Topic: Your First Game Ever? (1st RPG? Adventure? Shooter?)

[honda_insightful]

FIRST GAME EVER - ATARI 2600: Either Combat or Breakout or Space Invaders (can't remember).


FIRST ADVENTURE GAME: Raiders of the Lost Ark


FIRST TEXT/INTERACTIVE FICTION GAME: Mindshadow


FIRST 1ST-PERSON SHOOTER: Star Raiders


FIRST PLATFORMER: Pitfall


FIRST ALMOST-RPG: MicroProse Pirates! (it was actually an action game, but used stat-based battles)


FIRST ACTUAL RPG: Final Fantasy 10  

[Bill Aurion]

First game - Duck Hunt, or maybe Super Mario Brothers...meh...

First Adventure game - The Legend of Zelda (NES)

First text/interactive - uh...point and clicks? - The Curse of Monkey Island

First FPS - Doom

First platformer - Super Mario Brothers

First almost-RPG - uh...wtf is an almost-RPG?...I think the correct term is Action/RPG - Legend of Zelda 2: Adventure of Link

First RPG - Final Fantasy 1, (Super Mario RPG really got me into RPGs)  

[Ian Sane]

First game ever - don't remember but Super Mario World was the first one I really got into

First adventure game - A Link to the Past

First fighting game - Street Fighter II

First FPS - Wolfenstein 3D

First Point-and-click - Full Throttle

First beat-em-up - Final Fight

First shoot-em-up - Star Wars (old school arcade version)

First RPG - Super Mario RPG

First Racing game - Super Off Road

[S-U-P-E-R]

Probably some of the first games I ever remember playing areeeee:

An old Vic20 game called 'Shamus', it kicked ass. I heard they were making a new one for GBC, I don't know how that went.
Dark Towers or something like that, I dunno, it just played this hilarious tune while you try to guide this egg-shaped guy that got goo-ified whenever he touched something bad.
Pac Man and Ms Pac Man. YES!
Mail Order Monsters. That game kicked ass, you created monsters and uh, battled them.
This one where you scroll this screen back and forth and destroy space ships attacking some base or something. I think you shot either huge red or blue asteroids and had to lead targets.

All of these were either on the Vic20 or Commodore64. I doubt any of my stuff works anymore

[The Real Mario]

First Game: Super Mario Bros.

First Adventure Game: Legend of Zelda

First Interactive Game: Torrin's Passage (Bet ya never heard of it)

First FPS: Turok (I hated it, I got all disorientated)

First Platformer: Super Mario Bros

First RPG: Pokemon RED (Not my first b/c i cant remember my first, but it was the first RPG I was compelled to play again after i finished.

First Fighting Game: Street Fighter II

First Beat-em-up: Gauntlet

First Shoot-em-up: Mega Man X

First Racing Game: F-Zero

...Good Times

[The Omen]

First game: Combat (Atari 2600)

First shooter: Space invaders (Atari 2600)  Or Zaxxon(Coleco Vision)

First adventure: Adventure (Atari 2600)

First platformer:  Tarzan (Coleco Vision)

First driver: Night driver (name ,not sure) (Atari 2600)

First RPG:  The legend of Zelda(NES) , if that doesn't count, then Ultima Exodus(NES)

First fighter: Urban Champion (NES)

First side scroller beat em up: Kung Fu (NES)

First FPS: Doom

First game that i played for 19 straight hours :  Super Mario Brothers (NES)

Now thats pretty much it  

[Grey Ninja]

First Game - Duck Hunt
First Platformer - Mario Bros.  (NOT Super Mario Bros.)
First Racer - Rad Racer
First Flight Sim - Top Gun 2: The Second Mission
First Graphical Adventure - Maniac Mansion
First Action Adventure - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
First Shooter - Galaga
First Fighting Game - Double Dragon
First Real Time Strategy - North and South
First Turn Based Strategy - Master of Orion
First Simulation - Sim City 2000
First First Person Shooter - Wolfenstein 3D
First Action Game - Ninja Gaiden II
First Role Playing Game - Final Fantasy
First Dungeon Crawler - Moraff's Dungeon
First Strategy RPG - Ogre Battle V: March of the Black Queen
First Puzzle Game - Tetris
First Online Game - Rainbow Six

I think that's about all the genres I know about.

EDIT: added 4 more games.

[Koopa Troopa]

First Game: The Smurfs or Popeye. (Coleco Vision)
First Platformer: Donkey Kong (NES)
First Side-Scrolling Platformer: Super Mario Bros. (NES)
First Action/Adventure: Legend of Zelda (NES)
First Puzzle/Adventure: Kings Quest (486, I think)
First Side-Scrolling Adventure: Legend of Zelda: Adventure of Link (NES)
First RPG: Dragon Warrior (NES)
First FPS: Wolfenstein 3D (486)
First Strategy RPG: Final Fantasy Tactics (PS)
First Racing Game: Mario Kart (SNES)
First Space Shooter: Gradius (SNES)
First Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat (SNES)
First Dungeon Crawl: Gauntlet (NES??)(Also first multiplayer game.)
First Pointless Game: ToeJam & Earl (Genesis)(Pointless, but fun)
First Beat'em Up: Ninja Turtles (NES)

Thats all I can think of.

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First Interactive Game: Torrin's Passage (Bet ya never heard of it)

I've heard of it... never could finish the damn thing (too many bugs). Still drives me crazy.  

[GoldShadow1]

First Game Ever:  Wizardry, some crazy platformer on the Commodore 64 (never could figure out how to do fireballs.. grr.)

First Adventure Game:  Space Quest IV?
First FPS: Doom
First Platformer: Wizardy (as above)
First RPG:  Bard's Tale III (though I could never get past the first dungeon)
First Sports game:  Don't care
First Fighter: Does the vs. mode in Double Dragon count?
First Online game:  Unreal Tournament?
First RTS:  StarCraft
First Racing game:  Race Construction Set (or something like that, on Commodore 64)

[Ridley]

First game: Super Mario Bros 3

First adventure game: Legend of Zelda: LTTP

First RPG: Earthbound

First fighter: Street Fighter II

First racer: Super Mario Kart

First action game: Mega Man 3

[PIAC]

First Game Ever: Emrald Mine (Amiga 500)
First Platformer - Gods (Amiga 500)
First Racer - Crazy Cars (Amiga 500)
First Flight Sim - Battle of Britain (Amiga 500)
First Graphical Adventure - Secret of Monkey Island (Amiga 500, noticing a patern yet? )
First Action Adventure - err geez... probably Ocarina of Time (n64) i cant think of anything else..
First Shooter - Blood Money (Amiga 500)
First Fighting Game - Killer Instinct (SNES)
First Real Time Strategy - North and South (Amiga 500) btw this game fking owns doens't it Grey Ninja
First Turn Based Strategy - Defender of the Crown (Amiga 500)
First Simulation - Sim City (Amiga 500)
First First Person Shooter - Wolfenstein 3D (486)
First Action Game - The Spy Who Loved Me (Amiga 500)
First Role Playing Game - Faery Tale Adventure (Amiga 500), i totally sucked at this game, namely cause of my age and the fact the enemies were scary and had scary music, dad was awsome at this, could go the entire game without dieing once.

edit: first text game - either zork 1 or adventure, i forget which either way it was on the amiga 500


btw 10 points if you have heard of all these games, an extra 20 if you have played all/most  

[honda_insightful]

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Originally posted by: Bill
First text/interactive - uh...point and clicks?

No pure text... like Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide or Leather Goddesses of Phobos.

[KDR_11k]

First game: Pong (dedicated machine)
First platformer: Giana Sisters (C64)
First shoot'em'up: Katakis (C64)
First 1vs1-fighting game: International Karate (C64)
First beat'em'up: Turtles Coin-Op (C64)
First racer: Enduro Racing (Atari something)
First FPS: Cyborg 2000 (C64)
First space flight sim: Elite (C64)
First RPG: Ultima VI: The False Prophet (never really played it) (C64)
First flight sim: Ace (C64)
First RTS: Command and Conquer: Red Alert (x86)
First turnbased strategy: Laser Chess (C64)

[honda_insightful]

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Originally posted by Octorok
FFX was your first real RPG?  :confused:

Yeah, it's a long story.  Basically:

- I thought the old 8-bit RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons looked boring.  So I never tried them.

- I went to college and totally skipped the 1990s gaming scene.

- I saw the Final Fantasy 10 on TV and thought, 'Wow, that looks cool' and went out to buy a PS2 just to play that game.

- So FF10 was my first.  I've played many, many RPGs since then... mainly because of the story.

[KnowsNothing]

Warning: these games are EXTREMELY BORING.

Zork and friends!

Long before the golden age of sound...or graphics....or a mouse.....

THERE WAS INFOCOM!!!!!
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First game: Sonic 2 for teh Genesis
First platformer: (see above)
First adventure:Link's Awakening???
First FPS: Not counting arcade machines, Goldeneye.
First fighting game: not counting arcade machines, Tekken 3
First RPG: Quest 64 ( iactually really liked this game...)
First racing game: Mario Kart 64
First beat 'em up:  Not sure...I think it was this Ninja turle game for the NES
First Puzzle: Tetris
First point and click:  Stay Tooned.  Have you guys ever heard of this game? It's some game where cartoons bust out of the TV and "toon-ify" a hotel.  That game is soooooo very fun!  I still love it to this day.  There's a gameshow inside it called "Schleparody" starring Al Extrubucks (get it?)

That's one of my favorite PC games ever.  

[rpglover]

first game ever: mario brothers/ duck hunt (nes)
first rpg: dragon warrior (nes)
first adventure game: legend of zelda (nes)
first puzzle game: tetris (gameboy)
first first person shooter: wolfenstien 3d (pc)
first action game: bubble bobble (nes)
first racing game: excitebike (nes)
first boxing/fighting game: punchout!! (nes)

""I haven't shed tears during a game since FFVII...Terranigma changed all that""

bill- i love terranigma!!!

[Koopa Troopa]

PIAC... the Amiga 500, huh? Your's is definitely an interesting list!

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bill- i love terranigma!!!

Ditto! I'm torn between it and Soul Blazer, though. I never loved Illusion of Gaia as much as those two (It was still really great, though).  

[PIAC]

im an amiga fanboy born and bred (literally, i was 2 when we got our amiga, i grew up with it)

[Pale]

To all those people who like monkey island/maniac mansion style of games, I suggest trying to play the original Hero's Quest.  Its a very cool game with more of an RPG flare but it still has that, you can try and do anything to anything sort of feel.  I miss that came.  It was the first pc game I ever really played.  Then came the monkey islands.  I still remember calling that damn hint line they advertised on the game cause I couldn't get past the spitting part.  Boy, I don't even remember which monkey island that was in.

[Grey Ninja]

Pale Zero, I played and finished Hero's Quest.  It took me over a year, but I did it.  If an apple counts as a PC, I guess that my first PC Game would be Mario Bros on an Apple IIe.

If an Apple doesn't count, I guess my first PC game would be Sid Meire's F-19 on my good old 286.  

[PIAC]

i remeber hero's quest, im pretty sure i have played it, i would go play it now (i know i have it somewhere) but the fact is most of my amiga discs have died :\ i think the heat got to them and fudged them all up, they got left in our front room where it got REALLY hot one day, and now... none of the ones i tested the other week work it felt like i lost a limb

[The Omen]

I forgot, my first RPG, barring Zelda, was Ultima Exous on the NES.  God only knows how many hours i spent in that game.  It was incredible.  A huge game that i never finished, although i think i was at the end.

[joeamis]

First Game - Pole Position (atari 5200)
First Platformer - Jungle Hunt (atari 5200)
First Racer - Pole Position (arcade)
First Flight Sim - Afterburner (arcade)
First Graphical Adventure - Maniac Mansion (nes)
First Action Adventure - Zelda
First Shooter - Space Invaders (arcade)
First Fighting Game - Karate Champ (arcade)
First Real Time Strategy - Chivalry(apple 2e)
First Turn Based Strategy - Chivalry (apple 2e)
First Simulation - Sim City (snes)
First First Person Shooter - Wolfenstein 3D
First Action Game - Contra (nes)
First Role Playing Game - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
First Dungeon Crawler - Diablo
First Strategy RPG - Final Fantasy Tactics 1
First Puzzle Game - Tetris
First Online Game - Quake 3 arena demo
1st baseball game- RBI Baseball
 "  basketball- Dr J vs Bird (atari 5200)
 "  tennis- Tennis (gameboy)
 "  soccer- Super Soccer (snes)
 "  hockey- NHL 92
 "  gun game- Skeet Shooting (arcade) (the ones with the 10 foot screens and rifles)
 "  golf- Zany Golf (Apple 2gs)
 "  game with polygons- Starfox
 "  wrestling Pro Wrestling (nes)
 "  game with music- Super Mario Bros 1
ok i digress theres much more "first" games i can list

[Termin8Anakin]

My first adventure game was Zelda on the N64.


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