Your first video game!

[Bluesclues]

Some very old game that I had no idea what it was about because I was way too young

Pokemon Red. I wuvved my Squirtle...

Heresy! We must all bow down to the cuteness that is Charmander.

Squirrels>Lizards>Weird leafy things

Squirtle is a turtle...

He's mainly squirrel to me. T^T

I thought the Squir- part of his name was a play on words to imply that he was a turtle that squirts water...

And I also figured that his tail was just a representation of like waves or something.

 

[fahbrock]

I was three and a Mexican place that was close to us had the Pac-Man arcade game. Since I was only three, my parents would never give me more that two quarters, and I never got passed the first stage, but it kicked off my favorite way of escapism.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

It was called "Gorilla Gorilla" it was a game with two gorilla's on two oposite skyscappers and they threw banna's at each other. The banna's were explosive you could blow building apart.

This is like... 16 or 17 years ago?

I played it on my dads knee.

 

[deus-ex-machina]

Mine was Donkey Kong Country on the SNES.

I don't know whether it was because it was my first, or because it was generally a very good game, but I still love it. Especially the music.

I was about six though and I had to get my dad to help me out with the some of the barrel levels. I found out years later that he had to stay up all night just to do one of the barrel levels set in the tundra. Given that time, I'm sure my six year old self would have managed to do it through chance alone!

Damn having a set bed time!

 

[Thegoodfriar]

Sonic 2, a classic and one of my favorites all time.

 

[jim beam]

super mario 64 was my first.

one of my all time favorite games who else has seen yoshi.

 

[US Crash Fire]

It was the Duck hunt/Super Mario combo cartridge for NES. I played Duck hunt first and tried to cheat by pressing the big orange gun up against the TV screen.

 

[FieryButterfly]

Sonic the Hedge Hog for Sega genesis I loved that game to death even though i was like 4 or 5 when i played it so i wasn't very good

 

[randomsix]

There were three. It was Odell lake -> Nanosaur -> Dark Forces

 

[amppi1236]

"Adventure" text game. On an Apple ][. In 1977.

Still has one of my all time favorite bits...

Player: "KILL DRAGON"

Computer: (giving you that typical snarky text adventure response) "With what, your bare hands?"

Player: (after much frustration trying to come up with a different idea) "YES"

Computer: "Congratulations, you have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands!"

Player: *headdesk*

where can I find that game?

 

[JohanGasMask]

first game i ever played was Teken 3...and i got beaten by a girl =(

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Pokemon Red, obiously the best game evarr made. Some time after, I bought Pokemon Gold, which was epic because there were colours, then I bought Pokemon Crystal, but after 150 hours (!) of playing that, it stopped working. My entire Pokemon-world fell apart and I got a Playstation 2 with Colin McRae Rally 3 and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.

<3

 

[DanDeFool]

First Game I Remember Playing: Cliffy - PC (DOS) one of those turret battle games, where two players take turns shelling each other until one of them blows up.

First Commercial Game I Played: Good ol Super Mario Bros. on the NES. I was never any good at it, though.

First Game I Bought With My Own Money: Mechwarrior 2 (PC). Great music, graphics that were way ahead of its time, and one of the best giant robot simulators ever made.

 

[DND Judgement]

Power Pete.

i kicked ass at power pete...

OT. my first game would have to be earth worm jim... i was never any good at it... always loved using the cheats...

 

[Trifixion]

"Adventure" text game. On an Apple ][. In 1977.

Still has one of my all time favorite bits...

Player: "KILL DRAGON"

Computer: (giving you that typical snarky text adventure response) "With what, your bare hands?"

Player: (after much frustration trying to come up with a different idea) "YES"

Computer: "Congratulations, you have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands!"

Player: *headdesk*

where can I find that game?

You can find a ported version of it for all sorts of different computer platforms...slightly renamed as "Colossal Cave Adventure"...at this location. [http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/]

 

[steelguy17]

desert strike for the snes, is the earliest game I remember, but i know i played normal nintendo games before then

 

[SageRuffin]

Super Mario Bros for the original Nintendo. I was spending the weekend at my grandma's house when I played it. It was short-lived though, since shortly thereafter my uncle got a Sega Genesis and I almost immediately fell in love with Sonic.

 

[baneofall66]

eye of the beholder for the NES
ths was before i beat everyone in the aracde at soul calibur and earned my now wife

 

[Doctor Robert]

Ms. Pac Man

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Sonic the Hedgehog- Megadrive