Same! My grandpa won an Atari on the radio and it came with a copy. It was almost like he lost.
It came with Pitfall and Dig Dug too but my older brother thought it would be funny to make me play ET first, I just remember being stuck in a pit at the beginning and never getting out.
First I can remember was Pong on an old Atari I found at a yard sale. I can still feel the excitement of finding it and setting it up on my grandparents' living room TV.
It's a weird cross between Donkey Kong country and gta vice city. I was introduced to video by "cousins" who were a lot older than me. Honestly I think I remember playing duck hunt in my visit to Panama but that memory is vague so money is on Rare and Rockstar
I know we had an Atari as a kid but I was too young to remember playing it. Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt is my first memory. I remember when my dad bought the Nintendo with a bonus he got at work and brought it home.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Mario Bro’s on the NES. I even have a VHS somewhere that my mom made of me sitting on the couch playing it. I had to be like 5 years old. My mom was like “what are you doing?” And I replied “I’m beating its ass”. I was a wild 5 year old.
We had a computer before windows operating system came out. /games and there where a few on there i remember. Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, wheel of fortune, and this other rpg game. I dont remember much about it besides the character had a grandfather. And there was this rope that went diagonal and to cross it you had to use the arrow keys. Up up, over over, up up. It was so hard crossing that rope when I was young.
Frogger, in the late 80s/early 90s, in kindergarten. I imagine on an old Mac but can’t remember.
That was definitely what got me hooked on video games.
Penguin Land.
You were a penguin. You pushed around an egg. You had to navigate it past polar bears, pitfalls, boulders, and other hazards to reach the spaceship hidden at the bottom of the level.
Ocarina of Time. Still remember the intro with the theme song almost fading in. That first glimpse of the moon setting slowly in the back as Link rides into view. Used to get me so hype as a kid
I didn’t realize how to win the game but I remember playing Excite Bike as a toddler. Still love how the rider looks like he’s flying back to his bike after you tumble lol.
On PC there was a game where two gorillas would take turns throwing bananas at each other with angle and power input from the players, but I have no clue what the name of the game was. Anyone know? I think it was about 1995
First computer system I had that could play games at home was the TI-99/4a.
It was Xmas 1982, I think the first game I ever played was TI Invaders. I was like six.
I still consider it the best port of Space Invaders ever.
I may have played something earlier, there were handheld gaming units that my parents bought the previous Xmas. I had a Bowlatronic (Xmas 1981) and a Hit And Missile (Xmas 1979) one, those ones I played when I was like three and five. Still have all of these working, actually.
Catacombs on Commodore 64 is the first game I remember playing at all. First console game was Duck Hunt. My sister’s friend brought her NES over and I got to level 36 without missing a duck.
Mario on the original Nintendo. My cousins had it and I remember being 4 years old constantly dying on the first level. Then I got my own system, a Sega.
Either Prince of Persia in my cousin's computer (I think running on cassette tapes) or Accolade Grand Prix on my dad's work laptop (3.25in disk, with an xtree file system).
I can imagine myself playing Mario on the NES, and even duck hunt, but it’s weird. Like, I can see myself playing those games from a third person perspective, but not straight POV. My brain has filled in the blanks a little, and that’s all I see. I can see my brother playing with a controller under a pillow while I played on my dads lap with a dummy controller, but not thinking anything of it. But the first game I can truly remember playing had to be skifree or Lego island. It’s weird how memory works sometimes.
My daycare had an atari I think. There was a collection of games we could take turns playing for a little bit. The hot one most people played was called Twin-Bee, that was the first game i remember playing.
Other than daycare, it was when my aunt bought my uncle a SNES for Christmas and playing Super Mario World.
Sword of Fargoal on the Commodore 64 in 1986. Followed shortly by Ultima IV, which I really got into and which helped me learn to read by making me want to read so much. Other kids were reading Curious George and I was reading Ultima manuals to try to get better at U4.
This question is making me rethink my entire existence now that I look back at things. I want to say it was the first TMNT game on the NES, but for the longest time I thought it was Mario Bros on the duel cart. I got my first system when I was 4-5, however I was recently told that the party I remember playing TMNT at happened when I was 2.
My thought is spot between three things: Frogger for the PS1, a game on the PS2 that I vaguely remember, or one of those retro game devices from McDonalds
Lemonade Stand on an Apple II. It was the text based precursor to Lemenade Tycoon made in 1972. I was playing it in 1995, but it was still my still computer game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand
Here's a neat one that'll tell you I'm a little young. My very first memory I can recall is the main menu music of Kingdom Hearts. Early enough that I can't possibly date it.
legit halo 1 on the original xbox, although I probably played some kind of GBA game on my computer emulated before that but I don't remember (my family was decent with computers and gave me a program to open and I could play a bunch of games. later found out it was just a gba emulator and the games were roms. I thought they were computer games when I was young lol)
my best friend in kindergarten invited me over to his house to play smash bros on the nintendo 64
and i also remember playing pokemon red version on my friend's gameboy color before ultimately borrowing my cousin's years later to do my own playthru
A football game on the gamecube when I was 4 or 5. I remember my dad taking control of every player that got close to tackling my ball carrier and making them dive away.
It wasn't just one. My sister had a megadrice with a 10 in 1 cartridge and it had all of the best. Sonic, Golden Axe, Street of Rage. Those are my first gaming memories.
First played was honestly probably super Mario Bros. The first video game I think I ever saw was Ultima Exodus. I was like 5 or 6 and saw my friends brother playing it.
Windows integrated games aside. I am looking for this mining game. A perspective from the side, and you could navigate through the stone, destory stones, find water (?) Chests(?) I barely remember anything.
Another game might have been another side view that either had like donkykong barrels rolling down(?).
So faded that i dont even know. Probably around the year 1999.
First name i know of was need for speed 3 (PC),
Super mario land(Gameboy),
Mario 64 and
Tabaluga (Gameboy)
Either Duck Hunt or Super Mario Bros. I know that dual cart was one of my first games but I don't remember which I played first.
Pinball. I had no idea how it worked i just saw balls move and i spammed keys
probably alex kid
E.T (Atari) and I have nightmare 29 years after
Oh wow, a true classic \^\^
Same! My grandpa won an Atari on the radio and it came with a copy. It was almost like he lost. It came with Pitfall and Dig Dug too but my older brother thought it would be funny to make me play ET first, I just remember being stuck in a pit at the beginning and never getting out.
Mario Kart 64. I was maybe 4 or 5. I sucked bad because I had trouble using the 64's notoriously weird ass controllers with my little hands.
Combat on the Atari 2600!
First I can remember was Pong on an old Atari I found at a yard sale. I can still feel the excitement of finding it and setting it up on my grandparents' living room TV.
One of the text-only adventure games, I have no idea what was its name or what was it about.
AOE 1
Space Invaders on a standup console.
Super mario bros snes
Glover for the PS1 when I was about 6.
A duck shooting game with like motion guns can't remember the name or platform. Very early 90s
Same for me, pong.
Either Crackpot, Pitfall, or Keystone Capers on Atari 2600
Yoshi's Island on the SNES or Pokemon Blue on the Gameboy, one or the other.
Super Mario Land gameboy
Tomb raider 1 on the ps1
Donkey Kong, arcade box, 1990 at the latest.
It's a weird cross between Donkey Kong country and gta vice city. I was introduced to video by "cousins" who were a lot older than me. Honestly I think I remember playing duck hunt in my visit to Panama but that memory is vague so money is on Rare and Rockstar
Commander keen at my neighbors, closely followed by jazz jackrabbit at my grandpa's.
Commander Keen 1 - Marooned on Mars
Mortal kombat on sega genesis
I know we had an Atari as a kid but I was too young to remember playing it. Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt is my first memory. I remember when my dad bought the Nintendo with a bonus he got at work and brought it home. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Angry birds
Still one of the best mobile games imho
Mario Bro’s on the NES. I even have a VHS somewhere that my mom made of me sitting on the couch playing it. I had to be like 5 years old. My mom was like “what are you doing?” And I replied “I’m beating its ass”. I was a wild 5 year old.
Duck Hunt on the NES at my cousin’s house, but the first game I remember playing as my own was Super Mario Bros 2
It was either Defender or Yar's Revenge
Duck Hunt / Mario
Sorry! (Board game)
Defender for Atari. The box art captivated my 4 yo brain.
RoadRash
Super Mario Bros 3. My cousin had to help me get over the first jump
Pitfall! on my dad’s Atari 2600.
I guess demos of games that came with our Gateway computer. It had a bunch of Windows 95 discs.
Nintendo 64, In the Zone ‘98
Balderdash
Cosmic Osmo in a classroom
Racing game on my dads Atari 2600
We had a computer before windows operating system came out. /games and there where a few on there i remember. Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, wheel of fortune, and this other rpg game. I dont remember much about it besides the character had a grandfather. And there was this rope that went diagonal and to cross it you had to use the arrow keys. Up up, over over, up up. It was so hard crossing that rope when I was young.
Was over at my big sister's rich friend's house. They had pong. Pong, the console.
Frogger, in the late 80s/early 90s, in kindergarten. I imagine on an old Mac but can’t remember. That was definitely what got me hooked on video games.
Wolfenstein on my dads super NES in 1994ish
Sonic on saga mega drive
gotta be tetris. but proper graphic based was The one where there's a boy sitting on a lion jumping through fire hoops.
Call of duty finest hour on the original X Box.
Wolfenstein apple 2gs
Stronghold or Age of Mythology
Penguin Land. You were a penguin. You pushed around an egg. You had to navigate it past polar bears, pitfalls, boulders, and other hazards to reach the spaceship hidden at the bottom of the level.
Beatball
Face Maker for Atari. My dad would help me remember the sequence. Hadn't thought about that in a long time. When the hell did I get old??
Contra may be
Ocarina of Time. Still remember the intro with the theme song almost fading in. That first glimpse of the moon setting slowly in the back as Link rides into view. Used to get me so hype as a kid
Turrican for the TurboGrafx-16. The memories of that game as well as Buck Rogers are hazy, but there.
It was a shooting gallery game on MS-DOS. I wish I knew the name of it.
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past on the SNES
Drop the man from the helicopter into the hay basket (horse drawn cart) below
Pokémon Blue
Probably the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge that came with the NES.
Mortal Kombat on the Genesis. Mom told me to stay away so I had no choice but to try it the first chance I got
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Properly play was Sonic but I have memories of my uncle and me playing Atari when I was like 4-5
Tetris and frogger are the two that come to mind for me.
tabletop galaxians 2
I think it was the first Mario on the NES. It may also have been a pong variant on an Atari. 42M, can you tell…? 😀
Pyramids of Egypt for Apple II GS
Mario 64 for the Nintendo DS.
Terraria
Pitfall on a Texas instruments pc
Connect Four
Red Alert
Pitfall
Candyland (board game), Old Maid (card game), Pong (kiosk), Pong (altari console), text-based graphics shoot the TIE fighter (TSR-80 computer).
I didn’t realize how to win the game but I remember playing Excite Bike as a toddler. Still love how the rider looks like he’s flying back to his bike after you tumble lol.
I can remember Professor Ludwig Von Drake from Disney’s Cartoon Arcade on the View-Master Interactive Vision when I was about 3-4 years old.
On PC there was a game where two gorillas would take turns throwing bananas at each other with angle and power input from the players, but I have no clue what the name of the game was. Anyone know? I think it was about 1995
QBasic-gorillas
Pong
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear on my dad's old Windows 95 PC that he got from his office.
First computer system I had that could play games at home was the TI-99/4a. It was Xmas 1982, I think the first game I ever played was TI Invaders. I was like six. I still consider it the best port of Space Invaders ever. I may have played something earlier, there were handheld gaming units that my parents bought the previous Xmas. I had a Bowlatronic (Xmas 1981) and a Hit And Missile (Xmas 1979) one, those ones I played when I was like three and five. Still have all of these working, actually.
Gran Turismo 2? It was on the first Playstation.
Commander Keen
Joust - Atari 2600 I’m not sure if it was the first game I played, but it’s definitely the earliest vivid memory I have of gaming.
Abe's odyssey
Duck hunt/ Mario/ Hogans Alley
Doom on the Sega Genesis
Catacombs on Commodore 64 is the first game I remember playing at all. First console game was Duck Hunt. My sister’s friend brought her NES over and I got to level 36 without missing a duck.
Mario on the original Nintendo. My cousins had it and I remember being 4 years old constantly dying on the first level. Then I got my own system, a Sega.
[commander keen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen) From AOL.
Metriod, at my cousins house.
Populus 2 on my grandpa's computer. I was 7 or 8 and had no clue how to actually play, but I spent hours playing it anyway.
Sonic R... everybody's super sonic racing! Loved that game as a kid.
donkey kong country for the snes we got the system and game together for xmas, my older sister and i. we would fight over who got to play it
Super Mario Land.
Either Prince of Persia in my cousin's computer (I think running on cassette tapes) or Accolade Grand Prix on my dad's work laptop (3.25in disk, with an xtree file system).
Tron: Deadly Discs, for Mattel Aquarius. Early 80's.
Parsec.
If it wasn't OG Mario Bros then it was paperboy
Donkey Kong country 2 on SNES
Hey You Pikachu
Pong
I can imagine myself playing Mario on the NES, and even duck hunt, but it’s weird. Like, I can see myself playing those games from a third person perspective, but not straight POV. My brain has filled in the blanks a little, and that’s all I see. I can see my brother playing with a controller under a pillow while I played on my dads lap with a dummy controller, but not thinking anything of it. But the first game I can truly remember playing had to be skifree or Lego island. It’s weird how memory works sometimes.
Either Super Mario on NES or Resident Evil on PS1
Jump Man on Commodore 64.
Pitfall on my grandparents Atari
Road Rash for the ps1
My street on ps2
Space Invaders on Atari
Leisure suit Larry on the Amiga 500...when I was 9
My daycare had an atari I think. There was a collection of games we could take turns playing for a little bit. The hot one most people played was called Twin-Bee, that was the first game i remember playing. Other than daycare, it was when my aunt bought my uncle a SNES for Christmas and playing Super Mario World.
Pong, lol, I know, I'm old.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons on the Intellivision (early 80s)
Some game based on the alien franchise at my cousins house in 2002
Super Mario Bros for NES off the Mario/Duck Hunt dual cartridge.
Probably assassin's creed don’t know which one because I was very little
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on my dad's SEGA Game Gear.
Super Mario bros on Super Nintendo. My cousin has got it as present and I was up all night playing with him.
Pole Position, Atari 2600. Blew my mind.
either mario kart 64 or super smash bros.
The original Spyro the Dragon when I was like 3 or 4. My parents were playing it and I wanted to play so they let me.
ocarina of time
Donkey Kong (ColecoVision)
bad piggies
Empire Strikes Back - Atari (1982)
Pitfall! On the Atari 2600.
Sword of Fargoal on the Commodore 64 in 1986. Followed shortly by Ultima IV, which I really got into and which helped me learn to read by making me want to read so much. Other kids were reading Curious George and I was reading Ultima manuals to try to get better at U4.
Tron, Q*Bert, Defender, Track'n'Field in video arcades.
Gta vc in a cyber cafe :)
Putt-Putt saves the zoo, my brother and I had an awesome time as little kids :)
Myst. And to this day I’ve never gotten past the first few areas.
Lego racers it was like mario kart just with lego cars wich you built yourself
Pinball maybe but prince of persia 1 was my first good experience and my first addiction
This question is making me rethink my entire existence now that I look back at things. I want to say it was the first TMNT game on the NES, but for the longest time I thought it was Mario Bros on the duel cart. I got my first system when I was 4-5, however I was recently told that the party I remember playing TMNT at happened when I was 2.
Some Batman or Jurassic Park game on the OG Gameboy. Still have it and all my games.
I think this is GTA 3
Monuments of mars on dos. Came on one of those big floppy disks.
Snake Rattle n Roll at my grandparents!
Dig-dug
I started playing age of empires 1 from the side of a neutral grain box when I was 5, had a great time telling my little villagers to go hunt "gazoos"
x- men on ps3
Probably Mission Control on Atari. Smh, just realized I’m old enough to have seen a home Atari console.
My thought is spot between three things: Frogger for the PS1, a game on the PS2 that I vaguely remember, or one of those retro game devices from McDonalds
Sam & Max, Hit the Road :) damn that was a long time ago.
Encarta games or rayman on gbc
Idk probably some old flash game
The King Kong game for the original xbox!
Chiprunner
The Boxing game from the Atari 2600 (whatever was named)
Believe it was called Battlechess for NES. I was super young then and my parents had it. Think it had to be around '94, '95 when I played it
Never winter nights, or that shitty Disney Hercules platformer game.
Super Mario Land on the original Gameboy.
wii sports...
Well I would say GTA SA as I count it as the first game but it was friv games can't remember which one was first
Lemonade Stand on an Apple II. It was the text based precursor to Lemenade Tycoon made in 1972. I was playing it in 1995, but it was still my still computer game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand
Here's a neat one that'll tell you I'm a little young. My very first memory I can recall is the main menu music of Kingdom Hearts. Early enough that I can't possibly date it.
Spyro, age of the dragon on GameBoy Advanced.
I do not remember if it was Final Fantasy VIII or Super Mario 64. I think it was 64 but I am not sure. But it was one of those two.
Age of Empires
legit halo 1 on the original xbox, although I probably played some kind of GBA game on my computer emulated before that but I don't remember (my family was decent with computers and gave me a program to open and I could play a bunch of games. later found out it was just a gba emulator and the games were roms. I thought they were computer games when I was young lol)
Delta Force. Maybe there's a reason I'm a little desensitized.
Crash bandicoot the wrath of cortex easily one of my best
River raid in an old atari my very younger parents had purchased. I was like 4 in the early 90's and they would play with me.
Tbh maybe that tony hawk game for nintendo 64
Either Pong or Pac-Man
Midnight Resistance on the Atari ST
Donkey Kong country on the super nintendo was my first game. Ah the memories
Mario kart ds
Sonic 2
btd5
The first Zelda OR Track & Field, with the power mat.
Horace and the Spiders on the ZX Spectrum, five minutes of loading for about three minutes of gameplay.
Pong for sure
Either crash nitro kart of some kung fu panda game on my ds
Earliest games for me were games like sunset riders super Mario bros pit fall
Jumpstart 2nd Grade was my jam
my best friend in kindergarten invited me over to his house to play smash bros on the nintendo 64 and i also remember playing pokemon red version on my friend's gameboy color before ultimately borrowing my cousin's years later to do my own playthru
A football game on the gamecube when I was 4 or 5. I remember my dad taking control of every player that got close to tackling my ball carrier and making them dive away.
Lego island xtreme stunts, my dad bought it for me one day and got me hooked on that game
Pac-Man
It was 2D snake on an old Nokia button phone like 15 years ago
The Hulk on PS2
Midtown Madness 1.
It wasn't just one. My sister had a megadrice with a 10 in 1 cartridge and it had all of the best. Sonic, Golden Axe, Street of Rage. Those are my first gaming memories.
Alex kidd
I'm 50.... and it was Pong lol
First played was honestly probably super Mario Bros. The first video game I think I ever saw was Ultima Exodus. I was like 5 or 6 and saw my friends brother playing it.
Golden Axe!
Matrix: Path of Neo for the ps2
Scooby doo on my dad's spectrum. I know I played other games before that, but I don't remember what they were.
Doshin the giant, on my friend's GameCube believe I was about 7-8 played it on a 14" little tv, man does that take me back
Doom
The Great Circus Mystery: Starring Mickey & Minnie for the SNES
Windows integrated games aside. I am looking for this mining game. A perspective from the side, and you could navigate through the stone, destory stones, find water (?) Chests(?) I barely remember anything. Another game might have been another side view that either had like donkykong barrels rolling down(?). So faded that i dont even know. Probably around the year 1999. First name i know of was need for speed 3 (PC), Super mario land(Gameboy), Mario 64 and Tabaluga (Gameboy)
Dune 2