Yeah, but I don't think the hard drive was that large.
I remember my dad explaining how large the sizes were, and he explained bytes, kilobytes and megabytes and I asked him if there was anything larger than a megabyte and he said yeah, a gigabyte but it's so big you'd never be able to fill it up.
One of the first six games I ever played was Space Invaders on the Spectrum ZX81.
I say six, because it came with six pack-in games, and I really can't remember which one I played first.
I do remember that I got Bubble Bobble very soon after, though.
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Probably Pong, or that one where you jump up the stairs around the monsters as that round thing with legs and a long snout nose.
I'm assuming you're talking about Q*bert, which was one of my firsts as well.
The very first was Asteroids on my uncle's Intellivision, followed quickly by a family Colecovision that had Q*bert, Donkey Kong, and Beamrider (which I remember being a totally intense shooter).
I remember Food Fight. Anyone else hit that glitch around level 125? It would just repeat the same level over and over again.
This thread makes me realize how awesome box art was back in the day. I mean its some epic looking shit. None of this half-rotted zombie hand crap.
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turtleantGunpla Dadis the best.Registered Userregular
edited October 2009
On a whim my parents got me a super nintendo with super mario world when I was three. Boy they sure didn't know what they were starting.
After that my grandparents found a NES at a garage sale and picked it up for me with Mario/duckhunt, kung-fu, and Zanac.
Then I got Joe&Mac for the SNES and played it til the cartridge wore out. Then we bought it again.
Yeah, but I don't think the hard drive was that large.
I remember my dad explaining how large the sizes were, and he explained bytes, kilobytes and megabytes and I asked him if there was anything larger than a megabyte and he said yeah, a gigabyte but it's so big you'd never be able to fill it up.
On a whim my parents got me a super nintendo with super mario world when I was three. Boy they sure didn't know what they were starting.
After that my grandparents found a NES at a garage sale and picked it up for me with Mario/duckhunt, kung-fu, and Zanac.
Then I got Joe&Mac for the SNES and played it til the cartridge wore out. Then we bought it again.
How good are three year olds at playing games? Could a three year old beat some levels in Super Mario World?
On a whim my parents got me a super nintendo with super mario world when I was three. Boy they sure didn't know what they were starting.
After that my grandparents found a NES at a garage sale and picked it up for me with Mario/duckhunt, kung-fu, and Zanac.
Then I got Joe&Mac for the SNES and played it til the cartridge wore out. Then we bought it again.
How good are three year olds at playing games? Could a three year old beat some levels in Super Mario World?
At three years old I could beat maybe the first 2 worlds of Super Mario Brothers.
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On a whim my parents got me a super nintendo with super mario world when I was three. Boy they sure didn't know what they were starting.
After that my grandparents found a NES at a garage sale and picked it up for me with Mario/duckhunt, kung-fu, and Zanac.
Then I got Joe&Mac for the SNES and played it til the cartridge wore out. Then we bought it again.
How good are three year olds at playing games? Could a three year old beat some levels in Super Mario World?
At three years old I could beat maybe the first 2 worlds of Super Mario Brothers.
I could do most of world 1 and two and I would let my grandpa help me with some of the harder worlds. And me and my dad would run through Joe&Mac together in the co-op mode.
Most of the games I started with were RPGs which I believed caused me to enjoy RPGs more than action games, always been a preferred genre of games. The SEGA Master System was my favorite game system until my dad got the Tandy 1000 and I started playing the Gold Box AD&D games.
I know that no one will remember this given my paltry memory, but I'll give it a try. It was side scroller where you played some kind of prince in a fairy world and you went through different levels of a mountain. It was very green and colorful, if basic. There was a lot of exploration and some complex mechanics involved. It was old, back when I was in elementary or middle school (25 now).
I know that no one will remember this given my paltry memory, but I'll give it a try. It was side scroller where you played some kind of prince in a fairy world and you went through different levels of a mountain. It was very green and colorful, if basic. There was a lot of exploration and some complex mechanics involved. It was old, back when I was in elementary or middle school (25 now).
No, it was a good bit more advanced than that. I'd say the graphics were somewhat similar to something out of Gobliiins.
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edited October 2009
A game I typed in BASIC on my Amstrad CPC 664 when I was 6/7 from the manual.
Can't remember what it was called but in involved bombing a city to clear a path to land.
CotW was one of the few roguelikes I enjoyed playing. Mostly because it was possible for my pre-teen self to actually make progress on it. And because the Norse are awesome.
I did an LP of the first episode on my YouTube channel, people seemed to like it well enough. Once I'm... well, better, I might do part 2 and dedicate it to PA. Still have issues with "dead air," I feel. In addition to the standard "I don't think I'm funny/interesting/good/etc."
To keep up the spirit of the thread, I remember playing the oooold sim games. SimAnt, SimFarm, etc. I'd look up videos but I'm lazy at the moment. Though I do remember an awesome thing in SimAnt's freeplay mode. If you kill the spider with spray enough times...
LASER VISION.
I'm positive I remember something like that, anyway.
I had been playing games randomly in the arcade for as long as I can remember
but I didn't really get into games until the mid 90's. And really, I can pretty much owe all my gaming enthusiasm back then to DOOM. Without DOOM I probably wouldn't even care a bit about games today.
Followed up by DOOMII.
Man I loved those games. FPS is still my favorite genre.
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edited October 2009
I remember playing Atari when I was about 3 or 4. I loved the game where you're a kangaroo and you have to save your baby kangaroo. I think the Atari was even kind of old at that point, though? It was my sisters system. I'm pretty sure it was the 5200? My first official system was the SNES. Super Mario World was probably the first game I ever beat. It was either that or Link's Awakening on the Gameboy.
Edit: I take it back. It was the 2600. Man, I'm more old school than I thought, and I was only born in 86.
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I remember playing some strange version of Asteroids on an Intellivision (I think) in which the asteroids scrolled down from the top on the screen.
I think I was four at the time, which would make it 1982. I only remember this because I know it was in the second house we lived in and my father died when I was five after we moved into the third family house.
I had a few friends who had the Intellivision and Colecovision. I didn't get a system until my mom finally broke down and bought us a Master System and Alex Kidd and the Lost Stars. I had the music to that game stuck in my head for days, and when I went to sleep I could see the screen and hear Alex Kidd screaming.
What a fucking terrible game that was.
Also: Phantasy Star is one of the greatest games ever made. I remember my buddy's copy had a busted battery backup so you couldn't turn off the system of the saves would be erased. We would keep the Sega on for weeks while we played it. I still remember farming Fishmen and Octopuses on the first continent to save up money for the Diamond Armor. Once you did that, you didn't have to buy armor for Alis for the rest of the game. You did, however, have to have the patience to kill Fishmen and Octopi for five or six hours in order to get the ~40k mesetas to buy the armor...
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I first started playing games when I was 4 or 5 years old. My father had bought me an Atari (no idea which one). My first games were Q-bert, Joust, Centipede and Galaxian. Galaxian was a Space Invaders clone. I do remember being particularly fond of Joust: Epic battle of ostrich riders fighting to the death while avoiding ferocious beasts!
On a whim my parents got me a super nintendo with super mario world when I was three. Boy they sure didn't know what they were starting.
After that my grandparents found a NES at a garage sale and picked it up for me with Mario/duckhunt, kung-fu, and Zanac.
Then I got Joe&Mac for the SNES and played it til the cartridge wore out. Then we bought it again.
How good are three year olds at playing games? Could a three year old beat some levels in Super Mario World?
At three years old I could beat maybe the first 2 worlds of Super Mario Brothers.
My son just turned three a month ago. He can move a character back and forth, jump (if jump is up) intentionally. He still has not gotten a handle on using the buttons nor does he quite get what to do. His favorite is SF4, ill put it on training mode and he plays Fei Long, just taunts endlessly and laughs at him. And Earthworm Jim.
I do think he could get through some easy platformers given practice, but thats not really a goal for me :P
My 1st games were on an Atari 800xl. Lode Runner, Jumpman, Kaboom, Bruce Lee...we really had dozens of games i got from my grandmother. Come to think of it, i belive she pirated them all as that Atari had a disk drive attachment, and i had about 50 disks, each with 4-5 games on them. Of course thats during the VHS/tape era, copying media was not so frowned upon (still its funny to think of my Grandmother pirating games.)
Even so, we had some great ones, Joust, Ultima 1 + 2, Zork 1,2,3. My father, a fairly talented artist, had created these huge intricate Zork maps on canvas cloth, i have them somewhere.
At some point my Aunt game me my first NES, the only game i got with it was Final Fantasy. Come to think of it, there was a lot of gaming going on when i was young.
On a whim my parents got me a super nintendo with super mario world when I was three. Boy they sure didn't know what they were starting.
After that my grandparents found a NES at a garage sale and picked it up for me with Mario/duckhunt, kung-fu, and Zanac.
Then I got Joe&Mac for the SNES and played it til the cartridge wore out. Then we bought it again.
How good are three year olds at playing games? Could a three year old beat some levels in Super Mario World?
At three years old I could beat maybe the first 2 worlds of Super Mario Brothers.
I could do most of world 1 and two and I would let my grandpa help me with some of the harder worlds. And me and my dad would run through Joe&Mac together in the co-op mode.
First game I played was Super Mario Bros. for the NES at 2 years old. First game I beat was Super Mario Bros. for the NES at 2 years old. I'm told it only took me 2 weeks from the time we bought it. No one would play with me. My parents fondly remember having a business party at the house (My dad was a stock broker at the time, so we had these often), and one of my dad's co-workers decided he wanted to play it with me. He sat down next to me, I started it over so we could do 2-player, and he waited for me to die so he could take his turn. Two full worlds later, he got up and said nevermind, that maybe he didn't really want to play.
Now, going back and playing that game, I have so many problems trying to beat it. In fact, I don't think I've beaten it at all in my adulthood. But yeah, apparently I used to be amazing at video games. I don't know what happened, because that is not the case anymore.
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I played it on the HP-85:
I also seem to recall playing the game in Finnish. Which would mean that my father had translated the entire god damn game into Finnish for me.
Maybe I'll give him a call today.
And I'm pretty sure most of you played this too.
I see your gaming career started at the exact same moment as mine.
Possibly having bought the exact same computer.
386 with a whopping 90MB hard drive?
I remember my dad explaining how large the sizes were, and he explained bytes, kilobytes and megabytes and I asked him if there was anything larger than a megabyte and he said yeah, a gigabyte but it's so big you'd never be able to fill it up.
Whoops.
First game was probably Gorf:
First game I ever beat was Pro Wrestling on the NES:
I say six, because it came with six pack-in games, and I really can't remember which one I played first.
I do remember that I got Bubble Bobble very soon after, though.
I'm assuming you're talking about Q*bert, which was one of my firsts as well.
The very first was Asteroids on my uncle's Intellivision, followed quickly by a family Colecovision that had Q*bert, Donkey Kong, and Beamrider (which I remember being a totally intense shooter).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwKbXqc1_30&feature=related
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5aA055Ous
This thread makes me realize how awesome box art was back in the day. I mean its some epic looking shit. None of this half-rotted zombie hand crap.
After that my grandparents found a NES at a garage sale and picked it up for me with Mario/duckhunt, kung-fu, and Zanac.
Then I got Joe&Mac for the SNES and played it til the cartridge wore out. Then we bought it again.
And then came internet porn.
YES!
I was brought up playing on a BBC Micro, we had literally hundreds of games on 5¼-inch floppy disks (which were literally floppy).
Most of them were had pretty generic titles like "flight simulator" or some such. I do remember one called Repton though:
and Elite! Oh man how could I forget the hours sunk into that one.
I think we still have our machine hidden somewhere in our loft, I'll have to bring it out for some serious (-ly disapointing) nostalgia at some point.
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How good are three year olds at playing games? Could a three year old beat some levels in Super Mario World?
CyberStrike 2, also known as third person quake with robots.
First game i ever beat 100% was Kirby's Adventure on NES. I was 7. Its still my favorite game to this day.
At three years old I could beat maybe the first 2 worlds of Super Mario Brothers.
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I could do most of world 1 and two and I would let my grandpa help me with some of the harder worlds. And me and my dad would run through Joe&Mac together in the co-op mode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcMbT9pGeo&feature=related
Phantasy Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJETT4HN3FA
Zillion II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6kAVaRUPg
Y's The Vanished Omens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6svVdaG7-Q
Miracle Warriors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eK7Rqp9-JQ
Enduro Racer
Most of the games I started with were RPGs which I believed caused me to enjoy RPGs more than action games, always been a preferred genre of games. The SEGA Master System was my favorite game system until my dad got the Tandy 1000 and I started playing the Gold Box AD&D games.
Good luck, lol.
Hall of the Mountain King?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFilnaFG8c
Can't remember what it was called but in involved bombing a city to clear a path to land.
Fuck walking into a manticore when you open a door though. Also magic arrow best the best starting spell.
I never made it past floor 30 I think, fucking Manticores!
I did an LP of the first episode on my YouTube channel, people seemed to like it well enough. Once I'm... well, better, I might do part 2 and dedicate it to PA. Still have issues with "dead air," I feel. In addition to the standard "I don't think I'm funny/interesting/good/etc."
To keep up the spirit of the thread, I remember playing the oooold sim games. SimAnt, SimFarm, etc. I'd look up videos but I'm lazy at the moment. Though I do remember an awesome thing in SimAnt's freeplay mode. If you kill the spider with spray enough times...
I'm positive I remember something like that, anyway.
but I didn't really get into games until the mid 90's. And really, I can pretty much owe all my gaming enthusiasm back then to DOOM. Without DOOM I probably wouldn't even care a bit about games today.
Followed up by DOOMII.
Man I loved those games. FPS is still my favorite genre.
Edit: I take it back. It was the 2600. Man, I'm more old school than I thought, and I was only born in 86.
I think I was four at the time, which would make it 1982. I only remember this because I know it was in the second house we lived in and my father died when I was five after we moved into the third family house.
I had a few friends who had the Intellivision and Colecovision. I didn't get a system until my mom finally broke down and bought us a Master System and Alex Kidd and the Lost Stars. I had the music to that game stuck in my head for days, and when I went to sleep I could see the screen and hear Alex Kidd screaming.
What a fucking terrible game that was.
Also: Phantasy Star is one of the greatest games ever made. I remember my buddy's copy had a busted battery backup so you couldn't turn off the system of the saves would be erased. We would keep the Sega on for weeks while we played it. I still remember farming Fishmen and Octopuses on the first continent to save up money for the Diamond Armor. Once you did that, you didn't have to buy armor for Alis for the rest of the game. You did, however, have to have the patience to kill Fishmen and Octopi for five or six hours in order to get the ~40k mesetas to buy the armor...
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Some game with Robin Hood, princesses, attacking castles, had 'Crown' in the title.
California games
Spacegoose(?)
Early PC gaming on 3.5"'s, before onboard hardrives were standard I think.
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My son just turned three a month ago. He can move a character back and forth, jump (if jump is up) intentionally. He still has not gotten a handle on using the buttons nor does he quite get what to do. His favorite is SF4, ill put it on training mode and he plays Fei Long, just taunts endlessly and laughs at him. And Earthworm Jim.
I do think he could get through some easy platformers given practice, but thats not really a goal for me :P
My 1st games were on an Atari 800xl. Lode Runner, Jumpman, Kaboom, Bruce Lee...we really had dozens of games i got from my grandmother. Come to think of it, i belive she pirated them all as that Atari had a disk drive attachment, and i had about 50 disks, each with 4-5 games on them. Of course thats during the VHS/tape era, copying media was not so frowned upon (still its funny to think of my Grandmother pirating games.)
Even so, we had some great ones, Joust, Ultima 1 + 2, Zork 1,2,3. My father, a fairly talented artist, had created these huge intricate Zork maps on canvas cloth, i have them somewhere.
At some point my Aunt game me my first NES, the only game i got with it was Final Fantasy. Come to think of it, there was a lot of gaming going on when i was young.
Defenders of the Crown, i played that one a lot too.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
It took me a tragicly long time to learn left from right from my parents instructions.
So awesome yet so much bullshit.
First game I played was Super Mario Bros. for the NES at 2 years old. First game I beat was Super Mario Bros. for the NES at 2 years old. I'm told it only took me 2 weeks from the time we bought it. No one would play with me. My parents fondly remember having a business party at the house (My dad was a stock broker at the time, so we had these often), and one of my dad's co-workers decided he wanted to play it with me. He sat down next to me, I started it over so we could do 2-player, and he waited for me to die so he could take his turn. Two full worlds later, he got up and said nevermind, that maybe he didn't really want to play.
Now, going back and playing that game, I have so many problems trying to beat it. In fact, I don't think I've beaten it at all in my adulthood. But yeah, apparently I used to be amazing at video games. I don't know what happened, because that is not the case anymore.