Your Very First Game

[Little Pirate]

 

Do you remember your very, very first game you've ever played? I know for a lot of people it might be Super Mario Bros for the NES. Post the game, how old you were (or think you were) and where you played it/got it from.

 

My first was--you guessed it--Super Mario Bros.

 

I didn't have my own console until I was about six, but I remember when I was at Day Care, they had an NES. It was the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo. This is where I first learned how to 'cheat'. The rules were: Once you ran out of lives, your turn was over. They quickly did not count jumping on the turtle while it's going down the stairs to count.

 

It was great--up until one kid destroyed the NES during a tantrum.

[Mister Jack]

Mario Bros. Represent. I think I was about six. My folks just bought me an NES out of nowhere. I don't even think it was Christmastime. It MIGHT have been my birthday but I'm not sure. I just remember I didn't expect it at ALL.

[MagicMagicPony]

I never know if I should count the first game I actually played like, attempted or the first game I actually PLAYED with any sort of skill or intention to do well

[Mister Jack]

Might as well put down both if you remember both.

[King Jimmeh]

I honestly have no idea. It would've been something on the Atari 5200, so maybe Pong or Space Invaders, or some platformer. I had a bunch of cartridges that I played when I was a wee young'un, so I've no idea which was first.

[MagicMagicPony]

I know that I played Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros but I was terrible at it. I tried to be OK at Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers but I was terrible at it too. They couldn't really hold my interest except for putting the gun right up to the TV and wailing on those ducks.

 

But when we got an N64 you could not pry that thing away from me.

 

I don't want to count side scrollers as my first games because I didn't give much of a crap/wasn't good at it.

[Little Pirate]

The 'first game' I was good at had to be the Lion King game I had for my Genesis. I spent HOURS on that game.

 

I have a hard time starting topics without realizing it might be a little too specific. I guess go ahead and post your first games as well as the first games you loved/were good at.

[RadiantViper]

It was either Super Mario All-Stars or Super Mario World ... I'd have to ask my mom, I have terrible memory.

[diedan]

Ehhh...probably some random game on my uncle's mac (Quest, Dungeon, Zork) or my other uncle's Commmodore 64 (some mouse maze game I don't remember the name of?). My parents had an Odyssey² when I was, like, 4, so Pick-Axe Pete, K.C.'s Krazy Chase, etc. were probably the first ones I sat and played extensively. There was a nice period of Atari 2600 action going on too before we got the NES a few years later.

[toxicitizen]

I'm not sure what came first.

 

It was either Super Mario Bros the day my uncle walked in with a NES.

 

Or it was the ColecoVision my aunt got from back when she worked for them, in which case pinpointing a first game would be impossible since we had dozens of them. Think we still have most of them, though I'm not sure whether or not the thing is still in working order.

Edited December 29, 2010 by FLD

[deanb]

NES

Super Mario Bros 3

 

Never got very far in it. Mostly played on the "Start" area with my sister. Which I now know to be a sort of remake of the original Mario Bros game.

[HotChops]

Like so many others,

 

 

I was 4 when I first played it. I might have been five when my bro and I got the NES.

 

I still remember when/where I first saw it. We were at our neighbor's house and all the older kids were playing it and I only got a few seconds with it before it was time to leave. I think that initial tease was one of the things that caused me to love games at such an early age.

Edited December 30, 2010 by HotChops

[Bouchart]

I have vague memories of playing Pac-Man at 3 or 4 years old.

[D-K]

A sesame street pc game in which you had to recognize alphabet letters in everyday objects. I believe my second game was either pitfall on the Atari, Golden Axe on PC or Alley Cat on PC

 

..

 

Fuck yeah.. Alley Cat.

 

Golden Axe was also pretty cool. The first game I ever saw in which players could ride a firebreathing freakin' DRAGON. With a midget, no less. This was straight up 80s hyperviolence. Awesome. Had coop too.

 

One of the character's specials was particularly awesome. Behold:

 

Think I was about around 3 years old.

Edited December 30, 2010 by D-K

[Akuam4n]

It was either DK Country or Crash Bandicoot. I can't remember which one came first. I always went over to my friends houses to play both of those, I just don't remember whose house I visited first.

 

I know that I would beat Crash every time I went over to that guys house. Loved those games.

[Mister Jack]

You guys are making me want to fire up the ol' virtual console.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

I think it was Altered Beast

[Commander Shepard]

Bubble Bobble.

[Chewblaha]

The first game I ever played was Willow for the NES.

[Outkastprince]

I believed it was Duck Hunt.

[CorgiShinobi]

 

Yeah, my first video game device was a Game Boy. I had played both the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo before, but my parents weren't keen on the idea of me owning one at a young age (4-years-old). The biggest influence for me at the time was at an after-school program and this one kid. He was an older kid who'd bring this carrying case with tons of cool Game Boy games. I still remember pestering him to play his Game Boy, and one time I was telling this girl that she wouldn't be allowed to play a Game Boy because it was a Game Boy.

 

It may not have been Super Mario Bros., but it was Super Mario!

Edited December 30, 2010 by Atomsk88

[Mister Jack]

Did they ever make a game girl? Like a pink game boy or something?

[Commander Shepard]

Did they ever make a game girl? Like a pink game boy or something?

Officially licensed by Nintendo? Not that I can recall, but when they began adding in the colored variety of Game Boys, I'm sure most gamers classified the Pink and Purple versions as the "Game Girl." Unless you are Prince, then Purple rules.

[CorgiShinobi]

Nah, though eventually there were different colors. My sister got a yellow Game Boy Pocket, which eventually I received due to her casual interest in gaming. She'd play, but it wasn't important to her to own any video games.

[RadiantViper]

Did they ever make a game girl? Like a pink game boy or something?

 

Pink = girl? Stop thinking like someone from marketing

 

Wikipedia says there was a pink version, Japan only of course.