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Playing BG1 when it was still new on a brick of a desktop.

 thedarkavenger wrote:
Playing BG1 when it was still new on a brick of a desktop.

Watching my dad play Harpoon back on our 286. He'd spend entire days off and whole packs of cigarettes playing, think that must've been how I got the bug to game.

I remember when I was really little my uncle having an NES, playing Zelda I think. I wasn't allowed to play it cause he was afraid a little kid would break it or something.He handed me down that NES a couple years later when he got bored of it I guess. I think all I had was super mario. I remember our TV was up really high on top of this shelf so I had to look almost straight up to see anything on because of the length of the controller cords.

Mine would be Choplifter on the Master System.

Galaxy Invader 1000!

BrookM wrote:Now there's a great game!

I know rigth! it felt to some degree like you where a part of som 1960 Italian spagetti western movie

Earliest game i remember was Super Mario World on SNES.

Also Super Metroid and mega man X.


I still have all of it and play it time to time.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Playing Duck Hunt on my Nintendo Entertainment System in my basement rec room on a TV that looked like this:

I miss when TV looked like this.

First games, Mario 1, duck hunt, tetris and gauntlet.

First PC game I've ever played was Memphis Belle on floppy disks.

First 2 pc games I owned were Warcraft II and tomb raider 1

Atari 2600:



... that or Superman for the same system. Maybe Pitfall. Or Adventure. I even played (and beat) the ET game... it is not as hard, or as bad, as people claim it is, they were simply incompetent.

Chwast I am old

Oh, I've played on such consoles. Far too much of my youth was spent in video arcades throughout the 80s.

 Psienesis wrote:
Oh, I've played on such consoles. Far too much of my youth was spent in video arcades throughout the 80s.

Man the money i spent in arcades makes me cry a bit what i could of gotten if i had just saved up.

But damnit i love dat DDR

My parents had a ton of educational style games on their computer I played a lot. I have no idea what they were... Then I started getting into RTS games. I'm pretty sure I beat quite a few missions of the Warcraft 2: Tide of Darkness before I knew how to read all that well.

Also Chip's Challenge.

Age of Empires 1 from a cereal box, any people from Australia or maybe NZ will probably remember when it came with nutri-grain back in 2002 I think.

After that Close Combat 5: Invasion Normandy, which was far too complicated for my 10 year old self, then Morrowind. I still play Morrowind today.

Atart 2600. First game...I really don't know. I have very fond memories of a lot of games on that thing. It was probably Combat...or one of the other early games the atari came with early on. I distinctly remember Combat, Super Breakout, Asteroids, Q*bert, Pitfall, Air-Sea Battle, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Pacman, Centipede, Space Invaders, Missile Command, Frogger, Maze Craze: A Game of Cops and Robbers, and Pole Position.

My mom still has it somewhere....


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 Desubot wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Oh, I've played on such consoles. Far too much of my youth was spent in video arcades throughout the 80s.

Man the money i spent in arcades makes me cry a bit what i could of gotten if i had just saved up.

But damnit i love dat DDR

If I have quarters in my pocket and I see a Galaga machine I still throw money at it. Usually just a game or two.

Ghost House and Double Dragon on my cousins Master System.

I walked in on my parents wrapping up an NES just before Christmas. They told me Santa asked them to wrap it for him, but now he's going to want it back. I was quite devastated.

Still got it for Christmas though. Super Mario Brothers would be my first game.

I remember playing a very early Sims type game called 'little computer people' on my Atari ST, there were other games but most seem very obscure now. Arkanoid was pretty well known though.

For me it was Pong also. I thought it was kinda fun, but I didn't really "get it" till Atari, and my life was forever changed. I'm still sad I never got a ColecoVision though.. the graphics were just like the arcade.

Super Mario/Duck Hunt, MLB, and Home Alone.

One of my uncles gave my parents a computer in the early 90's, but I don't quite remember what it was. It had a password, but I don't think I ever told my parents that I figured out it was my uncle's name backwards. So what did I risk my life my to play while my parents were unaware? Some periodic table game where parts of the table would randomly be blank and you had to fill them in. It also had some sci-fi game I wish I could remember and a top down alien killing game that for years I could've sworn was named Xenophobe, but it must've been Alien Breed or something very close to it.

I can't remember what years/classes, but in school I distinctly remember playing Crystal Caves, Spear of Destiny, and A-Train.

NES Super Mario bros
PC Stellar 7
Amiga Dune2
MAC Myth the fallen lords

Specific years impssibru to recall.

Would like to own a Space gun arcade machine

Combat and space invaders on that fake wood-panelled atari (no idea what number it was) or else space invaders at the local fish & chips shop - it was a long time ago though, can't remember which one came first.

Action man and Fifa 99 on the PS1 both great games, Fifa 99 will always have a place in my heart.

I vaguely recall some sort of hunting game on an Eastern Bloc arcade machine.

I remember playing return to castle wolfenstein and Command and conquer: Tiberian sun back when i was 7 lol....(damn, time flies)

I think I was either three or four years old (1999-2000) and I remember playing 007 Goldeneye on the N64 at a cousins' house.

Other than some Pong-playing machine called a 'Beneton' (or something similar? Very 70's looking brown machine with paddle controls) I think probably the Combat Cartridge or Star Wars on the Atari 2600. Also, another game where you piloted a helecopter across the screen and had to pick up some 'treasure' at the end of the level (I can't remember the name). Still remember my parents kicking me off so they could have a go on it..

 Cheesecat wrote:
Also Chip's Challenge.

Wow that brings back some memories..

Atari Bowling. And ET on Atari....

Chips Challenge, Command Keen 1-3 and TLC games Gizmos and Gadgets.....Edutainment games which were actually fun.