What was the first game you finished?

[chronovore]

I'm looking through my game history on 360 and all of the finished games that are there. It turns out the first game I finished was King Kong in January of 2008. The next one was BioShock.

What was yours?

[Himu]

You started gaming on the 360? 

[Human Snorenado]

Super Mario Bros. in like 1986 or whatever.

[Tasty]

Probably Pokemon Blue or SML2. If I think back to the first game I *remember* beating, I think it was... Link to the Past? Smash Bros. 64? Wario Land 3/4? Hmm.

[Stoney Mason]

Probably some infocom game. Maybe Hitchhikers. Or Karateka.  I mean the really old games you couldn't "beat" because they were arcade high score challenges.

[magus]

something on the amiga but i'll be damned if i can remember what it was,so pick one between these

[Great Rumbler]

Probably Super Mario 64, back in the winter of 1996/1997. And I beat Shadows of the Empire the following winter.

[chronovore]

You started gaming on the 360? 

Actually, I meant finished to "full gamerscore" or "platinum trophy" and/or whatever Steam counts.

I'm not always fond of Trophies and Achievements, but they have changed my perspective on gaming; I think I'm trying to look at my own compulsive, collector tendencies and applying them to this model of "completion."

If it's what game did I first completely finish, it's probably Zork I. If we're limiting this to games with graphics, it was Karateka.

[Joe Molotov]

I think probably Legend of Zelda.

[demi]

achievements are for losers, havent finished one

[Positive Touch]

Probably some infocom game. Maybe Hitchhikers. Or Karateka.  I mean the really old games you couldn't "beat" because they were arcade high score challenges.

yup, i started gaming on the colecovision so the games didnt have endings. on nes i remember i didnt finish a lot of games because i was still young and didnt have the patience. lot of those games had bullshit one-screen endings anyway.

first one i can remember that blew me away was metroid. just getting past those two statues and into the last level was cool enough, but the you have to deal with scary-ass metroids and the annoying mother brain. and after all that, a warning pops up telling you you need to hurry up all these tiny platforms really fast or the whole place was gonna blow up. first "cinematic" moment that stuck out for me.

[Human Snorenado]

You started gaming on the 360? 

Actually, I meant finished to "full gamerscore" or "platinum trophy" and/or whatever Steam counts.

I'm not always fond of Trophies and Achievements, but they have changed my perspective on gaming; I think I'm trying to look at my own compulsive, collector tendencies and applying them to this model of "completion."

If it's what game did I first completely finish, it's probably Zork I. If we're limiting this to games with graphics, it was Karateka.

The only one I ever bothered to 1000 was Fallout 3.

[CajoleJuice]

Super Mario Bros. in like 1986 or whatever.

same, only in 1989-90 probably.

first (and only) game i 1000/1000'd on 360 was COD4

[Himu]

I only did that with RE5 and Uncharted 2. Though SMG 1 and 2 didn't have achievements, I did everything in them.

It takes a lot for a game to make me want to do everything in it. Because most games aren't good enough to WANT to do everything in it.

[Himu]

Oh right, I did everything in Twilight Princess. Good game. Last good Zelda I played.

[chronovore]

I only did that with RE5 and Uncharted 2. Though SMG 1 and 2 didn't have achievements, I did everything in them.

It takes a lot for a game to make me want to do everything in it. Because most games aren't good enough to WANT to do everything in it.

That's all too true; there are some finished games in my completed pile which are only there by virtue of my compulsive tendencies. I wanted to finish it, get rid of it, and never see it again. TMNT, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Kinect FunLabs Googly Eyes... the shame! The horror! The shame and horror!

[Joe Molotov]

I got 1000/1000'd that one Avatar: The Last Airbender game, lol.

[cool breeze]

Can't say for sure.  I know I finished Link's Awakening around when it came bundled with the Gameboy.

Most memorable time finishing a game was 6 player X-men at a friend's birthday party.  His mom bought out the place.  No coins to play arcade games was crazy.  CRAZY.  Might have been around the same time.

[Stoney Mason]

first one i can remember that blew me away was metroid. just getting past those two statues and into the last level was cool enough, but the you have to deal with scary-ass metroids and the annoying mother brain. and after all that, a warning pops up telling you you need to hurry up all these tiny platforms really fast or the whole place was gonna blow up. first "cinematic" moment that stuck out for me.

When I think of games that signal the modern era of gaming Doom and Super Metroid are the first games for me that spring to mind. They weren't cinematic in what cinematic means today in games but they felt like movies to me at the time. Like you were playing in a movie with that sort of tension and pacing.

[Himu]

The first game I beat was The Legend of Zelda.

[fistfulofmetal]

i probably finished some shitty snes or genesis game when i was younger but gaming wasn't really important to me until around 1999 when I finished MGS. changed my life, that game did.

[Madrun Badrun]

Mario world.  Achievements are stupid. 

[Stoney Mason]

I love achievements but not as anything to be obsessive about.

I like them simply as this checklist and marker that I did something. It likes a history of what I played and how much of it I played. When I play on systems that don't have them, it all feels like an illusion. Like did I really play that game or beat that thing? I don't know because I don't have it stored on record somewhere. It's not the most logical approach but I can't help how I feel.

[Himu]

I like achievements because if they're in a game you REALLY like, hey guess what, MORE GAME. That is, if implemented right.

[ToxicAdam]

Probably Adventure on the Atari. But that was kind of simple.  More challenging games I beat were Pitfall, Riddle of the Sphinx and Indiana Jones.


I was pretty obsessive about beating games as a kid. I kept a notebook and wrote down all the names of the games I beat. I remember the list being around 80-90 games by the time the 16-bit generation came around. Then puberty happened ...

[Positive Touch]

...and that number REALLY blew up because of all those lonely saturday nights?

[Diunx]

Super Mario Bros or Adventure Island.

[The Sceneman]

The first game I maxed out achievements in was Castlevania: SotN

The first game I finished ever was Alex Kidd in Miracle World, on my Sega Master System. We didn't have Nintendos in New Zealand ;_;

[tiesto]

Zelda 1 is the first I can recall. Then probably Contra or Life Force (with the cheat codes of course, though nowadays I can beat them w/o using them )

[Akala]

Lifeforce/salamander on NES!

[Joe Molotov]

The great thing about achievements isn't beating the games, it's showing everyone online that you did.

[Phoenix Dark]

Street Fighter II
 

and Contra

[The Sceneman]

100 completed X360 games as per Trueachievements me

[Stoney Mason]

Probably Adventure on the Atari. But that was kind of simple.  More challenging games I beat were Pitfall, Riddle of the Sphinx and Indiana Jones.


I was pretty obsessive about beating games as a kid. I kept a notebook and wrote down all the names of the games I beat. I remember the list being around 80-90 games by the time the 16-bit generation came around. Then puberty happened ...

Yeah I forgot about adventure. That may have been my first. I also beat Indiana Jones but I basically just used a walkthrough. I actually wrote Atari as a kid saying I was stuck and they sent me this wonderful walk-through on how to beat the game. I was amazed as a kid and that set me on the path to being an Atari Fanboy for the longest time until they eventually collapsed.

[Tasty]

Oh right, I did everything in Twilight Princess. Good game. Last good Zelda I played.

[chronovore]

100 completed X360 games as per Trueachievements me

I had 35 on my profile, but 43 when I counted on TA.com -- MS doesn't count DLC separately from games, so unless I've completed all the DLC, it doesn't show up.

TrueAchievements.com

[drew]

pokemon red

maxed out the time clock in the game, too

[Raban]

I've only 1000'd two games: King Kong because why not? And Dark Souls

[magus]

first game i 1000/1000 was tales of vesperia

would do it again in a jiff

[CatsCatsCats]

I think my first 1000 was Open Season or something

[Hock]

Sonic 2 around 1995 since we were pretty behind when it came to games back then.

[Huff]

Legend of Zelda was the earliest game I know for sure I beat. I think I 1000'd COD4. My first platinum was Gravity Rush.

[Tasty]

pokemon red

maxed out the time clock in the game, too

[Positive Touch]

first plat i got was fallout 3. had to go back and replay the first few hours because they patched in trophies a few weeks release ahh the early days of ps3

[tiesto]

First 1000/1000 was Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, first platinum was Resonance of Fate.

[The Sceneman]

that reminds me, I still got the RoF postgame on the backburner. I'll have to grind that shit out soon

[tehjaybo]

First game I 100%'d was Halo 3.   Finished all together?  Hm.  Probably Super Mario World on SNES.

[Fifstar]

Has to be Legend of Zelda.

This Gen Batman Arkham Asylum or World of Goo if we're including indies. Generations don't really make sense if you're a pc gamer.