1st Christmas video game?

[YenTheFirst]

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My first console/game was a Playstation, with 'Spyro the Dragon' and Gran Turismo 2.

My dad bought himself 'Tetris Plus', and once stayed up all night playing it. The next morning, the impression of his rear-end was still in the carpet. :)

[TheCotMan]

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Heh, mine was the Magnavox Odyssey2 in 1979. Came with one game and one assembly-language cartridge. No storage, but it did have a keyboard and you could enter up to (IIRC) 800 bytes of 8004 machine code.

Still have that kicking around, along with the Vectrex I got a few years later. Surprisingly, both still work.

Hey! Skroo is here! Going to con next year?

First was a pong clone or pong game with no cartridges. (Telegame? 4 player Pong system. Two on console, and two using external paddles.) [Edit: Here is what it looked like: http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/i...rts_center.jpg as referenced from This Page (Scroll down and choose "Sears Telegames Sports Center".)] It wasn't much fun at all. Atari 2600 displaced it a few years later. Yay for Combat and Space Invader (first Christmas games with the 2600.) Yay for the Combat tank "hack" (move your tank across the board, really fast by colliding and turning on game borders and walls -- especially in corners.) Yay for the Space Invaders double-fire "hack." However, Pitfall and RiverRaid were probably the best on the 2600.

[artoir]

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I must have had a deprived childhood..

I didn't really get into the whole video game thing until I was about 9 or 10 I think, and I got a playstation 1.

First game I got was Road Rash, which combined rock and roll, violence and motorbikes. Just what any 10 year old kid wants ;) To the best of my knowledge it was also available on the Genesis,

For anyone that has never played it, here's a youtube clip I found of;

Awesome cutscenes

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Gameplay

[Deviant Ollam]

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First game I got was Road Rash ... Gameplay

wow, i remember that game. we all downloaded the warez version of it at college in order to play in mini-tournaments in between classes. heh, the thing that i remember the most (and which that video illustrates so wonderfully) was the ridiculously bad coordination between the art department and programming concept teams at whatever company it was who developed that title.

the gameplay all showed guys on kawasaki ninjas and shit, all wearing bruce-lee style jump suits and full-cover helmets. the menus and still footage game art was nothing but leather-clad biker-bar type characters, all swilling beer and driving choppers.

apparently when someone noticed that this was a depiction of two entirely different worlds, the game company told all their staff to dress in funny colored jump suits one day and stand outside their office in the parking lot to film the "live action" cut scenes using a handycam that one fellow had gotten for Chanukah a week earlier. Thus, we are given scenes of people who look and dress like douchebags from the suburbs (a la the in-game footage) but behave like hardcore, rock and roll outlaws (like the people seen in the still art)

totally frigging awful game development from an aesthetic perspective, but it did feature very fun and fast-paced gameplay... that was impressive at a time when lots of people still were running P-II 400MHz computers and the like.