Caveman games was awesome!!
Good reminder.
Atari 2600 - Circus Atari Not sure how to post video.
the original Donkey Kong.
Showing my age.
I was a sucker for adventure games, since they used to deliver real cool story telling.
Back then, you either were a Sierra or LucasArts fanboy. I’ve been very much into Sierra games, especially the Larry and Space Quest series (but I also secretly tried my hand at LucasArts games).
My first Larry and Space Quest experiences were all CGA until I got myself a fancy 486 along with a whopping 200 MB HDD. I then went on to replay my favourite adventure games in VGA. Yase, VGA for the win!
This thread brings back a lot of memories of hours spent in front of the 'puter with friends.
One of my most memorable gaming experiences back then was the Alone in the Dark series. Anyone still remember the intro of part 2?
Creepy as shit for a 12-year old. 
Just amazing what they pulled off with a game packaged in a few 1.44 floppy disks and low system specs.
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[quote]Fezzik wrote:
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[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
N64 was what was around when I was a kid, so my favorite classics are:
GoldenEye
MarioKart
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You’re 22, so Sega Genesis and SNES should’ve been your first consoles, no? Mine was Genesis, then SNES, and I’m only 20 now. [/quote]
Agreed, I am 23 and would guess most people my age started with a SNES… that being said, who really cares if they didn’t? [/quote]
I’m 20 and I started with Atari and the very first Nintendo…
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My parents didn’t let me play video games 'til I was around 10 or 11, and I am pretty sure that coincides with the release of the N64. I didn’t even have one of my own, I biked to my best friends house every Saturday and Sunday to play, which made shooting red shells and playing as James Bond that much more enjoyable.
Nice to see that Alone in the Dark 2 intro again. I used to work on a PC games magazines during the 90s and that was one of the games I reviewed. Alone in the Dark was revolutionary because it was one of the first games to use 3D characters, although they combined them with bitmapped backgrounds.
It’s funny to look at it now after playing games like Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Oblivion etc and see how shitty it looks. But I do remember it being a fun game (the first one was really creepy, especially when that thing jumps through the window at the beginning and scares the crap out of you).
I loved a lot of those old polygon games like Midwinter (first commercial game I had on my first ever PC - which ran at a cracking 8MHz and had a mono monitor) and Elite (I had the slightly revamped Elite Plus which had solid polys rather than wireframe graphics) but damn, games have come on a lot haven’t they?
I know Syndicate got a mention - that one has a special place in my heart because it was the first game I got to preview when I worked on my first magazine, which meant a trip to Bullfrog Studios. I loved the brutality of it but some of the more outrageous stuff never made it into the final build.
They wanted to include mothers with prams which, when flamethrowered, would catch light and roll down the street in flames, and dogs that would turn into a ball of flame with a wagging tail. Funnily enough those didn’t get past the sensors.
Lot of great games from those days.