The first video game you remember playing?

[nicosucks]

Oddworld Abes Odyssey. I had the ps1 demo disc and always wanted the full game. Finally played it 20 yrs later

 

[LostKing]

I remember playing a game called "Tank 1990" or "Battle City" and "Road Fighter." They were really fun!

When I was a kid living in rural Southeast Asia, I didn't have access to the popular video games that others played. However, my dad gave me my first (bootleg) NES, which had a collection of 10,000 games in 1. I thought it was the coolest thing ever!

The Nintendo PolyStation? That's amazing lol.

 

[Asian girls lover]

I think it was Prince of Persia for the DOS system, PC IBM. I was 6 or 7.

I remember playing a game called "Tank 1990" or "Battle City" and "Road Fighter." They were really fun!

When I was a kid living in rural Southeast Asia, I didn't have access to the popular video games that others played. However, my dad gave me my first (bootleg) NES, which had a collection of 10,000 games in 1. I thought it was the coolest thing ever!

I had this one too when I was a kid.

 

[Jeff]

My first gaming experience was Super Mario Bros. at age 2. My two older sisters showed me how to play, and I started to get hooked. And for some reason, I knew where the warp zones were. These were the games my parents got for me and my sisters for the NES.

 

[Michael Frank]

Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Riders on PC when i was 5 in 2006, and i regret nothing!
On NES Super C, Batman, Mario and Contra.

 

[petermelnick]

Link’s Awakening for my sixth birthday. My mom got me a Game Boy and it all went downhill from there…

 

[CozmeZek]

Tank 1990
Boomerman
Tetris
Super Mario Bros

 

[medisinn]

It would have been something on the NES. For whatever reason, one of my aunts or uncles either gave my parents or sold to them a NES and a bunch of games when I was pretty young, like maybe 3 or 4? Maybe it was 3, I was born in '87 and remember various SNES and Genesis games coming out, so I would have been gaming for a bit by then. Based on what I remember having and not buying, it would have been one of these:

Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros. 3
Legend of Zelda
Excitebike
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II
A Boy and His Blob
Popeye
Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout

Pretty random thinking back, and there was a NES in the basement at my grandma and grandpa's also, I'd end up playing it when I was bored and waiting for the rest of the family to be ready to leave family gatherings.

It seems weird in retrospect, since no one else in my family was into video games, and going by inflation a Nintendo wouldn't have been cheap by any means back then. Games were more expensive too, so why were there so many NES systems around? Some friends of my parents had a NES also when we'd go over to visit. Somehow the system was ubiquitous and omnipresent, kind of like the Wii was for a while in the late 2000s/early 2010s. A lot of people seemingly just had one for some reason, even if it rarely got used.

 

[ohcalypsoh]

My first console was the snes, but before that I have distinct memories of playing games on my parents PC like Sims, Road Rash, & old city building games like Zeus: Master of Olympus & Pharaoh/Cleopatra. Also remember playing a bit of Baldur's Gate but I doubt I made it that far.

 

[Meekoos]

Could have been either Toy Story, The Lion King or Paper Boy 2 on the SNES hard to remember who was the first but I'm fairly certain the first PS1 title was a Sesame Street game.

 

[TamagatchiTamaHiro24]

I'm a younger member here. I have vague memories of what I now know was ExciteTruck and even memories of the launch night of Super Smash Bros. Brawl! My uncle brought that game over, played Classic Mode as Link, and my memory comes from him fighting Master Hand as Link. For years after, I would replicate the "evil hand" with my toys, because it was something I could actually do!

Actual first game I played would have to be the Wii port of Cars. Yes. My first game was Pixar's Cars... for Wii. I have memories of driving poorly and getting stuck between the Cozy Cones. My dad would have to come help me out! I think that's why I hated motion controls for so long.

As for the first game I OWNED and loved, that came a few years later. One Christmas later, I got a DS with these two games.

 

[bloodywing]

I think Black Lamp on Atari ST, together with double dragon and treasure island dizzy, space harrier and super hang on

I sucked at all of those games.