Your first video game addiction

• Belly35

  

  What was your first Computer or TV computer game you became addicted to?
  
  My first Computer type game was Leisure Suit Larry .. this lasted about 4 months, it drove me crazy…
  
  The worst was Nintendo LOLO game …. I made charts, drawings, past potential moves I was hooked, I stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning working out every move to the next level…
  
  
  What was your earliest Computer / TV game you became addicted to?
• Heretic

  

  Belly35;1447184 wrote:What was your first Computer or TV computer game you became addicted to?
  
  My first Computer type game was Leisure Suit Larry .. this lasted about 4 months, it drove me crazy…
  
  The worst was Nintendo LOLO game …. I made charts, drawings, past potential moves I was hooked, I stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning working out every move to the next level…
  
  
  What was your earliest Computer / TV game you became addicted to?

  Adventures of Lolo? Damn, that one was a bitch.
  
  For me it was Adventure on the Atari 2600. Simple game where you had to find a chalice and return it to your castle while dodging dragons (unless you found the sword) in a multi-screen maze. Had three settings:
  
  1. Smaller map, two dragons.
  2. Full-size map, three dragons, adds a bat that grabs items and trades them with others, so stuff isn't always where it should be.
  3. Full-size map, has everything of 2 but it's all placed randomly, so you never know where to find anything.
  
  I got hooked on 3 because it was essentially a new game every time I started it. Played it constantly when I was a kid.
• gorocks99

  

  Probably Mario 3 on the NES. I spent wayyyy too much time on it.
  
  A little older, C&C Red Alert took up a lot of my time on the PC, as did Warcraft 2.
• Automatik

  

  Easy answer, the original Super Mario Bros.
  
  
  First computer game was an early Sim City then Ages of Empires.
  
  I still love AoE...great great game.
• justincredible

  

  Sopwith. A glorious DOS game.
  
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• Commander of Awesome

  

  I was pretty into Mario 3, but I'd say Sonic was my first game I was really into particularly Sonic 3. As for staying up all night playing until my hands cramped I would say Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for PS1 though that was a christmas gift and lasted about 2 days). Then GTA3 for PS2. I played the shit out of that game, would stay up super late with that game etc.
  
  Elder Scrolls Oblivion was my last obsession game. I would come home from work around 6 turn it on and I swear felt like 10/20 mins later it was 830 and I'd think "oh damn gotta eat". Eat somethign quick, think alright going to finish this then do soemthing else. Next time I'd look at the clock it would 1130. Say alright finishing this then going to bed. Next thing I know it was 2 am. SMH
• wildcats20

  

  Zelda: A Link to the Past on Super Nintendo.
  
  Couldn't put the controller down.
• SnotBubbles

  

  Tecmo Super Bowl.
  
  That game addiction still lasts into today. I play it online all the time. www.nescafe.com
• Pick6

  

  Donkey Kong on NES
• justincredible

  

  SnotBubbles;1447201 wrote:Tecmo Super Bowl.
  
  That game addiction still lasts into today. I play it online all the time. www.nescafe.com

  Yeah, I still play it a ton (but on my NES). Also, that link is for coffee.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Addiction was probably Mortal Kombat. Other games to which I was addicted, throughout gaming life:
  
  Tony Hawk (all of them, but especially 2 & 4)
  Metroid Prime
  Dr. Mario and Tetris for Gameboy
  Goldeneye (Wii)
  Tiger Woods Golf (not sure of years, game cube)
  Many of the Marios
• Rotinaj

  

  Probably Ocarina of Time. Fuckin water temple. Amirite?
• Hb31187

  

  wildcats20;1447197 wrote:Zelda: A Link to the Past on Super Nintendo.
  
  Couldn't put the controller down.

  This. Maybe its just my age group(currently 26) but it seems like 9/10 of my friends this is the game that got them started
• Hb31187

  

  Rotinaj;1447217 wrote:Probably Ocarina of Time. ****in water temple. Amirite?

  Fuck
  That
  Temple
  
  
  Or any Zelda water temple for that matter
• SnotBubbles

  

  justincredible;1447214 wrote:Yeah, I still play it a ton (but on my NES). Also, that link is for coffee.

  Coffee is pretty great.
  
  www.nescafeplay.com
• wes_mantooth

  

  Mega man 2
• HitsRus

  

  does Pong count?
• like_that

  

  Automatik;1447190 wrote:Easy answer, the original Super Mario Bros.
  
  
  First computer game was an early Sim City then Ages of Empires.
  
  I still love AoE...great great game.

  AoE was def the first game I was truly hooked on. I was pretty damn good at it too. Would play all the time online. I even won a few tournaments.
  
  Did anyone here every play on Mplayer? It was basically a site that had a server for people to play multiplayer games. They had over 50 games (quake, command and conquer, etc), and also games you could download. There was this game they made stricly only for Mplayer. It was called warsport. I was hooked on that game for a very long time until Mplayer was bought out by game spy.
• mcburg93

  

  Pac-man was my go to when I was a kid. Played it for hours when I was allowed in the house.
• Heretic

  

  wes_mantooth;1447231 wrote:Mega man 2

  Just a couple weeks ago, I bought Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the PS2. Has 1-6 from the NES, 7 from the SNES and the hilariously voice-acted 8 for the PS1. Great $10 purchase. I'm loving going through these games again. Did a couple stages from 2 last night. Crash Man and Metal Man.
• Hb31187

  

  AOE and Starcraft also were both heavily played for me during a spurt in the late 90's early 2000's
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Mike Tyson Punch Out
• Heretic

  

  Hb31187;1447228 wrote:Fuck
  That
  Temple
  
  
  Or any Zelda water temple for that matter

  I'd totally love to tell you how I cruised through that thing with no troubles whatsoever.
  
  Except I have this vague memory of aimlessly wandering around for a couple hours until by pure luck, I stumbled on the way to manipulate water levels or whatever to get through it. That place was a BITCH!
• FatHobbit

  

  ernest_t_bass;1447215 wrote:Addiction was probably Mortal Kombat. Other games to which I was addicted, throughout gaming life:

  I took some summer classes at Columbus state with some friends and we used to commute to campus. There were days we would play Mortal Kombat before class and end up not going to class at all. We basically drove 45 minutes one way to play a video game.
• Rotinaj

  

  Warcraft 3 was the pc game i played most. Might be my favorite game of all time.