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.
I remember I had an NES in my room when I was two or three. It was hooked up to a small monitor, and I'd play Excite Bike on it all the time. Later on, I had both a Genesis and a SNES in the living room.
Star Control 1 and Brick It on the Atari. :< Shit was old and ugly back then lol. The computer monitor only had like 3 colors. Black, Green, and a sickly Orange.
My first time was probably when I was 6 or so; my (younger) sister had been going to piano lessons for a while, and I think I had started wanting to play piano as well by then, so we ended up having the same teacher. During my sister's lesson I'd get pretty bored, and the teacher's kids happened to have an NES + the original Super Mario sitting around in the house.
I was hooked as soon as I stomped my first Goomba. I remember later on begging my dad for an SNES, and my grades (even then!) going downhill from there.
Mouse Trap on an computer so ancient I don't even know what it was. You played a farmer trying to trap the mice in his barn, and the graphics were basically a black background and walls made of green lines (along with basic models for the farmer and the mice). The walls turned in different directions depending on which side you pushed from, and the goal was to surround each mouse so it couldn't move at all. I loved it.
My first was Wolfenstein 3-D, man it was so fun killing nazis when I was 7 years old. And you just go up to walls and sometimes when you press spacebar the walls expands out and you get a bunch of secret goodies :D I also remember when you pick up the gattling gun, the picture of your character's face on the bottom panel gets a huge smile.
the first video game i ever played was sonic the hedgehog on the master system ii.
i was still waving around with the pad into the direction my character should move.. must have looked extremely silly
shortly afterwards i was also introduced to DoooooooM by my neighbour. this game was so much fun. and all these weird noises that came out of it. like really ugly monsters hiding in some corners suffocating on their bile. doom was sick.. i loved it. and this huge fucker aka goat man - good we had cheats. and afterwards.. DUKE NUKEDEM THREE D.. yeah. wow i was still so young that i got turned on by these strippers in lev 2 flashing their titties. hilarious. one of my favourite scenes was where he ripped off the head of boss act 2, sat on it and had a nice shit while reading newspaper and whistling duke melody.. aaw.. the harmony
then.. playstation.. and then FFVII - GTR HAS A BLOG ABOUT THIS? NEEDTOREADASAP
watching my cousin play red alert a whole bunch, and then i eventually started playing it myself. that was back when command and conquer was still really fun to play =)
I think the first PC game I ever saw was this one, or an extremely similar looking one:
I'm pretty sure the first game I played on the PC was 1942 on an emulator
But the first video game I played was this NES (I think) game which I don't remember the name of. It was a platform game where you would do levels and then transform into some other creature which had a special ability like running up walls. We still have old tapes of me playing this game when I'm 2 years old.
I tried looking up NES platformers; I remember playing Wonder Boy, but it's not that one.
Can't remember if it was the original Prince of Persia(PC) or Super Mario Bros on the Atari. Both are fantastic games. Never beat Prince without cheats or Mario without skipping levels. I used to play Prince of Persia on my uncle's computer until one day I was messing around with the computer and deleted every single game. Playing Mario at my cousins was great too. I think I owned an atari or one of those crappy ripoffs that can run anything then a PSX, I never got a SEGA or Nintendo system and it has stayed that way till today.
I was just old enough to play video games pretty avidly when the NES came out. Since my family was really into speed skating and hockey (my grandpa won a few national titles) my first video game experience was Blades of Steel, a hilariously entertaining hockey game
man when i was a kid we had this wonderful thing called games CD...it was a CD burned with ~100 old mac games, and some were true gems...a ton of ambrosia games especially.
diamond barrack the original escape velocity&mods civ i&ii warlords ii lode runner mac attack! and a bunch of other trigger finger games for shits.
fantastic stuff =). also got my first programming experience with modding escape velocity.
Diablo 1 was the game that really turned me into a gamer. I used to watch my dad play every day, I was too scared to play myself (lol, I was 7 or 8 years old at the time). When I finally got the courage to play I played it for about a year before finally getting bored with it, and the reason I decided to try Starcraft was because it was made by the same company as Diablo.
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