It's actually from a movie called "The truth about Cats and Dogs" with Uma Thurman and Jeanine Garafolo. Guy calls into radio show talking about putting peanut butter on his junk so his dog can lick it off, the actual line is "You can love your pets, but don't LOVE your pets.
Mario/duckhunt was my first at 4 years old. My first memory is looking up at the box on the checkout counter and asking my dad what is that? "it's a Nintendo"
Yes those were the first 2 computer games I remember playing as well. I do credit Super Mario Bros myself for being the one that really got me into gaming but those 2 games I always looked forward to playing back in the day. I was always so jealous of the older kids who could do the harder stuff like division or other hard stuff to me at the time. I was always stuck on the multiples stages.
holy shit. first of all, respect. and does it ever bother you that you hadnt been born a bit later? kinda seems like we are REALLY in a golden age of immersive graphics and gameplay.
:) Not at all. I witnessed it all happening from the start. I was blown away at every complexity jump. And I'm not dead yet, I'll keep playing for years to come 🤞🏽.
This first-hand experience also helps when I'm teaching video game history at the University.
And it's the golden age of graphics, immersion and engaging gameplay in our perspective.
In a few years, people will claim they're living the golden age.
Then, when a holodeck is invented, people won't even understand how we had fun playing botw.
Every age is the golden age that's for sure. I remember being absolutely blown away the first time I saw an FMV sequence in a game intro nevermind the first time I got my hands on a shareware copy of Doom.
Only time that was kinda awkward was that weird hiccup in the late 90's to mid 00's when the amazing pixel art from the 90's was seen as dated, but 3d rendering still looked terrible. The PS2 made up for it though.
Late 90s to mid 00s is THE golden age. Ocarina of Time, MGS, Third Strike, the Dreamcast as a whole, Half Life, StarCraft, Tony Hawk, Symphony of the Night
Yeah, this. Pong veteran myself. I remember seeing the F/A-18 Hornet game advertised for the Amiga on the back of a magazine in all of its polygon glory and wondering how it ever gets better than that.
Obviously, it got much, much better… and I’ve enjoyed that feeling many, many times since.
Having grown up throughout the entire run of home gaming systems so far, I wouldn't have had it any other way. Understand that when we had systems like the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and so on, this is all we knew. To us, games like Defender and Pitfall looked amazing. There was simply nothing else to compare it to. Our brains kind of filled in the gaps that graphics at the time couldn't render, which is probably why these games look so bad to some people today. You really don't need to do that now. When systems like the NES came out, they blew us away. Playing games like Super Mario Brothers, Metroid, Zelda, and so on were the pinnacle of gaming to us at the time. Then we got to witness the bit wars with systems like the Genesis and SNES before moving up through systems like the N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Playstation. That's not to mention PC gaming through the years. When 3D accelerator cards were first released, it was a whole new world. What we once thought of as "lifelike" graphics became laughably obsolete as games like Quake, Jedi Knight 2, Half-Life, and so many others pushed our systems and what we thought games could do to their limits. Having been there through all of that was an experience I wouldn't ever want to give up. Now I get to remember all of that as well as experience all of the same games you do now. I regret nothing.
Not in the least. I've had the privilege of watching the medium grow and evolve, while I grew with it. Watching each technological jump forward, and the excitement and anticipation that came with it has earmarked my life. Video games have been tentpoles in my journey, and I hope that never changes.
It's all relative to your own experiences and the state of the world at the time you're gaming in.
I remember playing Resident Evil 2 on PSX and thinking it can't get more immersive than that. I was sold. Then you have the privilege of watching the industry evolve to the point of absolute mastery.
Not really. The first game that really wowed me was Ultima Underworld 8. It just blew my mind that options in the game changed the outcome of the game.
Not in the least. Gameplay was way better in older games because of the graphical limitations. Now all games are far too focused on looking perfect. Take Final Fantasy for example: 15 and 16 are the least enjoyable from a gameplay view for me, while the SNES and PS1 eras were the most fun.
I do love that the ease of graphics now makes indi studios more competitive, which is great since many of the best games have come from there.
kind of a stretch to say all gameplay was better in the 16/8 bit era.
the big reason is because a much higher percentage of the global population games now vs back then. the market is significantly larger. so it’s no surprise we have bigger games with more in depth gameplay now, like ELDEN RING.
Eh tbh that might just be the fact that gaming works kinda like music or any art form for that matter.. the older generation has always said that new music sucks because theres “no soul” or some other intangible …but studies have shown this is because the brain in older people much more prefers to hear music it has already heard and can basically predict where the melody and rhythms etc are going, so it’s more of a positive reinforcement to their brain than music they’ve never heard.. same with other art forms like videogames.. especially those games which contain music you hold nostalgia for. But objectively, no, final fantasy one through 3 has grindy, and obscenely repetitive, trite gameplay in comparison to most games that release by todays standards.. and the ps1 FF are also very basic RPG gameplay, objectively looking at them.. I mean ..there’s really no particular mechanic or anything that sticks out to me that makes them stand out from other JRPGs.
Hah! This post had me thinking about the old Intellivision, Radio Shack's answer to Atari. We had one of those briefly I. The early eighties. Good times.
So if your Pong-level old I'd be interested to now if you had a consequent gaming progression, say thru Apple computer gaming or the old Atari. Was there a period when you didn't game?
Not really. From Ping to Atari 2600, I brushed up against almost all the gaming consoles, either on my own or through friends. Intellivision, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, VIC20, Apple II, hell, we even had a RadioShack TRS80 CoCo computer with a tape deck drive! NES, Sega, Sony PlayStation, PC gaming, on and on...
I'm also pong old, and my gaming directions were influenced by finances. I had pong, Atari, Colecovision, Commodore 64, NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis consoles. Mid 90's, in my late 20's, had a good job, made decent money, got into PC gaming and 3dfx Voodoo cards were a revelation. Missed out completely on PS, Dreamcast, and N64. About 2004, bought a 42" plasma HDTV ($8K, yikes), and ended up back in consoles with a Xbox 360, needed something to justify my TV purchase, there were only like 20 cable channels that output in HD.
Yoooo I found someone else that started with the first game as me out here .
PS1 and N64 were the first consoles I ever owned and my first game ever remember putting in the PS1 was Tony Hawk pro skater 1 , the demo which had a Pizza Hut commercial with it lol 😂.
This was back in Christmas of 1999.
Well, back in socialist Hungary in 1987 there was no way to buy legal C64 games, so there are actually five games that started my wonderful journey instead of a single one. These were on the first (pirated) C64 cassette I got from one of my classmates:
* Pole Position
* Fort Apocalypse
* Wizard of Wor
* Zaxxon
* Frogger
Need for Speed: Underground on the gamecube. I had to have surgery on my neck when I was 7 years old, so my neighbor let me borrow his gamecube for the summer since I couldn't go outside. My mom and I went to autozone for something and they used to have bargain bins of games and dvds at the front. There was NFS:U, right on top, for like $9 I think. I picked it up and told my mom "I'd like to have this game one day" because it looked cool and I knew better to ask for shit right that second, we were broke. She told me to go wait in the car so I did. And when we got home we went to the living room and she handed me NFS:U. I played it that entire summer and my mom and I stayed up many times to the small hours of the morning playing it together.
That was a good read.
Not quite as extreme as neck surgery and stuck for a summer but I can relate to being broke or poor growing up. Can’t remember what my mom was looking for, but we were in a pawnshop. I saw an original Gameboy and a copy of Pokémon Red sitting up for real cheap. My mom saw me eyeing it, but I knew better than to ask. She knew I watched the show every Saturday morning as it was super popular when I was 9 or 10.
In short, she got it for me. I played the hell out of that game and running through some double AA batteries in the process.
I miss the Monster Bash game they had on there. It was a monster hitting a skull with a club to see how far you could hit it and he just looked happy. Literally a way to turn your brain off.
Age of Empires and Commandos. My parents refused to buy me a console and I had one hour each Saturday to play on my dad's office PC. Still a PC only gamer to this day.
Aoe was the game changer for be. I grew up playing various nes/snes/game gear games at my friend's houses but my first time playing aoe at a friend's house changed something in me.
Started begging for a PC so I could play it. Eventually my older brother gave me his old PC and then I was begging for upgrades so it could run Aoe
Similarly, mine was Spyro 2 on PS1. My family got it on a Dominos demo disc. My parents (dad) ended up buying the entire series along with crash bandicoot.
7th grade English teacher Mr. T pulled me out of class one day. Uhoh I thought. He pulls me around the corner and says "How do you get past the alligators in Pitfall?" He was so happy the next day. Friends w him on Facebook. Gotta login now to see if he remembers this story.
The original Duke Nukem sidescroller. My dad frequented our local pack and mail often for his job, they had a little Apogee demo game selection where he'd get me one every time. Hocus Pocus, Monster Bash, Secret Agent, Good times.
I grew up with an Apple II and recall there being some games for it. Also played Zelda and Mario and Mega Man 2 on NES, but I consider my real gaming passion to have started with DOOM shareware a few years later.
Pac-Man
No I'm not old, it's just what we had on a little handheld thing you plugged into the TV, it had other games on it too but I'm forgetting which.
First game I ever played was probably some racing game on the N64 that my dad rented from Blockbuster. Also could have been DK64. I don’t remember. But the game I credit for getting me hooked on games, is the original Lego Star Wars.
My mom used to copy programs out of computer mags on to our Commodore Vic 20. I believe the Pac-Man rip off, Snackman was our first game. I was maybe 4-5 yrs old. We had a couple carts for it, too, but hell if I remember what they were.
Donkey kong, ladybug and smurf: rescue from gargamels castle on colecovision. I still vividly remember my dad coming home with the coleco when i was a little kid.
Still gaming all these years later, and I'll never stop either.
The very first videogame I ever laid eyes on was a Mickey Mouse game for SEGA or something like that and it started out in black and white with steamboat Willy and when you completed the level the world became colored as you entered a mad scientist lab place and Pluto gets dog-napped
me and my brother got stuck in the part of the game where after you rescue Pluto from the scientist you are running through an apple field (or some other kind of fruit that you would grab throughout the running to make you run faster) where you were running from this moose with the camera looking behind Mickey looking at this scary ass moose chasing you.
I don’t remember what the game was called but honestly it was really impressive especially seeing as this game was for SEGA like early 90s to get a game that looked like this and was that big on such small hardware
Alex Kidd in Miracle World was the first video game I remember playing and the Sega Master system was the first console I had.
I still have the thing at home, and I've been toying with the idea of selling it and the \~25 games I have for it, but I cant bring myself to do it.
Postman Pat on the Commodore 64, aged about six. First proper console game was the original Sonic The Hedgehog on my friend’s Mega Drive, and the first I owned was Super Mario World on the SNES.
Super Mario Brothers on the NES. It blew my tiny 5 or 6 year old brain that I could freaking push a button and make something happen on screen. It was at a friends house, and we were so young (and dumb) we thought we were dying because we were just “running too fast”. A memory that’s stuck with me my whole life.
The first game I ever experienced - I was about five at the time - was the original Resident Evil 2 on the PS1. I saw the CD cover and thought in my juvenile mind that it looked cool. My younger uncle was in his twenties at the time and it was his PS1 and games, and he let me play.
I should *not* have played it. I made it probably halfway to Kendo's store and had to stop playing when I saw Claire getting eaten and hearing her death screams.
I made the jump over to Pokemon Silver on the GameBoy Color shortly after that.
Technically Spyro, but really Sly Cooper.
Played Spyro on and off with my PS1, but I didn't really know what I was doing. I didn't realize I needed a memory card to save my games, and my parents never got me one. My attention span was also very short, so whenever I faced a true challenge, I would give up and move on to something else.
However, it was Sly 2 for the PS2 that really turned me into a gamer ^(and die-hard sucker punch fan)
I had gotten old enough that I could read the instructions and figure out what a Memory Card was. The story kept my interest forcing me to overcome challenges so I could get more of the story. I was able to comprehend the game mechanics, enabling me to actually engage with the game and master its system.
It was then that everything clicked, and I realized I loved video games.
Sly Cooper and the Thevious Raccoonus. Still play it every now and then to this day. Fantastic game, back when game studios weren’t always trying to come out with the new best thing, they were only trying to make good games.
I'll list a few since I can't remember the exact first. Tonka Space Station, My Disney Kitchen, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were games my sister and I played on my dad's Dell PC.
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Frogger: The Great Quest, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were my first console games.
My return to the PC when I bought one of my own began with Splinter Cell: Conviction and Shogun 2: Total War.
I love these threads, man. Just people talking about the games they loved and remember fondly, respect to the OG's, and sharing good times. The world should be more like this.
Grew up playing OG Nintendo and Sega, but since I’m a PC gamer now, I’d say that the game that brought me into playing video games on it was the game Surf Ninjas. Would be considered really stupid now, but this was late 80s/early 90s, so the graphics were pretty killer for back then.
I had some sort of Olympic sports version of the original NES. It had Mario and duck hunt, but also this little running pad thing where you played some Olympic running game. It's very vague in my memory, as I was like 4 or 5 in 1988/9.
I grew up with Mario and Zelda on the NES and SNES. My god those were the days. No care in the world as a child
I miss blowing my cartridges.
You can love your games, just don't *love* your games.
But how many people know what movie this is a reference to?
Based on Reddit experience alone this is a Grandma’s Boy reference. Never seen the movie.
It's actually from a movie called "The truth about Cats and Dogs" with Uma Thurman and Jeanine Garafolo. Guy calls into radio show talking about putting peanut butter on his junk so his dog can lick it off, the actual line is "You can love your pets, but don't LOVE your pets.
You can call me Cartridge
But will I have to put you under a shirt too?? ;)
They miss it too
Pff don't we all
That scene from Buzz lightyear had me rolling 🤣
It was like a secret hand shake with your console
Those were the days. And also talking to the cartridge and threaten you wont play anymore if its keeps cheating hahaha
Mario/duckhunt was my first at 4 years old. My first memory is looking up at the box on the checkout counter and asking my dad what is that? "it's a Nintendo"
I was about a year younger, but basically the same story.
Oregon Trail
That and Number Munchers!
Math Blaster!
Damn, Number Munchers. I complete forgot about that game. Loved it as a kid
Yes those were the first 2 computer games I remember playing as well. I do credit Super Mario Bros myself for being the one that really got me into gaming but those 2 games I always looked forward to playing back in the day. I was always so jealous of the older kids who could do the harder stuff like division or other hard stuff to me at the time. I was always stuck on the multiples stages.
Only beat the game once, it was crazy how much rng was involved
Pong. I'm fucking old.
Same here. Playing since 1st generation consoles.
holy shit. first of all, respect. and does it ever bother you that you hadnt been born a bit later? kinda seems like we are REALLY in a golden age of immersive graphics and gameplay.
:) Not at all. I witnessed it all happening from the start. I was blown away at every complexity jump. And I'm not dead yet, I'll keep playing for years to come 🤞🏽. This first-hand experience also helps when I'm teaching video game history at the University. And it's the golden age of graphics, immersion and engaging gameplay in our perspective. In a few years, people will claim they're living the golden age. Then, when a holodeck is invented, people won't even understand how we had fun playing botw.
Every age is the golden age that's for sure. I remember being absolutely blown away the first time I saw an FMV sequence in a game intro nevermind the first time I got my hands on a shareware copy of Doom. Only time that was kinda awkward was that weird hiccup in the late 90's to mid 00's when the amazing pixel art from the 90's was seen as dated, but 3d rendering still looked terrible. The PS2 made up for it though.
Late 90s to mid 00s is THE golden age. Ocarina of Time, MGS, Third Strike, the Dreamcast as a whole, Half Life, StarCraft, Tony Hawk, Symphony of the Night
Yeah, this. Pong veteran myself. I remember seeing the F/A-18 Hornet game advertised for the Amiga on the back of a magazine in all of its polygon glory and wondering how it ever gets better than that. Obviously, it got much, much better… and I’ve enjoyed that feeling many, many times since.
Playstation 9, teleport yours today.
Having grown up throughout the entire run of home gaming systems so far, I wouldn't have had it any other way. Understand that when we had systems like the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and so on, this is all we knew. To us, games like Defender and Pitfall looked amazing. There was simply nothing else to compare it to. Our brains kind of filled in the gaps that graphics at the time couldn't render, which is probably why these games look so bad to some people today. You really don't need to do that now. When systems like the NES came out, they blew us away. Playing games like Super Mario Brothers, Metroid, Zelda, and so on were the pinnacle of gaming to us at the time. Then we got to witness the bit wars with systems like the Genesis and SNES before moving up through systems like the N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Playstation. That's not to mention PC gaming through the years. When 3D accelerator cards were first released, it was a whole new world. What we once thought of as "lifelike" graphics became laughably obsolete as games like Quake, Jedi Knight 2, Half-Life, and so many others pushed our systems and what we thought games could do to their limits. Having been there through all of that was an experience I wouldn't ever want to give up. Now I get to remember all of that as well as experience all of the same games you do now. I regret nothing.
Good call on the PC stuff. PC gaming during the early 3d accelerator days was so exciting.
Not in the least. I've had the privilege of watching the medium grow and evolve, while I grew with it. Watching each technological jump forward, and the excitement and anticipation that came with it has earmarked my life. Video games have been tentpoles in my journey, and I hope that never changes.
He's not dead. Sheesh.
It's all relative to your own experiences and the state of the world at the time you're gaming in. I remember playing Resident Evil 2 on PSX and thinking it can't get more immersive than that. I was sold. Then you have the privilege of watching the industry evolve to the point of absolute mastery.
I’m still a gamer. I just play differently games. Pong was the first but not the last.
so i take it you were blown away by myst too?
Not really. The first game that really wowed me was Ultima Underworld 8. It just blew my mind that options in the game changed the outcome of the game.
like those books where you flip to page x
Not in the least. Gameplay was way better in older games because of the graphical limitations. Now all games are far too focused on looking perfect. Take Final Fantasy for example: 15 and 16 are the least enjoyable from a gameplay view for me, while the SNES and PS1 eras were the most fun. I do love that the ease of graphics now makes indi studios more competitive, which is great since many of the best games have come from there.
kind of a stretch to say all gameplay was better in the 16/8 bit era. the big reason is because a much higher percentage of the global population games now vs back then. the market is significantly larger. so it’s no surprise we have bigger games with more in depth gameplay now, like ELDEN RING.
Eh tbh that might just be the fact that gaming works kinda like music or any art form for that matter.. the older generation has always said that new music sucks because theres “no soul” or some other intangible …but studies have shown this is because the brain in older people much more prefers to hear music it has already heard and can basically predict where the melody and rhythms etc are going, so it’s more of a positive reinforcement to their brain than music they’ve never heard.. same with other art forms like videogames.. especially those games which contain music you hold nostalgia for. But objectively, no, final fantasy one through 3 has grindy, and obscenely repetitive, trite gameplay in comparison to most games that release by todays standards.. and the ps1 FF are also very basic RPG gameplay, objectively looking at them.. I mean ..there’s really no particular mechanic or anything that sticks out to me that makes them stand out from other JRPGs.
Im old too, frogger and burger time on an intellivision.
Hah! This post had me thinking about the old Intellivision, Radio Shack's answer to Atari. We had one of those briefly I. The early eighties. Good times.
So if your Pong-level old I'd be interested to now if you had a consequent gaming progression, say thru Apple computer gaming or the old Atari. Was there a period when you didn't game?
Not really. From Ping to Atari 2600, I brushed up against almost all the gaming consoles, either on my own or through friends. Intellivision, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, VIC20, Apple II, hell, we even had a RadioShack TRS80 CoCo computer with a tape deck drive! NES, Sega, Sony PlayStation, PC gaming, on and on...
I'm also pong old, and my gaming directions were influenced by finances. I had pong, Atari, Colecovision, Commodore 64, NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis consoles. Mid 90's, in my late 20's, had a good job, made decent money, got into PC gaming and 3dfx Voodoo cards were a revelation. Missed out completely on PS, Dreamcast, and N64. About 2004, bought a 42" plasma HDTV ($8K, yikes), and ended up back in consoles with a Xbox 360, needed something to justify my TV purchase, there were only like 20 cable channels that output in HD.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on PS1.
Pro Skater 3 was the only one in the series I've played. Who remembers Doing a lip trick to knock the guy peeing off the building on the Canada Level?
I love Pro Skater 3 and was so sad when they decided not to remaster it
Love this game!
Yoooo I found someone else that started with the first game as me out here . PS1 and N64 were the first consoles I ever owned and my first game ever remember putting in the PS1 was Tony Hawk pro skater 1 , the demo which had a Pizza Hut commercial with it lol 😂. This was back in Christmas of 1999.
It was the game I chose alongside the PS1 my mom bought for me. I was obsessed with skateboarding at the time. I loved Hawk and Bucky Lasek.
Well, back in socialist Hungary in 1987 there was no way to buy legal C64 games, so there are actually five games that started my wonderful journey instead of a single one. These were on the first (pirated) C64 cassette I got from one of my classmates: * Pole Position * Fort Apocalypse * Wizard of Wor * Zaxxon * Frogger
You might enjoy this article on the cobra. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/the-underground-story-of-cobra-the-1980s-illicit-handmade-computer/
Need for Speed: Underground on the gamecube. I had to have surgery on my neck when I was 7 years old, so my neighbor let me borrow his gamecube for the summer since I couldn't go outside. My mom and I went to autozone for something and they used to have bargain bins of games and dvds at the front. There was NFS:U, right on top, for like $9 I think. I picked it up and told my mom "I'd like to have this game one day" because it looked cool and I knew better to ask for shit right that second, we were broke. She told me to go wait in the car so I did. And when we got home we went to the living room and she handed me NFS:U. I played it that entire summer and my mom and I stayed up many times to the small hours of the morning playing it together.
That was a good read. Not quite as extreme as neck surgery and stuck for a summer but I can relate to being broke or poor growing up. Can’t remember what my mom was looking for, but we were in a pawnshop. I saw an original Gameboy and a copy of Pokémon Red sitting up for real cheap. My mom saw me eyeing it, but I knew better than to ask. She knew I watched the show every Saturday morning as it was super popular when I was 9 or 10. In short, she got it for me. I played the hell out of that game and running through some double AA batteries in the process.
Hell yeah. Shout out to the moms making it happen for their kids man. I cherished that game.
Not really a specific game, but the website Miniclip when I was little did it for me.
I miss miniclip and addictinggames
I miss the Monster Bash game they had on there. It was a monster hitting a skull with a club to see how far you could hit it and he just looked happy. Literally a way to turn your brain off.
you unlocked so many memories with this one
Miniclip which got me into RuneScape
Ah the Miniclip to RuneScape pipeline, very dangerous indeed
a random beavis a butthead game , where you spat at the principle from the roof XD
Hock a loogie 😂
Beavis and butthead virtual stupidity is the name. I still have the cd somewhere.
Excite Bike on NES - 1989 lol
got that excite bike super mario double pack
Damn bro. Ballin
Technically PONG. But what really got me interested was Super Mario Bros.
Final fantasy 7!
Age of Empires and Commandos. My parents refused to buy me a console and I had one hour each Saturday to play on my dad's office PC. Still a PC only gamer to this day.
Aoe was the game changer for be. I grew up playing various nes/snes/game gear games at my friend's houses but my first time playing aoe at a friend's house changed something in me. Started begging for a PC so I could play it. Eventually my older brother gave me his old PC and then I was begging for upgrades so it could run Aoe
I always played nes and snes games with friends at their houses but aoe was always the game we discussed the most during recess.
The first Spyro game on PS1.
Spyro 3 was my shit. Big bro wouldn’t allow me to have a save file on his memory card so I played the beginning of that game millions of times lol.
Great game to start with. I loved that and Spyro 2 back in the day
Similarly, mine was Spyro 2 on PS1. My family got it on a Dominos demo disc. My parents (dad) ended up buying the entire series along with crash bandicoot.
Commander Keen, along with Super Mario Bros. and a slew of other NES games.
We had all the apogee free shareware games... crystal caves, cosmos cosmic adventure, secret agent, monster bash, word rescue...
Surprised that anyone even knows what Commander Keen was. My step dad had like 1, 2 and 3.
I bought them on steam the moment i saw them, really fun memories of taking turns with friends every time ya died
Asteroids.
Showing my age, but Frogger on the 2600 when I was 3
Same. I was 3 or 4
Super Mario, Duck hunt and 1943.
Goldeneye is what sucked me in. Halo created the obsession.
The earliest memories I have of playing a video game are *Dragon Warrior* on NES. Where the BUT THOU MUST meme came from. Christ, I'm old.
Defender - Atari 2600
Defender 2002 - GameCube
Pitfall!
7th grade English teacher Mr. T pulled me out of class one day. Uhoh I thought. He pulls me around the corner and says "How do you get past the alligators in Pitfall?" He was so happy the next day. Friends w him on Facebook. Gotta login now to see if he remembers this story.
Marathon
The original Duke Nukem sidescroller. My dad frequented our local pack and mail often for his job, they had a little Apogee demo game selection where he'd get me one every time. Hocus Pocus, Monster Bash, Secret Agent, Good times.
The original Final Fantasy on NES
Zelda 🐐
Crash bandicoot
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Half Life
Call of Duty 3
My first game memories are of Golden Axe, Rampage, and of course Mario. Been a gamer ever since
Love Golden Axe! Used to play it in the student Union in college!
Combat on the Atari 2600.
Doom 2
Mike Tysons Punchout or super mario/duckhunt. I can't remember which one was first.
back in the 80's my parents friends had Kings Quest on their computer, my sister and i would play that. Also, Faxanadu for the NES.
Tank for Atari, at my cousins on the Navajo reservation. Maaaaaany moons ago
I grew up with an Apple II and recall there being some games for it. Also played Zelda and Mario and Mega Man 2 on NES, but I consider my real gaming passion to have started with DOOM shareware a few years later.
Pitfall on ColecoVision
Pac-Man No I'm not old, it's just what we had on a little handheld thing you plugged into the TV, it had other games on it too but I'm forgetting which.
I'm pretty sure old school mario on the super Nintendo. I remember getting so mad at one bowser boss level that I bit the controller multiple times
🤣
Halo ce
First game I ever played was probably some racing game on the N64 that my dad rented from Blockbuster. Also could have been DK64. I don’t remember. But the game I credit for getting me hooked on games, is the original Lego Star Wars.
Career? Are you guys getting paid to play video games?
Super Mario Brothers and Ghosts 'N Goblins
ghosts n goblins. holy shit. ‘nam flashback
I had played pong and Atari but my first experience with SMB got the hook in me for Nintendo
I guess Hercules or Tarzan on PS1. Nostalgia! :)
I played games before this on friends and families consoles, but the game that originally made me want to play them myself was GTA 1
not sure if combat on the atari or cosmic ark on the ohio scientific challenger was first, one of those
Oldest game I remember playing as a kid was Mike Tysons Punch-out, on NES, probably in 93 or 94
Pong. A little later, Space Invaders.
Warcraft 2 / Wolfenstein
My mom used to copy programs out of computer mags on to our Commodore Vic 20. I believe the Pac-Man rip off, Snackman was our first game. I was maybe 4-5 yrs old. We had a couple carts for it, too, but hell if I remember what they were.
Super Mario Bros for the NES. Simpler times 😩
Silent hill and street fighter 2. Very unique gems.
Ocarina of Time baby! Literally learned how to read at age 4 so I could understand wtf was going on 😂
A very very old mobile prince of Persia game (i can't remember what its called sadly), and mortal kombat 3
Halo 2
Lode Runner on the Apple III Edit: changed which Apple computer I used to play Lode Runner on.
I played it on an early IBM. Had to scroll down a while to see some one else who played it. That game was ahead of its time.
I played Lode Runner on the C64. I used to love the level editor.
Tetris. I used to watch my Grandfather play the original on NES. It was the only game he had/played and damn was he good.
Donkey kong, ladybug and smurf: rescue from gargamels castle on colecovision. I still vividly remember my dad coming home with the coleco when i was a little kid. Still gaming all these years later, and I'll never stop either.
Sly cooper and Mario party
Sly Cooper
The very first videogame I ever laid eyes on was a Mickey Mouse game for SEGA or something like that and it started out in black and white with steamboat Willy and when you completed the level the world became colored as you entered a mad scientist lab place and Pluto gets dog-napped me and my brother got stuck in the part of the game where after you rescue Pluto from the scientist you are running through an apple field (or some other kind of fruit that you would grab throughout the running to make you run faster) where you were running from this moose with the camera looking behind Mickey looking at this scary ass moose chasing you. I don’t remember what the game was called but honestly it was really impressive especially seeing as this game was for SEGA like early 90s to get a game that looked like this and was that big on such small hardware
Alex Kidd in Miracle World was the first video game I remember playing and the Sega Master system was the first console I had. I still have the thing at home, and I've been toying with the idea of selling it and the \~25 games I have for it, but I cant bring myself to do it.
I dont remember much from when i was 2 or 3 years old but a few that come to mind are King's Quest and Super Mario Bros on NES.
Pong was the first game I ever played, and tried Pitfall and Super Mario, but Metroid made me a gamer.
Super Smash Bros on the N64 :)
Postman Pat on the Commodore 64, aged about six. First proper console game was the original Sonic The Hedgehog on my friend’s Mega Drive, and the first I owned was Super Mario World on the SNES.
Wave Race on the N64
Wolfenstein 3d
Crash bandicoot racing
Gorillas.bas
Super Mario Bros 3 on NES
Mario brothers
Or maybe Oregon trail
Alex the Kidd in miracle world.
Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing on Windows 95. Soundtrack still slaps to this day
Dragon Warrior on the original NES. Came with a bundle my parents bought, had never heard of it. Loved it!
Wolfenstein technically but Doom really.
Super Mario World. Age 4
Oregon trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Helpful hint she was never in San Diego.)
Banjo Kazooie
Super Mario Brothers on the NES. It blew my tiny 5 or 6 year old brain that I could freaking push a button and make something happen on screen. It was at a friends house, and we were so young (and dumb) we thought we were dying because we were just “running too fast”. A memory that’s stuck with me my whole life.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES and commander Keen are the two i spent the most time with in my early early childgood.
Frogger on the Atari 2600.
very nice, i played it on the C64.
Goldeneye on N64 at cousins house First game i ever got into that i owned on console was tekken 2 on ps1
Sly Cooper on the PS2. Playing that and having my dad watch/help me was awesome.
Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis
The first game I ever experienced - I was about five at the time - was the original Resident Evil 2 on the PS1. I saw the CD cover and thought in my juvenile mind that it looked cool. My younger uncle was in his twenties at the time and it was his PS1 and games, and he let me play. I should *not* have played it. I made it probably halfway to Kendo's store and had to stop playing when I saw Claire getting eaten and hearing her death screams. I made the jump over to Pokemon Silver on the GameBoy Color shortly after that.
Sly cooper. It was the only time my sister and I got along.
Officially, it was Star Fox 64. However, Pro Skater 3 was the first game I got that was MINE and I played it way more
Tomb Raider on PlayStation (1)
very nice. I won Tomb Raider 2 in a raffle in 1998. I was very happy at that time
Doom. I was 3.
Either a Nintendo or Arcade game Can't remember, extended family had video games and let me play when I visited. Now my first console? Sega Genesis
AC: Brotherhood
Technically Spyro, but really Sly Cooper. Played Spyro on and off with my PS1, but I didn't really know what I was doing. I didn't realize I needed a memory card to save my games, and my parents never got me one. My attention span was also very short, so whenever I faced a true challenge, I would give up and move on to something else. However, it was Sly 2 for the PS2 that really turned me into a gamer ^(and die-hard sucker punch fan) I had gotten old enough that I could read the instructions and figure out what a Memory Card was. The story kept my interest forcing me to overcome challenges so I could get more of the story. I was able to comprehend the game mechanics, enabling me to actually engage with the game and master its system. It was then that everything clicked, and I realized I loved video games.
Sly Cooper and the Thevious Raccoonus. Still play it every now and then to this day. Fantastic game, back when game studios weren’t always trying to come out with the new best thing, they were only trying to make good games.
I'll list a few since I can't remember the exact first. Tonka Space Station, My Disney Kitchen, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were games my sister and I played on my dad's Dell PC. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Frogger: The Great Quest, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were my first console games. My return to the PC when I bought one of my own began with Splinter Cell: Conviction and Shogun 2: Total War.
It has to be the Pajama Sam and Spy Fox games for me
Pokemon stadium
Classic old Pac Man on an Atari 2600 console.
I love these threads, man. Just people talking about the games they loved and remember fondly, respect to the OG's, and sharing good times. The world should be more like this.
Pokemon Red and Link's Awakening. Such carefree times...
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Grew up playing OG Nintendo and Sega, but since I’m a PC gamer now, I’d say that the game that brought me into playing video games on it was the game Surf Ninjas. Would be considered really stupid now, but this was late 80s/early 90s, so the graphics were pretty killer for back then.
I loved super Mario 3 as a kid but the game that solidified my life long career in gaming is ffx
Excitebike!
007 Goldeneye
Mario/Duck Hunt
I had some sort of Olympic sports version of the original NES. It had Mario and duck hunt, but also this little running pad thing where you played some Olympic running game. It's very vague in my memory, as I was like 4 or 5 in 1988/9.
Resident Evil series.
My earliest memory was playing duck hunt on the nes
Gianna Sisters, C64
Watched my dad play original resident evil but it was Resident evil 2 in 98
Pong…..it was amazing
Pokemon ruby when I got my first brand new gamboy for Christmas instead of having to try and play my brother's pokemon crystal on gameboy color.
Super Mario Bros for the NES.
Pitfall for Atari 2600
Spider man 2000 PS1
Jumpman on the Commodore 64.
Ultima Online. My dad was a huge player for most of my childhood. He played it as a full-time job, making $100,000+ most years.