First Game You Ever Played?

[Ra]

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]

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...

[OA]

Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

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 )

[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....

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]

Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

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

I would eat mine when I ran out of food

[Mr. Snackpants]

Originally Posted by Neutrino

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 )

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?

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?


First game I remember?

[Deathknight]

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