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mine was snafu on intellivision. i think i liked it because it reminded me of the light cycles from tron.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I vaguely remember playing Aladdin on the N64 and a ton of Super Mario 64, that game was oddly ominous in my memories

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Super Mario World on the SNES.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Nintendo Game & Watch. (ca. 1981)

I guess that counts?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I used to play this RTS called Dune 2000 i think. It was my first ever RTS and it was mindblowing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My first video game system that I ever bought was a NES. I got it back in 1986 I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Dynomite on Windows XP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Crystal Caves on DOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Maze 3D on DOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Duck Hunt FTW!

Still one of the best shooters ever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I remember it was duck hunt or an snes game of Popeye which is based on the original Donkey Kong iirc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

C=64

Wizard of Wor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Gameboy with Metroid 2: Return of Samus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Some Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn game on the Apple 2e.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know the game, but definitely an Atari.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Dynablaster aka bomberman Wolf3d on win 3.11

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mmmh, not sure. Problably Outlaw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

TurboGraphx-16. Keith courage. I mostly remember arguing with my brother about whose turn it is lol One controller. How did we ever survive?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

PokΓ©mon Yellow on the GBC.

[–] Conowelle 1 points 2 years ago

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 wasn’t Nintendos best console it’s one of my favourites just for the nostalgia factor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think it was some tux related game, supertux 2 or some other

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Karateka on Apple IIe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure its the first, but one of my earliest memories is of Alladin on the SNES alladin cover

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Captain Comic. I've hated birds ever since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It was fruity Franck on armstrad CPC. You had to insert a floppy disk and type EXACTLY the program’s name, which i couldn’t because me as a child always called it tutty fruity. My uncle needed to be here if i wanted to play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

PS1, but I don't have a definitive answer for which game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

PC, Bow n Arrow... Maybe math blaster. But if we just want a dedicated game system, PlayStation, Crash Bandicoot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] mintiefresh 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Atari and Pac Man

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My Gameboy Advanced. Couldn’t 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, I’m biased)

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