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Vengeance · Jun 02, 2005, 08:58 PM // 20:58

Wow ... I guess I was spoiled by all those floppies I used to get with my PC Gamer ...

On a related note ... this was something that pHobac touched upon ... I was feeling waaay too old when PC Gamer put out there 100th issue ... WITH all of the previous covers being printed ... and not only were the covers familiar ... but I could actually remember some of the articles too ... sigh ...

BOY!!! Fetch me my walker! HEAD!!! MOVE!!!

Syno · Jun 02, 2005, 11:35 PM // 23:35

Oh wow, Atari, ADVENTURE....I loved that game!

Commodore64.... Load"railroad",8,1 Some old railroad tycoon game, made toy trainsets...great fun!

NES, Legend of Zelda, and my all time favorite, Super Mario 2...so trippy!

SNES - Again with the Zelda...and the Light Cannon, whatever it was called, with the Yoshi riding and shooting game.

N62 - Mario64, Starfox, Goldeneye.

PSX - Final Fantasy VII!!!!! Best game ever, I played it at night with my newborn son in my lap for hours, days, weeks!

PS2 - Star Wars Battlefront, now playing WITH my son, and Star Wars Lego!!! Such a great game for all ages!!!

GBA - Wario Ware, stupid stupid stupid, but fun and ADDICTING!

PC - XWvTF, SWG, GW, Quake, the first one, with music by Trent Reznor, and the whole Descent series, especially Descent2, music by Skinny Puppy and Type O Negative. Ah what good memories...

Yojinj · Jun 03, 2005, 01:58 AM // 01:58

Lol yes! Gaming magazines with floppys in them ^^. Man those things looked so nerdy in the magazine shelves.
I know a case where on shop always placed those magazines next to a powerful magnet because they didn't knew it better

d4nowar · Jun 03, 2005, 02:14 AM // 02:14

Wow... sadly i don't have the experience of anything before the nes. i started playing anything that resembled a game on my computer (apple 2e i believe) and the first game ever recorded by me was Katies Farm. yep... katies farm... then i moved on to reader rabbit, but i was too advanced for it. my mom thought that educational games would help me learn or something. all they did was get me addicted to any kind of game... ever...

ah! i just remembered the best educational series EVER. anyone remeber treasure mathstorm or any of the other treasure games??? those things ROCKED!!!

example:
4+3=?
7
"Thats correct!"

I actually have a teacher that looks like the person in the gem place. gah. good memories... such great memories..

if you are talking about real games in this thread... Duke nukem(i loved the strip joint), mario for the nes, zelda for the nes, zelda for the gameboy, exitebike, tetris for gameboy, tmnt for gameboy. my grandpa always brought his big gray gameboy with him when he came to visit, and i thought it was the coolest thing in the WORLD. so he finally gave it to me and i was happy. i thought i lost it for awhile so i bought another one, with killer instinct with it. ah street fighter!!!! my cousin knew the cheat to both play as the same character and we always chose blanka and he chose the stretchy fire guy( i don't remember the name. i never remember the name). we all thought it was the coolest thing EVER.

this (guild wars) is actually one of the first rpg games that i have played. well, first massive rpg. i usually stuck to fps and rts games. ah, that just reminded me of the first time i ever played warcraft... but this post is getting too long. so i'm gunna go play some treasure mathstorm.

CatLady · Jun 03, 2005, 03:24 AM // 03:24

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the tank game was probably Combat!

I looked that game up, and it looks kind of like it - although I don't remember the colors being that...bad...lol - however, one old review said it was a 2-player game. Could you play against the computer? Because my father played his game alone all the time.

We also had the A2600 centipede...I think I spent quite a bit of time on that one too.

We Dwell In Forever · Jun 03, 2005, 05:28 AM // 05:28

I started (TV console) gaming at my best friend's house in middle school. Mario 64, baby.

Got my first N64 for christmas a year later, along with Yoshi's story, DiddyKong Racing and a few others.

Really, though, I started on my computer in elementary school (both my parents worked in the comptuer businuess, so we had one really early). Loved Oregon Trail, Amazon Trail and a bunch of others I don't recall now, except for that Felix movie maker one.

Then I got my first GB (non color!) for Pokemon (hah, didn't we all?), Ms. Packman, Zelda, some mario game.. and more I can't remember. (it was a long time ago!) Then, my first GB color...

From those, I elevated to the PS1 (Chrono Trigger, DDR, Bust A Move, Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, FF Chronicles, Lunar 2, Brave Hunter Musashi, Breath of fire 3...

My boyfriend just gave me his old PS2 (making room for his new Mini2), so I've started playing some of those games.. just borrowed Phantom Brave from a friend, experimented with Ico and Magic Pen gel...

As for my PC games, I've played through Myst (working through the other 3 when I get bored), FF 7, some of FF8, Ragnarok, WoW (for about 10 days...)

I'm really into the roleplaying games and MMOs. I suppose that comes from reading a lot, it's like writing my own book. I also like to get some human interaction from gaming, so MMos become pretty boring to me when I don't make friends too fast. (so far have yet to find any on GW.. which is why I joined up on the fourms, but thats another topic).

I've played a few tabletop games- Legend of the Five Rings, D+D (between the two, I like L5R -much- better.) and I actually became a good speller/ fast typist when I started rping in chat rooms when I was 12, and stopped when I was about 17.

So, yeah. I guess I'm a pretty average female gamer, with the whole stereotypical rpg tendency, but don't lose me there! I've also experimented with my boyfriend's many consoles... Halo2, Tekken, Soul Calibur, Gish, Warcraft....

Iron Amadeus · Jun 03, 2005, 05:34 AM // 05:34

My gaming roots began with shareware pc games my uncle brought home. tank wars, gremlins, kings quest.

my first console was actually a gameboy. wario's castle and Football were my games.

then i got my N64. Goldeneye, mario cart, wcw wrestling.

My big launch into PC games was Fallout 2. It introduced me to rpgs and pc gaming and still to this day remains my all time favorite game hand's down.

Sulik: We and I be glad to help.
Me: Who's we?
Sulik: Grampy bone and I.
Me: You mean that bone in your nose was your gradpa's?! Ew.
Sulik: Right, So what can We and I do ya for?

Yojinj · Jun 03, 2005, 07:52 AM // 07:52

I remember when Wolfenstein 3D came out in 92.

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COOL FEATURES
Intense and mood-setting Ad Lib music throughout the entire game.
Incredible digitized effects for Sound Blaster and Disney Sound Source.
Fastest 3D VGA animated full-screen wide game available for IBM PC!
Play with keyboard, joystick, mouse or Gravis Gamepad.
Save and restore games, plus quick-save and quick-load hot keys.
Must be played on an 80286 or better machine. Does not run on XT systems.
...and much, MUCH MORE!

Played it on my dads work computer ^^. Good ol dos times

A time where savegames were still considered as a "feature" and not as standard lol.

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Wolfenstein 3-D has won these RETAIL industry awards in 1992:
"One of the eight most important games ever created" -- PC Gamer
"Best Arcade/Action Game" -- Software Publishers Association "Codie" Award
"Best Arcade/Action Game" -- Compute magazine
"Most Popular Game" -- PC World magazine (reader's poll)
"Best Action Game" -- Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine
"Most Innovative Game" -- Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine
"Editor's Choice Award" -- Shareware Magazine
"Best Entertainment Software (Finalist)" -- PC/Computing

Show me a game of our time that still gets such rewards

Spirit Firefly · Jun 03, 2005, 09:45 AM // 09:45

World of Warcraft.....says it all

Pevil Lihatuh · Jun 03, 2005, 02:01 PM // 14:01

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Originally Posted by Harlas Kije

I remember back in the day when you got "demos" in gaming/pc magazines.

NO disk--you had the frigging program you had to type in yourself.

Happy happy JOy joy---8 hours later and 2600000 lines of code--you hit return only to see
error line 12450
fix it--hit return
error line 12451

god--I sure do miss those days

....not

heh i remember those days, although i was only about 6 then so never tried it

I do remember the manual that was with the Spectrum had instructions for programming different patterns, shapes, and even a basic space invaders game. And of course that led to the same problem of typing one tiny thing in wrong and having to start it all again... ugh

Auntie I · Jun 03, 2005, 02:15 PM // 14:15

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Originally Posted by Yojinj

Lol yes! Gaming magazines with floppys in them ^^. Man those things looked so nerdy in the magazine shelves.
I know a case where on shop always placed those magazines next to a powerful magnet because they didn't knew it better

Not to brag or anything but I still have the first floppy that ever came with PC Gamer. The Magazines are gone but I just can't throw out a floppy!

Yojinj · Jun 03, 2005, 02:44 PM // 14:44

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Originally Posted by Spirit Firefly

World of Warcraft.....says it all

If this was a reply to my sentence

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Show me a game of our time that still gets such rewards

Then you are greatly mistaken. For my taste the game got overrated alot.

Druid Oracle · Jun 04, 2005, 06:26 AM // 06:26

It all began in 1991, i was 3, i played on my dad's nes, classic Super Mario Bros. After that moment (which i clearly remember to this day) my life has been from game to another. When the snes came out i got it on launch day, never had i seen so much beauty. FF6, and FF4, chrono trigger, super metroid, A link to the Past, beaten more than 5 times each. I suppose this is enough detail into my early days of geekeness.

d4nowar · Jun 04, 2005, 06:55 AM // 06:55

you all know you played educational games and you loved them. reader rabbit ROCKS.

Yojinj · Jun 04, 2005, 08:43 AM // 08:43

Once upon a time...
There was a single pixel in size of a giant red square. This grs was living a happy live in block city till the day the evil green square from outerspace invaded block city...

I think the most funny time i ever had in gaming was while playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City. When the comercials for videogames were in the radio.
"buy the new bla bl vidoe game system and fight of the red squares with your blue square!"

Arbel · Jun 04, 2005, 01:43 PM // 13:43

Ooooh, Wolfenstein...brings back memeories...of my mom yelling to stop playing when she found out what it was all about.

I remember this one old PC game, it was called "Wolf" I believe, where you actually do play as a wolf, you start out as a lone wolf, fight animals so you can eat them, find water to drink, try to find shelter in the winter, find a pack of wolves to join then progressively become the alpha...by fighting the current alpha wolf...it was....ok...I remember trying to take down some yaks, they kicked my ass

There was this other game, forgot the name, but it was about a time traveling dinosaur. You create your own dinosaur, like a triceratops head with a shell back and stegasauros tail, and go on a stage to collect stuff for scientific research, or something like that. That was for the PC too.

Yojinj · Jun 04, 2005, 06:30 PM // 18:30

One of my friends had an Amiga ages ago and a game called Moonstone. You play the part of a knight, travel around and kill things and there was even a 2 player mode.

I was the total noob and we came to a battle against each other. I had no clue what i was doing and the battle controls were almost street fighter like.
So i bash the buttons and cut his knights head off and he was going totally mad and i was like "yay".

Pevil Lahuta's Pet Moa · Jun 04, 2005, 07:41 PM // 19:41

SNES

Setting and breaking track records every day on F-zero

Beating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all by myself

Being the only one who could beat Lemoney's (sumthin like that) tower in super mario

Wondering what was the point of The Adam's Family game (spent days as a kid not knowin wat the hell to do, jjus knowin it was fun)

That damned mine cart level in Donkey Kong (original) and those gay sequels they had to the game (baby kong, diddy kong, etc)

Gameboy

Tetris master right hur

Battle toads was the S**T

A11Eur0 · Jun 04, 2005, 08:02 PM // 20:02

First gaming experience was o my dad's cCommodore 64/128. I didn't have a gaming console(NES was first) until the SNES was out.Having an NES for the first time when my classmates and friends were getting their SNES and Genesis was a bummer. I got my first playstation with my own money when I was 16, had 2 others since then, I actually didn't have a real PC until after I moved out of my parents' house, and now aside from the periodic GT4 session with my bro on the PS2, I only play PC games.

As for games, I don't remember what they were on the commodore, but I used to play Silent service on NES(submarine captain in WWII) as well as mario and the other standards. Twisted Metal 2 was my first Playstation game, and I played it non-stop. Resident evil 1 and 3, not 2, and a bunch of others. First PC game was Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun, then Red Alert 2/expansion. I was a strategy game nut. Now I play this, Rainbow Six: 3, Rome: Total War, and Sims 2 for relaxation periods.

Rajamic · Jun 04, 2005, 08:16 PM // 20:16

I started on the Atari 2600. Parents still have a working 7800 (backwards compatibility, baby!) and over 140 games. I played the hell out of Adventure (first game with an easter egg!), Haunted House, Yar's Revenge, Pitfall 2, and the best one: Space Invaders.

Didn't really get hooked on video games till my older brother bought an NES with Baseball Stars, to this day still the best baseball game. Early on, I was terrible at picking out games that I'd like. I really liked RPGs, though I didn't know it till much later. Generally, I stuck to sports games my brother bought, like Baseball Stars, Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf, Kings of the Beach, and Goal. I did learn to trust in Square, after FF4 (at the time called FF2 here) and Secret of Mana.

I've since bought a Game Boy, SNES, N64, 3 PS2s (one broke, one got stolen), a GameCube, and a DS. Currently, in the rare moments when Guild Wars decides to not own my soul, I'm going back and playing FF2 or FF5 (neither of which I'd ever played before) or Dynasty Warriors 4.