[–] SovereignSnake 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We got an NES for Christmas 1989 when I was 6. By then it came with Mario Bros. Duck Hunt and Track Meet packed in. My neighbors Mom would buy tons of games at flea markets in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota we had endless amounts of NES games to play. Everything from Battle Toads to Legend of Zelda I & II, Mario Brothers 2 & 3 to Rambo, Punch Out, Paper Boy, Robocop even Black Bass! I'm now 31 with a 3DS, Wii U and an Xbox One, I honestly don't think I'll ever stop playing video games. The Millennial Generation will probably play games until the day we die.
[–] BatmansTesticles 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
My first home computer was a Commodore VIC-20. So Asteroids and Centipede were pretty much my go-to games.
I was the "airplane nut" kid. While everyone else was playing Super Mario and Zelda, I was playing flight sims and other aircraft themed games like 50 Mission Crush, Hellcat Ace, F-15 Strike Eagle etc.
Sonic the Hedgehog and a Tiny Toons game were my first experiences. Then straight to Diablo for a week before I was like "I'm five years old, fuck that."
Then I played Mario Kart 64 and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for a bit. But then, it was Pokémon after that, forever until now(with two or three multi-month or year breaks).
[–] 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.
First video game I can ever remember playing was in DOS - the original "Digger". There were a couple other really old PC games, but I can't remember what any of them were called (because they didn't have as simple of a name as "Digger"). I remember one game where you were a detective, or something, but I wasn't very good at it because I was really young and it was too slow paced compared to just messing around in Digger, or whatever the hockey game was called where you only got a penalty for fighting if you lost the fight.
[–] Superking 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
We had an old Atari for about a year before the NES came out. I played the shit out of Bezerk. After we got the NES, I played Super Mario Bros. 1 & 2, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Contra, and Ducktales more than probably any other games.
[–] Nima ago
Hey man, as someone who played it back then, can you tell me if people realized Super Mario Bros. 2 was weird? I remember older kids not seeming to realize how different it was than the other ones. I was always like "Uh, didn't anyone notice the graphics got way better and then worse for Super Mario Bros. 3"?
[–] Superking ago
I think everyone realized that SMB2 was a different animal. Personally, I think it was a better game than SMB1. A lot of people were turned off by how different it was. It was something new and innovative though, so of course people were going to have reservations.
The fact that it had four different playable characters with actually different play styles was enough to set it apart in that generation of games.