Submitted 9 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
Title says it all, what was the first game you remember playing and had fond memories of?
For me it was the PS1, and hearing the OG Crash Bandicoot theme song never gets old for me, got it as my ringtone too!
Potentially HOVER! on the ol’ Windows ME machine iirc.
Age of Empires 2 also comes to mind.
The cart said Final Fantasy 2. We now know it as Final Fantasy 4.
My father had my playing it and reading all the text out loud. I played that game over and over and over. I have all the hidden paths and treasures memorized.
The opening scrawl ended in something about Cecil and Kain vanishing “into a deep fog.” For years and years I thought it said they vanished “into a deep frog.” Let me tell you… the hours I spent lying awake at night wondering what that meant…
And of course my Dad didn’t correct me.
x-wing vs tie fighter.
King’s Quest 6, on my dad’s old Compaq Presario Windows 98 laptop
While I had probably already played a couple of counterfeit NES games at a friend’s house before that, the first 2 games I clearly remember playing on PC were Tux Racer (on my dad’s Linux setup) and Warcraft 2.
Asphalt 4
Mario kart on the Wii. still load it up on occasions to play with friends
Either btd5 on pc or Block dude on a ti calculator
Going to my step dads house when my mom first started dating him and playing Pitfall on his Colecovision in the late 80’s. I was 3.
We didn’t have much money when we were kids, so when I cousin brought over has SNES with LttP, my mind was totally blown.
Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights on the ps2, other than that maybe Freddie Fish or one of the other humongous games on mac
I don’t remember exactly, but it would have been on the Atari 2600. Probably Pac-Man or Q-Bert.
Adventure for me, but we had Atari 2600 Pac-Man too. And Combat, Space Invaders and a few others.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and I played a couple levels as recently as a few weeks ago.
Roadrash and prince of Persia
Let me take a personal spin on that question.
This wasn’t the first game that I played but it was the first game that I PLAYED. It really got me, made me draw stuff from the game, scratch my head and glued me to the screen.
My little brain melted from not understanding. The bitterness of every mistake and death was sprinkled by some mysterious force with the most magical feeling of solving the next level. This game explained by the example how games can be and are amazing. Before it, I just enjoyed the fun aspects of playing but here I was gaming and every level felt like a real achievement.
Now, when I think about it, this game made me skip building with LEGO for some time.
Oh, the title? Gobliiins.
First, first? Some bootleg version of Tetris.
Gobliiins! I loved that game. I did buy it off gog to play again because it had been many years.
super mario bros on one of those NES bootlegs that have “16000” games while in reality it’s more like 50 60 pirated games repeated across the whole list. remember i couldn’t finish the second level really couldn’t time the moving platform jump over the hole. it was fun.
Earliest memory is c64 gridder
First game I remember playing is a DOS game called Snipes. It was at my stepdads work and I remember getting smoked by his workmate as we were playing it LAN and I remember crying haha.
Jumping Flash (ps1) was my first ever game. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Flash!
It was pretty hard as a 5 year old.
My first game was Yoshi’s Island for the Game Boy Advance! I still go back and play it every few years, I love that game.
Duck hunt with the gun. That shit ass dog.
Sonic 1 on my newly acquired Mega Drive at Christmas when I was 5. Died to that first ladybug repeatedly for months on end but never gave up!
New Super Mario Bros on my sick red Mario DS. Although Pokémon would come shortly after which I remember much more fondly.
I don’t know the name. In the afternoons in the early nineties after school I was at a neighbor’s house. Her husband had a PC and a joystick connected to it sparked my interest. He showed me a flight game. I don’t remember much detail, but it was a vector based game with fast action based flying and you had to bombard or shoot at enemy bases. The next thing I remember is my mother calling our neighbor when I planned to come home because it was already getting late and I had never stayed that long before.
Probably Duke Nukem 3D, introduced by way of my uncle’s at the time high end computer.
I’d seen arcade games and things, but an actual interactive 3D world I could walk around in was wild. It was also a much bloodier and more “adult” game than anything I’d seen before.
Later that year, 1997, I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas along with Goldeneye and StarFox64. Those two games became mainstays for me at home.
Wizard of Wor on C=64
we had quite a few carts so it might not have been first but it certainly was the most played
It was a racing game I can’t remember the name of on our first computer, a TI-99.
Various demos on PS1 demo discs
Sheesh. That’s a tough one. My memory is trash from TBIs… Maybe pong, or space invaders? I think it would be something that was in an arcade. Our first console was the NES with SMB, but we definitely played in arcades before that.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Intellivision. Sea Battle. 1987.