Mister Jack Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Well when I'm trying to figure out if Nintendo ever MARKETED to girls by making a pink game boy and calling it a game girl, thinking like MARKETING is unavoidable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadiantViper Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) Well when I'm trying to figure out if Nintendo ever MARKETED to girls by making a pink game boy and calling it a game girl, thinking like MARKETING is unavoidable. Just kidding around, no need for fist shaking! the 'boy' part wasn't really to denote gender, so switching the name would probably just confuse the brand if anything I just hate when companies make the "girl" versions and put up an ad with all things pink and fluffy and what not. Edited December 30, 2010 by RadiantViper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainetemplar Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 I really wouldn't know.. I remember playing Golden Eye and Doom at a friends house.. I think my first very own game was Prince of Persia. It was a floppy disc. Ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottZilla Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 The first game I played was likely something on the Atari 400/800 home computer like Pac-Man, Joust, Missile Command, or something else. We had that before we got a NES with SMB/Duck Hunt. I have no clue when I started playing games, and have no real memory of it. So I can only assume I started very early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Gosh darn. This is a tough one. I'm really not sure. Probably some shareware on the PC. I do know my first 'system' though, was a Game Boy. One of these see through ones: I was such a happy kid. All my friends had Nintendos and cool computer games that I wanted so badly, but my parents were hesitant (because they were afraid to get me hooked on video games probably, and we didn't have a lot of money then), while all I got where the crappy $15 or whatever video games with the LCD screens that had something appear in a pre-determined spot when you pressed a button. So when I got the Game Boy for (my seventh?) birthday, I was over the moon. I know I eventually got Donkey Kong Land, Super Mario Land, and Kirby's Dream Land (I guess 'Land' was the suffix for the Game Boy versions of the main Nintendo titles), but the game I remember having first, was F-1 Racing. Haha, such a simple game, and I remember sucking at it, but it was a video game, and so I was happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-K Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) the game I remember having first, was F-1 Racing. Haha, such a simple game, and I remember sucking at it, but it was a video game, and so I was happy. Is that.. is that Tetris city in the background? Well I'll be... Edited December 30, 2010 by D-K 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Is that.. is that Tetris city in the background? Well I'll be... Tetris City. Or as it's more commonly known to the rest of the world as: St Petersburg, Russia. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudkip3DS Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) Hey dean, right country, but wrong city, and wrong church. http://en.wikipedia....l%27s_Cathedral (The answer is Moscow, in case you're wondering. ) Edited December 30, 2010 by Deanb Swapped image for less megapixely image of St Basils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 It was looking a bit desaturated, thought it was the photo. (And there was the nagging thought it was in Moscow on the main plaza but St Petersburg sounded good enough, n St-ey) Well I'm good for the style n country. Anyway main point was it's a real place, and it's used as Tetris is from Russia. In case the tune doesn't give it away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Super Mario Bros 3. Got it with my NES. I was like... 3 or so at the time. My parents had no idea what they were creating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotChops Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 The first game(s) that I ever played were Reader Rabbit, Glider, and Dark Castle. My Dad bought a bunch of Macintosh 128K for his law office in 1986 because they were the most advanced computers at that time, and I passed my days cooped up there with those three games (since my Mom didn't see the point of daycare). I actually learned how to type/read from Reader Rabbit before I started kindergarten. I can't find screenshots of the original game anywhere online though (it was black/white only, just like Glider and Dark Castle). Dark Castle had different difficulty settings and was really freaking challenging. I actually played it on an emulator when I was 15 and rediscovered it online, and I couldn't even get to the level that I got stuck on when I was a five-year-old. I love obscure Mac games! My dad bought a few weird ones. Super Mario Bros 3. Got it with my NES. I was like... 3 or so at the time. My parents had no idea what they were creating. Welcome to the revolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diedan Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) Dark Castle had different difficulty settings and was really freaking challenging. I actually played it on an emulator when I was 15 and rediscovered it online, and I couldn't even get to the level that I got stuck on when I was a five-year-old. Holy awesome! That was definitely the other game I played on my uncle's mac. It took me forever to get anywhere, and I'm pretty sure I never beat it. Edit! I found images for Crystal Quest (apparently not just Quest), and The Dungeon Revealed (apparently not just Dungeon). Crystal Quest: The Dungeon Revealed: Both those games were so fantastic. Edited December 30, 2010 by diedan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Galaga, followed by SMB / Duck Hunt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Copypasta from the Old Republic: Doing some research, it seems we had some sort of Amstrad computer (think it was a CPC6128). Not one with a tape deck, but the floppy drive. Really showing my age... We had a few games, which I seem to recall were bundled with a joystick. Not sure which I played first, and some may have come separately. - Scalextric (basically an F1 game with a track-builder as well) - Trivial Pursuit (can't have had more than 100 questions on it, which really ruined its replayability ) - N.O.M.A.D. (you pilot a ship around in 2D) - Roland In Time (managed to find the name on Google. Weird sort of platformer) We also had some sort of Track & Field-type game, as well as some sort of 'educational' one. I think it had frogs in it, and some thing where you aim a hand which throws a ball to bounce off walls and hit a target (they may be two different games). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-K Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) Forgot this one, also from around the time I first started gaming. Dangerous Dave. "Danger is my middle name"...? Screw that, Danger was his first name. Booyah! Take that, society! Edited December 30, 2010 by D-K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Was two years old when I tried playing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) The place: the local grocery store. The machine: An NES Play Choice 10. I had a quarter from someone/somewhere and my mom would NEVER let me play the arcade machine. This time, I was with my dad and he let me play. My first game was: Super Mario Bros. Yep, same as everyone else. I later started playing Elevator Action and Pole Position at the local roller skating rink. In school I remember playing a game on the Apple ][ where these animals would get scrambled and you had to put them back together. I have no idea what this game was called but it was fun. I never owned a video game (outside of the Tiger electronic games) until I was about 13/14 when my dad allowed me to buy an NES at a garage sale for $5. It came with two carts: Mario/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet and Contra. A week or two before someone had given us a box of stuff left over from an estate sale. In that box was a bunch of NES games. After we got the NES hooked up I went through every game trying to get them to work. I had yet to learn about cleaning games or even the NES blow in the cart trick. I was able to get one game going and my siblings and I played it for hours that night ... Edited December 30, 2010 by Battra92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showmeyomoves! Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Hmmm... My first console game was definitely Super Mario Bros., I know that much... Things get blurry when I try to think of my actual first computer game, though... Digger, maybe? You see those two colors they have going on there? We didn't have that fancy shit. We played it in black and white on my dad's laptop. But if it wasn't Digger, it might have been... King's Quest? Damn my shitty memory... I really don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slatz_grobnik Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Space Invaders. On the Atari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshi Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 My first game was actually Final Fantasy on the NES. Which I gave up after I didn't get much after Garland... so I played Mario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Willow from the NES. My first PC game was Commander Keen. My first SNES game was Super Mario World. First N64 game was Goldeneye 64. First PSOne game was Gran Turismo. First Dreamcast game was NFL2K1. First PS2 game was the Mark of Kri. First Xbox game was Halo. First Xbox 360 game was Oblivion. First PS3 game was MLB 10 The Show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 First game I played was a skiing game for an ancient Atari system. I played it at a friend's in the mid 80's. First games of my own was Super Mario Brothers/ Duck Hunt, Kid Icarus and Castlevania. I don't remember which I played first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsfox Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 I'm not sure what my first game was but for some reason I think it was E.T. on the Atari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudkip3DS Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 (edited) I'm not sure what my first game was but for some reason I think it was E.T. on the Atari. Just kidding with you, in case you didn't notice. Edited December 31, 2010 by Mudkip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsfox Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Actually, I think that was what the game was about. "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE HOLE!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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