The game that started it all.

[VigilanteV]

ITT- tell us about the game that started your video gaming.....career.;)


Mine was Escape Velocity.
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ev/images/ev_battle.gif

[Giggilyomeromicon]

The origional Mario.

[SilverCrusader]

An old, old computer game named spectre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_%28video_game%29).

[Frattimonde]

Doom *familiar chainsaw sound*

[Darmago]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/MystCover.png/250px-MystCover.png

and sonic the hedgehog

[West]

Fps Creator :D
Duke Nukem

[kongurous]

Super Mario Bros.

[dunchy]

Jaws for the atari, or some diver game.

[deadkat]

Battle City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_City_%28video_game%29)

[Giantfish]

I think it was either Duck Hunt or Super Mario Brothers... Not sure which one came first.

[SHISHKABOB]

Age of Empires. Lovely game, but no move-attack function D:

[Kazeofwinds]

http://www.racketboy.com/images/marioduckhunt-cover.jpg

[Anoiktos]

http://www.turutupa.com/wp-content/warcraft1.jpg

Yeah, I came to gaming late for my age.

[TheOutcast]

Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island.

[Dayoh]

Either Donkey Kong (the one where you must jump over the barrels) or Wonderboy (really good plateformer for the sega mastersystem)

[GroG]

http://bloggbilder.aftonbladet.se/images/5427/img_452250da83b74.jpg

My dad used to work nights when we were kids. He came home one December night/early morning before Christmas with one of his coworker's, Rick. They were playing this and Super Mario Brothers on a brand new Nintendo. I woke up and caught them, but he lied to me and told me it was for Rick's kids.

Then we got the Nintendo for Christmas, and the rest is history.


I suggest you all try it out over at VNES, very addictive game. Here's a link:
http://www.virtualnes.com/list/r.html

[Dayoh]

My dad used to work nights when we were kids. He came home one December night/early morning before Christmas with one of his coworker's, Rick. They were playing this and Super Mario Brothers on a brand new Nintendo.

lol, isnt it slack to play with someones present before they get it or was it a family gift?

[GroG]

It was for the whole family ;p. Anyways, they were just "testing it to make sure it worked."

[Dayoh]

"testing it to make sure it worked."

And that test carried on till Xmas eve itself lol, good stuff.

[Thedutchjelle]

Probably some ultra childish game for 6 year olds. Yes, I was behind a computer on an early age :P

The first real game I remember on the computer would be Duke Nukem. I also played on my SNES - then it's some Mario game. Probably

Hard to remember.

[IrishDutchman]

The first real game I ever played was prolly Super Mario World or Goldeneye, and that was at a friend's place. The first game I played by myself, at home, is Age of Empires. Good times.

[Alexisonfire]

Mega man 2 and even to today I haven't played many games that are better then it. Most 2D side scrolling plat formers are better then 99% of the 3D shit that is sold today. Mega man 2 has the best music ever put in a game and it was made easier then that bullshit that is Mega man 1 which had me almost in tears trying to beat that last level a few months ago.

[MatGeo]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1898/mediumdukenukem004mk8.jpg

Picture says it all.

[VigilanteV]

WAIT!!!!

I just remeber EV wasn't my first. It was the first contra for super, or what ever it was called.http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/81601_contra.jpg

ahh...repeating backgrounds just can't be beat.

[FrankZ]

Mine was this:

http://hiperactivo.com/escritos/videojuegos/supermonkey/pong.gif
http://www.stibbe.net/History/Games_Speech/Images/Pong.h4.jpg

Believe it. Yeah, I was behind consoles way before I turned 3 :).

[Myr0nImm0rtal]

counter strike 2d

[Toucan]

Space Invaders

[ZeratulStukov]

first game ??? Half life 1, Age of Empires or Unreal, can't remember...

[DoctorZettabyte]

DooM. Doy. It starts every age-old gamer's full-time career. Never was really into games before that.

-DocTera

[masterofhobbiton]

For serious gaming, definately escape velocity. That game was brilliant. For first ever, I played a computer version of Risk, I think.

[Galiant]

Dragon Lore

[SgtHK]

In the past, I just played random games for fun. I didn't really got into them. That all changed when I played StarCraft for the first time.

[Magmaniac]

Jill of the Jungle and Doom on my computer, and mario/duck hunt for console.

[TheDarkestShado]

tetris attack for SNES. y'know the one with Yoshi and you have to save his friends? I was playing that by the time I was 3, and owning my mom by 6. started playing zelda after that, and pretty much never stopped

[The_Maker]

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7826/102180721700uj6.jpg

kong you smartass. :(

[kongurous]

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1021807217-00.jpg

Yeah, MobyGames was an awesome one.

[Grizzly]

I had dabbled with consoles and some PC games but when Sid Meier's Pirates hit the market, that was it. Been hooked on PC gaming since.

[SolidSamurai]

It all began with super mario 1, 3 and duck hunt. Only, that was back when I was like 3 or 4, so I got scared every time mario died. Sad but true. :P

Then came warcraft 1, of which my bro was playing at the time. I saw him killing all these slime monster thingies with orcs. I knew what was happening, but the game was among the most violent games I'd seen, and it was kinda funny because he just kept sending orcs at the slime monsters that were coming out of a gold mine and they just kept killing them by oozing over them. It was hard to tell, but whenever they moved forward, you could tell there'd be an orc corpse left over. Good times.

Then came warcraft 2, and being the day dreamy kid that I was, I was fascinated by the greater variety of colours and the fact that they had trolls, ships and air units and what not.

Then came SC, and I was blown away because of how much it differed from the two previous games. Not only because I apparently appreciated how it replaced 'war' with 'star' at the time, but how everything was alot faster and essentially alot more explodey. Really, I didn't know what the hell was going on at the time. Once again, I caught my bro playing it, and he had these goliaths shooting everything up, and little moving things that kept exploding with a 'splah' (zerglings), and weird things that fired spikey tentacles (you get the point). Another thing that was interesting was how the faces moved, etc., etc. It was a creative change.

[vIsitor]

Well, I started off playing Wheel of Fortune, Tetris, Hay Copter, and Brickles Plus on the old Apple II+, but I really didn't get deeply into gaming until we got the 7100/66 PowerMac, and I started playing Barrack, Avara, and Buring Rubber.

Of course, later I learned about Escape Velocity, and my gaming 'career', as it were, really took off. Sure, I didn't even know how to work the controls at first, but once I figured it out I was hooked. Nevermind the primitive graphics; the reasonable depth of the standard scenario, and the expandability of the engine made it an instant hit for me, especially since Macs had so few good games back then.

Oh, and I think Seigemaster got that particular screenshot out of the official Ambrosia Shareware press release (yes I'm that big of an EV geek to know that at a glance). :cool:

[VigilanteV]

and your right.

nice to see another EV player around.

[Neo]

Hmmm... Probably back then it was something like Tetris or SMB, but nothing serious. Then there was Doom of course, and moved on SNES games which then really dragged me in, and then I found FFIII (VI) and it was a fatal strike.

Then SC of course, and my soul was lost.

-Neo

[DoctorZettabyte]

Neo, you never had a soul, remember?

-DocTera

[MajorSonnwaitts]

Super Mario (almost everyone started with it), Battle City and Circus Charlie. Ah, the old days...

[Salv]

Super Mario Brothers 3.

Epic.

[West]

Paper Mario was the first actual game that started my interest in the
video game world.