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[FlyFaster]

First video games I ever played.

 

[Krackatoa]

 

[Dueck]

 

[Noogy]

Spoiler

I'm 34

Pong for me as well, 36 here. I still have my Pong home console here somewhere.

I was very young, and I think I got scarred for life. I still shiver when I hear the music from Forbidden Forest...

The C64 was our first home console/PC (that took cartridges/discs) and yeah, Forbidden Forest was one of them. What an amazing game. The level with the banshee and skeleton still has some rocking music.

 

[Chuckie]

Missile Command on the Atari

 

[Dr Dogg]

Hang on a sec... Tengen presents Tetris? Ohhhhh I bet there was trouble.

 

[TheDanger]

One day my dad came home with a gameboy color and Pokemon yellow, good times. Funny thing is he played more than me and my sister at first.

 

[AlphaQuack]

Must've been Mouse Trap for the Atari 2600 - either this or Alex Kidd for the Sega Master System. I remember having an Atari console in the house which my oldest brother used to play with, and there was this one game, some sort of Cat and Mouse looking game with a nasty as cat on the cover which always used to scare me as a kid.

 

[gingerbeardman]

Horace goes skiing. It's not all like Frogger

 

[kutthoat5150]

Corncob 3D

 

[Creamium]

 

[Always-honest]

That's mine

Spoiler

I'm 31

yup, mine too.

 

[rakka]

 

[Pyccko]

I think I was 3 or 4.

 

[DontHateTheBacon]

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Maybe this is why I have a strong affinity for adventure games...

 

[Amaron]

I'm somewhat baffled I haven't seen Dr. Reptide in this thread yet. It was a really fun game, I assumed more people would have played it.

 

[beje]

Most likely this

 

[Chao]

Nostalgia punch to the face

 

[Omegasquash]

This was it.

 

[blizzardjesus]

Wizard of War on the c64

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

None other than this.

Will never forget it, my mums friend come to stay for a few months and she had this little box with a wooden effect on it..

Everything i thought i knew about the television was just changed.. my mind was blown, i was moving this stick and shit was happening on screen..

34.

 

[Swat]

I still remember my Dad and Uncles huddled around the TV, fighting for the Atari 2600 controller. I think I eventually pleaded enough to get a turn.

Looking at that screenshot now, compared to the original arcade version - geez, what a terrible port. This saddens me.

 

[daxter01]

yup, mine too.

mine too

 

[jaosobno]

My first memory:

I believe I ran this on my dad's ancient 386DX.

 

[SmoothCB]

Adventure

 

[uzit88]

Love itt

 

[TheClimaxan]

First video games I ever played.

Ditto

 

[iso135]

SMW and DKC (multiple pic posts already)

 

[Natty1]

 

[Alex Connolly]

3-Demon. Most disconcerting!

 

[McBradders]

Damn that witch.

 

[decaf]

 

[LeBoef]

uaaa... one of the first things i saw was larry, i think.

but this is the first one remember playing

 

[Dragon1893]

I can't for the life of me remember the names of any of the commodore 64 games I owned except for this one:

It's called Terra Cognita. It wasn't the first game I played when I got the machine though but finding pics without the names is tough.
Just watched some gameplay on YT and almost cried. I could literally feel the adrenaline I felt back then while playing this game, I was 8.
Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4WvSmJkmA

It's amazing how vividly I remember everything. The sounds, the layout of the levels, the enemies, unbelievable. I actually thought it was longer, it's just 6 minutes, loading times were longer than that lol.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

That's the US version, I found it!


Space Monster:

http://www.videopac.com/images/p22b.jpg[img]
[img]http://www.videopac.com/images/ss_22_spacemonster.jpg[img][/QUOTE]

I absolutely adore the completely different artistic interpretations for the box art of what the hell the in-game sprites were of.

[quote="Dr Dogg, post: 49718652"]Hang on a sec... Tengen presents Tetris? Ohhhhh I bet there was trouble.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://youtu.be/koruCIIa2rU"]In case you don't know the story.[/URL]

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

double...

 

[todahawk]

first one I actually played and it was at the drug store. I was walking in the door and the cabinet was to my right and it was the sounds I noticed first as the screen was facing away from me.

I finally walked past and turned to face the flashing lights and was awestruck. I lived in a small town and had never heard of video games before. I was just stunned. I didn't know what the hell it was but it was awesome. I figured out you needed a quarter to start it but I didn't have one. I tracked down my mom and she gave me one (probably wouldn't have if she knew what it was for). I didn't survive long but I was hooked. The glowing lights, the sounds... I controlled the ship. Me.

All of my drawings switched to themes of space invaders. I even came up with a way to play space invaders on paper since the cabinet was in the next town over.

 

[megashock5]

I still remember my Dad and Uncles huddled around the TV, fighting for the Atari 2600 controller. I think I eventually pleaded enough to get a turn.

Looking at that screenshot now, compared to the original arcade version - geez, what a terrible port. This saddens me.

I was born in 71, so I remember Pac-man pretty vividly. I remember playing it at the arcade, and later owning/playing the 2600 version.

We all know it's not a good port and only somewhat resembles it's arcade roots, but I never understood why they used tan walls and a blue background. Had they made the walls blue and the background black, it would have at least looked a *little* more like it. Plenty of 2600 games had black backgrounds.

Just always seemed like a strange choice to me.

 

[Superfrog]

The first one I remember was Airwolf (C64, 1985):

 

[barugon]

Big Bird's Funhouse

It had a mat the fit over the keyboard - couldn't find a picture of it

It came out the year I was born, so I would have been playing it around '86 or '87. It wasn't much later than that when I was playing NES and Gameboy.

 

[SoilBreak]

 

[stuiggs07]

Wiz & Liz

 

[Martian]

Which is why I'm so bloody hyped for April 5th/9th

Spoiler

if you don't know its Age of Empires 2, please go to the nearest store, buy it and play it

 

[Sephzilla]

This, followed up very shortly by this.

(Holy crap, Batman NES was hard)

 

[Tecl0n]

Space Invaders, on the Famicom.

 

[Droog]

3D Monster Maze on the ZX81. Fond memories of playing this with my Dad when I was 4 or 5 years old. Although if you saw the image below, you were pretty much done for...

 

[El Odio]

I find it funny how this was my first game since its pretty much Mario's first adventure.

 

[The Culture Vulture]

 

[SirMossyBloke]

FUCK YEAH. Best theme song ever?

Btw I had the Master System version!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwn--JmJDd8

edit: Remember this guy? The entire game scared me to death... but this boss was just something else.

If we're talking Psygnosis and theme songs, Agony theme takes the cake by FAR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9UTnUcyED0&sns=em

 

[truly101]

I was born in 74 so anything that was Star Wars like defintely caught my attention. Exidy's Star Fire was easily the first game I remember seeing.