It was the The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on SNES when I was 6 over at my younger brothers house when we visit him in the 90s. It is to me the best Zelda game ever made, it defined the way the game would be developed for decades until BotW finally changed the formula.
Intellivision had these neat controllers with a keypad along with a directional pad. You could slip in overlays into the keypad and Sea Battle was one of the few games that used most of the buttons.
Sea Battle was a pretty sophisticated game for the time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=PLFQCOUTq4c;t=5
Intellivision had these neat controllers with a keypad along with a directional pad. You could slip in overlays into the keypad and Sea Battle was one of the few games that used most of the buttons.
Sea Battle was a pretty sophisticated game for the time.
Ahh, Sea Battle was legit. I remember playing that with my much older cousin as a kid and thinking how cool and smart he was to be playing stuff like that lol.
Oh, and the controller overlays, how cool were those? In your first comment when you mentioned Intellivision the first thing that came to mind was those overlays. That was a great idea for the time when you think about it. It made those unorthodox Intellivision controllers much more accessible, especially when you were first learning a new game.
And even though the controls were pretty basic once you figured them out, I'll always remember the overlay for one of my favorite games on that system, "Tron's Deadly Discs"
I was introduced to video games by an arcade cabinet at the local Food Lion circa '88 or '89. I wish I can remember what it was called. And yes, for some reason there were arcade machines set up in the local rural county grocery store. There's something I'll never see again.
A few weeks later my next door neighbor got an NES, so the second and third games I ever played were Super Mario Bros. and Track & Field.
^ If it's a larger rural supermarket that people drive for dozens of miles to get to, it could have been something to make kids look forward to the trip to the supermarket and keep them occupied while they're there since their parent would likely be taking a while, stocking up on the sort of groceries that might not be available at whatever tiny stores they have in their tiny communities.
I was introduced to video games by an arcade cabinet at the local Food Lion circa '88 or '89. I wish I can remember what it was called. And yes, for some reason there were arcade machines set up in the local rural county grocery store. There's something I'll never see again.
A few weeks later my next door neighbor got an NES, so the second and third games I ever played were Super Mario Bros. and Track & Field.
I remember a Wal-Mart store when I was a child that had that four player Ninja Turtles Arcade game. And I remember a video rental store having the Mario Bros arcade, remember that lol?
My first game was either Janes' WWII Fighters, Delta Force 2, or Crash Bandicoot 3. I couldn't tell you which came first, honestly.
Yeah. Odd combination to have a platformer next to a hyper realistic fighter plane simulator and realistic war game (they were super realistic for 1998/1999, at least), but when you think about it, it explains a lot.
First game I played was probably Sonic 2 for the Sega game gear, just imagine Sonic but with the screen zoomed in so that Sonic takes half the screen, thus you have little time to react to pits and enemies coming your way when you gotta go fast.
Now that I think of it, most of game gears library where crappy versions of Genesis games. The only thing Game Gear had going for it was that it came up with having a backlight on the screen years before Nintnedo had it for their game boy.
Guess for once Sega Did What Nintendidn't.
Mmm, I think it was the orignal super mario bros with my grandpa. I remember him always being better at it than I was, so I was determined to beat him. I never did, and he died when I was 7. Feels bad man. I'm probably better at it than him now.
