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

Minecraft Demo version on my grandpa's iPad. It blew my little 5 year old mind.

[–] [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

Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.

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

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

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Need For Speed Underground 2 and Burnout 3. Got it as a combo deal for Christmas as a kid.

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

Ocarina of Time. There's, like, a whole world out there. I can walk around and see stuff. There are people to talk to. Hey, big owl. Scary monsters wtf. This shit's awesome.

Been chasing that feeling ever since :(

Frankly it's why I'm so into TTRPGs now. Video games can rarely give me a true sense of wonder, of exploring the unknown and unexpected anymore.

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

Does jump-start pre k count?

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

The first game I ever played was Mario on the NES, but the ones that really got me into gaming were Duke Nukem 3D and Quake on PC. It's been 27 years and I still enjoy them.

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

mario kart wiiiiiiiiiiiii

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

Pokemon Blue that I got from a girl my mom babysat. But I think really getting into the hobby would be minecraft when I started hosting servers for my friends in middle school. I owe my career to that game.

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

I've been playing games ever since I was a little kid, I don't really remember any particular "first game". We did have an old SNES that I did all the time so probably Super Mario World I guess.

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

SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula on Game Boy Color

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

Freddy fish 🐠

[–] [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

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

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

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

Pole Position II on Atari 7800.

[–] [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

Halo/a slew of freemium MMOs I'd play on my dinky laptop in the mid 00s

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

Probably Commander Keen 4 and Prince of Persia in black and white on my dad's 286 pc.

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

Flash games. Like the ones on Newgrounds, Y8, coolmathgames…

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Sly Cooper.

Zillennials rise up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Probably space invaders on the Atari 2600

I didn't have an Atari new I believe it was already an old system when me and my sister got it.

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

Minecraft, and then Cuphead again

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