First Games

[DavidBeoulve]

Target for the Atari 2600 when I was six years-old. My mom found me beating two teenagers who were taking turns trying to beat my score each game.

Apparently I had a knack for timing.

Over the years, adrenaline-pumping games leave me bored. I prefer Galactic Civilizations II, Neverwinter Nights (NWN2 will be great I hope), Operation Flashpoint (just for the editing and freedom to walk a whole island and board any military vehicle - all while having the health of a grunt and great AI that flanks).

 

[(naw)mcx]

Either Pac Man or Space invaiders on an atari.

 

[torpor]

well, i've got very fond early memories of all sorts of pinball arcades and other pool activities, so there's a bit of foggy 'might not have been a video' game experiences .. some sort of 'bomb the rolling light-bulb' thing was a hit in my tender youth, but the first 'video' memory i have is of Shark Attack, wherein a blotty selection of sea-life was to be shot at with some light-sensor gun thing, and you only got 3 'spears' for 5c, or something ..

i remember most fondly when lunar lander hit the scene, though, pretty much the day those machines were available in the country .. and then, a few months later, riffing off this same event, those colonies of lunar cabinets were to be employed in defense against pixel-groovy invaders from space burnin' in .. Space Invaders .. and from that point on pretty much every game life-experience has been weak by comparison.

 

[Fishbong]

Some game & watch LCD racing game...

 

[skysnapper]

A pong based console looked a bit like this when i was wee toddler

 

[trooper]

Some game & watch LCD racing game...

?

This was my first taste of video gaming, Before the spectrum.

Trooper

 

[Draken]

Leisure Suit Larry.

Serious? How old where you?

 

[yaustar]

To my memory - Galaxian on the Atari 2600

 

[speedmike]

I remember playing "Jungle Hunt" and "Pele's Soccer" on the 2600 on an old B&W TV.

I love playing soccer in a triange formation!

 

[darkman]

I know that this will somehow tell my age, but I remember going into the arcade and seeing a new electronic game called "pong." All games in the arcade back then were pinball machines and other odd things. I still remember when a friend down the street got the first pong home version. We played for hours every day and were totally amazed by it.

 

[Alex.]

Titus the Fox on a 286! I never got past the first boss, the big lug who threw an infinite supply of beer bottles at you. Then I played Prehistoric, another awesome platformer featuring a caveman, about which Google finds nothing.

- Alex

 

[sam fisher]

I know that this will somehow tell my age, but I remember going into the arcade and seeing a new electronic game called "pong." All games in the arcade back then were pinball machines and other odd things. I still remember when a friend down the street got the first pong home version. We played for hours every day and were totally amazed by it.

OMG your 51!

 

[Goity]

I know that this will somehow tell my age, but I remember going into the arcade and seeing a new electronic game called "pong." All games in the arcade back then were pinball machines and other odd things. I still remember when a friend down the street got the first pong home version. We played for hours every day and were totally amazed by it.

OMG your 51!

How do you do it!

 

[Javacat]

Repton!

 

[rabbits with hats]

jungle book on my sms and some sonic 3 lcd thing

 

[darkman]

I know that this will somehow tell my age, but I remember going into the arcade and seeing a new electronic game called "pong." All games in the arcade back then were pinball machines and other odd things. I still remember when a friend down the street got the first pong home version. We played for hours every day and were totally amazed by it.

OMG your 51!

How do you do it!

People tell me I am too old to be playing video games. I tell them that I am having fun. I am having the time of my life.

 

[Jaw]

micheal jacksons moonwalker, megadrive, 1990.

 

[iignotus]

micheal jacksons moonwalker, megadrive, 1990.

And you kept playing after that?!

 

[Twimfy]

Asteroids or Daley Thompsons decathalon.

 

[thingley]

Head over Heals on the ZX Spectrum (I was 8 years old and I'd just inherited the 48K spectrum from my older brother)

It sounds ridiculous now - but it took me 7 years to totally complete that damn game...