Strange | 1,706 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 5 hours ago, Br81zad said: Galaga To this day, I still drop a few quarters in a machine if I see one out somewhere While it wasn’t the “hook” for me, Galaga was the first arcade machine I enjoyed playing as a little kid. I think I just liked the bugs, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 990 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Streets of rage 2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,963 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Probably Dragon Warrior. That was a long time ago so it’s hard to be sure. But to this day still one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,963 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 (edited) Double post Edited June 8, 2020 by Hammerfestus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpgCollector | 912 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Atari 2600 Pitfall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foochie776 | 1,066 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Felix the Cat, first game I bought from Funcoland back in the day. Forever holds that special place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 525 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Double Dragon II, my brother and I spent months trying to rent it. If it was in, we didn't have any money, and if we had the money, it was rented out. Finally I came home one day and he yelled that he had it as soon as I made it to the house. We played the crap out of it. It didn't disappoint. We even kept it past it's return date by about a week. The grocery store was like, 'It's fine, everybody does that'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,568 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Bubble Bobble comes to mind. I always needed my cousin's help with level 99 to get that damned crystal ball. My sister nor my friend had the gaming chops to get that good end! I can hear the music now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpoonMan Abrams X | 697 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 My very first? Probably Super Mario Bros. 3 I had played video games quite a bit before then (I beat the original SMB and SMB2/USA before then as my older brother @MashFan81 got a NES for his birthday) but SMB3... I don't know if I've ever played a game more times through to completion, more hours sunk in, for more accumulative and/or consistent length of time. It was also right at the time when I started going to school. Fond memories of when I was in Young 5s (developmental kindergarten) for half-days. Would get picked up by my dad at the end of my day, go home for a couple hours and start a game. Pause and get dropped off for a bit at my Grandparents. A couple hours later get picked up by my mom and head home for the day, and continue playing it before bed. One of my fondest and earliest collection memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nostalgic Machine | 27 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 The first game I was obsessed with beyond reason as a kid, right from launch, was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Hands down, far and away the most I've ever been obsessed with a game, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 1,925 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Very difficult for me to settle on just one no matter how I try to slice it: Commodore 64 - H.E.R.O. / Toy Bizarre -To this day I probably want sequels to these two more than any other games. The possibilities are endless. They would be my earliest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,706 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, PII said: Very difficult for me to settle on just one no matter how I try to slice it: Commodore 64 - H.E.R.O. / Toy Bizarre -To this day I probably want sequels to these two more than any other games. The possibilities are endless. They would be my earliest. H.E.R.O. is still incredibly fun to this day, on any platform. A top 5 game in the Atari 2600 library. I wish there was an NES or Master System port. Edited June 12, 2020 by The Strangest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 1,925 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 @The Strangest Yes, either of those ports would be great. I'm partial to the C64 and ColecoVision Ports. On C64 I like to use a Pistol-Grip Joystick with a single trigger fire button (down is dynamite.) The Coleco version has some different types of enemy motion and timing requirements that are more difficult, plus it utilizes two fire buttons increasing the likelihood of needing to use the actual coleco controller making it a lot harder. I thought the super-action controller would be good but I had difficulties hovering in place. Anyways, the verdict on that is out until I get around to cleaning my super-action controllers. I tried playing the 2600 version a few times with a playstation controller and performed quite poorly with it. There are also versions on the atari 5200 and 400 computer but I've never played them. Come to think of it there's also a somewhat strange looking port of it on the Sega SG-1000 where the guy has a rocket pack instead of gyro-copter-pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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