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Hello guys! Today i ran across one of the first games i played and had alot of emotions coming back to me.... It was Krush kill 'N Destroy... Lol i loved those mutant scorpion-tanks, i just built those...Has anyone played it? (i played some other games on amstrad with floppy disks but real emotions happened with 3d games for me... "so realistic" )

What was the first game you played that you also miss? I'd like to hear your experiences :)

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  • MikeF
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    the first game i can recall playing was donkey kong on coleco vision, first one that i really loved was wolfenstein on my ibm 386
  • Brian "Panda" Choi
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    200 game NES Cartridge.  My jam was Super Mario Bros.

    My mum's was Tetris.

    We only had one NES.  Immigrant family and w/e else we had on our plate.

    Broad think she could stop my Mario time.  Anyways, who thought floating bricks with this weird Russian music was any fun?
  • PolyHertz
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    Don't know. I do recall playing the original Metroid on NES in a daycare (maybe 3 years old?), but I very well may have played something before that seeing as my memory from when I was that young is hazy at best.
  • Darth Tomi
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    Space Invaders for the arcade.
  • DeltaHexagon
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    I don't know which was the absolute first but there's a few that definitely got me into gaming on a whole. The old NES Mario Bros. with Duck Hunt was definitely one of them, along with some Sonic games and this one super old PC game called Nanasaurus or something? And you played a dinosaur gathering eggs it was surreal but I have such vivid memories of it.
  • SenSayNyu
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    Digger. Tetris and Prince of Persia after that. Man, I'm old...
  • valuemeal
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    Super Mario on the NES coupled with the Duck Hunt.
    Also the original Legend of Zelda.
    My dad had an NES  before I was born.

    My first RPG was Mario RPG though.
    Pretty cool game if I say so myself. 
  • sacboi
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    Atari's Pong circa: 1977, I think if memory serves on it's own two knob 'console'. 
  • Andreicus
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    Atlantis The Lost Empire: Trial by Fire i think...ah shit, good times
  • Ged
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    hmm Im not sure might be something like commander keen by Apogee or california games by Epyx on pc! hahaha those graphics now are so oldschool.
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    Commodore Tennis - basically a Pong clone for the VIC20 ...but I'm not really missing it. I do miss the simplicity and innocence of the time though. No achievements, no meta-game, no DLC, no transactions, no monetization, no forums, no social-media-whatever intergration, no distractions, (and no bug fixes).
  • Joopson
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    I remember playing lots of games early on, or watching my brothers play them. Including: Mario, Megaman, Donkey Kong Country, Sonic, Worms (or whatever it was. PC Game), DOOM, Mortal Kombat

    Truth is, I didn't play many games until the first Pokemon games came out in the US. And after that, I remember playing Twisted Metal, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (my favorite game ever), roller coaster tycoon, etc.

    But, I think Pokemon Blue was the first that I really "got", and stuck with. So I'll say that. But I have no idea what my true "first game played" would have been.
  • Amsterdam Hilton Hotel
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    I haven't played a game yet.
  • polygonboi
    probably mario or some other game on my dad's nes when i was a little kid

  • throttlekitty
    I think it was Clowns & Balloons on a Tandy CoCo.
  • Toku
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    TMNT on the NES, Man that game was hard. 
  • Sk0LLiE
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    Some weird wrestling game on the NES
    Yup.


  • Biomag
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    I am not sure, but I think the first time I played a video game was 'Escape from Singe's Castle' on a C64 when I was 4 or 5.
  • .Wiki
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    Could have been the first railroad tycoon on the amiga 500. I was addicted to trains when i was a small child :)


  • ZacD
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    Born in 1990, and pretty sure we had a computer before we got an NES. Probably some early DOS game, likely Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, King's Quest, SimAnt, or a kids game. 

  • X-One
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    Number Munchers has to be one of the first. Loved the game as a kid. Best part if my school day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvLpircQe4
  • wirrexx
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    Either Wolfenstein on ibm 386 , Prince of persia or Duckhunt NES

  • Obscura
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    Prince of persia, dune 2, doom.
  • Ruz
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    think it was a pong clone back in about 1978 ish. i was pretty lousy at it. Might even have been 'invicta mastermind' if you can count that as a proper game
  • thomasp
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    first ever tried was probably moon patrol on a friend's family PC - running on beautiful CGA graphics.

    first game i actually played was pitstop 2 on my C64.

    somehow i still remember how the packaging smelled. is that weird?

  • Lt_Commander
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    I remember playing Doom on my dad's lap on PC, and the old Lucasarts adventure games with my Uncle.
  • Kwramm
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    thomasp said:
    first ever tried was probably moon patrol on a friend's family PC - running on beautiful CGA graphics.

    first game i actually played was pitstop 2 on my C64.

    somehow i still remember how the packaging smelled. is that weird?

    Good times! Also one of my first games on the C64
  • huffer
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    I remember playing Doom on my dad's lap on PC, and the old Lucasarts adventure games with my Uncle.
    Doom was my first game too, I remember playing with my brother - one was shooting and another was moving haha. One time I was left alone and it was extremely realistic and scary with all the monsters - textures and everything looked photoreal!
  • Alex_J
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    Doom, and I was scared to play it alone.
  • Neox
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    ketchup factory, a gdr made ascii game where you only press one button. you are the controller on a conveyor belt kicking out empty ketchup bottles. the whole thing gets faster and faster and the patterns in which theempty bottles come in become more and more chaotic.

    oh yeah it was black and white and i played it on some robotron machine that was state of the art back then.
  • Eric Chadwick
    +1 for the masochism :D
  • Brian "Panda" Choi
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    Optimus said:
    Don't remember but it was a pixelated pinball game on a windows xp system me and my sis shared. The best game i played in the day' was club penguin, i remember me and my sis would fight on who would play next, (she always dominated the game never really shared.) Don't forget solitaire!
    Was it Space Cadet?


  • Alchemical
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    Mario Kart 64 and DOOM I think. I would have been something like 4-5 years old at the time.
  • isshak
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    I can remember when I was 4 years old when I and my older brother played Super Mario Bros on the Atari for the first time I can remember how hard it was for me and how he was playing most of the time and I was just watching lol, I really miss those moments 
  • Nordhal
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    My first game was Prince Of Persia, and I played it with my brother for a long time. I remember again when my father, before going to work, wrote us the letter keys we have to press to play the game : "CD PRINCE, ENTER, PRINCE.EXE"
    Wonderful time 
  • spacefrog
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    That would be some Pong-only TV game console at jmy friends home back in around 1980 ....
    Essentially only two controllers hooked up to the TV set ...
    Soon after that he  got a Philips G7000 ( Magnavox Odyssey 2 in the US ) ... man was i jealous...


  • Stinger88
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    My parent bought a Binatone MK10 (1977) I was born 1976 so probably played this as soon as I was able. Games were pong clones and sports variants. Had it for years. Wish I still had it.... Might pick one up on ebay now you've reminded me...


    First proper family computer was an Acorn Electron (1983)

    Some of the first games we had were:
    Snapper (Pacman clone)
    Repton 3
    Chuckie Egg
    Stock Car racing
    Sphynx adventure
    Starship Command
    etc

    But mostly we had to copy 100s of lines of code from magazine and hope that you'd be able to save it to tape or at least run the game for a 30mins. How gaming has changed...
  • spacefrog
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    Ahh - yes the Acorn .... I got myself a ZX Spectrum from my first holiday job money, about arround 83/84. Long after my friends got one: my parents simply could'nt effort this expense, after they already sent me to technical college ( including required boarding home rent) in 1982,
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  • Noors
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    Does Oil Panic count ?  Born in 1984, it would be unoriginally super mario/duck hunt on NES, in 1988 i guess. Parents bought it on credit. Good fellows. Strongest NES memories is The Battle of Olympus tho. You have to check its soundtrack and the 8bit Toccata and Fugue when you kneel before greek Gods. Ah glorious days. But the real magic and now nostalgia happened with the SNES, the best gaming system of all time.

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  • poopipe
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    Stinger88 said:
    My parent bought a Binatone MK10 (1977) I was born 1976 so probably played this as soon as I was able. Games were pong clones and sports variants. Had it for years. Wish I still had it.... Might pick one up on ebay now you've reminded me...


    I've been wracking my brain trying to remember what that thing was called for some time now. 

    Time for an ebay session I think.... 


  • musashidan
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    For me it was BMX Number Jump. We got a C64 one xmas. I'm sure we went without heating that winter to pay for it.......but man was it worth it to see that 20 pixel black sprite move jerkily across our 14" B&W telly every time we typed in the answer to the next exciting 'mathematical puzzle'.


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    Stinger88 said:


    But mostly we had to copy 100s of lines of code from magazine and hope that you'd be able to save it to tape or at least run the game for a 30mins. How gaming has changed...
    F%%k me, mate! I thought I was the only one sad enough to have done that. I remember one day I had off school I spent hours and hours typing out of a mag. The glossy 2-page spread showed a huge tank crashing over an embankment, cannon blazing. The feature in the mag promised an exciting simulation............hours and hours of pecking away and countless syntax errors later.....the moment of truth.....'Hit spacebar to continue'.......I've never been more disappointed in my young life. It was at that moment that I decided that perhaps programming wasn't for me. Graphics art was the future.

    I was also to realise at that tender age that CG magazines never quite live up to their own billing, and I believe that was a lesson well learned that fateful day.....
  • throttlekitty
    Stinger88 said:


    But mostly we had to copy 100s of lines of code from magazine and hope that you'd be able to save it to tape or at least run the game for a 30mins. How gaming has changed...
    F%%k me, mate! I thought I was the only one sad enough to have done that. I remember one day I had off school I spent hours and hours typing out of a mag. The glossy 2-page spread showed a huge tank crashing over an embankment, cannon blazing. The feature in the mag promised an exciting simulation............hours and hours of pecking away and countless syntax errors later.....the moment of truth.....'Hit spacebar to continue'.......I've never been more disappointed in my young life. It was at that moment that I decided that perhaps programming wasn't for me. Graphics art was the future.

    I was also to realise at that tender age that CG magazines never quite live up to their own billing, and I believe that was a lesson well learned that fateful day.....
    Maaaan. I had forgotten all about doing that! I might have to check into a ward now that I'm remembering.
  • Spag_Eddy
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    Super Mario Bros.

    Sometime around 1988 or so, I would have been probably 6 at the time. I had a friend a couple of blocks away whose family owned a Nintendo, he was the only friend I knew who had one, and every time I went over and walked through the front door, my friend would be playing Super Mario Bros. on the (then) big screen tube tv, and I would obviously be clamoring to partake in the fun. I have very distinct memories of it and get very unique and nostalgic feelings/emotions whenever I think about it. It was a feeling of magic that I have never been able to replicate since. 

    Eventually I convinced my parents to get me a Nintendo for Christmas, and thus began my lifelong love for gaming.  But I will always hold a very special place in my heart for Super Mario Bros.
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    Stinger88 said:


    But mostly we had to copy 100s of lines of code from magazine and hope that you'd be able to save it to tape or at least run the game for a 30mins. How gaming has changed...
    F%%k me, mate! I thought I was the only one sad enough to have done that. I remember one day I had off school I spent hours and hours typing out of a mag. The glossy 2-page spread showed a huge tank crashing over an embankment, cannon blazing. The feature in the mag promised an exciting simulation............hours and hours of pecking away and countless syntax errors later.....the moment of truth.....'Hit spacebar to continue'.......I've never been more disappointed in my young life. It was at that moment that I decided that perhaps programming wasn't for me. Graphics art was the future.

    I was also to realise at that tender age that CG magazines never quite live up to their own billing, and I believe that was a lesson well learned that fateful day.....
    Yeah ... did the same each weekend when i met with my friend who owned a ZX Spectrum already. Was a great teamwork training, one reading the hex value column after hex value column out loud ( i think each line was followed by a checksum value ) and the other one typing the numbers in. And then another game came to existence, and hopefully was great and saved to tape before anything bad happend. Like power failure or something ...

  • RyanB
    Galaxian in the hallway outside of a Kmart.   I was annoyed when they replaced it with Joust.


  • ryansizemore
    Too young to remember exactly, but it was either Pac Man arcade at my grandfather's pharmacy or Super Mario Bros. 3 on my NES that I got when I was 2.
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