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The first time I saw a demo it was in 1993/1994 I was 4 or 5 years old and it was Second Reality by Future Crew In my older brother room there was a computer always playing it, like if it was a screen saver.
I was watching it all the time and was wondering what it was.

god you are so young :/

my first 'demo' i saw in 1972 when i was at Berkely University. A buddy of mine called Justin Krawowski made a 'demonstration of effects' on one of the big machines there. We had quite a laugh about it while we where drinking beers in the computerlab. You could say it was my first 'demoparty' too ;)

This is when I was 20 months in front of an XT 8 Mhz 640k ram I'll be on there until I'll have about 8 years old, then after I'll receive my Pentium 120Mhz with a 2mb video card.

haha, you young buck you!!! so young and already behind the computer. I wish computers like that existed when i was young! :)

this is a picture of Justin and me at the E3 in 1994, when Sony first mentioned their PlayStation! oh what a thrill it was!

the first demo I saw was 2nd Reality
i was about 15 years old :/

INC cracktro infront of some lemmings game, around 1993-1994? then the assembly'94 4k and 64k intros, around beginning of 1995.

In 89/90 on C64 and Amiga. Before that the usual cracktros etc.. Can't even remember what those C64 demos were, but on Amiga I recall seeing some Jungle Command musicdisk as well as Digitech & Deathstar megademos quite early.

Hmm, wasn't there a topic like this once already?

the very beginning of the 90s. c64 stuff. i was ten or so. amazing things.

dip: cracktros do not count ;)

I didn't knew demos on CPC464/pcw8256 Amstrad arround 85-87. But I loved to run some games just for the FX, like palette cycling, smooth anims (strangeloop), fullscreen (tempest)
I've been amazed by the sotb remake, 15 years later.

I think the first demo I saw/remember was on a 520 STf. A Replicants 88" intro. (ok a cracktro)
The beautiful rasters and smooth big scroll.


The first big project I run was the TCB "cuddly demo".
Few demos give me the same feeling. So special, so impressive, so impossible, so @_@
;-)

(I like to add the great and uber smooth fullscreen 2D starfield on Arcanoid CPC version)

I remember eating wall candy and using an Acorn Archimedes when I was 4 years old, does that count?

Second Reality, '93.

1987

here's a picture of me showing my first demo to a buddy of mine way back in the 70s:

hey, how can you watch rob is jarig on an old ppc mac?

I think it was something which came with a game-collection floppy on c64... at some point aroun 84/85.
I didn't like it at all, expecially because no game came after skipping several of those boring rasterbar showoffs.

1996 - toasted by cubic team.
then I was lost to the scene =)

I remember watching Cebit '90 by Red Sector on my old '2000 when I was about 4-5ish - what a megademo!

Same here (I only remember XAKK from the names though), but I don't really consider those "demos seen" since i dont remember anything from them. All I reckon is that I _definitely_ wanted to know how to code those.

Yeah, sort of the same, cracktros from games. When I was about 5-6 I used to fool around on my 386, opening all files in norton commander, so i incidentally watched a few cracktros too, that I can't recall. :) It's quite probable that I've seen the cracktro dipswitch mentioned. :)

I saw my first demos (cracktros, yes shifter, those where the same in those days :-) on the Atari ST of a friend of mine first somewhere around '88/'89. I can't remember which ones I saw but I do remember that my friend was getting quite pissed of me because I wanted to play them over and over again so I guess the virus immediately had catched me ;-)

And then I saw the Union Demo and knew that there was no way back :-)

back in 2001, it was aliennation by aardbei, and i was stunned, a year later i coded my first demo.

can't really say that. in the late 80s my father used to have an atari and used to run some stuff on it with copperbars, scrollers and stuff. but i cant really remember what it was. the first pc demo could have been second reality, but the first one that really influented me and made me think "hey i wanna do that too" was Textro by OTM and some other dos demo i can't recall.