I don’t know the name. In the afternoons in the early nineties after school I was at a neighbor’s house. Her husband had a PC and a joystick connected to it sparked my interest. He showed me a flight game. I don’t remember much detail, but it was a vector based game with fast action based flying and you had to bombard or shoot enemy bases. The next thing I remember is my mother calling our neighbor when I planned to come home because it was already getting late and I had never stayed that long before.
Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. I understand the complaints about that port, but I’ll always have a soft spot for it for getting me into the hobby way back when.
While I had probably already played a couple of counterfeit NES games at a friend’s house before that, the first 2 games I clearly remember playing on PC were Tux Racer (on my dad’s Linux setup) and Warcraft 2.
Mine was a point-click quest written in visual basic that taught Russian alphabet. I was 2-3 years old, playing while sitting on my father’s lap. Apparently this created some core memories since once I was 15-17 I found it and still remembered every dialogue word-to-word
The cart said Final Fantasy 2. We now know it as Final Fantasy 4.
My father had my playing it and reading all the text out loud. I played that game over and over and over. I have all the hidden paths and treasures memorized.
The opening scrawl ended in something about Cecil and Kain vanishing “into a deep fog.” For years and years I thought it said they vanished “into a deep frog.” Let me tell you… the hours I spent lying awake at night wondering what that meant…
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I don’t know the name. In the afternoons in the early nineties after school I was at a neighbor’s house. Her husband had a PC and a joystick connected to it sparked my interest. He showed me a flight game. I don’t remember much detail, but it was a vector based game with fast action based flying and you had to bombard or shoot enemy bases. The next thing I remember is my mother calling our neighbor when I planned to come home because it was already getting late and I had never stayed that long before.
I had a Commodore 64. I played Ultima 3 and Archon (wizard’s chest) as my first games I really liked.
My first game was Yoshi’s Island for the Game Boy Advance! I still go back and play it every few years, I love that game.
Going to my step dads house when my mom first started dating him and playing Pitfall on his Colecovision in the late 80’s. I was 3.
Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. I understand the complaints about that port, but I’ll always have a soft spot for it for getting me into the hobby way back when.
Descent. My dad had a joystick setup for it and I remember being stunned by the graphics and the ability to fly around
Pokemon Yellow. I wasn’t able to read very well but I still managed to beat it.
King’s Quest 6, on my dad’s old Compaq Presario Windows 98 laptop
While I had probably already played a couple of counterfeit NES games at a friend’s house before that, the first 2 games I clearly remember playing on PC were Tux Racer (on my dad’s Linux setup) and Warcraft 2.
Mine was a point-click quest written in visual basic that taught Russian alphabet. I was 2-3 years old, playing while sitting on my father’s lap. Apparently this created some core memories since once I was 15-17 I found it and still remembered every dialogue word-to-word
The original Prince of Persia, in DOS.
Played the shit out of that game. I could probably draw maps of every level from memory.
Same, had a lot of great times with this one af a kid!
x-wing vs tie fighter.
Pong
The cart said Final Fantasy 2. We now know it as Final Fantasy 4.
My father had my playing it and reading all the text out loud. I played that game over and over and over. I have all the hidden paths and treasures memorized.
The opening scrawl ended in something about Cecil and Kain vanishing “into a deep fog.” For years and years I thought it said they vanished “into a deep frog.” Let me tell you… the hours I spent lying awake at night wondering what that meant…
And of course my Dad didn’t correct me.
PONG in the late 70s, at a pizza parlor.