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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Zork 2 & for a graphical game, windham classics "below the root"

[–] Kyrgizion 1 points 1 year ago

The very first game I can remember was Silk Worm on my dad's Amiga 500. After that, Shadow of the Beast and later, on PC, Command & Conquer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Das schwarze Auge it means ~~Black~~ Dark Eye and is a Pen and Paper Roleplay.

Edit: corrected due to the correction right under me. thx

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cruisin' the world. Would sit and drive for hours

Edit: just looked it up and it's actually called Cruis'n World

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan, Railway Tycoon, King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella and some car racing game with a Ferrari Testarossa in it (that wasn't Outrun)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bubble Bobble

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pole Position II on Atari 7800.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Laser Blast and Pitfall 2 on the 2600

[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate 1 points 1 year ago

Moraff's Revenge

[–] Screwthehole 1 points 1 year ago

Civilization 1.

[–] vikingtons 1 points 1 year ago

My uncle showed me the doom 1 demo when I was 5.

Been fucked up ever since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pitfall on Atari

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The first game I ever really wanted to get good at was the arcade game spy hunter. The first time I got the speed boat was a dopamine high I've never recreated.

[–] betamark 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jackal baybee! And 1943. β™‘

[–] ladicius 1 points 1 year ago

Wobbly Life on PC, coop with the kids, I really, really recommend that game for kids. Since then we mastered BOTW and TOTK on Nintendo Switch and now are working the ranks in Fortnite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Commander Keen in my early years. But the first game that really got me into 3D gaming was probably Acclaim's ShadowMan. It's still an absolute masterpiece. Great visuals, amazing storytelling...and that creepy soundtrack is just burned into my brain. Probably had some nightmares from that when I was a kid. πŸ˜„

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sonic on sega was the first game I played, FF7 was the first game I loved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ultima online

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Donkey Kong Country for SNES

[–] ChrislyBear 1 points 1 year ago

I think it was Tetris on the GameBoy, then Super Mario Land 2 and Kirby's Dreamland.

After the mandatory army service I stopped, studied and began gaming again with Portal 1&2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

WoW - just prior to BC release

[–] Donebrach 1 points 1 year ago

Pilot wings 64 and mario 64 played at my friends house. Only access to games prior to that were Prince of Persia, Myst and spooky-ass Iron Helix on an old Mac II and they were not particularly exciting for a pup of that age.

[–] Tugboater203 1 points 1 year ago

Adventure on the Atari 2600, also Pitfall and Chopper Command. Sort of fell out of it for a while until I played Halo. I've been on Xbox ever since

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Am I a gamer? Not sure. But Oblivion really blew my mind. I pirated it not knowing anything about it, I just googled "best games of last year" and that thing was the suggested result.

I was hooked. Years afterwards when my situation changed I bought it on Steam, along with Skyrim. I don't think I've ever played the steam copy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deathmaze 5000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a Sega Pico and a PS1 so early I can’t really remember. I was maybe 5/6, idk. But it wasn’t like today : I had to plug and unplug the console everytime I wanted to play, so I wasn’t playing a lot at all. Then I got a Game Boy Color and boi, game was on.

I’m from 1995.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The first game I ever played was Mario Kart DS. I have been a Mario fan ever since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uh... probably one of my dad's Atari games. For PC games, though, it would be space sims, like the old Privateer or X-Wing. My dad loved them, and so I grew to love them, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Believe it or not, Angry Birds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I played a lot of games beforehand, but one(s) that kicked off the three decades of gaming were Lufia and the Fortress of Doom, and Final Fantasy 4(was 2 here in the US). Honestly don't remember which one I played first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think... Gran Turismo?? I am a big fan of racing but the handling of TOCA Touring Car Championship never agreed with me despite my love for 90's BTCC. I had a better time with the more sensible handling of GT1.

I have fond memories of a yellow Impreza. I couldn't drive the RWD cars back then. I also remember me trying to use a racing wheel, I was equally bad at it but at least I was having fun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The first game I played was broken sword on our family's windows 5.2 pc or whatever it was.

[–] Monkeyarson 1 points 1 year ago

I saw links awakening on my brother's friends Gameboy, just walking around digging with the shovel was enough to get my interest,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can remember my Dad and I playing on the Amstrad console - "Pang" and "Burning Rubber" (I think?) .... The controller connections used a serial type port and I can recall him having to fix the pins on more than one occasion!

I also remember one uncle showcasing the PS1 to us, with Gran Turismo and Time Crisis, and another uncle introducing me to Unreal Tournament on PC, a game that I still play today!

[–] davidgro 1 points 1 year ago

Forbidden Forest on my dad's Commodore 128. I still have a MIDI of the title music on my phone.

[–] numja 1 points 1 year ago

MacMac (or something like that, because I can't find it anywhere) It was a jump and run game on windows 95. You were a little ninja in a red trainings suit. you had to fight and run your way into a castle. first you were on the outside walls, than on the roof, inside. The final boss was a blue genie. Along the way you had to fight bats and knights, but you could only kick and punch.

[–] RaptorMother 1 points 1 year ago

While my first approaches were watching my father play doom and reading him Tomb Raider's strategy guide, as well as playing on my mother's Sega Mega Drive 2, my OWN first games were pokemon yellow and Homeworld, which came pretty much at the same time, and which shaped me all through. To this day I am still a PC and Nintendo gamer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a little child I watched my father play Diablo. I was always allowed to chose the character he used. The first games I played were Titan Quest and Lego Star Wars, excluding some learning games.

[–] Retreaux 1 points 1 year ago

First video game I remember playing was Super Mario World in about 1996, when I got a used Super Nintendo for Christmas. It blew my mind and I remember being so impressed when my older brother showed me how to get to Star World, haha

[–] mr_sifl 1 points 1 year ago

Below the Root on Commodore 64. After that just the Mario Games and Final Fantasy games on NES and SNES.

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