Your First Gaming Moments

[Biohazzard56]

It was 1994 and I got a sega genesis along with a copy of gunstar heroes and the lion king. Gunstar Heroes owned and blew my fragile 4 year old mine, its a sidescrolling shooting game similar to contra but it used magic and it put you in really cool environments and situations. The Lion King however, fucking sucked.

Fast foward to late 1995 and my family got their first computer since Windows 1.0, Pentium 133mhz, 32mb of RAM, 2mb Graphics Card. Its sad but my first PC Game was one of those jumpstart educational games. A year later, my first FPS Game; an underwater sea shooter on FOUR CDs. At that time when games were less than 200mb that was huge. Christmas 1996, I got the Blizzard Box set that had Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft. This blew my fragile seven year old mind and I beat starcraft that christmas, two words "Power Overwhelming". Sometime in 1997, Total Annilhation. BEST RTS EVER. Got addicted, didnt use cheat codes, and got a guy to create a unit for me which was a nuclear bomber called the nighthawk. All these people applied to create a unit and they picked am 8 year olds suggestion. After TA, I took a few years break from PC Gaming probably because of the N64 and PSOne. Then in 2000, things were never the same when I went over to my friends house and played Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Things were never the same, he grounded me from his comp because I played it too much and I couldnt play it at home because a 400mhz Celeron wouldnt cut it. Then Christmas 2001, we moved into a new house and got a l337: Pentium 4 1.8Ghz, Geforce 2 32mb, 256mb PC133 RAM. I played Unreal Tournament until I finally realized what the Geforce 2 could do when I played Unreal Tournament 2003 and Battlefield 1942 (Version 1.0, let me tell you it sucked at first, there was no tank indicator so you didnt know if you or your tank turret was backwards). Year and a Half Later I get this PC. April 2003, Planetside Beta. The rest is history.

This thread came from an Idea on Gamespy, what was your first game and gaming moments.

[Mag-Mower]

I was about 6... the first game i played was Jazz The Jack Rabbit for the pc... thats all i can remeber

[321]

Super Mario. That games was fun but, now it looks pretty boring since you don't do much. And since I'm 12 I know that there were newer games but some of my parents friends had a super nintendo that they gave to me with a couple games.

[Biohazzard56]

I was about 6... the first game i played was Jazz The Jack Rabbit for the pc... thats all i can remeber

Great Game.

[Infernus]

MY very first video game was super mario on NES... how I miss it...

[Corrosion]

First console game: Battle City on Dendi (russian version of the NES/SNES)
First PC game: Jazz the Jackrabbit

First comp: 123 mhz 16 mb RAM vid card unknown
Current comps:

Main comp: Athlon 64 3200+, 1024 DDR PC3200 RAM, 200 GB Seagate Baraccuda, Geforce Ti 4800 128MB
Secondary comp: Athlon XP 2700+, 512 DDR PC3200 RAM, 120 GB Western Digital, Geforce MX 420 64MB

[SDM]

Atari 2600. Adventure pwns yuo. :lol:

[QuakCow]

duckhunt on the NES :D

[TekDragon]

Zelda on the NES. Duke Nukem on the PC and Xcom: UFO Defence on the PC. Those are the earliest i remember, though i know there were many more.

Oh, and Outpost for the PC.

[RuskiVodka]

First gaming moments that I can clearly remember, was playing Summer Games and California Dreams on the Commodore 64. Still got the original tapes.

[Hamma]

First started getting interested in gaming with the trusty nintendo.

[Triggar]

duckhunt on the NES :D

We had the little gun and everything, NES = pwn

[EarlyDawn]

Probably the Super NES.

First PC gaming was the original Doom, but the most influencial was DEFENITELY System Shock. And yeah, Total Annilation was probably the best RTS I ever played.

Homeworld was also very influencial, as was Starcraft, for it's single-player story.

[Edit: Ah yes, Tek's post reminded me I was a huge X-Com fan, I have all the games except for enforcer which was a stupid generic shooter with a brandname.]

[JakeLogan]

First game I remember playing is pong.

[THrONeBeaST]

Atari 2600. Adventure pwns yuo. :lol:


indeed

[Firefly]

I had Tank, Pong, and Joust on Atari.

Correction, *have*. I still play my Atari.

[Mr1337Duck]

First PC game I remember well was DF2:JK. I was in the Frontier Horizon clan. I got recruited by a guy named Corran Horn. Nice guy. Then there was Virtuapets (tiny ass little game, sucked), then Neopets, then Runescape, then JKII for a little bit, then PS. PS sucked on my comp, so I got into Deus Ex, and stuff like that. I'm primarily a squad-shooter player. I mean team stuff, not just super-squading like R6. I suck at RTSs. I absolutely suck at them. You could look all across the US, and you wouldn't find many who suck more at them than me. I don't have the patience for them. I don't like to build my units and stuff. 5 minutes building is not fun for me. I'm into shooters, where I go around, kill lots of stuff, get killed, spawn back in a few seconds, kill again. Fast-paced action.

[ViperGTS]

Hmmm...first agming moments....I guess Super Mario Brothers for NES. Tehn I had like not games from like 1993 till the PlayStain came out :(

[OfaLoaf]

It was "Goofy's Railroad Express", for PC. Horrid pixel size.

[SDM]

indeed
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5843/atari1.png

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That Dragon doesn't look anything like the one on the box!
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/526/adventure.jpg
what a JIP!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Henya]

lemmings as a kid

[Heavygain]

hrmm, dont remember my very first, i was like 3. the most memorable were my first "TRue" gaming moments, which were as an iksar warrior in the boneyard killing skeletons in eq, STFU, eq was a good game.

[EineBeBoP]

First game was Microsoft Monster Truck Madness.
Played that thing for HOURS.

[Marsman]

Lets see - I think it was 1973. High School Fair (I was in jr. high) - bunch of people crowded around one of the "game booths". At the center of the crowd was an ASR-33 Teletype.
http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~peter/deptphotos/teletype.jpeg
Only difference in this picture is the missing Telephone Handset Cradle - 2 suction cup like places that the old style rotery phone handset was placed on - (Yes an acoustic coupled Modem) all running at a staggering 110 baud. (that's 0.110 k for you folks that don't comprehend such rates)

This is WAY back in the day. This is way before PC's, WAY before the Radio Shack Model I, Commadore's, and the Apple II's - I think the Altair 8800 (first kit computer) was brand new! This is also a time where most computer work consisted of sitting down to a paper card punch machine and puching out one line of programming per card, taking your stack of cards up to a glass enclosed service window and handing them to an attendent - who would (when the schedule permitted) place your cards into the card reader, load them into the "computer" - and return your stack of cards (3 hours later) and the print out of what happened. ("Syntax error in line 10" - DOH!) Actually live interaction with a real computer was almost unheard of then.

Well this teletype was connected to a DIGITAL PDP-10 (size of a small house) in a college some 50 miles away, by dialing up a phone and place the handset in the cradle of the teletype. (Dialing up a computer for a modem was pretty new also) You could "log in" and "work live" with an actual computer. Programming was in Dartmouth BASIC for the most part and the very first computer game I ever played was an Artillery game called WAR123. Each player would have a distance to the target (other player) and would have to guess on the angles of elevation and left or right to fire the artillery. You would then be told how many yards your were over or short, and how far left or right. Each player would take turns until a direct hit (<10 feet) was achieved. Another popular game back then was Text based StarTrek in an 8 x 8 quadrant galaxy with Kilngons and starbases. That program was written in Fortran IV and was my first hacking experience giving the Eenterprise 500,000 shield units instead of the standard 3000 :brow:

I remember being almost orgasmic at seeing an actually green screen CRT down at the college when I visited the actually computer site. Again, a "personal computer" was nothing but a dream at this point, but many a gaming hour was consumed on this beast called a teletype. 30+ years later, I have to laugh at people who recall "back in the day" being a Pentium I PC and how crude the "graphics" were. I was playing computer games before there were computers as most of you know them. I have been lucky enough to have watched it all unfold before me and let me tell you - it's been a hell of a ride ............. and it ain't over yet! :D

[Triggar]

Marsman, you just blew my mind.

[Marsman]

:rofl:

[QuakCow]

:jawdrop:

[Indecisive]

HFS. omg

[ViperGTS]

:jawdrop:

[EineBeBoP]

Wtf. is Xurr this old?
We might need to exchange titles here.

[Jennyboo]

First game I played was i believe on our old apple computer I played Space Quest & King Quest :rofl: man good times

[HunterKiller]

first console game: sonci the hedgehog for Sega Genesis

PC: some stupid helicopter game.

[Infernus]

My very first PC game was TIE Fighter... that game was the best. It also got me somewhat aware on whats what in the computer world... why you ask? Well it needed a joystick... and all the joysticks we could find were USB so we needed to buy a PCI USB hub... that was my first foray into the inards of a computer... and it was definatley not the last...