Morning Discussion

by Alice O'Connor, Dec 28, 2009 5:00am PST

It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Friends and family gather round, feasts are held three days in a row and there's enough half-melted refrozen snow slush for you to feel some kind of victory. Unless, of course, so much flu courses through your veins that even your sloshed uncle is more alert, stabler and a better conversationalist than you.

I ended up mostly playing King's Bounty: Armored Princess. It's fun. That's my review.

I've tried almost every potion, poultice, syrup, pill, powder, lozenge and tincture under the sun, all to no avail. Desperate times call for desperate measures and it'll be a cold day in Walthamstow before I let Kwanzaa be ruined too so if I'm not on the mend by tomorrow it'll be the ole Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap. Dilute! Dilute! O.K.!

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Can you trace your interest in video games to a single game from the past? Mine would have to be Mountain King, on the Atari 2600. It was the first game that gobbled up hours of my time when I was a kid and I was just playing it a few minutes ago (via emulator) and enjoying the hell out of it.

Does anyone else remember this game? Anyone care to share what they think their "genesis" game was?

Dec 28, 2009 10:34am PST

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Can you trace your interest in video games to a single game from the past? Mine would have to be Mountai : Omaha
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  SMB for me : spectr3
  - Same here. We had a few Atari games, but I can't remember them. : mobab
- I played a bunch of Atari games, but the one that really sold me on gaming was Mega Man 2. I vaguely reme... : Clasifyd
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  Choplifter! : walker270
  - This and PitFall on the Atari : hrdwregk
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  pitfall for NES, it was the 8 bit Uncharted : gmd
  - pitfall for me too. : deskill
- Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. : Ellissd
- GORF... Commodore Vic20 : ShadowRam
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  Probably The Black Cauldron, if anyone remembers that. : Lone Swordsman
  - man i couldn't wait for that game after reading the book of three series as a kid. then i bought it and m... : qwpeoriu
  - yesssss this game rocked. : Xanthos
  - Oh Fuck. My afterschool had that and Zaxon. I did play a lot of those. : mrblarg
  - Hell yeah! It even had multiple endings and multiple ways through the game. : Omaha
  - Haha I still have the original box/disks for this. : kelerian
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  Wolf3d.exe : MercFox1
  - probably this? i dunno...there were so many. : ass-street
  - Same here. : Syrek
  - Came to post exactly this : chrisschutz
- Wings of Fury by Broderbund Software. : tomservo
- defender, atari 2600. My first game : X-GOUKI
- Super Mario for the NES. Got me totally hooked. Wolfenstein got me hooked on the PC : legsbrogan
- I saw an Asteroids machine at a laundromat in 1987. I wanted to put my little hands all over that thing,... : mrblarg
- Descent : rms
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  Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Track & Field package was my first console. Half Life / Star Craft are what hooke... : shadebane
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    Yars Revenge for atari was fun, and it came with an awesome comic book! : shadebane
    - Yar's Revenge was such a good, overlooked game. : AxeMan808
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  Sonic the Hedgehog : purekillforce
  - iawtp. This is the first one that I just had to finish. : lord_omega
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  MunchMan, Parsec, and Hunt the Wumpus for the TI99/4A. : Deathlove
  - Man I rocked the TI99/4A too. I loved that goddamn thing. I was a Parsec MASTAH. : Thornfist
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    I fucking loved all of those games, plus many more. I remember playing the shit out of, and never beating... : zerog83
    - Everest was a motherfucker, I remember that. : Deathlove
- Combat on the Atari 2600. I remember playing that with my step brother when I was like 4 years old. : mrwolf710
- Golden Axe, that was when I really got into games. I had played them before but just passingly. : moe6
- I had been playing games occasionally since the Atari days, but the game that moved it to a primary inter... : cetra00
- Xenon 2: Megablast and Day of the Tentancle... ahhhh those were the days. I'd sit in my fathers office fo... : vujinovicm
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  Galaxian. : AxeMan808
  - Gunfight. : AxeMan808
- pitfall 2 for me, i think. or jumpman from the C64, i don't remember which i had first : aurealis
- Super Mario Bros. First videogame I ever played when I was 4, was at a family friend's place and was a... : kallanta
- New Rally X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rally-X : =]Milo[=
- Dinopark Tycoon in grade school. I was addicted to that game. The first game to get me into PC gaming for... : at0micgarden
- Oregon Trail and/or Tetris : NexusOne
- Tron: Deadly Discs on the Intellivision. Well, really, my first game was Sharp Shot, which was made to b... : mopic42
- I guess it would Doom. : Saman
- Alternate Reality on my Apple ][ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Reality_(series) Then Might and... : quazar
- Wolfenstein/Phantasmagoria on PC (though it was a mac at the time), SMB for NES on consoles. I never had ... : MrBig0
- KC Munchkin on the Odyssey 2. My parents got it for my brother and I use to sneak into his room when he w... : denixen
- Ultima III. IV sealed the deal though. : Cubictoast
- Probably Space Invaders. I remember pounding $2 into the machine which was my life savings at the time. : Dave-A
- This is an interesting question. There isn't a single game. I have always enjoyed gaming. I just love tha... : LoioshDwaggie
- I was surrounded by PC games as a kid, but never go into them until I discovered that I could make levels : TaintedSyringe
- Super Mario Bros and DOOM were the first two games i played, SMB first and then DOOM later. I was hook... : alphablu
- Super Mario Kart for the SNES. : The Grolar Bear
- Super Mario for consoles, Doom shareware for the PC! : jad3d
- Star Wars arcade (the old vector graphics one). My dad held me up and let me be luke skywalker when I wa... : flagg209
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  pong or mr driller : sanewave
  - i mean dig dug :) : sanewave
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  Herzog Zwei - this should be an iPhone app : TheArtMan
  - ^^^ this was great game : sanewave
- Dune II. When I fell in love w/ this game, this is when I switched from your "typical console gamer" t... : goatjc
- Combat cause it came with the Atari system : ultramega
- Mike Tyson's Punch-Out : CrabsJarrard
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  Aztec. Apple IIe. 6th Grade. Had a dick of a teacher that would let you play after class if you were ... : ezkilla2
  - That game was gloriously messed up. I don't think I ever got very far with it. : Dave-A
  - paging sesmaster : dirge23
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    YES! I had it on my Apple IIc and it was great. I never got past the Allosaurus / dinosaur dude :( I s... : tomservo
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      J: jump! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aztec_(Apple_II).png hell yes :D : tomservo
      
      L: was lunge if you had a machete! Oh so many memories. : tomservo
      
      Holy shit, I'd forgotten all about this game. : ColoradoCNC
- Space Invaders : owly
- Pole Position for Atari. I played the shit out of that game : jcrockerman
- Duke Nukem 3D : noxiousgg
- I remember playing that game -- mostly the music, which is no surprise. And jumping around with the flas... : zipr
- It would have to be something on the Apple II. Maybe Choplifter? I don't really remember what came firs... : Johnny Law
- "Single" - No. Well, maybe Pong. Many: "Hours of time"? Atari 2600 Adventure Atari 2600 Riddle of : Sylvanus
- Probably Adventure on the 2600: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE6MSXqouSk : bozer
- No. : Mad Brahmin Disease
- Hmmm that would be pretty difficult, but probably SMB1 on NES. Maybe Simcity 1 on PC. I didn't get huge... : Shadowdane
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  I can trace it to a specific game and also a specific business.
  
  Every sunday after church my family would go out to eat at Pucci's (pronounced Poo-cheese) Pizza. Like any pizza joint in the 80's, they had a couple videogames in the back. The first one I remember being absolutely mesmerized by was Gorf. It looked like you piloted a space ship!
  
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  I can trace it to a specific game and also a specific business. Every sunday after church my family wo... : kenmis
- I was into games and stuff since the 2600. But the day my friend showed me Mechwarrior on a 286, with ... : Thornfist
- It was definitely SMB/Duck Hunt. I played the shit out of those games when I got my NES and never looked ... : Evil Benius
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  pong early on, but the atari with pitfall really got me into it : moshman
  - also, lots of them old arcade games played on ferry crossing between the uk and france as a kid in the ea... : moshman
- I had a booter game called Big Top. Weirdly enough it was by Michael Abrash, who would go on to work on... : GloriousCow
- Bruce Lee: Way of the Exploding Fist for C64 : Vangoghs Ear
- early games: space quarks, lemonade, apple 21, oregon trail, jumpman (c64) those were the first video gam... : EvilDolemite
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  Pitfall, Atari 2600 : amrbean
  - This was definitely the game that made me a gamer. I played the fuck out of Pitfall both forwards and bac... : Stoned Gargoyle
  - This might be the one console game that did it for me.. or Loderunner. Tempest was the first coin-op t... : tangles
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  Probably Final Fantasy IV. The cool story and bad-ass little characters are what made me become a so-call... : Orange Pylon
  - The opening to this game made me rethink what a video game experience could be - instead of a clear evolu... : mopic42
  - Nintendogs : Shivawn
- Probably Zelda. I played other games (atari/intellivision) before that, but zelda was the first one to to... : kelerian
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  Holy Shit! I loved Mountain King. Especially the music. This wasn't THE game that piqued my interest in g... : Stoned Gargoyle
  - Heck yeah! : Sylvanus
  - Yeah I loved it. It was one of the more involved Atari games that we had when I was a kid. : Omaha
- Gauntlet on the Sinclair Spectrum ZX48k. I was six years old and played with my older brothers. It tur... : gummijoh
- Quake, I never played video games, only pacman on my mother her PC and I was not so interested. Than I ha... : Snipergen
- Missile Command early on, then Galaga later. : reznory
- blake stone : maulla
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  rogue.exe This game spawned the "roguelike" genre, and was an obsession of mine. : re-verse
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_%28computer_game%29 : re-verse
- Super Mario Brothers and Tecmo Bowl. : orgcaptainnemo
- Mail Order Monster on C64. Awesome action rpg that got me hooked on games and the genre. : darcspeed
- original C&C on windows 3.1 for me. also doom, but i played more c&c i think : senor135
- Nah, as long it was on my brothers computer I would play it. : dael
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  Giana Sisters : alexpr
  - hahah I loved this game. terrible mario ripoff but pretty good gameplay on the c64 : manero
- Nah. I got hooked the second I saw a single text character moving on a screen. : stuka
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  probably wolf3d shareware or wing commander. : proclone1
  - oh, that's for computer game; video game easily = SMB : proclone1
- I've played video games before, but I don't think I got really interested until I played Punisher on a fr... : TrptJim
- Either Ms Pac Man or the oldschool vector Star Wars game : manero
- The first game I can remember playing was Splatterhouse in the arcades. First console game was SMB2. : herradura99
- King's Quest. First game was probably microsoft adventure though. : Bull
- Definitely Pitfall on the 2600. : o0JediBeavis0o
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  Combat on the Atari 2600. Me and my brother played the shit out of that when I was a kid. As far as PC... : ColoradoCNC
  - Combat was my first video game. : shyguy74
- There wasn't any one game, though Super Mario Brothers was probably the first video game I played. I just... : beanman101283
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  Whichever of these came first: Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 Breakout on the Atari 2600 Donkey Ko... : Captain Loco
  - Honorable Mention: Adventure for the 2600. I remember wanting to play this game for a long time before I... : Captain Loco
- Playing Double Dragon in the arcade. : Jimbo Ro
- pong : Fredrik S
- Transport Tycoon!!! : NeoMoose
- I think the original Space Invaders was the first game I ever played (back when it first came out). For h... : Sadogoat
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  excitebike : JINKY
  - basically the level creator was the fuckin' shit : JINKY
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  Hobgoblin on Acorn Electron. I remember it was a platform game which I found very hard. Buying new game... : dasampla
  - ha just found this on Youtube, this person is worse than I was! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8qP0Mj... : dasampla
- First game I really remember playing was Super Mario Bros. My older sisters played a lot of Atari, though... : BoKnows
- Final Fantasy 6 (FF3 USA) on SNES. God I fell in love with that game almost instantly. : dhvyse
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  Striker - PC : sheepraper
  - http://users.telenet.be/mpq/software/screenshots/striker.gif : sheepraper
- Shining Force took me to UO. UO took me into the realm of real gaming. : sKetchflow
- Double Dragon on an Amstrad with no hard drive. only 2 floppy drives. : yautja
- Donkey Kong started it all for me. I remember being so disappointed when it turned out the Atari version ... : Iazu
- Every single game at the local Chuck E Cheese (also showbiz if you want to go further back) : fadetofunk
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_(video_game) I remember ordering this from a magazine on a disc an... : The Key
- King's Bounty, mostly. Wolfenstien, too. : MaJeStu
- Tie Fighter bitches! Watched my cousins playing video games. They were cool and fun. Then came Tie Fighte... : locater16
- For consoles it would be contra. We had an NES, but I discovered Contra, and then when I found out it wa... : uncle slappy
- King's Quest : kramweil
- The NES version of Metal Gear when I was like...five years-old? : IndigoAK
- Star Crusader, possibly one of the first games I remember playing. : duffman03
- Missile Command on Atari 400. : Freon
- Wolf3d.exe and Quake 2 : gydot
- Earthbound. I played a lot of games before this, but this game was my mecca. : notdeadyeti
- Probably Pac-Man. My parents knew some people who owned a bar/restaurant, and the owner put me in front ... : Rag and Bone Man
- pac-man and pong for the atari 2600 were my first games. : BaronVonSnakPak
- Kings Quest and the first Zelda : happynoodle
- Dungeon master. Not the earliest by a long shot but certainly the most influential. : Pandilex
- Any number of Atari 2600 games, and Taipan! for the Apple ][+. : cerealSAM2
- I was playing unnamed games on a Timex Sinclair that you had to write in Basic first. I remember getti... : Derringer
- I was never SUPER INTO GAMEZ untill i played Super Mario RPG. I sunk many many many hours of my life into... : squigiliwams
- Story time! I got an Atari 2600 Jr. with Donkey Kong Jr. as a birthday gift, but what really hooked me... : David Craddock
- the great escape. sinclair spectrum. : tohm82
- Pong, and I'm not just saying that to sound cool. My dad brought home one of the original home units and ... : nakedsavage
- Despite being awful games, playing E.T. and Pac-man on my very own Atari 2600 for the first time was what... : dirtboxer
- gaming story incoming first game was build-in pong on a brown console but the game that got me hooked : razorblade79
- Goldeneye 64 whose significance surpasses just that of video games, it was the antecedent to my preoccupa... : comiekazie
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  I think the very first game I played was the built in Snail Maze game for the Sega Master System - I reme... : Atma Weapon
  - OMG! http://www.smstributes.co.uk/snail/snail.htm That music brings me way back. : Atma Weapon
- Asteroids - atari 2600, played for hours. Next game to blow me away with multiplayer, Doom2. Then again Q... : shackwack
- Half-life and Diablo 2 were my first 2 PC games that I got when I got my first PC. They absolutely shaped... : TheDaFox
- The 2600 in general, but for 3D games, it was seeing Doom E3M1 back in 1993. : the archvile
- Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear on the Apple II. Anyone ever hear of this? Anyone happen to h... : her0d

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