Do you remember your first time?

[Tovarish 0]

Do you remember the first time you experienced that unique feeling of excitement, the rush from exploring something new, worrying that you wouldn't know what to do? Do you remember the first time you experienced that sense of abandon, and thinking "I could do this forever"?

Do you remember the first time you played a videogame?

I was reminded of this by the thread about Far Cry, when we started talking about cartoons...the first videogame I ever played was one of those LCD hand-held beeping things, it was based on an extreemely popular Russian cartoon, "Nu pogadi". I must have been around 8 or 9 and I was on a plane with my mom and grandfather from Russia to the Ukraine, and the stewardesses were renting these out for the duration of the flight for 5 rubles. The cool thing is, I found a flash version! This is amazing, it looks and sounds just like the original! Ah the memories .

Link to game

[Major Fubar 0]

I must be old...I can actually remember when Space Invaders and Pacman came out...

Oh yes, I was hooked on video games from an early age...

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Cheeky bastard

I think my first time was Mario Brothers

[Tovarish 0]

@ June 02 2003,23:38)]Cheeky bastard  

Get your mind out of the gutter!

Quote[/b] ]I think my first time was Mario Brothers

I hated Mario....must be because it was the first game I absolutely sucked at and I haven't gotten over that . An uncle of mine in Cuba got an Atari when I was 9-10 (the thing had like 30+ games in memory) and I was God on it. Then when I got to Canada I tried Mario on Nintendo and realized I was just a mere mortal . I was still God at Duck Hunt though .

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Of course, at the ripe age of 6, I quickly discarded it as being too unrealistic, and spent the rest of my time with Duckhunt

Seriously though, I've always had fun with strategy games and whatnot- I remember when I was 10 I would rent this game for my Sega called Pacific Theater of Operations- you could basically run the entire Pacific section of WWII from start to finish- on a 32 bit system! I naturally thought that was badass; even though I hadn't grasped the concept of logistics at that point, and almost always stranded the occasional destroyer without any supplies several hundred miles south of the Aleutians

[bn880 5]

I'm not sure which was my first time exactly, either those hand held LCD things in a hospital in Austria, or the arcades still in Austria. (either Airwolf or some Mario look alike.) I was around 10 I think. Damn it's so hard to remember, I'm not 100 % sure but I am sure I spent a huge amount of money on arcades back then, mostly Airwolf.

The first real computer game I remember a bit better, something like A10 Tank killer in Radioshack display. Anyway it was around 1990-1991 and I was freaked out by the experience.

[sanctuary 19]

I remember the first video game i played

It was a kind of early console that was packed with some versions of Pong , one called Tennis, the other Football and the last called Hockey, you could change the game by just moving a switch and the "joysticks" were just something you could roll left or right , no button

There was some options too : size of the box that figured the player and speed of the square that figured the ball ;)

Very very old and simple games, but i remember to have played those with great pleasure , especially because you could play with a friend with the 2 "joysticks" (i cant put a name on those strange thing)

Good old time that fuel me with nostalgia now i think about it.

[FSPilot 0]

Hmmm... first game i really got into was chips challenge. you had this little 2d kid you had to run around on a screen dodging obstacles and going through a maze, it was pretty fun.

first flight sim i ever had was "knights of the sky". a ww1 fighter sim, it was pretty fun, i remember getting over 1000 kills in it , but that took forever

first FPS I ever played was Rise of the Triad. That was a fun game, took up hours and hours of my time.

[toadeater 0]

My first video game, the Coleco Telstar Arcade:

It didn't have much support so I got the Atari 2600 soon after.

The first arcade game played was Space Invaders at the arcade that used to be on Times Square in NYC which you can see in some old 70s and 80s movies. 10 years later, in high school, I was to be picked up by police for cutting class and playing games at that very same arcade. It's gone now though, thanks to the bastard Disney corporation and ex-mayor Ghouliani who turned Time Square into a corporate nightmare where fun was no longer on the agenda.

[kegetys 2]

First ever videogame I played was either Stealth, Spelunker or Raid on Bungeling Bay when my brother got a Commodore 64... I was 4 back then so I dont remember which of those was the first, but those were the ones that came with the computer so it must be one of them... And I have been speding most of my free time sitting at a computer ever since.

[Tovarish 0]

first FPS I ever played was Rise of the Triad.  That was a fun game, took up hours and hours of my time.

Wow, you got into FPS's kind of late! I remember the first FPS-style game I played was one called "Ken's labyrinth"...aaages ago and I hardly knew English then, but from what I recall it was sort of a Harry Potter-like deal where you were this kid walking around shooting off spells killing giant spiders and whatnot, getting health from drinking fountains and vending machines...the first true FPS would have been Wolfenstein, really loved that one. Rise of The Triad was the first one where you could look up and down and where bullet holes appeared on walls and objects could be damaged...and had those bastards that would beg you not to kill them when wounded and then play dead and shoot you when you let your guard down...some nice weapons in that one too, and from what I remember it required a fair bit more thinking to get through than your average FPS.

Hmm, my first flight simm was Microprose's F-117A (first computer game as well I think)

[sanctuary 19]

I am happy , following this topic i searched on google if i could find a picture of my first videogame console and those specific "joysticks"

And i finally found it, it is exactly that , same design and color , but i am not sure it was the same name on it

Ah those good old time with only *BIP* , black and white square and lines on the TV he he

[madmedic 0]

I had PONG when it came out (man some of you guys make me feel old)

Graduated to an ATARI.

And played some of the very remedial old games on the original APPLE computer, and a Texas Instruments computer.

(they were "state of the art" at the time)

[sanctuary 19]

After reading the date where my first "console" pong-game was out , i think this topic is depressing

Wow 1977 , it's been a while , i cant believe how the time move quickly , one day i am young the other i have a big beard and lose most of the hair on the top of my head.

where are my kid years ?

[Tex -USMC- 0]

The first flight sim I ever played was a Mac game called Out Of The Sun- lol, it was absolutely awful, and nearly impossible at times. I did well in the Pacific, but could make absolutely no headway in theaters that required you to aim at something smaller than an aircraft carrier or try to distinguish it from ground clutter. And then... A10 Attack! I was hooked.

[Tovarish 0]

After reading the date where my first "console" pong-game was out , i think this topic is depressing

Wow 1977 , it's been a while , i cant believe how the time move quickly , one day i am young the other i have a big beard and lose most of the hair on the top of my head.

where are my kid years ?

I know the feeling, I stumble across that little flash game and suddenly this huge flood of memories hits me .

[Major Fubar 0]

The earliest game I remember putting serious hours into at home was Bards Tale, on the commodore 64...

[FSPilot 0]

and had those bastards that would beg you not to kill them when wounded and then play dead and shoot you when you let your guard down

hahaha! i remember those guys, man that made me mad the first time. didn't make that mistake twice (you'd have to be pretty dense to do that twice, lol)

[Warin 0]

My first was Pong. One of those sears machines in like 76 or so.

Then I graduated to an Atari 2600.

After that it was all computers.

My first flight sim was something called "IFR" for the Vic20. It was a cartridge game, and you had to fly around this little world (including a valley) totally on instruments. I remember the tension of readin map coordinates while making sure my little cessna didnt crash. Wicked tough! And I loved it! then I graduated to F-15 Strike Eagle on the C64.

Bard's Tale. Man, that game rocked! Someone should convince EA to make a sequel. Heh. that game came out when EA was still a wicked cool game producer instead of a corporate behemoth producing shite games for massive profits.

[FallenPaladin 0]

Do you remember the first time you experienced that unique feeling of excitement, the rush from exploring something new, worrying that you wouldn't know what to do? Do you remember the first time you experienced that sense of abandon, and thinking "I could do this forever"?

Do you remember the first time you played a videogame?

I was reminded of this by the thread about Far Cry, when we started talking about cartoons...the first videogame I ever played was one of those LCD hand-held beeping things, it was based on an extreemely popular Russian cartoon, "Nu pogadi". I must have been around 8 or 9 and I was on a plane with my mom and grandfather from Russia to the Ukraine, and the stewardesses were renting these out for the duration of the flight for 5 rubles. The cool thing is, I found a flash version! This is amazing, it looks and sounds just like the original! Ah the memories .

Link to game

My first time was almost the same. Only my game was a soccer game where I was the keeper. It had terrible music: "Für Elise"... Must`ve been in 1985 or so.

After that I got an Atari 2600 console and the famous Pong console. Then a Gameboy in 1988, a SNES later, followed by an Nintendo 64. After that I bought my first PC: it was a 486 DX 33Mhz with 4MB RAM (still in the 386 era, i was king that time! I could play Jake Jazzrabbit fluid!) and MS DOS 5.0. That days getting a game to run was hard work!

[ralphwiggum 6]

let's see...my first game memory is a bit blur......don't know which one came first. Froggy, Galaga(?), or Q-bert. it was early 80s though. and ofcourse, those black and white LCD display games.

and for first PC game, Prince of Arabia. such a nice game then came Silent Hunter(?), that sub sim. and then plenty of games after that(Powerdrome, Wolfenstein, Sokoban, Police Quest, Tetris), but most memorable game that I played before Win95 came out was Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. played for hours.

thinking back, Treasure of Monkey Island was fun, and there was this game with cartoon graphic where you are a kid and you have to juggle things between. there was another sub sim called 686(?) and other Flight Sims like F117.

All on a freaking Hercules card, somtimes running CGA emulators.

damn, my parents bought me a lot of games!

[Major Fubar 0]

Also have very fond memories of M1 Tank Platoon on the Amiga...

[Tovarish 0]

but most memorable game that I played before Win95 came out was Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. played for hours.

Ah yes, the first flight sim I played where I could fly the plane with the big red stars on it . man I loved that MiG-15. Not much ammo compared to the Saber but it's guns did a lot of damage when you hit something . What really pissed me off though was when I found out that the Mac version had multiplayer but the PC didn't  

[Assault (CAN) 1]

My first time was with this girl that I picked up in the Falls....... Oh....... this is about games......... OK.

The first 'modern' PC FPS that I played was Delta Force. I remember downloading the demo and playing it for the first time. I never knew games like that existed, it was so cool. I got the same feeling again playing OFP for the first time.

Way back when we had our old PC, there was this 2D game called captain comic. I played that thing for hours on end, then I'd play Kings Quest V for a bit. But the very first time with an FPS? I recall playing wolfenstien 3D at a freinds house during the lunch hour. It must have been 1994.

As for my very first electronic game ever? I have no idea. I really didn't get hooked until the mid 90's.

Tyler

[ralphwiggum 6]

but most memorable game that I played before Win95 came out was Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. played for hours.

Ah yes, the first flight sim I played where I could fly the plane with the big red stars on it . man I loved that MiG-15. Not much ammo compared to the Saber but it's guns did a lot of when you hit something . What really pissed me off though was when I found out that the Mac version had multiplayer but the PC didn't  

ah fuck! didn't know it until now!

yeah, it also had a very rudimentary mission editor. I used to line up those poor bombers, and off i went with slaughtering them, from a Mustang to F-4.

and after carnage/mission, you can see 3-D review. such a great game.

also, M1A1 Abrams comes to mind. first tank sim for me.