First Game You Ever Played?

[Ra]

My first game was this little beauty for the PC back in 1994 or something:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Jazz_Jackrabbit_titlescreen.screenshot.png

Jazz Jackrabbit. I was playing this thing when I was three or four or something like that, and apparently I was great at playing the thing. I probably would have been able to finish it if I knew how to save and if I had the patience to just do it. Oh well...how about you guys?

[Peanut]

OH, SH*T! JAZZ JACKRABBIT! LAWL! I have that on a 3.1 floppy, I've got the special Christmas edition too!

Anyways, first game I can honestly remember playing was Super Mario Bros., and that was when I was, like Ra, about 4 years old. We got the NES in 1988, when my parents could afford one, but I don't ever remember playing it until I was 4, so around 89. My mom says before we got an NES I had played some Atari at my cousins house, but I don't remember it at all, so I don't count it.

[Machias Banshee]

I vaguely remember the games we played on my brother's atari. I hated that ET game... what crap... :tgrumble:

[OA]

I vaguely remember the games we played on my brother's atari.

Same exact thing here....I kinda remember playing it (and theres photos of me holding a joystick while he plays) but what I can definately remember playing is SMB...the good ole days of 8 bit...:)

[愛]

I remember I was 3 when I first played a video game. It was, of course, Super Mario Bros. It made me the way I am today. Downtrodden, malicious and an all-around awful person. I wouldn't have it any other way.

[Cure]

Dragon Spirit for the NES. Never heard of it? JFGI. Don't know what that means? Google it.

[Mr. Snackpants]

I really don't remember, probably something on the Atari because there was one up at my grandparents house. Something like Frogger, PacMan, or Centipede. But the first game I actually remember enjoying was Super Mario Bros.

[Revan]

Number Muchers in elemetary school I think. It gives you a problem and you have to much the correct number before the monsters get you. (It was much more fun than it sounds :lol:)


http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb94/kalaneutrino/pics/number_munchers.gif

[Jo Dawn]

Some Atari game. I mean, I know all of the ones we have (and still break out every so often) but I'm not sure which one was the first.

[Machias Banshee]

Oh! I remember Number Munchers!! I think it was second or third grade that we had that.... :D

Anyone remember Oregon Trail? I always tortured my people towards the end...

[Voltron]

Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt when I was two. I used to play with my aunt. She always played as Luigi and could never make that long jump in 1-1. Coincidentally, that's where I learned to swear, too.

[Revan]

Anyone remember Oregon Trail? I always tortured my people towards the end...

I would eat mine when I ran out of food :lol:

[Mr. Snackpants]

Number Muchers in elemetary school I think. It gives you a problem and you have to much the correct number before the monsters get you. (It was much more fun than it sounds :lol:)


http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb94/kalaneutrino/pics/number_munchers.gif

HELL YEAH!!!

I remember rushing to get my work done first so I could play this game. I wanna play this again, just to see how ****** it is, haha.

[The Shelf]

I think the first game I ever played was the first game I ever owned: Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt for Christmas one year. I think it was my 5th Christmas, though it may have been my 4th. So long ago... Haha, I can still remember pretty vividly my dad and grandpa setting it up and us playing it for the first time. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. :)

However, I later had a chance to play some Atari games, so while Mario/Duck was probably the first one I played, it wasn't the oldest.

[Revan]

I used to watch my cousin play this strange game on colecovision where there was this chicken trying to cross the road (I think). I think I played it once but can't quite remember. I was really young. Doesn't matter though cuz number munchers was the shiz.

[Roseangelo]

I think I have a vague memory of playing some Atari 2600 games before the NES came around.

[Dr. Doom]

I seem to recall some Atari game wherein you played as Big Bird and had to catch falling eggs in a nest on your head.

[Roseangelo]

Big Bird's Egg Catch? (http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/bigbird/bigbird.htm)

Looks intense. ;)

[ThirdMarioBro]

You could call me the poor Nintendo moocher when I was a kid. My family didn't have an abundance of finances back in those early days. I was born in '84. When I was two years old (1986), the NES still had yet to really take off in North America. They were still test marketing it I believe. My Mom had bought an Atari 2600 VCS in 1982 when the prices had plummeted. She held a little grudge against that "new game machine" Nintendo because she was trying to buy Pole Position for the old VCS in 1984 out of the JC Penny's catalog, but the next year the Nintendo products had pushed Atari out of the catalog. And so went the first major console transition.

I grew up on Frogger. It was pretty amazing actually. One time my cousins were over at the house (I don't remember any of this being six months old), but I'm told that they were playing Frogger while aunts and uncles gossiped the day away. When they dropped the controller to do something else, I crawled over the the joystick and started chewing it. My Mom watching the screen was shocked and amazed to see that my random chewing movements on the stick managed to move the frog across the street, across the river, and into the hole. They were stunned, and have a picture to prove it. Call it fate if you want.

Around 1988 I was four years old--old enough to remember everything clearly even now. I loved video games, but had long since grown out of Atari. I was fortunate that Nintendo was just starting to really take over the world, and just about every family friend and relative had one, because we didn't. We couldn't afford one, but it really didn't matter. I had so many around me, that I played the NES more than most people who owned one. My first love was Rad Racer. Rad Racer started my love affair with driving games. I'll always remember how cool it was to go on that endless drive to the beach, or into the city at night and never getting there. Later, a famous pack-in game combined with the Super Mario Bros. Super Show introduced me to a famous plumber.

So, first game ever?
http://2600adventures.atari.org/images/screens/frogger.png

First game I remember?
http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/nes/Rad%20Racer%20(2).gif

[Deathknight]

First game I played was of course Super Mario Bros! Ah the memories of playing it, such a good game.

[cowabunga14]

It was either some Super Nintendo or Genesis game.

[Ecto Jedi]

I vaguely remember -- an image, really -- of playing (or watching my older brother play, more likely) that NES 7-Up game...Not a platformer like Cool Spot, but a puzzle game if I remember correctly.

Sh*t, that's pretty hazy. My first gaming memory, though.

[Scandia]

E.T. for the Atari 2100.

[Swany]

I can't remeber the first game I ever played but I can remeber the first few.

Super Mario Bros on my mums friends sons Nintendo. I also remeber playing Aladdin on Nintendo quite a lot.

Sonic on the sega megadrive as well as a hard as hell ninja type game.

And a PC game that I have never remembered the name of, but you started off in a room and there was all these doors that would lead off to to other worlds. It was on a floppy disk methinks.

[Ecto Jedi]

Speaking of floppies, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards was another early game I played on our old black-and-yellow monitered PC.

It had a short quiz at the beginning to test your age, but with a bit of trial and error anyone could bypass that joke.

Ahh, the memories...

[Swany]

Another one I remeber is playing Toejam and Earl at my friends house. We used to play that for freakin' HOURS!

[GK Punk]

I dunno. Pong?

[raphael_is_cool]

The first I can remember is a game on our old Amstrad. I think it was called NOMAD. You had some ship that you would propel around levels and I think it could change shape or something. I wasn't very good it.

There was also Scalextric, some Track and Field type game and Trivial Pursuit that I also remember. There was some platforming one in which you would time travel as well but I can't remember what it was called. I used to love that.

[tone-master21]

The first game I remember playing was the first Super Mario Bros. game for Nintendo.

[Leogeddon]

Mine... was either a Gameboy game... or an Atari game. I forget which, I remember owning an Atari in kindergarden and an original Gameboy in 1st-2nd grade...

Ehhh... let's just say that Pacman was it. :)

[Spike Spiegel]

Ape Escape for the PlayStation...

Also the first "Spider-Man" for Game Boy Color.

[Toonami Tom]

The first game I remember playing is Super Mario Bros. on NES.

It's really neat that many other people have Super Mario Bros. as their first game too.

[GK Punk]

I remember the first time I saw that game. My mind was blown.

[Tinuvielsdreams]

Yep mine was Nintendo Super Mario Bros. too. You couldn't pry that controller out of my hand, until my dad discovered Tetris anyway, then I had to share.

[Fang Wolf]

My First was:
Super Mario Bros på Nintendo..:D

[General Traag]

I grew up with the c64 and still have one...somewhere in this house.

First game had to be either 'frogger' or the awesome 'wizard of wor'; i remember having countless game sessions with my dad and friends with the latter:
http://www.geocities.com/syndrom_tr/games/wizard.gif
Oh, the good times. :J

[Eiko]

i think mine was mario world 2 on the nes good game.

[Cure]

i think mine was mario world 2 on the nes good game.

.......lol.

[RAM BAM]

...And a PC game that I have never remembered the name of, but you started off in a room and there was all these doors that would lead off to to other worlds. It was on a floppy disk methinks.

I think that game was called Zork. I remember it being text-based and it being for the Commodore C64. I imagine it was also available for MS-DOS and/or IBM basic language.

[Hannah]

One of the games on the All Stars collection. Or Duck Hunt. I can't remember.

[poiuytre]

Tetris I think, but I can't be sure of it. The Final Fantasy 2 (4 in japan) was the first game I ever bought myself tho. It's still one of my top favorite games of all time too. The music, story, graphics and gameplay blew me away.

[JameO]

I would have to say I don't remember the times back then very well, but if I remember correctly, I was very young and I was in a local tech store, and my parents were just looking around, I saw this game on one of the computers, and just couldnt get away! Jazz Jackrabbit, OH WHAT A GAME! I loved that game and still enjoy going back to it every once in a while, but from what I remember, I played it for like an hour while my parents walked around and then ended up buying the computer so I went home and just marathoned through the game. But thats just from memory, I might have been introduced to games by cousins or other family before that, I just can't remember.

[AquaParade]

I'm pretty sure my videogame days started out with playing all the old nintendo and snes mario games at my cousins house everytime we went there...Doesn't get any better then that.

[niolani]

Frogger on ColecoVision!!

[Ninjinister]

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7796/pongxa8.jpg

[Warhorse]

PAC-MAN! And it was the arcade one too!

First video game I ever played on my first home owned system, Duck Hunt on the old Nintendo

[RAM BAM]

I think I had a crack at Atari Pong when I was very small.

(Sorry, this message ended up in the wrong thread for some reason!)

[Bigfoot]

My friend had a stand up arcade Pong machine in his dining room in the early '80's. I also played games on InTelevision and Atari, but I think Duck Hunt with the cool gun, and Tetris were my first purchases that I saved my own money for.

[Powder]

I'm not typically the guy who bumps an old thread, but I was going to start the same one & figured rather than do that, I'd drudge this one up. I hope nobody minds.

The first game I ever played was The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past for SNES. I'd say to this day that LOZ remains my series of choice, with ALTTP still ranking high.

[Candy Kappa]

as I wrote on the facebook post. It's either SMB on NES, TMNT on NES or a Mr. Game and Watch game that can't find the mane on.

Then it hit me, it might also be Frogger the Arcade version. My grandfather had a TV workshop store, and he had Frogger and a spaceship game (very reminiscent of Pac-Man). back in winter, when came home for X-Mas, me and my Grandfather had a very interesting conversation about video games from the past and present, and moding. With my 3D Game year, and his own experience with Arcade machines, fixing them, and altering them.

[sdp]

The first gaming machine my family got was a Gameboy with Tetris/Mario Land so I'm guessing either of those two was my first game ever. We got a NES shortly after that. I was extremely young though so I don't know what game I played first but I do have plenty of memories of playing the "Brick" gameboy and the NES, I barely made it to the NES generation and looking back I am so glad I did and did not start gaming with the SNES.

I feel really odd when peoples first console was a N64 or PS1, and theres already people who can post on forums that their first console was the PS2....I feel like they didn't pay their dues or something, I know its silly but yeah. I wonder if the people who grew up with Atari felt the same way about kids who grew up with the NES? ha.

[Voltron]

Grab ass. Definitely grab ass.

[Rikirk]

Space War, Pong, Space invaders, Galaxian, Gorf,...
All the old school stuff.

[gobo]

Pong, Avalanche & some other asst. computer games I can't remember the names of now at a cousin's house forever ago.

[Samhain]

The lion King for the Sega Genesis. Loved it and to this day still one of my favorites.

[Storm Eagle]

Probably Pac-Man on the PC, or something on the Atari.

[Raph's Girl]

Either Ace of Aces, Lode Runner, or Frogger on C64

[rav4ge]

Probably Pokemon Yellow or Harvest Moon on the Game Boy. I couldn't read yet but I still liked playing them and my Dad helped me out with the text menus.

[TheCanadiandrome]

not too sure. think it was Super Mario for NES

[GK Punk]

It's funny, even though I had an Atari first as a kid.I really don't have much nostalgia for it. The NES on the other hand I still play to this day.

[Ninja Turtles 25 Years]

Super Mario Brothers with Duck Hunt in 1985 when my dad bought my brother and I a NES when I was only age 3. I still have that game and system today, and they work. Never once I had to service or replace that NES after 26 years, but my PS3 after 1 year needs to be fixed for the second time. Were they just building them better back then or something?

[Redeemer]

Ah man the first video game I ever remember playing was of

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3!

I was always ment to be a turtle :tgrin: still got the game to this day :tcool:

[Jester]

Super Mario 3...I think.

[deadpoolRKO]

The first 2 games i remember playing were

Aero the Acro-bat ( Snes )

&

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time ( Snes )

[XERO]

Ms. Pac-Man for Atari.

[Redeemer]

Ms. Pac-Man for Atari.

My brother and mom used to play that game and she told me that My brother was teaching me to play the game, but i dont remember I only remember TMNT3

[XERO]

So... who taught you to play TMNT3? :P

[That Matt Guy]

Almost certain it was either Galaga or Lode Runner, my dentist had arcade cabinets of these games. I associate the music from both with getting cavities filled.

[Redeemer]

So... who taught you to play TMNT3? :P

No one I jst remember one saturday morning my elderly neighbor came to our back door, my brand new puppy was barking (16 now!!) We opened the door and she held out this big black container. She asked my mom if we want these video games and of course yes. We opened the box and to our surprise it was an NES with a couple of controllers, duck gun, and over twenty games!!! I saw the TMNT 3 game and jst sat down and played with my bro.

It turns out her son had died, she decided to give them to us. That stuff was worth hundreds of dollars at the time!!

[ThirdMarioBro]

Rad Racer. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 2 years old. My first video game experience was crashing endlessly and being amused by the car flipping around the screen.

[Jester]

I don't know where I got Mario 3....my parents had an Atari, so i grew up with Joust, Big Bird's Egg Catch, some Cookie Monster game, and even E.T. Heck we had 2 copies of Pac-Man (we weren't sure if we had Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man, so we bought the game...and were wrong)

[Peanut]

Oh, man. Atari version of Pac-Man is BRUTAL!

[Jester]

Oh, man. Atari version of Pac-Man is BRUTAL!
Yeah...it was a piece of crap. Not as bad as E.T. But, heck Joust and Break-out were awesome. Alas the Atari went in the great purge of 1997 when we moved to Italy. Mom and dad were afraid we'd be over our allowed cargo weight...and the Atari was collecting dust due to the SNES.

[XERO]

Rad Racer. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 2 years old. My first video game experience was crashing endlessly and being amused by the car flipping around the screen.

So, Lucas Barton... did you use the Power Glove? And was it 'so bad?' :P

[midknigt]

Super Mario Bros. was the first game I possessed and played. Also, how can I forget the NES TMNT? It still haunts me today, especially the underwater stage with the pink electric algae and bombs.

[Sergio517]

It's hard to recall my first game. It was between Pac man, Space Invaders, and some driving game on Atari. My most fondest memory comes from the NES era and playing Super Mario Bros.

[ghitgo]

Super Mario Bros.

[Logan]

Duck Hunt, most likely. Though I remember loving Super Mario Bros. when I was a wee lad, so it could've been that. I do remember my frustration of never being able to make the jump over the first pit in level 1.

[Wildgoose]

Im not sure which was my first game...But among the firsts were Tetris and Super Marioland 2.....