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[Discoid]

To get this out of the way, I'll say it now: this topic's going to be one of those "new topic every day" things. Carbo and I already did it on Facebook, but I figured that it would be more fun to do here, since all of us love to play video games. Think of it as a fun little forum game with actual discussion value, I guess.

Here's how it'll work: Every day, I'll introduce a topic; be it "favorite game", "first game you've ever played", or "most recent purchase". You know, random things like that. After a topic is introduced, everyone is welcome to either write their own submission or reply to somebody else's.

Another thing of note, badges will be given to those who participate:

• Participated For 5 Days - Write five entries and submit them on time. If you miss the deadline, it'll be too late.
• Participated For 10 Days
• Participated For 20 Days
• Participated Every Days - You'll only get this one if you post your submission on time every day. So work for it.

However, before we begin, some rules need to be set down to keep this from becoming stupid:

• First and foremost: YOU MUST ACTUALLY WRITE SOMETHING. Don't just say "Oh, Sonic 2 was the first game I ever played. kthxbai". Doing so will get your post reported for spam. So don't do it. Instead, try writing about how you got introduced to the game, what you thought of it then, what you think of it now, etc. There's plenty of things to write about. One well sized paragraph is the bare minimum.
• You have roughly 24 hours to post your submission for each topic, and if you can do so every day, you'll get the "Participated Every Day" badge. If you miss your chance, then it's too late, so write quickly.
• Only reply to posts if you have something to add. Don't just say "Yeah, me too". If you want to piggyback on someone's post, that's perfectly reasonable if you do so by clicking the "like" button. We have the function for a reason.

And those are the only rules I can come up with off the top of my head. It really just boils down to "make sure you actually try" and "get it in on time".

Now that I've gotten all that out of the way, on to the fun stuff!

Day 1 - The First Game You Ever Played

Surprise, surprise. There has to be some underlying reason for my love of this series, huh? Yup, though I was extremely late to the party, Sonic 2 didn't have any less of an impact on me in 1998 as it did on gamers in 1992. The ease of controlling Sonic, the bright, colorful levels to blast through at breakneck speeds, the amazing soundtrack... everything about Sonic 2 (apart from the horrid enemy placement in the latter half of the game) just... works. And I couldn't have picked a better game to lead into the hobby that stole away a majority of my life.

Though my love for Sonic 2 has waned over the years (go kill yourself, Metropolis Zone), it's still on my list of top five Sonic games, and definitely one I have extremely fond memories of.

Edited by Carbo, 16 February 2012 - 03:45 PM.

[Carbo]

[JezMM]

Is it cheating if I already did this on facebook before? =B Hurr.

Copy paste time!



Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)

My first game was the oddly different Mario 2, and I still love it to this day. I just dream of getting a sequel, but obviously I accept the fact that this gameplay is not traditional Mario platforming (which is great too anyway). I used to play as Peach for her (almost gamebreaking once you know the kinds of places you can reach with it) long floaty jump.

EDIT:
Oh, but hey since we're here I'll spin some more yarns about it:

Spoiler

I got it just out of the blue when my Dad borrowed a NES off a friend of his. Only game it had. Somehow we ended up keeping it, though sadly the old thing's worn out and the fuse keeps blowing in the plug. As of the last half-decade or so I've used the Wii Virtual Console to get my fix.

When I was a kid I always used to only play through a certain route - take the Warp to World 4, play through to World 5 and then Warp to World 7. The Desert levels scared me quite a lot due to their difficulty and, thanks to my warping, lack of experience with.

I prefer the original to the remakes. The SNES one is very inoffensive, but I grew up with the NES, and in those days you fill in the poor graphics with your imagination. Thus I never personally imagined World 1, 3 and 5 being set in a jungley locale in particular (though I did love that the islands in the background on World 4 looked like cakes covered in icing with trees on top). I also loved that in the original, pausing the game reduced the music just to the bassline. That was a nice touch. In the remakes it just quiets the music I think.

Finally, the Game Boy Advance remake I thought was too watered down with the difficulty. I'm fine with it - old games are hard games, and if all the added opportunities for health and 1-Up items assist players in enjoying the game, I can't hate that. Just my personal preference of course. I find the original fairly easy now just due to playing so much, so a even easier remake is gonna be ridiculous. The new stuff though, like adding a "pre-boss" theme to rooms that contain bosses, with the proper boss theme kicking in only when you actually reach the boss - was a nice touch, as well as the voice samples (corny as they were) and mini cut-scenes for the bosses.

Finding all the A-coins and Yoshi Eggs was a nice bonus too for a veteran player.

Gameplay:

Edited by JezMM, 15 January 2012 - 07:31 PM.

[Indigo Rush]

This sounds like fun! I'll be participating.



So, Super Mario Bros is the first game I've ever played. I must have been at least 3 years old, but I'll never forget that nostalgic romp through World 1-1 and the eerie feeling of desolation in the underground tunnels in World 1-2. I never got much farther than that as a kid, but this game was just magical to me. It wasn't until I was 4-5 years old when Sonic showed up that I'd have found a new favorite, but until then, it was all about the Mario Bros!

Oh, and Duck Hunt too, I guess. It was the 2-in-1 package that I had, but c'mon, who would play Duck Hunt when you have Mario?!

[Soniman]

First game? Good god if I could guess it would be Super Mario All Stars. Fuck that game was amazing, and it had it all, updated graphics, infectious chiptune music, and 4 great Mario games from the NES era. Though I could never beat "the lost levels", fucking poison mushrooms.

[MarcelloF]

My first game:


Super Mario Bros for the NES. I started when I was 2-3. Since I had nowhere to go yet, my mom would play it on my dad's NES with me occasionally. We'd play multiplayer, so taking turns. I wasn't great, but for my age, I think I was OK. Sadly, I spilled juice on the NES and it broke. 5-6 years ago a bought an NES with SMB, so that was nice, and I also used to have SMB Deluxe.. And now I have it on the 3DS, too. This is also my mom's favorite game and one of the few she really loves playing. Just recently she asked me if they made a new one like this =)

Edited by MarcelloF, 15 January 2012 - 07:32 PM.

[Carbo]

Is it cheating if I already did this on facebook before? =B Hurr.

Not at all, that said, expect some twists here and there.

Anyway, as for me,



My history really isn't that more interesting. I grew up in a NES household and practically had a controller in my hand when I hit the age of 1, even though I never actually understood games until I was about 3. After 18 years, my everlasting love of video games has never changed.

Super Mario Bros. might not be the best Mario title in the series or even that very interesting, but I'll always respect it for being the game that actually got me into the wonderful world of video games to begin with. It quite deserves its status of legacy.

[Panda Cero]

I'm not entirely sure when I got this, but I do know that it was my first game. I originally begged my mom for the game because I was a complete pokemon nerd back in the day (though i still am now), my room was covered with pokemon shit, from the pikachu plush, pokemon blanket, and stickers everywhere. My memory of the game is quite fuzzy, but I do remember that I was unable to get through Viridian forest because I was that retarded when I was younger. I'd always catch a few pidgeys and ratata, try to break into the pokemon league, watch the old man a few times, and restart the game, because I had no idea that I could go north through the forest. Also I still have that special pikachu/pichu golden gameboy, and it still works (but I lost my pokemon yellow)

Edited by New Year's Cero, 15 January 2012 - 07:38 PM.

[E-25]

The first game I'd ever played was probably SMB/Duck Hunt on my grandparents' NES (it was left there by some of my older cousins for others to use since family visits almost always converge there).



To this day I have completed neither of them, and it's due to having no skill as well as getting extremely bored of it by the time I skip to World 8. Duck Hunt is also repetitive, but it's also the game to cheat at by just sticking the light gun to the screen. I really preferred the sequel and did finish that one before moving on to the Genesis and thus getting trapped as a Sonic fan for the rest of time (though never even knew the DC existed until long after it was dead and gone.)

[Hogfather]

I can't quite remember what the very first game I played was, I know the first game I played on a Mega Drive was Sonic the hedgehog... some kind of space sim I think.

But the first game I played was way back on the Commodore 64, however, what it was I can't quite remember.

I remember my mum coming how with this huge machine which was a Commodore 64 and it had tons of games with it, they ranged from random medieval soldier fighting monsters, to things like Jaws and a ghostbusters game (not the notoriously bad one, one based on the TV show that I can't find a copy of anywhere).

But one of the earliest games had to have been this...



I remeber this game for three reasons.

1: It was amazingly hard, I kept dying at the giant skelleton, I had no idea what to do.

2: It kept freaking me out, the music, the imagery, everything about it, I was far too young to be playing this game, it was a bit of a haunting experience, I'd never seen imagery like it before and didn't quite have a scale to put it against, that would change in the years to come as I managed to find a copy of the movie aliens and other 18+ movies I probably shouldn't have been watching.

3: After one night playing the game, I got that scared, I turned the game off and never put it back on again.

I don't know if it was the first game I played, but it's the first one I played with a clear memory. I don't remember much about it other than those 3 things, but all these years later I still love the OST, it's so strange and haunting to listen to, I'd like them to bring this series back one day, but I just know it'll end up going through the remake machine and not be quite as good.


Edit: *Looks at everybody listning Nes & Genesis games* Kids these days! In my day we had computers to play games on! And they were so big we had to take out a wall to get them in!

*sits in a rocking chair and remembers the good old days*

Edited by Hogfather, 15 January 2012 - 07:36 PM.

[y cant solkia crawl]

I don't really remember which was actually my first, but it was one of these 2:

Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden coins

Admittedly not my cup of tea, but I logged countless hours on it regardless. My favorite level was the Lego level, because I was a huge fan of Lego, and still kind of am.

Never did I get any of the coins, but the game still has a place in my heart.

Alleyway

This game is currently on the 3DS shop as a download title if you want to check it out.



A simplistic Breakout-style game, as well as a Gameboy launch title.

Damn I had so much fun with this game, I was completely addicted to it as a kid.

EDIT: I'm not good at writing a lot :T.

Edited by Solkia :U, 15 January 2012 - 07:39 PM.

[HUNTER297]

Nice idea. I am happy to join

My first game was Sonic Adventure (DC One)



It was the first game I actually played. I still remember that day. I was 3 years old and my Dad bought me Dreamcast for Birthday. Oh man I loved that piece of hardware! I watched my Uncle who had Mega Drive how ge plays Sonic. And I loved that Hedgehog so my Dad bought me first 3D Sonic game for birthday.

First Impression:
OH MY GOD! That MUSIC! (Thats how I became fan of Crush 40 too). I pressed start and watched Sonic jumping on the buildings. Then I saw Chaos... Man that was one scary S.O.B (for a 3 years old. Fortunately I knew some English back then so I was able to understand the story). I defeated Chaos and saw EGGMAN. Man that was awsome. Then first run on Emerald Coast. Again Eargasm. I rescued Tails. I always loved Tails. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are still ones of my faves.

Some more impressions:
I remeber that even messing around in HUBs was really enjoyable to me. Story was great. I really enjoyed it.

After all these years:
Nowdays I realize that SA1 had flaws but for me its still great game. Its OST, core gameplay and story is still great after all these years. At least for me.

Edited by HUNTER297, 15 January 2012 - 07:42 PM.

[Rawrdom]

I'll join in, sounds like it could be fun
First game, eh? I can't remember but it was one of these

Sonic Adventure:
A game that still holds a special place in my heart on stays as my favourite game to this date. My brother got a dreamcast with Sonic adventure and Chu Chu Rocket for launch. This is what made me a Sonic fan, despite not aging well I still find it as fun as I did throughout my life. I bought it on every console posible.

Chu Chu Rocket:
This is an amazing puzzle game, I haven't played it nearly as much as Adventure but i still love it. Everyone should play this game.

[Vertekins]

WAAAYYY back in 1990, Amiga Bubble Bobble was the very first videogame I ever played when I was 3 years old on my father's Amiga. My memories are vague but I remember getting my dad to put the Amiga on so I could play it because being 3 at the time, the hardware was a mystery to me

It's a timeless game. Didn't really know it back then but there were so many intricacies of the scale rarely seen in a videogame of that period such as 'currents', bouncing off bubbles to gain height, the mechanics of bonuses appearing and specific enemy behaviours. I still play it 21 years later

[Major Ziggy]

lol So many people have Super Mario Bros. Allow me to throw my name in there.



Can't really tell which one of the two I would have played first. I was probably 4 or 5 years old at the time, and my parents bought me and my brother an NES with two joypads, a zapper and Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cart. It was a strange new world I was introduced into. It took years for me to beat Super Mario Bros but it was fun trying, Duck Hunt was fun, for the like the first 20 minutes of playing each type of game. Kinda challenging to do it legitamately, because it can get a bit tiring holding the zapper. Suck pain I wouldn't experience again until the Wii.

Super Mario Bros. I'll always love. But I much prefer nearly every other Mario game over it, except the American Super Mario Bros. 2.

[Serperior]

This is the boxart for the wrong reigon but oh well.~

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was the first game I ever played, and it (Counting it's second half along with it) still stands as my favourite Sonic game to date. My history with it isn't very long. My family got a Mega Drive, they had Sonic 3, I played it. Well, I say play loosely, until my older brother stopped playing Sonic games, it was more I play for 5 seconds, wait for Tails to fly back on the screen, and then that cycle looped until he was too lazy to do a platforming section and made me carry him over it or until he was struggling on a boss and needed me to fight it, but it was still fun none the less. After he did get out of Sonic I was finally able to play the game properly, and I had a blast with it, although I still stuck with Tails, and tend to still do so even now, because I know how he plays the most. This game is still one of my favourite games to play through, the characters are all fun to use, the zones are memorable, the boss fights are interesting, and it's just an all round good game. I just wish I had Sonic and Knuckles when I was younger as well so I could've had the full experience right from the start.

[Gonard]

I was over at a friends once and had scene a nes. I asked him what it was. He was shocked. So he showed me a few games.Among them were the legend of zelda and mario bros. Those games were so fun. I would come over and play with him a few times. It was really special. It would be a while until i met sonic. So until then i would stick with Mario and Link.

Edited by the hedgehogs boost, 15 January 2012 - 07:47 PM.

[Swiss]

I'll always remember my first game more than fondly:



Kirby's Dream Land. An excellent first game for a young kid to pick up. It's easy, simple and fun. And dat music. All of it still holds up as some of the best today in my opinion.

Also, the white Kirby from the cover of this game always drove me to choose that colour in Smash Bros.. A pointless little fact for you all.

[VizardJeffhog]

The furthest video game I can remember playing (I was around 3), before I owned my own consoles and everything, would be either

A. Super Smash Bros.



which I always played with a neighbour where I used to live. I always ended up taking Kirby (still do in all three instalments sometimes) because I loved the Copy Ability. Next to that, I would take Yoshi. I only found out recently that they owned a SEGA Genesis, but it doesn't work anymore... D: Frowny face, that would've been fun!

B. or Super Mario World



Grandma's house! Me and my cousins would always find ourselves playing either this or the original Super Mario Bros on the NES. But this one? I could not put it down.

Once I had a Gameboy Advance and discovered that Super Mario World was remade, it was a must-have for me. I also pat myself on the back that this was the first game I 100%ed. A real gem!

Edited by VizardJeffhog, 15 January 2012 - 07:46 PM.

[Tmsp]

Day 1 - The First Game You Ever Played
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Master System)



My first game was Sonic 2 for the Master System.
It was from my dad and we usually played it during weekends together, I was like 4 years old by then.
This game made me a fan of the Sonic series and I belive the I played it more than 500 times thanks to the first boss.
I only finished the game 2 times, one when I was little in a camping park and some years ago in Classic Collection +.

Edited by Tmsp, 22 January 2012 - 06:06 PM.