Urprobablyright
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Sorry for the fatuous threads I put up now and then, sometimes something occurs to me which I'd like to hear more thoughts on.
What's the first 'serious' game you remember playing?
By 'serious' I mean , the difference between, in my case, Microsoft Pinball and Age of Empires. I suppose it's up to you to consider what 'serious' means, you could legitimately say 'pong', or, you know, 'minesweeper' if you think it had a role in your gaming development that was weighty. But really I'm looking for your memories of the first time you were old enough, and suitably equipped, to enjoy a game which made you really notice the power of our collective hobby.
As for me... It's hard to be too sure, I got a glut of games at about the same time when my family bought a Pentium 2 PC in 1998. And before then I had played a few games without really understanding them - Commander Keen Goodbye Galaxy stands out the sharpest of these - but I think my pick for this thread is between Diablo, Age of Empires,I even got Madden '98 a few months later from my older brother, and Claw (a sidescroller involving a pirate captain cat << seriously check out that let's play it is, funnily enough, exactly which game I'm talking about ha)
I honestly think I'm lucky enough to say that Age of Empires was the first real 'game' I remember playing, and loving. I think I actually played the demo, which was installed on the PC in addition to the full game (i had trouble finding that full game for the first few months I think) so I helped the Hittite tribe... complete two missions. Over and over and over again.
I also played the Diablo demo a thousand times, though I don't think I had the full version for that one until a bit later~ Feel free to write a paragraph or two~
What's the first 'serious' game you remember playing?
By 'serious' I mean , the difference between, in my case, Microsoft Pinball and Age of Empires. I suppose it's up to you to consider what 'serious' means, you could legitimately say 'pong', or, you know, 'minesweeper' if you think it had a role in your gaming development that was weighty. But really I'm looking for your memories of the first time you were old enough, and suitably equipped, to enjoy a game which made you really notice the power of our collective hobby.
As for me... It's hard to be too sure, I got a glut of games at about the same time when my family bought a Pentium 2 PC in 1998. And before then I had played a few games without really understanding them - Commander Keen Goodbye Galaxy stands out the sharpest of these - but I think my pick for this thread is between Diablo, Age of Empires,I even got Madden '98 a few months later from my older brother, and Claw (a sidescroller involving a pirate captain cat << seriously check out that let's play it is, funnily enough, exactly which game I'm talking about ha)
I honestly think I'm lucky enough to say that Age of Empires was the first real 'game' I remember playing, and loving. I think I actually played the demo, which was installed on the PC in addition to the full game (i had trouble finding that full game for the first few months I think) so I helped the Hittite tribe... complete two missions. Over and over and over again.
I also played the Diablo demo a thousand times, though I don't think I had the full version for that one until a bit later~ Feel free to write a paragraph or two~
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