The first game I ever played was some TMNT side-scroller (not sure exactly what it was) on my uncle's MS-DOS, but the first game I owned was the Power Rangers "movie" (not actually based on the movie) game on the SNES. I used to play co-op with my sister or my dad, that was good times.
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What was your first video game?
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Earthpainting
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My first game was Final Fantasy 10. I can't say I like it at all in retrospect, but I must admit that it was a perfect place to start. It gave me a relatively leisurely pace to learn how to move using analogue sticks. Most of the rather simplistic combat also gave me plenty of times to learn mechanics and conventions, and the difficulty level was pretty low. It also prepared me for bad writing, unlikeable characters and anime-dub quality voice acting. The entire adventure felt like a linear style over substance endeavour. In short, I feel like FFX prepared me for a lot.
It did foster enough interest in the potential to make me want to check out other games though, and I didn't actively dislike the act of playing it. If I have to recommend a game to a newcomer, a turn-based RPG would be a good fit.
It did foster enough interest in the potential to make me want to check out other games though, and I didn't actively dislike the act of playing it. If I have to recommend a game to a newcomer, a turn-based RPG would be a good fit.
Galactic Fork
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Donkey Kong and Pac-man at the arcade. They made me need an atari. It was super important that we have one!
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Jarod McChicken
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The thing is I'm not even nostalgic. I wonder how I didn't gave up video games early as a little boy facing thoses horribly unfair 8-bit games. I think it's only with the 16-bit era that pleasure took over frustration in my gaming.
vakarian32
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Castlevania on NES, or it might have been TMNT, can't remember exactly.
Zelda Williams
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None other than The Legend of Zelda, but of course. My dad would play it with me watching and taught me how to play when I got a little older. Majora's Mask, though, is the game that made me love the Zelda series and video games as a whole.
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I've played a few Game & Watch titles in the early 80s, don't know the names anymore, there was a submarine game I really liked. My grandma had a defunct wooden Atari (I'm not sure which one) I always wanted to play that but it didn't work.
What really made me a gamer myself was the C64 of a friend, I played Maniac Mansion on that thing and it was fascinating. That intro and the creepy House. Not much later I was the owner of a C64 myself, followed by an Amiga 500+/Gameboy/Snes etc etc.
So probably Maniac Mansion.
What really made me a gamer myself was the C64 of a friend, I played Maniac Mansion on that thing and it was fascinating. That intro and the creepy House. Not much later I was the owner of a C64 myself, followed by an Amiga 500+/Gameboy/Snes etc etc.
So probably Maniac Mansion.
Jonneh3003
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My first system was the Game Boy with:
and my first console was the Dreamcast with:
I bought a ton of retro systems that were before my time after playing Super Mario Bros on Wii Virtual Console when I was about 12. I've have been collecting for older systems ever since.
and my first console was the Dreamcast with:
I bought a ton of retro systems that were before my time after playing Super Mario Bros on Wii Virtual Console when I was about 12. I've have been collecting for older systems ever since.
Lady Siara
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I think it was both Super Mario Bros. and Dr. Mario on the NES. Played both on the same day with my cousin.
For my first arcade game, I have very vivid memories of playing the Superman arcade game. I don't think I ever beat it, even with unlimited tries. A family member loaned out cabinets so I had a lot to play.
For my first arcade game, I have very vivid memories of playing the Superman arcade game. I don't think I ever beat it, even with unlimited tries. A family member loaned out cabinets so I had a lot to play.
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Vindicator
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The first game ever must have been International Karate on the Commodore 16.
LingeringRegime
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Atari 2600
Football.
Football.
Forerunner
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Tails Adventure on the Game Gear.
Epic game.
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Epic game.
The very first game was about hitting moles with hammer to protect some carrots. Can't remember the name or hardware that run it. It was big grey keyborad and game was black and white 
After that it was either going to a friend that had NES and playing contra or to another friend that had IBM PC to play Electro Man and Bumpy.
After that it was either going to a friend that had NES and playing contra or to another friend that had IBM PC to play Electro Man and Bumpy.
Soodanim
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Playing Flintstones for the Master System isn't just my earliest gaming memory, it's my earliest memory.
This game was hard. I probably only finished the first level a handful of times. You had to paint the wall before Wilma got home so there was a time limit, you had to move the ladder to paint the high parts, and you had to put Pebbles back in her cot every x seconds because she escaped multiple times and drew all over the wall. If you managed that you had to drive to the bowling alley before it closed, then there was the bowling alley level I only got to once or twice and had no clue how to play.
HORRORSHØW
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is this THE zelda williams?
Kojirospath
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It was a variation on pong. Before my parents bought me a NES we had a black console-like thing with 4 controllers with a turn knob on it and a lightgun. Had tennis and hockey (basically pong) and clay pigeon shooting. Great fun in two colors, black and white I'm getting old
I'm getting old
Benzychenz
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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.
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Duke Nukem are the ones I can remember.
radiant_ch
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This along with Tetris.
I don't remember the name of it.
All I remember was when my parents got out first Windows 95 computer, with it they got a dark green floppy disk and on that disk there were a collection of small sport themed games, for example one game was about going on a bicycle over holes and logs and jumping in time as they got on-screen.
That was my first ever experience of video gaming and I was immediatly hooked, later that same week I heard my neighbors had a NES console with a bunch of games and I went over during the weekend and asked if I could try playing on it and the first game I played on that console was Super Mario Bros 3.
So Super Mario Bros 3 is the first game I can remember the name of, but not the absolute first video game I ever played.
All I remember was when my parents got out first Windows 95 computer, with it they got a dark green floppy disk and on that disk there were a collection of small sport themed games, for example one game was about going on a bicycle over holes and logs and jumping in time as they got on-screen.
That was my first ever experience of video gaming and I was immediatly hooked, later that same week I heard my neighbors had a NES console with a bunch of games and I went over during the weekend and asked if I could try playing on it and the first game I played on that console was Super Mario Bros 3.
So Super Mario Bros 3 is the first game I can remember the name of, but not the absolute first video game I ever played.
Holygriever
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Grimløck;155476660 said:
Wondering the same myself... better it stays a mystery, cause if it IS her, people will pester her to no end. =p
Loved Kuvira's voice btw.
davidnolan13
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Something on the 2600 I think. The first ones to really stick in my mind were Skool daze and back to Skool on the old 48k though. Loved those games.
Bjoern the Smexy
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I can't remember.
The first one I remember clearly was Batman on the Amstrad CPC.
The first console game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. on the NES.
On handhelds it was Super Mario Land.
The first one I remember clearly was Batman on the Amstrad CPC.
The first console game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. on the NES.
On handhelds it was Super Mario Land.
Holygriever
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Well, don't leave us hanging! How did you play it? =p
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