I dunno, maybe that Winnie the Pooh game I played as a young lad was my first.
This was also a children’s game toy thing, nothing by Nintendo, Sega, etc.
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The first game I can remember playing was Super Mario Bros New.
First game ever: Prince of Persia on DOS:) on a relatives house
First console game: Super Mario on a SNES
The first games on PC I ever bought (on the same day I got my first PC) were fallout 2, duke nukem 3D and Worms 2
Sigh…good times.
aaand down the rabbit hole this kid went… ahh the Mega Drive,
Nintendo will never hold a candle to the light in my heart Sega gave me as a child, Mortal Kombat, Terminator, Batman, Streets of Rage, Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse etc etc etc
funny how i first played Super Mario way after becoming an addict to Sega, even tried Pong before, but Sega will always come first with Golden Axe, yaaaay!
Asteroids for the Atari 2600. When I was just a little brat, our neighbour’s son gifted his used console to me. I still have that console plus a bunch of games, such as Centipede and E.T.
Ooh, gaming firsts…
Well, outside of semi-educational Atari games at school, I first remember playing DOS games like Moraff’s World, and Elevator (not sure if that was the latter’s actual title).
My first MMO was RF Online (back when it first came out with Codemasters).
Suffice to say I’ve gone a long way down the rabbit hole these days (I don’t want to know how many games I have on Steam, nevermind physical games for PC/Console knocking around the place!)
Duck Hunt/SMB was my first. I played it over my great grandmother’s house. The first game that I owned myself was Super Mario World.
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Same, it was on my uncle’s nes. One of the most popular games of all time but good nonetheless.
A mario game on my friend’s console.
I quite like my first game story, brings back good memories.
My dad (as a kid) used to play Space Invaders at the arcades and was apparently really good at it, so when I was growing up he bought me a GameBoy and Space Invaders to go with it.
Must have been about 6 at the time. He was self employed and we always used to go get supplies for his business on the same evening every week. At the shop they handed out vouchers depending on how much you spent that day and the vouchers could be spent on various different things. I never knew what he was saving these vouchers for and I never thought to ask. Until one week when he had enough of them to buy something and the thing he got was the original grey GameBoy and Space Invaders.
Still own it to this day, along with loads of other games. That kicked off my love of gaming and here we are 24 years later!
Pokemon Sapphire. I’m so glad my brother introduced me to gaming. His first game is probably Duck Hunt, though.
Little Big Adventure 2 ^^
Also the first game I’ve completed but at first my sister and I would play “Normal Life” just walking around really.
Little funny story, the game we had was a pirated copy some dude (My father’s friend) gave us with a bunch of other pirated games like Abe: Exoddus and Oddysee, too hard for us ob . so we orbitated around LBA2.
The funny thing was that in the disc he wrote “Twisten” (The main character’s name… but misspelled) so we called that game “The Twisten”.
Finding this game was a freaking ordeal later on and many years passed until I discovered that I was reading “Twinsen” wrong my whole life beacause of this dude hahaha the name appears in the game ob but… I’m lil bit dyslexic apparently.
Anyway I played it again as a grown up (not so long ago actually) and It was a blast, our version didn’t had cinematics and… mind blown, awesome game 100% recomended adventure/exploration 3D awesomeness.
The earliest game I remember playing was the Game Boy Advance port of Super Mario World.
This is actually the first time I’ve seen the box art for this game. My first console was the GBA, but it was my brother’s GBA that he didn’t use anymore. He didn’t have any of the boxes for the games, only the cartridges.
It would be either Super Mario Bros for the NES or Simcity for MSDOS. Yeah, old 90’s stuff, but that is where I started.
It was a great time to start.
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I’m uncertain as to the very first game I played as I’m torn between two. It was either 4 Pong variants on this machine
Or, Space Invaders on the ZX Spectrum -
I miss those days were every incremental update was a revelation, and we’d eek months of play time from every single game, awful or otherwise!
This is one of my favorite stories from when I was a kid. My Dad is a straight-laced, crew-cut military man. He was in the US Air Force for 28 years as part of ‘Space Command’, so he liked technology and satellites and stuff. He had heard that the Japanese were developing a small household entertainment system called ‘the Nintendo Entertainment System’. We now refer to it as the NES, of course. He managed to get one of the first ‘Action’ editions brought to the USA through his military channels in August, 1987 (a year before they started selling it officially in the US. I think he got it mailed from a military base in the Philippines.). I remember him getting the box and opening it up when he brought it home. It was such an alien thing to me packed in Styrofoam and gleaming in that NES gray that I didn’t really pay too much attention. The ‘Action’ edition included two controllers, the zapper light gun, and the two-in-one cartridge. The next day I went to school (1st grade, and the school was walking distance from our house). When I got home later than evening, I went upstairs and found my father sitting in his bathrobe; disheveled, unshaven, and unwashed at the kitchen table where he had hooked the NES up to a small 13" ‘portable’ TV. I remember that TV weighed like 20 lbs. I said “Hello”. He slowly turned from the TV, and I could see the crazed look in his eyes. He spoke: “I made it to level 6”. It was barely a whisper. As he turned back to the TV, I desperately wanted to dip into the madness. Three days later, I was able to play Super Mario Bros after he had beaten it. It was my first.
-Mink
Nice story, my first console was a NES and I didn’t realise it was the action edition I got as well. I remember the SMB/Duck Hunt cartridge and the light gun. I always used to try and cheat by putting the gun right on the screen so that stupid dog wouldn’t laugh at me, it honestly was only many years later that I got to understand how that light gun worked. Unfortunately about a year later my console messed up as it kept automatically pausing every 3 seconds and we returned it and never got another one. I played games on PC from then on and never got another console till the wii.
