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[Hayama Akito]

Super Speed Race by Taito.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3douO7eJKqE

 

[MostWantedZero]

A Bugs Life for the PS1

 

[SMOK3Y]

I started pretty late in life but MGS1 on PS1

 

[Marv_79]

Pac-Man Atari 2600, it was my Dads, I reckon I must've been about 4, I still remember playing it to this day - It was like Magic.

 

[Galileo]

Apparently it's called "Bow and Arrow", I remember playing it on Windows 3.1

 

[lordmrw]

It was probably Atlantis Attacks, Combat or Pitfall on the Atari 2600. The videogame crash had just happened so my older brothers bought like 40 games dirt cheap. I'm leaning toward Combat since it was multiplayer and there were five of us.

 

[Deadpool_X]

Burger Time for the Intellevision.

This right here.

 

[Modedude]

The Incredible Machine 3. Haven't played anything like it since, didn't really establish any trends in my gaming habits.

 

[Mets9]

Can't remember the very first one, it was a game from atari 2600. Probably one between moon patrol, pitfall or a game set in the jungle (can't remember the name).

 

[Marceles]

I think it was Ms. Pac-Man since that was the first game I've owned, but I might've played Donkey Kong Jr. before that on my cousin's Atari. I can't remember

 

[bobone]

Officially it was some type of centipede clone on a 5.5" floppy, along with other dos games of the time.

But the first one that really grabbed me and got me into gaming was Super Mario 64 and Shadows of the Empire when my best friend got the system on Xmas 96

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Best guess is Speedway / Spin-Out on the Odyssey2:

We've come a long way, baby

 

[Silent Chief]

Probably Space Invaders.

 

[ThaPhantom]

 

[Recall]

Pole Position on the Atari 2600 it was my father's console, he loved himself some Combat.

 

[Mr. Nice_Guy]

The first game I rememwbe playing that I owned was either Megaman X or Aladdin for the SNES, (my parents decided to wait to get me games). But I'm sure I played sometbing at a friends house, or one of those old portable systems before that.

 

[Jingo]

Contra for Nintendo console look a like, it was one of those cartridges with 100 plus games on it

 

[AntiFacebook]

Indiana jones and the fate of atlantis

 

[Chuckpebble]

First game I ever played was Snafu on Intellivision.

First game I bought was Tower of Terror on Intellivision. I think that was a roguelike. Is that possible if it predates Rogue?

First system I bought was an N64.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Or something on my watch.

If we are counting these then my first ever would have been

 

[Marceles]

Or something on my watch.

I wish I owned one of these as a kid. Thrifty's/Payless was a weird store at the time when I was a kid because they sold ice cream and had a pharmacy, but they also had an electronics section and had a Game & Watch under a glass case. I've always wanted it.

 

[Bo Knows GAF]

I couldn't tell you which arcade game it was, but the first system I got was an N64 and my first game was Banjo Kazooie followed by Super Mario 64. The memory of opening that up brings me back.

 

[Griss]

I might have been allowed to hold the pad for Super Mario or Duck Hunt, but the first one I was properly allowed to play was The Legend of Zelda (NES). I would have been 3/4.

 

[Baron_Calamity]

I got an original Odyssey in 1974. I remember the one with the haunted house plastic overlay was my first game. I was 4 at the time.

My Dad said that I played a version of Space War before that. I have no memory of it.

 

[Cormano]

Super Mario Bros 2 for the NES.

 

[Cynn]

My first ever game was River Raid by the amazing Carol Shaw. I still have the cart and heavy sixer I was baptized by.

 

[Markitron]

The first game I ever played was Technician Ted on my older brothers Amstrad (I think) I was 4 or 5 at the time but I still remember the music.

 

[Klarax]

This egg has stayed with me all my life !!!

 

[Podge293]

The Illusion of Time (or Gaia if you're not EU).... was 5 at the time and it's still my all time favourite game.

Actually recently re-bought a SNES so I could play it

 

[Fuz]

I *think* an arcade version of Space Invaders.

 

[ChaosXVI]

Mine was the All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. I got it for Christmas in 1994 with a SNES but I was barely 4 years old and died almost immediately...thought the D-pad was one giant button. I also got Super Mario World with it, and those were the only 2 games I owned until Christmas 1995.

It feels good to reflect on how I eventually mastered all of those games by the time I was 5-6.

 

[shandy706]

I don't remember. It would have been something from the late '70s of my dads that I would have played in the early 80's among other things that had been released.

 

[DimmuBurgerKing]

Ghosts & Goblins, arcade. My parents owned a nightclub/concert venue when I was growing up and while different machines rotated in and out over the years, my earliest gaming memory is my dad teaching me to play G&G. I was probably about 4, 1986 or so. A couple of years later, it was also my first NES game besides the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cart that came with the system.

 

[woopWOOP]

Some monochrome zoo animal (heads) counting game.

First one I actually had fun with was either Super Mario Bros or Megaman at my cousin's tho.

 

[Akzel]

As far as I remember it was on Atari 2600 because of my brother. For the specific game .. I dunno I was too young to remember.

 

[=GabrielKnight=]

I think I played Hang On or some vertical shoot'em up in a bar when I was 4 or 5

But my first console game was this one:

 

[tuna_love]

Bubble Bobble on the master system. Still love the game

 

[Chû Totoro]

Actually I'm not sure which one was the first but the games I remember playing very young are Pong, Donkey Kong and Pac Man on Colecovision, Atari 2600... (I was around 5-6 years old).

I went all crazy about Nes though which was the first video game system to really amaze me ^^ (I was 7 years old).

I played a lot of Prince of Persia and Karate too but it was on a sort of computer... I don't recall exactly. Amstrad something... and don't remember my age but definitely around the same time as Nes.

 

[water_wendi]

 

[gotstrangepowers]

NES, '87

 

[dancrane212]

I believe it would be Sesame Street on DOS.

 

[oddington]

I can't say with much certainty as I was so young, but it was either the Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros. combo cartridge (it would've been SMB as I didn't have a Zapper for a long time) or Super Mario Bros. 3.

SMB3 is still one of the best platformers ever, too.

 

[PooBone]

I think it was Super Mario Brothers. We did end up getting an Atari after the fact but SMB was the first game I remember playing, and it was the first game I remember all the kids at my babysitter's house playing when they got an NES a few months later.

 

[RealityCheque]

Shadow of the Beast 2 on the Amiga 500.

"Ten Pints" for invincibility anyone?

 

[DudeWithNoName]

Cosmic Cruncher- Commodore Vic 20.

 

[snkfor]

Pac Man on atari 2600

 

[Red Liquorice]

^ edit whoah, snap!

I think it was a pack-in with the Atari 2600 itself. I also got ET at the same time iirc.

 

[YoungNeil]

The Tarzan video game for Playstation 2

 

[GamerMax73]

It was this:

Don't knock it the game is an even more addictive variation of Pac-Man. Still things got a lot better with game number 2:

RARE at their best

 

[Delicious Waffles]

I don't remember the exact one but it was definitely from a stack of NES games my sister had growing up.

I'm talking Super Mario 1-3, Duck Hunt, Castlevania, Mickey Mousecapades, JAWS, Bubble Bobble, and some others I can't think of right now. Had an old Nickelodeon shoebox filled from front to back with games. If anything, I'd have to say I spent the most time with Super Mario Bros. 3. To this day, it's still my favorite game ever.

Good times. :'(