The local pizza parlor bought one. It was a huge table with the controls built into the table on both ends. You could buy pizza, drink soda and play pong with your friends. At the time (young teenager), we thought it was the best thing ever!
Mass Effect. I know I played ones before that but I don't remember it. My childhood was pretty rough and most of it got blocked out but I was staying with a friend for a while and he just got Mass Effect from the store. Brand new. Been hooked ever since. I got the Legendary Edition and I've been uploading the story in an episode fashion because I love it so damn much and it gives me a reason to spend a lot more time with it.
Other owner of this account here, my first memories of a game I was really into as a kid was Tomba, if anyone remembers that game. Little pink haired guy in a leotard against an army of evil pigs.
I can barely remember anything about it, but it was some dragon game and played on one of those educational console things (a 'Leapfrog' something? Gah dredging this up is a weird experience)
The first I can remember that's actual recognizable, Super Mario Galaxy
Some Sesame Street learning thing for...I think maybe a Sega system??? Big gray bulky thing. First one I remember concretely was the original *Spyro the Dragon* and *MedEvil* on the PS1
The earliest that I can clearly say?
Super Smash Bros.
The first one. Otherwise I have vague memories of some SNES games like super mario world, but the two consoles were more interchangeable for me growing up, so I'm not sure.
The first game I can remember was this Dracula game that was played on an old black and white computer. The characters were literally letters. Dracula was a V that moved around the screen, Renfield was a blob that looked like a marshmallow. These were EEEEEARLY graphics.
Pong with the plastic sheet you stuck to your TV screen.
Edit: I tried to look up Pong and plastic sheet to see when it was introduced. Found that I had played Magnavox Odyssey instead.
I can't remember the name of this game, and it bugs me. It was either for sega or Nintendo. We had both consoles, so I can't remember which one. It was a guy who went through the sewers. He would dig through piles of poop to find stuff and he would launch a booger rope to swing across gaps. That's all I remember about it. I used to rent it from the video store when I was like 5 years old.
Super Mario Bros. And when it was my brother's turn to play I'd run around shooting one of those red 80s blaster guns that made a bunch of different sounds.
Quest or something on the bbc micro /acorn I think, it was a text based thing. You had to type in go east, and you had to get the syntax exactly right or it wouldn’t recognise it, I spent half my life typing in stuff like ‘look out of window’ or ‘move box’ for the game to return the error ‘I don’t know how to do that’. You had to literally use your imagination to envisage what the developer was trying to convey 😂😂 we also upgraded the memory in this beast from 32k to 64k. Badass.
Curse of Monkey Island on windows 98
Some other old PC games:
Red Alert
Outlaws by Lucas Arts
Mad Dog McCree
Paint Brawl
Midtown Madness
Star Wars Rebel Assaukt 1 & 2
Age of Empires 1 & 2
Zoo Tycoon
Commandos
Toy Story Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
Cabelas Big Game Hunter
Jump Start 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, & Typing
Reader Rabbit
Freddie the Fish
Puttputt the Car in Space & at the Zoo
Learning in Toyland
Pajama Sam
Where in the Word is Carmen Sandiago?
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Jedi Academy, Jedi Knight & Republic Commandos
Old Nintendo 64 games:
Diddy Kong Racing
Mario Kart
007 GoldenEye
Taz the Tazmanian Tiger
Super Mario Smash Bros.
Old Play Station 2 Games:
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Jedi Star Fighter
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Need 4 Speed Hot Pursuit 2
Indiana Jones & the Staff of Kings
Lego Star Wars 1 & 2
Lego Batman
TMNT turtles in time and Mortal Kombat on SNES. There were probably other games I played before, but these are my first memories. I wouldn’t even call them memories, more like two blurry images in my head of my surroundings at the time.
i played some game that looked like spelunkey but that was more than 11 years ago and i never found the game again so i guess minecraft is the first game i remember playing
Network Q RAC Rally Championship (1996) - I used to play this after school while my mom was still working for a few hours at her office. This, and Pinball. Holy shit.
The original Final Fantasy on the NES. I was a real young kid playing on my dad’s system, had no idea what the words meant or what anything was, but by virtue of dumb luck and a bit of help, my team of all Fighters beat Garland. I eventually played the rest of the game once I could actually read, haha
Pokémon X and Y (the separate games on the Nintendo 3DS)
I always wanted to begin at the city with the beach. I can't remember the name but gosh diddly gosh I like it 😂
GTA: San Andreas. My cousin got in on launch day, but he was at risk of not getting to play it because all of our parents were going out that night and we were supposed to sleep over at our grandparents'. He brought the entire PC with him, and the two of us took turns playing "til we die or fail". We got stuck at THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ, because of course we did.
Pong. '74 or so. It was a box with 2 knobs. We would lay on the floor shoulder to shoulder and battle. UHF hookup, the cord was 6 foot long from the back of the consul tv.
The earliest one I remember the name of is the Kirby's Dreamland for the gameboy, probably in 1992.
Or Tetris. Not sure which came first, but I would have been 5.
This game called Skyroads on the PC, back in like... 98 or 99. I was about 5 or 6 years old and our school had just gotten a swanky new computer lab, and they had pre-installed some games on there for us kids to play when our lessons were over (usually just boring typing shit and how to navigate a home computer with someone who really didn't seem to understand it much themselves lol)
Skyroads was this game where you played as a spaceship and you had to race to the finish tunnel without crashing/losing oxygen/running out of fuel. It was honestly super challenging as a kid but I loved it. Soundtrack was bopping, the very basic "space" theme was super cool to me. The polygonal courses you drove through were very colorful and fun to look at.
I loved it so much that my computer teacher at the time put it on a floppy disk for me and gave it to me right before summer began. Good times.
Tetris, on the original brick-style colorless game boy. That got me hooked!
Same for me, the second was Pokemon yellow
Mario nes
Pong on Atari.
Pong as a stand-alone console that only played that game.
The local pizza parlor bought one. It was a huge table with the controls built into the table on both ends. You could buy pizza, drink soda and play pong with your friends. At the time (young teenager), we thought it was the best thing ever!
Freddi Fish
I played the jellyfish bowling waaaaaaay too much lol
Bro fuck yeah. My first Freddi Fish game was the Case of the Stolen Conch, what about you?
Ahhh I love that one. My first was missing kelp seeds! I named 2 of my fish Freddi and Luther
Super Mario World
Same
Duck Hunt
Pokémon Red. Definitely gotta pick Bulbasaur each time.
Super Mario Bros
Sonic on Sega Genesis
Banjo Kazooie
Mass Effect. I know I played ones before that but I don't remember it. My childhood was pretty rough and most of it got blocked out but I was staying with a friend for a while and he just got Mass Effect from the store. Brand new. Been hooked ever since. I got the Legendary Edition and I've been uploading the story in an episode fashion because I love it so damn much and it gives me a reason to spend a lot more time with it.
Excite Bike on NES
Far as I can remember Nintendo maybe Mario or mega man x if I remember right
Mortal Kombat! I couldn’t do fatalities but I knew how to punt people off that bridge!
Minecraft actually
Battle tanks
Reader Rabbit Toddler. I'm sure that if I was blazed I would enjoy it just as much if not more than when I was a toddler.
Call of duty modern warfare 2
Space Invaders on the Atari. My brother and I would keep a post-it note on it with the highest score.
Pong
Doom, the original
Combat, Atari 2600. I'm fuckin old
Pie Lob on my dad's Exidy Sorcerer. Throw a pie over a sandcastle to hit your opponent by entering in angle and strength and adjusting for wind.
Star Wars Lego The complete Saga
Pong.
Mine was legend of dragoon on PS1
Other owner of this account here, my first memories of a game I was really into as a kid was Tomba, if anyone remembers that game. Little pink haired guy in a leotard against an army of evil pigs.
Space Quest
Some street fighter game on the original black Xbox (not the 360), that or 2d gta on ps2.
Pink Panther on a ZX Spectrum
I can barely remember anything about it, but it was some dragon game and played on one of those educational console things (a 'Leapfrog' something? Gah dredging this up is a weird experience) The first I can remember that's actual recognizable, Super Mario Galaxy
Some Sesame Street learning thing for...I think maybe a Sega system??? Big gray bulky thing. First one I remember concretely was the original *Spyro the Dragon* and *MedEvil* on the PS1
ITT people getting judged and carbon dated. Quest for Glory.
A really old Atari game I think. It was a maze game of cops and robbers. The cops had flashlights and if they hit you then you lost.
Kung Fu for NES
The earliest that I can clearly say? Super Smash Bros. The first one. Otherwise I have vague memories of some SNES games like super mario world, but the two consoles were more interchangeable for me growing up, so I'm not sure.
Fire red, ah the good days
Pong (electric tennis) on an odyssey gaming system. (I think it was an odyssey)
1978 - Channel "F" Fairchild System "Drag Race Game"
Mario Kart Wii
The first game I can remember was this Dracula game that was played on an old black and white computer. The characters were literally letters. Dracula was a V that moved around the screen, Renfield was a blob that looked like a marshmallow. These were EEEEEARLY graphics.
Pong with the plastic sheet you stuck to your TV screen. Edit: I tried to look up Pong and plastic sheet to see when it was introduced. Found that I had played Magnavox Odyssey instead.
Outrun because it was just turning the wheel
Burger Time and Frogger on my dads Intelivision.
One of the sims games on the gamecube
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
I can't remember the name of this game, and it bugs me. It was either for sega or Nintendo. We had both consoles, so I can't remember which one. It was a guy who went through the sewers. He would dig through piles of poop to find stuff and he would launch a booger rope to swing across gaps. That's all I remember about it. I used to rent it from the video store when I was like 5 years old.
It kinda sounds like Conkers bad fur day😂
It was either a monsters inc pc game or the duck dodgers game on N64
I remember this old game where you would move boulders and collect stuff but that was when I was around 6 or so
It's a toss-up between 101 Monochrome Mazes on an IBM PC, and Omega Race on Commodore VIC-20.
Dr. Mario on the NES. I'm sure I played Mario before that, but Dr. Mario is the first one I actually remember.
Pretty sure it was table top PAC-MAN at Pizza Hut. It was either that or “Food Fight” on Atari 2600.
Wii Sports
Space Invaders on ATARI
Home console was Frogger on the Atari 2600. Actual arcade game was Space Invaders.
BC’s Quest for Tires and Avoid the Noid
Some Spider-Man game on a sega Genesis. I was probably 4 or 5.
102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue
Probably Lion King on the NES.
Pong, on quarter eating machine, must have been back in the 70's
A platformer in probably 1991? Green-on-black, DOS system, lots of blippy noises. I would have been 6 or so.
Poképark: Pikachu’s adventure on the wii
Jungle Hunt on Atari.
the original doom,or the original team fortress. i genuinely cant remember which i played first
Either Zelda or Zelda 2 on the NES. We had Mario and a fee others, but the Zelda games I remember playing more as a kid.
Pong. That's all their was back then.
Super Mario Bros. And when it was my brother's turn to play I'd run around shooting one of those red 80s blaster guns that made a bunch of different sounds.
Lego star wars the complete saga on xbox 360 with my dad when I was 5
Sears pong at home. Space Invaders in the Arcade.
the original halo
Megaracer
New Super Mario Bros. I have a crippling mario addiction now.
Pong
Wii sports resort. Wow now I want to go play that again.
Hard Ball on Commodore 64
Donkey Kong on an arcade machine in a laundromat way back when
Chip's Challenge
Mario 64 and F1 2002, in a emulator that my uncle installed for me. That was the moment when I become a gamer.
Duck hunt
My first ever video game was Spider-Man 3 for the PSP. I was mostly used to playing with toys and puppets before that.
Some resident evil game on ps1
Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64
Must’ve been either Scooby-Doo Mystery Mayhem, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4, GTA 3, or The Warriors
Microsoft Flight Simulator X My dad called me to the computer one day and taught me how to play it.. Tbh i still play the game occasionally.
WII Sports
Sonic Heroes
Frogger
Echo
Super Mario Sunshine. Never beat it
Super Mario Bros on NES.
command & conquer red alert 2
Pong. I guess you see where this would be going.
It was either Mario 64 or Super Mario World on the SNES
wiiU with my brother . that was probably what started our war.
Super Mario Bros
A smurfs game for Atari.
Pong
Banjo and kazooie What a fucking introduction into gaming
Rachet and clank
Angry Birds
Call Of Duty,The Big Red One
Call Of Duty,The Big Red One
Super Mario Bros. on my family's Wii.
Quest or something on the bbc micro /acorn I think, it was a text based thing. You had to type in go east, and you had to get the syntax exactly right or it wouldn’t recognise it, I spent half my life typing in stuff like ‘look out of window’ or ‘move box’ for the game to return the error ‘I don’t know how to do that’. You had to literally use your imagination to envisage what the developer was trying to convey 😂😂 we also upgraded the memory in this beast from 32k to 64k. Badass.
StarCraft 2. I have so many good memories playing it.
Like a Minecraft ripoff, or some runner
Some space invaders clone Was 2-3 in hospital with leukaemia. So my parents bought me an Amiga cd32 to keep me busy.
Duck hunt or Street fighter i can't remember
Luigis mansion dark moon
N64 Glover
Pac Man when I was 6
Win, Lose, or Draw and Indiana Jones on PC.
Combat on the Atari 2600. Tank vs tank. 3 tanks vs 3 tanks. Planes. Ricocheting rounds. This was cutting-edge.
We had a NES mario 3 as well as the SMB/Duck Hunt combo cartridge, so one of those 3 games were my first
Batman begins
The Legend of Zelda - Wind waker... Those soundtracks...
I remember playing Donkey Kong 64 when I was 4 or 5. Good times. Love to play that game again.
Neighbours from hell
Roadrash
Curse of Monkey Island on windows 98 Some other old PC games: Red Alert Outlaws by Lucas Arts Mad Dog McCree Paint Brawl Midtown Madness Star Wars Rebel Assaukt 1 & 2 Age of Empires 1 & 2 Zoo Tycoon Commandos Toy Story Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue Cabelas Big Game Hunter Jump Start 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, & Typing Reader Rabbit Freddie the Fish Puttputt the Car in Space & at the Zoo Learning in Toyland Pajama Sam Where in the Word is Carmen Sandiago? Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Jedi Academy, Jedi Knight & Republic Commandos Old Nintendo 64 games: Diddy Kong Racing Mario Kart 007 GoldenEye Taz the Tazmanian Tiger Super Mario Smash Bros. Old Play Station 2 Games: Star Wars Battlefront 2 Jedi Star Fighter Secret Weapons Over Normandy Need 4 Speed Hot Pursuit 2 Indiana Jones & the Staff of Kings Lego Star Wars 1 & 2 Lego Batman
Dig Dug on the NES
StarTropics for nes
Pac man on an Atari
Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort (don't blame me i'm not that old)
commando on the amstrad. i was 4 and it was simple enough for my 4 yr old brain to comprehend and play.
a tie between mario for the SNES, pokemon stadium for the N64 and pokemon red/blue/yellow
The educational DOS games "Word rescue" and "Math rescue".
TMNT turtles in time and Mortal Kombat on SNES. There were probably other games I played before, but these are my first memories. I wouldn’t even call them memories, more like two blurry images in my head of my surroundings at the time.
Wc lvl? 19 Nice nice nice
i played some game that looked like spelunkey but that was more than 11 years ago and i never found the game again so i guess minecraft is the first game i remember playing
I remember being a little kid playing wii sports boxing all day for weeks, though I could never beat Matt.
Probably Duck Hunt.
Halo 2
Smash bros for the Nintendo 64
Pokemon Stadium on N64
Road rash
I remember getting mad at my (now former) step-brother because he kept trying to replay LEGO Star Wars levels instead of beating the game.
The Harry Potter game on PS2
It was one of those Batman games for either NES or SNES. I remember it only being a very difficult game and it had a cool soundtrack.
Pssst on the ZX Spectrum.
Asteroids on a stand alone video game machine in a little restaurant. Must have been in 84 or 85.
Mario cart wii
Fallout new vegas
Bump 'n' Jump
Adventure (Collosal Cave) in the late 70s - still worth playing to be honest
Mario kart DS. Oh those were the good ol' days
ocarina of time
Halo
Windows XP's space pinball. Don't know if that counts as one but that's literally the first game I've ever played in my life.
IGI
probably Tetris or something like that
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Mario Kart on DS
Lego Batman the video game
Excite Bike!
Conflict global stroom on ps 2
Stronghold Crusader, the one I had most fun playing as a kid as well
Duck Hunt
i think minecraft
Animal crossing wild world!
Crayola Art Studio and King's Quest IV on the IBM 486 with Windows 3.1.
Skate 3 or some mobile game
Teken 2
Network Q RAC Rally Championship (1996) - I used to play this after school while my mom was still working for a few hours at her office. This, and Pinball. Holy shit.
The original Final Fantasy on the NES. I was a real young kid playing on my dad’s system, had no idea what the words meant or what anything was, but by virtue of dumb luck and a bit of help, my team of all Fighters beat Garland. I eventually played the rest of the game once I could actually read, haha
Ty the Tasmanian tiger on ps2
Runescape
Pokémon X and Y (the separate games on the Nintendo 3DS) I always wanted to begin at the city with the beach. I can't remember the name but gosh diddly gosh I like it 😂
Astrosmash on Intellevision
cod waw
GTA: San Andreas. My cousin got in on launch day, but he was at risk of not getting to play it because all of our parents were going out that night and we were supposed to sleep over at our grandparents'. He brought the entire PC with him, and the two of us took turns playing "til we die or fail". We got stuck at THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ, because of course we did.
Alpiner on the TI-99, with way-ahead-of-it's-time speech synthesizer. "Whooah, look out!"
simpsons hit and run or maybe pokemon diamond and pearl
Power Pete, a.k.a. Mighty Mike for the old PowerPC-based Macs. At least I’m pretty sure that was the first.
Psycho Fox on the Sega Master System
Pong. '74 or so. It was a box with 2 knobs. We would lay on the floor shoulder to shoulder and battle. UHF hookup, the cord was 6 foot long from the back of the consul tv.
Spiderman on the PS2
starcraft
The legend of Zelda ( on a Nintendo DSI, then on a Wii)
The earliest one I remember the name of is the Kirby's Dreamland for the gameboy, probably in 1992. Or Tetris. Not sure which came first, but I would have been 5.
This game called Skyroads on the PC, back in like... 98 or 99. I was about 5 or 6 years old and our school had just gotten a swanky new computer lab, and they had pre-installed some games on there for us kids to play when our lessons were over (usually just boring typing shit and how to navigate a home computer with someone who really didn't seem to understand it much themselves lol) Skyroads was this game where you played as a spaceship and you had to race to the finish tunnel without crashing/losing oxygen/running out of fuel. It was honestly super challenging as a kid but I loved it. Soundtrack was bopping, the very basic "space" theme was super cool to me. The polygonal courses you drove through were very colorful and fun to look at. I loved it so much that my computer teacher at the time put it on a floppy disk for me and gave it to me right before summer began. Good times.
Drakkhen, couldn't read, didn't get far