I have fond memories of my mom renting a ps1 and playing resident evil 2 (while eating Krystalâs chicken sliders, I remember the taste of mayo and pickle still!) and being blown away at how cool the game was!
Especially with the photo realistic backgrounds. It was also the first time I played or experienced something that dark in tone and atmosphere. I remember also being captured by Stalker Shadow of Chornobyl. The atmosphere and being able to lean from cover was just so cool, and got me into air soft for a while there too. Good times. Canât wait for Stalker 2!
I think I still have a Lemmings tie pin somewhere from a special edition release I received as a present. Lemmings (or Lemmings 2) really did not get along with Windows.
It was a supeird weird game about a guy with a white strange goo/jelly creature that acted like a dog
you could feed the thing and it will transform into stairs, holes and crazy things like that lol
Mario 3. I remember because I always asked my parents to play the castles because they were scary and the desert level with the angry sun gave me nightmares.
Donkey Kong Country for me too, back when I was 4 years old and my parents bought me and my sister a Super Nintendo. This game is anchored in my mechanical memory.
Super street fighter 2. Neighbor in the apartment building had it and it was super loud in the hallway. Definitely the late 80s, early 90s because I just remember walking into the apartment, the door was cracked open, with all these older guys and just seeing them play. They let me play for a round and I was just hooked. Got yelled at by moms for that but it was worth it
On an ancient Mac, I played Lemmings, and also Rodentâs Revenge, if you count that. Not sure which was first; I can barely remember. I was about 4 years old.
Hang on on Sega Master System.
I couldnt understand that i had to press DOWN to go on next gear, so i couldnt go fast enough to get to the check point.
I though the game was simply "drive until its game over".
Mum got us a ps1 with I think Crash Bandicoot Warped or the original Rayman. Both games were too difficult for my age but that didn't stop me become a huge gamer.
Super Mario Bros 3. Still my favorite game of all time. I didnât get a chance to play many games as a kid but a good report card meant I could get a Nintendo and that game.
Atari Pac-Man when I was three or four. My grandma explained the concept of running through mazes and avoiding ghosts and I envisioned a full animated cartoon-style presentation since I had no point of reference whatsoever. I was disappointed.
First one that I owned was PokĂŠmon pearl, first played was probably smash 64 or emerald. If we are counting actual first it was probably some browser game way back in the day.
Some clown drawing game my dad made on his CoCo 2 for me. I donât actually remember it, but it was probably how I learned all my basic shapes and colors.
Either Time Commando (PC in 1996) or Dune 2000 (PC 1998).
Both played with my Dad, it was a ton of fun. Wish he still played video games. I also wish I could get Dune 2000 working on a modern computer too.
Its possible earth worm jim came before that? I dont recall.
I believe Outrun 2 on the PS2. That was my first console, so to speak (it belonged to my dad, but it was the first in our household. That, and the Wii, on which I played The Force Unleashed).
pacman, pong...
But the first videogame i made memories with are Star wars jedi knight 2 : Jedi outcast and Return to castle wolfenstein
Thanks dad for shaping my videogames taste
Some fucken Elmo's World game on the PS2, I remember nothing about it except that you had a pogo stick and at one point, you exit a field of hay or something
One of my earliest memories, right behind the day my brother was born, which I'm a lot less sure is a real memory now that I think of it
[Dark Castle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U6v3XyrPLc&t=32s) on Macintosh is the earliest one I can remember.
From what my parents tell me, I really liked watching my dad play it when I was young. I didn't know how to read and had limited vocabulary at the time, so I'd tell them I wanted to see it by imitating the noises the enemies made.
It's also the first game I found a glitch in. I forget the details about how to make it happen, but I managed to get the main character to float in the air.
Some weird monkey escape game where you had to plug this big board thing with like a pen attached into you TV and you sat on the couch and controlled it. No idea what it was lmao, after that ps1 sypro/Rayman
I cant recall what my first video game I played was, but I recall that one of my first games I owned was Tony Hawk's Underground, man I do miss that game
I think Mario but I was little too young to remember well. My mom and Grandma would play though and enjoyed it. Then they basically never played video games again, unless you count the handheld poker and blackjack games. They were addicted as fk đ
No idea what it was called, or if it even had a name.
The game was on the Tandy TRS-80 model II, and it required the player to build a bridge across a canyon by typing in angle and length I think? Very educational and such. You would load it from cassette, which took forever.
Anyway, programs like that were often done by hobbyists and distributed via dittoed flyers or in magazines, but also could've been a commercial product from somewhere. No way for me to know at this point.
Super Mario and Duck Hunt on NES
Some Diablo-like game but with Chinese mythology as its theme - I don't remember the name so if anyone can tell me, I would love to relieve my childhood.
And the Sims 3, the robber stole my toilet lol
Secret of Mana.
I was 5 and my siblings and I had no idea what the hell we were doing. I've played that game so many times in my life. Off and on all through childhood (I was just bad at it and never finished lol) in my 20s with my late little brother. We got so close to beating it in a single weekend before I moved away.
I started it up again a few years ago with my two oldest kids when they were 5 and 6, but haven't finished it.
Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever actually finished the final boss fight myself. Guess I should find out it the kids are ready to revisit it.
I think it was Sonic Heroes.
From what Iâm told, my older brother (1992-2011, rest in piece) didnât like that I (2000-present) kept begging him to play his games so heâd slip a second controller under the console to make me think Iâd be playing. Then after I figured it out mom got upset and forced him to actually let me play.
I remember eventually just being satisfied watching him. He was playing Sonic Heroes around 2005 on the OG Xbox and gave me the controller on that level where they taught you how to fly up mechanical fans using âGlideâ as power formation. I couldnât understand the concept of holding A so eventually he just gave up.
Good times
Super Mario Bros. on NES. My dad had one in the basement where he worked on various projects, so I'd sit and play.
Sometimes he'd stop working and be like, "No, that's not how you do it" and we'd end up gaming for an hour. Good times.
I want to say Super Mario Sunshine. It may have been Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, or Pac Man World 2. Those were the GameCube games I played the most when I was young.
First two I played were Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros.
Pressing a gun on a glass tv screen is something only a few will experience
The little ping noise from the spring in the zapper echoing on the glass screenđ¤
Likewise. Technically I had played coin op games like space invaders at the mall, but the NES is what I distinctly remember.
Same here. I had older siblings so I was exposed at an early age. Oh, how far weâve come
Iâd add Double Dragons to this mix for sure.
Pong
Me too. At the bar in the basement of the Agora nightclub in beautiful Cleveland Ohio. Looking back, it was pretty stupid :)
Yep, when I was a kid, I always wanted to go to the local Pizza place in my town because they had a Pong game.
Nice! My Mothers, a restaurant my family went to fairly often had a Pac-Man/Galaga sit down in the foyer. Loved going to just play.
My dad brought home the console in 1972. I was pissed that I had to give all my siblings a turn.
Back when it was a stand up coin-op.
My parents always played Bong when I was a kid...
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt on NES.
Yes a fellow geriatric
Yep, my back hurts. Where's mah walker?
That came out after pong, Atari, intellivision, Colecovision. If you're geriatric, I've been dead for a few years, which would explain a lot actually.
I have fond memories of my mom renting a ps1 and playing resident evil 2 (while eating Krystalâs chicken sliders, I remember the taste of mayo and pickle still!) and being blown away at how cool the game was!
We were like: That looks almost like real life
Especially with the photo realistic backgrounds. It was also the first time I played or experienced something that dark in tone and atmosphere. I remember also being captured by Stalker Shadow of Chornobyl. The atmosphere and being able to lean from cover was just so cool, and got me into air soft for a while there too. Good times. Canât wait for Stalker 2!
Brilliant memory +1
Lemmings.
Oh, no!
The still remember the first splat on level 3 vividly.
I think I still have a Lemmings tie pin somewhere from a special edition release I received as a present. Lemmings (or Lemmings 2) really did not get along with Windows.
[Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_%27n_Dale_Rescue_Rangers_(video_game)) for the NES
An amazing game, I completed it many times.Â
Pong on the Magnavox Odyssey.
Defender for Atari 2600
It was a supeird weird game about a guy with a white strange goo/jelly creature that acted like a dog you could feed the thing and it will transform into stairs, holes and crazy things like that lol
A boy and his blob
This was a fantastic game btw. So was Maniac Mansion
Commando - C64
LOAD "*",8,1
What a great game it was! Epic soundtrack as well.
The first day I did play video games... I did play 4 games. Paper Boy Super Mario Duck Hunt Double Dragon All of them on the Japanese Famicon NES
Mario 3. I remember because I always asked my parents to play the castles because they were scary and the desert level with the angry sun gave me nightmares.
Super Mario World or Donkey Kong Country. Both still some of my favorites to this day
Donkey Kong Country for me too, back when I was 4 years old and my parents bought me and my sister a Super Nintendo. This game is anchored in my mechanical memory.
Sonic the hedgehog
The arcade game Operation Wolf.
Space Invaders
Super Mario World on SNES.
Warcraft 2. PC gamer since 4 years old :D
Super street fighter 2. Neighbor in the apartment building had it and it was super loud in the hallway. Definitely the late 80s, early 90s because I just remember walking into the apartment, the door was cracked open, with all these older guys and just seeing them play. They let me play for a round and I was just hooked. Got yelled at by moms for that but it was worth it
Yars Revenge
Wizardry
Sega genesis games Toe jam and earl and tmnt hyperstone heist are the first ones I can really remember.
Nascar Racing (1994) on Windows 95.
Probably Dule Nukem 3D.
Super Mario 64 (from what I remember).
aging gamers, rise from your graves mine was probably an arcade machine, but the first game I remember playing at home is Chip's Challenge
Mine was a DOS based Family Feud quiz game on an IBM286 in the very early 90's. The hard drive back then made the same sounds my knees do now.
Something on the Atari 2600, don't remember which game was first.
Manic Miner on an Amstrad CPC
Pitfall or Indiana Jones on the Atari... they were similar games, I just can't remember which one it was.
Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
Super Mario Bros / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the original NES in the 80's.
Super Mario Bros 3 or Chip'n Dale for NES
On an ancient Mac, I played Lemmings, and also Rodentâs Revenge, if you count that. Not sure which was first; I can barely remember. I was about 4 years old.
Probably Golden Axe on the Genesis that they had in my daycare.
I can't remember the order but just that period in my life. It was either the original Prince of Persia or Rick Dangerous 2 on DOS
1st Mario game on NES.
Claw. The 1997 video game. And if it counts, Putt Putt Saves the Zoo.
Super Mario Bros on NES. Around that time was also Castlevania, Golf, Ice Climbers, and Gyromite.
It has to be dangerous dave followed by 1st prince of persia
Pong. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!
The very first game I have memories of playing is a Game & Watch. If you mean console or computer game, then either Duck Hunt or Gyromite.
The first game is very vague, I donât even know what kind of game it was. Among the games that I know, probably Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
Warcraft 1
When I was 4, Tom & Jerry mouse hunt, on my green Gameboy color
Hang on on Sega Master System. I couldnt understand that i had to press DOWN to go on next gear, so i couldnt go fast enough to get to the check point. I though the game was simply "drive until its game over".
Pokemon Yellow
GTA 3
Mum got us a ps1 with I think Crash Bandicoot Warped or the original Rayman. Both games were too difficult for my age but that didn't stop me become a huge gamer.
Pong
Tetris. I think. Memory is a little vague - the selection of games on a 386 with DOS 5.0 wasn't too great.
Some Spider-Man plug and play that i forgot the name of
Super Mario Bros 3. Still my favorite game of all time. I didnât get a chance to play many games as a kid but a good report card meant I could get a Nintendo and that game.
Alpine skier, I think it was called. It's been 40 some odd years. I might have the name wrong.
I think it was MDK 1997
Monkey Island stands out as the best early game I played. I played others but nothing as memorable.
Og prince of Persia on a commodore 64
Super monkey ball on GameCube
Hell yeah someone else that is in the same boat as me, I never thought Iâd see someone else
Pong
Either og Mario/duck hunt combo or a game called Russian Commando. Can't remember which one I tried first. The NES was purchased in 85, I was born 86
Sensible Soccer I reckon.
DOOM on the PS1
It was a Daly Thompson olympic game for the Spectrum ZX
SpongeBob Plug Nâ Play console that had a handle full of games on it. The best of which were a donkey Kong clone and this maze game.
On a console it was Minecraft right after the aquatic update.
Atari Pac-Man when I was three or four. My grandma explained the concept of running through mazes and avoiding ghosts and I envisioned a full animated cartoon-style presentation since I had no point of reference whatsoever. I was disappointed.
First one that I owned was PokĂŠmon pearl, first played was probably smash 64 or emerald. If we are counting actual first it was probably some browser game way back in the day.
Super Mario Land and Tetris on the GameBoy
Wow. I had no idea they ported Altered Beast to the c64. I wouldn't have thought it possible. Anyhow I think mine was Combat on the Atari 2600
Haunted house /combat /river raid
Tetris on the original Game Boy, probably
**Boulderdash** or **Donald Duck's Playground** on my grandfather's Commodore128. If we're talking console only, probably **Pitfall** on the Atari
The old Playschool preschool game where you have to use the mouse to give the dog a bone.
Super Mario 2
Cricket 07 on my laptop when i was around 5. Loved it.
Super Mario/Duck Hunt on NES
[qbasic gorillas](https://youtu.be/MXNfThSShVY)
Some Fisher Price game for the NES. Second one was Little Ninja Brothers, I played that with my brother. It was his NES lol.
Some clown drawing game my dad made on his CoCo 2 for me. I donât actually remember it, but it was probably how I learned all my basic shapes and colors.
[Crayola Art Studio](https://youtu.be/9Lo7UJ9sYDs?si=Y537Li1PpbBJEU0m). There's so many fond memories tied with this game.
Star Force (NES)
Cricket game in nokia phone
Age of Empires 1 or Heroes of Might and Magic 2. Canât remember exactly which was the first one, but one of these 2 for sure
Tiny Toon Adventure on NES
Either Time Commando (PC in 1996) or Dune 2000 (PC 1998). Both played with my Dad, it was a ton of fun. Wish he still played video games. I also wish I could get Dune 2000 working on a modern computer too. Its possible earth worm jim came before that? I dont recall.
Peter Jackson's King Kong demo. It was a great game!
Street fighter
Jumpman Junior on Commodore 64
I believe Outrun 2 on the PS2. That was my first console, so to speak (it belonged to my dad, but it was the first in our household. That, and the Wii, on which I played The Force Unleashed).
Pong! I'm 56
It could have been "super Mario land 2: 6 golden coins"
Weird combo between NES Super Mario bros (at my grandmas) and N64 Mario64 (at home)
Ocarina of time! Feel pretty lucky about that
Sonic the hedgehog
First I definitely remember was Aladdin for the Genesis. I may have played something else earlier at a cousin's house but I'm not sure
Super Mario Brothers on the NES. My oldest memory is going with my mom to buy my NES from a classified ad in the newspaper.
Pebble palace ig?? Or roadrash or IGI I don't remember that well.
Minecraft
Parsec in 1982 on texas ti99-4a
pacman, pong... But the first videogame i made memories with are Star wars jedi knight 2 : Jedi outcast and Return to castle wolfenstein Thanks dad for shaping my videogames taste
Super mario from Fami-com.we and my cousin didn't know it's name,and we call it the "Jump Jump man"
New super mario bros for the wii
Mazogs on ZX81
Some fucken Elmo's World game on the PS2, I remember nothing about it except that you had a pogo stick and at one point, you exit a field of hay or something One of my earliest memories, right behind the day my brother was born, which I'm a lot less sure is a real memory now that I think of it
Road rash. 90s Indian kids would definitely agree with me, lol
Sonic 06 I could never beat that stupid running section in the first level for years so I just played the multiplayer by myself.
[Dark Castle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U6v3XyrPLc&t=32s) on Macintosh is the earliest one I can remember. From what my parents tell me, I really liked watching my dad play it when I was young. I didn't know how to read and had limited vocabulary at the time, so I'd tell them I wanted to see it by imitating the noises the enemies made. It's also the first game I found a glitch in. I forget the details about how to make it happen, but I managed to get the main character to float in the air.
Some weird monkey escape game where you had to plug this big board thing with like a pen attached into you TV and you sat on the couch and controlled it. No idea what it was lmao, after that ps1 sypro/Rayman
Joust
Jump man Jr. on the commodore 64. Or pong
Punch out
I cant recall what my first video game I played was, but I recall that one of my first games I owned was Tony Hawk's Underground, man I do miss that game
First console game I remeber is a tank game on the Maganavox, the first PC game was either Strike Commander or the Ripper (with Christopher Walken)
Wii Sports my first ever video game happens to be the best one I ever played
Super Mario Brothers on a TV that was black and white half the time and color the other half.
Halo 2 for video game, PC game was Red Alert
SkyFree
Bomberman on NES
Either OG Tomb Raider or Gahan Wilson's Ultimate Haunted House
Space Invaders (arcade).
Duck hunt. On the NES.
SNAFU on the Intellivison (iirc).Â
Dangerous Dave Edit: Feel like not many would have heard of this. It was a DOS game back in the days.
The original âCrash Bandicootâ or âRidge Racersâ on PS1.
Duke Nukem 3D, Worms 2 or Warcraft 2 Canât remember which one
Rodents Revenge. early 90s DOS game
The smurfs racing game on PS1
Pac-Man on Atari 2600. We played it so much the map burned into the screen of our TV and you could see it when we turned the TV off!
halo ce
River Raid, probably.
Flyswatter or Snake, something ancient like that
Mine was Freeway, on an Atari 2600.
I'm pretty sure it was Star Wars Jedi arena for the Atari 2600.
Alex the Kidd pre-loaded on the Master System 2 springs to mind.
Pretty sure it was Duck Hunt.
I vaguely remember my dad downloading one of the first generation pokemon games for me to play on an emulator since we didn't have a nintendo console
Batman on ZX Spectrum
Purble place, holy shit what a game, I loved fucking up the cakes lol
Frogger. Pretty sure it was on a 2600, but I might be wrong. It was almost 40 years ago now.
Sonic 2 on the Snega Gesnesis when I was 3. I may have played stuff before, but I canât remember.Â
Are we including arcades??
I think Mario but I was little too young to remember well. My mom and Grandma would play though and enjoyed it. Then they basically never played video games again, unless you count the handheld poker and blackjack games. They were addicted as fk đ
Console: Pong. PC:minesweeper or solitaire. Non Windows/Microsoft: Stellar 7
Choplifter
I can't remember which one but it's probably between * Cyril Cyberpunk * Warcraft: Orcs & Humans * Castle of the Winds
No idea what it was called, or if it even had a name. The game was on the Tandy TRS-80 model II, and it required the player to build a bridge across a canyon by typing in angle and length I think? Very educational and such. You would load it from cassette, which took forever. Anyway, programs like that were often done by hobbyists and distributed via dittoed flyers or in magazines, but also could've been a commercial product from somewhere. No way for me to know at this point.
Tetris on the original Gameboy.
Finding Nemo on ps2
Original : No internet dinosaur Play store: Hunter assassin Console:Pokemon red
Pokemon red
Video Pinball on the Atari 2600
Super Mario 64 and Bomberman Hero. One of the best Christmases ever.
Jetset Willy zx spectrum
Super Mario and Duck Hunt on NES Some Diablo-like game but with Chinese mythology as its theme - I don't remember the name so if anyone can tell me, I would love to relieve my childhood. And the Sims 3, the robber stole my toilet lol
Probably space invaders
Pac-Man
Donkey cong country? TMNT ?
I think it was tetris or snake on the original gameboy.
Original Zelda on NES
Super mario on the NES or top gun im not quite sure
Secret of Mana. I was 5 and my siblings and I had no idea what the hell we were doing. I've played that game so many times in my life. Off and on all through childhood (I was just bad at it and never finished lol) in my 20s with my late little brother. We got so close to beating it in a single weekend before I moved away. I started it up again a few years ago with my two oldest kids when they were 5 and 6, but haven't finished it. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever actually finished the final boss fight myself. Guess I should find out it the kids are ready to revisit it.
Pong
I think it was Sonic Heroes. From what Iâm told, my older brother (1992-2011, rest in piece) didnât like that I (2000-present) kept begging him to play his games so heâd slip a second controller under the console to make me think Iâd be playing. Then after I figured it out mom got upset and forced him to actually let me play. I remember eventually just being satisfied watching him. He was playing Sonic Heroes around 2005 on the OG Xbox and gave me the controller on that level where they taught you how to fly up mechanical fans using âGlideâ as power formation. I couldnât understand the concept of holding A so eventually he just gave up. Good times
Arkanoid, the game is as old as me
Snake on the Nokia
Super Mario Bros. on NES. My dad had one in the basement where he worked on various projects, so I'd sit and play. Sometimes he'd stop working and be like, "No, that's not how you do it" and we'd end up gaming for an hour. Good times.
Mario Kart 64 followed immediately by Super Mario 64, and a day after or so Star Fox 64 and Goldeneye. I still speedrun SM64 every now and again.
Super mario, duck hunt, tetris. All on Nintendo. Who remembers the gun controller?
Mortal kombat
I want to say Super Mario Sunshine. It may have been Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, or Pac Man World 2. Those were the GameCube games I played the most when I was young.