What was the earliest game you remember playing?

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

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

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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 ?
 
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.
 
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...)
 
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 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.
 
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 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.
 
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...
 
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
 
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! ::megadancebaby
 
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!

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