VideoGame_Discussion

Pitfall (Atari 2600, I think)

Probably either Centipede or Ms. Pac-Man arcade. I owned a Ms. Pac-Man arcade as a young kid, so it was probably that.

Super Mario Bros. or Contra.

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Specifically Spin-Out! (Magnavox Odyssey^2)

Yarz Revenge on 2600

Super Mario Bros. when I was 3 years old. My uncle brought his NES over and we all got to play it. I mostly remember watching others play, but I did get to try a few times too (I was terrible). It wasn't too long after this that we got an NES of our own.

Super Mario is my earliest memory along with Mega Man 5. I have a vivid memory of having to look away and hide while my older brother tried to beat Gyro Man because he did better when he was not being watched lol. I do not know how old I was so probably anywhere between 4-5 years old

Either Jupiter Lander or that mouse game on Commodore 64

My dad co-owned a Radio Shack when I was really young and he brought home some TV based PC like device that had a KB on the unit and I played something on there, don't hardly recall any details. Then likely the next Christmas or 2 after that, we got an NES with Mario and Duck Hunt as the games I played first on there.

The first video game I remember playing was Super Mario Bros on a Play Choice 10 arcade cabinet at a pizza place near my early childhood home around 4-5 years old. The first video game I owned Color Baseball on the Tandy CoCos. My dad had an IBM 8086 machine that had golf and chess on it. One Christmas, we got a NES with SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track. Me and my little brother would go so hard on that power pad. That was followed by The Legend of Zelda on my birthday, which got me completely hooked on video games.

Finn wrote:

Radar Rat Race?

(The one that plays like Rally X?)

benstylus wrote:
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I think it's the same for me too -- either Space Invaders or Combat on the Atari 2600.

benstylus wrote:

LOL, yep that's it. The first game I ever bought was GORF lol I think it was $2 at the time...man that brings me back.

Mine was Tetris. My dad loved playing it. We eventually burned the background image into the TV.

My earliest gaming memories are watching one of my older sisters and her friends playing Super Mario Bros., Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, so it had to be one of those.

I'd also watch my mom and grandmother playing games on consoles older than NES, but I don't think I was as interested in playing those games myself.

Major League Baseball on NES.

RBI Baseball on NES. My friend had an NES and we played the crap out of that game. He won like 3/4 of the time but I won a 22 inning game once and that was a memory I’ll hold near and dear.

BloodPuppetX wrote:

Same.

My dentist office had a 2600 with Pitfall in the waiting room. One day, there was a stack of other cartridges as well, so I was able to try some others, but Pitfall is the only one I remember.

Shortly afterwards, we went to visit some family in North Carolina, and I walked into their living room to see them playing what I now know was The Legend of Zelda. The rest is history.

While not super exciting, I'm pretty sure my first gaming experience was on a Windows 95 PC...

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But if we're talking "real" video games, my first exposure would be playing on my neighbor SNES. It's probably a toss-up between these two for which one I played first...

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Advanced D&D on Intellivison. Actually one of my earliest life memories... Still remember it very clearly and vividly. Those fudging snakes always scared the crap out of me (I was 4)!

I remember! Me and my brother got an NES for Christmas and it came with Mario and duck hunt so Mario was my first game ever played!

jim269 wrote:

After playing Pitfall at a friend's house, my brothers and I begged our parents to get us an Atari for Christmas. I guess my dad knew more about video games than us because he got an NES with Mario instead. So Mario was likely my second game. My brother got an Atari 2600 from another friend sometime later, with about 20 games, and I remember it just being so boring compared to NES.

Pharaoh’s Quest on an old Tandy computer.

First game I remember playing at all was Super Breakout on the 2600. I have quite a few worn out player 1 paddles from that game. Also on that system is the first memory of playing with someone else- Jr. Pac Man. I was doing good for me at the time, with about 15,000 points, when a friend turned off the system because I was taking too long.

dunno001 wrote:

So, how long did it take for the authorities to find their body?

Reader Rabbit on the PC might be the earliest "video game" I played.

Had to have been one of the following 8 NES games:

Super Mario Bros.
Legend of Zelda
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (one with the infamous water stage)
Batman '89
Tiny Toon Adventures
Robocop,
Image Fight
Daydreamin' Davey

Now, what I do remember is my next-door neighbor had two other games: bubble bobble and Castlevania, I enjoyed playing the latter but my overbearing parents didn't want me playing it

Bill wins. Space Wars is traditionally considered the very first video game.

Shenmue or Sonic the Hedgehog on the Dreamcast. Time gets kinda blurred because I also slightly remember Mega Man Legends 2 on the ps1 but I'd imagine that would have been after the dreamcast days for me.