What Was Your First...

[No One]

With the turtle. There was always one kid in the class who was really great with it, and that kid was never me.

Yep. The computer lab teacher named the turtle "Terry".

I wasn't that kid either.

[Frogacuda]

What did you do, go to school with buttcheeks?

It was just this really small school in a town of cheap conservative fucks who didn't want to pay property taxes. It wasn't even a bad area, but the school had no busses, old ass books, and everything was run on a shoestring.

We did eventually get real computers, but it was like... after the web was a must-have and shit.

[Toupee]

I seem to be a bit younger than a lot of you.

JRPG: Honestly, I think Chrono Trigger (unless you count Secret of Mana). Of course I was a huge Zelda freak before all this, but I remember CT's menu system blowing me away at the time. I tried explaining it to all of my friends in elementary school after I played it.

Racing game: I suppose it's entirely possible I rented R.C. Pro Am and the like for NES, but I know Super Mario Kart came with my Super Nintendo.


Computer game: Certainly Scorched Earth. It remains a favorite. I remember we also had some ridiculous pinball game—Freaky Pinball? Freak Pinball? Something like "freak" in the title. I think there was some pointy-noised background character...

Console game: Most likely Super Mario Bros.

FPS: Probably Doom. Probably the demo.

Point n' click Adventure game: I suppose Maniac Mansion, but the one I really fell in love with was Deja Vu.

Online multiplayer game: This is hard to place, but I'm going to guess Starcraft. I remember waiting around for a patch or something for sooooo long.

First fighting game: I know I remember looking at Cammy and Chun-Li's legs in Nintendo Power. I guess I probably played the arcade cabinet of SF2 at the local pizza place before it went out of business.

First beat em up: Turtles 2 (NES)?

First game that made me break a controller: I remember Star Fox 64 pushing me nearly to tears one day

First online FPS: This would be Team Fortress Classic. My friend's username was "RealHighPing"... ahhh, we didn't have broadband in our town until like 2004.

First MMORPG: Does 10Six count? Cause that game was fun as hell.

First sim game: Fuck SimAnt. I still don't understand how to play it either.

[JBNagis]

Indeed, i have never played an adventure game. not a single one. seen them. though.

[dog$]

JRPG: Dragon Warrior. First played at a friend's place whose name was Matt, so the character's name was TTAM. I remember feeling so boss when enemies that used to potentially kill the character would run away on encounters later on in the game. I also remember running the tunnel with the princess in it so often that I could navigate it without using a torch or casting the light spell.

Racing game: Intellivision Auto Racing. Two player games were usually played without either player ever making a single lap in the course. Constant games of chicken and bumper cars were awesome. I recall making the discovery on my own that all five tracks were found on a single map and that you could wander off track from one of the courses and find another, as well as find stretches of pavement that were completely isolated.

Computer game: A next door neighbor had a Tandy which is where I had my first PC gaming. The games I most distinctly recall were Space Quest I, Maniac Mansion ("why is the NES version edited?", I asked myself when I played that version later), some ASCII Pacman knockoff that had a gigantic map which took eons to complete, and some Space Invaders clone which changed the entire background color at every level and had enemies that got insanely fast when you were at the final few.

Console game: There's a picture of me playing Intellivision Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack when I was in diapers.

FPS: wolf3d /goobers. I like how the shareware advertisements made specific mention that the game was banned in Germany. I recall enjoying the feeling of playing the game while listening to Christmas carols, as I liked the juxtaposition of the two concepts. I never played Wolf3D with a sound card until years later, and it still seems foreign to me. I expect the PC speaker beeps.

Point n' click Adventure game: I think I played Space Quest I before Maniac Mansion. I recall laughing my ass off at getting drunk at a bar and the guy struggling with the controls.

Online multiplayer game: Diablo 3. I never made an effort to play any of this shit. Then, my wife wanted to get the game because her WOW friends were getting it, and mention of that to coworkers made them insist that I should try it. Of course, the game I choose to really jump into this genre turns out to be the one that the highest majority of players hate the most. Awesome.

First fighting game: I remember being intimidated by SF2 before I would play it, but the character detail and responsiveness eventually sucked me into playing it. Having accurate home ports helped to fuel my desire to play the games without finding arcades to do so. On this subject, it can be argued that Intellivision Boxing is a fighting game, in that it featured two combatants and a lot of button mashing in hopes of doing something to win.

First beat em up: Final Fight. I never had a Genesis in growing up, and didn't get to SOR before playing FF first. I always chose Haggar and piledrived constantly.

First game that made me break a controller: Saturn Darkstalkers. I had a cheap joystick that was a pile of shit and, after losing at this game too much, got infuriated with it enough to take it out to the street and smash it with a sledgehammer.

First online FPS: I count LAN Descent for this. It basically spoiled me on the genre.

First MMORPG: None, unless D3 is counted here.

First sim game: Intellivision Utopia. I thought it was so bizarre how I was able to find "holes" in the top and bottom of the map where you could sail ships and have them disappear from the screen, only to have them reappear on the other side. Sometimes I think of the game just by looking at the § character and thinking that it's a hurricane. I remember playing that with people and thinking to myself that there should be some kind of version of that game where you made cities. Seems that I wasn't the only person with that idea.

[Frogacuda]

Point n' click Adventure game: I think I played Space Quest I before Maniac Mansion. I recall laughing my ass off at getting drunk at a bar and the guy struggling with the controls.

Did your copy of Space Quest I look like this?

[MechDeus]

lol

Also: As with recent Blizzard games you're just hearing a vocal minority that wants to pretend they're clearing all the content and that D3 is stupid. All they actually want are terrible game mechanics which create an artificial high barrier of entry so that they can pretend they're super awesome at ARPGs when they grind for a month straight and get nothing out of it.

[dog$]

Well, whatever the reason, most players have quit playing D3 and the few who remain usually have some legitimate complaints about it. That 107's new crafting made even more drops worthless is just one example of how things continue to go from bad to worse.

One positive thing about the entire experience is that I can use the game as a reference for why I won't chase the multiplayer experience in current or future releases. Oh, you're playing TL2 now? Yeah, not anymore. Oh, you're all excited for POE? For how long - a week? Titan? Yeah, let me spend $60 on that so that I can build up a friends list that quickly goes gray.

I don't fault anyone for quitting D3. I just lament that it was D3 where I chose to get into playing that kind of game, because in terms of having a game to play with friends from here or whom I personally know, it's all for naught.

Did your copy of Space Quest I look like this?

Heh, nah, it wasn't LSL. First LSL experience was in grade school.

Am I remembering SQ1 wrong? I know there was an adventure game of some kind that I played on that Tandy where the guy got drunk at a bar.

[MechDeus]

I get multiplayer games because I like them as is, and if someone else is playing than cool bonus. People are generally going to move on to other things if they can afford them, it's just how attention goes. Personally, I play a lot of games so if someone wants me to specifically join them there needs to be some type of outside contact like texting or messaging on the chat here or something. I'll gladly play D3 with other people (and have it installed right now) but I'm not going to leave it open on the off chance that someone I know logs on while I could be playing something else.

[Frogacuda]

Am I remembering SQ1 wrong? I know there was an adventure game of some kind that I played on that Tandy where the guy got drunk at a bar.

There was that space bar scene with the blues brothers, but I don't think it did the drunky controls gag like Larry did.