First game I ever played was PONG. Yup.. PONG. First RPG was probably Telengard on the C-64 (unless Hunt the Wumpus counts) First MMO would be Kingdom of Drakkar
There were some others before like The Realm but Drakkar was the first one that I played where we had guilds. It even had permadeath in some instances.
Best online game ever was Fireteam. It was an E-sport game with full voice chat that was just years ahead of it's time. It had multiple game modes, a clan system, kept stats that you could look up on a website. It even shipped with a headset. I was lucky enough to be one of the first few people to test the game due to the fact I had tested TerraNova which was programmed by Fireteam's Director. It was amazing. Just a few years too early. There is a great 4 page "Postmortem" by the game's Director here.
I remember playing on the units that only had pong, a console with one built in game lol
Yup. I think we had the Sears knockoff version. I think it had multiple "games" which changed the size and number of the bars you moved up and down.
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Oooops, only answered the mmo question above. I gotta think a bit. I'm gonna pick an actual computer game and not consuls or arcade games. The earliest that I can remember is defender of the crown. Great game. At least I thought so at the time.
Well my first Video Game, was Pac Man, at the local pizza parlor, way back in the 80's.
My first PC game was Tipan on an Apple IIe.
My First Auctual MMO, not MUD or Lan games, was Day 1, Everquest.
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First game should be pacman or something Then my father got me a commodore 64 i had loads of games on that one on cassetes First mmo was final fantasy 11 even before i got to eq
First computer game, I don't remember actually, some arcade helicopter game on ZX at a friend...
My own (when I got my first MC, a C64) first was the already mentioned Lode Runner (not Load ) and Boulder Dash.
PC, Lombard Rally. (it came preinstalled with the gear... wouldn't have been my own pick. But I like racing games still to this day, maybe that's the root cause)
First "MMORPG", a localised MUD, built on a modified Diku in the mid-'90s.
"First" MMORPG, UO.
Only in brackets, because (as I'm sure I've lamented on it a lot already) I've left pretty soon, and with a huge disappointment in Garriot. As a long-time Ultima fan, it was a disgrace of a game. I even skipped the next few years of the genre because of that letdown, and I've mostly just played shooters instead.
My first PC games were a bunch of demo discs that came on magazines, along with many GBA and SNES roms. That's all i could get at the time to play on a shitty non gaming computer. But the first full PC game I was able to purchase and finish (that came on a magazine as well lol) and probably my favorite PC game ever is Take No Prisoners, from Raven Software for WIndows 98. Still have the disc and still love the game.
First mmo that i remember was Metin 2 around 2006, but probably tried other asian mmos before that and didn't know much about the genre before that. I knew about WoW but growing up in a country where a monthly salary could buy a single video game i could only laugh at the idea of subscribing to WoW back then.
EDIT: i completely forgot about Prehistorik man and a few others on back the MSDOS days.
I enjoyed several games on the PDP-11, both Adventure and the Star Trek game in the days before PCs.
My first real PC game would probably have been Akallabeth on my first Apple II+. But the first game I distinctly remember obsessing over was Empire.
My first encounter with an MMORPG was definitely a demo of Ultima Online at DragonCon in 95 or 96 (before the game was finished). I didn't really care for the isometric 2.5D view nor the rampant PvP (even in the demo). Did get to meet Richard Garriott and several team members.
I didn't get into EQ1 until I built my first Pentium machine, which was held up by a paycheck. Still managed to start Mendel (3rd character) on May 7, 1999.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
PC? King's Quest 4. A friend up the street had a computer and we played this and Leisure Suit Larry. (We were dirty little kids)
You know, they will find you for playing that game... Liesure Suit Larry... I heard there was "Spanish Fly" to help you sleep with a woman in the game... even if you were probably 10 years old playing... you're an adult monster!
Never run for office, make donations now... and go into a sex rehabilitation clinic for the trifecta
Larry had a bunch of early lessons for dirty kids...
Like, the importance of RNG. You can go and have fun with the hooker by saving a few bucks and not buying protection, but in most cases you end up dead.
Larry had a bunch of early lessons for dirty kids...
Like, the importance of RNG. You can go and have fun with the hooker by saving a few bucks and not buying protection, but in most cases you end up dead.
Lesson, better be safe than sorry
I played all the Kings quests, Police quests, Space Quests... but for sake of climate now, I "heard" of Liesure Suit Larry. Just another quest game, that was especially exciting.
I played the dead ends for fun and the end game... so funny for the franchise's. Like in Space Quest, you will have an alien breaching from your chest (like the movie Alien)... and you didn't know where you screwed up to restart your save... a lot of times you played on but your game was finished... you just didn't know it. Like the alien out of my chest, it ran around and I kept doing missions... kept trying to catch it(I wont spoil). Or in Kings Quest game where he knows you used his stuff, but you keep going... unaware.. (I won't spoil).
No youtube or guides back then.
And they were typed commands for younger players reading this... with no real instructions... "inspect flower" "give driving test" " draw weapon" "give money" "mix xyz with abc"
Edit: honestly if I gave my prime gaming nieces and nephews (16 yrs to 8 years, 7 of them)... a full week to beat one of these games with no internet or help.... in a cabin... collectively... they would fail.
Same here, loved the adventure genre (still do), Sierra and LucasArts were awesome.
Space Quest, you're the mighty... janitor, go grab that broom and sweep the space dust
True on the wikis/guides/youtube, it was maybe the biggest issue in TSW as well, which was the closest you can get to an "adventure" MMORPG - a lot of players just searched for a guide and blazed through the puzzles and missions.
Different generation, spoiled by the instant gratification and fomo... with walkthroughs and videos like "All 28 easter eggs in <random game name>!!" The point of easter eggs is to find them yourself, the hunt is part of the fun - or at least should be.
First game, not counting Pong, was Rise of the Triad. - had to love the push walls. I've always wanted to design a secret passageway into a house, but I digress. Honorable mention to Duke Nukem 3D ... anyone remember Case's Ladder ?
First MMORPG: UO and getting one-shotted by PK's ... oooOOooOooo .......
You guys have made me realise that arcade games count, that's a hard call. So first video game would be Space Invaders or Asteroids really hard to be sure.
First computer game - Road Race on my grandfather's Vic-20. This was weird, because he always referred to it as "Night Racer", which it was a clone of, but not the same game. I still wonder how he knew that as he wasn't super savvy about video games.
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
- RPG Quiz - can you get all 25 right?
- FPS Quiz - how well do you know your shooters?
I self identify as a monkey.
My first PC game was Tipan on an Apple IIe.
My First Auctual MMO, not MUD or Lan games, was Day 1, Everquest.
Then my father got me a commodore 64 i had loads of games on that one on cassetes
First mmo was final fantasy 11 even before i got to eq
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
My first MMO was Runescape classic.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
MMORPG: Not sure, UO or The Realm. I did both but neither for long.
Never run for office, make donations now... and go into a sex rehabilitation clinic for the trifecta
#2021Judgement (not a real hashtag)
I played the dead ends for fun and the end game... so funny for the franchise's. Like in Space Quest, you will have an alien breaching from your chest (like the movie Alien)... and you didn't know where you screwed up to restart your save... a lot of times you played on but your game was finished... you just didn't know it. Like the alien out of my chest, it ran around and I kept doing missions... kept trying to catch it(I wont spoil). Or in Kings Quest game where he knows you used his stuff, but you keep going... unaware.. (I won't spoil).
No youtube or guides back then.
And they were typed commands for younger players reading this... with no real instructions... "inspect flower" "give driving test" " draw weapon" "give money" "mix xyz with abc"
Edit: honestly if I gave my prime gaming nieces and nephews (16 yrs to 8 years, 7 of them)... a full week to beat one of these games with no internet or help.... in a cabin... collectively... they would fail.
The point of easter eggs is to find them yourself, the hunt is part of the fun - or at least should be.
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
first MMO---The Realm on AOL
First MMORPG - Kingdom of Drakkar