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The first video game enemy you ever murder.

Started by April 02, 2016 05:39 AM
26 comments, last by Norman Barrows 8 years, 8 months ago

Hmmm, good question. You're probably asking what was the 1st game I ever played. Maybe Pac Man, where I ate ghosts, but that's not really murder. Maybe the arcade Space Invaders, but shooting aliens attacking your planet isn't murder either, but it fits the question.

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First game ever was "Learn to Read 4", but my first confirmed kill was Space Invaders on the ZX Spectrum, 1982 by Psion. Many times the baracades were overrun by those goddamn ET bastids, but they paid dearly with many lives, ten-fold, on the next go! MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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We all played games, we all murder stuff. I'm willing to bet that every member on this site have a video game body count of at least over 1000.

I have 20,104 notches on my minigun that say you're way off the target.

Everything is better with Metal.

We all played games, we all murder stuff. I'm willing to bet that every member on this site have a video game body count of at least over 1000.

I have 20,104 notches on my minigun that say you're way off the target.

Yeah, if you have played Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto then you have likely killed more than 1k in just one play through.

We all played games, we all murder stuff. I'm willing to bet that every member on this site have a video game body count of at least over 1000.

I have 20,104 notches on my minigun that say you're way off the target.

Yeah, if you have played Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto then you have likely killed more than 1k in just one play through.

What if I beat 99 nights?

Actually not remember clearly. But when I was played 'Mostafa' games then I have killed many of them. Such an amazing moment.

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I don't remember the first video game enemy I killed but I remembered the first time a game guilt-tripped me on killing my enemies.

In Metal Gear Solid 3, every enemy you killed will show up in some sort of "afterlife dimension" and their appearance depends on how you killed them.

For the first time, I actually felt guilty killing a mess of wireframes and textures.


probably the first video game:

night bomber - released 1971, when i was 8 years old. i had to stand on a footstool to play it i was so young.

a B-58 hustler flight sim. 3D, with sams and sidewinders. Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! boom! boom! BOOM! (big booms when you hit a target) even back then i was a hard core gamer.

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the ground was a backlit 3d molded plasctic conveor belt that tilted as you changed the plane's orientation, and moved up and down as you changed altitude. IE all motion being relative, the plane was stationary, and the ground moved, instead of visa versa. this mechanism sat in the bottom of the machine, and the cabinet had a mirror that reflected the view from the bottom of the machine out the front screen, sort of like the top half of a periscope. so when you looked at th screen, you looked at a mirror tilted 45 degrees towards you that showed what was inside the bottom of the machine.

the first MURDER:

Age of Empires II

finally we would get gunpowder weapons in AOE2!

so i've only been looking forward to this since AOE1 came out.

but of course, you have to advance to the fourth age.

so i go through all the tutorial scenarios, and then start a full game, age up to fourth age, and build my musketeers.

i built a squad of 10, then sent them out to find the badguys.

first thing they come across is a villager girl, with a basket of berries, returning home.

so i order my squad to attack.

they maneuvered in formation, formed a firing squad, and summarily shot the girl in the back. she was just walking home, she didn't even know they were there. i think it was so memorable, because the emotion was so unexpected. i'd been playing wargames for decades by then. instead of elation at the performance of my new badass musketeers, i felt true guilt and remorse - for about 10 seconds. no other kill before or since has affected me the same way in a game. it was a true death of an innocent.

Norm Barrows

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