What was your first video game?

[civvver]

My first video game was Skyrim. It's easily the best Role Playing Game ever created. A lot of possible things to do, and decisions to make. You really feel like you play a unique character, the Dragonborn.

You're joking right? Are you like 15? That game is only 6 years old. Or did you just get into video games recently?

Iirc the original Age of Empires was only 10 mb? (or was that Warcraft1?).
Although it may be that AoE relied on booting from the cd as well back then. Amiga games would require this all the time, and some of them came in more than 10 floppy discs...

I'm pretty sure original civ fit on one 3.5 floppy disk so under 1.44 mb? There's very few graphic assets in that game so that might be right.

 

[Arakhor]

Given reserved space, a floppy disk could only store 1.38 Mb of data.

 

[Ryika]

You're joking right? Are you like 15? That game is only 6 years old. Or did you just get into video games recently?

This is both, ageist, and not very funny!

 

[civvver]

It's not ageist it was a serious question. Giving that is your actual age skyrim is completely understandable. I didn't know we had such young patrons in off topic.

 

[tjs282]

Eventually we got a 486, and i got SimCity 2000, which was the first computer game i really fell in love with.

Addendum to my earlier answer: The first computer that I owned (as opposed to borrowed) was a boxy little Toshiba Pentium Win98 laptop bought secondhand in early 2002, and the first games I bought (as opposed to borrowing/ pirating) were Tomb Raiders I + II, Commandos:BEL, X-Wing, MDK, and SC2000 (I loved the original!).

I completed TR I+II and MDK fairly quickly, X-Wing wouldn't run on the laptop without a joystick, and Commandos got too frustrating (from about Mission 8 onwards!) to play for any length of time. So SC2000 became my default go-to game for almost the entire first year I had that laptop, and I put more hours into it than any of the others -- until I got CivDOS, the following year...

 

[Broken_Erika]

Ah i remember the 386/486 vs Amiga wars. I militated in the Amiga side. We lost the war but won the battles!

My oldest brother had a Falcon.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=125
but i had to make do with the family Tandy. That thing was built like a tank.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1218

 

[rah]

My first MP online game was around 1973, playing airfight at U of I (Illinois) on their mainframe.
It was all circles and triangles but it was played globally and we thought it was the greatest thing ever.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Think Quick was one of the first games we got for our son. It was in 1987 and he was 4-5.

A castle full of puzzles!
Think Quick! Is a really smart puzzle collection, because it envelops you in this mythical fantasy themed story, serving you on the premise that you need to help complete the construction of a knight, parts of which are scattered through a castle. But, if only it was as straightforward as entering the rooms and picking the pieces and getting the job done! Nope, there are all sort of problems that need be solved to get to do it, and with each new piece you come closer to the ultimate puzzle, while also getting an incentive to try other new puzzles on your way. It is a really smart way to sell a bundle of puzzle games, and also, to its credit, all of them look and behave great and are none too intricate to understand what they are. Sure, teh graphics will not sweep you off your feet, I mean this game was released in 87, but to its credit, the game has a sufficiently simple control scheme, which is always a great addition to a game so old. Anyway, you might want to try Gertrudes Secrets for another puzzler of the era, or, alternatively, visit Castle of Dr. Brain a game that I recommend to you because of the castle theme. All three are worth a go, in any case.

http://www.squakenet.com/download/think-quick/8263/

 

[Sommerswerd]

My oldest brother had a Falcon.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=125
but i had to make do with the family Tandy. That thing was built like a tank.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1218

OMG my dad got a Tandy 3000 for the CAD and lotus 123 programs to help run his business! That takes me back... Good ol' Tandy and the shrill satisfying sound of a dot matrix printer...

 

[Akka]

First video game overall ? Legend of Zelda I'm pretty sure.
My first computer games, were Speedball and F-29 Retaliator (on Amiga). Still remember this Christmas very well, with all the family looking at the new weird gift for the lil' son (computers were still curiosity at that time, barely entering non-specialist market).

 

[FriendlyFire]

First video game overall ? Legend of Zelda I'm pretty sure.
My first computer games, were Speedball and F-29 Retaliator (on Amiga). Still remember this Christmas very well, with all the family looking at the new weird gift for the lil' son (computers were still curiosity at that time, barely entering non-specialist market).

Civilization on the Amiga is why Iam here
That was a genre making game, never been so addicted

 

[GenMarshall]

Mine's:

 

[Akka]

Civilization on the Amiga is why Iam here
That was a genre making game, never been so addicted

I know, I got the game the next year. I think it was the first game I spent over six monthes playing regularly without being bored. Life was never the same again !

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Civ1/Amiga here too. Still remember my first game. I played with the Mongols, i didnt know you needed to assign funds to research, so moved the slider to 0 to get more money. Therefore when year 2000 AC came i was still in the bronze age. Fortunately i was playing chieftain level and had a huge continent for myself so my civ was huge but extremely primitive. Still remember wave after wave of my chariots and swordmen clashing against a single enemy mechanised infantry to no avail and i wondering why the war was going so badly.

Of course after such disaster i learned the lesson and got totally hooked for the next months/years.

 

[Kyriakos]

Civ1/Amiga here too. Still remember my first game. I played with the Mongols, i didnt know you needed to assign funds to research, so moved the slider to 0 to get more money. Therefore when year 2000 AC came i was still in the bronze age. Fortunately i was playing chieftain level and had a huge continent for myself so my civ was huge but extremely primitive. Still remember wave after wave of my chariots and swordmen clashing against a single enemy mechanised infantry to no avail and i wondering why the war was going so badly.

Of course after such disaster i learned the lesson and got totally hooked for the next months/years.

Civ1 on the Amiga was an important game for me too Intro was awesome. Sadly i didn't know how to make it go away (or it wasn't working) so each time i loaded the game i just left it and went out of my room

 

[red_elk]

Civ1/Amiga here too. Still remember my first game. I played with the Mongols, i didnt know you needed to assign funds to research, so moved the slider to 0 to get more money. Therefore when year 2000 AC came i was still in the bronze age. Fortunately i was playing chieftain level and had a huge continent for myself so my civ was huge but extremely primitive. Still remember wave after wave of my chariots and swordmen clashing against a single enemy mechanised infantry to no avail and i wondering why the war was going so badly.

Yeah, I had somewhat similar experience when I tried to play Civ1 on my dorm roommate's PC for the first time. For some reason there was no mouse, so I couldn't change city production . Played for a couple of hours, produced tons of militia units, even managed to win a war with them. But then got bored and switched to Doom.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Civ1 on the Amiga was an important game for me too Intro was awesome. Sadly i didn't know how to make it go away (or it wasn't working) so each time i loaded the game i just left it and went out of my room

Ah, yes. It was infinite.

But if iirc it was mandatory only when you started a new game, not resuming from a saved one.

 

[Akka]

It was never mandatory, but the trick is that it lasts until the world is built. And on Amiga, it took about half the length of the intro to build the world. Hence you would THINK it's not skippable, while it's just the computer working in the background.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

My first video game was Skyrim. It's easily the best Role Playing Game ever created. A lot of possible things to do, and decisions to make. You really feel like you play a unique character, the Dragonborn.

You've obviously never played Jet Set Willy

 

[Thorgalaeg]

It was never mandatory, but the trick is that it lasts until the world is built. And on Amiga, it took about half the length of the intro to build the world. Hence you would THINK it's not skippable, while it's just the computer working in the background.

I dont think so. It lasted the same not matter the land size you choose, and there was not way to skip it till the end.