The first video game you remember playing?

[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 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 icon Nidoking Nidoking]

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.

 

[pasin7ru]

i do not remember, but the earliest memory could be of little fighter 2

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

My first game ever is air strike 3d a game where you control a helicopter and blow things up.

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i do not remember, but the earliest memory could be of little fighter 2

A fellow little fighter player? First time I ever see one , best character?

 

[pasin7ru]

My first game ever is air strike 3d a game where you control a helicopter and blow things up.

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A fellow little fighter player? First time I ever see one , best character?

i think it was popular in my country, that is why i could play it. my father, who must have been in his 50s at the time, installed it for me.

i liked louis, bcz he had a second form
first form he had armor
second form he had a shirt, which made him more powerful
somehow

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

i think it was popular in my country, that is why i could play it. my father, who must have been in his 50s at the time, installed it for me.

i liked louis, bcz he had a second form
first form he had armor
second form he had a shirt, which made him more powerful
somehow

Oh yeah his armor if I remember right had him delayed damaged animation which meant you could react better.

And in his shirt form with the trident he could do wonders OP but usually unlocked at low health.

 

[Kamako]

Or, what was your earliest gaming memory of watching someone else play a game?

The first game I ever played was Sonic 2.
The speed, the music, the vibrancy of the colours, the sense of accomplishment/anticipation in getting just a little further in a level, it all felt pretty magical to me, and it still does.

 

[No-Bo-Dy]

Lolo on the nes with my mother.

 

[Kamako]

Lolo on the nes with my mother.

I've never heard of Lolo, but that rules

 

[beefbuff123ely]

Or, what was your earliest gaming memory of watching someone else play a game?

The first game I ever played was Sonic 2.
The speed, the music, the vibrancy of the colours, the sense of accomplishment/anticipation in getting just a little further in a level, it all felt pretty magical to me, and it still does.

rayman origins xbox 360

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

The OG Sonic and I can say it’s a family affair.

 

[Kamako]

rayman origins xbox 360

What a great game to start with. A superb platformer. I'm guessing you've playing Rayman Legends too? If you haven't played the original for PlayStation you're in for such a treat. One of the brightest and toughest platformers I've ever played.

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The OG Sonic and I can say it’s a family affair.

Spring Yard Zone's music remains one of the dankest tracks ever committed to a video game OST. Robotnik also felt like a proper threat imo because of his boss music

 

[Hiero]

Ice Hockey on NES. My first game, the reason I ask for a NES. (And Ice Climbers who was in the pack)

 

[DragonMals]

Ducktales for the GameBoy. That gams is Dark Souls to me. Skill issue? Possibly, cause mt brother is able to finish that 6-7 times yet i cannot get a life out of the game without dying.

Maybe thats why hes into Mega Man more than I am...

 

[RunicOrangejuice]

Crystal Castles for the Atari- the regular one, not the Master System.

 

[jon2]

Late '80s, Mario Bros on the NES, it was a cartridge bundled up with Galaga.

My bro and I played with Mario Bros (of course, as the younger I was Luigi) then our mom played Galaga all night till morning. Afterwards she had a big fight with our dad cuz of that ?

 

[Kamako]

Ice Hockey on NES. My first game, the reason I ask for a NES. (And Ice Climbers who was in the pack)

Did you have a fave team to play as?