Earliest Gaming Memory

weiland79 · 10-03-2010 09:06PM #1

As the title suggests. I was just thinking about the first game i remember playing. It was called Commando on the Commodore 16.
I was ten at the time.1986
The game was little more than the green blocks against the brown blocks.With bigger grey blocks for cover and buildings.

They were simple times.

RedXIV · 10-03-2010 09:08PM

I remember playing a really crummy game called Myth on my dad's Atari I think. Was terrible at it (I was only 4 or 5 though) but still loved it

Glico Man · 10-03-2010 09:12PM

I can remember Christmas day in 1993, I was 6 and I had just received the best present from "Santa" ever. A brand new Sega Megadrive. I sat in front of the tv for the whole day playing Streets of Rage 2 (thanks mom and dad for allowing me to play such a violent game so early in my life) and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Its probably the reason why I always seem to talk about both of those games on boards:pac:

I just had to post this...ah nostalgic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0k4uRddNc8

Coriolanus · 10-03-2010 09:12PM

Predator on the Commodore 64.
Loved it to bits.

Edit: Actually, not sure if it was the C64. What was the one where you used cassette tapes?! That one!

Risteard · 10-03-2010 09:16PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1XEd5Q7E7Y

Good Times.

Retr0gamer · 10-03-2010 09:17PM

1 crediting R-type on my first go.

It's hard to remember, could be ghosts n'goblins or Contra in the arcade or else it was seeing my next door neighbours playing jack the nipper on the C64.

weiland79 · 10-03-2010 09:17PM

aaronh007 wrote: »

I can remember Christmas day in 1993, I was 6 and I had just received the best present from "Santa" ever. A brand new Sega Megadrive. I sat in front of the tv for the whole day playing Streets of Rage 2 (thanks mom and dad for allowing me to play such a violent game so early in my life) and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Its probably the reason why I always seem to talk about both of those games on boards:pac:

Ha thats great Streets of rage 2.What a class game!

weiland79 · 10-03-2010 09:18PM

Nevore wrote: »

Predator on the Commodore 64.
Loved it to bits.

Edit: Actually, not sure if it was the C64. What was the one where you used cassette tapes?! That one!

Yeah the 64 and the 16,with that loud scretching noise when the tape was loading.

PirateShampoo · 10-03-2010 09:18PM

Playing Crash games that came with a magizine for my ZX Spectrum 128.

Coriolanus · 10-03-2010 09:25PM

weiland79 wrote: »

Yeah the 64 and the 16,with that loud scretching noise when the tape was loading.

That's the one then!

I used to think you could put in any tape and it would be a game. :pac:

PogMoThoin · 10-03-2010 09:26PM

I remember playing Donkey Kong on my aunts Zx Spectrum, my first encounter with gaming at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoWjJIEfWA

But my ealiest arcade memory goes all the way back to these....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYSupJ5r2zo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xqDW7k_e40

Poly · 10-03-2010 09:31PM

Electronic battleship I bought with my communion money

PirateShampoo · 10-03-2010 09:32PM

Then after the spectrum i moved on to the Master System II with Alex the kidd in miracle world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OxK_2EP2K4

Lucifer31 · 10-03-2010 09:36PM

Got the C64 for Christmas around '83, which came with Jupiter Lander, which was a cartridge, rather than tape. That's the first game of my own that I remember. Got great mileage out of it too!

Sarky · 10-03-2010 09:52PM

Pacman in the pub on holiday. I must have been 4-5, bringing empty glasses back to the bar in the hopes of earning the glorious but elusive 10p that would allow me to play some more.

Either that or playing Centipede on the Atari 2600 for so long that the score counter ran out of numbers and reset.

CrinkElite · 10-03-2010 10:08PM

Midnight Resistance on the C64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arz2zG4Kl-Q

Listen to that music.

KICK ASS!!:cool:

Coriolanus · 10-03-2010 10:13PM

CrinkElite wrote: »

Midnight Resistance on the C64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arz2zG4Kl-Q

Listen to that music.

KICK ASS!!:cool:

How the hell did I forget that! Levelling up your weapons at the end was the best, you could get a triple shot scatter gun!

Edit: Haha, it's in the video. Damn, that brings me back.

10-03-2010 10:32PM

Playing Super mario bros 3 on original nes, and pacman on a commadore vic20. Finding the whistle in smb3 when you press the down arrow for ages until he drops through the screen...never forget it!

Nehaxak · 10-03-2010 10:34PM

This thread makes me feel so old

Had all the usuals, Spectrum, Oric, Atari etc., etc., but if I'm being absolutely honest, the only real home gaming experience came when I got my hands on an Amiga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoJBerFDsA

...and who could ever forget the Amiga music scene...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JFJ8Hjo_g

Not to mention the whole demo and .mod scene, though I can't find a youtube for that :P

Best computer/gaming platform ever made in my opinion.

sink · 10-03-2010 10:35PM

The Duel: Test Drive II on Windows 3.0 circa 1990, I was about 7.

It looked even crappier than this as it was in B&W on my parents business machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw_dUoakQmY

NullZer0 · 10-03-2010 10:46PM

I never post here ... but anyway.

Today I was just thinking of my first computer/game :-)

I believe it was an Atari of some sort and the game was "ET" something or other. It was terrible!

pawrick · 10-03-2010 10:46PM

used to play the arcade games in salthill Galway as a child can't remember what they were but some of the earliest memories were duck hunt on the Nintendo, Streets of Rage 2 on the Megadrive 2 & Turrican 2 on the C64 (this was one of my first games to buy - got it the week it came out in the shops and was so happy)

sink · 10-03-2010 10:50PM

iRock wrote: »

I never post here ... but anyway.

Today I was just thinking of my first computer/game :-)

I believe it was an Atari of some sort and the game was "ET" something or other. It was terrible!

That game was so bad it triggered the 1983 video game industry crash.

Corkfeen · 10-03-2010 10:51PM

Was the original prince of persia on pc. The graphics out do any of this modern ****e.:D

jonnybadd · 10-03-2010 10:59PM

Aside from watching the Uncle play games on his Atari, the first game(s) I remember playing were on my brand spanking new C64, it was the four game cart that came with the system.

I think the games were Flimbos Quest, Klax, International Soccer and Fiendish Freddies Big Top of Fun.

Jazzy · 10-03-2010 11:16PM

getting killed by the first goomba in mario bros on my friends nes

one of my favorite moments from that age was finishing megaman 2 for the first time. all the kids from the street came up to watch as we found out you use bubble mans weapon on the last boss!

mawk · 10-03-2010 11:33PM

hmmm my kness hurt cause im old. on the basis of this video..

pablomakaveli · 10-03-2010 11:40PM

When i was 5 my parents got me a nes for christmas. The first game i had was Super Mario Bros. 3. I remember when i played it that i found it too hard halfway through the second world so my dad played through it for me.:D

L31mr0d · 10-03-2010 11:41PM

CrinkElite wrote: »

Midnight Resistance on the C64.

I'll see your Midnight Resistance on the C64 and raise you the Amiga version. Vastly superior

"pick a weapon... weapon... weapon"

If I remember correctly there comes a point where you have to save up points and not buy weapons so you can free your family at the end, I was always like "screw that, I want more weapons, not a family".

I have a vague memory of the end boss being a big face with protruding eyeballs that shoots maggots at you

they don't make them like they used to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHwBb4VVz-4

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 10-03-2010 11:47PM

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Then after the spectrum i moved on to the Master System II with Alex the kidd in miracle world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OxK_2EP2K4

OMFG, I remember this game. Ha... I hated it though, got my ass kicked all the time.

When we were kids we didn't have a game system. We eventually got the NES, which was amazing at the time, and we also got a turbo joystick, ha. Anyway, we used to go to our cousins house to play their game systems. I guess my earliest memory is:

Somnus · 10-03-2010 11:52PM

The original worms game on my uncles computer. He had an illegal version I think, had to load it up in ms DOS and consult a vast sheet of codes every time he wanted to start it up.

I was terrible, I'd always try and use the airstrile

but hey I was young.

Pretty soon after I got a sega megadrive and had years of happiness with the likes of Sonic, Streets of Rage, etc. They were so awesome. Still are.

Earliest Gaming Memory

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