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Heh, I don't even remember the first true video game I played. I think it was back on the Sega Master System.
same as Sadistic, I don't even remember my first game. I DO remember alot of Street Fighter II on the SNES and loads and loads of Sonic/Streets of Rage 2 on the Genesis. Then the occasional Game Gear before the battery life died. gotta love the blinking red light.
@Kryp
It can't be helped that a majority of the gamers on the site are from the SNES days when those incredible RPG's and gamer were being released.
It can't be helped that a majority of the gamers on the site are from the SNES days when those incredible RPG's and gamer were being released.
My first video game was Combat; the first video game I obsessed over was River Raid. Ahhh, sweet memories.
Kryp you're right but everyone will have a different opinion and hopefully a different aspect to go on.
This should be a great month article-wise.
This should be a great month article-wise.
" I know I personally was roped into the world thanks to the Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo cartridge, and I'm admittedly afraid that roughly half of the community has, as well"
Crap, that was indeed my first game (cartidge) but as you said it's not just about the first game, it's about what games mean to us too.
Crap, that was indeed my first game (cartidge) but as you said it's not just about the first game, it's about what games mean to us too.
Just want to take a second to say the Monthly Musings feature/essay call fucking rocks. It give us a great reason to write good/smart in the c-blogs, and give us great article sto read, promoted or not.
This month should be fun. I might actually do one on Way of the Samurai this month . . . though I tell myself that every month . . .
This month should be fun. I might actually do one on Way of the Samurai this month . . . though I tell myself that every month . . .
I'm from the Colecovision era, I wasn't one game in particular, I loved the system itself. But I have a hefty fondness for the C64/Amiga heyday.
Good times.
Good times.
Great topic choice, Anthony! Sorry you hate me so much!
I feel like I'm a wierd case. I went through years of the older handhelds, like the original Game Boy and Game Gear. I completly missed the NES,SNES and Genesis, and my first console was an N64(totally buying into the fanatical Nintendo love I had seen for the previous consoles.
Time to write!
I feel like I'm a wierd case. I went through years of the older handhelds, like the original Game Boy and Game Gear. I completly missed the NES,SNES and Genesis, and my first console was an N64(totally buying into the fanatical Nintendo love I had seen for the previous consoles.
Time to write!
Yeah the Super Mario/Duck Hunt took my video game virginity when I first played it at a friends house, but I have to say that when I realized that video games were going somewhere for me was when I played Ocarina of Time, the affair lives on today.
Great subject, I can't wait to get crackin' on one. And I agree wholeheartedly with Tubatic that this is a fantastic feature. It really lets you get into the head of your fellow gamer.
I was looking forward to this. This is a damn good topic and I will have to put a bit of thought into it. I might have to make more than one if I think about it.
Sweet topic, I plan to write up something for this one and the 1st game I remember playing was Mega Man 2 when I was like 5....
I'll be pulling deep in to my memory banks for my PC gaming milestone. Its going to be hard to capture the magic that hypnotized me as a young boy with words but its going to be a lot of fun to try! I could rant on and on about Shadow of the Colossus and how it moved me but I've kind of already did that and I'm sure someone else will cover that anyways.
@Tubatic - Way of the Samurai!! Excellent choice sir! *salutes*
@Tubatic - Way of the Samurai!! Excellent choice sir! *salutes*
This is tough--I've been playing games since I had the motor skills in my hands. I remember playing the NES at my grandmother's (was for all the young'uns) and getting a SNES at launch, but it's all a blur....
Nice topic! You mention that it can be a game that "told you the medium was capable of something you'd never thought possible." Does that mean it alright to do a game on a contemporary game that didn't introduce me to gaming but just really impressed me like no game before? If so I have an idea of what to post about.
I'll be one of the few gamers to originate my obsession with something not Nintendo. Can you say TMNT and Sonic?
If I take the time to write a c-blog I'll go into more depth, but it was an Atari 2600 for Christmas '83 I think... 3 games with it. Pac-Man, Outlaw and River Raid, I think River Raid can almost claim to be a schmup, but that's where my love of blowing up stuff vertically or horizontally came from.
The game that made me think games could be so much more was this bizarre game I got right after getting a NES I was 10 at the time and this game box had a kick ass dragon on the cover and was called Dragon Warrior I. Knowing nothing else about the game I bought it with my paper route money. I think a few hours into the game and getting a grip on this whole new genera I realized all the possibilities it offered. Ever since Square and Enix have had me by the balls.
The game that made me think games could be so much more was this bizarre game I got right after getting a NES I was 10 at the time and this game box had a kick ass dragon on the cover and was called Dragon Warrior I. Knowing nothing else about the game I bought it with my paper route money. I think a few hours into the game and getting a grip on this whole new genera I realized all the possibilities it offered. Ever since Square and Enix have had me by the balls.
The game that got me deep into gaming was the Commodore 64 version of Ultima V - Before I even played it the whole package really impressed me. I was around 10 or 11 back then and didn't get half of the storyline, but once I figured out the basic commands I was happily slaughtering skeletons, baking bread and being a virtuous Avatar. I played tons of C64 and even C16 games before that at a friends' place (I only had an Atari 800XL which sucked due to lack of games). Other early addictions include the first Pirates and Civilization (both on Amiga).
Apart from that, Mario Bros definitely got me into console gaming, but I didn't become a believer until playing Secret of Mana, I was more of a PC-Gamer before that (Ultima, Wing Commander, Strike Commander - the great storybased games by Origin basically).
Apart from that, Mario Bros definitely got me into console gaming, but I didn't become a believer until playing Secret of Mana, I was more of a PC-Gamer before that (Ultima, Wing Commander, Strike Commander - the great storybased games by Origin basically).
First experience: Super Mario Bros. 3, Nintendo Entertainment System
First experience of rapturous delight: Disney’s Aladdin, Sega Genesis
First experience of rapturous delight: Disney’s Aladdin, Sega Genesis
This is the greatest mothly musings theme ever...
man I'm gonna have to restrain myself from writing an absolute wall of text :p
man I'm gonna have to restrain myself from writing an absolute wall of text :p
Ph, God, this is perfect. Now all will hear my story of the best day of my life: the day I passed up buying The Sims for FF7.
Obsession with videogames as a whole, or a specific character? I just might make this theme my first blog.
This is perfect. Now I can start on the article about my dirty dirty love life with shmups that I've been wanting to write for months.
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