- Quick Kids for PC: I can't even find this on the internet anywhere but it was basically a glorified Pac Man game. First ever game I can remember getting into at a time when PC's were starting to become more popular. There was also some weird Mario Game where they tried to teach me about history and stuff that I played. Absolutely nothing like the Mario games we all know (and love). My parents upgraded their PC and it game with games like PitFall, Silent Hunter (submarine game), Full Throttle, etc, which I also played. Not sure how an elementary aged kid managed to do this but my friend somehow got his hands on Phantasmagoria so I played a bit of that. No idea how I don't still have nightmares to this day about that game.
- Early STAR WARS games for PC: X-wing, Tie Fighter, X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, Dark Forces, Rebel Alliance, etc, etc. Spent a fair amount of time playing these games as well. A sign of where games were going. Rebel Alliance was pretty terrible actually now that I recall.
- Warcraft 2 for PC: Simply because it was the first time I could play against someone else via modem, which blew my mind at the time. I became instant best friends with 2 people I would have otherwise never talked to simply because a) they owned a modem, and b) they owned the game.
- Goldeneye, MarioKart and Zelda for N64: All 3 got me into console gaming. Previously had played a bit on SNES like UN Squadron, Contra, Donkey Kong, etc. I still have the SNES with DK and Battletoads (I will never beat the 3rd level where you're riding the hoverbike... hardest game ever)
- CounterStrike 1.3 or something and Tribes 2: Still play Counter Strike to this day and as far as "total minutes played" goes for all of the games I've ever played, Tribes 2 would probably be at the top of the list for me. That beats a somewhat brief (but "dedicated") WoW phase too heheh.
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I was 4 years old, and I was absolutely fascinated with how the things on the screen reacted when I pushed buttons and wiggled the joystick.
24 years later and it's still my favourite activity. The games have gotten better and more affordable; I can play them in the comfort of my apartment now, and they take me days to finish!
- Early STAR WARS games for PC: X-wing, Tie Fighter,
Wow, I completely forgot to include those 2 in my list. I was well on my way to being hooked when X-Wing came around, but it blew my mind. Tie Fighter and its expansions were a masterpiece of space combat. Only Freespace and Freespace 2 rank up there with it.
PC was definitely Sierra games, Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest (most of all) and of course Leisure suit larry!
The one game that I first got addicted to unlike any game before was most definitely Civilization 2.
Console, well I went with Intellivision to Coleco, so my memory of my earliest games sucks, but football and dragons lair (scary music one) on Intellivision.
For Coleco vision, well there's quite a few looping, B.C's Quest for tires, The Dam Busters (damn hard), Donkey Kong Jr, Mario Bro's, Mr. Do!, Mr. Do's Castle, Sewer Sam, Squishem Sam, Time Pilot (LOVE this game), and War games.
So Coleco was my first real system that got me hooked on gaming, but I have to give special recognition to easily one of my all time favorite games that few have played, it was only available on Turbo Graphix 16 and was called Military Madness, me and a buddy of mine would play this endlessly, waste weekends on it.
Its the first turn based strategy game I played and it was addicting as hell.
I remember when we got the original nintendo, I couldn't have been that old. The first games I remember we got were Kid Icarus and Mario. Man was I ever easy to please back then.
I loved playing Ice Hockey on Nintendo...The one where you had tiny fast players, medium sized ok fast players, and huge slow guys that could kill people.
