First game you ever played?

[LastHour1]

Ah, the first one I can remember playing is Ocarina of Time on the N64, such a glorious game. That's probably part of the reason why I keep telling everyone that it's the greatest fucking game ever.

I've probably played games earlier than that, but I was too young to remember. I do remember very faintly that my dad had a SNES, but I can't recall playing it.

See, this amuses me, for when I first picked up Ocarina of Time (on release date mind you, although that was Australian release date, so y'know, plus a year give or take) I remeber clearly clicking through the manual before playing (yes, that old) and thinking to myself, "Hmm, this is the greatest leap in control complexity I've seen in a game for a long time. I bet if I hadn't played all the previous games in the series, I'd be lost. Worse, I fear if this were my first game ever, I'd be up a creek without a paddle." You are now the first person I've heard of to have this title as your first game ever.

So thank you. Thank you for finally proving me ever-so-decisevely wrong.

No problem! Honestly, I never thought so much of it being my first game, until you provided an interesting point of view about it, what with it being (for the time) a very complex game. I started with Ocarina when I was just over six years old, and I've been gaming ever since. It was a mind blowing experience, I have to admit.

So thank you, snave, for providing me with an interesting view of my experience that would have otherwise gone unknown!

 

[Andreas Gade]

My first game ever:

Prince of Persia was the first game i play'd alone,

but some kind of train game for children on my dad's lap, i dont know what it was named, or if it ever were outside my country,

 

[Soulfoodman]

Not entirely sure. Might be Golden Axe at my cousin's house. I do know the first game I ever owned was Diddy Kong Racing for the N64. Good times.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Robocop vs Terminator for the SNES. Good times.

 

[dantoddd]

I'm not sure but i think it was the original prince of persia.

 

[Lucian The Lugia]

Oh hell, I don't know...first I remember was I was in Arizona for a week (which was odd because I live in New Jersey) when I was 6 and I played a demo for Crash Bandicoot: Warped.

 

[everythingbeeps]

I dunno, Pac-Man? Something on the Atari.

 

[Bonecrusher]

Pong.

Yes, I am that old.

lol, same here.

If you don't count Pong,
It was Prince of Persia on PC. (prince.exe)

 

[greyghost81]

Bump 'n' Jump on the Intellivision.

 

[Jfswift]

Some shooter game on commodore vic20 that loaded from a cassette tape lolz.

 

[TheGroovyMule]

Hugo's House of Horrors

A brutally difficult adventure/horror game that came on a 5 1/4 Inch floppy. Think I was about 10.

 

[Dutch 924]

Crash Bandicoot.

The very first one, back when it was still good

 

[gothicjak]

Jungle Book for the Sega Genesis

 

[Rubashov]

Hmm... well, the first games I owned were Yoshi's Island and Super Star Wars on the SNES, but I'm fairly confident that I'd previously played Super Metroid and Super Mario World on a relative's console. So one of those.

 

[s0p0g]

tough one... i am not sure, it either was Super Mario Land at cousin's, or Tetris on my own Game Boy.
ah yes, when you turned off the sound and put that clunky grey heavyweight on the radiator, just to get maybe 10 more minutes of fun out of it, before you changed them batteries.

come to think about it, i believe it was Super Mario i played first. i think i knew how to save energy on Game Boys before i had my own.

glorious eighties.

 

[CleverCover]

First game I remember?

Sonic the Hedgehog 1.

Never loved and hated something so much as I did then.

 

[The Big Boss]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the spectrum i think it was.

 

[kwydjebo]

First video game I remember playing at home, Pac-Man on the Atari 2600.
First Video game...I recall playing Donkey Kong (Badly) in the arcade, along with Pac Man, and Burger Time.

 

[socialmenace42]

Probably Commander Keen 4 on my dads computer. Ah, those were the days, po-going around 2D levels shooting space slugs and collecting chocolate bars to rack up my score. And saving old men in red robes.

Actually thinking back that game was seriously wierd...

 

[Sabinfrost]

Obviously I'm bit older than a bunch of the readers on here

John McCarmac's 2D Catacomb on MS-DOS