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General and Gaming => Classic Video Games => Topic started by: dreama1 on August 22, 2015, 12:30:21 pm
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First video game you ever played?
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The earliest I can remember was Super Mario NES.
At the time we had this big cage, where my dad kept his 2 big, mean iguanas. and on top of it we had this old black and white tv. (early 90s mind you). And I remember sitting there playing it all the time.
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The first game I played was Sonic 3D Blast on PC.
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We're going way back here. But I think it may have been BurgerTime on the Atari 2600. It was my older sister's Atari.
The first game that really made me fall in love with gaming, though, was Super Mario Bros. on NES. I could play that game for hours on end.
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First video game you ever played?
MS-DOS: F.Godmom and Treasure Island Dizzy for PC.
Console: Super Mario Bros. w/Duck Hunt and The Adventures of Lolo for NES.
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My memory is kinda fuzzy on this but I'm going to go with the arcade versions of Space Invaders and Sea Wolf in 1980
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I think it was a game called Tuneland. kind of a point and click that would play nursery rhymes. main thing I remember is Howie Mandel doing the voice of the Main Character because it was the same voice he did for Bobby in Bobby's World.
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I don't think it was really the first game I ever played, but the first games I have a memory of are Golden Axe and Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis 6-Pak. I did play a lot of NES before and after that but only have memories of it later on.
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For PC: Math Blaster Ages 4-6 (1998)
Console: Kirby 64 ( 1999)
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Lego Racers on Windows. I might have played some other educational games beforehand but I don't remember/ count those. :D
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Earliest game I remember playing is Alien Trilogy on the Sega Saturn. A pretty terrifying way to start my gaming off. :P
I know we had a console before then that I played games on, but I don't remember what the console was or what any games we had on it were. I was waaay too young. No-one else in my family seems to remember either.
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The Legend of Zelda on NES when I was 3 or 4 years old. I remember just wandering around and wasting bombs, because I liked the 'plop' sound effect they made. :)
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My Grandfather bought me an Atari 2600 (Sears 4 switch) back in the 80s I was 7 years old and it came with Pac-Man & Combat, then he bought 3 more games to go with it. Kangaroo, Frogger & Phoenix so those where the first games I ever owned. My dad still brings up how he could never get that frog across the road in Frogger. lol
I still have the Atari to this day (and it works) the games I think i still have but they got switched out over the years for better condition copies. I wish I kept the boxes back then. :P
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Sonic Adventure DX for the Gamecube.
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From what I can remember it would be Pokemon Yellow.
Strangely enough, the first video game I ever remember seeing/being introduced to was Rayman - which a family friend's son was playing.
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Dang. I don't know.
I think my first game was Pac-Man on the 2600. I'm not sure, but I think that's the one that got my cherry.
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I grew up in a very small town that had a Donkey Kong arcade machine in the local Dairy Queen (Classy, I know.) That's the first I can really recall playing/seeing. The first I played as an owner of a console was Duck Hunt, and Gyromite on the NES. I even had R.O.B. to play along with me. Really wish I wouldn't have sold him at a garage sale when I was 12.
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Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo when I was either three or four. It is the sole reason why I got into playing video games as I still love to plug in my SNES and pop that game in and replay it over again.
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First console games I can remember playing were on the 2600 my mom bought me. I had Pac-Man, Pitfall, River Raid, Breakout, Frogger and Missile Command. I think she bought it used from someone because it came in a plastic case that held the system and games along the side. And I remember having a lot of games all at once. I'm guessing she bought it from someone that was upgrading since I remember that my friend had a 5200 already.
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I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe it was Sonic the Hedgehog back in 1991, although I possibly remember playing stuff in the arcade before then.
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Honestly No Joke Super Mario Bros 3 Followed by Duck Hunt, and Tetris. Shortly after those I went to my neighbors house and played Sonic on the genesis for the first time too. I was literally blown away when I discovered video games. I was up all night just trying to beat the first two levels of SMB3. I think I was 6 years old.
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The first games I played were Jungle Hunt, Boulder Dash, Jump Man, Giana Sisters, Summer Games, Mr. Robot, Robin Of The Wood on the C64 in the early 90ies. Which one of these was the first I can't tell for sure, but my family always told me it was Summer Games.
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It was either Super Mario/Duck Hunt, or Legend of Zelda on the NES. We were given an NES with a batch of games from a family friend for whatever reason and that started my love for gaming around 1990 I think. Legend of Zelda holds a special place for me cause my dad would play it with me and to this day, has played it way more than I have lol
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The first game I played was Planet Smashers on Atari 7800 (http://vgcollect.com/item/18077), at a friend's when I was 8 years old..
That game was not a great shooter and it was really hard but I was so impressed at the time, we loved playing this among other Atari classics like Asteroids, Centipede, Pitfall and so on.. The next Christmas I had my very own Master System, that's how it all started!
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Lego Racers on Windows. I might have played some other educational games beforehand but I don't remember/ count those. :D
Most, if not all of my early memories of video gaming are on P.C. games like LEGO Racers, Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver, Hot Wheels Micro Racer, Outlaws, Pitfall the Mayan Adventure, Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic R, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Freddy the Fish, Putt Putt and Fatty Bear Activity Pack and a slew of other educational games.
My older brothers had a N64 with Ocarina of Time and Dk 64 but we never really got to play it because their grades were too bad. They also had a Game Boy Color (which I would often take) with Zelda: Link's Awakening, Mega Man and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. It wasn't until I got a GameCube for Christmas one year that I really started to play console games.
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My first game experience was the APF TV Fun system with it's built-in Pong-clone.
This was followed up with an Atari 2600 and Asteroids.
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PC: Can't remember. My father used PCs ever since I was very young and he always had a couple games available.
Consoles: Either Super Mario Land 2, Tetris or Doctor Mario (I can't remember which one exactly) on a friend's Game Boy.
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Something on Intellivision. I can't remember the names of the games my dad had, but one involved two tanks which had bullets that would ricochet off walls and stuff. That's the first game I remember playing.
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I can't remember that clearly, but I want to say either Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 2, Bubble Bobble, Snow Brothers, or Monster Truck Rally. Maybe even Face Ball 2000, Super Mario World, or Gradius III. It's really fuzzy at this point. These are just the first ones I remember.
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Mine was Pong for Atari 2600 8)
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Super Mario Bros. on NES. My mom tells me she desperately tried to talk my uncle out of buying me and my siblings a game system for christmas, but he wouldn't relent. I remember we couldn't beat even the first stages (I was 5, I think?). My mom, despite the protests, was playing with us and was the first one to get to world 1-3. After some panicked yelling about not knowing what was good and what was bad, she defeated the bowser. We were super stoked because mom beat the game! Of course, Toad informed us the princess was in another castle. Mom came home from work the next day with the shocking revelation that there were 8 worlds to get through.
While I didn't get heavy into gaming until we had the genesis we did always regret selling the NES. I've long since replaced it, although I don't know if I have all the same games... I know we had Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, but I haven't replaced that yet.
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I think the first PC game I ever played was the original Test Drive, and the first console game was either Jurassic Park or Sonic on the Genesis. I didn't really get into console gaming until my cousins introduced me to Goldeneye on the N64 some years later.
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The first game I remember ever playing was at a cousins house and it was Little Mermaid on the NES. Random I know!
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Combat on Atari 2600, long ago in a galaxy far far away..... ;)
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Jet Set Radio Future on Xbox ^-^
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The first video game I ever played was Super Mario World on a neigbor's SNES, I was terrible at that game then, and I am terrible at it now but I still love it.
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Magic Carpet on TRS-80. Worked with software and a cassette tape.
First console game was Street Racer for Atari 2600.
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Pretty sure it was Super Mario World or A Link To The Past. Can't remember.
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can't remember my first game specifically, but my first system was a Commodore 64 that my dad got new followed by some pong box and then Atari 2600
i have a rad picture somewhere of playing some kids game with school buses on the c64 when i was like 2 years old or so
we got an NES sometime between 1988 and 1992
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Probably Tetris for Gameboy, or some random game for Atari 2600 (Pac-man, Maze Craze, Surround, etc)
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No idea really. I do remember the first system we ever owned was an Atari 2600 (Bought from Sears in all of its wood-grain glory ;D). The first three games we owned were Combat, Gunslinger, and Speedway II. If I had to guess we played Combat first. :P
I cannot recall if we had any exposure to video games prior to that though.
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Mine was likely Combat as well. I don't really remember, but since it was the pack in game, it makes sense.
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The first I specifically remember playing was either Q*Bert, Pop-eye, or Choplifter for the 7800, I can't remember which... but damn, that was some fun times I had back in the day
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Probably Pitfall Harry... or Dark Castle... maybe Duck Hunt.
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Either Ms. Pac-Man or Bubble Bobble arcade cab.
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I'm thinking it was Mario Party 3, but it also might have been the first Mario Party, DDRMAX, or Animal Crossing.
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I'm thinking it was Mario Party 3, but it also might have been the first Mario Party, DDRMAX, or Animal Crossing.
Welcome to the site Kayevel!!
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First game I ever played was Asteroids on my sister's Atari 2600. Still love that game.
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I was only born in 1986, so SNES would have been right in my prime. I got a SNES in the beginning of the 90s and Super Mario World was the first.
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I'm pretty sure it was Spyro the Dragon. My dad introduced it to me and it was also the first game I ever finished.
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I believe it was Super Mario bros. on the NES.
The NES was my first gaming console and I was quite young. If I played anything before then, I don't remember it.
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Not quite sure if it was Moon Patrol or Pitfall! on the Atari 2600, yes am old but still can kick butts online ;D
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I believe it was Bubble Bobble (C64)
Though technically that's a computer game I guess...
So earliest memory of a video game is probably Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (SM)
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I think the first game I played, at least that I can remember, is pong and some other Atari games. Besides those, I really got hooked on gaming when I got my NES with Destiny of an Emperor and Solar Jetman.
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Double Dragon for the NES. After that I begged my dad for an NES and never looked back.
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Pretty lame game but for me it was pokemon ruby short after I got a gamecube
Definitly played some other games short after on emulators etc and a friend of mine had a sega megadrive console with other games than sonic. Second samurai and shinob etc.
Fun times.
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Atari 2600. My uncle was at his 20's when i was 6 and he bought an Atari and took me to play it. I just got hooked.
Can't remember exactly what game was. But he had River Raid, Enduro, Pac Man and Berserker. Those were the first games i ever played in my life.
So, the fire started... 32 years of gaming so far. ;D
HarvestDude™
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[ripping intensifies]
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My clearest memory is going over to my great-grandmother's place to play Super Mario World then over to my cousins to play Mario Bros. and Mario 64, I must have been around 4yrs old.
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First game I ever played was Space Invaders on my Uncle's 2600. Funny story I actually still own that game and console. (It's official I feel old).
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Twin Eagle for the NES. Awesome.
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I've been told that the first game I've ever played was either Sonic the Hedgehog or Super Mario Bros. but I was obviously too young - maybe two years old, so I don't count that. I don't remember what my first game was, I only remember my earliest memory was playing my Super Nintendo with my brother when I was about 3-4 years old. We could never figure out how we did the "Hadoken" while button mashing in Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting.
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combat atari 2600 (i know im old) i was probably around 10 at the time.
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I'm sure it was one of these, but I'm not sure about which one was the first I played (I probably tried all three on the same day).
- Contra (NES)
- Duck Hunt (NES)
- Super Mario Bros. (NES)
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A portable game with tanks vs helicopters.
On consoles was Asterix on SMS.
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I'm certain it was Paper Mario, my first console was the N64, I was really young, so it's kinda hard to remember completely, it could also be one of the 3 Mario Party games, and I'm sure my first game was one of these games.
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Space Invaders for Atari 2600!
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The game I first remember the most was Alley Cat for DOS, we had a 286 growing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFRYcShKyOk
We also had a Apple II with the green screen and my parents have pics with me with some ABC game...but dont remember that myself.
Matt
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Night Driver on Atari 2600. Friends of the family brought their Atari over one holiday and I remember being blown away by the concept of being able to control something on the television. It was like the best witchcraft ever!
My parents eventually bought that very Atari from them and their collection of games. Sadly Night Driver was not among the titles any longer, apparently it was traded for one of the newer games. I never saw it for sale and never played it again... Until a couple years ago when I started collecting for Atari again. It was the first cartridge I actively sought out. I probably overpaid... who cares? After nearly 40 years I finally got to play it again.
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Night Driver on Atari 2600. Friends of the family brought their Atari over one holiday and I remember being blown away by the concept of being able to control something on the television. It was like the best witchcraft ever!
My parents eventually bought that very Atari from them and their collection of games. Sadly Night Driver was not among the titles any longer, apparently it was traded for one of the newer games. I never saw it for sale and never played it again... Until a couple years ago when I started collecting for Atari again. It was the first cartridge I actively sought out. I probably overpaid... who cares? After nearly 40 years I finally got to play it again.
A 40 year nostalgia is something I can't even imagine.
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I was maybe 7 or 8 but I recall playing Donkey Kong on the Intellivision at a friend's house. I hadn't played many arcade games up to that point but I knew what a joystick was. I had NO idea how to move Mario using the Intellivision circular pad so I was horrible at it. Just figured video games weren't my thing until around 1986 when I discovered a Mario Bros cabinet at a local supermarket and began playing that with friends non-stop. Dumped so many quarters into that machine. Then the Nintendo Play Choice 10 showed up at the local bowling alley and I began playing Super Mario Bros....and that is where my true love for video gaming began. Received the NES bundled with SMB for Christmas in 1987 & the rest is history.
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We're going way back here. But I think it may have been BurgerTime on the Atari 2600. It was my older sister's Atari.
The first game that really made me fall in love with gaming, though, was Super Mario Bros. on NES. I could play that game for hours on end.
Same here burningdoom.....SMB was the catalyst for all of my future video gaming obsessions.
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A 40 year nostalgia is something I can't even imagine.
It made that strong of an impression. For good or for ill, video games became a huge part of my life and this was the spark that started it all. Very few memories are as vivid. My first time seeing Dragon's Lair, the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded, the day I met the cute girl who later would become my wife, the day I married that amazing woman and maybe one or two other events. This was by far the earliest of them though (I was 3 maybe 4 years old)
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super mario world, according to mi madre.
now, i don't remember it, i was fucking a 1 year old lmao.
the first i remember distinctly tho was either super mario kart or tetris attack.
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tetris attack.
Love this game so much. I miss playing this with people. Nintendo needs to bring this style of "tetris" back.
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Mmh, i have Pang for the amiga 500 as my first memory
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Mario on the gameboy is the earliest game i can remember as a child.
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Super Mario Bros for the NES. First game I can remember playing. First system was my cousin's old Atari 2600, it was a hand me down. I didn't care. It was a video game system of my own.
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tetris attack.
Love this game so much. I miss playing this with people. Nintendo needs to bring this style of "tetris" back.
same here. my brother and i played it a lot as kids and by the time i was an adult i could thrash him at the game. my quicker-to-the-draw ex figured it out really fast, but i still thrashed him... only game i was better at than him ;I
very fun game.
i considered trying out the speed run challenge for it, then i realised i'm in no way breaking the ~9 minute run out there right now, so i dropped the idea... and anyway, attempting to? i'd never get those fucking coloured blocks out of my vision when i close my eyes LOL. they'd haunt my mind's eye and dreams for the rest of my life. it's bad enough when i play it for a few weeks, no less constantly for weeks.
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If I remember right, my first game was arcade Space Invaders. It was near the customer service desk of a Sears and I played while my mom was returning something :)
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Pitfall on the atari 2600 at my uncles house as a kid. Still an amazing game to this day.
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Bionic Commando on the NES, as a five year old.
I don't really think my parents knew back then, that they bought a censored Nazi game ::)
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I believe it was actually pong,and i thought it was so cool back then.On a console it was pitfall
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Going back on my previous answer, does anyone remember cable boxes in the early 90s that had a games section you could play with your remote?
I can't seem to find much about them online but I had one of those before I got my NES.
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Going back on my previous answer, does anyone remember cable boxes in the early 90s that had a games section you could play with your remote?
I can't seem to find much about them online but I had one of those before I got my NES.
Some of them still have a games channel. My parents have Dish Satellite service at home and you can still play games on it with the remote. I have only ever played the trial versions of the game though. It's a shame that most of those games are probably not preserved anywhere.