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[RichardAM]

Sonic the Hedgehog on the Genesis/Mega Drive. I got it for my Christmas along with the Virgin/Dave Perry Aladdin- loved all the 16 bit Disney platformers.

 

[Blackace]

wow, bluto and popeye's sprites are actually pretty impressive

Yeah that game was awesome.


Anyone remember this arcade box? The buttons were always broken... :lol

 

[Easy_D]

SMB1

This.

 

[Segata Sanshiro]

99% sure it was an arcade cab of Missile Command that was at my mom's workplace. She couldn't afford a babysitter so she'd just bring me with her to work and dump me in the little mini-arcade during her shifts. I'd just sit and watch and sometimes when people left in a hurry I'd get a chance to play the rest of their game.

 

[andymcc]

this is a really great thread and i'm surprised, in a good way, by the lack of mario/zelda responses. :lol

 

[Milk Lizard]

My dad came home with like 150 games for amiga lol) when i was a kid. I dont remember what game was the first but supefrog i played the shit out of. God that amiga was amazing and it still works today.

I used to play all day with my ugly neighbour.

 

[andymcc]

My dad came home with like 150 games for amiga lol) when i was a kid. I dont remember what game was the first but supefrog i played the shit out of. God that amiga was amazing and it still works today.

i think i was the only american kid with an amiga. :lol

 

[KittyKittyBangBang]

 

[Caoz]

I wanted to say this :

but it dates back to 1982. So it was probably something on the atari. Most likely :

 

[Jive Turkey]

Not sure really. It was either Galaga, Pac-Man, or Centipede. All being the arcade versions.

 

[RoryDropkick]

Threads like this are fun... with that being said I think the first game I played was either Berzerk on the 2600, or maybe it was Space Fury in the arcades.... I know Space Fury was the game that made me afraid of video games for a while, with the creepy one eyed alien <which I called the one eyed slob> and the early speech synth. :lol

 

[WickedLaharl]

mario bros. for atari 2600

 

[iamaustrian]

On a texas Instruments home computer some racing game in a maze.
can't remember the name though. anyone knows what I mean?

 

[Carlisle]

 

[Frawdder]

Super Mario Bros.



...or was it Duck Hunt?

 

[savor100]

It was a Game & Watch game...Fire I think.
As far as console games I believe it was Super Mario Bros on the NES

 

[thefro]

Donkey Kong (arcade).

First time I played the NES I played Rad Racer, Popeye, and Super Mario Brothers at my cousin's house.

 

[LogicStep]

Never beat it and believe me I tried many times to. That was my first game ever with my first console ever the Sega Master System. Good days.

Man that intro screen :lol

 

[brandonh83]

Yeah, I'm a Super Mario Bros. kid. Parents got me a Nintendo in 1986, 3 years after my apocalyptic birth. I'm sure this is part of the reason I'm so anal about Nintendo today, when they're not releasing much that appeals to me I'm really disappointed in them but when they release something like Mario Galaxy I'm singing their praises again :lol

 

[Andrew J.]

Super Mario World. I was four years old, and I had a blast playing it with my dad.

Also, you're all a bunch of old goats.

 

[Brinbe]

Was on one of those 10000000-in-1 famicom cartridges my mom had when we lived back in the Philippines. Good times with that game, still one of my favs. :lol

 

[-Amon-]

Space Invaders as kid in a bar, during summer vacations.

 

[gogojira]

 

[SmokyDave]

The tape that came with my VIC-20 had Race, Hoppit, Type-A-Tune and Blitz on it. I played the shit out of Race & Blitz. Can't find a screenie of Race but here is Blitz...

So awesome.

 

[demon arm]

Space Invaders arcade machine, waiting for my dad in airports.

 

[ahoyhoy]

I was like 6; i remember walking in on my dad setting it up :lol

The game came out in 2000 when you were 6, you registered for GAF in 2004... Holy fuck you've been a member of this site since you were 10? And your currently 15? Wowoweeewaa.

 

[-PXG-]

Duck Hunt

 

[fallengorn]

Moon Patrol and Q*bert for the 2600 from a defunct department store for a $1 each!

 

[Silverthorn]

Space Invaders in the arcade. Damn I'm old.

 

[Nemic77]

Wolf 3d! Scared me as hell back then... :lol

 

[andymcc]

Man that intro screen :lol

i gotta say, that intro screen makes the game look a lot more awesome than it actually is.

 

[malingenie]

Dinosaurs on the TRS-80.

Now I feel like the dinosaur

 

[Zoso]

Donkey Kong Country was my first

 

[Trakdown]

Yeah that game was awesome.


Anyone remember this arcade box? The buttons were always broken... :lol

Oh Jesus, I remember that "thing". Bad enough trying to do a Hadoken on SFI, let's make it so you have to slam a pneumatic button too. And I mean SLAM, especially since I was like 7 at the time.

 

[Drame]

James Pond 2 on Amiga.

 

[EdgecrusherLSU]

This was the first game I remember. Parents bought an NES along with this game for my brother's birthday. I think my oldest brother had an Atari before that and it is pretty likely I played it but I can't remember.

 

[Totalriot]

Don't remember the name but it was this game on Matell Vectrex:

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Raiders of The Lost Ark or Adventure for the 2600. I can't remember which.

 

[cramcakes]

Atari 7800

Either Asteroids

or Food Fight

 

[Pyke Presco]

It was either a Commodore 64 game or a Sega Master system game, I don't remember which was first. And since I can't actually remember all the games that we had on either, or the order in which I played them, I'll just say it was one of the following 2:
Impossible Mission on the C64:
Gameplay Video

OR

Wonder Boy in Monster Land (Sega Master System)
Gameplay Video

God damn, I played Wonder Boy so many times.

 

[magicalsoundshower]

It looks like the sprites are twice the resolution of the backgrounds. This goes to show what powerhouses most arcade machines were for their time, I guess. I don't think there were any systems out at the time that were able to pull off an arcade-perfect conversion.

 

[zoukka]

SMB probably \,,/

 

[Sub_Level]

Terminator 2 Arcade for Genesis

 

[dreamer3kx]

yes this.

 

[leroy hacker]

The game came out in 2000 when you were 6, you registered for GAF in 2004... Holy fuck you've been a member of this site since you were 10? And your currently 15? Wowoweeewaa.

Oddly enough he said he was 28 in the OT recently.

 

[Mik2121]

I don't know exactly which one came first, but the very oldest thing I can remember is having a NES (my brother's, actually) and the following games:

- Faxanadu
- SMB
- Excitebike
- The Legend of Zelda
- Duck Hunt
- Some other game for the pistol that had guys with masks or something.
- Paperboy
- Duck Tales

And some more I'm forgetting now.


The ones I played the most were Faxanadu (loved the first city's music. In fact, the game was in English and by that time I couldn't understand anything, so I was just walking around the city clueless), SMB, Ducktales and Paperboy. Also some Excitebike, and a bit of Zelda. I also played the other games every now in a while, but I'll guess the first video game I remember playing would be SMB.

 

[Blue Heeler]

Same.

 

[Green Mamba]

Either Metroid, Super Mario Bros., or Duck Hunt. I know my dad bought an NES way back when I was just a kid, and those were the first three games he bought. I vividly remember playing Metroid with him, drawing out maps and copying down passwords. I remember having long drawn out arguments over the true nature of the protagonist, Samus. One of us thought Samus was a man in a spacesuit, the other thought Samus was a robot. Can't remember who thought which but we were, uh, both very wrong.

 

[Peronthious]

I recall playing a bunch of odd adventure games, but I can't remember their names at all. The first game that I actually remember would probably be:

for the Apple IIe

 

[andymcc]

Oddly enough he said he was 28 in the OT recently.

i think detective gaf may have their work cut out for them...