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Ocarina of Time. There's, like, a whole world out there. I can walk around and see stuff. There are people to talk to. Hey, big owl. Scary monsters wtf. This shit's awesome.
Been chasing that feeling ever since :(
Frankly it's why I'm so into TTRPGs now. Video games can rarely give me a true sense of wonder, of exploring the unknown and unexpected anymore.
Does jump-start pre k count?
Pokemon Blue that I got from a girl my mom babysat. But I think really getting into the hobby would be minecraft when I started hosting servers for my friends in middle school. I owe my career to that game.
mario kart wiiiiiiiiiiiii
I've been playing games ever since I was a little kid, I don't really remember any particular "first game". We did have an old SNES that I did all the time so probably Super Mario World I guess.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula on Game Boy Color
Pong.
Halo/a slew of freemium MMOs I'd play on my dinky laptop in the mid 00s
Sly Cooper.
Zillennials rise up.
Probably Commander Keen 4 and Prince of Persia in black and white on my dad's 286 pc.
Probably space invaders on the Atari 2600
I didn't have an Atari new I believe it was already an old system when me and my sister got it.
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Minecraft, and then Cuphead again
Bastion by Supergiant Games.
I'm actually not sure how precisely it happened, but a good decade ago as a teenager I somehow stumbled upon a torrent of the game. I didn't really know anything about the game, but I distinctly remember reading the description and looking at the art and being like "this is so cool", and then being like "this is even cooler" again when it turned out Rucks basically narrates the entire game with that deep hopeful voice.
And that was that; my early gaming continued with things like Hawken, Detective Grimoire and Machinarium, but Bastion definitely holds a special place in my heart.
More than a decade later, I've played (bought) and replayed basically all of Supergiant's games several times. Such a wonderful studio. Darren Korb is a fantastic composer as well, just doesn't miss a single vibe :)
Hawken
I still feel like this had one of the best atmospheres in gaming. Something about it felt so visceral. I had such high hopes of playing it in VR eventually, but by the time VR really came out, Hawken was already dying away.
It had a fantastic gritty futuristic vibe for sure! It's a shame the recent reboot, well... basically failed at delivering that old Hawken experience. Here's hoping the old game gets magically revived someday (and I must agree, a VR port would be very cool).
super mario brothers 2 baybeeeeeeee
gaming chooses you. you wake up one day and youre grinding something and u have a vague memory of games you played on these "old consoles"
It wasn't the first game I played, nor the first I was really drawn in by but Ultima IV on the Master System just seemed like a miracle. There could be an entire world with a rich history, populated by diverse characters where I got to step into the role of the protagonist of a story like in a fantasy novel only I had the freedom to make my own choices about how to respond to the story, the gameplay rewarded careful thinking over twitchy reflexes and the game world was so big it expanded into real world artefacts. I had no idea of the potential of the medium until I encountered that game but it all unfolded before me once I had.
Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.
The first game I ever played was Mario on the NES, but the ones that really got me into gaming were Duke Nukem 3D and Quake on PC. It's been 27 years and I still enjoy them.
Believe it or not, Angry Birds.
Deathmaze 5000
I remember clearly that someone brought an Apple II to my preschool. This would be early/mid 80βs. It had a color monitor and they showed off some maze running math game (probably Number Munchers or something like that), but for some reason what really grabbed my little 3 (4?) year old mind was just this simple graphical program that displayed multicolored <<< shapes that lined up and spiraled outwards. I remember thinking, βhey it looks like my living room rug!β
But thatβs when I realized that there was this magic box under the monitor. It was covered in buttons AND IT LET YOU CONTROL WHAT WAS SHOWING ON THE TV!! It set my little brain on fire and Iβve been hooked ever since.