游戏初体验：顶尖游戏开发者谈他们最早的游戏经历

原作者：Chris Kohler 译者：Vivian Xue

你记得自己是如何开始接触游戏的吗？是玩你父亲的雅达利 2600？试图弄懂怎么用姐姐的任天堂 64手柄？还是盯着奶奶在电脑上玩纸牌？我们都记得自己早年的游戏经历，也许还记得自己玩的第一款游戏。

在上个月的DICE峰会上，我询问了几位游戏开发者他们最早的游戏经历，这些人来自世界各地，可想而知他们的答案非常不一样。（回答内容经过了略微编辑）

Ru Weerasuriya，Ready At Dawn工作室创意总监：

我还有印象的最早的游戏是家用电脑Acorn Electron上的《间谍猎手》（Spy Hunter）。你把游戏卡带装到电脑上，就这么等着它加载，也不知道等了多久，反正希望它别出什么问题。游戏中两条线代表道路，方块代表车子。画面是黑白绿色调的。你会听到嗒呐呐-呐-呐呐呐，这背景乐还在我脑子里。

Psygnosis（from kotaku.com）

Nate Bihldorff，任天堂本地化运营经理和“Nintendo Guy”：

（今年的DICE游戏颁奖仪式上，任天堂派Nate一个人领回了所有奖项，把他称为‘Nintendo Guy’（任天堂的家伙），游戏邦注）

噢，我本打算说一个任天堂游戏，但我玩的第一款游戏比它更早。它是一款雅达利卡带游戏，叫Shamus。你在游戏探索，然后这个Shamus会突然出现然后杀了你。这种时刻存在的焦虑感就像……我也说不清楚。但是我经常玩这个游戏。当时我八九岁吧。尽管我一次次地失败，我还是很想不停地尝试。一种恐惧感。

Maja Moldenhauer，《茶杯头》（Cuphead）美术设计和制作者：

哦我的天哪，你一定会笑我的。《僵尸鸭猎手》（Duck Hunt），我玩这游戏的时候差不多五岁，那时我感觉这是世上最酷的游戏。但是我对它的印象不太深了，印象最深的还是《超级马里奥兄弟》。

Kotaku：你把枪口贴着电视屏幕玻璃射击吗？

Maja：没错。当时我觉得，我真是太棒了！我的哥哥们总让我这么玩，让我觉得自己很厉害。我们经常为了手柄打架。

Dominic Matthews，Ninja Theory商务总监：

128 K Spectrum上的《野蛮人：终极武士》（Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior）。我记得它对我造成了很大的影响。它是一款一对一的格斗游戏，但主要是使用剑砍下对方的头，结束后一个小妖精会出现把头装到袋子里运走。我想当年我大概六七岁，有一个哥哥。我想如今我喜欢格斗游戏就是从那时候开始的。

Nina Kristensen，Ninja Theory的联合创始人：

我玩的是《疯狂时代》（Day of the Tentacle），我至今还记得游戏的片头动画，一辆车开过山丘和所有的东西。它印在了我的脑海中。它也许不是我玩的第一款游戏，但大概是第一部让我沉浸在剧情里的游戏。我太爱它了。

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene，《绝地求生》游戏总监：

应该是我父亲旅行结束后，他带了一台雅达利2600回家，我记得里面装满了游戏。《泡泡龙》应该是我玩的第一款游戏，我很喜欢它。

C.H. Kim，PUBG Corporation首席执行官：

我记得我第一次玩游戏是在我表兄弟家里打《乓》（Pong）。

Shuhei Yoshida, 索尼全球工作室总裁：

黑白画面的双人乒乓球游戏。那时候还是街机时代。应该是山寨版的《乓》之类的游戏。我很惊讶竟然存在这种东西。我很快就成了电子游戏迷，当年我才四五岁吧。

Ashraf Ismail, 《刺客信条：起源》制作总监：

奇怪的是，我记得我玩的第一场游戏，我想那是——你知道那些老式的手持设备吗？比任天堂的Game Boy早得多的？我忘记它的名字了。我玩的第二款游戏是它的忍者神龟版。它是一种带有一点格斗元素的伪平台游戏。分辨率超低。但我记得我玩过——我不知道我花了多少时间在那个东西上，但它是我唯一拥有的游戏。而也是我亲手把它毁了。我玩的太频繁了导致它突然坏掉了。真让人心碎。

那是我第一次爱上电子游戏。我爱上了那种体验。游戏的意义就是提供这种体验，而不只是纯技术。

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What’s your first gaming memory? Is it your dad’s Atari 2600? Struggling to figure out how to use the controller on your older sister’s Nintendo 64? Or just staring and watching your grandma play Windows Solitaire? We can all remember an early experience with seeing a video game, maybe the very first time we ever saw one.

At the DICE Summit last month, I asked several game developers about their earliest gaming memories, and as you might imagine from a group of people who grew up in places all over the world, I got some wildly different answers. (Responses have been lightly edited.)

Ru Weerasuriya, creative director of Ready At Dawn

The one that stayed in my head was probably Spy Hunter on BBC Acorn Electron. You’d load it on a cassette tape. You’d put it in there, played it for I don’t know how long and hope that you’d loaded it correctly. What you got was literally two lines of road and a square for the car. It was green monochrome. And you’d hear the da-na-NA-na-NA-na-na. It’s ingrained in my head.

Nate Bihldorff, localization manager and “Nintendo Guy,” Nintendo

It was—wow. I was gonna say a Nintendo game but it goes prior to that. It was an Atari game, and it was actually a game called Shamus that was played on an Atari that had a tape deck. And Shamus was a game where you’d go and explore for a little while and all of a sudden this thing would come out of nowhere and kill you. It was this existential dread that was like… I don’t know. But I kept playing the game. I must have been eight or nine. Despite the fact that I failed over and over and over again, it was still something that I wanted to keep doing. It was fear.

Maja Moldenhauer, artist and producer of Cuphead

Oh my gosh. You’re going to laugh at this. Duck Hunt. I was like five years old and it was just the coolest thing in the world. My very first memory was Duck Hunt, but my more memorable memory was definitely Super Mario Bros.

Kotaku: Would you put the gun right up against the glass of the TV?

Yes I did. I was like, look how good I am! My brothers would always let me do it to let me think that I was good. We’d constantly fight over the controllers.

Dominic Matthews, commercial director of Ninja Theory

Barbarian on the Spectrum 128K. I think that was probably the game that I remember making an impact on me. It’s a one-on-one fighter but it was basically all about the spinning-sword decapitations. You do this sword swing and chop the enemy’s head off and then a little goblin comes along and takes the head and carries it away in a bag. I reckon I was maybe six or seven. I had an older brother. Now I love combat games. So that’s where it started.

Nina Kristensen, co-founder of Ninja Theory

I played Day of the Tentacle, and I remember the intro sequence from it to this day. With the car going over the hills and everything. It’s burnt in my brain. It’s probably not the first thing I ever played, but it’s probably the first engaging early thing with a story that I ever played. I was really into it.

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, director of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

It was an Atari 2600 that my dad brought home from when he was traveling. I remember that it was just loaded up with games. Bubble Bobble in the arcade was the first game I remember strongly. I loved that game.

C.H. Kim, CEO of PUBG Corporation

My first video game experience that I remember was playing Pong at my cousin’s place.

Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios

Something like a black-and-white ping-pong game for two players. This was at an arcade. Some copy [of Pong], something like that. I was amazed that something like that could be done. I became a big fan of video games already. I was like four or five years old.

Ashraf Ismail, director of Assassin’s Creed Origins

Oddly enough, the first game I remember playing, I think it was—you know those old-school handhelds, way before Game Boy? I forget the name of it. My second game was a Ninja Turtles version of that. It was some kind of pseudo-platformer with a bit of combat in it. It was super low-res. But I remember I played it—I don’t know how many hours I put into that thing, but it was the only game I had. I remember it died on me. I overplayed it. It physically just stopped working at one point. It was heartbreaking.

That was my first real love of a video game. I was in love with that experience that I was having. It just goes to show that experience is really what it is [all about], at the end of the day, beyond just the pure technology aspect.（source：Kotaku  ）