First Game You Ever Played

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r00 said:
Batman on my uncle's ZX spectrum. It blew my little mind.
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Ya know, when Adam West died a couple of weeks ago, I decided to look up what the first licensed Batman game was and it was indeed Ocean's game for the ZX Spectrum (plus Amstrad CPC and MSX) from 1986, which surprised me as I thought there had been an earlier attempt on the Atari 2600 but I guess I was conflating it with Superman.


The isometric graphics are impressive considering the limitations of the Spectrum (essentially monochrome graphics over coloured background fields).
 
It has been a while, but I did play at least two games, which came with my Nintendo 64 when I was young. Those games were Super Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64. I don't remember getting that far on either of those games, since I had no idea what I was doing at the time.
 
This reminds me of not the first game I ever played by any means, but my first home vidya was Intellivision, a much underrated niche system.

But one of the games you got when you got this thing was this shit. Astrosmash.


I loved this game. For a while.

Then one night, I stayed up all night on a single session of it, and eight hours after starting, I had the maximum number of free ships, and shit was just continuing to fall on me and I realized I was never going to lose.

This was definitely the moment that I first realized a game I liked actually wasn't that good.
 
The game I remember playing first was Athena for the NES. I freaking loved this game for some reason. You'd pick up a helmet and a sword that made you stronger and I thought that was just the greatest thing ever. The time I must've wasted on this game..... lol


AnOminous said:
This reminds me of not the first game I ever played by any means, but my first home vidya was Intellivision, a much underrated niche system.
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Intellivision was the greatest. In fact, I owe it to Intellivision's Utopia for my love of strategy/simulation games to this very day.


It doesn't get much more basic than this lol.
 
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Parallax for the C64 is one of the earliest I remember, it was a pretty sophisticated game for its day. You flew a spaceship, went adventuring on foot, shot scientists with a stun gun, stole their keycards, and finally either dragged them to slavery or murdered them in cold blood - by shooting them while they lie helpless on the floor. Sorta like the police do nowadays in the US.

Good times.

The actual earliest game might have been Time Runner, a shitty Pac-man ripoff with really ugly graphics.
 
I know for my 3rd birthday I got my NES with Super Mario Brothers, so likely that.

But the other answer would be Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle, an old family favorite.
 
sikotik said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AH7iMzEHOxg
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Night Driver (and Nurburgring, another 1976 arcade racing games with similar graphics) are generally seen as the progenitors of all third-person driving games, and even third-person 3D games in general are in some way distant descendants. Though there was this one experimental driving simulator using vector graphics developed at Volkswagen some 4 years earlier, but it wasn't really a game. not to mention the analogue mechanical racing games like Namco/Atari's F-1 (seen in the Dawn of the Dead clip in one of my earlier posts in this thread).

Coleman Francis said:
The game I remember playing first was Athena for the NES. I freaking loved this game for some reason. You'd pick up a helmet and a sword that made you stronger and I thought that was just the greatest thing ever. The time I must've wasted on this game..... lol

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SE7FYoV_95M
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King of Fighters fans know about the Famicom/NES Athena game from being like the origin story of one of the major characters.
 
I think it was probably Zombies Ate My Neighbors. My dad and I used to play it all the time together on the SNES when I was super young.
 
I'd like to think it was Spider-Man, for the PC.

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That one.
 
When I was 5 or 6 my dad got a Sega games collection on the PC and Sonic 2 was the first game I ever played along with Flickies. My sister and I loved those two games so much and played it constantly and get as far as we can.

Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland was my first handheld game (and first game I've beaten) and Mario Sunshine was my first console game.
 
Somari1996 said:
I'm pretty sure it was Wario Land 3 on GBC.
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I've always had a soft spot for this game. I loved that you couldn't take damage.

Super Mario 64 was my first - I can still smell the smoke from our fireplace as I played it Christmas morning.

It's also my parents' favorite game.
 
sasazuka said:
Ya know, when Adam West died a couple of weeks ago, I decided to look up what the first licensed Batman game was and it was indeed Ocean's game for the ZX Spectrum (plus Amstrad CPC and MSX) from 1986, which surprised me as I thought there had been an earlier attempt on the Atari 2600 but I guess I was conflating it with Superman.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IwFZyogy2tk
The isometric graphics are impressive considering the limitations of the Spectrum (essentially monochrome graphics over coloured background fields).
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Those kind of graphics blew my mind in the 1980s.
 
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