The first video game you remember playing?

[olli64pc]

Mine was super mario sunshine I love that game back when I was 4 in 2010, I still do and super mario Eclipse is one of my favorite rom hacks because of that fact

 

[retroking84]

The first game i ever played maybe is Arkanoid on the C64, but my "love at first sight" was with Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo guided me through many years of great challenge and gaming. I will never forget it!!

 

[partymembervii]

i remember playing duck hunt and super mario bros with my sister when i was barely walkin n she was barely talkin and we had a plug n play namco arcade thing that i loved especially as a wee lass. those systems both belong to my mom, i also played the hell out of her psx and original xbox

 

[TropicalFreeze3499]

either Donkey Kong Country or The Lion King on SNES

 

[neromero]

If I can remember correctly, it'll pretty much be super Mario on my gameboy advance clone

 

[Deleted member 179251]

I am wondering if it is gonna be a common answer, but despite being born in 2000s, Super Mario Bros was also my first game like ever. XD
My parents had this bootleg nintendo type console, that ran like some older nintendo games like Mario, Contra, and Castlevania (and a few others that I cannot remember)

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Ohh...and it also had excite bike, Ice climber, Kid Icarus, and Adventure Island. The version of Adventure Island I had though was a supposed bootleg romhack that replaced the main character with Pikachu XD

I have been trying to find that bootleg romhack for ages, but nothing ever shows up.

 

[gothic soda]

Back in like 2012 or something, my dad bought a DVD player and it came with one of those "100 BILLION games in one!" DVDs, which were just 15 bootlegged NES games repeated, and the one i remember playing over and over again was Sky Destroyer. (Which i think contributed with my love for aircraft)

 

[Matricks]

Dad toke me in the 70s in the Arcades.
There was forgotten first an era of early 'electromechca' "video" games:

 

[TerrySaw]

I can't remember exactly what the first game I ever played was because as far back as my memory goes I have always been aware of videogames and how to play them (even if I wasn't very good). What I do know is that it must have been a PC game because we didn't get a console until the Wii.

My dad is an IT worker professionally and always had lots of PC games. Some of the first games I ever remember playing are various educational games designed for kids like Jump Start 1st Grade, Humongous Entertainment point and click games like Freddi Fish and Spy Fox, and some top down management games like Age Of Empires or Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. My dad also had MAME set up with a ton of arcade roms too, so it may have been an arcade game.

 

[Alex1111]

It was when i was like 4-5 years old, i barely remember my first game but dad bought a Wii back then (we still have it) and probably my first game either Wii Sports, Unreal Tournament 99 (PC), Racing games or probably some kid friendly CD game i had for our old pc... Matemagica! amazing game i had as a little kid.

 

[Super Funky Piece]

my parents had an NES with the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt pack and Paper Boy, so one of those probably. still tilts to this day thinking how they just threw it all out one day when i wasn't looking

 

[Sonic Boomer]

I can't remember if I posted in this topic, but this is such a great topic.
The first game I remember PLAYING was City Bomber, until then I'd just mash buttons and pretend I was playing while the demos were running.
City Bomber, the cabinet we had here was really awesome, it had that special handle controller which I never saw again in other arcades and I was loving it.

City Bomber would become one of my favorite games of my childhood actually.

It was such a surreal experience for me.

I MIGHT have tried playing Tarzan, rather Taito's Jungle King before but I can't say for sure, my dad was very good at it but I can't tell if I was just mashing buttons or tried playing it with an actual coin inserted.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I played that game when i was 5 .
It blew my mind while the game aint so great to play but the soundtrack and the action overall to whip monsters and ...birds ... made this game so great for me .

 

[bigstinkie]

super mario bros and dunk hunt combo cartridge
i liked the mario and i liked the shooting of flying creatures by pointing a firearm at them it was the perfect game for me

 

[Swagmata]

Some of my absolute earliest memories are of playing this when I was like three years old, One of my favorite mid games to this day

 

[Den MDM Den MDM]

I remember having a Sega Genesis when I was prolly one year old, and I remember playing the first Sonic. That and having GTA San Andreas on my mom's PC so they were the first games I've ever played

 

[squarezero]

Pong. And yes, I'm that old.

 

[Guilherme130]

The first one that comes to mind is Mario Kart 64

 

[Sheepy765]

The first game that I’ve ever played was Legend of Zelda on the NES when i was like, 3. The first game I played where I actually knew what was going on was Golden Sun on the GBA.

 

[FrootyLoopsSamurai]

My first game was on the fat gameboy. It would have either been tetris or final fantasy legend 2, but I don't remember which came first. I distinctly remember my dad showing me how to get into battles in FFL2. I never beat that game as a kid, but I did go back and beat it about 30 years later.

 

[nintara]

the first game i remember playing is a finding nemo game, not the ps2 one, but a smaller flash-game style one that i can't find anywhere nor am i particularly invested in finding. though i have found this amazon listing that comes the closest to what i played.

other than that, my earliest gaming memories include smoke attack,

rc cars,

and a euroshmup that used 3d renders as sprites that i haven't made any effort to find so far.

 

[Onionstarz]

Centipede on my sisters Atari 2600 (when it was new)

 

[symplily]

Kirby adventure from Nes

 

[fake-kun]

Man, I can't even remember what I did two days; how am I supposed to remember something from years ago?

 

[Natsuyasumi]

Super Mario World. When I was probably 5 or 6. I was an instant fan, but it would be at least another 5 or 6 years before I finally got to have a SNES of my own.