what are your guys first gaming experiences?

[Bobmeboi]

Mine had to be when I was like 3 or 2 my family lived in a townhouse and they had a community center
and in side that had a Wii with Mario kart Wii, and I F***ING sucked at it I was lucky to get better than 12th and every blue moon get over 10th.
so ya that's my first gaming experience what yours?

 

[Abatata]

I think it was on Nokia 3310

 

[windy]

It was Goof Troop for the SNES, I was already 7 so I can remember quite well. It was in one of these "cyber cafe" like places, but with video game consoles instead of PCs, quite common in the 90s and early 2000s around my place.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Quite hard to remember which is first, but I did remember killing it on Snake 3D (or I thought I was)

 

[burnout2]

My first gaming experience ever was getting put in timeout at preschool because I wanted to play Lego Island during naptime.

The silver lining to this traumatic event from my infancy is that I almost never play games past midnight now.

 

[What's His Face]

Arcade Zaxxon and the tabletop Centipede. Needed a step stool to play Zaxxon.

 

[DanVzare]

Honestly, I was too young to remember. I'd have to have been one or two years old. Chances are though it would've been through my dad playing on his Amiga. Probably Dizzy, Bubble Bobble, Car-Vup, or something along those lines.

How anyone nowadays manages to remember their first gaming experience is beyond me. It's like trying to remember the first time you ever watched something on a television.

 

[Ppapeno7135]

My first experience was with my parents' Atari 2600 that they bought, using the excuse that it was for me (I was 3 at the time). I barely played it when they got it, of course, but at the age of 4 I started playing it consistently.
I'm very fond of some 2600 games for this reason, like Demon Attack and Seaquest, and still play them to this day.

 

[Chicken]

My first experience with games was with a hacked PSP my Dad gave me as a gift. First games I ever played on there were Bomberman on NES and Death Jr. I wasn't good at them but loved playing anyways. Another neat memory from that time was my mom teaching me where some hidden 1 Ups were in Mario 1.

Sadly that PSP is long gone now, got sold back in 2012 in order to get the deluxe edition of the Wii U cheaper, my dad and I thought we would have just as much fun on it as we did with the Wii... we did not.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Earliest I can remember was playing Front Line on the Famicom.

It wasn't much (in fact, it has aged horrendously), but it was what brought me here ;D

 

[sandogma sandogma]

Probably from the Atari 2600 console that my parents gave me. I can't remember which one I played first, but I do know the first few games I had played on that system:
Boxing

Combat

Defender

 

[Cheela Cheela Cheela's icon]

I have two memories, i don't know what happens first but i clearly remember me playing with my dad Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3 via Nesticle and playing Crash Bandicoot and Pacman world via my cousin psx

 

[sandogma sandogma]

I have two memories, i don't know what happens first but i clearly remember me playing with my dad Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3 via Nesticle and playing Crash Bandicoot and Pacman world via my cousin psx

28 years later and Nesticle is still the funniest name for an emulator I've ever come across ?

 

[Deleted member 2077]

Do these things count? I had a lot of these bricks when I was a kid.

If not, then my first experiences were with the NES, tho I think I had a clone "La Family"... mario, contra, donkey kong, one of those must have been my first one.

 

[GoodWall_533]

My uncle had a bootleg NES and i remember playing games like Super Mario Bros. and The Adventures of Bayou Billy on it. That and seeing some kids older than me play GTA San Andreas in a Internet Café.

 

[bjork]

The earliest I remember at home is Freeway on 2600, for arcade it was Taito's Alpine Ski at a 7-11. Not sure which was first, though.

 

[Karnik]

Something similar has already been asked by other users. Anyway, I suddenly found my first video game (arcade machine) in the bar of my childhood, between the usual pinball and an old faulty jukebox: it was the legendary Space Invaders. Regarding consoles, a DMG-001 with Tetris and a NES with Tennis. Regarding the PC, a 286 with the ms-dos version of Arkanoid.

P.S. OP, congratulations for choosing the most annoying and irritating avatar on the face of the earth. When I see it I suddenly feel like throwing up. ?

 

[LUNARMYTH]

Super Mario Land and Tetris on DMG/Game Boy, they were my older cousin's and she ended up giving them to me after I showed immediate interest in playing them. Thus the gaming cycle began.

 

[Bonkers225]

Chip N Dale on the NES. Me and my cousins had a grand time playing through it, especially picking each other up and throwing us off the ledge to our doom, which resulted in a nice punch to the shoulder or a headlock.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

TI-994A (Texas Instruments) - mostly edutainment but was still decent fun

Commodore 64 - dad brought home one that someone gave him. got into it a lot, wrote some crappy progs (aka apps ofc) n even played some tape drive stuff that took half-a-weekend to load seemingly. my fav stuff off there was the 1P-txt adventures such as Maniac Mansion, Zak McCracken, The Tracer Sanction, Mindshadow. spent a lot of time on some other ones though like Skate or Die, G.I. Joe... frustrating n rewarding experiences overall, equal-parts

when I first saw OG Legend of Zelda at my friend's house with his aunt n uncle playin it, it was like hypnotic magic unfolding in my brain. my fam got me a Sega Master System 1st though, which I'm so glad of cuz it began my lifelong affinity for many things Japanese, particularly music-wise... not to mention Sega's innovation (which outweighed their execution of those innovative ideas I will admit though love most of their entire history from early goings to now... regrettably most of their amazing franchises are basically flatlined but I won't let hope die so easily...)

...and arcades of early-to-mid-80's all the way to its last dying breaths as the millennium came to a close I had to be dragged kicking n screaming from with pockets still jingleshaking... and in the 90's was heavy into the 2D fighting scene so me n friends were at arcades more often than anywhere else

too much post to read but most of my posts/msgs are like that haha.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Probably playing Frogger on the Apple IIGS. My parents are teachers and we always had computers around the house since they were working on their graduate work for career advancement. Later we got the NES SMB/Duck Hunt/Zapper bundle that was all the rage in the late eighties, but I was gaming before that.

 

[Cu-Neo]

A lot of Gamecube games. Melee, Pokemon XD, Sonic Heroes, riders and Lego Star wars 1. That mustafar level was hard as hell as a kid ?. Later I got a DS and I meet a more franchises like Zelda, Star fox, Phantasy star and Dragon quest

 

[Dyne]

I must have been 4 or 5 years old and I remember the dentist had a Popeye arcade machine in the waiting room. I remember playing it, but I don't remember using quarters. Which makes me suspect that I just jostled the controls around while watching the demo mode play, like a toddler does.
I also remember Pac-Man being in a lot of places.

Home console? I remember my friend got an NES and we spent all day playing Super Mario Bros. in his living room. His parents were even taking turns. When somebody finally made it to King Koopa in the first castle, I remember thinking it was so cool that there was a fire breathing dragon in the game.

 

[bobobobo]

Boxing

OMG that game looks unprecedented! og victorious boxers!

Post automatically merged: Dec 20, 2024

gave it a go, it's visceral!

 

[android]

The first game I played was Tetris on the OG Game Boy. Must have been Christmas 1993-94 (I think). Played it nonstop with my dad for years. Still have the Christmas picture. Wish I still had the cartridge and the Gameboy.