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Your first gaming love...
fyerwall
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Another thread got me thinking about the first game I ever played. So I thought I would see what game turned each of us into the gamers we are today.
Just name the first game you played that you feel turned you on to the world of gaming.
I believe mine was Sword Quest: Earthworld for the Atari 2600. I was around 5 years old and tried playing the game. I had no idea wtf the game was about or what I was supposed to do, but I played the game every chance I could (which required cleaning my sisters room for her just to get to play for an hour)
2 years later NES came out, and the rest was history.
Edit:
It doesn't even have to be a video game, it could be Mouse Trap if thats what it took to hook ya.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
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Pong, I think it was 1976 and I was totally amazed. Spent hours watching two bars and a light pixel cross the screen.....back and forth......back and forth.
Well I loved my Atari 2600 with games like the emperor strikes back but the 1st game I think that I knew there was no going back was Skool Daze on the ZX spectrum.I mean hitting other pupils and teachers I was hooked from then on.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
Unltima on Commodore 64
Unltima on Commodore 64
I was lucky, I had a more modern PC when UO beta opened. But I did try to play Ultima 3 on a friends C64 (by then their poor C64 was on its last legs)
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
I don't remember how I came across it, but Conquest of the New World for me.
Doom 2 for me
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
Missile command for me
computer text adventure game I played in Highschool back in late 70s
Colossal Cave
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
EQ2 fan sites
Double Dragon on the Nes
also Doom and Duke Nukem
Pong, but it was more like '72 or '73. I remember the console I got had 4 games on it. Tennis, which was 2 paddles, 1 on each side and a ball. Hockey which was 4 paddles, 1 at the top and bottom and 2 in the middle and a ball with 2 small openings at the top and bottom for goals. Handball, which was 1 paddle on the right and 3 "walls" and 2 player handball which was 2 paddles on the right and you had to alternate hits. The "strategy" on that game was to put your paddle right where your opponents paddle was and then move it just before the ball arrived to mess him up. LOL It didn't work too good against the computer AI though.
And they even threw in some options, you could change the sizes of the paddles, small, normal and long and speed up or slow down the ball!! When I think back on that time and how much fun I had playing it and then see people complain about today's games it just makes me laugh. Kids today have no idea. I have grand kids that have grown up on Call of Duty. I can't imagine what the games will be like when they are my age.
Pong was my first game too. I remember playing it as a kid. I've been a gamer ever since.
Even during the commodore vic 20 days when you had to program your games before you could play them, and half the time they wouldn't even work
Oh! here's another one.....remember the cassette drives??? You'd "Press play on tape 1" and go do something else for 30 minutes. talk about loading times!!!
It's really frightening how fast games have advanced. I can't imagine what we'll be playing 20 years from now.
SWG for me.... sure I played games since the 80's but nothing hooked me like SWG.
The old D&D gold box games for my tandy 1000 lol.
Played all the early Atari 2600 stuff. Had an Intellivision, ColecoVision and a Vic20. All fun stuff, but nothing really grabbed me like 'The Bard's Tale' for the C64.
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mine was the first Star Wars game in the arcade. you know, the one where you flew an X-wing doing strafing runs on the Deathstar shooting towers and Tie Fighters. gotta love those first '3D' games. and dont forget Tron
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Its a tie between Commander Keen, which was pretty much my introduction to computer games.
As for games I played waaaay more than what was normal, FF3 with my best friend of the time consumed my life and still holds a soft spot.
after 6 or so years, I had to change it a little...
I liked pong. My first seriously hooked video game was Space Wars.
I'd have to say my first video game as with others here besides the standard arcade fare of the time (Tempest, Asteroids, Defender, Donkey Kong, Pole Position) was Pong on a home system, but it also had a hand gun so you could shoot a light blip that crossed the screen.
Now as far as first game love that would be tough because arcade games were unique at the time. It would be a toss up of Bega's Battle, Thayer's Quest or Cliff Hanger though I would get hooked on Tron on occasion.
First home game love would probably be what I believe was called Battletech on a Tandy and a starnge Dungeon Quest game on the TI99-4/a
First board game love and still favorite was D&D first edition and first combo game (board & electronic) was Dark Tower.
Oh wow, there went a flashback...that game got intense!
I had many games I liked back 20 years ago , But my first love of a PC game was a game called
Lands of Lore (RPG) with Patrick Stewart as the voice of the king
& best of all its now a free DL http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/466/Lands+of+Lore.html
Asteroids on the Atari 2600 got me going on console games, and The Bard's Tale and the D&D Gold Box series on the Apple II got me going on computer RPGs.
I agree - I was always excited to play that game with anyone
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Wars
EQ2 fan sites
The Bard's Tale series
ahh memories.
That would have been back in 77-78 when we had programming in jr. high. The machines were teletype, but we had the acoustic couplers going so we could have a rudimentary network, or we could play off of the school's big ass mainframe that took up just about an entire room....
...anyway, the game was Star Trek, and you loaded it off of ticker tape. Basically it was along the lines of a text based MUD with a roll per action. Kinda weak by standards even from the '80's , but at the time it seemed like groundbreaking stuff. The class was 45 minutes long but by the time you got the tape loaded (and the couplers if you wanted to go head to head) you had about 7 minutes to play...
It was worth it though...
That's tough because I didn't become a gamer because of my computer.
I got my computer because I was a gamer.
Card games, Yatzee, Monopoly.. operation.. I mean it was just a natural progression.
Basicly when I first heard about D&D .. I had to buy it. Problem was I lived in a very rural area of Vermont. So the only way I was going to play was to be the DM and the players.
So around 1982 I bought a C64 with money I made at lawn sales. Then got a 1541 drive and started to teach myself to program.
I think Wizardry for the Apple computer really hooked me.
For my own computer... dunno.. first games I really played were all Infocom text adventures.
Follow by a lot of Origin System games..
Some games from then that really stuck with me..
Ultima Series
Bard's Tale series
Wasteland
Starflight
Pirates (lot of Microprose games)
M.U.L.E. (lot of EA published games.. mostly interplay stuff)
and the actual PC.. the game that really made me want to buy one?
Wing Commander 1/2.
to many games I played in the 80's and even 90's to name any paticular one my favorite.
But if I had to... probably Wasteland going into Fallout 1.
Best story was either Starflight or Starcross (tie between them for me).. hell I can't even give you one there.
Planetfall and many others had great stories as well *.*.
To bad now a days.. you don't have that problem.. between 2006-2008 how many great games did you play?