What was the first game you completed?

[AsparagusTrevor]

I think that might be mine too, it's that or Ghostbusters (which turned out to be all a bit easy, looking back).

I think Ghostbusters on the C64 was my first also, and several times after that. It was a pretty quick one to beat, probably about half an hour at most, and you got extra money to spend on more advance equipment on the second playthrough which made it even easier.

[peanutbutter]

FF7 maybe? even then I left it hanging on disc 3 for months, seemingly never gave a shite about completing a game. Pokemon League in Red may have pipped it though.

Most times I've finished a game it's been actively a surprise, the credits roll and I'm like "I had no clue that was meant to be the climax of the game..." Feel like the vast majority of games really don't give a shit at the end beyond dragging shit out to make it objectively in some manner more value for money

[Kryton]

CJ in the USA (C64) (I think?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAzSgZnnG8

Edit: Thinking about it, it could have been Treasure Island Dizzy (which was a fucking bastard).

[Cerys]

It was either Super Aleste or a very similar shooter.  The final boss had music that involved the words 'I come from the world beneath', if that helps anyone identify it.

At around the same time, I completed Mortal Kombat 2, but I think the shooter was first.

Edit - it was 'the world beyond, and it was definitely Super Aleste.  Been trying to work that out, on and off, for years!

[Ferris]

The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis

The first game I remember really playing was Worms, but you can't really "complete" that.

[Jim Bob]

It's odd that so many people's first game which they played to completion was Dizzy.

[NoSleep]

I think it was Link's Awakening. Before getting a GB, the only platform I owned was an AtariST (and an Atari 400 before that) and many of the games I played were like arcade games, not really designed to get to the end of them, just to rack up a (not particularly impressive) high score (Llamatron being my favourite). Other than the arcade style games there were a few others that kept me drawn in but I never completed, like Powermonger and Bombuzal (AKA Ka-Blooey) which both had a puzzle/strategy element.

[Waking Life]

It's odd that so many people's first game which they played to completion was Dizzy.

Probably a mix of age profile, the volume of Dizzy titles, and that there were fewer games you could 'finish' in that era. It used to be largely score driven.

[Non Stop Dancer]

Can't quite piece together the chronology, but would either be Super Mario Bros, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, or the arcade game Wardner.

[Small Man Big Horse]

I think Ghostbusters on the C64 was my first also, and several times after that. It was a pretty quick one to beat, probably about half an hour at most, and you got extra money to spend on more advance equipment on the second playthrough which made it even easier.

For a full price title it was surprisingly easy wasn't it. Which reminds me, there were a good few Mastertronic budget titles which I completed, but then I'm sure many people did as a good few were only five or ten screens long.

The first (and only) arcade game I ever completed was The Simpsons one, which I was really proud of at the time, only to come on here in the early 2000s to discover that nearly everyone posting had done the same thing and as arcade games go it was pretty much the easiest one.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

It's odd that so many people's first game which they played to completion was Dizzy.

They had to beat that egg.

[Quote]

Turtles In Time on the SNES. It was a pretty easy game though, just mash the buttons until the end.

[kalowski]

Manic Miner.
The day before I'd got to screen 19 and died and was ready to smash the bloody Spectrum to pieces (there were 20 screens).

[Malcy]

Manic Miner.
The day before I'd got to screen 19 and died and was ready to smash the bloody Spectrum to pieces (there were 20 screens).

I was on the final boss of Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the Gameboy and had just fired the winning shot but as the bullet was just pixels away from me hitting him and winning the bloody batteries died.

I don't think you could save it so that was me back to the start. Headbutted the screen and it smashed. My first instance of gaming rage!

Also got to level 41 on Level 42 and died. That was a killer.

[Ferris]

I was on the final boss of Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the Gameboy and had just fired the winning shot but as the bullet was just pixels away from me hitting him and winning the bloody batteries died.

I don't think you could save it so that was me back to the start. Headbutted the screen and it smashed. My first instance of gaming rage!

Also got to level 41 on Level 42 and died. That was a killer.

As I completed Zoombinis the first time around, just as the last one was trundling over the finish line, I threw my hands up in celebration, and hit the power button of the CPU and lost all my progress.

This is absolutely true. I still remember the white hot fury, the time of day, the room where it happened, the old PC and computer chair. The puce indignant rage has imprinted it on my child's brain forever.

28 years old, I was.

[kalowski]

I was on the final boss of Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the Gameboy and had just fired the winning shot but as the bullet was just pixels away from me hitting him and winning the bloody batteries died.

I don't think you could save it so that was me back to the start. Headbutted the screen and it smashed. My first instance of gaming rage!

Also got to level 41 on Level 42 and died. That was a killer.

Thing is, as I remember, when you did complete Manic Miner there was a weird picture if a syringe and a mackerel and then it went back to the start.


Wonder if anyone ever completed Jet Set Willy and what happened then?

[wooders1978]

Probably super mario bros on the Nintendo - I had a spectrum but not sure I actually completed anything on that as I only really got into gaming when the Nintendo was released
I did spend all my pocket money completing "Altered Beast" arcade on a camping holiday in France but not sure if that was pre-mario bros

[Blinder Data]

Probably Super Mario Land on the Game Boy, because the thing had no saves. You just had to power through, which was useful on long car journeys. Lovely soundtrack.

[AsparagusTrevor]

Probably Super Mario Land on the Game Boy, because the thing had no saves. You just had to power through, which was useful on long car journeys. Lovely soundtrack.

That was the first Mario I played, so that's the proper Mario soundtrack to my brain.

[Better Midlands]

Chuckle Egg on the Spectrum. I think it just looped back to the first screen again.

[Jim Bob]

Chuckle Egg on the Spectrum. I think it just looped back to the first screen again.

More egg based games!

[Pseudopath]

Wonder if anyone ever completed Jet Set Willy and what happened then?

It was actually impossible to finish upon release due to the attic bug.

[Utter Shit]

I think Super Mario Land on the original Game Boy. Great game, and the sequel was even better.

[The Culture Bunker]

Most Spectrum games I remember playing didn't have an end as such, you just kept going until you got killed or whatever. Sure I finished Target: Renegade with my brother, though, and a friend and I sussed out how to finish Mercenary after putting in an obscene amount of hours.

[kalowski]

It was actually impossible to finish upon release due to the attic bug.

The root cause of the bug is a misplaced arrow, defined by the entity specification at 59900. The second byte of the entity specification is an index into the table of screen buffer addresses at 33280, and determines the arrow's y-coordinate; the index should be an even number, but the value of the second byte is 213, which means the arrow-drawing routine at 37310 looks up the word at 33493 and finds 41066, way outside the actual screen buffer at 24576-28671

Matthew Smith. What a Dilbert!

[Bazooka]

The Game of Life. lol.

Probably Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers on the NES.

[Gulftastic]

Hard to say. Games I finished back in the day (or 'clocked' as we used to call it), Pyjamara, Bruce Lee, Underworld, Sabre Wulf. I reckon the last one might have been first.

[Jim Bob]

Probably Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers on the NES.

My first game was Egg 'n' Chips.

[Norton Canes]

Not sure. Had a few ZX81 games but I don't remember any of them being completable. Trying to remember the early Spectrum games I played... Ant Attack, Maybe? Tranz Am?

Fired up Tranz Am again the other night actually. I do love it - the way it conveys, probably as much as any 16K game ever can, the feeling of racing across a post-apocalyptic American wasteland.

[kalowski]

Not sure. Had a few ZX81 games but I don't remember any of them being completable. Trying to remember the early Spectrum games I played... Ant Attack, Maybe? Tranz Am?

Fired up Tranz Am again the other night actually. I do love it - the way it conveys, probably as much as any 16K game ever can, the feeling of racing across a post-apocalyptic American wasteland.

Is that the one where you drove through Albuquerque and places like that?