Your First Video Game

[Father Heathen]

Descent

On the PC in 1996

It took me hours to work out that I had to press the A key to move myself forwards

The Level 7 boss traumatised me, I could not get past it and its companions

I still have nightmares about it to this day, and it was hellish, it lived in a huge room full of lava

I loved this game and its sequel on the PS1. I also have it on Steam, but that requires fidgeting with a DOS emulator. Forsaken for the N64/PS1 was a very similar game, and it has a nice remaster available on Steam.

This game was made by some of the original creators of Descent:

Overload on Steam

A new six-degree-of-freedom shooter with intuitive controls, amazing lighting and graphics. From the creators of Descent, Overload is the best zero-gravity robot-blasting combat ever.

store.steampowered.com

There's also this coming out soon:

Ships That Fight Underground - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ships That Fight Underground (S.T.F.U) on Steam

Experience a 6-degrees-of-freedom ship shooter across pulse pounding single player, co-op, and PvP gameplay. Choose your class and ship then customize and upgrade with unique cosmetics, powerful mods, and class-based tech trees. Level up and light em' up!

store.steampowered.com

 

[Eddi]

I loved this game and its sequel on the PS1. I also have it on Steam, but that requires fidgeting with a DOS emulator. Forsaken for the N64/PS1 was a very similar game, and it has a nice remaster available on Steam.

This game was made by some of the original creators of Descent:

Overload on Steam

A new six-degree-of-freedom shooter with intuitive controls, amazing lighting and graphics. From the creators of Descent, Overload is the best zero-gravity robot-blasting combat ever.

store.steampowered.com

There's also this coming out soon:

Ships That Fight Underground - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ships That Fight Underground (S.T.F.U) on Steam

Experience a 6-degrees-of-freedom ship shooter across pulse pounding single player, co-op, and PvP gameplay. Choose your class and ship then customize and upgrade with unique cosmetics, powerful mods, and class-based tech trees. Level up and light em' up!

store.steampowered.com

wow those both look awesome!

in one of the vids in one of the links you posted I saw a hint of one of those red guided missile robots from Descent

I won't be buying them though, they look too scary!

 

[Wu Wei]

Tetris, on one of these

 

[SalixIncendium]

Tetris, on one of these

If we're talking handhelds, this was my first and travelled with me practically everywhere I went...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Legend of Zelda on regular Nintendo. Or at least it's one I remember as the first. We also had (still have) a Sears Atari thingy, but I didn't play it much.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Tetris, on one of these

I spent many, many hours playing that.

 

[McBell]

@McBell @Twilight Hue

I was able to watch the first episode because it was offered up for free...

 

[justaguy313]

The Hobbit on ZX Spectrum in 1985 I think. I couldn't play it,, because I was not fluent in english. Then I got PSSST from a local radio station and recorded it on cassette. That was the beginning of piracy

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

I was really little, and don't exactly remember. But if I had to guess based on my memories, it was probably either Pac-Man or Centipede at the arcade. For computers, I think it was Battle Chess. Consoles, Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, and handhelds...it was Tomy Tiger's Aladdin. Bleh.

 

[Revoltingest]

What was the first non-arcade video game you played, and what system did you play it on?


Mine was tennis/hockey/handball on the Coleco Telstar.

I played Pong in a restaurant in the mid 1970s.
Never played video game since then.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I played Pong in a restaurant in the mid 1970s.
Never played video game since then.

One of us has missed out.

 

[Revoltingest]

One of us has missed out.

Video games are much like RF, ie,
things that cause us to miss out.

 

[Thorbert]

I was really little, and don't exactly remember. But if I had to guess based on my memories, it was probably either Pac-Man or Centipede at the arcade. For computers, I think it was Battle Chess. Consoles, Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, and handhelds...it was Tomy Tiger's Aladdin. Bleh. **mod edit**

These are great games. They are remembered by every video game fan from those days. Personally, I was always fascinated by Super Mario

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

These are great games. They are remembered by every video game fan from those days. Personally, I was always fascinated by Super Mario

Wait, where did the thing about playing on a gambling website come from in my original post?? How strange.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Wait, where did the thing about playing on a gambling website come from in my original post?? How strange.

We are looking into it. It has been removed.

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

We are looking into it. It has been removed.

Thank you Salix.