Your First Game

[hpmons]

First game I ever remember playing was some educational game...I don't remember the title, but I think it had 16 colours and the people had big round pink faces...I think there were maths balloons.  The first game with a title I remember (also educational...) was called Futureland 7 which the internet still refuses to admit existed.  Can't remember whether I played that first or the awesome Prince of Persia 2.


First game I bought myself? Probably Super Mario Land 1 and 2.  Didn't like #1 much as I don't think it had a save file, but #2 was fab.



Yeah...in conclusion I'm young.

[wheatgod]

Roland In The Caves, on Amstrad CPC 464, loading from a crusty tape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMeYBQaGRuY

This chap is pretty funny.

[mcbpete]

A slight tangent, though not my first game this is definitely the one that spawned my interest in the glitch aesthetic (both visually and sonically):



Those brought up on multi-load games will know that even if you successfully boot up your tape, bigger games like Platoon (above) will be split into various sections and are just as likely to fail in loading. I remember that when the tunnel section of Platoon loaded on one occasion that something immediately was wrong, as all the text was all garbled and the sound significantly screwed up. When my brother hit the fire button to start the level, it showed this nightmarishly glitched alternative-world recreation of the above - I mean that level was scary enough to a 7 year old but this version really screwed me up. The game still played as normal, but every sprite and background was this decayed mess of pixels that, I believe, actually gave me nightmares.

Nowadays I try my very best to try and glitch out games to great something 'pleasing' as an end result (e.g. this album I curated (don't know if curated is quite the word) from mulching together MegaDrive games - http://www.recordlabelrecords.org/various-artists-genesis-bending.html )