I vaguely remember playing Aladdin on the N64 and a ton of Super Mario 64, that game was oddly ominous in my memories
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Super Mario World on the SNES.
First video game I remember playing? Short Order on NES (with the pad.) That was followed shortly by monopoly- also NES.
First game I beat? was dad's copy of Zelda (NES,) Which... I wasn't supposed to be playing. I got caught when I saw my dad was struggling with the water temple.
"Dad...dad DAD. you go here. get that. Do this. And then do this that and this."
"Oh. Cool. wait. how do you know this?"
"Oh i beat it last week."
<awkward pause>
"you better pay attention. that's the boss."
"We're not telling mom about this."
Nintendo Game & Watch. (ca. 1981)
I guess that counts?
I used to play this RTS called Dune 2000 i think. It was my first ever RTS and it was mindblowing.
My first video game system that I ever bought was a NES. I got it back in 1986 I think.
I had an off-brand pong, then got an Odyssey game console. Then got a Commodore 64 and played BC's Quest for Tires for hours.
Dynomite on Windows XP
Crystal Caves on DOS
Mega Man X on the SNES. I still have my cartridge. For the longest time, my parents had a poloroid of me playing it for the first time. Idk if they still know where it is.
Maze 3D on DOS
Duck Hunt FTW!
Still one of the best shooters ever
My first memory was "hey, who chewed up this Atari 2600 controller?" Before realizing it was me...guess I was just forming memories at the time.
I think the first my sister and I played was A Link to the Past. We didn't know what we were doing, and we didn't know why the princess and the green guy had the same name... We really got into the series when we watched our dad play Ocarina of Time. Detailed graphics, 3D, a day-night cycle, horse back riding... That game had it ALL.
I don't really remember the first I played, but the first I owned was a Nintendo DS Lite with Mario Kart. Yeah I'm not that old.
I remember it was duck hunt or an snes game of Popeye which is based on the original Donkey Kong iirc.
C=64
Wizard of Wor
Gameboy with Metroid 2: Return of Samus
Some Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn game on the Apple 2e.
I don't know the game, but definitely an Atari.
Dynablaster aka bomberman Wolf3d on win 3.11
The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.
The oldest system I played on was an Atari.
The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.
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TurboGraphx-16. Keith courage. I mostly remember arguing with my brother about whose turn it is lol One controller. How did we ever survive?!
Before I started school my mother sometimes would have to bring me in to work with her when she couldn't find a baby sitter. She worked in a restaurant in a bowling alley, during the day it wasn't very busy so she would be running the place on her own. There were a few regulars who would give me quarters to play the Galaga machine, and sometimes they'd give me a couple bucks and I'd go across the building to the arcade for some Spy Hunter and Donkey Kong.
PokΓ©mon Yellow on the GBC.
My first was the GameCube, the one that came with Super Mario Sunshine and I would play that game for hours. Even though the Gamecube wasnβt Nintendos best console itβs one of my favourites just for the nostalgia factor.
First I can recall was definitely either Yoshi's Story on n64 or some pirate themed edutainment game on PC. Those two are most definitely the furthest back I can actually recall with certainty, even if I cannot remember the pirate game.
Though there also was some Egypt themed Tetris like matching game we had on the ps1 that could also have been the first. It's all kinda blurry since this was before I was even in kindergarten, so I could very well be misremembering some things or not remembering another game that came before all of those.
I think it was some tux related game, supertux 2 or some other
Karateka on Apple IIe
I'm not sure its the first, but one of my earliest memories is of Alladin on the SNES
Captain Comic. I've hated birds ever since.
It was fruity Franck on armstrad CPC. You had to insert a floppy disk and type EXACTLY the programβs name, which i couldnβt because me as a child always called it tutty fruity. My uncle needed to be here if i wanted to play.
PS1, but I don't have a definitive answer for which game.
The first game I played was Space Invaders in my dad's local pub, he took me specifically to see and experience it.
The first to play at home was a variant of the grandstand 5000.
Then I played an atari 2600 at a cousin's house, and I fell in love with centipede.
N64
PC, Bow n Arrow... Maybe math blaster. But if we just want a dedicated game system, PlayStation, Crash Bandicoot.
Not sure which game was first, but I have early memories of Tomb Raider, COD2 and Larry on a Win95 PC. My first used console was an PS2 while the first I owned was an original Xbox. My first used handheld an original GameBoy, with the Advance SP being the first I owned myself.
The oldest ones I used are different tho. I'm not that old but I went back to try a few older devices over the years.
Sim Farm on MS-DOS. I'm pretty sure it came on a 5 1/4 floppy disk.
I vaguely remember an Atari and Pong, but that's so hazy that I can't be too sure.
The first computer game I played was Scarab of Ra on a macintosh 512k. The first console game I played was Super Mario Bros 3 on NES.
Atari
Atari and Pac Man
My Gameboy Advanced. Couldnβt tell you my first games, but some favs were Mario Tennis, crash Bandicoot, and some kind of Mario Party game. I also remember a full Frogger game that I really enjoyed. PlayStation 1 was my second console, more Crash Bandicoot and Mario games, Ratchet and Clank, and Madden.
Late 90s and early 2000s were the best times to be a kid (but, of course, Iβm biased)