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[–] ButcherOfBlaviken ago  (edited ago)

The earliest I can recall is Donald Duck Quack Attack (AKA Goin' Quackers)

Another game would be Super Mario World at my grandma's house.
I should hook up that SNES again sometime...

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[–] klobos 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Gertrude's Secrets and Logo. Although now that I think of it I may have played Atari way before these PC games.

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[–] Medwin ago  (edited ago)

My uncle brought a TRS-80 Color Computer to grandma's house one Christmas. I was probably six or seven. I spent days there with my cousins playing games which loaded off cassette tapes. There were tons of games (which I understand now were pirated). You had to use the counter on the cassette tape to know where to begin loading the one you wanted. We had a lot of fun with that machine.

My dad bought one soon after and I learned how to program basic and make my own text adventure games. The best game on the system was Dungeons of Daggorath. I remember being actually scared by it.

I really enjoyed that computer, but the joysticks were really crap. I remember my dad being pissed about how much they cost and never working worth a shit.

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[–] Timemuffin ago 

Playing Super Mario 3 on NES with my cousins.

That and watching my uncle play Warcraft: Orcs v.Humans Versus on dial up in my grandmother's basement.

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[–] dazednbemused ago 

Playing DOOM on my neighbors PC where one of us would move and the other shoot. Must have been 7 or 8 the next big memory was Command and Conquer. Those were the days...

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[–] H-Bar 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Donkey Kong on the Atari 800 when I was four. 26 years later I still have it and it still works (but using a Sega Genesis controller instead of the Atari joysticks that broke long ago). Last Christmas I took turns playing with my parents and my sister after she asked me to bring it over.

My very first games were even earlier than that, but I was too young to remember. When I was two my parents had a floppy disk of Night Mission Pinball, and they would let me sit on their lap and press the keys for the paddles. They say I liked the game so much that I once gave the disk a hug like it was a teddy bear, and that was the end of it.

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[–] InsectGuy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Probably most of them from the Sega Master system in the late 80s.

1st RPG was a game called Miracle Warriors, very basic in what you got to see and do, but I still remember the main theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRoBMXRpHKI

Tetris when it 1st came out in 89, same year my brother was born. Several gameboys died for various reasons due to that game. One was sheer anger >.>

Penguin Land was another MS game, involved playing a penguin trying to get an egg to the safe zone at the bottom of the map, drop-down style.

Sidescroller called Rastan, very probably a Conan rip-off/inspiration.

Afterburner, think very early Air/Ace Combat game.

Kung Fu Kid: side scrolling martial arts game with various levels and a boss at the end, apart from one level which was entirely boss fight after boss fight in connecting rooms. One of them, an old man would just jump around the whole place and was a PITA.

Quick mention to http://videogamecritic.com/masterindex.htm which helped me remember a few details of the games I thought of.

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[–] dootdootcalcium ago  (edited ago)

I was about five, and being babysat while my mom was out. The house I was at had an NES console and I played SMB 3 for hours. That was my first gaming experience, and next Christmas I got a Game Boy.

That started me off on my gaming adventure, and twenty odd years later I've owned every major console up to the XBOX 360. In between the years I've played on PC and console, lately having been more of a PC gamer in the past few years. Having made the switch is great, I don't have to own a lot of consoles to play the games I love. I still own a PS2, because it has such a huge library of amazing games.

I also play some tabletop RPGs, like Dungeons and Dragons, Fate, and GURPS. I'd say in some ways having that experience is more fun than electronic gaming because you get to really be creative, there is no set path past what the GM sets up.

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