It has not been a good day for me and news, Dtoid. It seems like every tip I got was old disguised as new, not interesting enough, or the news equivalent of a raccoon's bunghole. They say when you can't get it right, do something else. Since I aim is to please, I am going to try to point your attention in a direction that I cannot possibly mutiliate and hope tomorrow I get out of the bed on the right side.
MTV's Multiplayer blog has posted a really cool piece about gaming memories and asked some of the industry's favorites to chip in, including everyone from bloggers to presidents of game companies. It's a great read and can't help but make you think about what your own memories were of that time. One of my strongest memories is of unearthing the box for the PC game Wishbringer at my uncle's house and getting really fascinated with the contents. It seemed like magic to me.
What is the first game you remember truly loving? Did you have an experience as a kid that marked you so forcibly that it sticks in your mind now as one of the most important gaming experiences you ever had? More importantly, do you think that game - and that memory - were instrumental in you becoming a gamer?
[Thanks Justin]
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7:18 PM on 01.15.2008
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I'd played plenty of videogames before, in the arcades and on computers, but Elite was the one that gave me a glimpse of future potential.
I feel i would be a less rounded person if it hadnt have been for the simple fun i had with MDK and its quirkiness, in a way i have adopted its unusualness in a way that, i hope, has given me a refreshingly creative personality that (if left to tv) would have made me much more bland.
My earliest videogame memories are of Pac Man, Missle Command, Centipede, and Asteroids...
I remember being blown away watching my uncle play 'Adventure' on his 2600.
Damn I'm old :)
The games that captured my imagination early on were always the ones with the best music...The Last V8, The Last Ninja, Hawkeye...Wizball...Robocop...Glider Rider...Barbarian...I used to load and reload Ocean games for hours just so I could hear the loader music over and over.
But then there was Hunt the Wumpus, Alpiner, Car wars, and Parsec, all of which I played the living crap out of. I'd say it was around 1985 or 86, maybe earlier.
Then later came Beyond Dark Castle on my Mom's Mac Plus, countless hours spent on that, ohhhh the good days, when I didn't know any better
There was that, and playing the shit out of Kirby's Adventure. Oh, that and the TMNT games for the NES.
Brilliant stuff.
Also ninja turtles
As for the question... I'm not sure really. It was either Atari at my Aunt's house, NES, or a Commodore 64 that we got as our first home computer (in the early 90's). It was probably NES tho that I had first, with Mario & Duck Hunt. I still have my original NES in it's cracked and stained glory.
Needless to say, I was sold!
At around 7 years old ripping my neighbors spine off on MK for the snes was the best EVAR and i was a killer instinct whore(woohoo cinder) too at the time.
Good times, good times.
Look, I'm old...
My first memory of videogames was seeing an asteroids cabinet in a bar (I'm not joking) when I was about five. I remember the white lines glowed against the dark screen. Then, my folks bought this brand new game called 'Tennis.' This was before any of the big consoles like the Commodore64 or anything was out. That lasted us for a while, and then my folks bought an Intellivision generation 1. Astrosmash. Hours and Hours of Astrosmash. And Discs of Tron. My life ended at age six.
The burnt up husk that lives from game to game and feeds on the blood of new, unopened gameboxes is all that remains today.
To a lesser extent, The Magical Quest: Starring Mickey Mouse also got me addicted. I'd rent that game everytime I could, even after getting an N64 for christmas.
*sigh* remember when licensed games were good? i played both Aladdin and The Magical Quest: Starring Mickey Mouse recently and they still are great games.