Your First Step Into Gaming

[No_Life_King]

The Virtual Console was a heck of a ride and I loved it up until its last days on the Wii U. Yes emulation made it redundant in a way but there was something special about Nintendo themselves acknowledging the older fanbase and making these classic games available for purchase once more. The ease of access was great too. Not everyone will want to take the steps to learn about ROMS and Emulators and setting all that up, easy as it may be to you and I. My favorite games to play were the GBA titles on the Wii U GamePad. Especially the Mega Man Battle Network games. For all the crap it got it was incredibly comfortable to use. I'd still play it if it wasn't stolen from me circa 2016.

The subscription service is alright but paying monthly is dogwater compared to what we had.

I hate the subscription services. It's a human rights violation. But in all seriousness, virtual console has a lot of potential to thrive even in this day and age.

 

[Kobu]

I hate the subscription services. It's a human rights violation. But in all seriousness, virtual console has a lot of potential to thrive even in this day and age.

I haven't paid for NSO in a fat minute. I used it a lot around 2020 - 2023 when I was a truck driver and didn't have a laptop yet. I'm kind of ashamed to say that's how I actually sat down and 100% OoT and SM64 for the first time. I had a LOT of downtime at that job lol

We can only hope that this games as a service model goes tits up somehow and they start actually selling and letting us own the games once more. I don't know how that would happen though.

 

[Biorockmanx]

For me it was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega Genesis at my uncles place, It's where It all began for me but it really kicked off on the ps1 when I played my own game Spyro The Dragon and Digimon World 3 , later in middle school I got into my first Mega man game that basically made me go back and play the others which was Mega man Legends.... Immediately hated it cause the way it controlled lol, later came back to after playing other ps1 games and kept enjoying more and more I got into it. Nowa days I kind spread out for multiple different games but I usually come back to the big three which is Mega man , Sonic, and Solo Rpgs like Brave fencer musashi, I always comeback to ps1/ Sega genesis games cause It's not just where I started but I also where I'm so comfotrable there.

 

[x_lodx_lod's icon]

I don't remember very well, but I remember playing my first game on a DVD player, one of those that came with NES games. After that I had a Playstation 2 and nowadays I have my PS4 and I play retro games on my cell phone.After that I had a Playstation 2 and nowadays I have my PS4 and I play retro games on my cell phone.

 

[Pearly]

My first game, was an enix game that was like galaga but it was a monitor attached to a built in arcade stick and buttons. So the closest thing there was to the arcade experience at home, obviously it was years old by the time I played it.

My first actual video game, was Sonic 2 on a rented Sega mega drive, back when you could rent a console, I was about 4? But I vividly recall how magical Sonic 2 seemed to a 4 year old. It became a main hobby of mine after this and played no small part in giving me astounding levels of concentration and hand eye co-ordination alongside problem solving skills in a space that was not the one I was in. So spatial skills, great way to get my brain to develop in hindsight, so much better than standard education or PE

I did go to school, but streets of rage was better than school.

 

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My gaming adventure started with the Game Boy with Super Mario and Zelda Link Awakening

 

[Pearly]

For me it was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega Genesis at my uncles place, It's where It all began for me but it really kicked off on the ps1 when I played my own game Spyro The Dragon and Digimon World 3 , later in middle school I got into my first Mega man game that basically made me go back and play the others which was Mega man Legends.... Immediately hated it cause the way it controlled lol, later came back to after playing other ps1 games and kept enjoying more and more I got into it. Nowa days I kind spread out for multiple different games but I usually come back to the big three which is Mega man , Sonic, and Solo Rpgs like Brave fencer musashi, I always comeback to ps1/ Sega genesis games cause It's not just where I started but I also where I'm so comfotrable there.

This too for me, but it was my brother, whom was older enough than me that he was more like a close Uncle so pretty much the same. Seems we played much of the same things as kid actually :)

 

[random0nonsense]

My mom already had a VCS when I was born so that was my starting point. I have no idea my age or the game that kicked everything, I just remember playing the 2600 on a small black and white TV

 

[YoshifreakZX]

Watching family members and then eventually playing myself some SNES and N64 when I was like 5 back in like 2005-2006. Least, that's what my earliest memory of gaming is.

 

[Appiplyer]

Watching family members and then eventually playing myself some SNES and N64 when I was like 5 back in like 2005-2006. Least, that's what my earliest memory of gaming is.

So any N64 games you can recommend i have only played tactics ogre, mario and castlevania in that console lol.

 

[YoshifreakZX]

So any N64 games you can recommend i have only played tactics ogre, mario and castlevania in that console lol.

Hm, from the top of my head, I recommend Pokemon Snap, Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie, Donkey Kong 64, Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, Diddy Kong Racing and of course, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.

 

[Badseed Badseed]

I was a latchkey kid, both my parents worked and they figured out
that my Atari 2600 was a great babysitter. That and the foil wrapped
tv dinners. What can I say, it was a different time.

 

[DiRtY-StEvE]

Tetris on GameBoy, and playing SMB and MegaMan at my neighbors on NES is where it all started for me personally. When SNES and PlayStation came out i was def cemented into the life haha.

 

[MegaDrive1987]

I played Mr Do! on the Colecovision with my Mum at the age of 4 in 1991 as someone gave us that console with a selection of games, shortly after that I had a ZX Spectrum 128k in my bedroom and played that for a while before I got my Mega Drive for Christmas 1993.

Around that same time my Uncles used to bring their Amiga 500 over on weekends and stay over, I remember the main game they all played was a Lotus game although I'm not quite sure which as I would usually be in bed shortly after they'd set it up plus I was only a baby.

 

[BrawlMan]

Sega Genesis, 1993. It was either Sonic 1 or Streets of Rage 1.

 

[shaggi]

I think my first gaming experience was watching my older siblings play an Atari 2600. I don't remember if I ever played one myself. I probably played for the first time when my parents bought an NES with Super Mario Bros. I was still a kid at that moment.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

For me it was the FunStation back in 2004 or 2005 where I got to play the Super Mario Bros. of a lifetime and from there it is my first experience and at the same time my first step in gaming.

 

[zombie100379]

alex kidd in miracle world on master system

 

[Graw]

Super Mario Brothers was probably the first one I played. It's the earliest one I remember playing but I don't know for sure. My parents had an nes already when I was born. One of my earliest memories is seeing a gold Legend of Zelda cartridge for the first time and thinking it must have been some super special game.

 

[toothflick]

For me it was watching my dad play Quake 4 when I was a kid. He was really into it at the time and let me watch him play before my bedtime, I'm pretty sure that was my first exposure to gaming and what got me interested in it initially.

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

I started playing games since I was a little kid with the enough awareness to know how to use a spoon, so
One day my mom sat me down in front the PC and she searched a web called Friv games, it was a old flash games website, later she allowed me play in hers PS2, (yeah my mom used to be a gamer, when she was pregnant she beat tomb raider lol)

 

[Bakuma1997]

At first i was too young to grasp what it was, i was a wee bit 3yo, my older brothers used to play in a Famiclone named Gameinis, it was 64 games in one, they played lots of games while i watched, come 2002, i turned 5, my sister let me hold the controller, it was a 64 in 1 cart, fortunately no repeats, so when i finally got to choose what to play, i picked a game without knowing, that day my journey begun with a mouse

 

[GitGudBro]

I first started playing NES with different neighbors, mostly Super Mario Bros 1 - 3. That would have been around 1988. One also had an Atari 7800.

Yes, I'm older...ish.

 

[Fietto!]

Sega Genesis, 1993. It was either Sonic 1 or Streets of Rage 1.

Damn I’m jealous, it’s a dope start!

 

[Yousef Yousef]

It was with this, funnily enough.

I’m quite nostalgic about it.