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What game turned you into a gamer?
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I'd finish them but rarely without losing a party member. Interestingly enough, it was almost always my brother (I named the individuals in my party after family members) who had the worst luck. Snakebite, then two days later a broken leg, then dysentery a day later... He was almost always dead before we reached Chimney Rock.hoodoo said:
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
Death Wish 3 on the MSX. God alone knows how much time I spend on that one.
I also really, really liked Thexder. Its boxart alone was the stuff of legends for little me.
After the MSX we got a pc (286) and with that soon came legendary stuff like Larry, Monkey Island and Wolfenstein. I also got totally hooked on the Amiga version of Pirates which some relatives had. While my family would be chatting away happily I would be busy terrorising the Carribean. Later on I saved up all the money from my paper delivery job to get a Sega Megadrive on which Starflight, Buck Rogers and Road Rash were my absolute favourites.
I also really, really liked Thexder. Its boxart alone was the stuff of legends for little me.
After the MSX we got a pc (286) and with that soon came legendary stuff like Larry, Monkey Island and Wolfenstein. I also got totally hooked on the Amiga version of Pirates which some relatives had. While my family would be chatting away happily I would be busy terrorising the Carribean. Later on I saved up all the money from my paper delivery job to get a Sega Megadrive on which Starflight, Buck Rogers and Road Rash were my absolute favourites.
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Diablo.
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Pong, actually, but I was too young to really remember much about it.
I guess you can blame Sonic the Hedgegog, the Master System version.
I guess you can blame Sonic the Hedgegog, the Master System version.
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Started off on consoles, with Mario Bros, the original Ninja Gaidens, Robocop and the like.
I think my first PC game was 3D Movie Maker, if you can call that a game. Spent hours and hours just making stuff. Thexder 95 I played too, along with assorted adventure games. Gabriel Knight, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle.
But I think the one game that really hooked me into gaming was that Mummy adventure game with Tim Curry. Fallout came later. I just want you to understand that.
I think my first PC game was 3D Movie Maker, if you can call that a game. Spent hours and hours just making stuff. Thexder 95 I played too, along with assorted adventure games. Gabriel Knight, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle.
But I think the one game that really hooked me into gaming was that Mummy adventure game with Tim Curry. Fallout came later. I just want you to understand that.
poocolator
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Wolf 3D, Doom, X-com, sucking at everything else in life. Oh and Warcraft 1. Mmmm good times. Figuring out how to build walls in custom game mode really blew my mind.
MisterStone
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There were so many waves of video game playing when I was a kid, that it is hard to remember which ones affected me the earliest. Here is the executive summary:
1) Arcade games: pac-man, centipede, defender, donkey kong, gravitar, Jungle Hunt, dozens of others. I was hooked on this shit when I was like 6 or 7 IIRC, and probably kept playing until the PvP fighting games took over the arcades. Stupid shit, why does the video game industry inevitably move towards decline?
2) Atari 2600. I had one of these for years, even after it was obsolete. To be honest, it was a pretty crappy console. This is the only console I have ever owned, even today. We skipped entirely over nintendo and all of the other crud like that, mainly because my folks did not buy us stuff like this except for Xmas (and if they did, we did not get much else), I was broke, and because I decided I'd rather have computer games than a shit console with basically nothing but platformers. That's right, I was a 'leet console hater before you suckas were even born.
3) TI-99 4A. This machine actually sucked pretty hard. The main game that I played a lot of was Tunnels of Doom, one of the earliest CRPGs with tactical combat controlling a party of four. It was actually pretty damn good, if simple. My brother and I would play together, each of us controlling two of party members.
4) Apple IIc. Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Moebius (an Origin rpg), Autoduel, Ultima IV, Ultima V, King's Quest I and II, etc. Again, I had this crappy machine even after it was pretty obsolete, but back in the day it was golden age RPG heavan. I didn't even get to play half the games I wanted, because once again, my folks did not like to spoil us. We did pirate a good bit of stuff (it was a lot more difficult to "crack" a game back in the day), but often it was just two kids from different families splitting the cost of a $40 piece of software. That was pretty fucking expensive back then, especially for a kid with stingy parents.
5) Amiga 500. There were a lot of pretty badass platformers and similar games for this machine, but it pretty much sucked for RPGs. I don't know why, exactly, but probably because American devs were turning towards the new SVGA PC systems, and I don't think there were any really good European RPG devs back then. Highlights from this machine include: Dungeon Master (fuck yeahr), various Gold box games (Krynn series, Buck Rogers, etc.), Lemmings, Psygnosis games such as Shadow of the Beast III and Killing Game Show, The Immortal, probably tons of other stuff I have forgotten.
I had a Mac during college, which meant I pretty much missed out on PC gaming throughout the entire 90s through 2000 or so. Sad but true story.
1) Arcade games: pac-man, centipede, defender, donkey kong, gravitar, Jungle Hunt, dozens of others. I was hooked on this shit when I was like 6 or 7 IIRC, and probably kept playing until the PvP fighting games took over the arcades. Stupid shit, why does the video game industry inevitably move towards decline?
2) Atari 2600. I had one of these for years, even after it was obsolete. To be honest, it was a pretty crappy console. This is the only console I have ever owned, even today. We skipped entirely over nintendo and all of the other crud like that, mainly because my folks did not buy us stuff like this except for Xmas (and if they did, we did not get much else), I was broke, and because I decided I'd rather have computer games than a shit console with basically nothing but platformers. That's right, I was a 'leet console hater before you suckas were even born.
3) TI-99 4A. This machine actually sucked pretty hard. The main game that I played a lot of was Tunnels of Doom, one of the earliest CRPGs with tactical combat controlling a party of four. It was actually pretty damn good, if simple. My brother and I would play together, each of us controlling two of party members.
4) Apple IIc. Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Moebius (an Origin rpg), Autoduel, Ultima IV, Ultima V, King's Quest I and II, etc. Again, I had this crappy machine even after it was pretty obsolete, but back in the day it was golden age RPG heavan. I didn't even get to play half the games I wanted, because once again, my folks did not like to spoil us. We did pirate a good bit of stuff (it was a lot more difficult to "crack" a game back in the day), but often it was just two kids from different families splitting the cost of a $40 piece of software. That was pretty fucking expensive back then, especially for a kid with stingy parents.
5) Amiga 500. There were a lot of pretty badass platformers and similar games for this machine, but it pretty much sucked for RPGs. I don't know why, exactly, but probably because American devs were turning towards the new SVGA PC systems, and I don't think there were any really good European RPG devs back then. Highlights from this machine include: Dungeon Master (fuck yeahr), various Gold box games (Krynn series, Buck Rogers, etc.), Lemmings, Psygnosis games such as Shadow of the Beast III and Killing Game Show, The Immortal, probably tons of other stuff I have forgotten.
I had a Mac during college, which meant I pretty much missed out on PC gaming throughout the entire 90s through 2000 or so. Sad but true story.
spekkio
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Well, if I remember correctly it all started on arcades, with classics like:
DigDug
Defender
and Gyruss.
But worst money-sinker was probably Capcom classic
Capitan Commando.
At the same time my cousin received original NES + Zapper Gun from his family living in US.
I've borrowed this next-gen machine and begun my consoletardation with:
Super Mario Bros 2
and Duck Hunt.
A couple of years later, a friend of mine bought Atari XE and I've started my computer gaming with
Draconus.
My first own gaming platform was C-64, which came with a cardridge containing this one game, that turned my into real gamer:
Flimbo's Quest.
When it comes to PC-gaming, "my first time" was probably with Wolfenstein 3D, played on 286 during computer science lessons. Our school had only one such powerful machine at that time, so we've played Wolf3d in 3-person team: 1st person was operating directional keys, 2nd one was a shooter and 3d one was opening doors. Best multiplayer experience till UT and Q3 deathmatches.
Now just imagine current generation of gaymers, starting with Halo or WoW. Poor bastards.
DigDug
Defender
and Gyruss.
But worst money-sinker was probably Capcom classic
Capitan Commando.
At the same time my cousin received original NES + Zapper Gun from his family living in US.
I've borrowed this next-gen machine and begun my consoletardation with:
Super Mario Bros 2
and Duck Hunt.
A couple of years later, a friend of mine bought Atari XE and I've started my computer gaming with
Draconus.
My first own gaming platform was C-64, which came with a cardridge containing this one game, that turned my into real gamer:
Flimbo's Quest.
When it comes to PC-gaming, "my first time" was probably with Wolfenstein 3D, played on 286 during computer science lessons. Our school had only one such powerful machine at that time, so we've played Wolf3d in 3-person team: 1st person was operating directional keys, 2nd one was a shooter and 3d one was opening doors. Best multiplayer experience till UT and Q3 deathmatches.
Now just imagine current generation of gaymers, starting with Halo or WoW. Poor bastards.
Phelot
Arcane
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From Test Drive 3
It's been so long since I've played that game, is this the one that lets you go off road and you can run over signs and shit? I believe there's a train that runs through the first level. Were the previous onces like that? I think this was it because I remember the copy protection... it had some wheel card thing that you had to rotate if I'm not mistaken.
Anyways, that game was awesome and got me really interested in racing sims even though all I ever wanted to do was explore the surroundings.
It's been so long since I've played that game, is this the one that lets you go off road and you can run over signs and shit? I believe there's a train that runs through the first level. Were the previous onces like that? I think this was it because I remember the copy protection... it had some wheel card thing that you had to rotate if I'm not mistaken.
Anyways, that game was awesome and got me really interested in racing sims even though all I ever wanted to do was explore the surroundings.
Now, games that turned me from a kid with NES into a hardcore PC gamer were:
Crusader: No Remorse
Legend of Kyrandia
Transport Tycoon
And Dune 2, fuck yes.
Dune 2 is the most important of them. I still clearly remember that day. There was some strange file called dune2rus on my pc but i never bothered with it. It was my mom with my younger brother who discovered it, they apparently saw the file and thought it was some game about dinosaurs. So they called me and said that they found some strange game and left me to figure it out. About 15 minutes later when i understood that there are tanks and soldiers i can order around, it was just a revelation(it was my first expirience with strategy game). I understood that i found the most awesome game evar.
Crusader: No Remorse
Legend of Kyrandia
Transport Tycoon
And Dune 2, fuck yes.
Dune 2 is the most important of them. I still clearly remember that day. There was some strange file called dune2rus on my pc but i never bothered with it. It was my mom with my younger brother who discovered it, they apparently saw the file and thought it was some game about dinosaurs. So they called me and said that they found some strange game and left me to figure it out. About 15 minutes later when i understood that there are tanks and soldiers i can order around, it was just a revelation(it was my first expirience with strategy game). I understood that i found the most awesome game evar.
laffer35
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Hamster, I love all the games you listed there.
I also remember the day I got Dune 2 (on my Amiga, though... slower and not as good as the PC version).
Was awesome, felt really new and original back then.
And even though I wasn't playing the best version of the game, it still looked great to me... I was used to C64 stuff up to then. I hadn't even seen the PC version so it didn't bother me at all.
I also remember the day I got Dune 2 (on my Amiga, though... slower and not as good as the PC version).
Was awesome, felt really new and original back then.
And even though I wasn't playing the best version of the game, it still looked great to me... I was used to C64 stuff up to then. I hadn't even seen the PC version so it didn't bother me at all.
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