I honestly don’t remember because I was too young. However I do remember growing up on all the classics like Keen, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Test Drive (1 or 2? definitely 2), Street Rod 2. The list goes on
Pokémon Blue, you could say.
Also, RPG Maker. It’s wholesome seeing what people make.
Oh my god. I was on that rm2k/2k3 hype train for so long. Never put out anything of value, or anything really, but I had so much fun doing it.
Oh yes, the golden era of Horror RPG Maker Games. Ib, Yume Nikki, The Witch’s House etc
Am I really the oldest one here? Sigh.
Pong
Not the only one :)
Pong
Combat on the Atari 2600.
Specifically the 1v1 tank battles.
Oh dang, used to love playing this!! Also the basketball game, and flight simulator was ahead of its time.
Combat! I loved that, especially with bouncy bullets.
Super Mario Bros. A game that’s nearly as old as I am, that fully stands the test of time. From the very beginning of my gaming days, this and Duck Hunt got me into it. Dig Dug 2 was the first game I ever got angry enough to flip the tv the bird. Sonic and Tails probably was the second major influence on my life, from a video game perspective. After that I was a gamer and will never turn away from the cathode-ray light!
Ah yes I too am a gamer of a certain vintage. Duck Hunt was great. I also had the Top Gun game for my NES.
That game is so fucking hard, although the NES port of the arcade game is quite poor, imo.
Sonic Adventure and Rayman 2: The Great Escape on Dreamcast
We have a Home Movie of me at 3 years old playing Tetris on my cousin’s Gameboy. I don’t remember a time that video games weren’t a part of my life.
The first game I remember realy clicking for me was Donkey Kong Country. I can still play that game off muscle memory alone.
Can’t remember if it was Baldur’s Gate 1 or Morrowind when I was a kid.
Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Elite back in the mid-90s. Jagged Alliance 2 and Fallout 2 a few years later got me finally hooked.
MASS EFFECT!!!
I’d played games pretty casually since I was a kid, but Mass Effect is what turned me into a gamer. Before Mass Effecf, I hardly finished games and could never really master controls, let alone the concept of movement with one stick and viewing with the other.
The Mass Effect story pulled me in so deep that I put in the effort and learned to actually play the game. After, ME I started playing just about everything.
Now, I’m in the process of recording my ME playthroughs and editing them into a show just for fun. I used to be normal at some point…
Super Mario Bros on NES… About 1991.
I still remember that damned theme song!
A fellow child of DOS! My earliest memory is of playing: sango fighters, pang, and comet Buster’s with my two older brothers
Definitely has to be full throttle. Such great games by lucas arts back then
Does anyone remember Outlaws?
It’s definitely not my first game, but the one who really gave me my love for games was Spyro the Dragon
Mario 1, 2, & 3 on the NES
Also Bible Adventures on the NES
My mom worked for the church part-time and she’d park me and my brother in the youth group room with the NES. Someone had stolen all the games (except Bible Adventures) but not the console. Our grocery store would rent you a game for a three days for a dollar, and we rotated between the three Mario titles until we mastered them all.
