The first video game you remember playing?

[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 loverAsian girls lover's icon]

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.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

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.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

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.

 

[fishboneKiller]

it was either Super Mario Bros 3 or Super Mario Galaxy, i couldn't have been any older than 3 but i remember playing both of those around the same time and being completely captured by them. i remember also being very confused by the concept of having to press select to select a menu option and pressing start to select it, instead of using the dpad and A button.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

The original Zelda. I couldn't resist popping in that gold cartridge.

 

[trickybus]

An odd little PC game called The Neverhood. I still remember it to this day because it's all claymation: miniature clay models of characters and locations all moved by hand under a camera.

It's also the earliest memory I have of a game that inflicted a month's worth of emotional damage.

 

[Aziamuth]

When I was a kid I received my first console, a Game Boy Advance and it came with a game bundled. However, I don't remember if it was Super Mario World or Yoshi's Island...

 

[DragonMals]

Ducktales on the damn GameBoy. Yes, before Invadazoid and Shape Shifter (which are alsl wondeful classic games I remember fondly playing) Its the first video game Ive touched in around 2007-08 and its fhe only one from that time period that I still can't beat even with the skills of a average Magical Drop player. How? Maybe cause it uses the same engine as Mega Man, which its also ridiculous in its own ways...

 

[McDoob]

The firs game I remember playing was Donkey Kong on the C64 at the grand old age of six.

Honestly, playing the game wasn't the part I remember most. It was typing in all the code, over and over again. I didn't have a tape (or disk) drive to begin with, so I had to type it in if I wanted to play. And every...single...time...one of my little sisters (or a parent) would turn it off before I was finished playing (sometimes I'd leave it on for days). Got me soo mad! In fact, my temper tantrums over this very thing is what got me a tape drive. But, I did learn how to touch type before I finished grade one.
-McD

EDIT: imagine my reaction when I discovered that one of my sisters had recorded music over my tape full of 'noise'. I really wish I had been an only child. XD

 

[regnor]

Hook for the Sega MegaDrive. Still gotta beat this one.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

My parents used video games as a tool to get me to learn to read when I was a kid, so I had already been gaming for a couple years before I started forming really solid memories, and I'm not sure which game between Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, Breath of Fire III, Final Fantasy 8, and Twisted Metal III is the earliest I can remember playing, but I'm sure it's one of them.

 

[FrancoEdge41]

Super Mario Bros, Excite bike, TMNT 1, Burger time

In the arcade, Yie Ar Kung Fu at a birthday party in one of those private arcades before Dave & Busters / Chucky Cheese took over everything.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

BUG! specifically the PC version. idk how it got there but it was on the family computer. I also remember some monster truck game on there but I've never been able to find what it was called. I only realized the title of Bug! once I started collecting for the Saturn. Had a crazy nostalgia trip when I first played that version.

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

Chip n' Dale on the NES. My parents video taped themselves playing it and put it on in front of me with the controller in my hands when I was suuuuper little, so I thought I was playing. Naturally it ended up being my first actual game, too. Still love that they did that for me.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Sadly, it's not a deep pull or interesting game in my case. I might have played something before my mom got us an NES, but the first I remember is Super Mario Bros. I'm such a basic bitch! I wish I could remember the first arcade game I played. If I had to guess, it was probably The Simpsons. I loved the show for most my childhood and I know that was always one of my favorite arcade games, so I could see myself being drawn to it immediately.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

I remember my dad letting me play Heretic, we had the shareware version tho.

 

[Kryon_340]

It was either Pokémon Pearl, Pokémon Arcoíris (a weird spanish romhack a cousin had), New Super Mario Bros Ds or the Doom shareware flash port.