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Your first game that got you into gaming? • Page 5
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Jazzy_Geoff 8,068 posts
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Xerx3s 23,970 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNo game in particular but a combination of the C64 and 286. Really kicked off during the dawn of the shareware era. -
gohda 6,638 posts
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Registered 14 years agoTetris -
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dominalien 10,703 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI have to say Manic Miner, but the first game that really captured my imagination in ways theretofore unknown was Dragontorc. -
Sycopat 162 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI don't know tbh... I always loved games even before I got my first console and had to play with my older cousins games...
But I'll go with super mario world. First game I owned. -
Frayed.Knot 605 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI believe the first game I played was Cannon Fodder on the Amiga. But the game that got me 'into' gaming was probably Super Mario All Stars.
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Stuff like Space Invaders, Galaga, Pacman, Battlezone in arcades (usually in Blackpool on family trips until it turned into a cesspool), not forgetting various LED games like Puckmonster and Firefox.
My (older) neighbour had an Atari 2600 and I ended up getting an Acetronic MPU and then a Vectrex. C16, C64 and such followed closely afterwards.gif)
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Load_2.0 33,583 posts
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Registered 18 years agoElevator Action in the arcades and Star Jacker on the Sega SC3000!
http://www.sc-3000.com/index.php/Play-SEGA-SC-3000-Games-online.html#play -
SuperCoolEskimo 11,892 posts
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Registered 14 years agoPong.
Had this small console with two joysticks attached to it which solely played Pong. So simple yet so effective at triggering the video gaming addiction my brother and I had right through our younger years and early teens. -
Pure-Ultra 743 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBoulderdash - my god I put some hours into that game. -
I'd played Dune II (on an Acorn!) and many titles on NES, Amiga, SNES, Megadrive etc, and stuff on Spectrums and what not at my friend's house.
But the one that really got me utterly addicted, and that made me just HAVE to buy something (I'd have bought a SNES or Gameboy or summat if I was old enough, it just ocurred when I had some cash) was Goldeneye. Bought an N64 with it for £99 the week after I played it. Addicted.
I remember digging out a pre-loaded console that my grandparents had bought for my mum/uncle when they were...what...20?! It had 6 variations of Pong and was terrible. -
Fizzog 4,108 posts
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Registered 13 years agoZool lol -
sam_spade 15,745 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPong, I don't think my dad knew what he was unleashing by buying that Atari 2600. -
CaptainBinky 2,243 posts
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Registered 17 years agoProbably a C64 version of Pacman. I think it was called 'Chompman 64' or something. If not that, then Arcadia64 which was basically a rock-hard up-the-screenie type shoot-em-upi. There was some sort of Snake-type game for the ZX81 that I vaguely remember playing lots, but I was pretty young so it's all blurry. -
WrongShui 6,858 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSpeccy game were you was an astronaught collecting 4 pieces of a rocket ship. I think that's what the things I was looking at where anyway. -
Tonka 31,980 posts
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Registered 18 years agoLunar Lander on the VIC 20. That only lasted a week. Then my dad traded the VIC 20 for a C64 and Cup Final. After that I played like a motherfucker until one day I stopped.
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Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoFantasy World Dizzy on a mate's ST when I was about 6. God that was awesome. Then Sonic when I got my Mega Drive, my first console, aged 8. -
Murbs 25,152 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWrongShui wrote:
Speccy game were you was an astronaught collecting 4 pieces of a rocket ship. I think that's what the things I was looking at where anyway.
You really can't think of the name? Really?
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mingster 3,489 posts
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Registered 19 years agoPong on a binavision. -
BartonFink 35,268 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPong on the Atari VCS
Christ the 70's were a mess of wood effect on everything
Have great memories of that machine as a young kid. -
I'm pretty sure the first game I played was Monty On The Run, but the first game I really loved playing was Bubble Bobble on the Spectrum .gif)
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hypernova 1,969 posts
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Registered 16 years agoLoads before this sporadically, but Sonic the Hedgehog (Megadrive) was the turning point. I'll never get the 'SEGA' intro out of my head, it's priceless. -
Mega-lo-Mania / North & South.
Both were very early attempts of what could now be described as RTS games. Mega-lo-Mania was cracking, was mostly about resource management.
North and South was the other half of the puzzle and was about the real-time combat and moving units about.
Of course now days the two go hand in hand, but this was before Dune II came along and perfected that formula. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoProbably Pong first, but definitely the "Squash" variant that appeared on the old Grandstand home sports entertainment system me-do we had on our old B/W telly.
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JetSetWilly 5,720 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI had Pong too, but I wasn't really into the idea of gaming till I played Galaxian at the social club my parents went to. When my brother got a Vic20 I played a crappy robot game called Amok to death and something called, I think, The Moons of Jupiter.
So then I pestered my parents till I got a 48K Speccy and was hooked on Zzoom, Manic Miner and Pssst. -
My brothers and I got given a Spectrum with a load of games. Hard to pinpoint a single title, but Cybernoid has a lot to answer for. -
EssAitch 1,196 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThe first game I remember owning was Wacky Waiters on the VIC20. The next one I remember was Tank Atak on the C64 which was an appalling attempt to do a Battlezone style game without the snazzy vector graphics. It was shit but I played it to death. -
Murbs 25,152 posts
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Registered 17 years agolucky_jim wrote:
My brothers and I got given a Spectrum with a load of games. Hard to pinpoint a single title, but Cybernoid has a lot to answer for.
Hewson Consultants? Went on to do Zynaps? -
Raf Cecco, whattaman!
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