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What was your first video game?
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Barry Burton
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Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, as far as I can recall.
PelekotansDream
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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in America).
A colourful platformer, great music, vibrant colours, cute characters, tons of levels with each zone having a very distinct style with it's own enemies, and it had co-op.
A colourful platformer, great music, vibrant colours, cute characters, tons of levels with each zone having a very distinct style with it's own enemies, and it had co-op.
Maaaaaardy
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Bart Simpson vs the Juggernauts AND New Super Ghostbusters 2, both of which I loved on the NES when I was proper small.
SaberVulcan
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Got the Sonic the Hedgehog 2/Genesis combo for my birthday when I was a kid, started there, all downhill.
Trust me. I'm a PhD
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Want to hear a traumatizing story? My first game ever was battle toads^^ I loved the idea of "playing a cartoon" and two player co op was icing on the cake for me. It would be years later that I found out that I was not bad at it because it was my first game, but rather because it was just reaaaaaaly hard and almost no one beat it^^ I did memorize and beat the bikes on level 3 though, but never made it past the elevator (level 11 I think?).
megatronium
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Some c64 game. Karateka maybe.
First game I played: Probably something called Castle on an XT computer
First 'computer' I owned myself: A C64 with tape and diskdrive. I remember playing Spyhunter a lot, no clue if that was the first thing I ever played on the C64, I had a lot of games
First consolegame I played: Mario on the NES
First console I bought myself: A Megadrive with Sonic 2.
First 'computer' I owned myself: A C64 with tape and diskdrive. I remember playing Spyhunter a lot, no clue if that was the first thing I ever played on the C64, I had a lot of games
First consolegame I played: Mario on the NES
First console I bought myself: A Megadrive with Sonic 2.
petethepanda
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It's very likely that there was some kid game I played before this, but my earliest memory of gaming is playing through The Secret of Monkey Island with my dad when I was 5. Specifically, a demo of the game that came in a box of floppys, before buying the full game and then playing pretty much all the other early 90s Lucasarts point 'n clicks over the next few years.
Chuckie
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This was my first one:
This was my second game! I have always played this with pink water and blue land. I found out a week ago I have always played with incorrect color settings!
I had that too. Back then I thought it had awesome graphics compared to other atarti games haha.
My first ever game was River Raid by the amazing Carol Shaw. I still have the cart and heavy sixer I was baptized by.
This was my second game! I have always played this with pink water and blue land. I found out a week ago I have always played with incorrect color settings!
I had that too. Back then I thought it had awesome graphics compared to other atarti games haha.
My parents had an Atari 2600 the year I was born. I remember playing this game but only as a vague image. I was probably around 4 y/o. I remember playing ET when it came out (because I remember going to the theater for the movie) but I know I played things before that.
I watched my Mom single man pitfall before too. We had it because of her, My dad doesn't play video games.
My mom is 70 now and she still loves playing Video Games more than watching TV.Stormhammer
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My first video game was the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt combo game. Many hours were spent holding the zapper against the tv for easy duck kills
Duck hunt--I was at my sister's house around age 5-6 and her husband had recently purchased an NES with SMB/Duck hunt. He asked if I'd like to play and I declined. He showed me the zapper and I was on board. After failing miserably, but really enjoying myself, he suggested we play another game. I asked if it used the gun; he said no, but that it was better. I scoffed at that notion...I was wrong, SMB really started it all.
ZackShikari
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Spider-Man on PS1
Woffls
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I knew my first system was an Amstrad CPC 6128 that dad had lying around, but I didn't know until we spoke about it the other day that the first game he had me play on it was called Meltdown.
What I'm now not sure of is if that's the first game I ever played, or if I played something else at a friend's house and that's what prompted my dad to find the Amstrad in the loft. Only place I played games at the time was a friend's who had an NES, but beyond that I would just assume Super Mario Bros.
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What I'm now not sure of is if that's the first game I ever played, or if I played something else at a friend's house and that's what prompted my dad to find the Amstrad in the loft. Only place I played games at the time was a friend's who had an NES, but beyond that I would just assume Super Mario Bros.
Lightning Count
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Alex Kidd In Miracle World on the Master System.
Rocky_Balboa
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Probably King's Valley on MSX. Or some othe MSX game. I was about 5 years old.
John Kowalski
Banned
the earliest i can remember is the gameboy contra game, but apparently i was playing duckhunt before i could form memories
My first video game I really remember playing was The Hive for Windows 95 with a joystick and everything. I was 5 and it was an on-rails shooter that my dad and I spent lots of time bonding over.
Other early games that stick out are Kung Fu for NES and Metroid II on a beat up Game Boy my dad got from some guy at work.
Other early games that stick out are Kung Fu for NES and Metroid II on a beat up Game Boy my dad got from some guy at work.
paragonpro
Banned
Super Mario world. I used to play it with my sisters when I was around 4 or 5, I also remember getting dkc 2 and super Mario all stars for my 7th birthday.
TylerDurden4321
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I think it was Galaga in a hotel lobby in israel when I was 5. Maybe it was a Galaga clone though.
I remember that I tried to carefully aim my shots and then hit the fire button once every 3 seconds or so instead of shooting as fast I could.
My first owned game was Tetris on the Game Boy when I was 8.
My 14 year older brother had a Fairchild Channel F gaming console and a C64 with tape deck that he never introduced me to until I was 11 I think; I should ask him why not earlier when next time I see him.
I remember that I tried to carefully aim my shots and then hit the fire button once every 3 seconds or so instead of shooting as fast I could.
My first owned game was Tetris on the Game Boy when I was 8.
My 14 year older brother had a Fairchild Channel F gaming console and a C64 with tape deck that he never introduced me to until I was 11 I think; I should ask him why not earlier when next time I see him.
MegamanPoweredUP
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Some random PC stuff when I was very young.
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Duke Nukem are the ones I can remember.
Man, when I was a kid I had those on a sharewere compilation of games.
Is it me or those VGA's games have a weird and sad atmosphere?
They make me feel very sad and don't know why. Can't explain that, maybe it's VGA's colors fault, I don't know
For the record, I was the most loved and happy kid. No traumatic experience here.
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