first & best game(s) ever

[ricmitch_uk]

What was the first game you bought and what (in your opinion) are the best games ever made, (supply reasons if you like).
I will compile a chart at the top, when I think we've got enough 'votes'.
My first game I bought was Wolfenstein 3D
My list of best games are:
1)Half-Life (Just gr8 all round)
2)Duke 3D (blatent sexism)
3)Day of the Tenticle (hilarious)

It doesn't have to be just PC games, put consoles, Amigas, whatever up here.

[SurfDemon]

Strip Twister


I don't think I need to say any more.

SD

[barrk]

Originally posted by SurfDemon
Strip Twister

Gets my vote.....hands down!!!!

[zmerlinz]

i'm up for a game, one more player needed

[SurfDemon]

Preferably female!

[Fox]

-= Secret of Mana =-

[zmerlinz]

of course, though i feel that we may of scared them away

[barrk]

I'd play but somehow I think it would lose it's appeal over the internet!

[zmerlinz]

*shouts* i have a webcam hehehe

[ricmitch_uk]

PLEASE PEOPLE, THIS IS A SERIOUS THREAD!!
NO SMUT.

[kedaman]

Ground Control
Starcraft
Halflife

some old classical:
Civilisation
Dune2
Transport Tycoon

[billfaceuk]

HalfLife is the best game for the P.C. Kingpin is good but all the best games were on the SNES or the super famicom if your japanese

[SurfDemon]

I'm going to throw these in randomly as I think of them, but definetly Populous (1 or 2) on the Amiga!

That got me through my final year of college.

SD

[SurfDemon]

oh yeah!

And Elite on the Amstrad CPC-6128.

(and Elite :Final Frontier on the Amiga).

First computer game owned.

Pong - well it was on of those little paddle games that hooked up to the telly and played Tennis, Football and squash, but that was all. And they where all just black & white pong with different bat configurations. We thought it was the coolest - first computer game in the village.

SD

[parksie]

Elite on a BBC That rocked

[chrisjk]

Anyone remember that Lander-type game with a hovercraft on the Acorn Electron? It was cooooool because it was like 3D man (well, almost). We played that for hours under the careful guidance of our teach

[parksie]

I remember the real !Lander...that was fun Spent 3 hours once trying to find the landing pad again

[MPrestonf12]

pong

[ricmitch_uk]

Why? Imean, I know it was the first game EVER and everyone was "ooohh, aaah, look at the ball... it bounces!" and it took up about £3,000,000 worth of memory in those days, but, can't you think of something better.

Fact:
In the 1970s 1Mb of RAM would have set you back $3,000,000

[chrismitchell]

I think that "Invasion of the Metagalactic Llamas" was a great game on the Amiga, and "Ant Attack" on the Spectrum always made for good playing!

[ricmitch_uk]

Sim Ant

[Vlatko]

Top 5:

• Death Rally
• Duke3D
• Civilization
• Diablo
• Quake I

[MPrestonf12]

Why? Imean, I know it was the first game EVER and everyone was "ooohh, aaah, look at the ball... it bounces!" and it took up about £3,000,000 worth of memory in those days, but, can't you think of something better.

Yes, I know its simple and it may have been very primative but its a personal preference. Its not to say that I don't like newer "better" games.

[SurfDemon]

Originally posted by ricmitch_uk
Why? Imean, I know it was the first game EVER and everyone was "ooohh, aaah, look at the ball... it bounces!" and it took up about £3,000,000 worth of memory in those days, but, can't you think of something better.

Fact:
In the 1970s 1Mb of RAM would have set you back $3,000,000

Yeah, but part of the question was first game ever..... unfortunately for alot of us oldies that was pong

I used to dream of having a space invaders machine....

... but then again, that was before I hit puberty and my dreams suddenly got a lot more fun *cough* *cough*

SD

[parksie]

You dreamed of having a doctor check you? Er...

Unless, of course, it's the doctor from Days of Thunder

[parksie]

Now I remember the name!!!!!

ZARCH That was the game that Lander was a cut-down version of

[Pix]

Super Mario all the way

[HarryW]

Not sure whether I played Pong on one of those little boxes you attach to the TV first, or a game on the BBC called "Mr T" which loaded from tape. I was 4 at the time I think.

[ricmitch_uk]

I just remembered, I used to have an old Amstrad with a green screen and a tape drive. My first game for that was Playschool (those were the good old days!)

[HarryW]

To be honest, they weren't that good. Elite is just about the only game out of everything from that period that I would play again. Oh that and Dogfight on the BBC.

[Beacon]

First Game: Ghost Butsers on the Commodore 64. 1 of the first on console was Joyst on Atari!

Best: I reckon Tony Hawks 2 is one of the best. Also siphon filter and Maybe 007 on the Nes 64.
Oh i forgot to mention Alex Kid on the sega ms2.

[HarryW]

Oh yes, I just realised the question. The first game I ever bought was Wing Commander 3. Wasn't really worth it. The first 2 were much better. Game I'm most glad I bought is probably Starcraft.

[SurfDemon]

I can't narrow my selection down to 3 'cause I've just remembered how me and my mates would stay up all Friday and Saturday night after coming back from the pub to play 4 player doom on a network of p.c.s that we had "borrowed" from work. We used to fight over who got the 2 486's and who got dumped with the 386's. But pretty much the rule was if you went for a piss anyone could grab your machine.

SD

[Jethro]

First game brought The Secret of Monkey Island Ran on a 286.

Top 5.

Quake 2
Warcraft 2
Red Dawn
The Secret of Monkey Island 2
The Invasion of the Nude Twister Playing Bimbos From Outer Space

Ok one of those is a game l am sure l would like if it was released.

SD, l thought you would be a leisure suit larry fan.

Quick safety tip guys, don't play nude twister in a cactus patch.

[HarryW]

The first 3 Larrys were good, they kinda lost their edge after that though

[Cander]

first game bought? hmm. I believe it was Smurfs for the coleco vision...Shut UP!! DONT LAUGH!!! LOL


Best PC games in order:
1)Duke Nukem 3D (All other first person shooters are crap in comparison!)
2) Tribes/Tribes 2
3) Allegiance (Best multi player space sim!! That may change tonight once I load up the Jumpgate beta though now that I am a beta tester! )

Best console:
1) Crystalis (NES 8-bit)
2) Super Mario 3 (NES 8-bit)
3) Flashback (Genesis 16-bit)

Best arcade:
1) Galaga
2) Galaga
3) hmmm..Galaga.. Cant get enough of this classic.

[HarryW]

Whoa.... someone else that plays Allegiance! Most people I've seen online at once in in the AZ the last couple of months is about 40. Are you on AZ? Name? I'm Axiom18 if you ever see me.

[Cander]

It is unfortuante that Allegiance did not catch on to well. Mainly it was becuase of the lack of funding for good advertisement. Oh well. I havent had the time to play Allegiance much lately but when I do, my SN is Halberd_G.

You outta check out Jumpgate too man. Think of Allegiance but in a persistant massive multiplayer universe with thousands of players. There is no capitol ships yet, but they are planning to add them later. It looks and sounds awesome so far. There are even human players being pirates in the game ..That is pretty cool.

http://www.planetjumpgate.com

[HarryW]

Cool... I have heard about it, similar to what you say. I used to play UO (a lot) and I don't really want the persistence though. The good thing about not having persistence is that you don't have to worry about what the effect of your actions now will be in more than about an hour's time. I guess it's cool to be able to really develop in the game though. How difficult is piracy?

[ricmitch_uk]

Someone installed Lounge Suite Larry on our PCs at school, but only some ppl could get into it, as you hat to prove you 18 by answering loads of questions! When you're 12, you don't really know what Mick Jager di for a living(!).