What was the first game you remember playing? - The Bear and Badger

dynamiteReady

A BBC Micro Sinistar port.

hylian_elf

All these early in my life at some point:
Some 3D Maze game on the BBC Micro at school
Some handheld Space Invaders clone at home
Donkey Kong Game & Watch

First proper console game was Alex Kidd in Miracke World round my cousin's place

Syph79

hylian_elf

Scout

It's nice to see most of us here are from the same generation. There was a similar thread to this on Neogaf today and some of the results were horrifying, people mentioning PS2 games etc...

My first gaming memory is Scuba Dive on the Speccy.

Blocks100

Probably this....

It's all been downhill since then.

retroking1981

Scout wrote:

It's nice to see most of us here are from the same generation. There was a similar thread to this on Neogaf today and some of the results were horrifying, people mentioning PS2 games etc...

My first gaming memory is Scuba Dive on the Speccy.

Yeah I saw the same post on VGChartz, made me feel old.

At least here we're old farts together.

retroking1981

Blocks100 wrote:

Probably this....

It's all been downhill since then.

Looks like what No Man's Sky wished it was.

M0stly harm13ss

I'm sure it's a Grandstand pong/lightgun thing. But the first game I remember playing was Circus on the 2600, followed by Combat and Space Invaders.

Facewon

GooberTheHat wrote:

A thing on the ZX spectrum where you had to rescue people in a space ship. Can't remember the name.

Defender clone?

That was mine, on a shitty white thing that played atari but wasn't atari.

Tempy

Is it that side scrolling alien clone goober?

GooberTheHat

Facewon wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

A thing on the ZX spectrum where you had to rescue people in a space ship. Can't remember the name.

Defender clone? That was mine, on a shitty white thing that played atari but wasn't atari.

Tempy wrote:

Is it that side scrolling alien clone goober?

Yeah, a side scrolling thing. Defender rings a bell. Might have been called guardian?

cosmicjellybean

Scout wrote:

It's nice to see most of us here are from the same generation. There was a similar thread to this on Neogaf today and some of the results were horrifying, people mentioning PS2 games etc... My first gaming memory is Scuba Dive on the Speccy.

Oh god, I just looked up this same topic on Giant bomb's forum and someone said they technically played pokemon red first, but couldn't read at the time as they were too young and they had to take it back...

I think I'm still relatively young. But nope.

Tempy

GooberTheHat wrote:

Facewon wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

A thing on the ZX spectrum where you had to rescue people in a space ship. Can't remember the name.

Defender clone? That was mine, on a shitty white thing that played atari but wasn't atari.

Tempy wrote:

Is it that side scrolling alien clone goober?

Yeah, a side scrolling thing. Defender rings a bell. Might have been called guardian?

is it a defender clone or like a survival horror on a big ship?

GooberTheHat

Tempy wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

Facewon wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

A thing on the ZX spectrum where you had to rescue people in a space ship. Can't remember the name.

Defender clone? That was mine, on a shitty white thing that played atari but wasn't atari.

Tempy wrote:

Is it that side scrolling alien clone goober?

Yeah, a side scrolling thing. Defender rings a bell. Might have been called guardian?

is it a defender clone or like a survival horror on a big ship?

Just watched a few videos. Definitely a defender clone. Almost identical but I'm sure I remember having to collect the little dudes on the ground to stop the aliens getting them.

Facewon

Yep. You had the one I had then. Gaphics more rudimentary then the vids on youtube.

Webbins

Some basic ten pin bowling game for the ZX81 that I had to key in from the manual. Utter shite.

If we are talking handhelds then it was this:

Absolutely rinsed the knackers off it, it died eventually.

Ed_Flanders

Probably the arcade version of Choplifter

mannaboy

Add me to the pong variant group. I recall also having a space invaders one off handheld shaped like a mini arcade cabinet. Perhaps my childhood wasn't quite as poverty stricken as I thought, ungrateful little brat.

Gremill

I think it was either 3D Monster Maze or some Star Trek game on the ZX81.

Gremill

Webbins wrote:

Some basic ten pin bowling game for the ZX81 that I had to key in from the manual. Utter shite.

If we are talking handhelds then it was this:

Absolutely rinsed the knackers off it, it died eventually.

Fucking hell! I had one of those - had completely forgotten about it.

M0stly harm13ss

GooberTheHat wrote:

Facewon wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

A thing on the ZX spectrum where you had to rescue people in a space ship. Can't remember the name.

Defender clone? That was mine, on a shitty white thing that played atari but wasn't atari.

Tempy wrote:

Is it that side scrolling alien clone goober?

Yeah, a side scrolling thing. Defender rings a bell. Might have been called guardian?

Drop zone?

Skade

Definitely Pong or early clone, twisty nobs to move the paddles.

Bob

I can remember when my uncle worked for Asda being taken to the store and allowed to play the demo Tomy 3D things and thinking they where amazing ... it was directly related to this that after the the zx81 we got a memotech computer that had no support at all - good times

Webbins

I had the blue spaceship aliens Tomy 3D. I'm surprised that and the copious amounts of teenage masturbation haven't rendered me sightless. Although that is just a myth though... Tomy 3Ds never blinded anybody.

[Deleted User]

Same as Bob.

Escape

It was either Granny's Garden or this (at a friend's house):

^It's a shame that this guy didn't recognise any patterns, 'cause the later levels were cool.

LarryDavid

Again, Defender or a knock off of it. On my Dad's Electron, I didn't understand what you were supposed to do but soon realised that the game made a cool laser noise when you pressed fire, which was enough to keep me happy.

Also remember playing Asteroids, again having no conception of the purpose of the game but being quite impressed by whatever it was that was happening on the screen.

weadre

First proper memories of playing a game I think are an old pc game called Castle. Was very rudimentary with all the graphics made out of text, and involved exploring a castle. I doubt I was any good at it but used to watch my sister and her friend play it.
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/226/Castle+Adventure.html

I'd played a bit on a spectrum (Horace goes skiing, boxy boa) before this, but barely remember that at all.

Kow

My old man bought a Spectrum in 1982 and it came with Flight Simulator and Chess, both by Psion. Flight Simulator was written completely in Basic and ran like a dog. I was not wowed at all, the best thing about Psion games was the box art. The Spectrum went back in its box and didn't come out again until about a year and a half later, when Ultimate games started to appear. I don't remember how I discovered them.

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