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Ra 03-06-2008 08:05 PM

First Game You Ever Played?
 
My first game was this little beauty for the PC back in 1994 or something:


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 03-06-2008 08:32 PM

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 03-06-2008 08:39 PM

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

OA 03-06-2008 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Machias Banshee (Post 594637)
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 03-06-2008 08:59 PM

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 03-06-2008 09:05 PM

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

Mr. Snackpants 03-06-2008 09:13 PM

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 03-06-2008 09:36 PM

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/b...r_munchers.gif

Jo Dawn 03-06-2008 09:38 PM

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 03-06-2008 09:41 PM

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 03-06-2008 09:45 PM

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 03-06-2008 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Machias Banshee (Post 594666)
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 03-06-2008 09:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neutrino (Post 594662)
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/b...r_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 03-06-2008 10:09 PM

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 03-06-2008 10:19 PM

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 03-06-2008 10:27 PM

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

Dr. Doom 03-07-2008 12:40 AM

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 03-07-2008 12:49 AM

Big Bird's Egg Catch?

Looks intense. ;)

ThirdMarioBro 03-07-2008 12:50 AM

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/imag...ns/frogger.png

First game I remember?
http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/n...acer%20(2).gif

Deathknight 03-07-2008 11:18 AM

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


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