A Sega Mega Drive Car Game called: Lotus Turbo Challenge by EA from 1990
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Minecraft Demo version on my grandpa's iPad. It blew my little 5 year old mind.
NFS 2SE
Bastion by Supergiant Games.
I'm actually not sure how precisely it happened, but a good decade ago as a teenager I somehow stumbled upon a torrent of the game. I didn't really know anything about the game, but I distinctly remember reading the description and looking at the art and being like "this is so cool", and then being like "this is even cooler" again when it turned out Rucks basically narrates the entire game with that deep hopeful voice.
And that was that; my early gaming continued with things like Hawken, Detective Grimoire and Machinarium, but Bastion definitely holds a special place in my heart.
More than a decade later, I've played (bought) and replayed basically all of Supergiant's games several times. Such a wonderful studio. Darren Korb is a fantastic composer as well, just doesn't miss a single vibe :)
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COD:MW2, Halo 3 and Fallout 3
Below the Root on Commodore 64. After that just the Mario Games and Final Fantasy games on NES and SNES.
Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.
It wasn't the first game I played, nor the first I was really drawn in by but Ultima IV on the Master System just seemed like a miracle. There could be an entire world with a rich history, populated by diverse characters where I got to step into the role of the protagonist of a story like in a fantasy novel only I had the freedom to make my own choices about how to respond to the story, the gameplay rewarded careful thinking over twitchy reflexes and the game world was so big it expanded into real world artefacts. I had no idea of the potential of the medium until I encountered that game but it all unfolded before me once I had.
Minecraft, and then Cuphead again
Sly Cooper.
Zillennials rise up.
Probably space invaders on the Atari 2600
I didn't have an Atari new I believe it was already an old system when me and my sister got it.
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gaming chooses you. you wake up one day and youre grinding something and u have a vague memory of games you played on these "old consoles"
Pole Position II on Atari 7800.
Halo/a slew of freemium MMOs I'd play on my dinky laptop in the mid 00s
super mario brothers 2 baybeeeeeeee
Sid Meier's Civilisation. Got me hooked like what I imagine crack cocaine and meth would do to you.
Probably Commander Keen 4 and Prince of Persia in black and white on my dad's 286 pc.
Portal. I have terrible FPS skills but love puzzle games. Having a FPS where I could proceed at my own pace and wasnβt constantly letting down teammates let me develop the skills needed to actually play.
I was first blown away with SimCity 4. My uncle had a pretty decent computer for the time, which could properly run it and I spent hours loving it. My nephew had RTC2 which we played for days on end, the first game I played through at home was Age of Mythology. I guess it shows where my love for strategy/simulation games comes from.
There was never really a single game. First game: Grand Prix on Atari 2600 Then The Settlers, Desert Strike, Another World and Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 on Amiga. Age of Empires 2, GTA, Stronghold, SHOGO, Morrowind, BG2 on PC After these titles I can try just about anything. That made me consider really wide variety of genres, styles and publishing formats (from indie to AAA).
The first games I played were some Windows 3.11 and DOS games, like Microman, Space Quest V and Civilization (which I didn't really understand, mostly liked to build up a palace lol). But what really got me into gaming was probably my Gameboy Advance with Pokemon Gold.
Freddy fish π
Pong.
I played games before, but my first obsession was Pokemon Blue, Diablo and 2 got me stuck into RPGs, and Halo CE got me into shooters.
Tony Hawk's Underground, Need for Speed underground, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I don't remember which one I played first, but it was one of them.
My parents got me my first video game when I was 3 years old called Ready for Math with Pooh. I still remember some of the games!
Need for Speed Underground 2
Hell yeah. That and Colin McRae Rally 2.0 were my favorite race games back then.
I got a Sega Genesis at 5. I had Sonic 1 and 2, and tiny toon adventures. Tiny Toon Adventures slaps.
KOTOR It is still one of the best stories in a game.
When I played pong on a Dec PDP 11 βminiβ computer in the 1970s. I was hooked and spent my life playing many games. Into VR development these days Imagineering a Theme Park.
Believe it or not, Angry Birds.
Quake 3 was my first but Ultima Online is the one that made me fall in love.
Elder scrolls V: Skyrim. I got into gaming at a pretty high age(31yo) even though I had played a bit when I was younger, but I wouldn't consider myself a gamer before Skyrim.
Sonic on sega was the first game I played, FF7 was the first game I loved.