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[Strange Oddysee]

Ive been wondering...whats the first game you ever played (if you remember) and what was the game when you realized that your hooked to games for life?

The first game I ever played was Doctor Mario on the nes when I was six.

And the game where I realized I was hooked was Doom 2 (as Doom probably is for a lot of people).

[Calamity]

I can never remember if the first game I played was either Super Mario Bros, Rampage or Castlevania. :P

Dorkily enough the first game that got me hooked was the CGA version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? on my old Tandy. Infact I got hooked on a lot of edutainment when I was little, I also loved this one called Reader Rabbit. As for other games that got me hooked, I believe it was either Space Quest 4 or the Dagger of Amon Ra (which still remains my favorite adventure game).

[Lizard]

The first game I played..Pfffffoom,civilization,warcraft and Prince of Persia.I dont know which was first,but this were games I had on my first computer,so it must have been one of them.When I realized I was hooked?When I played civilization for 3 hours without notice it....

[BeefontheBone]

Originally posted by Lizard@Mar 4 2005, 06:28 PM
When I realized I was hooked?When I played civilization for 3 hours without notice it....

that's Civ for ya! "one more turn" syndrome is well-documented!

The first thing I remember on PC was a shareware Cd my dad found with Raptor and similar on it, but the first game i remember playing was Galaxians (like Space Invaders) on his old ZX28k. mmmm spectrum games. Atic Atac (curse your spelling!), Manic Miner, JSW, and Halls of the Things. that last one was incredible, even if it took forever to finish and had no save. I also learned to program BASIC on that machine, and started writing a game involving a series of maze-like screens and a frog called freddie trying to save his girlfriend from an evil crab. that was fun.

We used to have a load of games for the old Acorn at one point as well, cos my mum used to bring one home in the holidays (she's a teacher). There was a mail-order company called The Fourth Dimension who sold them. We had Diggers (unfortunately that's not actually as good as i remember it being ) the first Settlers (in German with poor instructions - that was confusing!) and a few other things. Mmmmm, nostalgia!

I reckon the first thing that had me hook, line and sinker was probably Colonization, even more than the original Civ; finished it several times, but usually i kept starting again to try and get that elusive perfect start. I remember playing Settlers 2 a lot (a bit later on obviously) in the 2-player co-op mode with my sister having an extra mouse attached to a serial port.

[DeathDude]

First game I ever played was Super Mario Bros, Snes was Super Mario World, N64 was Super Mario 64, PC was prob I think it was Wolfenstein 3-D, but I could be mistaken.

The game I was hooked on for life would have to be Super Mario Bros 3, as for the PC it would have to be The Sims for fairly recently. With Deus Ex coming in close second, and some of the older Lucasarts titles (DOTT, Sam and Max etc..)

[xcom freak]

Buck Rogers on Sega mega drive!!!!!!!!!!!!

This game ROCKS i want to play it SO much but the PC version is

[Sebatianos]

Oh... that's really far back in the past...

The first game I ever played was: The Attack of the Phantom Karate Devils (1983)

The first game I really got hooked on was: Ghostbusters (1984)

Both still for the Commodore 64. I still play both of them! Grat games!!! Excelent gmaes!!!!!

[Dreadlord]

Freakin' Tetris, as I like to call it.

[Galadrin]

An old ascii game (at least I think it was ascii) that I think was just called castle was my first... got me hooked on the whole parser genre.

[JJXB]

sonic was one of my first games (i had it on master system ) but the earliest game i was hooked on was star wars: dark forces (i can't find the cd though )