"Serious" meaning not a little kiddy game.

I think mine was Roller Coaster Tycoon. I used to crash the coasters on purpose. :lol:

*tries to think hard if he has any games he wouldn't let children play*

Well for non-kiddy, Civilization II, although I think I first played it in 1996! Maybe 1997. There are few games I have I wouldn't let kids play, and even then that'd mostly just be based off how easily I think they could figure out how to play it.

Police Quest

Shadows of the Empire. Also my second video game ever.

Dungeon Master for the Atari ST. I'm told this was probably my first video game ever, even before I played age appropriate games like Donald Duck Adventures or Mixed-Up Mother Goose.

Counter-Strike, probably, or Diablo II.

My first serious game on the PC was Age of Empires, which turned me into the civ player I am today :) It came on my families first PC we ever bought.

Probably Typhoon of Steel by SSI for the Apple IIe.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/typhoon-of-steel

Have to be Lords of the Realm II I loved it, until my disk cracked in half

Civilization III, awesome!

Whoah...ok, gotta think way back. Probably Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt, neither of which fall into the kiddy category in my honest assessment.

I can't remember if I played Super Mario World before Super Mario Bros. though.

Master of Orion 2.

Probably Carmageddon. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon)

My uncle was such a terrible awesome influence on me when I was younger.

*tries to think hard if he has any games he wouldn't let children play*

Well, I mean not specifically for children. If both adults and kids can play it, that's not a kiddy game.

Well, I mean not specifically for children. If both adults and kids can play it, that's not a kiddy game.

I realised that, but I'd like a 10 year old play almost any of my games (though not on my computer :p and without any access to a mic) except maybe The Witcher or EUIII or games that are a bit beyond 10 year old intelligence levels.

Age of Empires II Demo, I believe. Either that or the Zoo Tycoon Demo. Possibly Simcity 2000 or 3000 as well.

First violent games were Starcraft and Diablo II Battlechests.

Sim City and Storm Across Europe on Amiga...

Mine was Age of Empires II....awesome game, still play it...better then the 3rd one i think...but i still play the 3rd one also!

If you mean games ou wouldn't let kids play due to content then for me it would be Doom and Wolfenstien. If you mean games that are beyond a childs understanding ummmm...........none?

Baldur's Gate

Geez, I have no idea. Duck Hunt, maybe?

Resident Evil 1 for PS1.

Some side scrolling jet fighter game for the Commodore 64.

Oh I dunno, perhaps Tomb Raider on my ps1. Brilliant game.

My brother had a C64... I remember I liked this one as a 5/6 year old:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/C64_Commando.png
Here's a little quiz for ya! :D (Don't check the link :nono:)

Maniac Mansion, this was way before the time I even knew a single word of English. Thus I simply had my father translate the game commands for me and the occasional piece of dialog. Trial & error for the most part, but it was fun even if over 90 % of what was going on went completely over my head. :D

Bard's Tale III on the Commodore 64 :old:

My brother had a C64... I remember I liked this one as a 5/6 year old:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/C64_Commando.png
Here's a little quiz for ya! :D (Don't check the link :nono:)

Looks like a variant of Ikari Warriors.

Bard's Tale III on the Commodore 64 :old:

On that note, I remember playing BT 1 way too much and even having a character editor for it.

On that note, I remember playing BT 1 way too much and even having a character editor for it.

I used to watch my dad play that and wasteland all the time.

For me I think it was Impossible Mission. That game was ridiculously hard. The jumping was horrible.

My brother had a C64... I remember I liked this one as a 5/6 year old:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/C64_Commando.png
Here's a little quiz for ya! :D (Don't check the link :nono:)

Isnt that commando?

Isnt that commando?
:yup:

As a side note my first serious game on the NES was Faxanadu, and on the computer it was either Worms, Ceasar II or Red Alert.

Lets see, I started playying HOMMII around 1998 back when I was four, I might have played some Games on my SNES before that though

Non kiddy game of any sort? Chess or Monopoly. First computer game (I was well past childhood at this point )? Empire, on a DEC-10 using a 300 baud terminal connection in 1981. :old:

I tried playing Sim City when I was a kid, but I didn't understand it.

Probably Civilization II or Rollercoaster Tycoon

First "non-kiddy" game? Well, I guess there was this really basic shoot 'em up game on a really ancient computer we had (the game might have run on tapes or something) that I remember playing at the age of 5 or 6. We kids didn't get to play it much though, because our parents worried about the violence. :rolleyes:

First "serious" non-kiddy game - if you exclude all the shareware, probably Command & Conquer: Red Alert. First game I bought, and well worth it too. Awesome fun. :)

Either Deadly Towers or Castlevania. I got them both at the same time with SMB/DuckHunt in 1987. I guess all 3 of those.

Deadly towers was horrible!

Indeed it was.

Maniac Mansion, this was way before the time I even knew a single word of English. Thus I simply had my father translate the game commands for me and the occasional piece of dialog. Trial & error for the most part, but it was fun even if over 90 % of what was going on went completely over my head.

Ever microwave the hamster? :mischief:

And I don't know...maybe Battleship for the SNES? Or one of the TMNT games for the NES....

Ever microwave the hamster? :mischief:



That I actually didn't discover until much later on when I actually could understand what it was all about myself. But after the first time, I decided against doing it again, as it was simply too cruel both to said hamster and to Ed. (I think the thing was that only Razor, out of all the possible 10 or so characters, would agree to do it.)

Also, there were better ways to get a character killed. Maybe it wasn't so smart showing the hamster's remains to Ed after the dirty deed was done. ;)

*sigh* It was a great pity that they didn't include so much replayability in Day of the Tentacle. The number of characters to choose from in Maniac Mansion, the different styles of play, different puzzles and different endings truly gave it loads of replayability value.

For me, probably Ogre Battle 64. On the PC, the game would be Diablo II.

Actually, I remember I played Starcraft in Canada when I was 3 years old. It was my cousin's copy and I didn't understand much of it, but I could somehow play it.

Red Alert 2, I think, followed by Civilization III.

Wing Commander. Came free with my first ever PC, and I was addicted to gaming from that moment onwards.

On C64 I think Pirates!

Then on Amiga 500 The Bard's Tale

Then on PC it was Civ1 (DOS)

The first serious game was either Wolfenstein 3D or Earthseige 2

Simcity 2000.

Other early games were: SimFarm, AoE2 (best RTS ever) and RCT.

Age of Empire III

*tries to think hard if he has any games he wouldn't let children play*

Well for non-kiddy, Civilization II, although I think I first played it in 1996! Maybe 1997. There are few games I have I wouldn't let kids play, and even then that'd mostly just be based off how easily I think they could figure out how to play it.

1996? Wow I was 3... I feel small now.

I also remember on the Windows 95 (the one that lasted three days), it came with a CD of "getting started with Windows 95" or something. And there was a game on there where you were driving a car or something, but I kept crashing into walls.

Does anyone remember something like that? I think the CD is still laying around somewhere....

Super Mario Brothers or Tetris or Contra. I really don't know, but it's one of those.

Civ I or Starflight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight) (the 1986 version on a Tandy). There was also some sort of space station game on C64 that I remember as well...

Killer Instinct in 1998.
If that's not "serious" enough, then Age of Empires (2000).

Small games that came with computer magazines. Not on floppy discs, the code was printed inside the magazines, and you had to type it yourself in BASIC and then record it on a cassette.
I don't remember the titles.

One of the first titles I can recall, is Space Invaders and Parsec. (Both shoot'em ups.)

Civ 1 or Monkey Island. and still ranked in my top 10 favourites.

I also remember on the Windows 95 (the one that lasted three days), it came with a CD of "getting started with Windows 95" or something. And there was a game on there where you were driving a car or something, but I kept crashing into walls.

Does anyone remember something like that? I think the CD is still laying around somewhere....

I think I do, vaguely.

I think I do, vaguely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!

SimCity 2000 for me, or AoE. One of those -.-

Well, I played diablo II before either of those, but that was when I was a kid. Stopped playing after I saw Andariel...Yes, I got scared :blush: