| Moon Patrol on my mates Atari 2600 was what got my interest, even though I'd played some games on the old ZX81 before it. It was the game that made me realise that games could be so much more. But it was really Kung Fu Master that really sealed the deal. I became completely addicted to that and Yie Ar Kung Fu whilst on a shit holiday in Spain as a 10 year old. Even to this day I remain totally shit at it. Gawd bless MAME. |
Your first game that got you into gaming? • Page 7
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krushing 803 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI'm in the "one of those home Pong versions" crowd, though the first game I have fond memories of is the biplane dogfight in Intellivision's Triple Action. I played it to death with my dad. -
famous_roy 4,126 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThinking way back here but my earliest gaming memories were quite C64 based. First games I remember playing were IK+, James Pond that kind of thing.
First game that really got me into gaming was this one called Super Mario Bros. First played it on an arcade cabinet and was completely memorized, I think people forget the impact that game made back in the day. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPong on a Binatone TV game, occasionally my family would visit some friends and they were lucky enough to have a 2600 which was pretty incredible in comparison. -
agparrot 11,901 posts
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Registered 19 years agokrushing wrote:
I'm in the "one of those home Pong versions" crowd, though the first game I have fond memories of is the biplane dogfight in Intellivision's Triple Action. I played it to death with my dad.
Yes back in ... ulp... 1979 I think it was, we had a 'Grandstand' machine that had the tennis, the doubles tennis, the squash and the practice squash games on it. This was the top of the slippery slope that slid me through early experiences like Manic Miner, and the eventual vast wealth of Speccy stuff, through Way of the Exploding Fist and its awesome bull-punching level on the C64, and down the years through various infatuations including, in no particular order, Space Intruders, 4D Timegate, 3D Starstrike, Elite, Carrier Command, Gunship and F-19 Stealth Fighter, Barbarian, Stunt Driver, F1 Grand Prix and, well, loads of far more recent games.
I mean... F-19 Stealth Fighter on the C64 was just a seminal gaming moment for me. Even though it took 9 or more minutes to load the maps, the sense of immersion as you attempted to stealth it below radar, even having the ability to deliberately make yourself visible in one place and then redirect and plot a roundabout course to your target was genius. Learning about Pulse and Doppler radars and having to make gliding landings with only fuel fumes left on those long-range Radar-busting missions was just genius. Instructions by Wild Bill Stealey, too, who taught me many of things I now know about modern battlefield warfare. Always handy down Tesco on a Friday night. -
Progguitarist 10,778 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIm fairly sure it was just pissing about on the atari 2600 that really did it for me.
There was a decent tennis game on it that I played for hours on end with my brother. Also football management games on the Speccy helped me on the slippery slide... -
asphaltcowboy 5,157 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDefinitely the first game I remember playing was the absolutely brilliant The Revenge of Shinobi. Awesome game, but at the time (I was maybe 6 or 7?) it was bastard hard! Infinite shuriken cheat FTW! -
MaxHughes 455 posts
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Registered 14 years agoHogs of War on the PS1. Got me into gaming on a much larger scale! 
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Dizzy on the C64 or Black Knight a typing game on the C64.
Wolfenstein 3D, and Reach for the Skies were also early PC game loves. -
GrandpaUlrira 3,879 posts
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Registered 16 years agoHmmm, probably something on the ZX Spectrum like Centipede or Journey's End. However, I only got fully into gaming around the Gameboy/SNES era, and then it would be something like Bomberman or Mario Kart or Super Mario Land 2. -
Donkey Kong on Coleco Vision, first thing I played as a kid. It's been a downward spiral ever since. -
ThreeOutsideDown 1,011 posts
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Registered 15 years agobinatone pong. -
beastmaster 22,373 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHovver Bovver -
I used to play games on my dad's Amiga and PC but the game that really got me into gaming was FFVII. -
ShogunAssassin 471 posts
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Registered 14 years agoProbably Commander Keen when I was about 4 or 5 years old. I was playing it on a black and whiter monitor, and my dad used to help me kill the monsters because I didnīt have the courage to do it myself.
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Anyway, the first game I fell in love with properly was Super Mario Bros. 3 at my cousins place. Still my favourite game to this day. -
Yossarian 8,429 posts
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Registered 17 years agoChuckie Egg
Also Space Invaders, and The Hobbit text adventure. -
Nemesis 20,312 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAstro Wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woIvOSliMlE
GTFI.
Then the usual 2600 stuff with Defender, then Elite and yadda yadda. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoprince of persia on my 286. -
Mekanik 4,729 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNemesis wrote:
Astro Wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woIvOSliMlE
GTFI.
Then the usual 2600 stuff with Defender, then Elite and yadda yadda.
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think i still have mine somewhere.gif)
Super Pipeline and Manic Miner are the 2 games from the C64 that first grabbed me.
wizball and elite are still 2 of my all time faves -
The rubbishy version of Sonic on the Master System Imagine my surprise when I eventually got hold of a Mega Drive and played Sonic 1 on it. Looked and played so much better. -
Darren 9,637 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMonster Maze or 3D Maze on the ZX 81 at school was what going me interested in games but it wasn't until I got my Commodore 64 with Attack of the Mutant Camels, Grandmaster Chess and Pacman in 1983 (a present from my parents for getting all my 'O' levels) that the bug finally bit me. I've been hooked ever since. -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFrogger followed by Kings Quest 1. -
Kay 21,321 posts
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Registered 18 years agoProbably Zelda 2 (NES), funnily enough. That's the first game I remember playing anyway, at my neighbour's house. I say funnily enough because I didn't play Zelda properly until about six years later (LttP on the SNES), and that version was nothing like the one I'd played before, which perplexed me. I then went on to become a massive fanboy of the series, it's possibly my favourite in gaming.
I still remember trying it, as well as Duck Hunt with the light gun... I was smitten. How I wanted a NES of my own. Waited a few years, never got one... had to make do with a cutting-edge shiny new SNES.
Although I did borrow a NES soon after, and got to play many of its classics (Duck Tales stood out for me, as did Marble Madness). -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoNemesis wrote:
I had Astro Wars too. Super game on the Intellivision. Next to Burger Time it was probably my fave game that I had.
Astro Wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woIvOSliMlE
GTFI.
Then the usual 2600 stuff with Defender, then Elite and yadda yadda. -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMaxHughes wrote:
noob!
Hogs of War on the PS1. Got me into gaming on a much larger scale! -
Sonic on the old Megadrive. -
Carlo 21,801 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI've just remembered; It was Space Invaders at my local news agents (played it once, and was shaking with adrenaline!), then Scramble in the arcade at the swimming pool. -
Halo 3, my mate baz showed it to me one day and it was well brill
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