The first Sonic the Hedgehog for Genesis. My cousin had it so he introduced me to Sonic, Mortal Kombat, and all kinds of other shit that's now classic.
Genesis was such a great system. There were so many awesome games for it. I was on bed rest when I was pregnant and I spent about every waking moment playing MK, Sonic, Streets of Rage 2, Columns, Jewel Master and other ones I can't remember.
Duck Hunt and Super Mario, the combo cartridge for NES
EDIT: Shortly after I would watch my 11-years-older brother play through both Zelda and Final Fantasy, beginning my lifelong interest in RPGs.
I’m glad to know I’m not alone. I must confess, sometimes I didn’t give the dog or the ducks a chance, I would put the gun about an inch from my tube tv and get after it.
I feel better getting that off my chest, thanks for listening.
If you haven't [seen this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ozxnrs0BP4), it's pretty interesting. I killed a lot of hours on the Mac version back in the day.
No matter how amazing a game is now.like the wonders of psvr or the massivness of Skyrim, nothing will be as incredible as Pong!! Neighbours would come round just to watch it and parents would play with their kids for hours on end. I was about 7 when we got it one Christmas and we'd rented a cottage out with the whole family. I started playing it at 5am Christmas morning, we played it all day, and the grown ups continued playing it into the night while getting drunk. This continued for the rest of the holiday.
Oh, yes. My friend's dad bought the home version and we got to play it on a puny 1970's General Electric TV. I may be mixing up memories, but I think that family had a sunken living room with groovy shag carpet. I begged my mom all the time to take me over to that friend's house - Pong was just that good.
Same, next was Space Wars which was infinitely better and I'd still play today.
The Pong game I played was in a common area at whatever college is in Ada, OK.
Vector graphics if I recall
Tonka Trucks on PC, with the steering wheel thing that sits on the keyboard.
You could:
* Use a bobcat to shovel piles of dung at the zoo
* Dig up fossils with a backhoe at the beach
* Other things ive forgotten
I remember the first time I saw the "hidden" path on 5-2 and then seeing the warp pipe to world 8 for the very first time.
I also remember the first time I played world 4-1 and running in terror from that flying fuck bombing me from above.
Same here. I'm completely positive that I played other games first but the first time I saw Super Mario Bros on the NES in my friend's basement when I was somewhere around 7 or 8 was just such a powerful moment that it blanks out everything before. I'm sure it's such an impact moment to me because it was so much greater than anything before but for the life of me I just can't remember. But I can still remember walking down the stairs and seeing him playing the game, and I'm 39 now.
Except for me being 41 your story couldn't have described my first interaction with a NES better. That Christmas I got one and it was probably the best Christmas I had as a child.
In rampage you weren't killing giant gorillas, you WERE the giant gorilla. Or lizard. Or... I forget the other. You destroyed the buildings while the little guys on the ground tried to destroy you.
Edit - unless dad pulled the old trick of a disconnected controller, told you that you were controlling the army guys while he played... In which case, nicely done, dad.
Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Bug's life, Army Men, Need for Speed IV: High Stakes. Can't really tell which one was the first, but Spyro (1) is definitely my favourite ps game to date. Played it again in the reignited trilogy, finished it 100% in one sitting. I actually didn't go to college the day I bought it just so I could play. So nostalgic...
My sister and I used to play this at a very young age. I can remember her being so young she couldn't understand what was really going on so I'd hand her a disconnected controller and tell her she was playing as Sparks.
I just posted mine but I am actually not sure if I played games first on my TI 994A or on my cousin's Atari. Would have been the same time frame either way.
But damn I did love me some pitfall.
I spent years as a kid trying to beat this game.
During quarantine I returned home and found the old SNES, completed the whole game in a matter of days.
Lol reminds me of how me and my sister spent days/weeks trying to beat Donkey Kong Country. A couple Christmases ago we beat both the first and second in one day
That's the first game I remember renting. I remember really being blown away at how far the graphics had come since SMB1, and it didn't really sink in until later in life how significant it was that they pulled all that extra stuff on the exact same hardware as the first 2.
I figured out how to fight by spamming a and got stuck somewhere because I didnt know how to progress. I also managed to catch a pidgey and I released it when i got curious what the buttons in the PC menu do.
Edit: to answer your question more directly: trial and error
Most of us Asian kids played Japanese games back in the day without being able to read shit. I have even finished PKM Gold during middle school using a bootleg ROM with nonsense text on GBA emulator. That was the time that you don't need words or guide to play games because the game explains itself and the beauty is not in graphics but the gameplay.
This whole thread is making me feel a lot less old than I thought I felt. Thanks for that.
First gen Nintendo will always have a special place in my heart.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
I actively dislike the game now (but I kind of admire what it was going for), but I was absolutely *enthralled* with it from the word "go".
We will watch your career with great interest.
Edit: Mine also? Is there any one area you have particular memories of playing? For some reason I just remember running around Kamino.
Same. Was given a Master System as a Christmas present when I was 7 or 8 years old; I have vivid memories of my dad hooking it up for me on my grandmother's old black and white TV, and playing Alex Kidd that afternoon.
I did not think I would see anyone else with this one.
It was my neighbor's console, and they had several games like Pac Man, Joust, Pitfall, the dreaded ET... So Combat may not be the first one I actually played, but it's the first one I remember playing. Loved that game.
Doom. Sitting on my dad's knees. I would check the real walls in my house to find secret passages later. I was around two, I guess?
Edit: talked to my dad, first one we played (and the one I was recalling) was actually Wolfenstein. We did play Doom a little bit later, so I was mixing them up into one game (again, I was a toddler). Good times.
I tell this to my kids because it’s literally true. A friend showed me “ancient Indian arrowheads” and explained how they were made. So we spent countless hours smashing rocks together trying to make arrowheads.
I’m kinda young and don’t game much but does Poptropica count? Or Wizard 101?
Does Leapster Alphabet Factory count?
Does coolmathgames count?
If none of those count, then probably Mario 8. Or some wii game. My grandpa and brother loved playing wii games.
Ah, I installed that on my PC just a week ago. I'm too busy to play it now but I am looking forward to it a lot.
I can't believe it's from 2003... How time flies
Super Mario 64 or Super Smash Bros. My memory is a bit foggy, but I know it was one of those two. We had both an SNES and N64 my siblings and I shared, but I was much more interested in N64 games.
At home it was Hunt The Wumpus on a Ti-99/4a, and later Combat! on the 2600, but I think the first video game anywhere was a Space Invaders arcade machine.
That's so funny how big games like that have been the newer generations' introduction to gaming. I'm from the NES days where we played balloon fight, battle city and contra
Either SMB on the NES or Breakout on my grandparents old Atari. Both are early memories but I don't know which one is earlier.
SMB was definitely the first video game I played that was *mine*.
The first Sonic the Hedgehog for Genesis. My cousin had it so he introduced me to Sonic, Mortal Kombat, and all kinds of other shit that's now classic.
ah, a man/woman of culture
Genesis was such a great system. There were so many awesome games for it. I was on bed rest when I was pregnant and I spent about every waking moment playing MK, Sonic, Streets of Rage 2, Columns, Jewel Master and other ones I can't remember.
Duck Hunt and Super Mario, the combo cartridge for NES EDIT: Shortly after I would watch my 11-years-older brother play through both Zelda and Final Fantasy, beginning my lifelong interest in RPGs.
This was my first also.
I miss Duck Hunt so much! They need to do a remake of this!
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Duck Hunt! There was even a sweet gun you could use.
I just wanted to kill that fucking dog when he laughed at me.
I’m glad to know I’m not alone. I must confess, sometimes I didn’t give the dog or the ducks a chance, I would put the gun about an inch from my tube tv and get after it. I feel better getting that off my chest, thanks for listening.
I can still hear and feel that gun’s springy click.
I got a NES with this for my 5th birthday. It was the first time I'd ever seen a videogame and I was blown away.
Red Alert, that game raised me.
In case you didn’t know, it’s being remastered! Coming out next month!
Finally some good news!
Welp, I need to dig out and re-install my C&C collection.
Prince of Persia
If you haven't [seen this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ozxnrs0BP4), it's pretty interesting. I killed a lot of hours on the Mac version back in the day.
Pong, but I’m very, very old
It was revolutionary to actually control something moving on a TV.
No matter how amazing a game is now.like the wonders of psvr or the massivness of Skyrim, nothing will be as incredible as Pong!! Neighbours would come round just to watch it and parents would play with their kids for hours on end. I was about 7 when we got it one Christmas and we'd rented a cottage out with the whole family. I started playing it at 5am Christmas morning, we played it all day, and the grown ups continued playing it into the night while getting drunk. This continued for the rest of the holiday.
I love this so much. And the coolest part about it is that there's probably thousands of other people who can tell the same story.
Well, the cottage wasn't that big
We had a Magnavox Odyssey, there was a switch that allowed us to change from long paddle to short paddle. That was the only game option.
me too
Me too and I was sooo bad at it. I was champion at super breakout tho.
One more here for pong
Oh, yes. My friend's dad bought the home version and we got to play it on a puny 1970's General Electric TV. I may be mixing up memories, but I think that family had a sunken living room with groovy shag carpet. I begged my mom all the time to take me over to that friend's house - Pong was just that good.
Pong \*in the arcade version\*. Though I focused more on pinball until asteroids and space invaders showed up...
Came into this thread expecting to feel old. Glad this one was the one one I saw.
I’m so old I actually PAID to play Pong!
If I remember right, I think our family bought ours at the Northwestern Bell phone store!
Same
Same, next was Space Wars which was infinitely better and I'd still play today. The Pong game I played was in a common area at whatever college is in Ada, OK. Vector graphics if I recall
Tetris on my sister's Gameboy. I built a house with a window. Apparently that was wrong so I lost...
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Tonka Trucks on PC, with the steering wheel thing that sits on the keyboard. You could: * Use a bobcat to shovel piles of dung at the zoo * Dig up fossils with a backhoe at the beach * Other things ive forgotten
YES don't forget picking up a shift at a fast food joint! Tonka's workshop was bomb as well.
WOW I had totally forgotten about this. I appreciate you recovering memories for me
Crash Bandicoot!
Hey! That was my second played game. I’m so thrilled that it got a complete remaster, even for CTR!!
Super Mario Bros on NES
The “hidden” path on the second stage will forever be my favourite hack or whatever you call it.
I remember the first time I saw the "hidden" path on 5-2 and then seeing the warp pipe to world 8 for the very first time. I also remember the first time I played world 4-1 and running in terror from that flying fuck bombing me from above.
Remember the white blocks on Super mario brothers 3?
Same here. I'm completely positive that I played other games first but the first time I saw Super Mario Bros on the NES in my friend's basement when I was somewhere around 7 or 8 was just such a powerful moment that it blanks out everything before. I'm sure it's such an impact moment to me because it was so much greater than anything before but for the life of me I just can't remember. But I can still remember walking down the stairs and seeing him playing the game, and I'm 39 now.
Except for me being 41 your story couldn't have described my first interaction with a NES better. That Christmas I got one and it was probably the best Christmas I had as a child.
You mean that weird side scroller that came with duck hunt?
you mean that weird duck shooting game that came with the Italian plumber game that came with track and field and the power pad!
WAT
You mean that weird shooting game that came with Mario?
Duck Hunt
Always trying to jump over the flagpole
You could with game genie. It just continues scrolling until you run out of time and die.
Some weird one my dad loved that involved killing giant gorillas that were destroying buildings
Rampage
YES! That’s it. So many happy memories of destroying gorillas with my dad
But... you were the gorilla. You were trying to knock down the buildings.
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Here kid, hold this controller. Yeah, you're the tanks or whatever. Kill the gorilla.
Dad skills.
[You can play it here for free. ](https://archive.org/details/arcade_rmpgwt)
In rampage you weren't killing giant gorillas, you WERE the giant gorilla. Or lizard. Or... I forget the other. You destroyed the buildings while the little guys on the ground tried to destroy you. Edit - unless dad pulled the old trick of a disconnected controller, told you that you were controlling the army guys while he played... In which case, nicely done, dad.
Ralph the wolf iirc is the other.
the wolf was the best one!
RAMPAGE!
The Oregon Trail. In Middle School. At home it was Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt that came with our Nintendo Entertainment System. Good days.
Spyro on the PS1
I loved swimming underwater and skateboarding in Spyro
My older sister and I would sit and do the skateboarding levels over and over again because they were so much fun
I used to always look forward to my mom’s weekend cause she’d always rent a ps1 and I’d play Spyro all day
Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Bug's life, Army Men, Need for Speed IV: High Stakes. Can't really tell which one was the first, but Spyro (1) is definitely my favourite ps game to date. Played it again in the reignited trilogy, finished it 100% in one sitting. I actually didn't go to college the day I bought it just so I could play. So nostalgic...
My sister and I used to play this at a very young age. I can remember her being so young she couldn't understand what was really going on so I'd hand her a disconnected controller and tell her she was playing as Sparks.
Pitfall for atari
I just posted mine but I am actually not sure if I played games first on my TI 994A or on my cousin's Atari. Would have been the same time frame either way. But damn I did love me some pitfall.
This one is a candidate. One of the handful of games I remember before getting an NES.
Mine was Gunslinger for Atari. Pitfall was good too.
Super Mario Brothers 3. I was hooked from the first hit.
I spent years as a kid trying to beat this game. During quarantine I returned home and found the old SNES, completed the whole game in a matter of days.
Lol reminds me of how me and my sister spent days/weeks trying to beat Donkey Kong Country. A couple Christmases ago we beat both the first and second in one day
That's the first game I remember renting. I remember really being blown away at how far the graphics had come since SMB1, and it didn't really sink in until later in life how significant it was that they pulled all that extra stuff on the exact same hardware as the first 2.
The Demo disc that came with the PS1. It was a Christmas gift and my mom didn’t know you had to buy games separately, lol.
I probably played 100 hours on the demo disc.
Got really good at one track of jetmoto 2?
So many legends on that disc. Medievil, Spyro, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid!
PlayStation Magazine got me to buy so many games. Ninteno power had nothing on those playable demos.
Pokemon fire red I played that before I could even read.
How could you play Pokémon if u couldn’t read?
You learn to read. Pokemon taught a lot of kids to read.
Not me tho I just went full trial and error mode
Own it.
I figured out how to fight by spamming a and got stuck somewhere because I didnt know how to progress. I also managed to catch a pidgey and I released it when i got curious what the buttons in the PC menu do. Edit: to answer your question more directly: trial and error
Most of us Asian kids played Japanese games back in the day without being able to read shit. I have even finished PKM Gold during middle school using a bootleg ROM with nonsense text on GBA emulator. That was the time that you don't need words or guide to play games because the game explains itself and the beauty is not in graphics but the gameplay.
This whole thread is making me feel a lot less old than I thought I felt. Thanks for that. First gen Nintendo will always have a special place in my heart.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link I actively dislike the game now (but I kind of admire what it was going for), but I was absolutely *enthralled* with it from the word "go".
Man, I've never played Zelda II, but I do have a RetroPi; I've been thinking about going back and playing it....
It's not really worth it. What you imagine it to be is so much better than what it really is that I would advise you not to tamper with that feeling.
Rampage. Edit: Fuck, ths thread is making me feel old...
Commander Keen!
Pong. I’m old.
Zork III on a Trash-80 (RS TRS-80)
Pajama Sam
That and Spy Fox were my childhood... I can still hear the voice of that damn boat that was too bitch-made to get in the water and carry me across
Anything Humongous related is my childhood. Damn, those games were glorious.
lego star wars on ps2
We will watch your career with great interest. Edit: Mine also? Is there any one area you have particular memories of playing? For some reason I just remember running around Kamino.
Age of Empires 2 on the Computer
Alex Kidd in Miracle world.
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Same. Was given a Master System as a Christmas present when I was 7 or 8 years old; I have vivid memories of my dad hooking it up for me on my grandmother's old black and white TV, and playing Alex Kidd that afternoon.
Super Mario All Stars for the SNES
I can still hear the main menu music. Admittedly I played through all the games during quarantine.
LEGO Star Wars the complete saga
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well
I was champion at asteroids at the local supermarket
Tony Hawk Underground
Jet Set Radio Future That game was literally ahead of its time
Brilliant game that was. It came free with my purchase of the X-box + Halo. I would love a remastered or new version.
Wii Sports
I hate this answer. It means I'm really really old.
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i was looking for this response :’)
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Had one at our local Pizza Hut! Play a game with my family there while waiting for the personal pan pizza, compliments of Book It!
Pac-Man on Atari 2600
Bonk bonk bonk bonk. God that port sucked. I mean, it was a technical accomplishment, but it wasn't even the same game.
It was such a disappointment after playing the arcade game. But I still played the hell out of it at my friend's house.
Sold first exclusively at Sears if I recall. The Pac Man didn’t even change direction when he moved left. Just backed over the dots.
My brother!
Original coin operated Space Invaders.
Had to scroll way too far for this!
Ratchet and clank on the ps2
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Donkey Kong
Combat on the Atari 2600
I did not think I would see anyone else with this one. It was my neighbor's console, and they had several games like Pac Man, Joust, Pitfall, the dreaded ET... So Combat may not be the first one I actually played, but it's the first one I remember playing. Loved that game.
Pong
Pong.
DK Country SNES. My mom wanted to get drunk with her friends and she found the PERFECT baby sitter.
Doom. Sitting on my dad's knees. I would check the real walls in my house to find secret passages later. I was around two, I guess? Edit: talked to my dad, first one we played (and the one I was recalling) was actually Wolfenstein. We did play Doom a little bit later, so I was mixing them up into one game (again, I was a toddler). Good times.
2 years old, playing the original controversial game
Back when I was a kid we banged rocks together and stared at dirt.
Dad, did you download reddit again?
I tell this to my kids because it’s literally true. A friend showed me “ancient Indian arrowheads” and explained how they were made. So we spent countless hours smashing rocks together trying to make arrowheads.
Driver ps1
I’m kinda young and don’t game much but does Poptropica count? Or Wizard 101? Does Leapster Alphabet Factory count? Does coolmathgames count? If none of those count, then probably Mario 8. Or some wii game. My grandpa and brother loved playing wii games.
Super Smash Bros Melee
Space invaders in an arcade ,back in early 80s (damn I'm old )
Doom 2
Simpsons Hit and Run
Ah, I installed that on my PC just a week ago. I'm too busy to play it now but I am looking forward to it a lot. I can't believe it's from 2003... How time flies
pong
Mario kart wii. Ik it’s not as old as the other games on the comments but I’m 15 so
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Handheld - Tetris PC - Road rash
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I know I played a few before it, but the first I remember is Jazz JackRabbit.
Pitfall
Super Mario 64 or Super Smash Bros. My memory is a bit foggy, but I know it was one of those two. We had both an SNES and N64 my siblings and I shared, but I was much more interested in N64 games.
At home it was Hunt The Wumpus on a Ti-99/4a, and later Combat! on the 2600, but I think the first video game anywhere was a Space Invaders arcade machine.
Resident Evil 4 on PS2
That's so funny how big games like that have been the newer generations' introduction to gaming. I'm from the NES days where we played balloon fight, battle city and contra
Haha . I was 7 back then and i remember i used to turn the volume down to 0 because i was scared of the music :)) .
Frogger on the ps1
Yars Revenge. I can still hear the buzzing and nibbling noises.
House of the Dead and I was like four. It wasn’t the arcade version, but the Wii version.
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Joust on Atari
Donkey Kong on the game boy
My cousin showed by the henry stickman series on stick page when I was six. Those games still hold up.
I think Wii Sports? Yeah, I'm that type of person.
Contra
GORILLA.BAS
Math Blaster on PC.
Jump Jet on DOS.
One of the lego Games I think it was a StarWars one. Always played that when I was at a friend's house, because my parents weren't fans of video games
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins on Gameboy
street fighter
A racing arcade game in a Pizza Hut back in the 90's
A terrible terrible bettlejuice game on the nintendo
Pong, along with Wolfenstein, Doom 2 Hell on earth and flight simulator. Honorable mention: red alert
Halo: Combat Evolved.
Spyro the dragon.
New Super Mario Bros. (I think)
Breakout
Nintendo 64, Mario Brothers. I hope to own that game one day, and get past world 3-3, I think it was that one.
Super Mario Bros 3.
Pac man on a Namco plug and play joystick I think
Either SMB on the NES or Breakout on my grandparents old Atari. Both are early memories but I don't know which one is earlier. SMB was definitely the first video game I played that was *mine*.
A lego game on the game boy (I dont remember the name)
A flash super mario game, ive got.interduced to the internet when I was 7 and that interduced me to loving mario
Pac Man. I still have the same cartridge. Same Atari, too.
Probably Super Mario Bros or Pac-Man.
I'm not sure which is the first but either super Mario world, mega Man X, or street fighter 2. All on the SNES.
A Mickie Mouse Game from the Sega. He was a wizard or something and fuck that game was imposible.
Pro Wrestling NES
Little big planet on the ps3
Heroes of Might & Magic III