First game I ever played

[Dr. BUGMAN]

And what about 4D Sports Driving (a.k.a. Stunts)? I loved creating sadistic race tracks. Why don't we have track editors anymore?

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Holy shit that game. I hear 4D doesn't have the kitsch community theater actors playing racing opponents, which would be a goddamned shame. Captain Falcon has nothing - nothing - Skid Vicious or Herr Otto Parts.



Oh and the physics, the hilariously buggy physics. Most of my time with that game was trying to coax a Formula One car to rocket itself into the stratosphere.

[Blount]

4D is pretty much the same game under a different name, so the actors are all there. The game was fun on so many levels. The track editing, pissing your opponents off (with funny results), giving them slow cars when they needed to jump over open bridges... and so on. Rocketing F1 cars way up high was one of my favorite things to do as well. I loved watching replays of me approaching my opponent (in flames), only to be shot into the sky right afterwards. Funny thing is, the game was so enjoyable to mess around with that I don't think I've ever sat down and tried to legitimately win a race, at least not without making my opponent explode first.

There was also 4D Boxing, but that was pretty boring. The character customization was rather neat at the time, but they all had creepy, polygonal looks.

Edit: Good times.

[(No Imagination)]

Never played 4D, but the general style reminds me of Carmageddon.

...I am not by any long shot a violent man, but I feel the urge to plug that Carmageddon was awesome.

Pre-Historik was cool too (I saw someone mentioning it at the Sonic 4 topic)

Me, the boss tune of Sonic 4 reminded me of it. It was...uh...not a very good game, but the last stage had awesome music I can't seem to find a clear YouTube version of. I never played the sequel, though.

Also, Commander Keen? Didn't play it much beyond the first two levels (it looked too overwhelming to get into, frankly, and by the time I got a chance to play it I was already rolling in Super Mario World), but did play through Apogee's Secret Agent, which looked pretty similar ... and made you kill janitors. In any case, later on, I played shits of platforming games for DOS (386), like Bio Menace (oh god SKULL MAN~~) and Xargon (nice art) and Jill of the Jungle (which a single illustration in Jazz Jackrabbit is a direct reference to) and Prince of Persia 2 (90 minutes are they crazy aaargh) and Zool 2 (...the screen is moving again nooo) and ...

...um, I think that's about it. Not counting 14 disks of Jazz Jackrabbit with a shiny booklet I ordered directly from Epic, of course.

Speaking of old PC gaming, anyone played Kid Chaos on the Amiga? If the main char was Sonic and some mechanics shifted, it could pass as a Dimps game...scary thing is, it was apparently made by two people, and it took them two years.

It's even got altered music in acts 2 and 3.

[Dr. BUGMAN]

Never played 4D, but the general style reminds me of Carmageddon.

...I am not by any long shot a violent man, but I feel the urge to plug that Carmageddon was awesome.

Oh man, funny-ish story. When I took drivers training one of the videos, we had to watch had footage from that game (of course under a negative light). When I blurted out that I used to play it the whole class laughed.

It had a sequel, but I don't think it was very good.

[Arcade]

My first PC game wasn't Commander Keen, but it was certainly among the earliest things I remember playing besides the Speccy. Keen was awesome. I had episodes IV and VI and I played them to death back then. Pre-Historik was cool too (I saw someone mentioning it at the Sonic 4 topic), but the sequel was a lot better. And what about 4D Sports Driving (a.k.a. Stunts)? I loved creating sadistic race tracks. Why don't we have track editors anymore?[/quote]

You like the Commander? Due, I am the only one that played more the pong that came with one or the games that the game itseft?

Pre-Historik 2 made my computer crash as lot, must have been windows 95, damn windows 95!.

And yes, track editors, give meeee!

[Tsuyoshi-kun]

Our family was poor when I was little, so we had a hand-me-down Atari 2600 given to us back in 1988 or so. I remember playing it the following year and playing Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and a bunch of other games. (I think one of them was that Big Bird counting game.) I played the NES a lot from mid-1989 until late 1991 when my parents bought us a Sega Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog. We threw away our NES after that, sadly.

[G.Silver]

We threw away our NES after that, sadly.

Actually threw away, or gave away, I am curious? There's been that talk sort of recently about the environmental hazards that game consoles (and computers) have deep in their inner-workings, but it still strikes me as inconceivable that a person would throw away a functional console instead of selling it, giving it to a friend or relative, or donating it to Goodwill. And you guys even had a hand-me-down Atari! Obviously you already regret the throwing-away decision but ouch, way to break the cycle. That's a sad story! (Heck, what happened to the 2600?)

[M.C.Dillinger]

my earliest memory of video games would have to be some Sesame Street game (I never had any idea what it was called) for the NES. I vaguely remember lying out plates to guide rubber ducky to earning his bathtub. I also oddly enough have memories of the NES version of 1943. There is also a game license to the cartoon duck wing duck which I really loved at the time (the cartoon at least until I discovered Batman).

That was my early childhood though I didn't love videogames until I discovered sonic. I don't specifically remember where I got it from but I remember that he was a bundle that included sonic 3 and knuckles. I fell in love with the character immediately.

[The Turtle Guy]

Haha, I do remember playing the hell out of Keen's wristwatch pong. I did love me some CK, though. Some of the more ferocious enemies still unnerve me to this day, due to just how scary they were to me as a kid. Like the Dopefish, or this motherfucker.

[Blount]

I remember the first time I cranked up the difficulty to hard and that thing appeared. I almost crapped my pants. I almost did it again when I found out IT WOULD NOT DIE. The Dopefish freaked me out too because of how suddenly it would appear. Something about being eaten by a giant fish with buckteeth seems unsettling somehow.

And these?



They seem relatively tame in screenshots, but when I was a kid and didn't know any better, I just assumed the cute little worms on the ground were harmless. Right before they turned into... that (the sound effect didn't help either). I got over it after figuring out how to stun them, because of how stupid they'd look afterwards.