Tank wars - MS DOS
Probably closely followed by Lemmings, Commander Keen & Duke Nukem.Oh man, your comment made me remember my first game that was just like tank wars. I always called it banana wars because you were 2 apes that threw bananas at each other.
Just found it… “QBasic - gorrilas” https://www.retrogames.cz/play_654-DOS.php. So many memories playing this against my dad, punching a hole straight through some buildings at high velocity because he could never figure out how to do adjust his angle and velocity to account for the shifting wind speeds.
Yup it came as a demo when they shipped Qbasic with DOS 3.5 I think…
The first game I ever modified.
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I had a “portable” 286 PC with DOS. And two games. Bubbles Bubbles and a game with two chimps throwing Bananas at each other.
My Dad had an Amstrad that you had to lift the cover up and put your hand on the 3.5 floppy dribe to make it work. We had a game called ‘Magic Carpet’ or something. Later we got a Windows 3.5 computer back when it booted to DODS amd you ran Windows from a command. I remember playing Prince of Persia and a game called ‘Cosmos Comic Adventures’
Pong on a Magnavox Odyssey. (I’m old.)
We had arkanoid on our first PC and none of my peers remember it. I know it was an arcade game first (and a derivative of pong/ space invaders) but I recall booting it in DOS.
We were one of the only families I know who had a PC though, back in ~1993
I think it was some asteroid style game in arcade, but first really memorable game was Dizzy 1 on C64. Was a wild time when a couple of quid could get you a magazine, some sweets and a cassette full of indie games and demos.
Betraying my age but Ratchet and Clank on the PS2. Great game still definitely holds up, even graphically to some extent.
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Freaking loved combat, esp the bomber vs fighter and the required reflect tank mode.
Got so good at it my stepfather literally set the controller down forever the day he bought it for us.
Couldn’t handle the fact a 4 year old wouldn’t let him win.
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3v1 panes was my JAM, also was a big fan of the reflect tanks.
It’s CRAZY how many modes that game had and how obtuse it was when you didn’t have the manual to describe them.
My earliest gaming memory is my dad taking me to a local hotel bar to play Pac-Man when it came out, which suggests spring of 1980.
I know I played pong, river raid, and pitfall on home consoles as well, not sure which was first.
One xmass we got an Atari, but when my dad realized it came with a poker game he returned it a few days later.
First system I had actual private access to was a TRS-80.
A PlayStation hack-n-slash from the late 90s called Medievil! First memory of life was walking into a lava pit over and over in the 2nd level. I go back and replay it every few years, speedran it for a while, and recently got the main character as an arm tattoo!
The first game I played was either Pitfall or Combat. I was at a friend’s house and he had both on an Atari VCS. The first game that was mine was Asteroids on my Atari ST.
Commander Keen 4. I still love the whole series and play those games from time to time.
After that, my dad got me Doom, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem 3D. Giving hookers money as a seven-year old in a video game was glorious, the old man has good taste.
Shake it, baby!
The original Commander Keen for me!
Space Invaders on the arcade in caffee on Jelsa, Croatia, when I was between 9 and 11. Thank you for reminding me how old I am 🙂
My parents had a console that had knobs for the controls. I remember pong and hockey, but it had other games, too. I’m 99% sure it was a Sears Tele-Game system.
Some of my friends had Atari consoles (with stick controllers), but my first console was an NES, followed by a Game Boy (which I still have).
