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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

mario kart wiiiiiiiiiiiii

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Below the Root on Commodore 64. After that just the Mario Games and Final Fantasy games on NES and SNES.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Little Big Planet series.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My parents got me my first video game when I was 3 years old called Ready for Math with Pooh. I still remember some of the games!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I played games before, but my first obsession was Pokemon Blue, Diablo and 2 got me stuck into RPGs, and Halo CE got me into shooters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Initially it was Animal Crossing: Wild World. One of my parents' coworker's daughter was babysitting me before school when I was in 3rd grade and she had the game on her DS and I fell in love with it. Still have the copy I got to this day. However, I wouldn't say I fully got into the hobby until The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess (Wii). TP especially got me to fall in line with video games as a storytelling medium artistically and narratively.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

PokΓ©mon Blue on a used Gameboy color when I was like 8. All downhill from there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tony Hawk's Underground, Need for Speed underground, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I don't remember which one I played first, but it was one of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

COD:MW2, Halo 3 and Fallout 3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Portal. I have terrible FPS skills but love puzzle games. Having a FPS where I could proceed at my own pace and wasn’t constantly letting down teammates let me develop the skills needed to actually play.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pole Position II on Atari 7800.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The first games I played were some Windows 3.11 and DOS games, like Microman, Space Quest V and Civilization (which I didn't really understand, mostly liked to build up a palace lol). But what really got me into gaming was probably my Gameboy Advance with Pokemon Gold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There was never really a single game. First game: Grand Prix on Atari 2600 Then The Settlers, Desert Strike, Another World and Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 on Amiga. Age of Empires 2, GTA, Stronghold, SHOGO, Morrowind, BG2 on PC After these titles I can try just about anything. That made me consider really wide variety of genres, styles and publishing formats (from indie to AAA).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was first blown away with SimCity 4. My uncle had a pretty decent computer for the time, which could properly run it and I spent hours loving it. My nephew had RTC2 which we played for days on end, the first game I played through at home was Age of Mythology. I guess it shows where my love for strategy/simulation games comes from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sid Meier's Civilisation. Got me hooked like what I imagine crack cocaine and meth would do to you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Freddy fish 🐠

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I got a Sega Genesis at 5. I had Sonic 1 and 2, and tiny toon adventures. Tiny Toon Adventures slaps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Need for Speed Underground 2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah. That and Colin McRae Rally 2.0 were my favorite race games back then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

KOTOR It is still one of the best stories in a game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dune 2, on our 386. Pretty sure my brother pirated the game from a BBS and at the time I didn't know piracy or BBS' were a thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Monuments of Mars and later Command & Conquer were the two biggest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ultima online

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Video games? Space Invaders on my mate's Atari 2600. Asked for (and got) one that very Christmas.

Board games? That's a tought one, but I reckon Talisman 2nd Edition, which my uncles had a copy of. Played maaaaany hours of that game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Donkey Kong Country for SNES

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

First game I ever played was Donkey Kong country 1 at 4 years old and it shaped my hobbies up until recently. So definitly that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been playing games since I was a kid, but I never got hooked to any until The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Now I’m playing the sequel, Tears of the Kingdom. They’re both fantastic games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Super Mario Bros. circa 1987. I’m getting old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How do all of you even know? I was like 4 and played an NES at a friend's house then got a game boy. Did you all get in at older ages? My memories at 4 are mostly gone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

While there was a bunch I played before it, Quake 2 and the rabbit hole of mods for it, were what really got me hooked. Really loving the remaster that just launched and what that is bringing to the mod community that is still going strong to this day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dragon Warrior on NES is what really got me hooked. I'd played games on Atari but Dragon Warrior was my first introduction to rpgs. I'm glad the franchise is still going strong. Have slime magnets on my fridge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have no idea. My brother is 10 years older than I am, (so he's 49, I'll be 39 in a few months) and it was definitely something he let me play, I just have no idea what it could possibly have been. I've had a controller (keyboard and mouse mostly now) in my hands my entire life lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably going to date myself a bit here

Doom 2, I played Doom before it and it was really fun but Doom 2 just stuck it claws in me and I was hooked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spiderman shattered dimensions

Played it half-way as a kid

That or nexuiz on my family linux desktop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Before that, I was emulating games

Mostly pokemon games

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uh... probably one of my dad's Atari games. For PC games, though, it would be space sims, like the old Privateer or X-Wing. My dad loved them, and so I grew to love them, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know for sure that Sonic and Knuckles was the very first game I played, or at least that I formed a memory of playing. I also had this handheld Radica Junior Bass Fishing game. And then I think I got to play Cruisin' USA at somebody's house and they had a full steering wheel setup for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably the pong game that my neighbours had hooked up to their tv in the very early 80s

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