[–] romo_sapien 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
We had an N64 in my house. My parents wouldn't let me and my brother play with guns or play any shooting games, which is probably why we had an N64 instead of any other consoles.
When they would go out for the night, we would stay up late an play Jet Force Jemini. Man, I should download an emulator or something.
[–] 79867? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Various BBS doors. Tradewars 2002. Legend of the Red Dragon. Land of Devastation. Various DOS games/things. Fractal generators. Quest for Glory 2-4. Linewars 1, 2. King's Quest. Lemmings. Space Quest series. Monkey Island 1, 2. Scorched Earth. Commander Keen. Star Control 1, 2. Stunts.
Various MUDs via local library dial-in text-only free service. Doom 1, 2. Descent 1-3. Mechwarrior II: Mercenaries, was bundled with a Sony Vaio desktop computer, the very first ones that looked like purple monoliths. Quake II, never much for the original Quake. Played the hell out of Q2 CTF. Action Quake 2. Quake 3: Arena. Tribes 1, 2. NASCAR, the first one. Wheel and pedals hooked up to a Pentium 133 for that. Voodoo2 card.
Slackware Linux. It was sort of a game. Game of "See how long it takes for you to configure X". Satisfying once done, though. BZflag. xpilot.
[–] Vladimara 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I remembered I used to play a Tony Hawkes American Wasteland. I was never good at it, though...
But for my older brother that game was Resident Evil 4. I (mostly) watched him play through the entire thing, and he beat it.
I kinda regret spoiling Res 4 for myself, but I had a ton of fun watching him play it. Especially the encounter with the giant and the wolf.
[–] QuaggaDodo 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Although we had an NES and all the standards, my first addiction was Street Fighter 2 at the arcade. Looking back, it was like the Old West of my youth. You put your quarter on the line and showed your stuff. Shit talking was minimal, and much camaraderie was had.
The older players would beat you, but they would also be cool and teach you the game, as there was no internet at the time.
[–] killerfrenchfry 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My first console was the N64. Played the hell out of Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, then Majora's Mask almost single-handedly fucked up my childhood...
[–] Irony_Dan 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Doctor.
Err, wait, that wasn't the question.
For dos, nothing beat Kommander Keen. DeGeneration was quite awesome as well. But I was playing a C=64 way before a PC, so it's gotta be the Olympic Games (and don't forget California Games) series, paradroid, and really, whatever I could get my hands on.
Technically my first home computer was a MC10 (tandy), and my first games console was a Telestar, but they almost don't count compared to the 64k fo the commie.