This is to be an authoritative (and chronological) list of all the games I've ever played for a decent amount of time, including all those games that I haven't actually owned or bought, but have still played at friends' houses or have borrowed from a friend. Yeah...I really haven't played that many in comparison to most.
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Perhaps the first full game I sat down to play involved pressing space once, perhaps for a second time and then more quickly a final time sending a small pixelated ball flying across a virtual golf course. It was at the house of one of my cousins (the one where I also played Discworld) as with many of my earliest gaming memories. I think I requested that we get this for our own computer when we finally got one a few years later since it was one of the few games I knew.
For a good 2 or 3 years, whenever I went round to my cousins' house I would insist on playing Civilization. Each time I would always start a new game and never get very far but I was entranced by the gameplay - I think my cousins got bored of me asking to play this after a while.
One of my cousins had this game on his PC and I was already an emerging Discworld fan. It was one tough game especially for a relative game novice - it wasn't helped by the fact that for some reason he wasn't able to save the game.
I played this when I was very young and loved the great puzzling action. It had a renaissance when starting uni and I got through an awful lot of levels in that time.
The first of a number of classic arcade games that were on our first computer, a 486. I had fun playing them and going for that elusive perfect game which would net my high score which proved increasingly hard to beat. With hindsight I feel kind of glad I was able to play these while I was young since they get constantly referenced these days and yet if I'd been born just a few years later I probably would have never of played them. At least I wouldn't have played them when young, when they became my introduction to gaming, the very first games I played extensively. It seems fitting that my first real gaming steps were had with these arcade classics - it shows me how far games have really come now.
See Asteroids.
See Asteroids. There was definitely an atmosphere to Battlezone - it constantly kept me on edge with the throbbing noise in the background and the slow turning of the turret. There was always that moment when you'd seen the other tank but just as you were swinging your turret into line with it ever so slowly, it would fire on you and kill you. I eventually evolved to the strategy of just holding down forwards pretty much constantly since you could then outrun any tanks that had the initial advantage over you.
See Asteroids.
See Asteroids. Yep, I've only ever played Tetris on the PC and only when I was younger. I haven't touched it in over 10 years probably and doubt I'll ever really seek it out again. Good to play for a while but I'll take a new and more complex and interesting gaming experience if it's on offer.
