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.
I'm pretty sure I just had a lot more patience when I was a kid. New games were precious, and I would spend bajillions of hours playing one game until I had every corner and quirk of it memorized. Now days, just looking at a complicated jumping segment is enough to make me wonder what else I could be doing right then. I could always just play one of the other dozens of games I own and haven't finished, after all.
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There are records of me attempting to make Mario jump and adorably trying to shoot pixelated ducks at the tender age of three-ish. The first games I ever really played by myself were things like the Richard Scary games, old school Sim City, and a few of the Headbone titles (Elroy Goes Bugzerk is a great, great little game). I also used to play the Journeyman Project with my dad, which is notable because it scared the ever living crap out of me.
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.
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Followed up by DOOMII.
Man I loved those games. FPS is still my favorite genre.
Man, who is up for a Game On of motherfucking Doom?
Sod gaming memories, one of my first memories was playing this. I couldn't even read when we had this, so me and my sister named the game 'Extra Life'. It was only years later, when I went on something of a mission to track the game down, that I even found out its real name.
Played this Famicon game as a kid that I loved, but didn't know what it was called because it was in Japanese. It was a 2 player overhead shooter, you ran around a jungle island shooting people, throwing grenades, and occasionally riding tanks and saving hostages. It was the greatest thing ever.
Years later, I tried looking up that game, and apparently its called Guevara, and the point of the game is that you're Che Guevara, and you're taking over Cuba.
My parents have a picture of me when I was one year old, sitting next to my brother in front of the TV holding the second NES controller. My brother was skipping along through Super Mario Brothers, and there I was, pounding away at a controller that wasn't plugged in.
First game I actually remember playing was the first stage of the second world of Donkey Kong Country.
My first game was the highly realistic space sim "Star Raiders"
The Star Raiders box art is still one of my favorites. It's cheesy sci-fi, like something out of an issue of Omni. But when you are 5 years old and this is the first ever game of this kind in the still very young world of gaming, it's mind blowing.
Bahaha. PlayStation was the start of your gaming career? A CD based console?
Get off my lawn, you darn whippersnapper.
That was just one of my earliest video games. I think I started to really get into games only around the time GTA Vice City, Max Payne and Mafia came out. I think I was eleven at the time.
Sod gaming memories, one of my first memories was playing this. I couldn't even read when we had this, so me and my sister named the game 'Extra Life'. It was only years later, when I went on something of a mission to track the game down, that I even found out its real name.
Few years later came the Master System. And
I was in a pub the other night talking about old Sega games they should remake or rerelease.
It saddens me how many people still think this is called Alex The Kid.
The first video game I can remember playing is Super Mario Bros, when I was a toddler. (And I believe I still haven't beaten it either.) In fact I think I can even remember seeing a commercial for it. My family had an Atari though, so it's possible I played something before that and don't recall.
I couldn't remember exactly what it was, although I remember playing Alex Kidd at a friends house and getting really angry with those damn rock paper scissors battles.
The first game I can remember playing was the Atari version of Breakout. What I don't remember is what happened to our Atari. We had one, and then we didn't.
We also had those little portable games shaped like little arcade cabinets. One was Pac-Man, and the other was Frogger.
They were the only games I had to play for a couple of years until I played Double Dragon and Mega Man 2 on a neighbor's NES. MM2 was actually my first rental, as I convinced my mom to check it out at the video store, so the kid would have more incentive to invite me over and play his NES. And of course, I got my own NES the following Christmas.
Well the first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros., which came with my NES Action pack (Console/SMB/Duck Hunt/Zapper) I received as a birthday gift for my 4th birthday (1989).
My first game outside of that pack-in was Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers for the NES.
Edit: First game I ever recall 100%ing was Kirby's Adventure.
To this day it remains one of my 3 favorite games of all time. (Jet Set Radio & Rayman 2: The Great Escape being the others)
Totally thought about it this morning, and another title that I've been dying to have on VC is one of the first I've ever played that always left a mark of how a good scifi exploration game should feel to me.
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The first game I can remember playing was the Atari version of Breakout. What I don't remember is what happened to our Atari. We had one, and then we didn't.
We also had those little portable games shaped like little arcade cabinets. One was Pac-Man, and the other was Frogger.
They were the only games I had to play for a couple of years until I played Double Dragon and Mega Man 2 on a neighbor's NES. MM2 was actually my first rental, as I convinced my mom to check it out at the video store, so the kid would have more incentive to invite me over and play his NES. And of course, I got my own NES the following Christmas.
Oh god, so many of my friends had those little Pac Man and Frogger portables when I was a kid, I wanted one so bad.
That would be a cool little project, to retrofit a GBA into one of those.
Because I started off on the Atari 400 computer, I never had the 2600 console. The 400 used the same joysticks, though.
My parents wouldn't buy me and my younger brothers games for a fairly long while. I did get to use my dad's two Game and Watches. He had Donkey Kong and one where you have to catch bananas or something. Played the shit out of Donkey Kong.
When I was around 9, my friends got a new console or something and we got given their old genesis. Played the shit out of it for about 3 months playing Sonic and a side scrolling beat em up. The reason I only played it for 3 months was because it broke.
Fast foward a year or so, I had moved to America which cost lots of money and still no new gaming devices. It was the christmas of '98. God this Christmas I must have gotten what millions of kids wanted that year. The big grey machine of a Gameboy and the released only a month or two ago Pokemon Red. Then on January 1st on TV, the pokemon tv show starting showing for the first time in my town. Best Christmas Ever!
My first game was the highly realistic space sim "Star Raiders"
The Star Raiders box art is still one of my favorites. It's cheesy sci-fi, like something out of an issue of Omni. But when you are 5 years old and this is the first ever game of this kind in the still very young world of gaming, it's mind blowing.
Oh, i forgot about that one, great game. I remember trying to keep the targeting spot on while warping, great stuff. That and Protector? or Defender... i think both, actually. Protector had you flying a ship across a side scroller stage with a little person hanging off the back. If you flew too low, you would clip him on something and he'd die...then you had to head back to pick up a new guy.
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I'm pretty sure I just had a lot more patience when I was a kid. New games were precious, and I would spend bajillions of hours playing one game until I had every corner and quirk of it memorized. Now days, just looking at a complicated jumping segment is enough to make me wonder what else I could be doing right then. I could always just play one of the other dozens of games I own and haven't finished, after all.
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god that was such a brutal game for my little mind to comprehend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ92jySLBSg
this.
My dad, my step-mom and I would play MP matches for hours. The whole concept of playing together, but in separate rooms blew my mind.
Man, who is up for a Game On of motherfucking Doom?
Damn I feel young..
I don't think I've ever beat it playing on my own, weirdly.
Sod gaming memories, one of my first memories was playing this. I couldn't even read when we had this, so me and my sister named the game 'Extra Life'. It was only years later, when I went on something of a mission to track the game down, that I even found out its real name.
Few years later came the Master System. And
Years later, I tried looking up that game, and apparently its called Guevara, and the point of the game is that you're Che Guevara, and you're taking over Cuba.
And player 2 is Fidel Castro.
So yeah.
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Ah, memories.
Get off my lawn, you darn whippersnapper.
with their more than 8 colours, don't know they're born! I fought the kaiser for my copy of Combat, dagnabbit!
First game I actually remember playing was the first stage of the second world of Donkey Kong Country.
My first game was Combat.
Atari 4 life.
The Star Raiders box art is still one of my favorites. It's cheesy sci-fi, like something out of an issue of Omni. But when you are 5 years old and this is the first ever game of this kind in the still very young world of gaming, it's mind blowing.
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That was just one of my earliest video games. I think I started to really get into games only around the time GTA Vice City, Max Payne and Mafia came out. I think I was eleven at the time.
Feeling old yet? :twisted:
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I was in a pub the other night talking about old Sega games they should remake or rerelease.
It saddens me how many people still think this is called Alex The Kid.
Also Toejam and Earl.
We also had those little portable games shaped like little arcade cabinets. One was Pac-Man, and the other was Frogger.
They were the only games I had to play for a couple of years until I played Double Dragon and Mega Man 2 on a neighbor's NES. MM2 was actually my first rental, as I convinced my mom to check it out at the video store, so the kid would have more incentive to invite me over and play his NES. And of course, I got my own NES the following Christmas.
My first game outside of that pack-in was Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers for the NES.
Edit: First game I ever recall 100%ing was Kirby's Adventure.
To this day it remains one of my 3 favorite games of all time. (Jet Set Radio & Rayman 2: The Great Escape being the others)
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FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
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Bayonetta
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FF: 4 heroes of light
Me and my friend stayed up all night playing that crap.
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Oh god, so many of my friends had those little Pac Man and Frogger portables when I was a kid, I wanted one so bad.
That would be a cool little project, to retrofit a GBA into one of those.
Because I started off on the Atari 400 computer, I never had the 2600 console. The 400 used the same joysticks, though.
When I was around 9, my friends got a new console or something and we got given their old genesis. Played the shit out of it for about 3 months playing Sonic and a side scrolling beat em up. The reason I only played it for 3 months was because it broke.
Fast foward a year or so, I had moved to America which cost lots of money and still no new gaming devices. It was the christmas of '98. God this Christmas I must have gotten what millions of kids wanted that year. The big grey machine of a Gameboy and the released only a month or two ago Pokemon Red. Then on January 1st on TV, the pokemon tv show starting showing for the first time in my town. Best Christmas Ever!
Oh, i forgot about that one, great game. I remember trying to keep the targeting spot on while warping, great stuff. That and Protector? or Defender... i think both, actually. Protector had you flying a ship across a side scroller stage with a little person hanging off the back. If you flew too low, you would clip him on something and he'd die...then you had to head back to pick up a new guy.