Hey,

I remember my first gaming experiences being on the Amiga 600 when I was about 7.

We got the usual game pack of Push Over, Silly Putty and some other dreary game.

However, since it was technically my sister's computer games console, I hardly got to play on there at first (something which I have never forgiven her for :mad:)

But we got to play the usual demos from the GamesMaster magazines and the 18 Certified games like Mortal Kombat :smile:

Of course, having an Amiga, not only was the loading of the games so annoyingly slow but also it crashed about 2,3 times wiping the disks . . grr

I personally had two fav games on the Amiga, one being Mortal Kombat (in direct competition with the ever popular Street Fighter and much, much gory . . . nice! :biggrin:) and Sensible Soccer. So basic yet so fun :biggrin:

Thankfully I managed to upgrade to the SNES and Sony Playstations, but which computer games did you first play as a child and how did you rate them.

They don't necessarily have to be games you liked. I've played quite a few games that really stunk!

Cheers

Intellectual debates are better than ratings

Man great thread. My first games console was a Amiga, but I use to play on my cousins Comador 64 also. I then moved to the NES, SNES, PS2 & now PS3. My all time favourite game would be Street Fighter, such a classic but sorry Nino it kicked MK's ass :razz:.

I had an Atari ST FM at that time, but prior to that I had a C64 (best game = IK+).

My first console was one of those old 'binatones' but they were a bit poo. My first proper games machines, with cartridge games was the Atari 2600 (wooden version). I still have it somewhere... Loved Combat and Yar's Revenge!

My console life cycle goes something like this:
Atari 2600 (still have it)
C64 (still have it)
Atari ST
NES (still have it - about to be gutted and made into a NES PC though)
Mega Drive + Mega CD
SNES + disk drive
Saturn
PlayStation
N64
PlayStation2 (still have it)
Dreamcast
Xbox 360 (still have it)
Wii (still have it)
PS3. (still have it)

I'm not gonna quote you Ches, that list is way too long :eek:

Hope you keep the older consoles in good nick, could turn out to be valuable antiques *kerching*

I don't want to call you a games console geek, you may get offended by that term, but you do know how to have fun

I just wish I had the opportunity to play through all generations of consoles.


My all time favourite game would be Street Fighter, such a classic but sorry Nino it kicked MK's ass :razz:.

Sorry Zach, but you're forgetting one thing that made Mortal Kombat unique from Street Fighter . . . "FINISH HIM" :biggrin:

My fav had to be Scorpion, with the harpoon. Sweeeeeet :twisted:

Mortal Kombat was superior to Street Fighter in so many ways.

Mortal Kombat was superior to Street Fighter in so many ways.

I have to agree.

I did play Street Fighter, but that was on a copied disc :p and not having the games manual didn't help.

So I pretty much had to play the game randomly, learning the commands for the game as I went along and making notes of the moves on a piece of scrap paper.

I just remember my brother beating me with E Honda, just used the same 100 slap move and I couldn't get near him!

But with Mortal Kombat, me and my brother saved up £30 to buy it via mail order. There was more variety in moves, the game play was far quicker and I was rather entertained by the sight of gore when I was a child :biggrin:

Street Fighter seemed more a comic game, with Mortal Kombat, it was more life like and more enthralling.

The characters that stood out were Sub Zero and Scorpion. Me and my brother used to play as one or the other and was always the most competitive of games :razz:

F-15 strike eagle, flight simulator, Hard hat mac, stix, zaxxon and space commander on an IBM 086 pc that we got for christmas in 86 or 87, not sure. Oddly it was very simplar to the first fashionable imacs, a one piece cpu-monitor thing. The hard drive was a whole megabyte, and the ram a kickass 640kb. My parents wouldn't let me use the turbo pc.

Mortal combat was nothing compared to Street Fighter. Street Fighter 2 Turbo was so much fun on the SNES ^__^. I play Street Fighter: 3rd Strike at the arcade sometimes. Along with Tekken 6. I'm pretty handy at Tekken :E.

Anyway, topic!

My first games console was when I was about 5 years old. I had a BBC Micro! It was great, you just popped in a floppy disk to unlock games. Meaning, you couldn't actually play any new games. The BBC micro came with games and to unlock them you inserted the correct floppy disk. It was keyboard and monitor. I'm not actually sure if those were the only games you could play but they were the only ones I played. Playing Asteroid and some Text only RPG. Was great fun :D.

Then I upgraded to SNES and completed all the Mario Bros games. Super tennis and SF2:Turbo was also big faves!

Then got my hands on a megadrive. Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine anyone!? The best Tetris clone ever made! Along with the necessities like MK and Sonic.

Then came the Playstation! Which I brought around the time the first MGS was released, the package came with Ridge Racer Type 5. Haha. After that I purchased FF7. And never left my room again..

Until a few years later...

But only to buy a PS2! Which I got near release date. SSX and Tekken Tag Tournament were just irresistible! Way too many games here played to list but I'll list the main time consumers. FFX! ^___^. MGS2! ^___^. Tekken 5! ^___^.. Hmm, there's more but my brain is currently dead from being mad at Isketch. xD..

Then I brought Xbox for halo..

Not sure where my PC fits into this. But I was playing Counter Strike in 2001.. I was only 10 years old! ^__^.. Hehe..

I had a 360 but I sold it to upgrade my PC. Halo 3, GoW and Guitar Hero were fun but I didn't play it that much anyway and wanted to sell before it's value dropped.

Sorry for long and boring post.. *hides*

Haha...we've never had any game consoles, but I remember when I was really little we'd play Duck Hunt on Nintendo and that was my favourite game. Sometimes we would rent a console (no idea which ones) and my favourites were Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, and Clay Fighters...I am really bad at playing video games though. I do the whole girl thing and lean with my controller:smile:

We got our first computer (Windows 95) when I was about ummm however old I was in 95/96ish, and it was a really cool thing for us. I remember the first game we got was Riven (?) and me and my two brothers would sit on my parents bed (comp was in their room) watching our oldest brother play this game. I thought it looked pretty neat, but nobody ever actually figured out how to play it. First game I got into was Warcraft II I think.

Note, I have 3 brothers so I only played their games :eek:

Duck Hunt on Nintendo and that was my favourite game.

Duck Hunt XD - loved it! So disappointing when the next generation Nintendo didn't have it! Wii Play has a similar thing now, but it's not the same without the plastic orange gun, I'm afraid.

Super Mario Bros was probably my all time favourite though - I can remember discussing tactics and where the hidden 1UP mushrooms were at work in the tea room, and knowing the game so well you could say something like "in Level 4.2 where the turtle throws the boomerang, if you are about 2 inches from the left of the screen, and you duck and jump just at this point, you get an Invincible Star..."

The very first memory of computer games though was the table things they had in the pubs - when my family went for the traditional Friday afternoon/evening pub meal, and all us kids would have saved up all our 20c pieces to put into the Space Invaders machine. Imagine my delight when I went to the Uni bar a few years ago with some friends and found an original Space Invaders table there!!

Then along came Pac-Man....
Ah, nostalgia :smile:

Super Mario Bros was probably my all time favourite though

Ahhhh gotta love Mario. Creative genius by Shigeru Miyamoto.

But I loved Mario-Kart, such great fun, not only in the races but in battle mode too :biggrin:

ok... go way back into the time machine. Think of the oldest computer you have seen that was a desktop and used the 5 1/2 inch floppies.. remember the Radio Shack Tandy?

The first games I remember were BC, King's Quest, 3-Demon, some kind of hangman and I can't remember the others. I was pretty young. We also had some type of typing game that was useful because in 7th grade when we had to take typing on typewriters, I already knew how to type. Those were the days and everyone thought we were rich 'cause we had a computer... lol

Its funny how SEGA went down the drain, up untill 1995? it was a Nintendo vs SEGA battle but as soon as PS One launched, it blew SEGA out of the water even though SEGA looked stronger out of the Nintendo vs SEGA battle.

My earliest computer game experience was in my grandparents' basement (before we moved) and I played two games: One was some type of dinosaur game where you're a scientist and you create dinosaurs in your lab and they get loose and whatever; I remember creating rainbow Tyrannosaurus Rexes. And I played an educational game by some elementary school book series called Discover or something in which you learn about the body, muscles, skeleton, skin, nervous system, eyes, joints, whatever. I remember learning how the mouse and keyboard worked with those games. There were keyboard shortcuts; I didn't learn how to type yet.

That was before I learned about video games (for consoles) and the Internet and chatting and roleplaying and stuff. I think I was about 5ish then. I grew up with computers.

I forgot, one of the most fun game experiences i had was in around 1989, with a green screen mac with a program of a little turtle drawing... this is back when I learned the basics of logo and basic programming.

I forgot, one of the most fun game experiences i had was in around 1989, with a green screen mac with a program of a little turtle drawing... this is back when I learned the basics of logo and basic programming.

*Sudden Brain Jolt* That brings something back to me - vague vague memories! :eek:

There was a time... when you'd go around to your mate's house who had 'ping' this tennis game thing... basically composed of two movable bars and a square ball, lol. Back then it was THE thing to have... anyone who had an Atari or Amstrad thing in their house was popular...

I started back with a commodore 64 (yes, I'm old, get over it, lol) playing 'The Hobbit' from a tape.... there was also this Godawful game called 'Castle of Terror'... I was put off a bit until I found Lemmings... who are amusing in the respect that you can blow the little green-haired beasties up if you like... and they look like they have an unnatural attachment to walls when climbing up them... it's a survivor that game though, still exists in other forms now.

I bought a Sega Megadrive and played Sonic the Hedgehog and Echo the Dolphin... lol

Next one I discovered was the N64... hours of Playing Banjo Kazooie and Mario64.... Ocarina of Time...

Playstation... Crash Bandicoot 2 and Silent Hill all nighters.... running from 'flappy things' and papping myself when the radio would start to buzz.... that said... wasn't as scary as that time I played resident evil in the dark, alone... jump? Dear me... you have no idea.

Thats how it started Now I'm busy working through Twilight Princess... looking for the next challenge, lol. :biggrin:

I guess my first experiance was back when I was young (under 10) on a friends Nintendo something or other, I cant even remember the name :eek:

However the first game I owned myself, well my dad bought for me, was GTA, I can still remember the day because My little sister at the time wanted Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun which he bought at the same time from PC Worl in Canterbury (yes I even remember which store :eek:)

iv played alot of games consoles and my list is as long as ches's except i dont have a PS3 and still have all of them somewhere just like nino i enjoyed sensible soccer on amiga a great game of its time my favourite games though has to be all the Grand Theft Auto's :twisted: and Fifa games they are constantly getting better hope they keep it up

great thread nino well done :razz:

iv played alot of games consoles and my list is as long as ches's except i dont have a PS3 and still have all of them somewhere just like nino i enjoyed sensible soccer on amiga a great game of its time my favourite games though has to be all the Grand Theft Auto's :twisted: and Fifa games they are constantly getting better hope they keep it up

great thread nino well done :razz:

GTA series are just fab! Lol, I keep mentioning how I love gore in games, but I'm not really that violent :twisted:

Can't go into detail what I love about it, otherwise it'll have to be moved :smile:

I'm more of a Pro Evo fan, played FIFA at my mates and cousins, hated it, but I heard that the game play is just as good as Pro Evo now.

I forgot, one of the most fun game experiences i had was in around 1989, with a green screen mac with a program of a little turtle drawing... this is back when I learned the basics of logo and basic programming.

I remember that! :eek: That was a game??? We had to do that in elementary school! It was scheduled into class time.

My gaming history is pretty sparse. Nintendo - I must've been like, 10? The only games I remember were some kind of Mario Bros thing, and possibly Tetris. After I ruined my eyes on the stewpid video games, and my Dad took the batteries out and hid it away (and to this day, I have no idea where it is), I never played another video game.

Can I get an award for the person with the shortest computer gaming history? o.O

Can I get an award for the person with the shortest computer gaming history? o.O

I would give you an award but I'm pretty cheap :biggrin:

Nexus is loaded, ask him!

I would give you an award but I'm pretty cheap :biggrin:

Nexus is loaded, ask him!

Boo, that is pretty cheap! D;

I forgot, one of the most fun game experiences i had was in around 1989, with a green screen mac with a program of a little turtle drawing... this is back when I learned the basics of logo and basic programming.

For some reason I think of Netlogo (http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/) when I read that... because of the words "turtle," "programming," and "logo." Although I don't think that's what you were talking about.

I personally think Street Fighter > Mortal Kombat. But they're both great.

I personally think Street Fighter > Mortal Kombat. But they're both great.

Lol maybe we should make another thread on which is better? Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat? But I'm too lazy too :biggrin:

Other fighting games, ahh, Body Blows on the Amiga, think that was our first beat 'em up.

But only played it a few times since it was lent to someone and they never returned it . .

Hated Tekken, just over hyped in my opinion and I kept winning with the little dinosaur with same move . . . I guess they didn't carry out enough testing :smile:

GTA series are just fab! Lol, I keep mentioning how I love gore in games, but I'm not really that violent :twisted:

Can't go into detail what I love about it, otherwise it'll have to be moved :smile:

I'm more of a Pro Evo fan, played FIFA at my mates and cousins, hated it, but I heard that the game play is just as good as Pro Evo now.


yep fifa is much better but i also think pro evo has gone now hill abit which is a shame because i do like pro evo

...who had 'ping' this tennis game thing... basically composed of two movable bars and a square ball
That would've been my very first exposure. With dual school-teacher parents, practically anything of the video game persuasion was frowned upon, but still managed to acquire a paddle-controlled pong variant from a relo one Christmas.

Since then I've made up for it with:

Game Boy Pocket*
Game Boy Advance*
Game Boy Advance SP*
Nintendo DS*
PSP*
SNES (Aus)*
SNES (Aus)
N64 (Aus)*
Playstation (Aus)
Playstation (US/Jap)*
PS1 (Aus)*
Dreamcast (Jap)*
Dreamcast (US/Jap)*
PS2 (Jap)*
GameCube (Aus)*
GameCube (US/Jap)*
Xbox (Jap)*
Xbox (Aus)*
Xbox360 (Jap)*
PS3 (Aus)*

Everything with a * I still have and still works.

You lucky lot starting with a commodore 64..... first one i had was a commodore Vic20!!
Anyone actually heard of it? It was out before the C64. Well anyway it was a cartridge thing and which you could attach a cassette player bit to it as well. Had all the usual games back then, pacman, asteroids, hangman…….ermmm all the other great games of the decade.
Used to have hour long competitions with my dad with pacman…I know, I know the only thing that change was the fruit in the middle but for a 5year old it was amazing. Until one day… black screen with “over load in memory” in the top corner…..firstly what memory and what did it have to remember?? So that was the end of that :(

Up next was the NES, and that was Mario and duck hunt…why did I pretend to be ill to skip school to play that? Hours of entertainment till you discover the wrapzones and finish the thing in 5mins lol

Then it was the SNES….all I can say I must of lost a year or 2 of my live playing Mario kart and bomberman.

Does a PC count in games consoles? That was GTA and moding all the cars to make them much cooler.

Along came the playstation, PS2 and game cube….cant really say there was a game which I played none stop, so many to pick from. Currently being addicted to guitar hero, god knows why….but playing that at 3am while drunk with mates and 2 plastic guitars is so funny lol

You lucky lot starting with a commodore 64..... first one i had was a commodore Vic20!!
Anyone actually heard of it? It was out before the C64. Well anyway it was a cartridge thing and which you could attach a cassette player bit to it as well. Had all the usual games back then, pacman, asteroids, hangman…….ermmm all the other great games of the decade.

I never heard of a Vic20... wow... :biggrin: I remember all those games though... used to play Pacman and Space Invaders at our local swimming pool's canteen for ages... aaah, those were the days... when arcade games were 5p and 10p.

/me is feeling her age, and quite likes it. :razz: lol

I find the Wii games entertaining.... more watching other people play... the positions folk get themselves into bowling or boxing on there is quite something to see, lol.

For some reason I think of Netlogo when I read that... because of the words "turtle," "programming," and "logo." Although I don't think that's what you were talking about.

Yeah the program was called Logo, but i can't find a reference to the exact program on the web, kinda frustrating. It was all keyboard based and the turtule left the line drawn as it walked. It was funny to write out curse words with it and then showing the teacher.



I find the Wii games entertaining.... more watching other people play... the positions folk get themselves into bowling or boxing on there is quite something to see, lol.

People playing wii:

Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v31qxrXsxv0)

Why every girl should not, under any circumstance, buy their boyfriends Wii Fit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwEw6f2wtwc)

errrrrrrrrm, im showing my age now,

but going for old games, (old - ie. classic - like me) used to have a spectrum *sp that took casettes, and made an odd noise when loading.

Gawd in an antique.

I just discovered this thread (http://www.isketchforum.net/classic-computer-games-t1864.html) on classic computer games that Pnigh created a while back... sort of the same idea. Maybe mods want to merge or something? It's got a few replies too, would be good addition to this thread, maybe?

Hey Hey 16K .. what does that get you today?

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

First game I played on the Amiga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E06Yi14IbQ

I cheated to get the codes (from Gamesmaster mag) for the last level, just so many to do :biggrin:

I played "Lotus Esprit Turbo" and got so into it I nearly broke my hand going round corners ... I remember the passwords "Liverpool" and "Peasoup" = motorway and fog driving levels :P

The first computer game I remember playing was Commander Keen (marooned on mars- the first one), on my grandparents pc. I know I was only a few years old when i first attempted this game as I remember sitting on my big brother's lap and helping him play. Over years of going to my grandparents every weekend I eventually got old enough to play by myself that, and all the other Commander Keen games :)
For those of you that don't know- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen

If we're talking gaming consoles then the first one I REMEMBER playing is Mario Bros on the Original Nintendo.

If we're talking computer games the first game I remember playing is Tetris.

But my memory stinks so who knows if those were actually the first games I played or not. =P

My list of consoles the order I played them (I think):

N64
GBA
GC
PS2
DS
Wii
SNES (get up here now, SNES! lol)

Hmm. All I've ever had was a computer, gameboy color, PS2 and a wii.



I love my gameboy color the most. Cos.. It has pokemon on it.
:)


My friend has pokemon yellow on their phone.
I'm jealous..

My list of games consoles... I think in the correct order I owned them:
Gamegear (technically my older brother's but i stole it when I was old enough to play it)
Megadrive
N64
PS1
GB
GBC
PS2
PSP
Wii

Yeah the program was called Logo, but i can't find a reference to the exact program on the web, kinda frustrating. It was all keyboard based and the turtule left the line drawn as it walked. It was funny to write out curse words with it and then showing the teacher.

haha... memories. We had the actual turtle at school, which drew on paper when the commands were processed... Can still remember the basic commands: PENUP PENDOWN FD RT PE, etc... but none of the more funky stuff.




People playing wii:

Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v31qxrXsxv0)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwEw6f2wtwc)

I'll be on youtube for hours... there's loads of these vids!

Nice idea for a thread El_Nino and some interesting posts in here so far :biggrin:

I remember the first game I ever played was on the Amiga, quite ironic that it turned out to be a football game (was called Lothar Matthaus Soccer, was basic but enjoyable). Then I moved onto the NES and was hooked on the Super Mario series. Since then I've owned the Super Nintendo, Megadrive, Nintendo 64, Sony Playstation, Nintendo Gamecube and I currently own a Sony Playstation2 and Sony Playstation Portable (mainly used for long train journeys).

Gotta say my favourite games have been: Super Mario, Sonic, Sensible Soccer (the best Megadrive game I owned) Mortal Kombat, Pro Evolution Soccer (currently hooked on the PC version of PES2008) and GTA.

All the nintendos but the first one was my fav - and the super mario series :) oh and also on n64 with mariocart