First Game You Ever Completed...

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Post by CharlieF »

Ok. Forget what I said about going right at the start... :oops:

Go through the door on the left. Jump the train and go left. You'll see a parcel inside some collapsible floor. That's a powerup :) Use the platforms (you might have to do a fancy rebound jump) to get to the top to breakdown the right-hand side of the collapsible floor and nab parcel.

Now go right, back through the door you came and into the room you posted. Now you'll find that moving ladder is climbable! That's what the first parcel enabled you to do. Collect the parcel (this one lets you use warps) in this room as well and any parcels from now on for that matter, you need them all. Jump the three blocks to the right. Grab the oil to replenish your health and drop down onto the little white nipple on the ground (N.B. Be sure to remove the end piece of collapsible floor above it or you will be trapped. Welcome to Thing on a Spring :twisted: )

Go to the next room on the right. Pretty easy room. There's oil you can reach by warp nipple. There's a parcel in the middle of the room that's needed to use the lift. When you've finished it's time to head back left through all the rooms you've visited. There's only one new room on this floor which is easy enough. There's a picture fragment above the door in this room which is only important if you want to complete the game. Ignore it for now. Head for the exit. Through the next corridor is the lift which you can call by pressing fire.

Right, I've held your hand enough already. You're on your lonesome from this point. Good luck 'cos its a cunt of game :)

*edited, cos I'm still having a left/right issue*
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Post by Geenius »

Muttley wrote:
Powerups? I didn't even know there were powerups in the game. In fact, I've didn't even know you could pick stuff up?!?!

The attached screenshot show's as far as I've ever been in the game. ie. room 2.

Hints please! ;)

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Not a great replay, but it's my first try in over 15 years, so here ya go for a floor 1 breakdown (I don't think I missed anything out - other than an oil can)
Is this going to take long, only my foot's gone to sleep and I'd like to catch it up.

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First game I remember completing was Bruce Lee on Atari 8-bit

The next action game I remember completing was Karateka on Atari 8-bit, had to do that twice as I got the ending wrong and got killed by the girlie I was rescuing!

I also completed numerous text adventures back in the day, including Hitch Hikers Guide (Infocom).

The first game I have completed in my new-gaming life (since getting into consoles with a very late PS1 purchase) was Prince Of Persia, Sands Of Time on my game cube.
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That's a tough one... "Haunted House", a text adventure on the TRS-80 Colour Computer. First game I wrote was a text adventer too.

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Miner 2049er on my Atari 400.
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Maziacs on the ZX Spectrum.
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Just played Space Harrier from the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (PS3) and, having quickly realised just how bloody tough it is, played it through using the Insert Credit function repeatedly. At least three times per level towards the end.

Was wondering if anyone had actually completed it without cheating, and found that they had:

Sir_LANS-a-lot wrote some time ago...
"The earliest one I can recollect is Space Harrier - Arcade Version."
Massive respect, Sir LANS! I don't know about the Arcade version, but this version (Sega Master System, but it's been patched up a lot in terms of graphics and speed) is crazily hard. Still provides a true video game 'rush', though - a real classic.
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Atic Atac here. Tried playing it again recently, and it made me think how the hell was I so good at it originally?
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First one I finished without cheating is either Sonic the Hedgehog or Sword of Vermillion on the Megadrive. Finished the odd C64 game before then, but never without some sort of infinite lives cheat. My gaming-fu actually came on quite late.
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Christ alive, I would love to hear in detail, how any body completed some of the 8 bit games; Cauldron anyone?

Seriously I can say I completed last ninja 1, 2, not 3 cause its fucked. The first game I ever completed was way of the Exploding Fist 2 , I have the 6 ft self drawn map to prove it still in the fucking toy cupboard and the 7hr game play record from the family history of not being able to watch the fucking tv.

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Maybe not the absolute first, but it must have been one of them, was ET on the Atari (VCS 2600) in about 1983. Hoooo-boy. I don't have a memory of it being particularly bad, but given that nothing was even remotely photorealistic at the time, the graphics wouldn't have stood out in my mind as a particular problem. I might, of course, have just have fallen lucky.

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It was either STORM or Treasure Island or Sabotuer on the Commodore Plus 4 - It was a long long time ago and I was much younger and I can not really remember, but it was one of them (and I remember completing all of them). Most recent one has to be Ace Combat 6 on Xbox 360. I am not good at completing games, or even playing them and most of my "game" time has recently been on Burnout Paradise on the Xbox 360.

Thinking about it there was so many games released which actually had no ending - and even some of those games which were suppose to have an ending, you could not complete because of bugs in the game prevented you from doing so.
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Probably Adventure on the VCS - *properly* completed, too, which IMO was not only doing all 3 game variations, but also solving the real "adventure" of discovering how to get to the secret room and then revealing Warren Robinett's signature :).
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Yak wrote:Probably Adventure on the VCS - *properly* completed, too, which IMO was not only doing all 3 game variations, but also solving the real "adventure" of discovering how to get to the secret room and then revealing Warren Robinett's signature :).
Same here, minus the finding the initials. I honestly don't remember if I found them or not.
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