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 Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:02 pm
I started on a computer from my Dad's office. It had disks for things like "Bouncing Babies", a game where you literally bounced small children falling out of a burning building to safety. If you failed they smooshed on the pavement, much to my personal amusement. Games such as Battle Chess and a bootleg version of the original Donkey Kong were also available.
A lot of my early PC gaming came from bootleg copies of games that circulated through his office. Commander Keen, Wolfenstien 3d (all the episodes. Early Pirating HOOOO), and Doom, not to mention the first Monkey Island.
My first console was the Atari, which only came out at Christmas because my dad was afraid we'd break it. Missile command ultimately was the winner of "Which game do you kids want to play". Free range with nukes? Oh yes. Ultimately my Father upgraded to the NES, which lead to the Golden age of gaming that included the NES on the console with Mario Brothers, Double Dragon and the like and Sierra Online mass of games, Wing Commander and Lemmings on the other. I played the sadistic HELL out of Lemmings.
Thank You,
The Management
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:13 pm
I think my earliest video game experience was with Bubble Bobble on one of those sit down cocktail tables at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan when I was 5 or 6. Didn't have a home entertainments system until I was 10, when the rich aunt and uncle sent me the Nintendo Triple Pack with Zapper and Power Pad. I'm guessing Mom thought I'd get some exercise that way.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:30 pm
Super Mario Bros. on the NES. My dad turned me into a lifelong video game geek. gonk I never had a chance to play Duck Hunt early on, since he sold his copy in 1987.. but I shudder to think of what impact Duck Hunt would've had on me, since I was gaming before I could read (which was pretty darn early).
I pretty much did all my gaming on the NES until our family got a PC, then I gamed on that until it became obsolete around 1996, then switched to the PlayStation. Since then, I've been a console gamer first and foremost. surprised
Oh, and this is my first post here. Hi everyone! biggrin Thanks for getting me an invite, procrastination girl. heart
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:23 pm
Nice to see you here Star!
I also forgot to mention that my first PC game (besides all those lame skii racer or mine mouse or w/e) was Castlevania on my Grandpa's old Windows. surprised That was the best game! I can still remember the music for it...
And then I finally beat Count Dracula! Ho man, was that awesome.
My Grandpa was the one who got me into PC games. I looove puzzle games and the most popular was Myst. I played Myst, Myst: Riven and Myst: Exiled (though I'm still on the last level of this one). I haven't gotten to the last 2 yet. *cries*
And if you're also an avid puzzler you should -reaaaaaally- do Safecraker. Not a very well known game but BOY IS IT FUN. I solved almost all the puzzles by myself which was helped mostly by me not being in school and stressing out. ugh
I still need to beat Exile. Maybe I'll do that one day. har
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:01 pm
I think the first computer game I ever experienced was a pixelated something on a two-tone PC screen (yellow on black). It was some kind of adventure game with mazes and spikes and moving splotches of pixel that represented some creature or other..
But I've never been a big gamer. I remember Street fighter and Sonic on Sega, and Super Mario Bros on Nintendo. The games I played the most at a neighbours' house were those, you know, million in one games, and we'd play ice-climbers etc.
My family never had any consoles, but our PC donned classics such as Skiing and some terribly crap educational games of the 90's. Then my little brother got a N64 for x-mas, and that was that. I prefer the internet to gaming, me. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:34 pm
Somebody needs to make a Duck Hunt mod where you can actually shoot that dog...
Aivi - Oh, man, you would HATE me. The best part of playing Tomb Raider was seeing just how many horrible ways you could kill Lara. I loved swan diving off of really high levels and watching her just crumple at the bottom. I need to check into that game where that is actually the whole point of playing...
Kirby is love. He's so cute. And he is so easy to make bad jokes for. I don't think I ever played Bubble Bobble, but I played the hell out of the puzzle game. The local movie theatre had it. My favorite puzzle game is probably Super Puzzle Fighter, though.
Castlevania... that deserves a whole topic in and of itself. I am so effing backlogged. I'm never going to get caught up before Ecclessia comes out.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:22 pm
Haha, I probably would've bawled after watching you play. xd
My dad kept laughing at me because I was "so cute," and I was really embarrassed, so I started forcing a brave smile every time he got game over. WHILE DYING A LITTLE INSIDE FOR POOR MARIO. D:
A lot of things bothered me initially. Even in Kingdom Hearts, I used to cringe at the beginning of the game when you fight your friends with your wooden sword (the idea of kids beating each other with large sticks was disturbing to imagine.)
But I've come a long way since then! Now I can watch Ryan play GTA and actually enjoy the show.
My mom was also appalled about how violent the original Smash Bros was. But after three installments of that game, she's grown used to it. Man, I can't imagine the day someone decides to play Mortal Kombat in front of her.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:39 pm
I couldn't believe it when I saw the rating for Super Smash Bros. It's Tom and Jerry s**t. Back in the Genesis era, Mortal Kombat had a teen rating, so it just... does not compute.
MK was overrated anyways. Ooh, blood. Ooh, gore. Who cares? The controls sucked. Street Fighter owned all over it.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:02 am
Yeah, well, some old idiots want us "thinking for the children" so the sequel to Katamari Damacy is also rated "T".
Needless to say, when I was 11 and first watched Sub-Zero perform his spine rip fatality, I remember my jaw dropping...in fact, I think SEVERAL jaws dropped. It was kinda the thing that appealed to young disillusioned Americans denied the pleasure of watching Robocop.
Oh, and Pyre, I believe there are several games on Newgrounds that let you shoot the damn dog.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:12 am
Lady Pyre I couldn't believe it when I saw the rating for Super Smash Bros. It's Tom and Jerry s**t. Back in the Genesis era, Mortal Kombat had a teen rating, so it just... does not compute. MK was overrated anyways. Ooh, blood. Ooh, gore. Who cares? The controls sucked. Street Fighter owned all over it. Yeah, but you know how Nintendo is. OH THINK OF THE CHILDREN, AND OUR CHARACTERS. MAINLY OUR MONEY. YEAH CHILDREN GET YOUR PARENTS TO BUY YOU THIS s**t SO WE CAN MAKE MORE MONEYYYY. Street Fighter... please let IV be good. ;_;
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:20 pm
Ryan - Really? I'll have to look into that. Too bad I don't have a light gun for the PC, though.
And I was allowed to watch all sorts of violent crap as a kid, so I guess I didn't really care.
Vis - But it's not Nintendo that rates the games - it's the ESRB. The new Street Fighter... is it 3D or are the graphics just made to look that way? Capcom is pretty much the epitome of 2D fighters. I don't want them going down the 3D route.
I remember back when that rancid SF movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme came out. They released a video game tie-in. It was 3D. It was terrible. Blech.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:43 pm
RyanJakobi Yeah, well, some old idiots want us "thinking for the children" so the sequel to Katamari Damacy is also rated "T". Are... you... kidding? D: I mean, I can see people being worried that their impressionable little kids might actually roll their pet cats into balls made up of cluttered stuff.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:06 pm
Katamari Damacy? Teen rating? Seriously? confused
I guess I wasn't a very impressionable kid because I played some seriously violent games when I was really young and I've been a total pacifist since I was a teenager. Though I admit, I do enjoy wanton carnage and chaos in video games from time to time. 3nodding I just abhor it IRL.
The ESRB is really messed up, though. I think parents need to take more responsibility in governing what their kids play, because the ESRB seems kind of arbitrary and random about how they go about rating games.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:35 pm
We Love Katamari: E for Everyone question All of them are rated E for Everyone. But I did read this news story on a game being delayed because of an apparent offensive song in it: Quote: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp has delayed sales of "LittleBigPlanet," one of its most widely anticipated videogames, by at least one week in the United States after finding potentially offensive background music in the game. The puzzle-solving, community-based game, published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, will begin shipping to retail shops during the week of October 27, Sony said on Monday. The company will replace the shipped version of the game, originally set for release on October 21, with newly mastered copies. Sony declined to disclose the costs associated with the move, a representative said. The music in question is "Tapha Niang" a song performed by Malian musician Toumani Diabate, Sony said. "One of the background music tracks that was licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur'an," the company said in a statement. "We have taken immediate action to rectify this and we sincerely apologize for any offense this may have caused." Sony, whose PlayStation 3 game console is locked in a battle with Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 and Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii, has been touting the game since early in 2007. LittleBigPlanet lets users create virtual worlds and they can play and share what they build with other worldwide users. I'll have to hear this song... Edit: I just found a blog where someone translated the "offensive" lyrics into English: aseel the parts containing verses from the Quran are : 1. "kol nafsen tha2qa al maowt" : which means every soul shall experience death" 2. "kol man alayha fan" which mean all that is on earth will perish I am a Muslim.. and I'm not offended by the use of verses from the Quran... especially by a great artist like Toumani Diabaté... smile it's not like he meant to mock it or belittle it... these verses hold great meanings, and i think it's just one of the ways of representing our religion to other cultures... (I don't think that "2" should be in the word "thaqa" but oh well).
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:52 pm
I thought the song was actually kind of catchy. o.o
But honestly, if they'd just left in there, hundreds of thousands of people would have played the game without giving the music a second thought, blissfully unaware of the "offensive" Arabic lyrics that they wouldn't ordinarily understand. confused
It's kind of like those people who sued Google because their house was on Google Street View. Would anyone seriously have gone to their house and robbed/raped/said hello to them because their house was on Google Street View? Hell, would more than maybe a dozen people seen that house and noted its existence specifically? Probably not. But they decided to sue Google and have it removed, and so the house was forever immortalized on the internet. gonk
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