The Grimlet and I completed Marvel: Ultimate Alliance today - it's the first game he's completed.

What was the first game you completed, Beexers?

I think (think) that the first one I completed (not including rubbish type-ins) was Super Stuntman by CodeMasters on a CPC464.

Must have been one of the Dizzy games. Treasure Island or Fantasy World.

Monkey Island, probably.

Almost certainly a Sierra adventure like Police Quest 2 or Space Quest 3.

I'd seen endings to other games, like Wonder Boy 3 and Contra, but I wasn't playing. I think the first console game I finished personally was either TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan or Super Mario Land (the GameBoy being the first 'modern' console I ever owned, prior to that I had a ColecoVision which had a library almost exclusively composed of uncompletable arcade ports)

Mosh likely one of these, but it could have been Test Drive 2 or Wing Commander.
However first game I can really recall a "fuck yeah!" moment to completion was Day of the Tentacle.

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Master System. I was bouncing of the ceiling.

Possibly Bruce Lee on the Speccy, although it just looped round again anyway.

Project X was my best "fuck yeah" so far.

It was either Blue Max or Bop N Wrestle on my Atari 800XL.

Both had similar endings in that the screen froze the last frame and played an endless loop of music.

I remember me and my brother going crazy over completing Bop N Wrestle. The final 3 count seemed to last forever but when I won, we both celebrated like I'd just pinned Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania.

Sabre Wulf on the speccy.

Though it took bloody ages, and a map that was in some magazine.

Going back some. Probably Wizball on the C64. Maybe Impossible Mission or one of the Firebird text adventures, Subsunk or Kentilla.

This. Only on c64.

The Smurfs on the Colecovision.

Elite (BBC Model B tape version)

/edit Second game completed was probably Elite on the ST. Games I liked playing a lot didn't tend to have ends, but looping things like gauntlet was good craic.

Pretty sure it was James Pond 2: Robocod on the Amiga.

Trying to think of any non-dizzy games I completed on the Spectrum without cheats. (Aside from a couple of gameplay clones)
Drawing a blank.

something on the cpc464 (possibly my friend's spectrum)

Can't really remember what, but I was at least 9, as I either got it for christmas just before I was 10, or I got it for my 10th birthday..

Possibly "Oh mummy"?

Malc

I'll let you know ... if I ever complete one.

On reflection, maybe I completed Repton on the BBC B.

Re-reading the History of Llamasoft, thanks to a link posted on Twitter by someone here, I did manage to clock Andes Attack on the Vic-20.

Lego Batman.

Galaxy 5000 on the NES.

It was a racing game where you competed across the planets of the solar system and could upgrade the weapons you fired at the other ships.

I think I must have completed some earlier ones but the first one I can actually remember completing now is Doom.

Syndicate, on the Amiga.

Yeah, I've been struggling to remember 8bit stuff myself. I remember playing through stuff like Winter Olympics and Skate or Die on the C64 but they were just a case of competing in events. I think proper games wise it would have been something like Raid over Moscow, Desert Fox and Forbidden Forrest on the C64 that I'd have finished first.

Tetris.

Probably monkey island.

After all these years I still haven't completed Graduis on the NES.

What about Gradius?

one of the reptons for me also. not sure I finished 2, but 1 and 3 I think. after that I think it was flimbo's quest.

Probably Lords of Midnight or Doomdarks Revenge on the Speccy.

I can remember large amount of spectrum games, I just never expected to be able to make complete them. Same pretty much fun range the amiga, although I can think of a fair few I did.

It think the main thing is that you didn't generally have the option of saving (cheat devices excouded)

Leave him alone, he's foreign now, English is his second language.

First game I completed would've been either Sonic the Hedgehog or Bonanza Brothers on the Mega Drive. I would've been 9 or 10, probably. The first 'fuck yeah' completion of a game was after I finished Desert Strike, with the settings on momentum, which was a bitch to get used to. I think I died more times from crashing into shit that anything else to start with... Which wasn't as bad as flying the F117 on Jungle Strike.

Probably Ghostbusters on the C64, although I think my mum helped me get past the marshmallow man the first time. Oddly, she was also great at Forbidden Forest.

An auto fire controller transformed Desert and Jungle Strike. The chain gun now had a realistic rate of fire and munched up lightly armoured targets.

Then you get the sluggish stealth fighter and crash into those fucking stone columns, AGAIN.

The Last Ninja. I probably completed some before that but this is the only one I remember.

Edit: Ghostbusters. Yeah, that too. Whichever was earlier. Oh, and Turrican. That was probably later though.

Yeah that was one of the best games I'd finished from the C64 days.

It's possible i clocked Bruce Lee before Elite, actually. There's a few games from that era that were so easy we can't count them... Double Dragon, for example, where completion involved having long enough before tea to get through it. See also: Golden Axe.

Same, and same.

I never figured out how to get past the Marshmallow man. It took ages to get to him too so every time I failed, I was less and less inclined to go back to it.

Bruce Lee on the Spectrum 48k. All you got was the little tune repeated twice and then it started from the beginning again.

Either that or Super Mario Brothers on the NES.

You just time it and run under him.

I know, I know... but every time I did it, no matter how I timed it, he always squashed me.

Same here, and I got all pissed off about it, so my mum went "let me try". She sorted it first time. I then got the timing right next time round (and then never played the thing again).

Tsk ! , that was one of the games where you could go back around with all the money you gained from the last time to buy more stuff / better equipment

I have no idea what the first game i 'finished' was since most early games did not have an 'end' but simply looped back around (Donkey Kong / Phoenix / Moon Cresta) - one of the first I can remember with a specific 'end' that took me a long time to get to was Ultima III on the Atari (although thinking back I will also have 'finished' Adventure on the Atari VCS)



On the basic setting (1) you could complete the whole game by doing the double jump move (jump up then jump up again and you took a large leap forward) if you timed it right you could then chain the jumps together so my brother and I then made a game to try and do it all with one continuous jump

Getting to the 'end' took maybe two minutes, then it started over again. That wacky Dimrill! I bet he did the naked Smurfette glitch every time!

It did indeed. I was about 4 or 5, so getting to the end was quite good. Plus the way the Smurf just dropped heavily on its back when killed made me chuckle.

Yeah... especially if you were killed by a bat, and the bat's wings were in the 'upward' position, then it looks like he'd just oops'd upside the Smurf's head.

We named the skull you had to jump on 'the bleedin skill' because a) I was only four when we were playing so "bleeding" was the worst expletive my parents dared use, and b) it took a lot of skill to get up there (until you worked out to stand with Smurf's foot right by the black mark in the tiled floor).

I'm not 100% but I reckon the BBC Electron version of Repton 1 was the first "completable" (as opposed to arcadey style games that just looped forever) game that I beat.

Hmm, The Hobbit or Manic Miner on the spectrum spring to mind, although, I needed a hint book for the Hobbit, and infinite lives for Manic Miner, so I don't know if they count.

I don't often finish games. Maybe Contra III/Spirits/Super Probotector.

I probably completed a few games back in the ZX Spectrum/C64 days, although I have no firm recollections of them, and a lot of games just looped anyway.

The first game I remember properly maxing out was Defender Of The Crown on the Amiga, me a chum spent many, many hours completing it in every way possible with all the characters.

So we'd go castle raiding with the one who was really shit at sword fighting, and jousting with the one who couldn't even climb onto a horse, that sort of thing.

We also set ourself the challenge of bedding every single lady in the course of a single game, which involved wooing one of them, and then doing so totally shit at everything that we got dumped, then picking up the next one, and so on. That was a tough challenge because we had to do pretty damn crap to lose each of the women in turn (they hung around for a while even when you were doing rubbish), but not so crap that we lost the game.

Obviously this was before there was such a thing as the internet and porn.