/vr/ - Retro Games

Posting this because OP's picture reminded me.

BTW, no one gave a single fuck that's a Japanese plane in WWII.

No idea, it was just too early in my childhood. I think the earliest memory of vidya games I have was playing Test Drive on my brother's… c64? NES? I don't remember clearly. I was 3 years old at the time.

I have no clue. I do remember watching my brother playing the original WarCraft when I was like two or three. I think I might have already been playing games by that point, though.

Wolfenstein 3D: The Second Encounter on Mac. It's different than the version for Windows, but I didn't know that until years later.

There's a rocket launcher and a flamethrower, and apparently the levels are ripped from the SNES port. Some of the bosses are changed too.

Speaking of Wolf 3D, what's the best way to play it on modern systems? DOSBox or is there a better way?

I was pretty deprived of most video games till the mid 00s. Such is growing up in lower middle class. sometimes I pretend I got to play games when they came out to make myself feel better for missing out on so many games. I'd go to a friends house and want nothing more but to play all their games and drool over them getting an N64 AND a PS1.

I was lucky to have a PC in my room as a kid though, so I played a lot of PC games

One of these had to be the first game I played

It was Doom or SimCity 2000. I never liked playing outside. I spend hours in front of that old girl. It's odd when I think about it. I'm still the same as that kid. Sitting in the same spot. My desk is newer along with my chair ( none of them are ever as good as my first) and a new PC, but some things never change.

>>2288

>lower middle class

>no vidya

For real?

Growing up, even the families I knew who were pretty pov had at least a NES towards the end of the SNES' life, or a SNES towards the end of the N64's life, etc.

And then it seemed pretty much every one just wound up with a PS2, regardless of their economic situation.

>>2463

>I had a Gameboy color when I was 6

>It fell behind my radiator and melted

That is the shittiest luck I've ever heard of.

>>2463

Lego racers

You're a cool guy

Barely remember it, but I'm pretty sure it was either Mario Kart 64 at a friend's house or Medal of Honor: Allied Assault with the Spearhead expansion at my own house

>>2282

I think there's a source port out there. There's also a free Android version, though I'm not sure if it's related.

>>1734

Are you me?

Either Sonic 3 or Mario World. I was second banana to my bro in both games. First game that I really played a lot was Mario Land 2, and first game that was truly mine in my mind was either Wario Land or Mario Tennis.

I don't know if I played Choplifter, was that one of the various Defender clones on Atari? I remember the official port was lackluster so I can understand why people tried to outdo it.

>>1720

Maybe your uncle looked out for you and said 'eh, that version isn't worth playing anyway'

>>2838

Chakan the Forever Man?

A toss up between mickey mouse and the great circus mystery, Sonic 2, or street fighter 2, i was fucking 3 at the time so i can't remember what came first.

pick a dilly pair on the apple ][e.

>>2908

I was a console idort at home, so my first experience with PCs was at school, with these fucking tunes

I can't remember the others in that year level, but later on, I can vaguely recall some adventure games; Kraken and a Carmen Sandiego game. The latter two were boss, because we had to form groups and work together to complete them quickest.

Fuck but I was never taught typing in primary school…

>>2914

yeah we had kraken and carmen sandiago in my primary school computer class too. and print shop. and the desperation of wanting to printout some stupid banner on a form feed printer.

and birthday cards you'd print out and fold.

and kids who would break the 5 1/4 floppies by folding them in half.

>>1668

I know that feel.

I think It was Alex the kidd, though

>>1663

Missile Command on 2600

feels good, still one of my favorite games till this day

Nothing will ever be as nostalgic to me as this track from my first game. Lock n' Chase for the Gameboy.. hidden gem, or peice of shit? I dont care. I fuckin love it.

Super Mario World as far I as can remember.

>>3482

>load that expecting a Chase HQ rip-off

>it's a Pac-Clone

You could've done a lot worse than a Data East GB puzzler for your first title, anon.

Did it do anything especially different to Pac-Man?

Mine was Super Mario World. My dad used to play it with me. Actually, he still does

it was one of the following:

- captain cosmic

- space invaders (2600)

- paratrooper

>>3898

>What Nintendo of Murrica were thinking when they just slapped the Mario sprite on the cover I have no idea

Probably had something to do with the Murrican video game crash, and from that the general mentality that games never live up to their covers. They were honest about what you were getting, even if they did look like shit.

>>3906

https://youtu.be/uu2DnTd3dEo?t=13s

>>3913

But that doesn't actually clarify much, Shiggy.

What's happening in this pic?

>>3937

It's not bad, but it's really easy. It's a good way to kill 20 minutes.

>>3939

You lucky beggar of Baghdad

How did you take it, as your first game? Did you get totally wrapped up in it?

I know when I rented it (for the SNES) as a child, I found it slow and cumbersome. Years later, I really grew to like it and it's probably one of my fave GCCX sagas. But it definitely took me a while to come around.

Pretty sure it was that old Ghostbusters game for Commodore everyone seems to think is irrevocably shit. I dunno, I kinda liked it.

>>3933

I love the story of how I got this game.

I think I traded some kid either Donald Duck Goin Quackers for the GBC or Buzz Lightyear for this game with the intention of giving each other their game back. We never did and I still have Fall of the Footclan.

This was 2001-02 and I was in second grade

>>3939

Dad was probably one of the first speedrunning autists, before the word was even conceived. Beat that shit in slightly under 15 minutes IIRC. The best I could do was around 22 or something like that.

>>1663

I can't even remember I was so young. Something on the C64 probably. Pole Position, maybe Fort Apocalypse:

https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Fort_Apocalypse

Pickaxe Pete for the Odyssey 2 was the first console game I ever played but I might have played Centipede at some pizza parlor first. I was in preschool so it's hard to remember.

>>3956

Hah, I was also introduced to that by my dad. I could never beat it at my young age though.

>>4151

It was the other way around. Back then he sometimes took interest in whatever I was playing at the moment and went hard on it.

The only other game he started playing because of me that I can remember is Might & Magic VIII. I was more of a VI and VII fan but he liked the then-latest one in the series better for some reason.

Later on he picked up IX with the usual levels of autism and was trying to convince me to give it a go from time to time. But I had the benefit of watching him play it for some time already.

My earliest game memory was Super Mario Kart when I was like four, but my mom says she let me watch her play Mario when I was like 2 or something.

>>4190

>mew glitch

wasn't that glitch found relatively recently? compared to e.g. missingno glitch that everybody knew at the time.

>>4205

I remember following my big bro to the arcade and trying this for the first time. I remember getting my mind blown.