Do you remember the first game you ever played?

The dual cartridge of Duck Hunt and Mario Bros 1 on the original Nintendo.

I still hate that damn dog.

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The first Prince of Persia, Lemmings, Wolfstein 3D, The Secret of Monkey Island were my firsts PC games. I can’t remember which was my first console game but I remember the first multiplayer that I really enjoyed: Striker on MegaDrive.

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Yoshi Island, i need to replay it someday.

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Pong

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So did no one try the Pacman in your ear thing?

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Showing my age a little here, but the first ‘proper’ game I had at home to play was Paratrooper and it looked like this:

It was awesome :smiley:

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My uncle had this game on a floppy disk that he let me play when I was little, aside from the usual messing around in MS Paint. Dangerous Dave (MS-DOS) is the name of the gem, you had to collect treasures for points and a key to open the door to the next stage. There was a gun to shoot some nasty enemies and a jetpack to get you around, pretty hard game for me back then.

Fun fact: I spent lots of hours trying to remember the name of this game not too long ago, visiting various old game sites and forums. ^^

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Skate or Die on the Commodore 64

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I loved reading all your responses, it was really cool to see all the different games people played. Some games I haven’t even heard of because I’m to young to know and now I have some retro games to check out. Hopefully I hear more stories

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haha I tried the pac-man thing and my ear feels extremely weird. I did hear pac-man though

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Street Fighter II and some minutes later Super Pang in an arcade.

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Sure I remember! :slight_smile: It was Super Mario Bros. :grinning:

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I fell old but it was bomber man on PC.

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The first game I played was called Fruit Machine and it was on the Amstrad CPC. I remember competing with my parents and my sister on who could get the highest score.

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The first “proper” game (with actual graphics) I played was Digger! Back in the early '80. Played on a black/white screen, so I was quite surprised to see that it actually had colors!!
I do remember another game where you where a little arrow falling in a never ending pit made of numbers and letters, but I don’t remember the name, so Digger it is :smiley:

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Holy shiteballs, the Amstrad CPC-464, I had that game and PC too. If I remember correctly you had to hit the space bar to spin, is that correct?

Did you have the green monitor or the colour? I was a snobby git, I had the colour one but mine was bought second hand. So maybe not that snobby.

Other games I had for that system were

Football Manager 86
Turbo Esprit
The Saboteur
Daley Thomson’s Decathlon
Sport of Kings (Horse Racing)
Federick Forsyth’s The Fourth Protocol and many, many, more.

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Finally, an answer. Lol. Who would’ve guessed you could have Pacman living in your head after all these years, eh?

Thanks for doing it.

Now do the same again but with both ears, Pacman is now in stereo, baby. If you prefer, call it a two player game or something.

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During my childhood we never had much money so i never had any consoles or “gameboy” consoles alike, when i barely had a pc, i had those borrowed games to play that i played the shit out of them

First game ever played was this gem, i don’t think anyone knows it tho
(Cyber Gladiators)

Second one was this godlike racing game
(POD)

And a another that we’re a good part of my childhood
(MDK)

God dammit, i feel like uploading every single game i played hahaha so many memories
Good 'ol Future Cop too

and many many others

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Probably Pole Position ('82) in a bar, or pong on a black and white tv, or some sort of “space invaders” on an handheld lcd screen game

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You know, I keep getting the urge to dig out the directions to setup DOS Box and dig out my old abandonware/old/DOS Games on my spare HHD because of THIS thread. Then I will never get anything done…:fearful: I may have to call someone for an intervention.

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