What is your earliest gaming memory?
My earliest memory of playing video games goes all the way back when I was in kindergarten. We are talking about the good old 90's. I was not born during the earliest days of the industry, but was definitely there for the most nostalgic.
I was not a player back in those days. I preferred to watch others play. My aunt purchased a Super Nintendo for herself after high school. It was funny because she would bring some of her close female friends over and they would play games. At one point, the guy she was dating also had a run on the machine. He was good! At least, he was the reason why I got to see the endings across multiple games my aunt owned.
So, I have seen ``gamer chicks`` before their fantasized state on certain parts of the internet.
Anyhow, the game that stood out the most to me was Super Mario All-stars. That's right, I am talking about the 1993 title, not the remakes you could find on the Wii Store and whatnot.
I remember myself watching my aunts and her friends play. In hindsight, they were not great players, but they did make pretty far in each game of All-stars.
When my aunt moved out after she got married, she left the SNES with me. For extra tidbit, she married the same guy I mentioned earlier. I recall trying to beat those games in grade school. They felt so difficult at the time.
Because of their nostalgic value, I went back to those games in college. And boy, they still posed challenges, but the satisfaction remained the same. These days, many would call that stuff ``retro gaming``.
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The earliest game I remember playing was Commander Keen (shareware).
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I have never played that before.
And that is totally old school.
I remember playing games on Atari Haunted House, ET (released broken with a A bug), Asteroids, PacMan... and then eventually I got an Apple IIc. Games like Load Runner, Chop Lifter, Ghato (a submarine game, I probably spelled it wrong), (original) Prince Of Persia, and Conan. Then I purchased a NES and played too much Castlevania, Metal Gear, TMNT, Super Mario, and Mario 3. I played those a lot. I eventually broke my NES playing Double dribble because the game cheated with a full court pass and dunk anytime you got close to beating it on hard setting. Oh and lots of Life Force in NES.
I never played that Mario All Stars. I wantched people play game in the Arcades. I dumped lots of money into the arcades. California seemed to have one everywhere at that time (late 80’s).
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Haha that's crazy! I didn't go back to the older games until during college. Those were some good stuff.
I have never spent much time at arcades, though. Never had the money as a kid, and too cheap by the time I was an adult.
For me it is holding the Atari joystick. PacMan just keeps coming back, but I'm an aviation guy. And who can ever forget Outrun. Yeah, I'm preInternet. Only played Allstars at someone else's place and never the original.
A very different, but relevant experience.
I was just talking about this... Mine was Galactic Empire on an Apple II+
I have never played it.
I need to see if I could get my hands on it.
To the surprise of many, to how the super Mario is popular is, I haven't played the game before. I don't think so
You don’t think so? Like what’s there to think about? You either did or didn’t. Lol
I remember playing Lemmings and Commander Keen on a PC long time ago.
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Yeah, @enforcer48 a lot has changed in my life, so i was not so often at the pc and even less online. but now everything has settled down. How are you, I hope you are doing well?
A lot of stuff happened here in life and on the blockchain. And here we are.
I would say I am better than months ago. But, the struggle is still real, though.
What struggle? :(
Oh, just drama in general.
I'm just revisiting what's going on here.
Glad to hear that you feel better. Hope for you, that everything turns out to be good!
My earliest Gaming memory was Donkey Kong Trick o Tronic:
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My earliest game was the 8-bit FC games that I played on those fami-clone with keyboard - I told my parents that I needed one of those to study, but you know, most of time, I played games.
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My earliest gaming memory is Sea Battle on the Intellivision. Take that I'm fucking old.
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Now, that’s old school.
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I think the first video game I played/watched was Oregon Trail... (I guess I'm a little older than you, lol.) I think that might have been on my friend's Apple IIc - his dad worked for Apple at the time, so I got some of the benefit from time to time. (Mostly we played with his cool Star Wars action figures and built his awesome Star Wars Lego sets!) We only lived in the Bay Area for 6 months, so I know that was 1983.
Oregon Trail is a classic. The first one in the series I played was the third one.