I saw a few posts in Shab's Tech hoax topic and thought I'd try to redirect the conversation here.
Well i remember quite clearly i was 4 when we first got an Amstrad cpc computer with a bundle of 30 or so crappy Amsoft games (with the odd gem)
It seems like madness nowadays but all the games were stored on audio cassettes and took 10+ minutes to load but the upside to that was that the games were incredibly cheap to buy (Ł2 for budget games) so we built up a vast collection of something like 300 games.
At some point we were given an Atari 2600 and i was amazed that the games loaded instantly lol.
Then in 1992 we bought a Sega megadrive with Sonic 2 and Megagames 2 ^^ good times.
Spectrum. Stupidly young. The first machine I actually owned was a NES when I was 4 or so. Amiga 600 for Christmas when I was 5 (wild wacky pack, with a Capcom collection which needed Relokick (hot memory!)).
In orderage-
Spectrum, NES, Amiga, Mega Drive, Gameboy, N64-PS1 (same day), GBA, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Xbox, GBA SP, DS "phat, PSP "phat", Gameboy Micro, Wii, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, PSP slim.
Remember when I bought Sonic 2 for the Mega Drive, Ł7 from EB! Always loved that game still my fave in the whole series. Best buy was Link's Awakening for my GB when I was about 11 or so. IMO the best game. Marins song has and always will bring a tear to my eye
Commander Keen, at around 5 or 6? Maybe even younger, I can't remember anything else I did before that age. After that I remember Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, DooM, Settlers II... Then there was my Gameboy pocket :] Pokémon blue, Link's Awakening (I feel the same way about Marin's song, James! <3), Pokémon Yellow (hearing Pikachu on my gameboy was immense!). I remember playing Sonic and Knuckles around a friend's house all the time, too. A while after the gameboy years, I got TGF! Yay! And Half Life, that was scary stuff! I got into the HL mapping scene about the same time I was halfway decent with TGF, I might get back into it again with Source
At some point I got a playstation, and that was the only console I had until the Wii release Mostly PC gaming, for me that has always been the best. Only PC games have had me constantly coming back for more.
Seven?? Maybe? Video gaming was a new world when we got an ancient SNES from my dad's boss. I started on classics like MMX, Star fox, B.O.B. (What's that??), Goof Troop... Stuff like that. My friend gave me his N64 in an attempt to steal my SNES, but it failed. Bought an NES at goodwill, never play it. Got a Wii the year it came out (Best system yet). Then a PS2 for sly cooper. Plus two GBA's a DS, an original Gameboy, GBA Micro along the way. I bought a Genesis for the purpose of hacking it, never got around to it.
Sheesh, I remember a time when I was amazed at how much awesome stuff my friends had, now it seems I'm one of those lucky people. (Of course, I used my own money, they just got it from their parents.)
I was like four or five, I think. I used to play these small DOS-based games on my dad's laptop. He had a grid-based puzzle game called Supaplex, and some sort of pinball game, among others. Then in school, one of my friends had a SNES, and that was pretty much my first console experience. Me and my brother wanted one for Christmas, but our parents got us a N64 instead, which was awesome, of course (that was like 1997, so the N64 was brand new then). I'm not sure, but I think that was the same year that I got Klik & Play, and started making games and everything. Ah, memories.
I remember Heartlight, Adam! I got it on this Epic Megagames demo CD. I remember going through every game, heartlight was awesome! There was also One Must Fall (best robot beat-em-up EVER) and Tyrian, and I got the full versions of them for my birthday
Anybody remember The neverhood? I remember a demo from when I was a wee lad and spent years searching for it on the internet. It didn't help that I couldn't remember the name. I found it the other day, just as creepy as I remember, except for the missing whistling soundtrack.
I grew up playing Prince of persia 1 & 2 on my mom's old STARMAX Macintosh clone, day after day. Soon after I got a Gameboy Pocket, then a sega genesis. Then I turned 4.
2600/commie64 (The 80's were FUN!)
NES/Gameboy (Actually the gameboy was my first personal system)
SNES/PC
Skipped the N64 and PSX, gfx on my computer weren't pixelized to hell
Ps2/XB/GC (This solved my problem with the pixelization.)
These were the systems I had immediate access to, but I had occasional access to others through friends and the like.
Originally Posted by OldManClayton Anybody remember The neverhood?
The soundtrack to that game inspired a friend of mine to get into music. I've never played it but he sent me the soundtrack to the Neverhood and the prequel/sequel (whatever order it was in), really awesome stuff. First game to use vocals in most of the soundtrack perhaps?
"Heartlight has been compared to other popular puzzle games as Boulder Dash and Supaplex."
Cool I can see why you liked it then. I used to play Supaplex A LOT when I was little. Then like a year ago I discovered there was a downloadable Win32 port. I didn't leave my room for a week
I think I started in 1989 with C64, which would mean I was 7 at the time. Boulder Dash, Giana Sisters, Tapper, 1942, Creatures, Krakout, Summer/Winter Games, Paperboy, Commando, Samantha Fox Strip Poker... just a few that came to my mind. I miss those games.
Ahhhh... that brings back memories... Oh wait, no it doesn't. Because I was 2, and I hadn't even developed my long term memory yet. I dont even know what game it was, but being so long ago, it musn't of been very complicated, as games would have only just started their existance.
The NES was for my 8th bithday. Goodness knows what I was doing before then.. Playing crappy Spectrum games, if I recall correctly. Crazy Cars, Maelstrom, Operation Wolf; you know, the crap games that we used to play anyway because there was nothing else. The SNES arrived when I was 12-14 and those are the gaming years I remember most fondly. I was old by today's standards (14) before our family got a PC. Spent a couple of years getting into DOS games and making Doom WADs as a creative outlet. Then I discovered KnP and all sorts of other multimedia stuff.
Well my parents had an Intellivision possibly before my existance and I used to play that when I was around 4 years old. For my 5th/6th birthday I was bought a Master System with Sonic built-in. A year later we got a MegaDrive, then possibly a year after that it was the SNES. Ahh, the memories...
I was born with c64 in my hands . I started playing nes and c64 in 4 years. After that, we got first pc 4.86 with windows 3.1. After while (about age of 7) I got new comp (286) and somewhere agfter that, ps1 and gameboy color. I bought n64 and amiga at age of 12. And also I have gotten 3 more comps, ds and next friday I'm buying xbox 360.
I hope I can get hands on snes someday, or sega (not so great)(Sonics suck!) or dreamcast. And I'm never getting ps2, psp or ps3!
I have proven new mathematic formula to be true...
I don't actually remember... Dunno how most people do remember exactly, it's not a major event in my life that I remember, just like I don't remember when I started keeping fish, it just happened one day.
And my most loved game i have ever played (And stil to this very day) Super Metroid.
When i played Super Metroid i have played EVERY metroid game there is to date!
Yes! I first played Super Metroid a few months back when it hit the Wii's Virtual Console. Bloody love it, no wonder it spawned so many other adventure games. I'm lost as hell at the moment though. It's just so perfect on every level.
2. I played these very old mickey mouse games on my windows 3.0 I think it was. then it broke and they didn't make the hardware to replace it any more. it was the best.
At the same time I had a playstation. the first game I played was either Jumping Flash 2, Bubsy 3d, Glover, or Medievil.
In 2002 I got a PS2. I still have it now but I really loved the Windows and the playstation games. The older they are the better. i wish I could go back in time!
Now I also have a DS and a gamecube (that i lost). Hopefully I'll get my PS3 pretty soon, not much money left.
Well thats my gaming life. Video games are the most memorable things ever!
I guess it must have been either Ratrace for c64 (on a c12, Doom 1/2 or perhaps Mario 1 on NES. I think I played my first game when I was about 3 years old, although it's hard to remember...
First console I owned was a Gameboy Color. The first console I bought was a PS2, then I got a NES clone while helping clean a friends basement... Then I bought a SNES, Megadrive 2, Gamegear, found the old c128 and claimed it, got a Gameboy Advanced, N64, Atari Jaguar, Megadrive, Atari 2600, Saturn and Neo Geo AES.
Jazz Jackrabbit, Raptor Call of the Shadow, Lemmings, Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure - Little Big Adventure, Megarace, yeah, I didn't have any consoles so I apted for Dos games, oh and Terminal Velocity
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-Dark Martin- The dark is most certainly not your friend
Registered 05/06/2008
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14th July, 2008 at 11:29:48 -
Well the first game i ever played was Super Metroid... i think it was when i was 6?
Also one of the guys who fixed our computer (I liked deleting system files as a kid, really ) installed an SNES emulator with 1000 games. I'm addicted to Super Bomberman since the age of 4.
Lol i dont know my exact age, but my dad had a dino pinball machine, and he was addicted to pac-man, so I guess that got me started gaming... I had the very first (huge) gameboy... those where the days
Originally Posted by UrbanMonk Jazz Jackrabbit, Raptor Call of the Shadow, Lemmings, Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure - Little Big Adventure, Megarace, yeah, I didn't have any consoles so I apted for Dos games, oh and Terminal Velocity
Those were some of my first games, too! Hah, I forgot about Jazz Jackrabbit. Crazy. Ra-ra-ra-ra-r-arrapid fire (or does he say rabbit fire?)...
I was about 6 when I started playing with my brother's Amiga. Super Frog, Diamond Caves, Super Cars, Deluxe Pacman, Skidmarks, Stunt Car Racer... awesome games. It's not so fun to play them with an emulator, expect Super Frog. It's still the best.
-Dark Martin- The dark is most certainly not your friend
Registered 05/06/2008
Points 21
24th July, 2008 at 00:42:52 -
"Have you ever got the sexy ending?"
Yes but i had to complete it fast to get to it.
I was only 8 when i got it... i think i remember my mum covering my eyes...
I was playing my Amstrad cpc today. It took me about 20 minutes to set it all up, Consoles are so much more convenient.
Rainbow islands still kicks arse.
I was 10 and I moved in another town, where my dad decided to by a computer. The computer came with a game called "Incoming", so that was the first time I started gaming.
Sounds cheesy (and fake!) but it was Sonic 1 on the Mega Drive, 1990. My friend's brother had it and i saw it and had to have it! Got it that year for Christmas and never looked back!!
I think i was 3 or 4, when the family got a NES with mario bros and duck hunt. Then there was the SNES, The classic Gameboy, the Mega Gear ( Genesis), PSX, GBC, N64, GBA, GC, GBASP, PS2, DS, Wii. I'm still considering getting a 360, since it's now only slightly cheaper than a DS ( but DSi will be there sometime soon, i hope.)
If you get a 360 arcade you'll most likely end up paying for loads of other things like a harddrive, Xbox live subscription, Extra batteries for the controller etc.
At least with a DS you get everything there and then.
Originally Posted by AndyUK If you get a 360 arcade you'll most likely end up paying for loads of other things like a harddrive, Xbox live subscription, Extra batteries for the controller etc.
At least with a DS you get everything there and then.
In the US, it now actually makes sense to get an arcade unit. It has the wireless controller, memory card, no HDMI cables though. But the important thing is that the Xbox HD isn't stupidly priced anymore. You'd pay the same getting the normal 360 bundle or getting the arcade unit and the HD separately. Also M$ is offering the HD's even cheaper to arcade unit owners because of the new xbox experience (which is too big to fit on a memory card), so it's something like $50 cheaper to buy them separately. Don't know how long that will last though.
I was 11. Hated videogames before that because all the other kids played them already, had to do something else. I didn't change much since then, apart from playing games now sometimes.
First game I ever got into was Sonic 2, and I loved it dearly. I remember it being so hard when I was little. Funny how memories stick with you though, every time I play the Oil Ocean level, I remember the night in my old house I was waiting for pizza my dad ordered to come, and I beat the level for the first time ever, as soon as the pizza came. Ah, good times.
I was about 4 or 5 I think and we'd got Croc 1, or "Croc: Legend of the Gobbos" for PC and that's when it all began And I kept playing it all through my life and I still can't beat the Neptuna Fish Boss 'cos I was scared of it when I was little, so I just don't go near it lol.
That's just the bosses. The actual levels were even more amazing.
heh, I must admit, I have never owned a game console. It's been PC all the way for me so far. I have played a Gameboy Advance emulator on my PC though if that counts Which it probably doesn't... Here is a list of some favourite games that I can remember :
Croc 1
Various games that came with the pc (Chips's challenge, great game , Ski, Jezzball, etc..)
DX Ball (YAY!!)
And theres bound to be hundreds more but I just can't think of them right now
Early PS1 was so awesome. Croc, Rayman, FFVII, Jumping Flash, Spyro, Abe's Oddysee, Tomb Raider and chums. Shame it was all downhill from there but ace that they can be played on the PSP again.
Originally Posted by AndyUK You're not old enough to forget things. wtf you must have been born in... 1997? hahah omg you were born AFTER the ps1 was released.
I feel old now
I remember Rayman aswell! Lol I spose, who doesn't? The old Raymans were good Rayman 3 was pretty fun aswell. To bad they had to ruin Rayman with that Rabbids crap. That wasn't Rayman at all, lol, you could've put any game character into that and it would still be the same. It was like they'd come up with a new game that was just full of minigames, and then thought "This is boring, lets make it Rayman-Themed." He just didn't belong in a game like that
I started using the computer (some low-end Mac machine) to play educational games when I was 3, so you could call that the start. However, a year or so later (I dunno when) I started playing actual games-- my cousin started loading up games on my grandparents' DOS box. Since my parents worked all day I basically lived there, and so I came to basically have a love affair with that computer. Countless months were spent playing Lemmings and MegaRace, both of which are awesome games. I credit Lemmings for improving my problem solving skills at an extremely early age.
On the non-computer front I got a Game Boy Pocket with Super Mario Land when I was five. I'm still amazed at how I was able to make that single game last me a year and a half before I got another game for the system (Tetris Plus).
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Mostly PC gaming, for me that has always been the best. Only PC games have had me constantly coming back for more.
Yay. I think someone should remake Heartlight in MMF2, Id be up for doing some GFX 
). Hopefully I'll get my PS3 pretty soon, not much money left
, Doom 1/2 or perhaps Mario 1 on NES. I think I played my first game when I was about 3 years old, although it's hard to remember...
