The first video game you remember playing?

[solidbatman]

Growing up, my dad had a computer that I apparently loved playing pinball on. I have very fragmentary memories of that and am not sure if that was the first one I played.

The first game I can definitively say I remember playing was a Xmas morning. My mom had bought a Super Nintendo for me with two games. Super Jurassic Park, and Super Mario Kart. Now, little me, not knowing who this weird Mario fella was or any of his odd looking friends were, and being in a full on "dinosaurs are the friggin coolest" phase that still honestly persists to this day, played Super Jurassic Park first. So, Super Jurassic Park is the first game I can for certain remember playing.

That game was tough. I couldn't beat it. Fortunately, my mom was incredibly patient with games and managed to beat it for me (along with Super Return of the Jedi. To this day, she still doesn't understand why me and my buddies are in awe of her for that).

 

[deadpixel01]

NES with Mario and Duck Hunt with the gun. But the most nostalgic game that made the most impact on me as a kid was when I first got the GBC with Pokemon Gold.

 

[grifoXD]

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?

As someone from the 2000s, my dream was a playstation 2, which my parents gave to me when I was 10, so not only I remember vividly the first games, but also how it was a really good day, my first game is Shadow the hedgehog, which was also my first contact with AAA 3D console game, so it blew my mind, and Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkashin 3, which I still love to play from day to day.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

Snake and tetris.

 

[Poltergeist]

I believe my first game was a PSX game, but what exactly it was, unfortunately, I can't clearly recall. It was most probably Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped.

 

[Leviafen]

Kirbys adventure on the nes in my uncles rv i think? I remember walking in on both my uncles playing it and they wanted me to try. All i can remember is going in and out of the same door over and over until they were like "alright thats good".

 

[Retro Doomer]

Probably Spongebob Battle for Bikini Botton but I am not sure.Or maybe Tak und die Macht des Juju and Doom 1 would also be a contenter but not as my fist game but one of the games i played early on.
And my Cover of Spongebob Battle for Bikini Botton is not there anymore i damaged it probably as a kid.

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Those are also some old Games but i rarely played them.Besides I lost the Cd a long time ago I really hate by older Games where you need 3 or more Cds to Install a game when you even just loose one CD well than tough luck buy the whole game again.my Memories on those Games are very foggy as i played them back than when there was still a Family Computer and i had no Pc of my own.

 

[Deleted member 3339]

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not my first game though but that's what I remember the most.

 

[Deleted member 58254]

It was sonic heroes on the PS2
I was so obsessed with it as a kid that for a talent show at summer camp I ran around in a circle trying to make a tornado like sonic and then got made fun of and cried lol

 

[foxpaws]

That would be Sonic 3 on the Genesis at my dad's gym at the time. I actually only found out it was 3 by revisting the game as an adult. Only because they were on the second zone and that was what I remembered the aesthetic being.

 

[tetrobroyg]

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...
View attachment 39

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?

First games was in between when renting them both in a long lost/forgotten in time Local video Store
The Games for N64 were Super Mario 64 And Spider-Man 2000 didn't know it was a port from PlayStation and Dreamcast (:

Freaken Monster Ock from the Spider-Man game scared the living Sh!takke outta me
And Rez from GEX Trilogy doesn't come close in 2nd with Bowser in the sky world

 

[eclipsa_butterfly]

I'm sure I started playing with some random minigames on PC with my father, I remember a game in particular that had a jumping dog who needed to take bones and avoid knives or something similar (it scared me a lot when the dog's head was cut and blood jumped off). Then I remember some games on PC, as "The Pink Panther", "Payuta and the Ice God", some games of Aladdin, and "Pirate Barbanera". My first console was PS1 and there I played Spyro a lot! These are the games I remember the most, but I'll never know which was the actual first, I was 3 I think when I started playing.

 

[Cosmiken]

I can't speak to the first video game I ever played, but the first one I owned was Sega 6-Pak for Genesis. It blew my tiny mind discovering Streets of Rage and Shinobi, and finally getting to play a Sonic game having only seen him on TV (voiced by Urkel) up to that point

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[Fergoose]

Revs (by Geoff Crammond), on the BBC Micro. The first ever true racing simulator released around 1983/84 (I played it a little later).

It still has perfectly functional graphics, great implementation of real tracks (different kerbs react differently) and what is still my favourite AI in a racing game. I play it fairly regularly 40 years after its release (on an emulator) and it doesn't get old or dull. If you play it, play Revs 4 tracks and enable driving assist, otherwise you are doomed.

Close behind on the BBC micro were Elite (amazing 3D space adventure) and 'Space Maze' aka 'A Maze in Space' (just a simple fun side-scrolling shooter).

 

[Deleted member 560402]

Might have been Empire Strikes Back for Atari 2600. Could have been Space Invaders.

 

[Yuki Senoue]

It was Swordquest Earthworld, for Atari. I was 3, I believe. I don't know why or how, but I remember this screen:

Revs (by Geoff Crammond), on the BBC Micro. The first ever true racing simulator released around 1983/84 (I played it a little later).

It still has perfectly functional graphics, great implementation of real tracks (different kerbs react differently) and what is still my favourite AI in a racing game. I play it fairly regularly 40 years after its release (on an emulator) and it doesn't get old or dull. If you play it, play Revs 4 tracks and enable driving assist, otherwise you are doomed.

Close behind on the BBC micro were Elite (amazing 3D space adventure) and 'Space Maze' aka 'A Maze in Space' (just a simple fun side-scrolling shooter).

Man, this is very impressive. 84? I wasn't even born yet!

 

[Mittr]

Also had a Famiclone, and it was either Super Mario Bros or Contra. Funny thing, as a kid I could no death run Contra, nowadays lets just say, I'm out of practice

 

[RageBurner]

Also had a Famiclone, and it was either Super Mario Bros or Contra. Funny thing, as a kid I could no death run Contra, nowadays lets just say, I'm out of practice

I feel the same about games I used to beat easily in the past.

 

[Mittr]

I feel the same about games I used to beat easily in the past.

I had time and patience (and not a lot of choice) so I played Contra a lot, now I am too spoiled for choice to grind until I get good enough again

 

[RageBurner]

I had time and patience (and not a lot of choice) so I played Contra a lot, now I am too spoiled for choice to grind until I get good enough again

Yes, I do think lack of choice was the prime factor that made us both good at (and tolerant with) nail bitingly hard games in the past.

 

[95tan - TheBestOS -]

Had to of been Dynasty Warriors 4.
I remember it so fondly. Hours, and hours, and hour spent. It gave me my first blue-light induced headache. It was the exact push I needed to know I loved video games. To this day, I still play it from time to time. Some character bios and lore are just clung to my mind like honey.
I play just about every Warriors entry still, regardless of series. Recently tried Gundam! And was- underwhelmed, but y'know they can't all be winners-

 

[RageBurner]

Had to of been Dynasty Warriors 4.
I remember it so fondly. Hours, and hours, and hour spent. It gave me my first blue-light induced headache. It was the exact push I needed to know I loved video games. To this day, I still play it from time to time. Some character bios and lore are just clung to my mind like honey.
I play just about every Warriors entry still, regardless of series. Recently tried Gundam! And was- underwhelmed, but y'know they can't all be winners-

It's curious (and good) that people are different. The Gundam ones are one of the few I actually find fun.

 

[95tan - TheBestOS -]

It's curious (and good) that people are different. The Gundam ones are one of the few I actually find fun.

GRRR!! NO, I CAN'T STAND OTHER OPINIONS!!!! ECHO MINE EXCLUSIVELY!!!!

seriously though-
I'm just not a fan of Gundam at all. Robot-y, mechanic-y, y-y stuff like that has never interested me too much. So it was only natural the game about it didn't get me either. Perhaps I'll try it again sometime. Just to make sure I do/don't like it.

 

[RageBurner]

GRRR!! NO, I CAN'T STAND OTHER OPINIONS!!!! ECHO MINE EXCLUSIVELY!!!!

seriously though-
I'm just not a fan of Gundam at all. Robot-y, mechanic-y, y-y stuff like that has never interested me too much. So it was only natural the game about it didn't get me either. Perhaps I'll try it again sometime. Just to make sure I do/don't like it.

Hahah.
Well, see, I'm on he opposite side of the spectrum and that pushed me to like it. I do love my mecha action.

 

[95tan - TheBestOS -]

Hahah.
Well, see, I'm on he opposite side of the spectrum and that pushed me to like it. I do love my mecha action.

I'm trying to like it! I want to understand the appeal so I can understand my friend more.
I'll see what I can condition my mind to do!