Your First Video Game

Hi, everyone! As you can tell, this is a discussion of what your first video game was, and your memories with it whether good or bad.

My first video game was Super Mario 64 for the N64. I still have fond memories of roaming through Bob-Omb Battlefield and battling the Bob-Omb King, or swimming through Jolly Roger Bay, avoiding the Eel.

Super Mario Bros. for the NES ^^ Closely followed by Sonic 1, and for some reason Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

edited 21st Dec '14 3:15:02 PM by lalalei2001

My first game was I guess Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt I could be wrong I also remember some 2600 games I played but I have no idea what they were. Another early game I remember was Pinball Quest it was pretty fun but it was also difficult because I was around three years old when I played it.

My first videogame was Harvest Moon 64.

...I can't believe that didn't affect how I viewed the rest of videogaming.

My first game was Super Mario Bros. Of course, that was 10 years after it had come out, but the point still stands.

I bet a lot of old people are going to come in here and say Super Mario Br-

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Hrh-hrm. My first game was either Sonic The Hedgehog 2, or Spongebob Squarepants Supersponge for the Playstation 1. I honestly can't remember which.

edited 21st Dec '14 4:31:58 PM by FOFD

Lemmings for the PC, I think. Only ever managed to beat the easy levels.

Street Fighter II for SNES

I believe my first game was Lego Star Wars 2 on pc. It was tons of fun, and I'm kinda considering reinstalling it for old time's sake.

Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past. It has pretty much shaped how I look at games.

Taz Mania on Mega Drive.

Humungous Entertainment Junior Adventure games.

If you want to talk about proper platforming, it would be Croc. First console game, Spyro 2: Gatway to Glimmer. First Handheld, Pokémon Yellow.

Super Mario Bros 3 - played on a NES.

Honestly don't know.

Definitely on the NES.

Probably Super Mario Bros.

I remember the first game I BEAT was called "Dynowarz: The Destruction of Spondulus". An NES game about giant robot dinosaurs. Despite the obscurity, the premise alone makes me unable to feel any shame regarding it.

Donkey Kong on an Atari console. Good memories, and by good I mean me dying because I didn't understand what was happening.

edited 21st Dec '14 8:02:16 PM by SilentlyHonest

None other than Pokemon Blue. My parents were very resistant at first.

The first video game I remember watching ever was my dad while he played the original Prince of Persia (and he could beat the game in less then 45 minutes).

The first couple of video games I remember playing (as opposed to other people playing), would be Ocarina Of Time and Morrowind and yes, the latter really defined how I view Gameplay and Story Integration in just about every other game I've played sense then.

edited 21st Dec '14 8:37:11 PM by ObsidianFire

The first game I ever really experienced was Crash Team Racing on PS 1. I was absolutely hooked and it gave me something to do with my dad and my brother as a kid. I loved the track designs and the extra challenges. I tore them all up as the acceleration-heavy characters (Coco and N. Gin)

Super Mario 64.

Pokemon Yellow. I'd played some kiddy edutainment computer games before that, but this was my first real game.

Can't remember the specific first one, but the earliest ones I remember:

• Super Mario Land: Really, most of my childhood gaming (and probably most of my childhood on the whole) was spent with a Game Boy, which may be part of why I've always preferred portable gaming to console gaming. As much as I played this particular game, I look at it now and feel it's aged poorly. I've never really been able to get into its sequel, though, despite everyone who raves about it. Dunno why. Love the original's music, though—short as it may be, it's probably among my favorite Game Boy soundtracks.

• Sonic The Hedgehog 2: Played this a lot on my older sister's Genesis. I always would want to play as Tails—suppose I've always liked playing as the non-spotlight character in games. Similarly, in every Mario game that gives you the option, I always play as Luigi. Anyway, I never played any other Sonic games until the Mega Collection came out, I think. I know I got the Game Cube remake of Adventure and Adventure 2, but I couldn't get into the former (only played a substantial aamount of it a year ago) and still haven't played the latter. As a side note, my dentist always had a Genesis with Sonic 2 (and a bunch of other games, and later on Super Mario 64 and a Namco multicade machine) in it, so I've played a lot of Emerald Hill and Chemical Plant Zone, since that's all I usually had time to get through.

• Kirbys Dream Land 2: Always seemed to get to the sequels first. Never plated the original until years later when I found it buried in a bunch of games we had around the house, and never played Kirbys Adventure (or even heard of it) until the Nightmare in Dreamland remake. Same for Kirby Super Star—though I'd heard of it, I never had a SNES, so I didn't play it until the DS remake.
  
  This game probably made the biggest impression on me, though. For years, I'd fill notebooks with Kirby drawings and wordless stories told through random drawings of Kirby and his animal friends. Weirdly, I remember on the last couple pages of one of those notebooks I had Kirby die and then appear as an angel in Heaven chilling with God. Wish I still had those notebooks, but my mom made me throw them out years ago. Anyway, though, this game is what had the biggest impression on my gaming until Pokémon came stateside, though I stuck with Kirby in a more dedicated sense than Pokémon (which I'm a couple generations behind on now).

Aside from those, though it wasn't the first, Pokémon pretty much overtook my life for a few years. From Blue (then Red when I lost that cartridge and my Game Boy in a diner) through around SoulSilver, I pretty much played the games obsessively until I beat them, and even more so earlier on. I never got very far into Black (probably due to not really having the patience for RPGs anymore that I did as a child...though RPG wasn't really ever my genre anyway), and I haven't wanted to pick up the ones after it due to my pathological desire to experience media in the order they were intended.

edited 21st Dec '14 10:13:21 PM by Odd1

There was a 20 games in 1 cartridge for the Atari 2600 that I remember as my first, I tended towards the more obscure titles like this falcon one in Egypt. Of course when it came to the NES it was Mario, Mega Man, Bionic Commando but I also went for Rad Gravity, Pin Bot, Captain Skyhawk and Cobra Triangle.

First games by system:

Atari: 20 in 1

NES: Terminator 2 (rental) Super Mario Brothers (bought)

SNES: Super Mario All Stars

Game Boy: 5 in 1 cartridge

PS 1: Burning Road? (A racer with Jean Claude Van Damme as the announcer) A demo of Broken Sword or The Net? Formula 1? Die Hard Trilogy? Actua Golf?

Nintendo 64: Goldeneye

PC: Apache simulator

Dreamcast: Code: Veronica

Game Cube: Resident Evil remake

PS 2: Tekken Tag I think.

XBOX: NBA 2K5

XBOX 360: Smackdown vs Raw 2007

Wii: Cricket

Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed.

Yes, I still like both NFS and Porsches.

I started playing video games at a very early age; around 1998–2000, I think.

Among the first games I remember playing were Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 for (what else?) Nintendo 64, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, Disney's Action Game Featuring Hercules, WarGames: DEFCON 1, Tomb Raider II, an obscure game called Jersey Devil and some shitty game called Tunnel B1, all for Play Station. And those Official UK PlayStation Magazine demo discs, if they count.

Also, isn't there already a thread for this?

edited 22nd Dec '14 6:51:44 AM by MrLavisherMoot

First game ever? Well, I'm pretty sure it was Lylat Wars (That's Star Fox 64 by its European name.)

My favourite thing about that game? Well, the fact that after about a week's playing I beat my cousin's high score. I was like six at the time. Also, fake path Andross was better Nightmare Fuel than true path Andross. Probably because I was easily jumped into a scare back then, but not so easily creeped out...