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What was the first video game you ever played? Or, at least, what's the first one you remember playing. Did you "master" it? What are your thoughts on that game now?

I'm high and thinking of stupid shit so I just realized that there are people whose first video game they ever played could have been something like Superman 64. It was the only game they had, and they played it over and over for months until getting another game, and even then they maybe still played it occasionally for the next few years. Is your nostalgia built upon terrible games?

My earliest memory would be Joust, Kangaroo for the Intellivision, or Space Taxi on the Commodore 64. I still have a lot of nostalgia for Joust, though I never played it much when I was older, and never got very good at it. I'd never really thought much about Kangaroo, though, until thinking about this. It was fun, I guess?

I think Space Taxi was one of the coolest games ever though, with some fun level designs. In that way, it has a lot in common with another favorite from later in my childhood, Lemmings.

>> No.359604

Super Mario Bros. I am boring :(

>> No.360832

>>359527

Pole Position in a cousin's Atari. I still fucking love that game and the sound of the engine... still more fun than 90% of actual games.

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I still use warp zones because fuck the water levels.

>> No.360865

Guardian Legend.

Still my favorite game on the NES, and one tough sumbitch to beat. Second game I ever beat, too, after SMB1.

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360868

feck yea negro i loved this shit
treasure fucking mountain

>> No.360878

>>360836
I use the warp zone because I can't remember the correct sequence for the endless labyrinth castle.

>> No.360882
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>>359527
Pic related was my first. Sucked at it.

>> No.360904

>>359527
It was probably Gianna Sisters, but seen most of the games were of piratey nature, it's hard to be sure. We played Gianna pretty extensively.

>> No.360906

>>359527
my first game was Qix. As a kid we had this laptop (this was early 90s) and there were a bunch of games. I don't really remember any others, but I remember playing the shit out of Qix.

man... that's a fun game

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Smurf: rescue in gargamel's castle (coleco)

Short platformer with just 1 level that keeps looping with some increased difficulty each time.
I was 4, I liked the smurfs, I thought being able to move a smurf on the TV myself was some sort of trickery magician shit

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This, along with Tapper and BlockOut. We had a shitty IBM PC (by 1990 standards) with no hard drive so we had to run shit off 5.25" floppies.

Popcorn was engrained into my brain because of this game.

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This one, we had an MSX on my primary school

I've never beaten this game

>> No.360962

SMB+Duckhunt, like most people my age I´m guessing. I remember seeing atari games before that, but those were just fuking lines/dots throwing lines/dots at lines/dots and being terrible at it, I had no interest in those, rather watch cartoons.

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361016

My very first game ever. Or I like to say that. My brother had one game on and I started to play it when he was away from the room...

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>>361016
...and the game was Sex Games for C64. This is also my earliest memory ever.

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>> No.361045

>>361016

fuck yeah turrican

chris huelsbeck is the master of music

>> No.361046

>>361045
I even pledged for his kickstarter. I have no regrets!

>> No.361050

>>361046

mah nigga

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This was my first game, played at my father's office on... a 286?
Never ended it: NOSTALGIA!

>> No.363593

>>360951
Not familiar with that one, but it looks like a mix of Dig Dug and Boulder Dash, both of which are the shit.

>> No.363607

hmm, growing up with a SNES it was probably one of the three best games we had: Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Kart, or Super Mario World.

The first game I really got into and started playing video games because was Pokemon Ruby on the GBA.

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>> No.363667

>>363607
Going through this thread, god damn you niggas old as fuck.

>> No.363674

>>363667
Are you 16?

>> No.363712

>>363674
18

>> No.363734

>>363712
IOW, you are 16 but you claim to be 18 so you don't get banned

>> No.363754

>>363734
But, I really am 18. I know there are a lot of underageb&s, but I'm actually not one of them. I turned 18 last december. regardless, my point stands. you niggas old as fuck.

>> No.363763

>>363754
I never knew 23 was old

>> No.363775

>>363763
>what is relativity

>> No.363790
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363790

A clone of River Raid on one of those Atari2600 clones with 128 in-built games.

>> No.363801

>>363763
it's not. /vr/ is a bit older than /v/. the average age here is probably 20-21 while for /v/ it's about 16. of course to underage folk like >>363754, it's pretty ancient

>> No.363812

>>363801
I'm not underage though! I am exactly of age. stop picking on me.

>> No.363831

>>363801
The weighted average age of 4chan as a whole being about 17-18

>> No.363852

>>363831
That explains why the site is so immature. What is that stat for /b/? Like 14-16?

>> No.363870

>>363852
the most underage boards are probably /b/, /v/, /mu/, /sp/ (at least before strict moderation returned), /pol/, and /r9k/

oldest are probably /g/, /k/, /ck/, and /o/

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Repton 3, on our BBC Micro, when I was just 3 years old. My dad worked as a teacher at the time and got put in charge of their nascent computer department, so he got to bring one home so he could test out the programs. Naturally, we just played games instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwl0ISGyHck

>> No.364005

>>363881
I don't know where my dad got our C64, but it came with like 2 "containers" of pirated games on floppies.

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Played it through the four ships, then they start to get numbers. I think I got as far in this game as humanly possible because the enemies then moved across the screen faster than you could move your guy one height.

>> No.364116
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I don't think it's even possible to beat this game.

>> No.364153

Donkey Kong Country 2
Me and my grandpa would play that shit for hours but to my knowledge we never beat it. I haven't played it in forever but I have very fond memories

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Probably this. It also may have inspired my love for platformers, because there are these mini stages that basically are jumping over pits, pushing blocks and trying to get items.

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>> No.364195

>>364116
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ttR34rFRI

>> No.364198

No idea what it was called, pretty sure it used to be on a spectrum zx. All I remember is you had to go left and right, you were a stick man and sometimes spiders would appear and the music would change to some tune that I can't really remember but I remember really liking it. Can't remember if you had to collect anything either, all I remember is white stickman, black bg white platforms and white spiders

>> No.364214

>>364158
One thing I forgot to add is that looking back, a lot of the music in it sounds like bad porn music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTuN894mXvQ

>> No.364263

>>364195
Different version. MUCH smoother controls. The dungeon parts on Amstard are insane.

>> No.364273
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Playing Double Dragon II at 4yo with a kid around my age was basically the highlight of my childhood vidya experiences.

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Mini-Putt for C64 by Accolade

>> No.364316

I don't remember it was something on NES at my cousin's house probably SMB

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>> No.366127

>>364116
Thanks to you I now have a couple of amstrad cpc emulators and what I think is a full romset. I will be digging deep into this one. Hopefully it goes as nice as the bbc micro has been.

>> No.366290

>>363667
>>363712
>>363812

How does it feel discovering a whole lot of consoles outside of the PS3 you complaint about it and your parents bought to you. This isn't the hipster board.

It doesn't makes you old knowing old stuff.

>>363831

Rly?; i think it's 13-15.

Yeah, old posts...

Anybody played Drivemobile?.

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Pic related.

>> No.366616

Probably Ocarina of Time
But it could be any number of games
SMB 1-3, LoZ, Sonic 1 or 2 fuck if I know
Probably Ocarina of Time
All I did was run around Kakariko Village cutting grass

>> No.366635

Alex the Kidd In Miracle World was built into the Master System, was either that or some Sonic master system game.