You Always Remember Your First... (Videogame)

[vulcanjedi]

The first Thing I remember with an electric/electronic influence was being on vacations with the parents and seeing game rooms with pool tables and pinball machines. I think Disney World was my first game room. The one in the Contemporary was huge. Then in the summer of 73 I fell in love at the swim club. Twice actually. One was a girl and the other was a moving blip called Pong on a TV screen.

It's hard to compare Pong to what else was in the "arcades" at the time. Mostly flashy mechanical games and the introduction of Air Hockey.

But pong was on a TV. And up till that time the only interactive thing you could do with a TV was Winky Dink. Drawing on your magic static cling TV overlay :)

VJ

[DeuZZ]

Duke Nukem 3D.

My dad got it for me when I was like 5 :P

[Kamisama]

The first games i remember are Mafia, Operation Wolf and and a few others (forgot name x_X) on my Cousins C64 ^^

[DR. Luigi M.D.]

The first home console I had (don't remember where it was bought or buying the games) was a Colecovision and the game was Donkey Kong.

Incidentally, if you've played that game on that console you'll know that there's a third level. On all other versions of that Donkey Kong I've played there are only two. Does anybody know another more recent port of that original game that includes the third level. P.M. me if you do.

Arcade- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Awesome graffics the nintendo version pales in comparison. Since they moved that game from where I originally played it I've never found it again. :(

[Jasoco]

Incidentally, if you've played that game on that console you'll know that there's a third level. On all other versions of that Donkey Kong I've played there are only two. Does anybody know another more recent port of that original game that includes the third level. P.M. me if you do.No, there are four normal levels and three in other versions. Not 3 and 2.

The first opening slanted red girders and barrels.
The second with the red girders, elevators, gator things and bouncing thingies.
Third (Missing from all versions except arcade and Coleco) is the Cement factory with the conveyor belts.
Fourth and final is the "Pull out the rivets and make DK fall down" with the moving fireballs or whatever they are.

[ktulu]

well I can't really remember THE first game coz I was a 3-4 year old or smt, and my bro let me play some ZX Spectrum games, nodes of yesod, jetpack or smt like that :). The first games I remember a from a C64 cartridge, Silicon Cyborgs, Collosus Chess and Football.

[Rob of the Sky]

The first game that I remember playing was Super Mario Bros./ Duck Hunt. I was much better at Duck Hunt than I was at SMB. Even today, I'm better at Duck Hunt than SMB. The Zapper was awesome! I wish that there was a Zapper on today's consoles.

[Jibbajaba]

The first game that I remember playing was Super Mario Bros./ Duck Hunt. I was much better at Duck Hunt than I was at SMB. Even today, I'm better at Duck Hunt than SMB. The Zapper was awesome! I wish that there was a Zapper on today's consoles.

There is. It's called a "Guncon 2".

Chris

[mark1bdi]

First game seen (Manic Miner - Spectrum).
First game played (Smurf - 2600)
First game owned (Pac-man - 2600)

(smiles at how exciting it was to actually see a game on my TV)

[Someone]

When i was in the second grade my teacher would let me play a game called "lemmings" that involved guiding little white stick figures to the end of the level, If we were good students.
I got my best grades that year :D

[stimmyjimmel]

the first game i can actually ever remember playing was dream hous for the c64

[legov8]

Thats an easy question for me. It was Mario Kart 64 for the Nintendo 64. I love that game so much and I still have it to this day.

[Psyleid]

Snes - Donkey Kong Country

[Slate]

My first video game Experience Ever was in 1993 or 1994. I can't remember the name of the game, But it might have been Wrecking crew or Mario bros. It was an arcade game.

My first home experience (At home) was with Game boy advance & Harry potter and the sorceror's stone. It was 8/15/02. And, now that i look at it, The game has some pretty sweet graphics (For a game from 2001)

[legov8]

My first game was Mario Kart 64 which came with my first system the Nintendo 64.

[ozyr]

Man, I really don't remember the year or even the name of the game. It was when I was a small little kid. All I faintly remember (it's tough after you get to be 39+ years of age) is playing this game in a bar that my dad and a friend of his were at (for what reason I don't remember either).

All I know is that I was bored out of my mind. That's when I noticed an arcade machine sitting in the corner of the bar. It was that game were you have you ship on the top, and you are dropped depth charges onto the various submarines down below. I'm positive it was in black and white, with minimal sound effects. Of course, the subs moved at different speeds, and had scores accordiingly. I played a few games, and loved it. Ended up bugging my dad for more quarters to play it. I'm sure I spent hours playing the thing.

Funny thing is, I have a version of this depth charge game on my Palm Pilot- looks damn close to what I remember on that old arcade game. I really wish I could remember the year... It could have just simply been Depth Charge...

Ah well, that was my first encounter with a video game (arcade as such).

Hopefully that was the first, but I'm positive it was. If not, then my memory is worse than I thought! ;)

[Speedy_NES]

My first video game was on the Amiga 500...although there was no particular game that I remember as being the first. I do have good memories from games like Space Harrier, Dizzy (the same game as Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy for the NES, but then a different title), Celtic Legends, Dinowars, and many others that I can't remember the name of. Luckily, my dad is also a bit of a gamer, so he recently bought an old-school Amiga 500 again, since we never sold any of our games. So next time I visit my parents I'm going to get back lots of nice memories ;)

-Speedy

[Sammelhammel]

My first videogame was on the C64. It's called Rick Dangerous....an awesome game.

[diskoboy]

Jeez, I can't believe I'm one of the few people here who vivdly remember losing their video game "virginity".

It was a Space invaders arcade game. December, 1978. I was at my friends 6th birthday party, at the roller skating rink in Coloumbia, SC. I remember being the smallest person crowded around this 12 year old, playing this huge red, white, black and blue machine. As I eventually got closer and closer, I realized the boy was controlling a game on a TV screen. To a 5 year-old in 1978 - seeing someone able to play games on a TV was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Right next to the SI machine, was a Sprint 2 and a Fire Truck machine. But I was hoplessly addicted to SI.

I even remember the song that played in the background while I played, and my score of my very first game. The song was "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac, and my score was 550 (pretty good for a 5 year old!)

[Master Chu]

It was the summer of 1985, and i was 4 years old. I was in our old Ford with my mom and we stopped to get gas at a local Kwik-E-Mart. There in the corner stood the first videogame i ever saw.....Millipede. :evil:

I started jumping up and down and yelling at my mom to shoot me a few quarters after i figured out what it "ate"...and she agreed because she knew the woman in there and wanted to talk to her for a while.

After about $3.00 in quarters mom got done talking and it was time to head to the grocery store. I'll never forget how painful that walk back to the truck was..... :(

But, i'm over it now, i've got my very own copy of Atari Millipede, and i've been hopelessly addicted ever since.....so hahaha. ;)

[sebastiankirchoff]

My first home console experience is with Super Mario World on SNES back in 1996. My uncle bought a brand new SNES and brought it to my house to show it off, and he let me play it a little bit.

My first ever game experience would have to be with computer games right around the time I started playing the SNES. I don't remember specifics, but I believe my dad let me use his computer and mess around with games that were on some old floppy discs.

[The 1 2 P]

I have no idea what the first video game I played was. I have lots of horrible memories from playing my first two consoles: the 2600 and 7800. Boy did those systems suck. As for early good memories, I remember Spy Hunter was one of the first arcade games that I was really good at and I played it when I was very young. I've been hooked ever since.

[garagesaleking!!]

there are 2 games in particular that i remember as my firsts. Sonic 2 and Toejam and Earl Panic on Funkotron for genesis, i cant remember which was first, but they are vivid in my mind as my first 2 at least, i also remember playing the power rangers for genesis too. Then i moved on to n64 and pokemon stadium and bomberman were my main games.

[Mia-Mo]

My earliest video game memory is being at a neighbor's house and watching TMNT on the NES. I wanted to play, but I was scared of bothering the big kids.

My grandmother had a Pac-Man cocktail machine from the Ponderosa steakhouse she used to own. Playing this with my grandpa is one of the few memories I have of him since I died when I was really young.

The first video game I owned was Super Mario 64 with an N64 I got for Christmas when I was nine.

[Breetai]

I honestly don't remember. It was probably either on the Commodore 64, TI-99/4a, or the Atari 2600.

[Rob64]

I forget which one I did first but I remember my first arcade and first home game.

My first arcade game was pacman at a pizza hut by me.

My first home game was the games my parents still have for the 2600. I forget if the very first one was Video Olympics or Pitfall, but I think Video Olympics.

[sonic-boom]

My first video game memory would have to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog, I can't really remember anything about it except the title screen.

[HurricaneAndrew]

The first video game I remember playing would have to be (vague memory) a racing game for Commodore 64 or a Texas Instruments computer. Not very sure, though. All I remember is that it was set up in my brother's room. It MAY still be in my basement somewhere. I may look for it after while...

[Game Freak]

I remember playing Tetris Attack with my mother. She would always beat me of course, but now i can beat her 3 times over >:E

The first game I bought with my own money was a Grape GBC and a copy of Pokemon Red. Gooood times.

[vivaeljason]

Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. I was maybe 4 at the time (this was 1988). My mom got it as a hand-me-down from her sister and she gave the system to me.

Not long after, we got an NES.

[Nebagram]

Combat for the 2600, used to play it loads against my brother. Also video pinball. :) First one I played that I owned and can actually remember was likely Alex Kidd in Miracle World, awesome game. :)

[vivaeljason]

Oh, and my first arcade experience was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I had a blast as Leonardo.

[kandied91z]

pitfall/pacman 2600 but in my own era it was standing at the nes display with excitebike... That first nintendo christmas was like no other... might as well had been a red rider bb gun under the tree! :)

[PentiumMMX]

I think I'll go a little further in-dept than I did in my previous post.

My very first game ever, and first game on a console, was, as I mentioned in my last post (Nearly 6 years ago...wow, I've been here for a long time), Pac-Man on the Arati 2600. It may be hated by just about everyone for not being an arcade-perfect port, but I still look back on it fondly; it was good for it's time.

The first game I can remember playing on a PC was Reader Rabbit 1. I loved that game as a kid; it probably being my most-played PC game back then...until I discovered Ancient Empires when I was older (Which, I admit, I still occasionally play Ancient Empires because it was that damn good).

My first game on a handheld system was Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins. It left a big impression on me, and was what made me decide to get a Game Boy Pocket over a game.com, which was a wise choice on my part.

I believe the first game I bought with my own money was Donkey Kong 64. I played it to death, and even though it was frustrating as hell, I kept at it until I beat it. Finally beating it, coming close to getting a full 101%, was one of the most satisfying moments of my childhood.

[Fatalstar64]

I'm not sure either when I was like 5 played sonic and mario all the time at friends houses, first console I ever owned and game though? NES and Super Mario Bros 3.

[Baloo]

I want to say my first game was one of these: Mortal Kombat I or II, Paperboy, or Sonic 1 on Sega Genesis. Hard to say though, the former two I remember playing the earliest.

[gum_drops]

Tarzan for the Colecovision. Its also the first game I beat.

[ezbman]

My earliest is the 2600 playing donkey kong and yars revenge. Also spent alot of time in my Uncles garage playing on his Donkey Kong Jr arcade machine.

[Shellshock!]

First arcade played: probably Pac-Man. I was around 10 years old and somehow managed to clear the first stage, and thinking I had beaten the game I walked away celebrating.

[BiggerBoo]

My VERY FIRST game system was a Philips/Magnavox VIDEOPAC, for which I had one game - it was called PICKAXE PETE - and I LOVED IT. The system originally belonged to my mother as a child, and I still have the console. It is, however, out of commission. :(. I'm working on the research it takes to be able to repair it, though!

Other than that, my FONDEST memory is opening up my very first OWN console, a Sega Genesis I opened on Christmas '94, a bundle with Sonic 1, a game which I absolutely wore out as a kid, which is funny, because I specifically remember asking for an SNES all year that year, and I never did get one as a kid, I had to accrue SNES time at my friends' houses. At first I was pretty disappointed, disoriented, but eventually I grew to love the Genesis so much, that for a time everything else pretty much was out of my mind.

[DOAsaturn]

This is actually pretty hard for me to recall the absolute first. I remember going to friends houses that had the Atari and the NES. I remember Super Mario Bros. and I remember a football game for Atari (that had like five men aside). I also remember an Atari game where you ran around a screen with a shopping cart, grabbing airplanes whizzing by or maybe dodging them, I don't recall lol. My best guess is that these were both Atari Football and Keystone Kapers. I also remember playing Centipede and Millipede in arcades and Donkey Kong in arcades and at someone's house.

My first game was Super Mario Bros. though, I remember the sheer joy of opening that NES on Christmas Day.

[Flashback2012]

I've really no idea but if I had to hazard a guess it would have been either Speedway, Gunslinger, or Combat for the Atari 2600. I don't remember which one we played first but I remember we got those three games with our wood grain system when I was a little kid.

[onReload]

I was born in '87, and I'm not sure what the earliest specific game was, but it may have been Duck Hunt, when I was around three or four or so. I remember that also being one of the only video games both my father and I have understood and enjoyed.

Others include Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Land (my male babysitter would bring over his GameBoy and we would be fascinated with it), and Super Mario Bros. 2...which we never beat.

Basically, a lot of 8-bit Mario...and a fuzzy recollection of Contra somewhere.

[tentencanidae]

Pitfall on my Atari 2600. Then came Asteroids, Centipede, and The Empire Strikes back. Was born into Atari, but quickly diverted over to the Nintendo Age when I was 5.

[Zama]

The very first video game I ever played was Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars on the SNES back in late December 1997. :) It was a great time to be a kid. xD

[AllP0werToSlaves]

January 1993; my 5th birthday :) That day/evening will go down in infamy as the start of my gaming career, thanks to my parents who bought me a Sega Genesis. It came with Aladdin and WWF Super Wrestlemania. I was blown away! I had never seen anything like it before, and I was hooked on Aladdin for weeks. I eventually started renting games and the rest is history. Oh, how I miss the early 90's.

[BioHazardx3]

My first ever games console was the Super Nintendo, I remember my grandfather giving it to me and then my father setting it up. It came with Super Mario World and two controllers so my father and I started playing it.

I was 4 at the time so I was amazed by how colourful the game was, being amazed with using the feather to fly and also being able to use Yoshi. xD

It took me a while to get good at the game, to this day this is one of my favourite games.

[adsfgk]

The first console I ever had was my cousin's Genesis, which I got back in about 1995. I can remember playing Sonic 2, Ecco the Dolphin, and Zombies Ate My Neighbors a lot.

[Tsar]

My first game I remember playing was wonderboy(I was four years old at that time)

It was not my last game:p This was back in 93 but I do remember at the same time playing mortal kombat 1 by a corner cafe arcade machine.

My first console was a "golden china" in my country it was the only nes we got here and dit was a fake:( but still had a great time with it:D

[NME]

My first console was the Atari 2600. Opened it up Christmas morning, 1979. I remember opening a few games also. I belive they were Combat, Baskeball, Breakout and Blackjack. The next few Christmases brought me Space Invaders, Popeye, Kangaroo, Yars Revenge and Missle Command. To me those were the greatest gaming memories.

[Collector_Gaming]

god i don't remember cause i been playing since i can remember lol

Probably if i was to take a guess. It would be either Pac Man for the 2600 or Asteroids for the 2600 or Pitfall for the 2600 or Combat for the 2600.. one of those

[jammajup]

A very good question indeed...i can often remember the first game i loaded up/played on a newely purchased system thats quite easy
Spectrum 48K -JetPac
Amiga-Sidewinder
Master Sys-Ghost House
Megadrive-Altered Beast
Snes-F-Zero
But the very first game on any system will be Atari 2600 at a school friends house but which game exactly iam not sure as it was early 80`s... either Combat,Peles Soccer,Space Invaders or Pacman i know he had those four.

[SpaceHarrier]

I'm pretty sure it was Duck Hunt, but it was definitely something on the NES at my cousin's house, several months before my parents got me one.

[Polygon]

My earliest memories of playing games were at my cousin's house on the 2600. I vaguely remember playing Frogger and Pitfall.

[FrankGarret316]

I can't remember the VERY first, as I was probably around age 5, but it was Famicom when I was in Japan, and I remember games like Pitfall, Super Chinese, Mario Bros, Rolling Thunder, bunch of weird games people here wouldn't have heard of.

[jwmollman]

I think the first video game I remember playing was Super Mario All-Stars.

[kafa111]

Super smash bros on my friends N64!

[That Book Nerd]

I'm 95% sure that it was Dragon Warrior, on the NES.

[buzz_n64]

god i don't remember cause i been playing since i can remember lol


This^^

Most likely it was on my brother's Atari 5200 (now mine). Pitfall II, Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Galaxian, Kaboom, Qix...

I distinctly remember going over to the neighbor's house to play Super Mario Bros. for the first time, and loving the hell out of it. (later got my own with a NES)

[ANDYARKLAY]

My first videogame was biohazard 1 .Now i'm biohazard/resident evil collector

[Gamevet]

I believe it was Kee Games Tank, at the local roller rink.

[Snesguy666]

Starwing Super nintendo entertainment system one fateful Christmas morning ^^

[duetzFanz1]

The first video game I played was over at my cousin's house. It was called Pro Wrestling. I always played with King Slender. Love the game to this day because it got me started on videogames.

[extra_anchovy]

this thread lies. I don't remember my first videogame

was freaking young though maybe 2 or 3. my family only had a 2600 back then, I think it would of probably been Space Invaders. could of been a number of others but I'd say Space Invaders is most likely as one of my earliest memories is my dad playing that game

arcade - possibly Snow Bros

computer - possibly Repton on BBC

[mb7241]

I can't believe I didn't see this thread and reply earlier o_O ...

My first home video game was Jr. Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. I still remember my mom and dad sitting me up on the bar in the kitchen, where the TV and the Atari were hooked up, and my mother put the joystick in my hand. I found the game quite fun, of course, being but a few weeks shy of my 3rd birthday (this being either August or September '88). I remember playing the heck out of this and Space Invaders, posting 5-digit scores on Jr. Pac-Man before my 5th birthday. In 1989, concurrent with my Atari days, my brother let me play Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Baseball (black-box Baseball), and Bases Loaded on his NES (and later, Tetris, Zelda, and Metroid).

The first arcade game I ever played was Super Mario Bros., on a PlayChoice-10 single-monitor cab at one of the local laundromats (this would've been probably 1989 or '90). It took me until World 3 to finally lose all three lives (of course, it helps having had some experience playing SMB at home).

Because of these early experiences, I was a pretty die-hard Atari and Nintendo fan back in the day, even all the way up until 2002, when I finally bought a (used) PlayStation and Final Fantasy VII and VIII. I'm still a gamer, then and now :) .

[nameless hero]

Prince of Persia on the 286 my mom got for free. If we´re strictly talking videogames, the multicart that came with the (ugly european) Atari 2600 we got slightly later.
First Arcade was Wonderboy in Monsterland, which stood in a holiday camp in the East of Germany. Not many Arcades in Germany...

[Cass]

Super Mario Bros. NES. Played it at my cousins' house when I was 4. I was enthralled, it's all I wanted to do, and they didn't even like it. So, Christmas that year they gifted it to me. It was a little dated by that point, but I didn't even need a new console until the Nintendo 64.

Good times...

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

It was October 1998, and I was very sick at Vanderbilt Hospital with an asthma attack. All night, I lay on a folding bed. I needed a nebulizer and had to throw up a time or two. But one of the greatest heroes in the room that night was not in the room at all - he was in Japan. His name was Shigeru Miyamoto, and he was responsible for writing a game called Super Mario 64. I may have been sick, but I was having a blast on this thing. Pretty soon, I asked for a video game myself - I got a Sega Genesis (my family was cash strapped) with Eternal Champions, Justice League Task Force, and Williams Arcade Classics... but the Genny was soon traded out for a Nintendo 64, and put in a drawer in my grandparents' desk... and the Nintendo 64, was, in turn, quickly replaced by a PlayStation by the end of 1999, which saw my first game I ever became addicted to... Crash Bandicoot Warped.

[Colorado Rockies]

The first videogame I remember playing was Tetis for the gameboy. The fist videogame I ever owned was Dr. Mario for the gameboy.

[superfamicast64]

My first videogame was Sonic the Hedgehog 3 on the Sega Genesis. Sonic 3 still remains as one of my top favorites from the entire franchise. I remember seeing my cousin play it, and I was instantly hooked. Even as a 3 year old, I just had to have it.

[shifted]

Alex Kidd in Miracle World (in-built into the SMS) followed by Taz-Mania on SMS. Always fun to play it even today. :D

[klax]

Animal Crossing Gamecube

[TheShireGamer]

For me I remember this vividly, the first game I played was a link to the past (which also happens to be my favourite game of all time), I remember specifically being left of Links house in the narrow trail in the trees and I was running into them not knowing what to do, funny how long its been, I was probably about 4-5 years old then and Im 18 now so.

[Genesaturn]

Oregon Trail on Apple II was my first game...when I was in elementary school we used to get to play it if we finished Typing Tutor in time! ..if PC games don't count..then Super Mario Brothers :)

[elmsa114]

Lucky for those who only have a few years of memory bank to search, for someone like me with decades to go through this is a hard one….I think it’s a toss up between super Mario bros and donkey kong