Game immersion...

[Andy Pandy]

The first game that sucked me in, so I believed I was there, was Atic Attack on the spectrum... I lived and breathed in that world... and what a joy when I collected all the bits to the key and walked through the door to my next game...

So, what was the game that did it for you?

[moobaa]

So, what was the game that did it for you?

C64: Choplifter. Impossible Mission. Citadel...

[CarlBillen]

On the Videopac : Pick Axe Pete

On the Spectrum: Lords of Midnight, Rebelstar

On the Atari ST : Dungeon Master

On the PC : Half-Life

On the GameCube : I still have Resident Evil and Eternal Darkness lying around for me to try out; I guess they're pretty absorbing

Carl

[djp]

Elite on the C=64. I was up to all hours, exploring the far reaches of the universe.

Probably why I never equipped myself with enough certain bits of paper while at secondary school!

[shimeril]

1st game for c64 - International Soccer. Still play it when I only have 10mins and want a laugh.

Most obsessed with on c64 - either Paradroid or Alternate Reality.

1st Game for Amiga - Ports of Call. Nice little ship magnate sim.

Most obsessed with on Amiga - Player Manager. Played 15 seasons consecutively - 4 times over. Had to buy it 3 times. Couldn't copy the disk, and just plain wore the damn thing out. No backup, just buy another one!

[Ads]

I would have to agree with Atic Atac. Along with most of the 16K ZXSpectrum Ultimate games (Pssst!, Trans Am, Jet Pac). Krakatoa, Elite, Cyclone, Starquake, Sabre Wulf, Knight Lore, 3D Starstrike, Deathchase, the list goes on...

My second exposure to Yakkly goodness: one of the Mutant Camel games on a friend's C64. The one which had "And if you've copied this game may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits forever" (or something like that). I vaguely remember playing Gridrunner, on the VIC-20, a few times at another friends. IIRC, I got quite into that as well

Tempest and Star Wars in the arcade, when I was ten years old, really sucked me in. Especially Star Wars

Bubble Bobble on the Amiga is about all I can really remember from the early 16-bit days. The balance between trying to hang around to get higher bonuses and extra fruit/food but not having the ghosts go mental, or run out of time.

(I bought the 500 shortly after it came out but was really more involved with learning how AmigaDOS worked etc as I was studying GCSE and, then, A-level Computing. Oh, and I discovered the joys of playing bass in a band, and girls....)

Recently, Wip3out Special Edition. The design, visuals, soundtrack and gameplay were pretty much perfect, IMHO. This game really re-ignited my game-playing passion. It's also one of the few games that I can whip my brother at

[Bogdan]

Pac-Man on the Atari 2600.

Don't laugh...it wasn't even remotely close to the arcade original, but, the novelty of having a Pac-Man variant to play at home for FREE was just too cool for words!

Then again, I was only 5 years old at the time, so I guess I must have been somewhat easy to entertain!

[PVB]

Iridis Alpha on the C64, my first 'zone' game.

Dungeon Master on the ST, even now those mummies scare the shit out of me!

[pap]

Personally, I loved Paul Woakes' stuff. Mercenary was a top little game, as was the 16-bit Damocles. Roaming relatively sparse environments with a sarcastic AI named Benson really did it for me somehow.