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Pong.
I fucking know, ok ?
Technically a TV console knock off pong. But it was awesome all the same.
First coin op was .. space invaders - table top edition.
It’s hilarious / amazing how back then it was all a brand new frontier , but you just put your money in anyway, and figured it out with a sense of awe and adventure and zero doubt.
fast forward nearly 50 years, and I’m yelling “this world has gone to shit” in the supermarket if they move my beer brand to a different shelf.
Aging is pure comedy.
It's wild to have emulators so you can play them all with infinite quarters. I built a picade arcade machine just for asteroids. I love your comment.
like the fact that doom metal bands always get in a doom vibe sometime at their album
Altered Beast for the Sega Genesis.
"WISE FWOM YOUW GWAVE!"
"WELL-COME TO-YOUR-DOOM!"
Never got past like the 3rd level.
Super Mario Bros 3 on a secondhand SNES, there was this jump on the first level that I struggled with, the one with the wooden textured blocks and I had to get either my mom or my dad to help me with it hahaha
Yeah, and if you went past the mode you wanted, selection was one-way. You had to flip that select switch down over and over and hope you didn't go past it the next time around.
Some kind of (Atari?) console that I think only had pong, or if it had other games I can't remember them.
The first good games I played? Prince of Persia and Karateka on DOS, also mines of Titan but I had zero idea how to play that. Also word muncher; loved that game but I was a dumb kid and didn't know the solutions many times. I also got an MSX keyboard and the little tape machine addon that somehow played video games off audio cassettes. I still have zero idea how you put video games on audio cassettes.
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!
Pong on some device in the late 70s. So that might not count.
Oregon Trail on a computer store Apple ][.
Finally Wizardry I on my own Apple ][+. Early 1982 iirc.
Was pong on the Telstar, along with Tennis and i think two more similar super basic games? That's what we had
A soviet version of game and watch was my first exposure to video games
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I’m surprised that they made handhelds! I was always under the impression that Soviet video games were more like experimental curiosities than a visible industry. The situation was similar in the Anglosphere back in the 1950s and ’60s: there was not much of a market for them, so they were hard to find (unless you were a computer scientist).
It wasn't a huge industry, but it was past experimental stages, there were even arcades around. https://arcadeblogger.com/2019/06/15/the-museum-of-soviet-arcade-games/
