I'm old but I must say Super Mario 64 holds a place in my heart that can not be denied. I still enjoy playing it today on the virtual console, but yeah, that game even today still holds a place in my gaming future.
What about you? What was your first love. What got you started down this video game trail of love. Did you try a few games before you became hooked, or was it one and done?
Gunstar Heroes is definitely the game I have the fondest memories of. I would beat it every weekend with my best friend back in 3rd grade. Or maybe it's Pokemon Yellow....or SMB:3, World's pretty amazing too....
I played a lot of games as a kid, but then for some reason I just stopped playing them for a couple of years. Then Resident Evil 4 came along and my love of games was reborn! Still play that game at least once a year.
Chie... o you mean an actual game... This certainly wasn't my first video game but Star Fox 64 made me interested in video games. I thought the branching routes were cool and Falco was badass. Although just like real life loves it has faded away and I can go without seeing that game ever again, including the upcoming 3D remake.
Soul Blade/Soul Calibur holds a huge place in my heart, countless hours spent playing with friends.
Single player wise, the first Shenmue was the first game that really moved me. I didn't get to play Shenmue II until much later but it brought back some good memories of how I enjoyed the first one. Sega give Shenmue III a chance already.
I started with a SNES and then a GameBoy, but my first love wasn't until my Playstation. For my 10th Birthday in 1997, I got a Playstation over an N64 because my friend told me how awesome FFVII was. I had never played an RPG before but I relied on my friend. When I finally got my Playstation I had no memory card and only a demo disk. My friend let me borrow it or I would rent it and I would play it as soon as I got home from school on a Friday up until I went to sleep. I would make it out of Midgar and make it to the Chocobo Ranch and go to sleep, sometimes repeating the process on Saturday. I remember I had saved up some money and opted to buy a memory card over the game so I could save my progress. I finally got the game for Christmas and it is still in my collection and has been played many, many times.
I started with a SNES and then a GameBoy, but my first love wasn't until my Playstation. For my 10th Birthday in 1997, I got a Playstation over an N64 because my friend told me how awesome FFVII was. I had never played an RPG before but I relied on my friend. When I finally got my Playstation I had no memory card and only a demo disk. My friend let me borrow it or I would rent it and I would play it as soon as I got home from school on a Friday up until I went to sleep. I would make it out of Midgar and make it to the Chocobo Ranch and go to sleep, sometimes repeating the process on Saturday. I remember I had saved up some money and opted to buy a memory card over the game so I could save my progress. I finally got the game for Christmas and it is still in my collection and has been played many, many times. "
That's a beautiful story. Brings a gaming tear to my eye...
While it wasn't my out and out first love, I frequently credit Planet Patrol as the first game I played that made me think video games were all I wanted to consume.
Resident Evil on the PS1! It strung me along for many years, over a decade even - then it went and melted my heart through the hot sun of Africa in 2009 T_T
" Resident Evil on the PS1! It strung me along for many years, over a decade even - then it went and melted my heart through the hot sun of Africa in 2009 T_T "
Dude, I worked at a place where all us dudes talked about Resident Evil. I didn't have a PS1, but the guys that did, they were the shit. Later on, we created a league where we would play games. It didn't last long, but it was cool while it lasted. We mostly played sports games, but video games were played.
I think Final Fantasy X stands out for me. I wasn't allowed to play games very much as a kid. I remember going to my Aunt's house one holiday for a few days, and my cousins (about 5 years older than me) had a ps2 in the room I was staying in. They were out of the house for the weekend, so I got to mess around with their games. I didn't even know much about Final Fantasy apart from vague memories of DOS emulated ROMs of the NES games my cousin had downloaded on our computer when I was very little (weird people in my family).
I stayed up all night playing it, getting about a third of the way through before we had to leave. I remember feeling very melancholy when we left because I couldn't keep playing. Later that year, my parents finally broke down and decided to get me a game console. I was understandably excited, but they showed up one day with a Gamecube. I was heartbroken, because that weird little box couldn't play the game I loved! Happy ending though, because I was able to return it, and I got my hands on a PS2. Despite the salesman insisting that the game I clearly wanted was some shitty BMX game, I went straight for the box I recognized. I played straight through FFX over the course of only a few days. Good times. It hit me at an age when I wasn't yet cynical and was able to appreciate kind of sappy and cheesy stories. I miss those days.
Looking back, I can't believe how much time I spent with this game. I have always been obsessed with video games, but that game took it to a whole new level.
Every Ending - Check All Character Level 99 - Check Beat the game without New Game + in a single day - Check
Just to put things into perspective, I have put more time into a game with finite content than I have put time into World of Warcraft.
" You know... it was probably the original Mortal Kombat. "
SNES, Genesis or Arcade? "
Arcade, then SNES. "
Awesome. I always preferred the game on SNES to Genesis. Sure the Genesis version had blood, but you didn't have to go out and buy a new controller for the SNES version (none of my friends had a 6-button genesis controller so my MK genesis experience sucked).
Red Alert. Couldn't get enough of that game. It's the only game I have ever really messed around with a map editor in... and I was 7. Still don't believe 7 year old me had the attention span to make maps in that game.
" I'm old but I must say Super Mario 64 holds a place in my heart that can not be denied. I still enjoy playing it today on the virtual console, but yeah, that game even today still holds a place in my gaming future.What about you? What was your first love. What got you started down this video game trail of love. Did you try a few games before you became hooked, or was it one and done? "
Same game for me. I remember my dad and I sitting around, playing it. We hooked up the VCR and recorded us beating Bowser and then collecting the 120th star. Good memories.
I'm torn between about 5 titles, but if I had to pick 1 of them it would be Elite on the BBC Micro as I think I easily clocked up more hours on this than I did on any other title at the time. The others would be:
Chuckie egg on BBC Micro Space invaders on Atari 2600 Pacman on Atari 2600 Gridrunner on Commodore Vic 20
The original Super Mario Bros. on the NES was what really got me into gaming.. but I was a bit older when Super Mario World was released and I would play that game constantly, it was such a huge leap up from the original games and is still the best 2D platformer ever made, in my opinion.
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