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[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] ah 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Counterstrike 1.6, half life 1, halo:ce, and Diablo ii
[–] Trestkie ago
Great memories with those games.
[–] 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.