Super Mario Bros. The most boring answer possible. Like I think did legitimately play Mario 1 first, even though I had a bunch of other NES games at the time, but it was also a bunch of games at once, literal decades ago, so who knows?
@Mana_Knight I will admit though, the SNES version of James Pond 2 felt weird...
It was the fact that the SNES and MegaDrive were very different architecturally. However, the James Pond series did start on the Amiga, the MegaDrive shared stuff from the Amiga in its architecture, meaning that the Mega Drive ports of Amiga titles were much closer compared to the SNES versions. There was a good reason why EA loved publishing games for Sega, not only did Sega of America allow them to manufacture their own carts, something that Nintendo would never let anyone do, but the games were easier to port over as the Mega Drive could be seen as a Pre-AGA graphics Amiga with less RAM.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason EA made ports of games to the SNES later was purely for extra money, even if it meant extra time was needed to make the game work on the different hardware.
Heh, I went onto the Internet archive to find that one Sega Pro magazine that turned me into a full-blown Nintendo Fanboy back in the day, and here it is! lol!
Gaming magazines back then were really toxic! lmao!
I don't remember exactly, but my first PC was a 286, and I think my uncle had installed some games on it, including...
Captain Comic (an absolute favourite of mine as a 4-5 year old; would now be classed as a "Metroidvania")
CD-Man (a Pac-Man knock-off with some pretty nice graphics and level variances)
Wolfenstein 3D
And I believe the first floppy disk we ever bought from the shareware market contained 5 games...
Billy the Kid Returns
Llamatron
Fairy Godmother
Star Goose
Joust
I could be getting a couple of the games mixed up with that of a very similar disk that also contained 5 (maybe 6) games, one of them being Super Mario VGA, a knock-off of the arcade/NES game Mario Bros., and I could have sworn that was on the first floppy that we'd ever bought, but that was also one of the first games I'd ever played. No idea if it supported multiplayer as I don't recall ever playing it with anybody.
Commander Keen 5 was the first Keen I had played a short time later, which I later learned was sold as a "shareware" game in error. The third episodes of some shareware games were also erroneously sold by these vendors as "shareware" (such as Keen 3, Jill Saves The Prince, Duke Nukem I: Episode 3 etc.), but never the second episodes, oddly enough.
Good times. We rarely ever bought full version games as it was a little out of our budget, but these (mostly) AU$3-AU$5 floppies made the hobby accessible. A bookstore chain called Dymocks also sold some Apogee shareware titles for a more ridiculous $10 though.
Technically, I first had a Leappad where I would play educational games on it, I have vivid memories of enjoying an NFL arcade-style game and an X-Men 2D beat-em-up, but my first actual game was New Super Mario Bros for DS. Still have fond memories of the game, even though I was absolutely awful at it. I played a whole lot more of Mario Kart DS at the time.
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@SepticLemon It was really interesting how we had very different versions of the same games depending on console. You could get Beavis and Butthead on Snes or Megadrive, but they were done totally different.
@SepticLemon It was really interesting how we had very different versions of the same games depending on console. You could get Beavis and Butthead on Snes or Megadrive, but they were done totally different.
Yup, that was simply because the SNES and MegaDrive were very different systems on an architectural level, you needed to develop games differently if you wanted to release a game on multiple systems. So the cheapest way to do it was to make the game different, but give it the same name, or if they were the same game with the same gameplay, there would be nuances such as speed, sound, use of colour, and screen resolution that could change. The MegaDrive was a faster system that could output at a slightly higher screen resolution than what the SNES could do, but the SNES had its advantages with how many colours it could use, and the Sony sound chip was able to do a lot more than what the Mega Drive's Yamaha YM2612 sound chip could do. From a technical point of view, the MegaDrive was a powerhouse compared to the SNES, but the SNES was able to do a few things that the Mega Drive couldn't.
@Mana_Knight Oh yeah. Heck, I discovered that this behaviour wasn't even started in this generation, but it began with gaming mags in the UK during the Microcomputer era!
I would've only been a toddler at the time, but there was a toxic as hell ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC fan base where the single format magazines, such as ZZap!64, Crash, and Amtix all had reader sections that would spur on some truly insane fanboyism! I swear that these 80s UK gaming magazines were the start of gaming fanboyism!
@SepticLemon Interesting. I always viewed Snes as more powerful, even though they were the same 'bits'. I think the likes of Nintendo and Rare just really got how to get the most of the Snes, especially towards the end with DKC/Yoshi's Island etc.
@Mana_Knight Well, BBSes did exist then in the pre-internet world, but I doubt that many people used them, especially to bitch about gaming systems, lol!
Plus, I'm sure that BBSes were much more of a thing in Germany and the US compared to the UK. Not to mention that connecting to a BBS from a foreign country would've cost SO MUCH MONEY back then! lmao!
@Mana_Knight The MegaDrive was a faster system, it had a 7.6 MHz CPU compared to the 3.58 MHz CPU on the SNES. It's just that the SNES had a bunch of extra sub-processors that would allow the use of extra colour and expandability through the cartridge slot. Though technically there were means to do that with Mega Drive hardware, it was that people discovered that a little late with the system, hence why the SVP and Mega 32X came out close to the end of the system's life.
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Honestly can't remember doxxing, homophobia, misogyny, etc between Zzap! and Crash! readers. As I've mentioned before, Crash! even had an article discussing sexism in games.
I wouldn't say it was those things, but there was a crazy hostility to people who bought "The wrong machine" in the reader sections. Not to mention that every so often I'll still see petty fights between 40-50 year old people on Twitter talking about how their choice of microcomputer in the 80s was the better choice, and I read it whilst rolling my eyes!
I'm trying to find this one Rosetinted Spectrum video where he talks about a C64 game that he got with a bunch of writing that was inside the box about a fanboy in the 80s claiming about how bad the screen resolution of the C64 was compared to the ZX Spectrum and how blocky it made games look. If I find it, I'll put it up.
But wasn't that just a means to view information? As in you couldn't write stuff to it. It was just a form of CeeFax/TeleText right? Each page you loaded would cost £1, right?
Oh wait, I saw the Prestel mail box thing in that Wikipedia article, I didn't know that was a thing, I just thought that Prestel was a form of teletext.
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