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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Trivial Psychic on March 21, 2018, 07:11:46 am
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Inspired from certain reminiscing taking place in the FS 20th Anniversary thread, it is time to show off just how old or young you are and share with us what your first non-console gaming experience was. Non-Console refers to anything exclusively or primarily intended for gaming. If it includes a full-sized keyboard, it is likely not a console. I decline from using the term "PC-Based" to refer to "Non-Console" systems, as there are gaming and computer systems that predate the PC.
My first system was the Commodore Vic-20 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20). The Vic-20 was nearly a console in that there was a port on the back where gaming cartridges could be inserted. It also had a tape deck where games or software could be loaded, and although we never had one, it could be fitted with an 8-inch floppy drive. Also, like a console, you could connect it to a television. In fact, for most of its life at my home, we used on old B&W set.
We (my friends and family) fried our first one (which cost $300 initially, accessories & all) because we took the gaming cartridges out without turning the thing off first. However, my mother bought a replacement soon after, used... for $20 and some additional games.
A few years later, the Vic-20 was joined by a Commodore 128 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128), though that was for my older brother when he went away to university, so it wasn't always at home.
We didn't get our first PC until the early 90's.
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The first pc my family owned was a 386 bought in oktober 1992, with a stunning 2mb internal ram, a massive 40mb harddrive, a powerful 1mb s-vga graphics chip which displayed its graphics on a black and white monitor. Costing 2049 gulden, which would be 1475 euro in the present day, accounting for inflation. (I somehow still have the original receipt of this thing)
The first game we ever played on it was the original Prince of Persia, who initially refused to stop bumping into the wall to the left, because of the crappy joystick we had plugged in.
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My first gaming experience should be from 1998. Nintendo 64 with Mario Kart 64 at a friends place.
Well, that was also the day i began to hate the N64 controller :D Until today it is by far still the worst controller i had to play with IMO.
In 1999 i get my own PC in the age of 11, not only for gaming but also for the internet. Even my parents were generous back then, because it was already a Pentium II with 333 MHz and a Voodoo 2 in it. Even i think that my dad was some kind of interesting in games back then... even he did not played very much in the end.
Need for Speed: High Stakes was the first real game for it i have, because it was part of the bundle. I played it very much next to Pinball: Space Cadet which was also part of Windows 98 back then.
Freespace 2 was the first game i bought myself. Actually i never know why i came to this game in the first place. :confused: Maybe because we also had a Joystick due of NFS.
It is very funny in today's perspective that i actually played a racing game with a joystick instead of a gamepad. :lol:
Because FS2 affected my life so much in the following years (it is the reason behind my nickname and was also the inspiration to become a game-designer) i am still thinking about what my life would look like if i had bought another game ^^.
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Apple IIE
MathBlaster
(http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/files/MathBlasterPlusIIGS/ScreenGrab_1/math_blaster_shot.gif)
Marble Madness
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/Marblemadnessscreenshot.png/220px-Marblemadnessscreenshot.png)
The Black Cauldron
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MzEIaomf01s/hqdefault.jpg)
Tetris
(http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/files/Tetris/ScreenGrab_1/tetrisshot1.gif)
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Supaplex (https://classicreload.com/supaplex.html)
Supaplex Master Fan Page (http://www.elmerproductions.com/sp/)
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A bunch of shareware games pre-installed on my first PC: Biomenace, Alien Carnage, Commander Keen in "Goodbye Galaxy", a flipper and an Arkanoid clone.
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I think it was The Settlers 1 :D
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Star Raiders on my Atari 800 around 1982. I had several other cartridge based games, like Defender, Asteroids, etc. My first disk-based game on the same computer was Microprose's F-15 Strike Eagle. I even had Eastern Front (1941), a turn-based strategy game on cassette. It took about 20 minutes to load if I recall correctly, and there was no way to save a game in progress. I think I played through only once, and got stomped.
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Supaplex (https://classicreload.com/supaplex.html)
Supaplex Master Fan Page (http://www.elmerproductions.com/sp/)
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Oh man, I remember that game.
It's also just as hard as I remember it being. Never finished that game as a kid.
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Falcon AT, Wing Commander, Eye of the Beholder 2 and Xenon 2 Megablast were the first games I got with my trusty 286er, which was my first computer ever.
Good times. Lots of memories!
(Before that I was already playing very simple games on dads Atari console however. ;-) )
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We had some unknown IBM machine at home when I was 5 or 6, though about all I remember from it was playing Wheel of Fortune or educational games like Reader Rabbit. Then there were the fossilized Apple IIe's at my grade school (LOGO Writer 4 lyfe). The first real PC gaming experience I had came courtesy of our Gateway 2000, circa 1996, with what I think was a 166-MHz Pentium and a staggering 16 MB of RAM. I'd discovered Descent II at a neighbor's house, so that was one of my earliest purchases, and I played a ton of the excellent NASCAR Racing 2 as well. The software package we got included a copy of Myst, which pretty much ate my world for a while. I feel like I picked up FS1 within a year or so of its release, though I can't be sure.
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Sopwith 2 on a 286 :pimp: followed by monkey island if I remember correctly. (With console gaming in between to account for the time gap)
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It must have been in 1993 or 1994 so I was 5-6'ish, so the memory is a bit fuzzy. We were visiting my father in Hamburg while he was staying at the Bundeswehr University for command officer training...
In his room he had a 386 set up for work purposes but and my older brother and I were allowed to play some games on it, while the adults were mixing; some DOS-based top down and sidescrolling shooters, the names of which I don't recall either.
The year after my dad (still not living with us because military family) brought home a 486 for his office and my brother borrowed the original X-Wing's Collector's Edition from one of his classmates.
Either of us was only ever allowed one hour of official "game time" on the weekends but considering my dad was only ever there on weekend and my mom works a full job (both then and now), that wasn't strictly enforced and my brother and I always seemed to get around that restriction or rather we made sure neither of us was caught (Then again, my younger brother, who was born in '97, never had similar restrictions, so maybe our parents knew and figured that as we had turned out okay'ish that was not neccessary).
I didn't get my own PC until 2001'ish, which was a 486 I 'rescused' from being junked by a neighbour family...
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Probably Bolo for the Apple II
Even made a video about it a year or so ago:
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Protip: only the video ID goes in the [yt] tags.
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Protip: only the video ID goes in the [yt] tags.
Ok thanks. Still seems to work anyway. I just find it easier to ctrl-a the whole link then to select just the letters and such.
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It works because I edited it to work. :D
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It works because I edited it to work. :D
Oh I thought it worked when I posted it. Thanks dude. Much obliged
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Either Mario Teaches Typing (released for MS-DOS in 1992), ZZT (1991), or Jill of the Jungle (1992); I don't actually remember which was first, but it was probably one of those three.
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Our first PC was some pentium III rig, can't remember much more of it. My first ever game aside form the mandatory solitaire were the Fish Fillets (http://fillets.sourceforge.net/download.php). Still one of the best and hardest games I ever played.
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Videos!!!
Eye of the Beholder 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWj4gXYEWM
Xenon 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNeveaZOhBY (The title screen music kinda burnt out your brain back in the day .......... PC speaker for the win LOL)
Falcon AT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuEoA0V6b24
Wing Commander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlokYOPAa0o
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I have never in my life owned a console, handheld or otherwise.
Actually, my gaming experience is remarkably similar to that of Mongoose's
My parents were big into gaming when I was younger, we had several machines - compaq armada, gateway 2000, and another machine my father built.
Pentium II and III mostly. This was around 2001-2002. I think I still have some of the original 40GB IDE drives lying around somewhere in the basement...
Parents were big into Descent and would do LAN games together (course I didn't know what that was since I was maybe 6 years old :P)
My first games were Frogger (1997 Hasbro version) Frogger 2, and Rayman. A year or so later I too, along with my brother, were playing Descent (and II and III).
Also started playing racing games, NFS Hot Pursuit and some Nascar game I can't remember. I soon found FS and FS2 and played those, I think when I was around 13-14 years old.
As I grew up, my parents upgraded our machines and we were soon playing BF 1942, 2, and 2142.
Around 2012 I found out about World of Tanks and proceeded to sink too much time into that....
And in 2013 I found you all here on HLP and got back into FS2 again. :P
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Well, you asked for it. :drevil:
The VERY First games I ever played were Disney's Winnie the Pooh Preschool, Disney's Winnie the Pooh Toddler, Lego Loco, and HW: Stunt Track Driver.
Needless to say, I was Introduced to the Computer when I was young. :p
The Humongous and Tonka games fit somewhere in there too.
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My very first game was Pushover, a domino puzzle game involving a brown ant and an obscure breakfast cereal brand. After that, a bunch of things I can't remember. Except for that one RPG named Fallout. I'll never forget the first time I saw the splatters after a burst of minigun fire.
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We had a Lucasarts pack. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, and Rebel Assault. Those, along with Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Encarta were my first PC games.
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Those, along with Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Encarta were my first PC games.
Encarta...you mean Mind Maze? I loved that!