What was the first game you remember playing?

[duowolf]

Mine is pong. Not sure what we were using to play it on but all it played was pong games. We had Tennis, Football or Squash but they were all Pong. The controls were just joysticks there weren't even any buttons on them. As for age I must have been about 3/4 at the time. My parents would play with me or I'd play myself depending on what they were doing.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

Super Mario Bros. on my dads NES. Ahh the memories.

Exactly the same with me.

The only other games I played on it were Mario Kart and Street Fighter II. Then I got a PS1 with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Crash Bandicoot 2... That kickstarted my gaming addiction.

 

[PinkiePyro]

the organal sonic the hedgehog game

at a friends home

 

[Lillowh]

Duck Hunt on the NES. Good Times.

 

[StrixMaxima]

Pong Home Console, Philco-Ford, around 1978-9

 

[Inkidu]

Final Fantasy. I was never any good at it. Mainly because it would scare the bejesus out of me when it would go to a random battle. Remember it had that really violent shatter to black transition? Scary stuff when you're four. That and the idea of being turned to stone by cockatrices really scared me too. I distinctly remember the pirates and the pirate ship though.

 

[Mavinchious Maximus]

pokemon red for the gameboy color.

i thought i was hot shit when i finally got past that damn snorlax.

 

[RandomNumber]

The first game I can remember playing was good old Super Smash Bros Melee. But admittedly, it could have just as easily been Pikmin.
I still remember going down to blockbuster with my dad, renting a Gamecube and a few games for a week.
Ah, memories.
It should be mentioned that I may have played one of the earlier Pokemon games on the Gameboy Colour or GBA before that. Can't quite remember.
It also probably shouldn't be mentioned that to this day, around ten years later, I still haven't gotten around to finishing Pikmin. Still a great game, though.

 

[GaiusD]

Centipede and Pitfall for the Atari.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

Friend had some console before Nintendo (presumably Atari). Game had a moving wall in the middle of 2 pixels and you had to move your pixel through it, like some sort of primitive Frogger.

 

[Timedraven 117]

Goledeye at my Aunt liannies house i think with her dugter playing goldeneye on the N64 started on the first snow mission.

 

[AdamRhodes]

Punch Out! in the basement of my old house. As a kid my favorite thing was playing Burger Time with my Dad or Super Mario with my sister and cousins. *sigh* Those were the days.

 

[TK421]

Either Oregon Trail or Logo Writer. I was five-ish at the time.

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

Never experienced the joys of Atari I'm afraid, but when I got my PS1, it was Rayman, Crash Bandicoot Warped and Mission Impossible that I got first, followed by a football game, before Fifa had a gaming franchise though, so I have no idea of it's name.

 

[Brad Calkins]

My first was an earlier Zelda game, A Link to the Past

 

[EtriusGraiv]

Super Mario on the NES

 

[DirgeNovak]

Wolfenstein 3D, the year it came out. I was four years old...
I was actually terrfied of the game. At first I could barely even eatch my mom and dad play, and when I played myself, I got killed by the third soldier I fought and ran away from the computer. Then my parents bought Gobliiins and I fell in love with gaming again.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Duck Hunt on the NES, then SMB 2.

I also had this that I remember being really hard (For child me) but I can't remember the name of it to save my life. It had a sort of space-y theme and you played as a bi-pedal robot that kinda looked like a Chicken Walker...I think.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Duke Nukem 3D demo, my parents were a bit disapproving as I was 3 when I played it. Not that it mattered, I had no idea what was going on so anything sexual went riiiight over my head, and I just thought that shooting baddies was really fun.

 

[Hatchet90]

Some of my first memories are playing Magic Crayons or Richard Scarry's Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever on the Sega Pico. Did anyone else here have a Pico? It's still in my closet. I was probably about 4 or 5 in 1995 when I first played it. Before that... maybe Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp or old PC games like that. There isn't anything like playing video games on Windows 95.

You're sending me through a nostalgic loop, damn you Escapist!