare and reload my weapon.
So, one day I finally asked if I could play too.
Back then my father worked for a private engineering company in the area, and the office was full of men, around my uncle’s age, who had also just discovered this game. Thus I'm almost sure Marko hesitated, because my dad would frown upon the guys at his work that played DOOM on the clock, a lot. But despite the better judgment, he let me sit in his lap and press the spacebar, you know, the firing button.
love these nostalgic blogs. i remember when i was a wee lad and my friend would move around and i would fire for doom, too. those were such great weekends that i will never get back. first game i ever played on my own was monster rancher 2; i remember crying when my Zuum died--I thought he was getting some crazy-ass power upgrade hahah.
My first system was a Sega Master System. I got in when I was 4, but I dont remember my first game, or even if that system was actually the first time I played a video game or not.
On January 30 2010 11:34 canucks12 wrote: Gizmos and Gadgets was the first game that I played. The first non-educational one would have to be Super Mario 64
Oh my god, I remember that game! I used to play a lot of those when I was a kid. Treasure Mountain FTW.
As for my first game, that must have been Super Mario Bros 3 for the NES. Such a good game.
Super mario 2 and tetris on game boy in 1993 i think. First computer games in 96 ( Commander Keen 1 4 5 some Disney games, then Raptor ( AWESOME ), Doom, and more that i forget )
Semi-Cute story (well I think so): In preschool the teacher asked all the kids what they wanted to be- I said a computer programmer because I played videogames with my dad.
My dad apparently had played Doom but my parents never let me see it. Command and Conquer and Starcraft were the first games I played with human deaths in them. I think I would probably be about 6 for Command and Conquer and 8 for when I started playing starcraft (or watch my brother).
I don't remember my first game, it'll have to be either Mario, Mortal Kombat, or maybe it was one of those games from those 100 games in 1 cartridge lol
Either way I don't really remember until I got my PS, and then I started playing games alot. I remember Tekken 2 and Crash Bandicoot alot though.
I remember my first games were on the Commodore 64. My cousin had a machine, and he was a very active distributor / collector, so he always had new, cool games playing when I visited. I can't exactly remember which game were the first one, but I remember Bride of Frankenstein, Frightmare and Ghostbusters very avidly.
Edit: Oh, and Barbarian! Some fighting game where you could win like 90% of the fights doing a headchopping move at the start of the fight. =p
Hmm... I want to say The Secret of Monkey Island, but I think it was Dune II (unless The Secret of Monkey Island was released before Dune II, in which case it was my first encounter with video games... and I suspect it was, indeed, released before Dune II).
I love when people get nostalgic and say things like "HEY GUYS I'M SO NOSTALGIC FOR THAT CLASSIC GAME FROM MY CHILDHOOD which just came out recently" lol
Atari games such as pitfall or maybe Mario 1, Duck Hunt, or some other early NES game... can't be sure.
edit: Doom as an important part of my videogaming experience when growing up though.... one of the pillars of my experience.
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