First games of specific genres you've ever played?

tredlow

What are your first video games ever played, as far as you can remember?

For me it's

First side-scroller (also first game ever) - Rayman (God, I miss Rayman)

First 3D platformer - Crash Bandicoot (Everybody's playing it, so why not?)

First adventure game - Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell (I used Walkthroughs throughout the whole game)

First first-person shooter - Half Life (I call Headcrabs Bean-turkeys)

First RPG - Pokemon Red (The day I first got a hand-held is the day I stopped complained during long drives in a car)

First Survival Horror - Resident Evil 1 (I had nightmares because of this)

First game with violence - Oddworld; Abe's Oddysey ("What do you mean you can't shoot stuff in this game?!" - Friend of mine)

First game ever ended - Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell (Walkthroughs)

First game to end in multiplayer mode - Legend of Mana (With my cousin, all weekend)

First game to like so much that I wait for the next game the developers are making - Jak and Daxter (I didn't really pay attention to developers before then)

ShaggE

First side-scroller - Commander Keen. (The first one, not the more famous Keen 4)

First 3D platformer - Bug! on the Saturn.

First adventure game - Leisure Suit Larry. (Much to my family's shock and chagrin)

First first-person shooter - Wolfenstein 3D.

First RPG - Honestly can't remember.

First Survival Horror - Alone In The Dark. (Not the fancy new one)

First game with violence - Wolfenstein 3D.

First game ever ended - Wolfenstein 3D.

First game to end in multiplayer mode - Mario 3.

First game to like so much that I wait for the next game the developers are making - Commander Keen. (I was a huge Apogee fan... still am)

StarEye

First platformer: not sure which was the first, but Henry's House was one of my favourites in my early gaming career. Even before I got hold of a machine of my own. Played it a lot on a borrowed C64.

First racing game: Outrun on the C64, maybe. Again not sure. It's been so long now, and details are fading fast.

First adventure game: This one I'm pretty sure of - Murder on the Mississippi (C64). Great sherlock holmes style detective game. Didn't get very far though, and I kept dying and had no idea how to save.

First shoot'em up: even more unclear. Airwolf (C64) perhaps.

First arcade/misc: Space Taxi (C64), most likely not my first, but certainly one of my favourites.

First coin-op: Bubble Bobble (C64). Played it a LOT, one of my favourites of all time even today.

First fighting game: Yie Ar Kung Fu (C64). I still enjoy this. I also like the the clone by Team 17, called Full Contact.

First soccer game: that's easy - International Soccer (the one by Commodore on C64). I remember playing it to death, and then some. I used the cartridge version.

First point'n'click: Zak McKracken (C64). Playing it with a joystick wasn't as good as when I got it on the Amiga, but I absolutely loved the game.

First strategy game: Defender of the Crown (C64)

First ever completed game: I'm 99% sure that The Secret of Monkey Island is the first game I ever completed.

First ever RPG: Bard's Tale or Times of Lore on the C64.

First ever JRPG: Final Fantasy VII. Still among my favourite games ever.

First ever stealth game: Metal Gear Solid I think. Not sure if I played Tenchu first, or if playing MGS sparked my interest in Tenchu when I heard what kind of game it was.

First ever FPS: Doom or Rise of the Triad. Though I didn't have my own PC - I was still hoping for an Amiga comeback.

PecanBlue

First side-scroller, first platformer, first game to finish and overall first game - Sonic the Hedgehog 2

First 3D platformer - Banjo-Kazooie (Took me a while to get my own N64, but I constantly went to Toys-R-Us just to leech off of this game. I enjoyed it that much.)

First adventure game - Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse

First first-person shooter - Descent

First RPG - Pokémon Blue

First Survival Horror - Not sure... Maybe Jurassic Park arcade, but considering that one was a popular game in Chuck E Cheese's where there were children, it might not count as a horror. If not, maybe House of the Dead.

First game with violence - Sanitarium (It took me a while for my mom to let me, so I was 9 and it was an awesome, awesome underrated game and didn't traumatize me at all, surprisingly. Even with that town of deformed children!)

First game to end in multiplayer mode - Battletoads. (Thankfully, the Genesis version!)

First game to like so much that I waited for the next game the developers were making - Banjo-Kazooie (Because of the fact that I was sure there would be a sequel due to the ending of the first game, waiting around for this was nuts. There was even a fan-site I got involved with containing fans that were equally going as nuts I was.)

First simulation and strategy game - SimCity 2

First online game - Worms 2

First fighter - Power Rangers (Genesis)

First action game and beat-em-up - Batman Returns (SNES)

First arcade game - Kangaroo

First edutainment - Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown (might just count as an early childhood game only, otherwise it's Oregon Trail)

First puzzle game - Tetris

First sports game - NHLPA Hockey '93

First rhythm game - Parappa the Rapper

First racing game - Mario Kart

First MMO - City of Heroes (Yes I was late and also only leeched off of my friend for a while to decided if I liked it, and I didn't.)

Rather Dashing

I doubt I remember some of these. Adventure was my first genre, but after that I don't know if the first one was the original Maniac Mansion or Secret of Monkey Island(I played a really large range of older and newer adventure games when I was introduced.

I was introduced to some genres far later. My first shooter was DOOM, and I didn't get another one until Goldeneye 007.

My first platformer was Sonic the Hedgehog.

3D Platformer: Super Mario 64.

Racing: Mario Kart, followed by Mario Kart 64. Never have been really big on the racing genre.

My first Japanese RPG was Poke'mon Yellow. Not sure if Western RPGs came earlier or later, it's one of those situations where I grabbed a lot of newer and older ones at the same time so the timeline is impossible to work out, between my unreliable memory and release dates not mattering.

corruptbiggins

I've just done the ones I can remember!

First side-scroller - Super Mario Bros

First 3D platformer - Fade to Black

First adventure game - Secret of Monkey Island

First first-person shooter - Wolfenstein 3D

First RPG - Fallout

First Survival Horror - Resident Evil

First game with violence - Wolfenstein 3D

First game ever ended - Super Mario Bros.

First simulation and strategy game - Syndicate

First racing game - Screamer

First beat-em-up - Double Dragon

First puzzle game - Tetris

First sports game - Daley Thompson's Decathlon

tredlow

PecanBlue wrote: »

First rhythm game - Parappa the Rapper

Oh, yeah. Parappa the Rapper was also my first rhythm game. I could NOT beat that toilet level.

Oh, also

First flight simulator game - Independence Day

First game I ever used a cheat code - Skullmonkeys (I skipped most levels)

First (lengthy) game I replayed right after finishing - Megaman Legends 1 (I just love running around the city)

First vintage game I ever played (a game that's made way before I started playing it) - Secret of Monkey Island.

First LucasArts adventure game - Escape from Monkey Island. (Yeah, and I liked it)

GuybrushWilco

First Adventure Game: Space Quest 1 (EGA)
First JRPG: Final Fantasy VII
First RPG: Baldur's Gate
First FPS: Wolfenstein 3D

Leak

Oh boy...

First game ever - I think it was some Pong clone my uncle had for his Telefunken TV...

First shoot 'em up: River Raid (Atari 800 XL)
First side scroller: Jungle Hunt (Atari 800 XL)
First jump 'n run: Donkey Kong (Atari 800 XL) (see a pattern? )
First adventure game: Mask of the Sun (Atari 800 XL)
First racing game: Pitstop (Atari yadda yadda)
First fighting game: Karateka (A.Y.Y.)
First 3D platformer: Tomb Raider (Playstation)
First person shooter, First: Doom (PC)
First RPG: Temple of Apshai (Atari 800 XL)
First game ended: probably Jungle Hunt

Geez... now I feel old (aka 32).

np: James Horner - Pure Spirits Of The Forest (Avatar: Music From The Motion Picture)

Secret Fawful

First platformer - Pitfall (Atari)

First side-scroller - Pitfall (Atari)

First 3D platformer - Super Mario 64 (N64)

First adventure game - Arcane (Flash)

First first-person shooter - Goldeneye 64 (N64)

First RPG - I forget the name of it (Genesis)

First Survival Horror - Luigi's Mansion. (Gamecube)

First game with violence - Street Fighter II. (Genesis)

First game to end in multiplayer mode - Mario Party 3 (N64)

First game to like so much that I waited for the next game the developers were making - Paper Mario (N64)

First simulation and strategy game - Command and Conquer (PC)

First online game - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (PC)

First fighter - Street Fighter II (Genesis)

First action game and beat-em-up - The Adventures of Batman and Robin (Genesis)

First arcade game - Breakout (Atari)

First edutainment - Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego (PC)

First puzzle game - Dr. Mario (N64)

First sports game - Some football game (Genesis)

First rhythm game - Guitar Hero (XBOX360)

First racing game - Road Rash (Genesis)

First MMO - Silkroads Online (PC)

JohanShogun

let's see, I'll just put up the ones I can remember I suppose a lot of these games will be for the genesis / mega drive as it was my first gaming system.

First fighting game: Golden Axe I (Gensis / mega drive)

First Platform game: Disney's Aladdin (Genesis / mega drive)

First 3D platform game: Some platform game for PS One, I don't know actually...

First first person shooter: Duke Nukem 3D (computer)

First RPG: Fallout (Computer) might be Diablo (computer) as well, I'm not sure.

First Third person shooter: Duke Nukem 1 (computer) if that counts as a 3rd person shooter, else I don't know. Quackshot maybe (genesis / mega drive)...

First adventure game: The secrete of monkey island (computer) or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (computer) I honestly don't recall, it's one of them, I got ahold of them pretty much at the same time

First Japanese RPG: Final Fantasy 7 (Playstation One)

First game I beat: uuuh.... that game with the natzi zombies I think, don't recall the name, you're in a pyramid? maybe?

First horror game: Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh (I recall really liking the recorded movies and the environment scared me when I played it first time.. and the second time too.... thinking on it, I always played it with my brother because both of us were to scared to play it alone children for you)

First sports game: Some game for the super nintendo console, I think it was ice hockey

First racing game: Some game for the super nintendo console, I recall always getting eaten by the train at my friends place...

First online game: Myth II: Soulblighter (computer)

First RTS: Command & Conquer (computer)

Well, those are all I can think of, enjoy

patters

First platformer - Sonic (Megadrive)

First side-scroller -Sonic (Megadrive)

First 3D platformer -Super Mario 64 (N64)

First adventure game -Broken Sword 2 (i played MI before not properly though)

First first-person shooter - Goldeneye (N64)

First RPG -Pokemon Red

First Survival Horror -Resident Evil (GC)

First game with violence -Double Dragon (MegaDrive)

First game to end in multiplayer mode -Double Dragon (MegaDrive)

First game to like so much that I waited for the next game the developers were making - Rogue Squadron (N64)

First simulation and strategy game -C&C (PS1)

First online game - UT2004

First fighter - Brutal Paws of Fury (MegaDrive)

First action game and beat-em-up - Double Dragon

First puzzle game - Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (MegaDrive)

First sports game -Sensible Golf (Amiga)

First racing game -Street Racer (SNES)

Darth Marsden

I honestly don't remember a lot of these. I can, however, take educated guesses.

First side-scroller: Alex Kidd in Miracle World (I distinctly remember constantly dying at the rock-paper-scissors bit)
First 3D platformer: Super Mario 64
First adventure game: The Secret of Monkey Island (or maybe... no, it's probably MI)
First first-person shooter: Doom (I think)
First RPG: Final Fantasy VII (I may have played them before, but I didn't truly know what they were until this)
First Survival Horror: Resident Evil 2 (I don't even remember the first one, so this must have been it)
First game ever finished: The Secret of Monkey Island (And I have no idea how I did it without walkthroughs, either)

S@bre

• First side-scroller: Super Mario Land for GameBoy. Probably the first game I ever played
• First 3D platform game: Psychonauts. Remains the only 3D platform game I've played and am ever likely to play.
• First adventure game: Sam & Max Hit the Road. Usually counted as the first game I ever played, despite Mario Land.
• First action-adventure game: Tomb Raider, possibly.
• First FPS: Either Doom or Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold. Probably Blake.
• First RPG: Deus Ex. Not too fond of RPG's, other than this one and the Witcher.
• First survival horror: probably the GameCube remake of Resident Evil, played around a friends. Not a big fan of survival horror.
• First game with violence: Is Mario violent? I mean, you are jumping on poor weird creatures with intent to harm.
• First game ever completed: Absolutely no clue. At a guess the shareware of Blake or Doom.
• First sim: one of the early versions of Flight Simulator, or the original X-Wing.
• First RTS: Total Annihilation. But I never got into it, so the one I actually count as first is StarCraft.
• First TBS: Civilisation. The original. Never got anywhere with it.
• First racing game: Wacky Wheels! Best. Racing. Game. Ever!
• First online game: Day of Defeat. Back when it was still a mod in its early days, before the developers got hired by Valve and a commercial version was produced.
• First puzzle game: Tetris. Naturally

Anything else can pretty much be summed up as "what games in those genres were Apogee and LucasArts producing at that time?"

Remolay

the ones I know:

first game/fps: Wolfenstein 3D
first adventure game: Full Throtle, It came with dark forces, I have always been a star wars geek.
first sidescroller: Rayman
First puzzleish game: Gubble
First 3d Platformer: Mort the Chicken
First simulation: Either the sims of Sim City
First RPG: Chrono Trigger (still havent beated, just got to magus, I've been playing it for 10 years)
First RTS: Warcraft 3
First TBS: Civ 2
First Racer: Whacky Wheels! anyone know where I can find this now?
First Online Game: WoW
First Beated: Rayman Hoodlums Revenge (either that or Metroid Fusion which reminds me...)
First Action Adventure: Metroid Fusion

Shwoo

I'm not certain of all of this, but here's me writing too much


First platformer: Sonic the Hedgehog 1 for the Master System (didn't own) (1995)

First 3D platformer: Banjo-Kazooie (1999)

First FPS: Nitemare 3D (Trial version. And I sucked at it and stuff kept hitting me from behind) (1997)

First RPG: Quenzar's caverns (1997)

First RPG a bit further removed from D&D: Pokemon Blue (didn't own) (2000)

First adventure game: Mr Potato Head Saves Veggie Valley (early-mid 90s)

First adventure game not intended for preschoolers: Police Quest I (didn't own) (1995)

First educational game: Reader Rabbit...? (1994)

First racing game: Wacky Wheels (trial version) (1997)

First puzzle game: A Tetris clone which I believe was called Blocks (didn't own) (1996)

First sports game: Microsoft Golf (trial version) (1996)

First classic arcade game: We had a bunch at once and I don't know which I played first, but Tempest was my favourite. (1996?)

First fighting game: Super Smash Bros Melee. (2003)

First turn based strategy: Imperialism (1997?)

First real time strategy: Age of Empires (Late 90s)

First rhythm game: The earliest I can think of is Guitar Hero World Tour. All right then. (2009)

First card game: Solitaire (1996)

First quiz game: Mindmaze (1996)

First 3rd person shooter: Either Jazz Jackrabbit or Commander Keen. Or Duke Nukem 2. They were all at the after school care I attended, but I owned the trial versions later on (1995)

First 3D 3rd person shooter: Either the trial version of Tomb Raider, or Hellbender. (1997)

First free Internet game: Yeerk Pool. (1999)

First fan game: BKPC (1999)

First simulation: Flight Simulator (1996)

First game ever: Either Nibbles or Gorillas, because those were the only two we had (1993?)


First game completed (excluding trial versions): The Neverhood, probably. (1998)

First game to terrify me: Hellbender (1997)

First game I picked out myself: Treasure Mountain. (1998)

First game to want desperately: Police Quest (1995)

First game to want desperately that I received: Banjo-Kazooie (1999)

First game to read a walkthrough for because I wanted to play it but didn't own it: Tomb Raider. Digimon World 1 and Earthbound are other notable examples (1997? others were 2001 and 2003)

First game preordered: SBCG4AP (2008)

First game bought on eBay: Sam & Max Hit the Road (2009?)

First game bought on release date: Spore (2008)

First game bought that I had previously pirated: Chrono Trigger. Note that there was no way to get it legally in Australia before the DS remake was released (first played in 2004, bought in 2009)

Ribs

I can't remember specifics, but I do believe Paper Mario was the first Turn-Based game I really played for more than five minutes.

It's my favorite game ever.