What’s the first video game you ever played? I’m not entirely sure. I recall watching my brothers play games on their Sega Megadrive. They played Street Fighter 2, and Bare Knuckle, and Fifa 95, and some Formula 1 racing games. I also remember Midnight Resistance, a Contra clone with really good music.<\/p>\n
With Street Fighter 2, I played all the common characters \u2013 Ryu, Ken, Guile, Bison, Dee Jay, Vega, Chun Li, Dhalsim, Blanka, E. Honda. My eldest brother would play sometimes. He particularly liked Fire Shark, the vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up. We don’t talk anymore. He has kids now.<\/p>\n
I’m remembering now that there was a sort of tank commander type game that I used to play with my neighbour when he came over.<\/p>\n
Used to play GTA and Midtown Madness at a cousin’s house. And some boat racing game. At another cousin’s, once we played some road rash type racing game.<\/p>\n
I remember, during the school holidays, I’d go to the arcade at Tampines with my friend Gordon. We’d go early, before it opened. We would meet at the McDonald’s at Tampines Interchange. There was a Star Wars Episode 1 themed racing game by the entrance, which I never played because I had never gotten into star wars as a kid. I did play Crazy Taxi. There was a 3D Bare Knuckle-type game, called Dynamite Cop. I spent many dollars playing that one. I was always impressed by the people who were really good at Time Crisis, or DDR.<\/p>\n
DOS \u2013 Blackjack. Ski Free. Chip’s challenge. Prince of Persia 2. Tomb Raider 2. It’s funny how there were all these games that I enjoyed despite getting stuck. Fifa 98 and 2000. Final Fight 3. Metal Slug series \u2013 Metal Slug 1, 2, X. Friends would come over to my place to play. I’m still pretty good at those.<\/p>\n
Counterstrike and Dota were too really popular games that I played with friends in order to socialize, but I never particularly got good at them. I played Half-Life up to some point and got stuck and gave up. I played a demo of Opposing Force, and was always curious to try the actual game. I played Simcity 2000 (not sure how it ended up on my computer) and went on to excitedly ask my mother to buy me Simcity 3000 for my birthday.<\/p>\n
Left4Dead led to hours of fun with friends when it came out. We also played some funny “pirate ship” mod of Warcraft 3.<\/p>\n
I never got into Halo or Call of Duty. I liked Duke Nukem 3D \u2013 it had so much personality. And Quake 2, which had a pretty neat style. I liked the idea of Hexen (Heretic?) but I sucked at it.<\/p>\n
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