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Academy Page
Join Date: May 2005
Guild: The Darkstalkers
Profession: W/E
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oh jaysus... why do these things exist? lol
I forgot to mention, my old day care provider had a sega genesis when I was youngin and I got into sonic 1 and 2, that weird Jurassic park game where you could play as the raptor or grant, and some other 2d side scrolling space shooter that I can't remember the name of. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 08:54 PM // 20:54
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: May 2005
Profession: E/Mo
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KING'S QUEST! How could I forget?
I loved that so much, played the rest of the series. Then Sierra decided to do the last one all cartoon-like *whimper* Then they released Phantasmagoria, anyone else played that? Creeped the hell out of me. And there was no point in enabling the censored version (mom insisted), you can still "see" what's happening. 
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Jun 01, 2005, 08:58 PM // 20:58
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Toronto, ON
Profession: W/R
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Never played it though ... I still say the best title ever released for the old point and click adventure games was Sam & Max Freelance Police: Hit the Road ... that thing was da bomb yo ... |
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:05 PM // 21:05
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Texas
Guild: NOT-Nomads Of Turmoil
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I didn't own a game system until I was on my own....too busy playing in the neighborhood....but my first experiences were Atari & Intellivision....god the controllers for InTv sucked!!!
Football on Atari - memory of the 3 tight def that could never be beaten..lol Favorite game of all time for a GS, PS1 Xcom the original as I don't think they made Terror from the Deep or later versions. First played that on PC and LOVED IT!!! |
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:20 PM // 21:20
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Site Contributor
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: England.
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My console gaming history started on the Atari, if I remember correctly.
My PC gaming history began on an old Amstrad. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:30 PM // 21:30
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: May 2005
Profession: E/Mo
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Of course when they did that with Riven, I didn't mind.
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:31 PM // 21:31
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Keyboard + Mouse > Pen
Join Date: Apr 2005
Profession: Mo/W
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Reservering my spot. I have a novel to write. =)
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:32 PM // 21:32
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Apr 2005
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My gaming started with Nintendo, mostly Mario. I was too young to get REALLY into it, but it was a foundation for SNES, which involved Mario (especially RPG), Chrono Trigger, and Star Fox, among others. Then the N64, which I played to death.
I didn't start PC Gaming until a little surprise called Half-Life. My dad bought it on a reccomendation from a friend of his at work, and we both fell in love with it. Good times followed as I got consumed by PC Gaming, and shunned my console-gaming past (I own a Gamecube ONLY for the sequels to classics). |
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:40 PM // 21:40
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Awaiting GW2
Profession: W/
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Definitely old-school pacman
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:50 PM // 21:50
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Iowa
Guild: Guild of Night
Profession: Mo/E
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It is sad too that I have it on VHS still and would buy it in a heartbeat if a USA version DVD came out of it. "Lucas: I love the Power Glove. It’s so bad." "Corey: Yeah, well, uh, just keep your Power Gloves off her, pal, huh?" lol |
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Jun 01, 2005, 09:51 PM // 21:51
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: May 2005
Guild: The Dead-Lands
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*raises hand for wizzard*
oh man...lets see I know I had an Atari cat remember the model but i remember that the first game I had was Pole Position, that little indy race car game. I dont remember if this was before NES or after but we had these movies that you could interact with like games I think it was called Captain Power. You had a star ship shaped gun to shoot the orange collored spots and the movie would take a different path if you didnt shoot at it, it was weird... Then moved on to NES; Mario, Final Fantasy, Rad Racer, Mega Man, Contra (I still know the 30 lives code hehe), Tiger heli...ah man the list here could go on and on... My first PC was an 8088, I don't even think it had a hard drive. Played many a ASCII game on that thing. A little later computer had scorched earth, Civilization, RailRoad Tycoon, SimCity, Wolfenstien3D, Doom, ... ah man what memories... Gotta throw in my WOOT WOOT for FF7 cuz that game just freakin rocked... I really liked the Command & Conquer track for a while... Last edited by zemelett; Jun 01, 2005 at 09:56 PM // 21:56.. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 10:06 PM // 22:06
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Academy Page
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Washington
Guild: Ostentanious Cows [OC]
Profession: N/Mo
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I can't believe I use the word nostalgic to talk about a 10 year old game. My parents would smack me if they heard it. My dad is turning 60 in 8 days, but 10 years is like half my life. God, I'm a child. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 10:08 PM // 22:08
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Dallas, TX
Guild: Tribal Instincts
Profession: R/E
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My very first video game ever that I can remember was Space Invaders on a brand-new Atari 2600. My father, uncle, and I played the game all night till dawn (Well, they did. At like six years old, I made it about till midnight then fell asleep. Woke up the next morning and they were still playing.) Cooperative play rocked! Those little yellow monsters, forever coming at you...
Eventually (as children do), I got better than my father. Then came: Combat- Hitting with a bounce round from across the screen. Missle Command- shwooooooot..BOOOOM! Football- Unstoppable passing offense with remote control ball. Pitfall- "yeah, well I got to the end of Pitfall!..."  M.A.S.H.- 'Ferret Face!' Basically Operation on a video console. Basketball- Holding the button down for the pump fake Grand Prix, Night Driver, great games all. Then my uncle bought Intellivision: Sea Battle- Trying to hide your subs from the other guy. Tron-Deadly Discs- The original and best ever. Period. There was the NES with Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, Metroid, Zelda. Then came the SNES with it's assortment of games, Street Fighter series was the stuff! Now I've got a Playstation 2 with the GTA series and GT4, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, etc. There was the ColecoVision but it stunk. It seemed a cheap knockoff of the Intellivision. My friends had one, but we never played it. If you want to talk about arcade gaming, there's a ton... Star Wars (yes, I played the original ray-traced game a LOT!) Pole Position Bump-N-Jump Q-Bert Rampage RoadBlasters Dragon's Lair & Space Ace- laserdiscs...ah the good days... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- 4 players at once! Operation Wolf Steel Talons Samurai Showdown just to name a single-digit percentage... Computer gaming-wise, though... I got my Commodore 64 when I was eight, and my life was never the same. The C64 just rocked for gaming. No IBM clone could touch its sound. And you could play it on a television and even use your Atari 2600 controllers with it! I did a lot of things (programming, boxing, etc.) but this is about gaming: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- 'put babel fish in your ear', and pet the dog. Zork- 'you are lost.' Yie Are Kung Fu- spent much time just listening to the title music. Karate Champ- forever immortalized in "Bloodsport" Maniac Mansion- beware the purple tentacle! G.I. Joe- Offered versus AND cooperative vehicle missions. Halo my rear, 15 years earlier we had driver and gunner positions in jeeps, tanks, helicopters, and planes! Plus we had a fighting game too with different individuals with different hand weapons. and: DarkHorn- 4-player fantasy Risk using two paddles, a joystick, and keyboard This game just rocked. Humans, Dwarves, Elves. It also used paper-rock-scissors type combat. Elves were better than humans, dwarves were better than elves, humans were better than dwarves. If you remember it, then you know what I mean. The game opened with "Flight of the Valkyries" for crying out loud! There were so many others that I don't remember. I played that system for like 4 years. Eventually I got a 386 computer to replace my Commodore 64. My parents spent $3,000 to buy an HP 386 25Mhz with a 40 GB drive! $3,000. It was quite an investment for 1987. It turned out to be a good investment because my current I.T. job is a direct result of their willingness to sacrifice for their child. Then came the current era of PC computer gaming, starting with that 386 until now. Gunship Gunship 2000 Wing Commander Wing Commander II (all the others stunk) X-Wing TIE Fighter X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter Xwing: Alliance Doom Doom II (many hours spent modding maps for multiplayer) Quake Quake II Dark Forces II:Jedi Knight And the list goes on and on and on... Currently Playing: Guild Wars (PC) Civilization III:PTW (PC) Last edited by BrandonIT; Jun 02, 2005 at 07:19 PM // 19:19.. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 10:13 PM // 22:13
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: May 2005
Profession: W/E
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I had a game console called PONG....it was black and white and had about 8 games built in....ultimately they were all the same game....pong....but i was hooked from that point on....i had an ATARI 2600 and 5400...I had an Intellivision, a Coleco-vision ( see if anyone remembers those) a Vectrex system (way cool at the time) an NES, super NES, a Turbo Graphix16, Sega Genisis, Sega CD (yeah yeah), A DreamCast, a 3DO..!!, a Sony Playstation 1 and 2 and an XBOX....The first PC game I got into was Baldurs Gate...
I still have the Turbo, 3DO, SNES, Dreamcast, both PS1 and 2 and the XBOX...wish I had those others as well....any way.... |
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Jun 01, 2005, 10:29 PM // 22:29
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Elite Guru
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Minnesota
Guild: Beguine Guild [BGN]
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Hmm. I believe the first computer game I ever played was Animals, on the old MECC (Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium) dial-up system. You would think of an animal, and the computer would then quiz you to try to figure out which animal you were thinking of. Once it asked enough questions, it would guess, and if it guessed wrong, it would ask you to give it a question that would have allowed it to distinguish between between the animal it guessed and the animal you had in mind, thus expanding its ability to guess animals in the future.
Either that or it was Pong -- we got a console to connect to the old black & white TV in the basement to play Pong on around the same time. Eventually arcade machines became popular, and I pumped quarters into Lunar Lander, Space Invaders, Missile Command, Asteriods, Pac-Man, Centipede, and the like. But they were just ways to pass time while out and about. I didn't really fall in love with a computer game until Adventure. Adventure was so awesome. Suddenly, the game world was not just a field of mushrooms or a skyline or a maze of pills that fit entirely on one screen. No, now you were playing a game inside a much larger world, a world far too big to fit on the screen, that you had to go from screen to screen over a dozen times to walk across it all. And things were happening in parts of the world you couldn't see -- the bat might be moving things around inside the black castle while you were busy slaying the red dragon in the white castle. The screen was no longer the game world, but a window into a much larger world. It was amazing, incredible, mind-boggling. It wasn't a game, it was a virtual reality that you were transported to. It was magic. Last edited by Dreamsmith; Jun 01, 2005 at 10:32 PM // 22:32.. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 10:42 PM // 22:42
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: N39 10.77 W119 45.490
Guild: Rogues Army
Profession: Rt/Mo
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So I need to chime in. I don't have pictures of it, but I can get some when I go home tonight. My original Intellivision. Plugged into and old TV. shares space next to my Computer My Game cube and My PS2.
I cut my teeth on Pong and a friend's Atari VCS, but By the time I save enough money from my paper route The intellivision was aviable. I was hooked. Intellivison Memories: Intellivoice, Bomb squad, TRON Deadly Discs, Tron Maze-A-Tron, The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons series: and sadly I still look forward to finding a complete Solar Sailor on eBay because I never played it!!! Odd since I'm considering a Recognizer tattoo on my back.  http://www.pyramid.net/riparian/images/adnd.gif http://www.pyramid.net/riparian/images/adnd2.gif http://www.pyramid.net/riparian/images/adnd3.gif From the Intellivision, I moved to the Commodore 128 after playing my cousin's C64 for years. C64/128: GEOS was not a game but damn it was cool. TAXI, Druids, Karateka, Barbarian, The Ultima Series, Impossible Mission, M.U.L.E., Archon series, Adventure Construction Set, Mail Order Monsters, Racing Destruction Set, (Basically any EA game) and most importantly Lode Runner! My love for the Commodore has carried into my PC life... even playign games like NASCAR 2004 I find I need to show off my roots:  Lode Runner is the most influential came of my formative gaming years. I spend two summers playing around with the level editor... making levels that my friends would curse. I loved LR so much so that I had to give it a fitting rememberance:  After the C64/128 I went with the AMIGA Plenty of AMIGA games: Rescue on Fractalus, Speedball, Shadow of the Beast series, The Sentry, Lemmings, Out of theis World, etc. It's not any suprise that my MP3 player is filled with tunes from http://www.ocremix.org/ and http://www.vgmusic.com/ and http://remix64.phatsites.de/ More to follow. but I leave you with a PS I made of Samus and a Metroid: http://www.pyramid.net/riparian/images/metroid2.jpg Last edited by Rbp-7-(Ooz); Jun 01, 2005 at 10:45 PM // 22:45.. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 10:52 PM // 22:52
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Academy Page
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Southern California
Guild: and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob."
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Toronto, ON
Profession: W/R
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OK ... NOW we're talking ... gotta try and sound off on these as I can ...
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Jun 01, 2005, 11:45 PM // 23:45
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: May 2005
Location: SoCAL 626 // QC, MTL
Guild: Templars of Justice
Profession: W/Mo
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I was born in the very early 1989, my first games included the NES and SNES with Mortal Kombat (FATALITY! POON!) n Street Fighter and Super Mario, then PC games i started around when i was 4 or 5, with Doom and Duke Nukem, Mega Race (loved that), Raptor (OMG one of my first game on Win32) Roger Rabbit (Meh, i was 4, what u want :P), the first final fantasies, then later on i moved on to the first Need For Speed and GTA 1!!, Beta Starcraft and SC and Total Annihilation, Diablo, Infantry XD, Beta CS, Diablo II all the way to LoD, RO, CS (made to cal-i and got kicked out when they put age restriction), then WoW now GW :P.
I skipped a lot of games, those are on the top of my mind, i did not own SNES or NES when i was young, friends' or cousins', my first console was like a very old NES which i got later and some SEGA crap, then N64 was my first current console. My first PC was my uncle's, he lived with us so i used it a lot when i was young, anyways, as i got to like 9 or 10 i got my own PCs and i kept upgrading them, now i own a ps2 and a 3.2 Prescott P4 and some other specs (Won't specify, too long) and now im 16, Gaming Generation XD. One of the reason i played, was because of my cousins, they played a lot so online games were extremely fun, then as i got older, lots of friends play also. Although now they're kind of a waste of time with sports and school and whatnot. |
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Jun 01, 2005, 11:55 PM // 23:55
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Southern Cali
Guild: Herald of the Storm
Profession: W/R
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Pong...
Before I get labeled as a total fossil, this was when i was living in Ecuador. My father brought home a "game system" that consisted of a red box that had two paddle controllers. I was.... 4? at the Time. I helped my dad hook up the system which is my earliest recollection of enjoying tinkering with electronics. |
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