Your first "serious" game

[LightSpectra]

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

 

[Luckymoose]

Resident Evil 1 for PS1.

 

[Leonel]

Some side scrolling jet fighter game for the Commodore 64.

 

[Snerk]

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

 

[Olav]

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

Here's a little quiz for ya! (Don't check the link )

 

[Reno]

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.

 

[DBear]

Bard's Tale III on the Commodore 64

 

[GoodGame]

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

Here's a little quiz for ya! (Don't check the link )

Looks like a variant of Ikari Warriors.

 

[GoodGame]

Bard's Tale III on the Commodore 64

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

 

[King of Town]

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.

 

[Harbringer]

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

Here's a little quiz for ya! (Don't check the link )

Isnt that commando?

 

[Olav]

Isnt that commando?

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.

 

[Icekommander]

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

 

[Serutan]

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.

 

[Sub]

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

Probably Civilization II or Rollercoaster Tycoon

 

[Lord Parkin]

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.

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.

 

[rhawn]

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

 

[King of Town]

Deadly towers was horrible!

 

[rhawn]

Indeed it was.

 

[IronMan2055]

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?

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