What was the earliest game you remember playing?

[Kamako]

Super Mario Bros 3 for me. I couldn't have been any older than 2 or 3, it's the oldest memory I still somewhat remember. I play Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 2 really young too. Getting knocked into the Dead Pool by the CPU was my first exposure to death as a concept and it messed baby me up a bit at the time.

Gaming can be seriously affecting at that age...I wonder about what occasionally. I suppose finding out about the concept of death through gaming can be a gentle way to introduce the subject, though Mortal Kombat is anything but gentle ?
Altered Beast had a similar role for me...quite surreal unsettling imagery in that one. I need to practice my death cry delivery

 

[CanicheSlayer]

Two possibilities (My memory is a bit fuzzy) :
1/ A crappy Amstrad (CPC 464) game named Dwarf.
2/ This :

 

[Kamako]

Either Donkey Kong Country or The Lion King on SNES. These thumbs were forged in fire.

Sheesh The Lion King man....damn that game is brutal xD I got to the final boss but couldn't figure out how to launch Scar off the edge...what a bummer ?

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Gaming can be seriously affecting at that age...I wonder about what occasionally. I suppose finding out about the concept of death through gaming can be a gentle way to introduce the subject, though Mortal Kombat is anything but gentle ?

I remember having a really strong aversion to MK for a while after that. I would dread having to look at it at an arcade or a game store play booth. Funny enough, I got a bit older and became a huge obsessive fan for a while. MK9 was my first time participating in a competitive bracket in a fighting game.

 

[Kamako]

I remember having a really strong aversion to MK for a while after that. I would dread having to look at it at an arcade or a game store play booth. Funny enough, I got a bit older and became a huge obsessive fan for a while. MK9 was my first time participating in a competitive bracket in a fighting game.

I got pretty addicted to MKX, probably my fave fighting game of the last decade or so. I ended up getting the platinum trophy for it on PS4 after many, many years. Pretty chuffed with that. Even managed to score a clip of me getting the trophy for getting 10 ranked match wins in a row (bad gameplay, but all they had to do was block and they didn't, so...)

 

[NeonKnights]

Discs of Tron full sized cab, or Gauntlet Arcade.

 

[SinAkuma]

pong but very early ..... it was a black screen with two whites line we are talking about...
i was 9 or 10 years old that day.....ahhhh memories...

 

[freebie#47]

I was born before video games existed...well what we call video game. I did play the electric football game when it first came out. Though i didn't play the first video game of tag, i did pay pong or whatever it was called. So old, but ive played so many games throughout my life. I'm blessed.

 

[NatalieZaki]

i think it was like a flash game or one of those preinstalled games on windows 98 cause i remember playing something on the ol beige box. the first game i have clear memories of is nintendogs cause my mum got me a ds around the time that game came out

 

[NobodyHere]

I think ‘Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land’ emulated on a psp. My mom (my dad to some extent but not nearly as much) introduced me to gaming, so I started pretty young. Thus it’s hard to say it’s just been so long.

 

[Kamako]

pong but very early ..... it was a black screen with two whites line we are talking about...
i was 9 or 10 years old that day.....ahhhh memories...

I'd love to play Pong on original hardware one day...

 

[Flushyz]

I remember my cousins playing Final Fantasy IX on their PS1, the music was what caught my attention the most at the time, because I didn't understand that it was a game, turn based games didn't make sense to me at the time lol

 

[Kamako]

I was born before video games existed...well what we call video game. I did play the electric football game when it first came out. Though i didn't play the first video game of tag, i did pay pong or whatever it was called. So old, but ive played so many games throughout my life. I'm blessed.

Here's to many, many more!

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Pokemon White, first game I ever played

 

[Kamako]

i think it was like a flash game or one of those preinstalled games on windows 98 cause i remember playing something on the ol beige box. the first game i have clear memories of is nintendogs cause my mum got me a ds around the time that game came out

I used to be obsessed with the old Flash games on Albino Black Sheep & Newgrounds...good times :D

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I remember my cousins playing Final Fantasy IX on their PS1, the music was what caught my attention the most at the time, because I didn't understand that it was a game, turn based games didn't make sense to me at the time lol

SMT V dp spotted - You've clearly stuck with turn-based games since! Gotta love the SMT games.

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I think ‘Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land’ emulated on a psp. My mom (my dad to some extent but not nearly as much) introduced me to gaming, so I started pretty young. Thus it’s hard to say it’s just been so long.

Wish there was a happier Kirby emote....so I'll use this instead!

 

[NobodyHere]

I think ‘Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land’ emulated on a psp. My mom (my dad to some extent but not nearly as much) introduced me to gaming, so I started pretty young. Thus it’s hard to say it’s just been so long.

Could have also been ‘Cave Story’ on the same device. I really wish I wasn’t a stupid child and broke it, would have been so nice to still have it.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

The original Zelda

 

[Kamako]

Could have also been ‘Cave Story’ on the same device. I really wish I wasn’t a stupid child and broke it, would have been so nice to still have it.

Don't worry Alphonse, nothing a quick transmutation can't fix...

 

[OmegaPunch's iconOmegaPunch]

GTA: San Andreas.

 

[Kamako]

GTA: San Andreas.
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What a game. I only completed it for the first time last year. Funny how cutscenes like the one where a dealer gets one of his dope fiends to clean his trap house curtains went right over my head as a youngster xD

If you haven't played it, definitely check out Grand Theft Auto Advance. The story is far more involving and complex then it has any need to be.

 

[Yukyon]

It was most likely a KOF game or Zelda Ocarina of Time, I don't recall playing anything before then

 

[Hiero]

Did you have a fave team to play as?

Wow ! What a nice question !
I was a kid.... and... if I remember correctly... I was playing with Russia, because the team has strong guys. They were my favorite....

A choice based on physical appearance and not on the country hahah

 

[SolemnlyDoc]

The earliest gaming memory I have was playing Freedom Fighters on the GameCube. I didn't watch anyone play games until I was a teenager and started hanging out with a friend who played Red Dead Redemption, a title I had never heard of on a console I didn't own. He also introduced me to Halo and Dead Island.

 

[MasterEn]

super mario bros 1.

 

[lordofthekevins]

IGN could never make me hate you