First game you ever beat

demagogue on 11/8/2018 at 15:35

In my day it was Atari 2600 games, and you didn't "beat" them. They either kind of went on forever or you completed a level in 5 minutes, which shouldn't really deserve the honor of beating a whole game.

Some completions I remember though were getting the cup on the hardest level of Adventure, getting the ark in Raiders of the Lost Ark, my neighbors flipping over 1 million points in Pacman (the closest you could get to "completion"), saving the girl or whoever in Jungle Hunt... I don't know, one of those or another one like them. The earliest game I remember really liking was Decathalon, and in that you just did the 10 events no matter what.

Sulphur on 11/8/2018 at 16:20

I'm pretty sure mine was a non-descript Atari 2600 game, but I don't remember which one. Definitely not Superman, which I recall being horrifying at the time, probably still is right now, and may continue to be in some benighted future moment that involves a revisit through a combination of alcohol and poor judgement.

The first game I can recall actually completing and breathing a sigh of relief at the end was Prince of Persia - no easy task, with that goddamn time limit. I think it defined my love for platformers more than anything Nintendo ever released, ironically enough. Super Mario had nothing on that rotoscope work, the traps, and the Russian roulette that was the flasks.

Shadowcat on 12/8/2018 at 11:27

After a bit of a trawl through classic game titles, I'm mostly sure it would have been "Sabre Wulf", which I think was the first 'beatable' game which I personally owned a copy of. I remember that (a) I played it a lot, and (b) I did eventually complete it (several times, IIRC); so while there were other arcade games I'd played, I imagine this was the first game I actually beat.

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Haplo on 12/8/2018 at 23:55

None of my Atari 2600 games had endings, they just went on forever. It wasn't until Last Ninja II on C64 that I actually finished a game.

ZylonBane on 13/8/2018 at 19:59

As per my username, probably Star Raiders. No not the crappy 2600 version. The original 8-bit home computer version.

[video=youtube;8X22nv1UOgw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X22nv1UOgw[/video]

Arguable one of the first immersive sims, or at the very least a paleolithic ancestor of the immersive sim.

demagogue on 14/8/2018 at 11:37

I'm looking through my C64 folder for a single game I beat.
I'm realizing that most memorable games were actually ones I didn't beat.

- I never beat Bard's Tale 2, although I got quite far, but would hear rumors of the final parts.

- I got caught up at one place in The Pawn and my imagination ran wild about what was just around the corner. (Never beat it until 15 years later on an emulator with a walkthrough past that part.)

- I was so close to beating a game called Doriath, made a map and everything, except there was a dumb gimmick at the end hinted by the scroll you pieced together (instead of killing the final dragon you had to walk into him). Kind of pissed at that one. Should count because if I'd done the right thing I'd have finished it.

- I got away from the Great Escape only to learn I didn't get the radio so was caught outside anyway.

- Got up to some top levels in Paradroid and Wizball, but didn't finish. Did I beat Aliens? Don't think so.
Finally beat Shogun recently, but couldn't do it back in the day.

Looking back, yeah, I don't see a game in my "favorite" folder that I beat in its day.

Some games where I had no idea where I was going but how my imagination ran away with them... Project Firestart, Wasteland, Exploding Fist 2, Hacker 2, Mercenary, Parallax, Rasputin, Sinbad, Taipan, Last Ninja 2, Uridium, Willow Pattern... My goodness these were memorable games, even though I got so lost in them.

Oh, ok. Rags to Riches. You can't actually beat it, but I got to the point where the dollar amount flips back to zero ($10 million I think), which is the classic way you know you're done with a non-ending game. Ok. I'll count that one.

Shoshin on 14/8/2018 at 21:17

And so today they released the Remastered version of the Bard's Tale Trilogy (only Bard's Tale 1 is available now, with the others to come in Fall and Winter). Now I can beat the first game I ever beat all over again.

(https://store.steampowered.com/app/843260/The_Bards_Tale_Trilogy/) The Bards Tale Trilogy

Gryzemuis on 14/8/2018 at 22:17

1942. The name of the game. 1985. The year I played it. In the arcade hall. Took about 80 minutes, if I recall correctly.
[[video=youtube;AlXf77Hheeo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXf77Hheeo[/video]

mxleader on 20/8/2018 at 05:07

Asteroids on Atari. Hit 100,000 then went to bed.

ZylonBane on 20/8/2018 at 15:14

That just makes you a quitter.