What Was the First Game to Make You Say 'WOW'?
by Jerane Alleyne · in General Discussion · 01/03/2003 (6:57 pm) · 94 replies
I was just curious as to what was the first game that you laid eyes on, that made you either say "Wow", or that might have turned you into wanting to get into the game business (if it did or course:))?
The first game for me I think, was the first Metal Gear on the NES. I remember drooling over the comic book ad with my friends, showing all of the weapons you could use, and trying to visualize the microscopic game screens in that ad. When I got the game, it was probably one of the most original games I played at the time. You could really see they were really trying to push everything they could through that NES cartridge :)
Anyway, you got one??
The first game for me I think, was the first Metal Gear on the NES. I remember drooling over the comic book ad with my friends, showing all of the weapons you could use, and trying to visualize the microscopic game screens in that ad. When I got the game, it was probably one of the most original games I played at the time. You could really see they were really trying to push everything they could through that NES cartridge :)
Anyway, you got one??
#83
One recent game that made me go wow, that hasnt been mentioned yet is Shogun: Total War. I absolutely loved how you could command thousands of men in medieval combat, it was my dream come true. :)
02/11/2003 (4:39 pm)
Yeah! I loved Myth, that was defenitely an amazing game. I STILL want to play the WWII mod for it. If anyone is up for a game, email me. Seriously. :)One recent game that made me go wow, that hasnt been mentioned yet is Shogun: Total War. I absolutely loved how you could command thousands of men in medieval combat, it was my dream come true. :)
#84
Definitely Tribes 1.
02/11/2003 (4:48 pm)
Tribes was the first game that made me truly feel immersed. The visual quality had nothing to do with it. The gameplay, the emotion, the skill involved, the community...the original Tribes had all of that. Things would happen that you would just giggle helplessly about.Definitely Tribes 1.
#85
02/11/2003 (7:24 pm)
Galaga on the arcade all the way baby...
#87
02/11/2003 (9:06 pm)
SimCity and Wolf 3d shareware
#88
Pacman & Pong. Robotron, Yar's Revenge, Joust, Missile Command, Combat, Space Invaders, Centipede.
Then when everyone thought all the stuff on NES was great (favs were Zelda1&2,Metroid, adventures of Lolo, Bomberman1&2) Phantasy Star came out on the Sega Master System. Me and my friends played it in shifts.
Then, the first time I saw Altered Beast & Thunder Force 2 when the Genesis came out. Awesome at the time. Phantasy Star 2 on Genesis was singlehandedly responsible for my friends & I living in my room for weeks & weeks after school. God Bless Herzog Zwei. Military Madness, Bonk's Adventure & Blazing Lazers on the Turbo-Grafx 16 I loved.
Silpheed & Third World War on Sega CD, AWESOME games.
Virtua Fighter on 32x. Panzer Dragoon & Virtua Fighter 2 on Saturn.
Twisted Metal on PSX was addictive & fun.
Linked C&C Red Alert & its addition for PSX was damn fun, with battles raging on for days.
Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conkers Bad Fur Day, F-Zero X, Starcraft64, World Driver Championship, Rush 1,2 & 2049, are games every gamer should have for N64.
HALO absolutely rules. Project Gotham Racing is still a blast to play.
Burnout 2 on PS2 & Vice City are great fun.
Hardest game I ever played: Populous on the Genesis.
Game with the highest replay value, besides HALO for me, is The New Tetris on N64. With 4 players, this game does not get old. We've had to replace 4 controllers TWICE! with this game and the ones above.
A little known PC game we've played forever it seems is a shareware game called Scorched Earth, 1-10 players, turn based strategy of sorts. Look it up, play with friends!
Xhadoe
02/12/2003 (1:06 pm)
First games:Pacman & Pong. Robotron, Yar's Revenge, Joust, Missile Command, Combat, Space Invaders, Centipede.
Then when everyone thought all the stuff on NES was great (favs were Zelda1&2,Metroid, adventures of Lolo, Bomberman1&2) Phantasy Star came out on the Sega Master System. Me and my friends played it in shifts.
Then, the first time I saw Altered Beast & Thunder Force 2 when the Genesis came out. Awesome at the time. Phantasy Star 2 on Genesis was singlehandedly responsible for my friends & I living in my room for weeks & weeks after school. God Bless Herzog Zwei. Military Madness, Bonk's Adventure & Blazing Lazers on the Turbo-Grafx 16 I loved.
Silpheed & Third World War on Sega CD, AWESOME games.
Virtua Fighter on 32x. Panzer Dragoon & Virtua Fighter 2 on Saturn.
Twisted Metal on PSX was addictive & fun.
Linked C&C Red Alert & its addition for PSX was damn fun, with battles raging on for days.
Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conkers Bad Fur Day, F-Zero X, Starcraft64, World Driver Championship, Rush 1,2 & 2049, are games every gamer should have for N64.
HALO absolutely rules. Project Gotham Racing is still a blast to play.
Burnout 2 on PS2 & Vice City are great fun.
Hardest game I ever played: Populous on the Genesis.
Game with the highest replay value, besides HALO for me, is The New Tetris on N64. With 4 players, this game does not get old. We've had to replace 4 controllers TWICE! with this game and the ones above.
A little known PC game we've played forever it seems is a shareware game called Scorched Earth, 1-10 players, turn based strategy of sorts. Look it up, play with friends!
Xhadoe
#89
but they were all on the Amiga
it was so much easier to be impressed when I was younger :)
the first.. either Carrier Command or Out of This World
02/13/2003 (6:48 am)
so many games made me go WOWbut they were all on the Amiga
it was so much easier to be impressed when I was younger :)
the first.. either Carrier Command or Out of This World
#90
It was a 3D (albeit wire-frame) space trading and shoot-em-up.
It ran on a 16kb (that's kilobytes, not megabytes) BBC micro, yet contained descriptions of thousands of worlds to which you could fly.
It was published way back in 1984 and was probably the first true 3D game on a home computer.
(although I'm willing to be proved wrong)
The author, David Braben, became a bit of a hero as far as I'm concerned. Last I heard, he'd set up Frontier Developments, an independent game software house in the UK. http://www.frontier.co.uk/
03/16/2003 (6:34 am)
I think it has to be Elite on the BBC Micro. This game was later ported to Spectrum, Atari ST, PC and others, but none of them matched to original on the BBC.It was a 3D (albeit wire-frame) space trading and shoot-em-up.
It ran on a 16kb (that's kilobytes, not megabytes) BBC micro, yet contained descriptions of thousands of worlds to which you could fly.
It was published way back in 1984 and was probably the first true 3D game on a home computer.
(although I'm willing to be proved wrong)
The author, David Braben, became a bit of a hero as far as I'm concerned. Last I heard, he'd set up Frontier Developments, an independent game software house in the UK. http://www.frontier.co.uk/
#91
Ultima IV,
Mail Order Monsters,
Archon,
glQuake
03/16/2003 (6:39 am)
agreed, elite is still one of my all time 5 great games. the others areUltima IV,
Mail Order Monsters,
Archon,
glQuake
#92
Mine would be
- Pitfall (Atari 2600)
- Super Mario Bro's. 3 (Nintendo)
- Alpine Racer (Arcade Ski Sim)
- EverQuest
- FPS genre
03/16/2003 (4:42 pm)
Some really great games have been listed...Mine would be
- Pitfall (Atari 2600)
- Super Mario Bro's. 3 (Nintendo)
- Alpine Racer (Arcade Ski Sim)
- EverQuest
- FPS genre
#93
That's PnP D&D ;)
03/16/2003 (5:14 pm)
Pong and Dungeons and Dragons. Platfoms change but game dynamics dont seem to.That's PnP D&D ;)
#94
03/16/2003 (5:22 pm)
Mario 3 rocked the house, some amazing gameplay there. On PC, it would have been quake2 (they had flies buzzing around dead bodies? SWEET!), shadowgate for nes was pretty damn awesome. Half life, of course, was a game that i did not stop playing untill it was finished. That had an adverse affect on my GPA. Worms 2, Techmo super bowl, and Final Fantasy, along with the other games listed here, are why I am a full time CS student and part time game developer!
Jason B
Umm for GameBoy I loved Tetris for some reason... and on NES I liked Mario Brothers also...