Playing Command & Conquer for the first time. Especially when all I had to compare it to was Dune II.
The first mission, after the slightly cheesey briefing FMV, the bombastic foot-tapping music kicks in and a ship cruises onto view taking out enemy troops on the shoreline, before your squad gets dropped off. Immediately it was obvious I was playing soemthing far more dynamic then Dune II.
Zooming out and seeing the whole galaxy on Frontier, and being slightly gobsmacked that they had managed to squeeze millions of planets onto a single 720kB floppy. Until, of course, I realised how they did it. Still clever, though.
Exploring the world of Exile on the BBC Micro. Huge and involving, there was plenty to experiment with.
Playing Burnout 3 and realising that it was easily the best arcade racer of all time.
The first mission, after the slightly cheesey briefing FMV, the bombastic foot-tapping music kicks in and a ship cruises onto view taking out enemy troops on the shoreline, before your squad gets dropped off. Immediately it was obvious I was playing soemthing far more dynamic then Dune II.
Zooming out and seeing the whole galaxy on Frontier, and being slightly gobsmacked that they had managed to squeeze millions of planets onto a single 720kB floppy. Until, of course, I realised how they did it. Still clever, though.
Exploring the world of Exile on the BBC Micro. Huge and involving, there was plenty to experiment with.
Playing Burnout 3 and realising that it was easily the best arcade racer of all time.