First game you beat?

[evilkillermouse]

I think this came up in another thread, and I thought it might be interesting to hear what everyone's first game that they beat was.

Mine was Kirby's Dreamland 2 for Gameboy.

[Trogan]

Golden Axe on the Genesis (Sega Mega Drive)

edit: although, I was playing multiplayer :p

[checkmate]

The first game that I ever beat was Duck Hunt. I was the master of Duck Hunt!

[primesuspect]

I have to think back hard - see, when I started playing games, there was no such thing as 'beating' them - you just went for the high score :p ;D

Thinking back to my childhood, it would almost have to be Mega Man I for the NES or perhaps Super Mario Brothers - some NES game or another.

[Nightwolf]

First console game: Super Mario Brothers - i was like 6

First PC game: Diablo - I was 8 or 9

[RWB]

I still haven't beaten any of my games.... :o

Guess I could say StarCraft, but I wound up using cheats at the end

Though now that I think of it I also beat Freelancer and Halo.... Fallen Haven was before Star Craft so that would be the first I can really think of off hand. But I dunno if you could say I beat Duck Hunt or GOTCHA... though I think I did beat Jackal(sweet classic game, still have that song playing in my head since childhood).

Jackal... that has to be my first. I never actually played too many games. Sucks when you're poor and have to live with whatever gets handed down to you. :o

[Gargoyle]

Not sure which was first, Dragon Warrior or Jackal. Both on NES.

[ryko]

i am with prime...first games i played were all about high scores. :)

pole position and river raid for atari were my best.

first game i beat was super mario bros on NES, and then mega man I was next... i think.

[fatcat]

metroid on gameboy

king's quest I on pc

[AuthorityAction]

The first game I can remember beating and knowing for sure that I beat was Final Fantasy VII :thumbsup:

[Black Hawk]

Console: Super Mario World
PC: StarCraft

[tcith]

Zork (collosal Cave)

These would have been played by me somewhere between 1977 to 1979 on the main frame at Wollongong University. (I use to also play wumpus there)

Then many years later I had the trilogy port for my TRS 80

Other than that there are too many to mention over the centurie ...er I mean years :eek:

[CB]

Also from the age of infinite games that were only about score... or what I'd call the 'Arcade' days.

I was really good at the Mrs. Pac-Man game that they had in the laund-ro-mat down the block from my house. I would be many quarters richer today, if not for that game... The second highest score slot always belonged to me... The top spot always to Colgere. To this day, I rue his ultimate Pac-Skillz! I now get my revenge in Mario Party! Bwa-ha-ha!

The first game that I reached the end of was Space Quest (yes, the first one). It was a clever game, and it tought me to type fast without touch-typing (which is a mixed blessing...)

[primesuspect]

I was never able to beat zork..... :shakehead

I played it on an Apple IIe


Oh wait! I think now I remember the first game I ever actually "beat" - it was Karateka on the Apple II!

Woo!

[TheBaron]

Not sure which was first, Dragon Warrior or Jackal. Both on NES.I LOVE Dragon Warrior, I remember that game. I also remember my Turbo Grafx 16

[TheGr81]

I actually don't remember. The SNES was my first console so maybe...

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

[CB]

I could never beat ZORK either...

Stoopid ZORK!!

Stoopid Return to ZORK, while we're at it!

ZORK was the only cool game on the Mac, and they had to make it all difficult...

And when you finally quit it wasn’t even like "Hmm... This game is mighty challenging. It's an exercise in problem solving that I appreciate, despite not being able to solve!"

It was more like, "What?! I was supposed to PICK-UP that stoopid little thing 10 HOURS AGO?!! Are you freeking kidding me?! I'm NEVER gonna play this stoopid game again!!"

And when you quit the second one it was the same line except you had to ad, "I should have learned my lesson LAST time!! Why the Hell would I want to RETURN to ZORK?!"

[primesuspect]

Another impossible infocom game was Wishbringer. I was so excited to get that because it came with a little plastic glow-in-the-dark stone (the wishstone). I was still pretty much a little kid, and I loved that thing more than the way-over-my-head game. I slept with it in my hands. It glowed purple!

Come to think of it, a LOT of games from that era came with some awesome package add-ins. I had Ballyhoo from infocom, which came with a circus ticket, some pamphlet, and some other stuff. You actually had to use these in the game. Ultima II came with a cloth map of Brittania. The Pawn came with poster and a clue book. I loved The Pawn - it was the first game I got for my Atari ST and holy crap the splendor of 512 colors.

Modern games need "stuff" in the boxes again!

And games had that "stuff" and they didn't even cost $50!

And snow uphill both ways! grump! grumble! :shakehead

[profdlp]

The 7th Guest.

I had pneumonia and played it for a week solid (between hacking up little bits of my lungs...)

Didn't have to cheat, either. :ninja:

[tcith]

Another impossible infocom game was Wishbringer. I was so excited to get that because it came with a little plastic glow-in-the-dark stone (the wishstone). I was still pretty much a little kid, and I loved that thing more than the way-over-my-head game. I slept with it in my hands. It glowed purple!

Come to think of it, a LOT of games from that era came with some awesome package add-ins. I had Ballyhoo from infocom, which came with a circus ticket, some pamphlet, and some other stuff. You actually had to use these in the game. Ultima II came with a cloth map of Brittania. The Pawn came with poster and a clue book. I loved The Pawn - it was the first game I got for my Atari ST and holy crap the splendor of 512 colors.

Modern games need "stuff" in the boxes again!

And games had that "stuff" and they didn't even cost $50!

And snow uphill both ways! grump! grumble! :shakehead

OMG - Wishbringer , with it's Aussie connection of the helpfull platypii (platypuses?) - I had the stone as well, it also had an mock up of a letter in the game and a map of the postage zones (you run the post office)

as you said alot of games back then had props and other pieces that contained clues that are not found in the game.

I had a System 80 (http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/index.htm) (a TRS 80 clone) in the early 80's and there where some great games (http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/software_games.htm) on it. I would play star Trek for hoursa and hours.

[Butters]

Console: ? Super Techmo Bowl... if that counts
PC: Doom

[Leonardo]

On NES, the game that came bundled with the console along with Duck Hunter. What was it called...the martial arts guy who goes from location to location, hops on a lot of stones? One of the locations is C Island? Hmm, can't remember the name. (Oh, BTW, this was 1992 and I was 31. It wasn't too long since I'd returned from the Gulf War.)

Computer. Not sure if I've ever 'won' a game or not. The only computer game I played a lot were the Need for Speed Series. I could win most, but not all of the races.

[CB]

The thing is:

The 'stuff' that came in the boxes was there, not because the game publishers loved you, but because it was the only thing they could think of to stop you from just making a copy of your friends games... I know it worked on me. If Ultima had not come with a cloth map, I would have just copies Colgeres disks. As it was it took a lot of mowing lawns (my parents would never buy me video games.) to afford it, and all for a cloth map that I'm not even sure about the location of today... It's proly in the back of my closet somewhere.

It would be cool if games came with that stuff today, but the part of the budget that they used to spend on that, they now spend on 'copyright protection' instead.

[primesuspect]

It wasn't just anti-piracy. There was only 360K on those disks. Rather than have you swap out 10 different disks, they figured they would include some of that material on a printed handout or instruction book or other kind of prop that they could stick in the box.

[FormFactor]

These would have been played by me somewhere between 1977 to 1979 on the main frame at Wollongong University. (I use to also play wumpus there)


Oh no way man. Hunt the Wumpus? Hell yea, I used to play that on my pops' TI/99 4A. Ahh the memories ;D

First game I ever played was probably a space invaders game that was made up of standard characters... like the invaders were made up of letters, that dropped bombs that were dollar signs. That was on either a ZX/81 or a Sinclair (Dont remember).

Yea it was all about high scores back in those days. Donkey Kong and all that would go on for ever and ever until you ran out of lives.

First game I beat though was probably the coin op Double Dragon. Before the release of the NES. Once the NES came out I started knocking them down left and right. Super Mario, Zelda, Punch Out, Super Mario 2 and 3. I have been conquering them ever since.

[jradmin]

First game I ever beat was Forbidden Forrest on my brothers Commodore 64. I was 6, and man was it a hard game. The bad guy at the end was the Demo-Gorgon, and you could only see it when the lightning flashed.

[Preacher]

Oh wait! I think now I remember the first game I ever actually "beat" - it was Karateka on the Apple II!
Woo!

SWEET, SWEET KARATEKA! What a great game that was....

Prime,
I remember the moment I figured out how to stop the Princess from killing me. It was ingenious that in a fighting game the way you finally win was to refuse to fight....kinda Buddhist in fact.

[yagga]

I am still trying to beat Contra for Nintendo, even with the classic 30 life cheat I still have yet to beat it in all these many years (more than a decade). I am teh sad :bawling:

And another game I've been trying to beat is Asteroids for the TI-83 calculator. I got up to like level 200 or something when I was bored one da... 2 days and then my batteries ran out :bawling:

One game I did beat, although not my first, but I was certainly proud, was Metal Marines for Super Nintendo. I beat it when I was about 11 and my bro over 10 years older than me still has yet to beat past level 18 (it goes to level 20) He was in shock when he saw me beat level 18. ;D

[Thrax]

Console: Cabal for NES.
PC: Probably Duke Nukem II or Carmageddon. I'm not sure which.

[evilkillermouse]

I never posted my first PC game, I guess that would have to be Marathon. Ahh, the good old days of Bungie without Microsoft...

[tcith]

Oh no way man. Hunt the Wumpus? Hell yea, I used to play that on my pops' TI/99 4A. Ahh the memories ;D

.

"I feel a draft"
"I smell a wumpus"

Watch out for those darn bats

Relive the fun here (http://www.taylor.org/~patrick/wumpus/)

[Enverex]

I think it must have been "Flashback" on the Amiga. I don't remember actually successfully completing anything on the Acorn Electron of C64 before that. Damned if I can remember actually completing any games at all until I got a PC.... damn I suck.

[TheSmJ]

Commander Keen 4. Then Descent 2.

[Butters]

hunt the wumpus!!?!?!?!

I remember that.. and I was like 7 or 8 then...

I remember the music to that game.. Hall of the Mountain King..
everytime I hear that song.. I think of the game..

[evilkillermouse]

I'm too young to rember hunt the wumpus :(
But I played it on the internet and won in five turns... maybe I just got lucky.

[Enverex]

I'm too young to rember hunt the wumpus :(
But I played it on the internet and won in five turns... maybe I just got lucky.

I tried it yesterday, beat it in 2 goes on my first attempt ;D

[CB]

I had three games in a row go exactly like this:

- Start.
- Move into random room, which happens to be one away from whumpus.
- Shoot into random adjacent room.
- Get eaten by whumpus.

[lemonlime]

Kung Fu for NES
Wolfenstein3D for PC
Although I played quite a few games around that time, haloween harry, the original duke nukem, commander keen etc..

[evilkillermouse]

I played a bunch of the old FPSs (Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein 3D), but could never beat 'em.

[BlackLight05]

Console: Super Mario RPG

PC: Final Fantasy 7

yes, I am an RPG whore...but final fantasy 7 kicks so much arse.

[TracerBullet]

Console: Would have to be Rick Dangerous on the Atari 1040 STE, or Sonic the hedgehog on the Master System.

PC: UFO: Enemy Unknown

[Redsw20t]

First game would be Dawn Patrol on the VZ-300 (Lazer 300 outside of AUS) 4 colours, a few beeps, etc.. but cool at the time...

First REAL game was F/A 18 Interceptor on the Amiga - I still have working amiga computers, A500, A2000, A1200 and still play this game!!

First PC game - Wolfenstein 3D.

[CB]

:zombie:

[airbornflght]

Diablo I