That first game that made you a gamer.
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Ever heard of a series called Hero's Quest? Space Quest? King's Quest? These games were my first and the ones that got me hooked on electronic gaming.
Yeah! I had a high-school job in a computer store when the IBM PCjr was new, and King's Quest was on a cartridge for it (a launch title?). The graphics were really good for the time, and we demo'd the hell out of it at the store.
Probably the first action-adventure game like that I can think of.
People forgot that thing had cartridges; pretty strange to consider now. Like so:
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The oldest games I used to play were on floppy disk and were like games where you built things or scared ghosts away with a camera.0
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Shining Force 2- Sega Genesis0
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Pac man on NES!0
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I was raised with computers and games at a very young age (3-4). So yes to Kings Quest and such, Sonic on Sega. Anyone remember Kyrandia? That was awesome! I get hungry for it!0
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It had to have been an atari game. My friend and his brother had a grandma who loved to buy them stuff so they always had a system and games before anyone and I have no doubt it was there. Plus there was an arcade nearby so friday nights we'd go to the mall and the arcade.0
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My first system was a NES. I played many games on it though, so I don't know which made me a gamer. I played Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, World Runner, Mario Pinball, and a lot of Rad Racer. Then I moved on to Pokemon, Duke Nukem, Doom, Need for Speed, Tekken and 4x4 Offroad Racing. Those are the most memorable games of my childhood.0
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Command and conquer Tiberium dawn on PC. Bought it for a quid at a car boot.0
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Tank on the original Atari. Okay, so I am showing my age. Mind you, I do own an Xbox One and I can geek with the best of them.0
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Pong. No word of a lie, first console my dad bought for me. I'm pretty damn ancient. Loderunner got me hooked on computer gaming though.1
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A Sears/telegames pong machine, the local arcade and then my friends getting all the latest systems.1
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Hard to pick just one. A whole lot of SNES games came to mind but I think I started playing PC games before I got an SNES. So I'll have to go with 1991's Commander Keen Episode 4. I remember getting out the old joystick and sitting in an unfinished storage room where the computer was trying over and over to get past those slugs. There was also an old Jetsons game that was really tricky, I remember my dad struggling with it too.
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I remember my first game being Sonic the Hedgehog my mom thought I'd like it more because of my adhd and high energy and she was completely correct.0
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streets of rage 1 Sega0
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Pokemon Red was the first game I put hours and hours and hours into... online gaming, that was Counter Strike... over all of the Counter Strike games, I must have over 10,000 hours played
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Mine would have been Ultima Online. My ex husband introduced me to it. (Which he now's tells my teenage children, was his biggest mistake!). It is where I met my now husband of almost 15 years. As much as I loved UO, though. Dark Age of Camelot is the one I miss the most.0
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I grew up with computers. I wrote (my mom read it to me and I typed it in) a game in BASIC when I was five on a TRS-80 and I played it for years. When I was about eight or so Sierra was big, and I played as many of the * Quest games as I could get my hands on. I can't remember a time when I wasn't a gamer.1
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King's Quest, Commando (C64), Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry..Friends dad had it, we had to sneak to play it lol.0
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The first game that truly made me a gamer was "Bayonetta" on the Sony PS3. PAIN was (and still is) a big favorite, as is "Tomb Raider", "Dragon Age:Origins and Awakening", "Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands" and many others. The very first game system I had (or rather shared with my siblings) was the Sears analog of the Atari 2600. I was good at "Pitfall" and "Circus". Yes, we were gifted that horrible "E.T." game for Christmas one year too, LOL. I have some neurological problems from one-too-many concussions, so my platforming skills are hit or miss. So, I may never win the trophies for completing a game on "Hard" or "Nightmare" level (or the OMFG level as I like to call it), but I still enjoy going through them again and again for my own personal challenges.0
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Commander Keen in DOS got me started. Doom, Hexen, and Heretic got me hooked.0
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Hunt the Wumpus on the TI 94/A1
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The first Black Ops did it for me.0
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Asteroids on an old school Atari and I've been gaming ever since.1
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The Sims1
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The first Harvest Moon, and its early sequels lured me. My mom got rid of our nintendo rather quickly because our pastor implied games melt your brain and soul. Made me sad. I lived vicariously at my friends houses, with Zelda, Mario, and etc. Then came pokemon on handhelds my friends would let me borrow, and the real official moment was when my highschool sweet heart lent me a gamecube, DS, and helped me get some games. Its been a big part of my life since. I especially love RPGs. I was a book geek, so it felt even more immersive than just reading stories. Met a gamer girl, fell in love, now we have two cats and a dog and several game systems and a big library of games.
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Bard's Tale on the Commodore 640
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Donkey Kong Country on SNES. I wanna play it again so bad.0
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Started gaming back in the dark ages of Pong, so around 1972 or '73 or so. First at the arcade, then when released to console by Atari I think Mom bought it for us, I was entranced. Haven't looked back since.1
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The first game I played was Pong. The first game that caught my full attention was Mario Brothers. The first game that sunk it's teeth into me was Golden Eye.0
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I'm sowing my age but it was a Sears Super Pong 4 unit my neighbors had. Later, once i could reach the controls, i got into arcades and then consoles. I still miss arcades. There's one nearby but it's in a really shady part of town and doesn't open until 11am.1
