You Always Remember Your First... (Videogame)

[digitalpress]

Do you?

What was the first video game you can remember playing? Was it in an arcade or on a home system? What else do you remember from that fateful day?

TELL ME! :-D

[JasonMewes2001]

Super Mario World for SNES

[Plank]

All I remember is pushing my brother off the bed so he'd let me play Super Mario Brothers on the NES

[maxlords]

Hmmm....the VERY first game I remember playing...I THINK it was Asteroids. I was rather young though so it may not have been my VERY first. My family was on theirway to San Jose from Oregon to visit my grandma, and we stopped in Redding to buy olives at some store my dad liked. This big olive store with a diner connected to it. We stopped for lunch and I noticed that the diner had an Ateroids machine near the front next to the window, so I managed to con $.50 out of each parent (separately of course) and go and stand on a chair to play Asteroids, which I totally got my ass kicked at rather quickly. I think that was my first game. It took a long time before I really got hooked on gaming though! :)

[jaybird]

The first home video game I played was Pac-Man for Atari 2600. I'm sure I played some arcade machines before that, but I don't remember them.

I still remember getting that Atari 2600 for Christmas & thinking the Pac-Man game was awesome. At the time, you didn't care or even think that it was a crappy port, you were just happy to be playing Pac-Man on your television!

[Sniderman]

Easy, for both are burned in my brain:

First home system - Coleco Telstar "pong" system. Had tennis, Hockey, Jai Alai, and two shooting games that used a light gun. (Skeet and Target). Played that son of a gun to death on an old black and white TV back in 1976.

First arcade game - Toss-up, as the local skating rink got both and I played them both on the same day. Computer Space (yup, the original one that started it all) and Gunfight (shot my bro' 1,000 times that day). I know they were each released at different times, but both arrived n the same day at the rink. Also, they got 3 Pachinko machines. My love with arcade stuff began that day.

[NE146]

It's unclear.. the first in my mind were in the old arcades filled with Electromechanical games with my dad holding me up to play. One that comes to mind is a E.M. where you shoot a harpoon gun into a screen at a shark..

Then I remember playing Pong, both at home on a Coleco Colortron(?).. it took 2 9volt batteries. And playing a cocktail Pong at a restaurant. I don't know which came first. I think the restaurant Pong probably did though.

The first coin-op I really took on when I was more "cognizant" was definitely Space Invaders though.

[Nature Boy]

I don't remember which Arcade game was my first but Combat was my first home game.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure Donkey Kong is the first arcade game I played. The first home game I played was Haunted house at my neighbor's around the same time (it actually scared me!). The first game system I got was the coleco, and so my first game was of course Donkey Kong.

[congobongo]

The RadioShack dedicated pong system. Was it called Scoreboard?

[ManekiNeko]

Holy crow, now there's a tough question. I seem to remember going to my mom's friend's house, where they dug out an Atari 2600 and tons of games. The most recent title they had was Freeway, so I'm guessing this was around 1980.
I've also got vague memories of an early game system (possibly the Telstar... it had a light gun) and playing the Atari Football arcade game with my cousins. Past that, I dunno. I might have SEEN a Pong system when I was in three cornered shorts but I doubt they let me actually play with it at that age. It'd be a great way to ruin what was at the time expensive, state of the art technology.

JR

P.S. My earliest gaming memory had to be this odd slot machine like toy that rang and had pictures when you pulled the lever. I guess my destiny was written in stone from that moment on... I'd either be a video game player or a dealer at a casino. ^^;

[YoshiM]

Wow, that's a toughie.

The first HOME console game was the Pong/driving/wild west shootout on the Coleco Telstar Arcade. It remember the gun game vividly, as the trigger broke and I had to fire by pulling back the hammer of the gun.

The first ARCADE game, that's harder. I want to say Asteroids, but those memories are a jumbled mess as to what I played *first*. I do remember playing a lot of Star Wars when it came out, but I'm sure I played something before that and I'm thinking it was Asteroids.

[MankeyMan]

The first game I ever played was Alex the Kidd, at a friends house. Sufficed to say, next Xmas I got an SMS.

[Lady Jaye]

The first game I remember playing was B.C. Quest for Tire on either the ColecoVision or the Coleco Adam (can't remember which of the two it was) at the school's infirmary. It was probably in 1983.

Back then, I was attending private school (I went to that school in grades 1 and 2). I actually lived at school (going home only on weekends), so getting sick meant spending the day at the infirmary. It probably was something minor like a cold, because I wasn't sent home. Or it could have been during gym period (I broke my arm half-way through grade 2, slipping on a sheet of ice in the school yard). But that's unlikely, as playing videogames with one good hand and with a cast is not a comfortable experience.

[kainemaxwell]

My first video games were that of my first system, the Atari 2600.

[sniperCCJVQ]

First Home console: Probably PONG even if i didn't remember anything about that, i'm sure that i play this before the TRS-80 Computer which i remember clearly (i even have a photo of that), but the Atari 2600 it's really the first real console that i play first.

First Arcade: I remember playing Pacman on a chair to reach the control panel.

[Kid Fenris]

I was about five, it was someone's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, and as the celebration was winding down, I walked over to meet my dad, who was playing Galaga on a tabletop cabinet. Just before we left, he let me put a quarter in, and I managed to get past the first stage by pounding on the fire button and wiggling the joystick randomly.

As the years went by, I became convinced that my father had been playing Galaga while I just screwed around with the controls on the opposite end of the table. My dad, bless him, didn't really remember the scene and neither confirmed nor denied his involvement. It was only recently that I realized he couldn't have been the one playing; the ship was actually at my end, so I was controlling it. And I found my sense of accomplishment yet again.

[nesman85]

smb1 for nes was the 1st game i played, smb/dh and captain skyhawk were my first 2 games that i owned and i got them at the same time.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Home: The good 'ol Odyssey. That's the Odyssey 1, the one with the plastic screen overlays and the way-cool rifle lightgun. I swear that has to still be at my parents' house somewhere.

Arcade: One of those old gun games that NE1 mentioned. Something about a safari hunt.

The first game I was addicted to was Scramble. There was a hole-in-the-wall hot dog place that had it, and I used to BEG my parents for hot dogs every night just so I could play that damn game. I'm sure they thought I was nuts. :)

Kristine

[BHvrd]

My first videogame was Pong on the Atari 2600 at one of the neighboorhood kids house. Every kid on the block was at his house, and I only got one chance to play it "cause my big brother kept socking me in the arm", but it was outta this world!

I had played various other arcade games previously, but I was too young to appreciate them, so really Pong was the first, or I should say, first that sunk in.

My parents would never buy me a 2600 "well they would have, but I was a little more into exploring woods at the time, and He-Man :D", so all I got to do was go to the neighbors house to play "not much though I really wasn't THAT into games at the time, just mesmerized." I remember Pitfall, Pacman, and many others clearly though, they were amazing!

Then one day along came the Intellivision. One of my best friends got one "we went wood exploring together, and were close", but hardly anybody went to his house cause they all thought Atari ruled, and didn't care about Intelli.

I played Lock 'N Chase, Dungeons and Dragons, Nightstalker, and a few others, and realized how advanced it was!

My parents finally broke down after my crying for a game system increased "I had grown a bit more, and was getting tired of the woods :D", and got me an Intelli "since at the time I preffered it over the 2600."

I enjoyed countless hours on that system!

So my first game that got me hooked was Pong on Atari 2600, but the first system I owned was Intellivision.

[TheRedEye]

My folks had a 2600 since right before I was born. I'd say starting at around age 3, I was playing that bastard daily. Off the top of my head, I remember having Defender, Missle Command, and Q-Bert. I know there were more, though...I specifically remember a skiing game of some sort. But Q-Bert was the shit back then. I used to play it endlessly, and I still don't think I've regained the Q-Bert skills I had at the age of 3. @#&% indeed.

ha, I just remembered something about Defender. I didn't really understand the strategy, I figured I had to just keep going forward and surviving. So I used to go down as low as possible and fly straight, so that nobody could hit me, until the planet exploded or something (is that what happens? the planet explodes?). I figured I left Earth's atmosphere and was at the next phase of the game...SPACE! Guess not, though.

...did I mention I was good at Q-Bert?

[Wavelflack]

Eh, I wish I had a more exotic answer (Death Race!), but alas, my first videogame experience was playing Combat at Sears. My first arcade game was Space Invaders, which I played at the YMCA while my older brother took swimming lessons.

For a small anecdote (other than the alternate Lore entry), I would say that when the Intellivision showed up as a Sears display kiosk (we still had no home games at that point), my brother and I went briefly nuts at the sight of "super combat" (armor battle) that it had running. After a picosecond of playtime, we both decided that we fucking hated Intellivision controllers, and went back in the line for 2600 Combat playtime.

My first "videogame" that I owned? "Hit and Missile", an electromechanical handheld version of Space Invaders. I loved that game, and I still own it (I have a second machine now). You would not believe how freaking complicated the innards to the game are! Gears and gearboxes, clutches, rods, motors, LEDs, lightbulbs, film strips, buzzers, and wires wires WIRES!

[Wavelflack]

http://members.aol.com/desioz/tomy.jpg

Hit and Missile

[Achika]

Pitfall on my Grandparents 2600. I thought it was so cool swinging on the vine and jumping over the pond. Hell, I'll admit, I had NO IDEA what I was doing. O_O

[ROBOTRON]

PONG

I was visiting Cleveland, Ohio Holiday Inn motel...they had a coin operated PONG machine...Me and my nephews never left it alone the whole time we were there. It was the greatest thing I had ever seen...at the time.

[Lady Jaye]

Hey, Joe may have started the thread, but he didn't answer his own question!!! Achika, d'you think that his first gaming memory was also on your grandparents' 2600?

[bizounce]

Duck Hunt on NES. It was at my Aunt's house, on Thanksgiving. Nintendo was super new at the time. That very same week my babysitter brought her Nintendo over and taught me how to get through Super Mario Bros. A few weeks later, I had my own NES.

[chocobokick]

Odyssey 2, the magical system my dad brought home from pipelining one day. We already had Lego's, trivia pursuit, and my first "grown up" record- Ghostbusters soundtrack.
I remember a matching game, a mining guy game, a bombing game, bowling, golf, etc.

[=physicalboy=]

I think it was something played on my old Spectrum 48K, probably 'Jasons Gem', 'Way Of The Exploding Fist' or something like that!

I kind of remember playing some 2600 games round a friends house when I was very young. Some sort of shooting game, Outlaw or something.....I don't know! :D

[Mr. NEStalgia]

The first game I ever played was SMB on the NES...Back then, I didn't play too much (As I was too young to be any good), so I watched my sister play for hours!

-=Mr. NEStalgia=-

[batmanlivesatmyhouse]

Pong. Don't remember it much, but there are pictures of me playing it when I was an infant. My goodness, I believe you needed a couple of D batteries and had to plug it in. Other than that, probably Pac Man, but I don't remember. The first game I remember enjoying was Astro Warrior for the SMS.

[Raedon]

I remember the first arcade games in my town (at a local a 6 year old could go) was at the skating ring. I remember there were 3 pinball machines and a Lunar Lander, Crash, and a Sprint 2. This was the first video game I ever played.. it was agianst my sister.

http://www.arcadeathome.com:8080/snap/sprint1.gif

[Savedman]

I remember my parents bought my brothers and I an Atari Pong system when it first came out. Those little squares kept us entertained for hours on end. I remember imagining that there were actually huge differences between each of the 4 settings. WOW! What an imagination!

[scooterb23]

First arcade game - most likely Pac-Man or Asteroids...although those actually bored me, that's when I found pinball :D

First console game - we had a dedicated Pong machine...I want to say it was called the Odyssey...I remember it being a bright yellow color...

[Zaxxon]

My first game I recall was the arcade game Sea Wolf circa 1976. I remember playing Breakout at a cousins house on their new 2600 after that. I remember playing lots of cool electromechanical games at hotel arcades back then. Is there a database website like klov.com that keeps track of all these EM's ?

[slapdash]

My first videogame experience was with Breakout; I don't know if it was the Atari version or a clone though. I was fairly young yet, so I don't remember a lot of the details, but I think it was "up north" and I was out to eat lunch with my uncle (I can't remember if I was visiting him alone, or if the whole family was up) at some bar/restaurant type place. I saw the machine and went over to check it out, and was transfixed. Luckily my uncle let me borrow a quarter (or more?) so that I could play a game (or more?). It was cool... I had no idea these things existed, and I dug it a lot.

Later -- that Christmas, or probably the next -- my uncle bought us the Atari Pong (maybe Super Pong; I can't remember the exact model), so my siblings & I played the hell out of it. Of course, seeing that it was just pong, we got a little bored with it after a while and it began seeing less and less use. Eventually it got put away long enough for the batteries inside to corrode, though I also remember attempts by another uncle to fix it, at least once.

It was a couple years later that I was finally able to talk my parents into getting an Atari VCS, and that's officially where I started collecting (I didn't realize it at the time, of course; but I'm a hoarder -- if I own it now, I probably will forever :-).

[Arqueologia_Digital]

The first video game i played was Galaxian in a NES clone in a friend´s house. I´m very impressed with that. Then i played (the same day), 1942 and Snow Bros. I was 5 years old and when i returned home i said to my mom: "I want a system nowwwww", and in my birthday i receive other NES Clone (here in Argentina there are very common, but now i hate them).

[hydr0x]

first console: mh i think it was robin hood on 2600
first arcade: some vertical scrolling shooter (i cant remember the name, i was about six years old back then :D)
first pc: digger (80x86)
first own game: super mario bros/tetris/nintendo world cup (nes)

[WiseSalesman]

digger OWNS! :o

[hydr0x]

yes it does :) and i still got it somewhere

[digitalpress]

Hmm. I THOUGHT I had answered this somewhere else - if I have, excuse my redundancy.

The first arcade game I ever played was Gunfight, played at a class trip to Space Farms. The class trip sucked, but the game room, adorned with pool tables, ping pong, and GUNFIGHT, was quite memorable, even to this day.

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/G/cGun_Fight.jpg

The first home game I ever played was - yes, the Odyssey. I'm not sure which one I played first though I think we had the home game first. I'll never forget taping those plastic color overlays to our TV screen. My parents weren't real thrilled with that. It wasn't long before I had my OWN TV because they had heard that this game and other "pong" games would ruin the TV screen. w00t!

[Starcade]

Though my memory is shitty, the first I REMEMBER is SMB/DH, oh the fun i had sitting 3 inches away from the tv shooting helpless ducks.

[Daltone]

The first home game I ever played was...erm...I pretty sure it was a Lord of The Rings game that came on a tape and had a text interface and a still one colour graphic to show the scene. I was really young at the time, so I don't remember it too well.

In an arcade? I don't really remember. Playing Operation Wolf and some Marvel game (where you could be....spiderman, the Green Arrow was it? Some woman with a whip?) in Butlins comes to mind. Heh, I found the marvel game in Canada for 20cents a go the other year. That was fun.

Sonic was the first game that I really remember playing, although I think I had Robocop on the Gameboy before that. The first game i actually owned (that my parents didn't buy or anything) was probably Flashback on the Megadrive. I remember being stuck in the first two screens for ages because I didn't realise you could hang from ledges.
Doom or Raptor (shareware - of course) were the first PC games I played.

[Savedman]

Sears brand Pong. My brothers and I were in heaven!!!!

[Kidcritta]

Oh the memory is still burned into my brain @_@

It was H.E.R.O on the Atari Vader :P


My mum got one from a friend and her and i sat up all night
playing that sucker and we couldn't finish it!!!

Two days later i had 5 games and so on and so on .........
I have thought about games every day since!!!!!!!!!

[dreamcaster]

First game I've played....hmm.....

Actually, I've been meaning to ask you guys to help me out with this one. The first video game I'd ever played was this top down racing game. You guided the car to avoid crashing into oncoming racers from the right side of the screen. It was black and white only (no, it wasn't a b/w TV) and the controls were a large woodgrained brick that had a white joystick and white buttons, and it sat on the floor - it was too large to actually hold. That was the first video game I'd ever played - can someone help?? I know the description's a bit vague but hey - I was only three years old!

First computer game I played? That was probably Captain Comic for PC.

First video game ever owned? Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)

[Oobgarm]

Time to raise an old thread...

My first home game was Asteroids on the old 2600, while on vacation in Cleveland. The system could have belonged to my parents, but I think it was my cousin's.

The first arcade game I remember playing was Spy Hunter at the local bowling alley. I was barely tall enough to see what was going on over the steering wheel.

Once I was actually old enough to play and really understand what I was doing with games, I got an NES. And the first game I played on it? Duck Hunt.

[Super Mario Fan]

My first game was Donkey Kong on....I believe, the 2600. Then I got an SNES and my parents got rid of the 2600. :bad-words:

I guess as a kid I was kind of a retro gamer, playing a 2600 in'95.

[Azazel]

Mine was Galaga in the arcades.

[robotriot]

My first one was Bubble Bobble on the Amiga ^^

[Sotenga]

I've been playing video games since I was two. No lie. I really sucked at them, but I played them nonetheless. I can't remember my very first one, but there's this video tape of me as a REAL little guy, jamming on... Low-G-Man. Yes, in theory, Low-G-Man was my first game. It probably wasn't really my first, but damned I am if it was going to be my last. :)

[MegaDrive20XX]

my first game I remember well...I was only 3 years old...it was a Coleco Mini-Table Top of Pac-Man back in Christmas of 1983....I never had such a bond with a game like this...I wish I had one again....*sigh*

[Retsudo]

The first console game was PONG

The first arcade game. I think it might have been that racing game that guy was playing in "Dawn of the Dead". The 1978 movie of course. :D

[Mitch_Naz]

I think it was Super Mario Bros (nes), or Mario Bros (2600) - but more likey sbm.

[Leo_A]

Solar Fox on the Atari 2600. Been hooked ever since.

[TEXASGAMEPLAYER]

Asteroids at the arcade and VECTREX at home

[GameNinja]

Mine was Steel Empire or Sonic 2 for Genesis.

[Jasoco]

Asteroids on the 2600.. or was it Video Pinball? Or Fast Food. Either way, those were my firsts. I wish I could say Super Mario Bros. But no.. it was a 2600 game. Back when I didn't even know what a video game was. Just that in order to play, I had to beg dad to hook it up. Ahh.. to be young and 4 years old again.

[dreamcaster]

First game I've played....hmm.....

Actually, I've been meaning to ask you guys to help me out with this one. The first video game I'd ever played was this top down racing game. You guided the car to avoid crashing into oncoming racers from the right side of the screen. It was black and white only (no, it wasn't a b/w TV) and the controls were a large woodgrained brick that had a white joystick and white buttons, and it sat on the floor - it was too large to actually hold. That was the first video game I'd ever played - can someone help?? I know the description's a bit vague but hey - I was only three years old!

Since posting this, I've been able to determine that I was playing Grand Prix for the Atari 2600. However, I still can't figure out what kind of controller I was using.

Probably some third party thing. :o

[potatobob]

The first game i can remeber playing is duck hunt for NES and i was about three or four so i just held the gun on the tv screen and shot the duck.

[Nez]

Mario bros for the nes. Dont remember much just dieing a lot. First arcade game was NBA Jam I didnt go to the arcades till I was older.

[Hakkenden]

The Super Mario bros. and Duckhunt 2in1 about a year or so before Snes came out making me 5 or 6 yrs old.

[The_EniGma]

i'd say this maze dosdoom style game where u shoot men in coats and hats and u get an eletric hand or MK2 those are my first i think

[Jasoco]

i'd say this maze dosdoom style game where u shoot men in coats and hats and u get an eletric handI'd have to wager a guess it was "Rise of the Triad". Most of the enemies were men in coats and hats. And the "Electric Hand" was the "Hand of God". Only THE BEST special weapon ever created in a 3D game.

[Emily]

Its difficult to remember exactly, but my oldest memorty of a home game system was the Vectrex! My grampah had one since they came out(i was born in 86') he still has it now.He only let me play it once and i didnt get to see it again for like 12 years or more :frustrated:

My first arcade machine was Pac-Man, and the machine still stands in our locale laundo-mat :love:

[Ninja Blacksox]

I was about five, it was someone's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, and as the celebration was winding down, I walked over to meet my dad, who was playing Galaga on a tabletop cabinet. Just before we left, he let me put a quarter in, and I managed to get past the first stage by pounding on the fire button and wiggling the joystick randomly.

As the years went by, I became convinced that my father had been playing Galaga while I just screwed around with the controls on the opposite end of the table. My dad, bless him, didn't really remember the scene and neither confirmed nor denied his involvement. It was only recently that I realized he couldn't have been the one playing; the ship was actually at my end, so I was controlling it. And I found my sense of accomplishment yet again.

I'm sorry.

I have to say it.

That's a cute fucking story, right there.

My first game? Hm...

I believe my first arcade game was "Pac-Man" in its cocktail format. I seem to remember sitting on my dad's lap and wiggling the joystick around. My dad was a HUGE "Ms. Pac-Man" fan, though... So it might've been that one, instead.

My true love of gaming began when I grabbed the stick of the "Yie Ar Kung-Fu" cabinet at the Fuddruckers, though. I know that was the genesis right there. As soon as I saw Buchu's eyes light up upon getting kicked in the groin... That was when I knew I was in love.

As for consoles, I think my first game was "TRON Deadly Disks." If not that one, it was either "Night Stalker," "Carnival," "World Series Major League Baseball" or " Burgertime." I can never remember my family not having an Intellivision. And I definitely remember playing all of those games incessantly.

I also remember really wating to play both "Bomb Squad" and "B-17 Bomber," but my dad not letting me for fear that they'd be too difficult for a two year old. The man was right.

That shit is hard.

Yeah, I'm 23.

-A Boy

[SebasC]

That should have been Cookie monster on the Atari when i was like 5 or 6

[PentiumMMX]

My first game was "Pac-Man" for the Atari 2600

[mizarkgram]

First game I remember playing is Demon Attack for the 2600..... me and my brother were very young (I was 3) and our babysitter brought over his 2600 and we each had a go on the old girl.

First game I owned: Super Mario Bros. 2 My dad bought me and the brother a NES for christmas or sumthing. We had asked (or really wanted) the game Super Mario Bros. cause we had played it over at a friends house, but he brought back home #2, figuring that number 2 would obviously be better than number 1. We wasnt happy..... but in the end, I ended up rather liking that game....

First Arcade game I ever played: Arkanoid. We used to go on hockey tournaments in a neighbouring town, and the hilight of the trip wasnt the hockey, but the massive arcade they had in that town. They had a good 50 cabs back in those days (which whipped the shit outa our arcade, with its measly 6 cabs....) and our entire team used to go in there and burn out, spending all of the parents hard earned cash, but they really didnt care, cause they would each take turns watching all the kids, and while they were not on watch duty, the rest of them would go and sit at the bar and grill right next store.... oh the good old days

[EnemyZero]

I recieved a NES for my 4th xmas, so super mario bro.s was my first HOME video game...if you throw arcades in there then its diff, my dad took me to my first arcade when i was like 3..it was called the spaceport, and i dunno what my first arcade was...though

[Vigilante8]

My brother got a SNES when he was 6, i was 3, and i remember the first time i ever played it. i don't remember the VERY FIRST game i ever played, but the first games i ever played were:
Super Mario World
Donkey Kong Country
Link To The Past
Gradius III
U.N. Squadron

[rbudrick]

I don't remember the first one I played, but I do remember when we got our first Atari 2600...I had to have been 4 (guessing) and it was about (I'm guessing) 1982. My dad and sisters hooked it up and the first game I *remember* seeing in my life is Pitfall. I remember thinking, "We got a what? What's an Atari? What's a videogame?" I understood the concept pretty immediately, and though I was little, I picked it right up and started playing Pitfall. I knew there was a goal, cuz I had read the instructions (yes, I could read at 4...self taught...weird story, but involved a speak and spell), but I mostly liked to run into the brick wall for minutes at a time. I thought it was hilarious, and so did everyone else, so I kept doing it (it was a hell of a lot more fun than trying to get those 32 damn treasures!!

Not really sure what my first arcade game was, but it may have been PacMan or something. I remember the fiirst time I went in an arcade around 7 years old (funspot in Amherst, NH). In fact, in may not have been Funspot at the time, since it went through at least 3 ownerships before closing. However, I was blown away at the games. I specifically remember this weirdo dude who was very tall wearing white pants. He was playing Commando and his legs were spread very wide so he was level with the screen. My sisters and I laughed our asses off at that with our childhood senses of humor. The guy looked so stupid!

The first arcade game that REALLY blew my mind was Legend Of Kage. It was in a Pizza shop, Milano's in my hometown of Milford, NH. My sister and I adored that game...it was just so out there from what we could play at home and seemed very mystical to us...the graphics were so pretty back then! The next arcade game that really changed my life was Super Mario Bros. Vs. I could not believe that damn game. There and then I decided I was getting a NIntendo...probably 8 years old. My dad said if I saved up half (the deluxe set was $140 at the time), I could get it. It took me many months, but I did get it.....which is another looong story in itself for another time.

-Rob

[Algol]

The first arcade game I remember playing was some game where you controlled a boat going up a river and you had to avoid rocks, or something like that. I forget the name.

My first console games were Kung Fu and Monopoly on my cousin's NES.

[error.ini]

I'm 19 now, and i've been playing games so long that I don't even recall what was first. When we were young, my Dad liked video games so we always had some sort of gaming-type-console and we even had this thing called "ActionMax" (that might not be the name, but i'm pretty sure it is) which was a gun game that used VHS tapes. I really wished I kept that thing, I wonder if it's worth any money now.

[grimbal]

Ah memories :)

I know I got the gaming gene from my dad. The day the 2600 was released he bought one. I remember sitting in the living room floor with him and trying to play Combat and Air-Sea Battle. I also remember him buying the 5200 the day it was released.

Do you remember in Star Raiders for the 5200 you had that targeting computer? Whenever you took damage you could lose it. My dad loved that game so much that he actually took a black permanent marker and traced those crosshairs on the tv screen so that he would still know where he was aiming at. LOL

Boy did it screw with trying to watch regular TV though.

Sorry got off track a little bit.