Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Watched my uncle play Super Mario Bros at age 4. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, and my mind was completely blown when I realized that he was playing TV.
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Do you remember the very first time you ever saw a video game?
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Carnby
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I booted up Another World on my laptop, pointed at Lester (main character) and told my 2 year old son "There's me." He pointed at him and shouted "Daddy! Daddy!" for the rest of the game. lol
stuminus3
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I love how these topics always bring out all the over-30s. 
Earliest I can remember is this Pong clone made by Grandstand. One of my Uncles owned it. Oddly I can remember actually being there; I can picture his house, I can picture his TV, I can even remember the box this thing came in... but I can't remember which Uncle it was (my Dad has like 6 or 7 brothers).
Earliest I can remember is this Pong clone made by Grandstand. One of my Uncles owned it. Oddly I can remember actually being there; I can picture his house, I can picture his TV, I can even remember the box this thing came in... but I can't remember which Uncle it was (my Dad has like 6 or 7 brothers).
thekonamicode
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It was a smoke filled bowling alley arcade in 1985, I was four years old. I played Donkey Kong while sitting on my mom's lap. The rest is history!
Carnby
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I love how these topics always bring out all the over-30s.
Earliest I can remember is this Pong clone made by Grandstand. One of my Uncles owned it. Oddly I can remember actually being there; I can picture his house, I can picture his TV, I can even remember the box this thing came in... but I can't remember which Uncle it was (my Dad has like 6 or 7 brothers).
You only remembered the important details. lol
Harken Raiser
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Wow, that takes me back. I remember playing this with my dad.
ichtyander
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I have this vague image in my head of Jetpac from when I was probably 3-4 years old, not sure.
A clearer memory is the day my dad brought me and my brother a C64. An EPROM cartridge came with it with three games - Andrew Spencer's International Soccer , Colossus Chess and Silicon Cyborgs (Silicon Warrior) which is I think the first game we played on that computer.
Played that C64 so much the plastic on the power brick melted. That one's long gone but I have another working C64 lying right here on my table, next to my monitor, Quickshot II joystick and all.
A clearer memory is the day my dad brought me and my brother a C64. An EPROM cartridge came with it with three games - Andrew Spencer's International Soccer , Colossus Chess and Silicon Cyborgs (Silicon Warrior) which is I think the first game we played on that computer.
Played that C64 so much the plastic on the power brick melted. That one's long gone but I have another working C64 lying right here on my table, next to my monitor, Quickshot II joystick and all.
MagicWithEarvin
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When I arrived in Seattle, WA back in 1995 (came from the Philippines), the first time I ever seen and played a video game was at my home. It was Star Fox for the SNES and the only game I had at the time. It was amazing... I sucked at the game for a while (for weeks, probably), then I got the hang of it and eventually beat it. I kept playing and playing until I learned every little thing about the game.
My next games were Super Ghouls and Ghouls and Lion King... the two games that introduced that gamer rage within me.
My next games were Super Ghouls and Ghouls and Lion King... the two games that introduced that gamer rage within me.
Senor Kami
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I don't remember at all. I know I had a NES w/Duck Hunt & Mario in kindergarten. I don't remember asking for it and the only thing I remember about getting it was that there seemed to be some issue with hooking it up and my Dad had to get something odd to run it through the VCR.
I don't think Duck Hunt and Mario were the first games I ever saw but I've got no clue what that game would have been. The earliest gaming memory that isn't covered in fog and just an emotion was that I remember going to the store for my birthday and wanting Mario 3, but my Dad said it cost too much so I got Mario 2 instead.
I don't think Duck Hunt and Mario were the first games I ever saw but I've got no clue what that game would have been. The earliest gaming memory that isn't covered in fog and just an emotion was that I remember going to the store for my birthday and wanting Mario 3, but my Dad said it cost too much so I got Mario 2 instead.
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The first one I can remember is Turtles NES over at a neighbors' in 1990, at the age of five. I got a Game Boy with Fall of the Foot Clan that christmas :°) (still have it, doesn't work anymore though)
Same here. That was the first console I(we?) ever owned. Plus Super Mario was the first thing I remember seeing too. I also remember other games like Godzilla, Shadowgate (freaked me the fuck out as a kid), Tecmo World Wrestling, Operation Wolf and a game with a guy with a jetpack in space? If anyone has an idea of what that game is, I'd appreciate it. Bugged me for too long now...
Good times were had. Legendary console.
Carnby
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Solar Jetman?
CrackPebbles
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Not really, but I know it was either street fighter II, super mario all stars, mortal kombat, or turtles in time. as those were what my dad was playing and what I started playing when I was like 2 years old.
Rhomega Beta
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No, I don't remember the first game I played either.
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kittens
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Super Mario Bros. I think it was Christmas 1988, which would have made me four. My cousins got an NES with Mario, and I was amazed. Then I got my own the following year.
Senor Kami
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The first one I can remember is Turtles NES over at a neighbors' in 1990, at the age of five. I got a GameBoy with Fall of the Foot Clan that christmas :°) (still have it, doesn't work anymore though)
I remember loving that game but just getting really really angry one morning over the fact that it felt like I couldn't beat it no matter what I did. I wasn't getting killed by enemies or anything, it just felt like I couldn't progress at all and that I had to be missing something somewhere that I just couldn't find no matter how hard I looked. Only recently have I found out that there was a bug that actually would prevent you from beating and that's probably what my issue was.
MomoPufflet
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I think it was Parsec on my friend's dad's computer. I remember playing it quite a bit. Game was HARD (at least back then, I haven't played it since). I don't think I ever got very far but it captivated me nonetheless.
slick7rick
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it was the NES and duck hunt with the zapper gun. i was only 1 year old
YES. Many thanks. Watching a video of it now. Dat nostalgia.
Gunstar Ikari
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Watching my brother play Super Mario Bros. is literally my first memory ever.
I couldn't have been older than 3.
I couldn't have been older than 3.
Moon Patrol Pilot
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Well, Pong on an old dial knob tv that wasn't on the right channel/VHF. It was in black and white and scrambled, like watching the early video game version of illegal porn. As a kid, I had no idea what was going on.
But my first time witnessing a video game that had a profound impact on my little adolescent brain is the first ever Nintendo DS:
But my first time witnessing a video game that had a profound impact on my little adolescent brain is the first ever Nintendo DS:
John Rabbit
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first game my dad put in the NES after we went to buy one as a family. i was around 4.
ahnslaught
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The first memory I had was of an arcade machine that sure looked like galaga that was at a burger place in Seoul. It must have been around 1984 or 1985 and I was with my dad.
The first memory of when a game actually blew me away, though, was when I saw Out Run at an arcade in the US. It led me to getting a Master System over an NES just to get that game in my house, which at the time turned out to be a pretty crappy decision!
The first memory of when a game actually blew me away, though, was when I saw Out Run at an arcade in the US. It led me to getting a Master System over an NES just to get that game in my house, which at the time turned out to be a pretty crappy decision!
dreamer3kx
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I know I saw pong but these were pretty much what I first played.
AaronB
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Maybe some old-timers can help me out. There are a few games I remember very vaguely from right around 1984-5 (and I was in Istanbul at the time, btw), but I can't remember the names.
My school had Apple IIs, and I vaguely remember a spelling game with a purple dragon character.
From around the same time, I remember playing a Commodore 64 at a neighbor's house, where the games took a few minutes to load on a peripheral that used what looked like audio cassette tapes. There was one game where you play as a pumpkin and you could shoot, but each shot used a point of life.
The other game I remember from that Commodore 64 has maintained more of a historical status: Frogger.
Later on I got an Atari 2600, then 7200, then NES, and it's been mainly Nintendo since.
My school had Apple IIs, and I vaguely remember a spelling game with a purple dragon character.
From around the same time, I remember playing a Commodore 64 at a neighbor's house, where the games took a few minutes to load on a peripheral that used what looked like audio cassette tapes. There was one game where you play as a pumpkin and you could shoot, but each shot used a point of life.
The other game I remember from that Commodore 64 has maintained more of a historical status: Frogger.
Later on I got an Atari 2600, then 7200, then NES, and it's been mainly Nintendo since.
Zen_Arcade
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It was beautiful.
AnathemicOne
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One of the Super Mario games at some babysitting service I was dropped off at, can't remember the exact one as I played multiple back then and it's all a blur, but it was on the SNES.
Moon Patrol Pilot
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I played the hell out of the Lemmings demo that came with Shadow of the Beast. Man I loved that Amiga 500. I told my mom I needed a computer for school, and it was considered cheap for a one back then. I never did any school work on it.
Hero_of_the_Day
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My first video game memory was of a Mario game that came out 20 years before yours.
Get the fuck out.
Which Mario game came out in 1976?
terrisus
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Ah yes. Makes more sense.I'm thinking Joe & Mac myself
