Your first game..

[Cyclomega]

Why yes I can, in 1998 my ex was playing GASP!! on her N64 it I don't mix up dates, and my sister played Donkey Kong Country on my SNES, and Aladdin and Tweety and Sylvester on my Genesis.

 

[Graustein]

Civilization

 

[ToxicRevival]

Two in the same day! M.U.L.E and Caveman Ughlympics! Both instant classics!

 

[Gorrock]

Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES. I played a few before, like Ice Climbers, Pop Eye and whatnot, but SMB. 3 was my first REAL game.

 

[thedoombreeder]

Joust and Mrs. Pacman, I was 8 or so.

 

[thedoombreeder]

Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES. I played a few before, like Ice Climbers, Pop Eye and whatnot, but SMB. 3 was my first REAL game.

I played Super Mario Brothers 3 until my thumbs had blisters too. LOLZ

 

[wgreer25]

Skullmonkeys

Good one.
Mine was Pole position on the Atari 6400.

 

[nikomas1]

From what i can remember.... one of the first was Rollcage for the PS1 althou you i played some others on the old 98. damn i was to young to remember clearly.

i played for as long i can remember lol

 

[Crunchy English]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the first game I played,
But the first game I completely finished was Sonic Spinball,
I was 5 and it's still my crowning achievement

 

[Nazulu]

Anyone heard of Specter? Very old game, 3D first person shoot em up tank game made with strange shapes and you drive over colored squares for power-ups!

I can't find it anywhere

 

[Ophiuchus]

We had a Spectrum (the +2 model, after Amstrad took over) and dozens of games floating around when I was a kid... so undoubtedly my first game would've been one of those.

The first proper games console I ever got was the Sega Master System, the one with Hang On and Safari Hunt built in. I got it just in time for the release of the original Sonic The Hedgehog.

Incidentally, some time in the mid-to-late 90s, I was working in a charity shop when someone donated five assorted Spectrum machines and over 300 games. Because charity shops can't sell untested electrical equipment, they were destined for the bin until I rescued them. Sad thing is, I haven't a clue where they are now... though I have a suspicion that they got thrown out after I left for university.

 

[khululy]

First game I played was Double dragon or TMNT II for the NES, the first game I bought was Earhtworm Jim 2 for the pc.

 

[Limos]

The combination Super Mario World and Duck hunt game for the NES. I still say it was more fun than half the stuff nowadays.

 

[chumpzilla_69]

Mine was Wacky Races : the game!
this was based on a kids tv show involving ridiculous cartoon cars racing, i always lost because i just held down the accelerator and directional buttons

 

[Thirtysomething]

I think it was the original Donkey Kong. This was over 20 years ago though so I'm not sure, it might have been Zaxxon.

 

[jarowdowsky]

Digger Dan on the Spectrum was the first game I owned, some time around 1982/83.

God that was an amazing moment, looking at this strange piece of ultra-futuristic technology, opening the cassette case and checking how to load the game... Then that moment after typing LOAD "" - the violent god-like screech sounding like the game was being shoved into the innards of the computer itself.

Then the game itself - an absolutely, overwhelmingly, shite digging-based Chuckie Egg knock off thing... After playing games in the arcades I was so disappointed. However, Horace Goes Skiing was next and after that I'd be playing games at home for the rest of my life.

 

[Draconysius]

Twinsen's Odyssey (aka Little Big Adventure 2) for the PC. I still love that game.

 

[Death Magnetic]

Doom at the age of about 5.