The first video game you remember playing?

[JaguarGod6]

My first console game was definitely Keystone Kapers, on a near perfect Atari 2600 knockoff. When it comes to PC, it was either The Sims, Diablo II or Worms Armageddon. Not sure.

 

[What's His Face]

My earliest gaming memory was using a step-stool to (barely) reach the controls to arcade Pac Man & Zaxxon at a local restaurant/bar (kids were allowed in bars in that state by law at the time as long as they didn't sit AT the bar... which happened all the time anyway).

I sucked at the games, but then again I was three-years-old.

 

[Toppis Toppis]

Uniracers for SNES was the first video game I ever played

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Uniracers for SNES was the first video game I ever played

If you still have it it's worth quite a bit since it had a limited release due to a lawsuit with Pixar.

 

[Toppis Toppis]

If you still have it it's worth quite a bit since it had a limited release due to a lawsuit with Pixar.

My dad owns it and its actually pal version

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

I don't really remember the first one, but I could think of a few contenders that it could have been. On PSX it could have been one of the first three Twisted Metal games, a Toy Story game or one of the Army Men games.

It could have also been a N64 game. When I was very young I had a N64, but I only have a vague memory of playing one of the games. All I remember about it was that I controlled a space ship like Star Fox and that the game had multiplayer on it. If I could remember what the game was that would be awesome, but unfortunately I've got nothing

 

[S O D A]

It was something on the original GB probably ether Dexterity, Super RC Pro-Am, or Super Mario Land. Got my cousin's gameboy when I was very young with a handful of games.

 

[NemissaFotia]

For some reason I have really vivid memories of mine. Boulder Dash on the Commodore 64. My family had one well into the 90s and I'd have to ask my brother to set it up cause I was like 4 and obviously didn't know how to load a C64 game from floppy disk.

Love that game.

 

[Jotaro]

the bouncer, on ps2


good times

 

[mini pancake]

This is so hard to answer because it was a million years ago. I'd die to know what was the first game I played!...we'll never know the answer to that ?
I had a "famiclone" pretty early, so it was most likely Super Mario Bros. (this one..)

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I also have vivid memories of playing these titles:

• Adventure Island 1 and 2
• Elevator Action
• Road Fighter
• City Connection
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Monster in My Pocket
• Dick Tracy
• Mappy
• Formula 1 Sensation

My niece on the other hand I can tell you exactly what was the first game she played.
She was born in 2020, at age 3 without knowing what a console was or how to work a stick she picked up my always dusty Wii U and got into Super Mario 3D world...
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At first she tried to use it as a tablet (the only thing she knew) after explaining to her she was supposed to use physical controls she started trying to move the character, it took her weeks of every day practice but she can now play the game.
She also played Super Mario kart 8 and sometimes, she isn't even the last one...this is incredible to me. She has no concept of winning or losing, she would randomly stop racing to admire the cows crossing the streets or to say hi to the NPC mushrooms spectating on the side of the road.

She's now WAY into Yoshi Woolly World, she can actually finish levels and see secrets I don't even notice (remember she's 3 years old!) but she does get scared of enemies and hand over the console to me to take care of them, I explained to her they can't harm her but she's still not sure.

I'm convinced that by age 5 she would master any game I can throw at her (maybe I'm ruining her life idk lol)


What about you guys?

Megaman 2 and sonic 2 who introduced me in the Retro gaming

 

[Jon-Patrick-S]

My mom told me the first game I played was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on her Mega Drive but I can't particularly remember it myself, my earliest gaming memories I can actually recall are on the PS1 with Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy VII.

 

[MKC]

My journey started with Jungle Book on the GB around 95 or 96
I had no idea what I was doing nor what I was holding. I wish I kept that GB.

 

[kuroninneko]

Mike Tyson Punch Out. I could beat the first dude but not the second. The third level was impossible. I still remember escaping my room late at night and trying to turn the TV on to play more. The TVs back then were huge and I had no idea how to make it work so I wandered the house until I got caught. Thats one of my earliest memories and to this day I still play video games late into the night

 

[LaserMoose]

I grew up with my father's NES and Genesis, so it was likely something on one of those two systems. Out of what he owned, it could've been the Duck Hunt/Super Mario compilation cart, or Greatest Heavyweight Boxing.

I still have the games he gave to me!

That being said, most of my early gaming memories are from the DS, as well.

 

[Gamma]

Sonic the hedgehog... For the Mega Drive.

 

[Mecha_]

I actually remember quite well, i was about 6 or 7 years old and another kid from the family had a PS1 with the Aladin game and the sims 1. I remember thinking it was very funny to gather a bunch of sims in the pool and drown them, and preferred Aladin because i could hit stuff and jump around.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Super Smash Brothers Melee.

 

[Jambhala]

I think it was Pokémon Emerald for the GBA, my parents weren't super big into games so I had to beg them to get me a GBA because I saw my friends playing it.

 

[MicheIe]

Serious Sam TFE.
My dad was a huge fan of Serious Sam and when i was little he'd let me play it.

 

[Skeleben]

Rayman Revolution on the ps2. Got it for my 4th birthday.

 

[Trix_]

I don't know exactly, but I got into gaming through my brother. He was born in the early 80s. My mum's financial situation was good around that time (80s-90s), so she bought quite a few systems for him, including a NES clone, a Mega Drive (Genesis), SNES and others. Here in South America most consoles are imported but at the time we also had local manufacturers making clones or bringing consoles over to Brazil.
My first gaming experiences were probably around the age of 3-4 years old. I remember playing beat 'em ups with my brother such as one of the TMNT games, River City Ransom, Battletoads and others.
I remember the game Urban Champion which took me almost 20 years to find, because I would confuse it with River City Ransom, and in my mind the colour palette was completely different.
My mother always liked the Mario games and they were basically the only thing that she would play.
I also recall my brother and one of my relatives playing and discussing Sonic The Hedgehog.

I had some experiences in the computer lab at school, and I thought that it was all so neat, so I asked Santa for a computer. At school they had Rayman, an Aladdin CD-ROM game, and other stuff that I don't know anymore.
Soon enough, Santa gifted me a PC and we immediately got internet access. That must have been in late 2004. Although my memories and old files are all from 2005 and beyond.

My brother already knew about emulation through gaming magazines, so the first thing he did after setting up the computer, was download emulators for me to play. I spent a lot of time with GBA emulation specifically, even though my English skills were non-existent, and sometimes we would play together.
I also got into virtual worlds and MMOGs in late 2005 or so... but that's a story for another day.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

There are a few options for my "first" game, mostly because I remember playing them all at a relatively young age, and I can't be 100% sure which one came first.

Sonic 2 - Played at various friends' houses in my childhood
Secret of Monkey Island - Played with my dad on his work PC pre-5 years old
Super Mario Land - Played on some relative's gameboy ( I don't know which one, everyone had a sodding gameboy)

 

[Tetronomicon]

Not 100% sure. It's a toss up between two games considering I can't remember the order I played them in. Though considering one was an arcade game and the other was an arcade port, I guess I have an early memory of both ways of playing games back in the day.

Between the two, I think it was Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 in 1989. And honestly? I think it's... okay. Just okay. It's overly basic and lacking a lot compared to the arcade version. But I think I was okay with that considering it was on a smaller system than the original game. I was a kid and that was how I tended to think about technology back then: Bigger piece of technology was more powerful than the smaller one. (Which isn't entirely untrue in the right context. A supercomputer that takes up a huge room is more powerful than the most expensive workstations we have today).

Anyway, the other game I vaguely remember playing was the arcade version of Donkey Kong. I think I played it at a university arcade (or at least one nearby the university). Can't remember if I played it before or after Pac-Man on the 2600. But I think it was after that.

 

[JusaikiJusaiki's icon]

That's a hard question to answer honestly, I grew up in my grandmas house since I was 3 years old and her sons - my uncles - had big age gaps between them, I remember in the early 2000s they were still playing on old Nintendo's and arcade machines I can't remember all the games, but I can't forget the Olympic & football games but if I can say first game I played and liked ? That would be Vigilant 8 on the PSX that game was pure joy for me, and it was the first game I booted up on my new PSX I bought that year

 

[rugal]

my first game was playing super mario bros on nes with my brother