First Video Game You Remember Playing?

[Yan Chan]

Because I finally decided to clean up my room for once, I stumbled upon my good ol' N64 with some of its games lying around: Smash Bros., Pokemon Stadium, etc.

I do remember that the first game I played was Super Mario 64. Off topic, but does anyone remember that damned piano in the haunted house level?

But now I ask you, what was YOUR first video game that you remember playing?

[Ranshiin]

Space Invaders on an Atari 2600.

Yeah, that's how old I am lol. I can barely recall it, though. I must've been like, three or four years old. I was at my cousin's house. I can't remember why it was there but there was the Atari in the dining room and everyone was alternating between playing Space Invaders and some side-scrolling racing game.

Incidentally, that very same Atari+cart is in my cupboard.

[ZombieWolf2508]

When I was little I would play various Mario games on the SNES, but the first game I remember having and playing on my own was either Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage or Final Fantasy VII. I remember playing the latter but not getting very far because I was like 5 when we got it.

[Jasanime]

Ranshiin I also remember playing a friend's Atari... but before that I played 'Commander Keen' and 'Jazz Jack-rabbit' on our PC.......I definitely feel old now, haha.

[Yu Puffin]

This is going to reveal how much younger I am than you all... x'D But the first video game I ever played was Pokemon Blue. I was only a few years old and at my first dentist appointment and the office had a Game Boy Color with video games the kids could play. It wasn't even right after it came out, either; at that time the third-generation games were all out already, so pretty shortly I had my own DS system and Pokemon Fire Red. But yeah, I've been a big Pokemon fan ever since. xD;;

[SentaiSenpai]

Duck Hunt for the NES... which is why I main him in the newest Smash. I lost it when I saw they were adding him!

*Hugs Duck Hunt Amiibo*


o.o Also, you're so lucky! I miss having Pokemon Stadium, I loved that game!

[blueangel06661]

I played a snowboarding game for the Atari

[AnimeBboy]

First one that I played was Super Mario Brothers for the NES, but that one was play with my family together. The first one that I sat down and played my myself was The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.

[SentaiSenpai]

I played a snowboarding game for the Atari My brain immediately went to Ski Freak after reading that... That yeti was a jerk! xD

[Kirito]

Ahh this is a hard one! Depends, I remember playing the Rumble Racing on the PS2, Spyro on the Gameboy, Burnout: Paradise on the PS3, Halo 3 on the Xbox 360. I don't remember what was the first game I ever played tbh, I just remember a lot of the original ones I played. On the N64 though I remember Super Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

Super Bomberman (insert number.)

[Estraya]

A 3-D Dino game on my great grandamas computer XD

[Kyuss]

One of the first video games I played as a kid was 3Xtreme for the PS1.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/3Xtreme_Cover.jpg/250px-3Xtreme_Cover.jpg

[LadyAkita]

Mario on the Super Nintendo. Not sure which one it was as I was only 4 when my parents got me into playing games. Mario and Duck Hunt were my firsts

[Tarnacle]

Captain Claw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw_(video_game)). The game had recently come out. I think I was about 3-4 years old, back in the glorious age of Windows 95.

Still the best game ever.

https://i.gyazo.com/9a8fbb1c61a3a54a6349b5b50eb10b98.png

[Chewby92]

So i know it wasnt the first game i ever played but Spiderman and Venom on the sega genesis. My brother and I put in WORK! It was really difficult for us but we managed to beat it. Really takes me back thinking about it. Kinda makes me want to talk to my brother but he isnt the same type of person now unfortunately. Its really neat to read everyones stuff!

[kaufen]

The first console game I remember playing was a pong game. That's all the thing did. Hook it up to the television and play pong. But, at the time, it was state-of-the-art.

The first arcade game I remember playing was a two player spaceship battle game. There was a star in the center of the screen that could be set to either repel you or as a black hole that would suck you it.

My favorite game is Red Alert 2. It is old but really fun. Not too many oddities. It is a surprisingly well balanced single or multi-player battling game.

[Jinjer]

donkey kong country

[宅女-lover]

"Descent"!! ...Or was it "Wolfenstein 3D"? Ah well, one of those two at any rate. ;) On my very first PC, too; I never played on any consoles, never liked them quite as much as I liked (and still do) PCs.

[vegeta45]

I think it was need for speed most wanted :unsure:

[Vintniv]

Crash Bandicoot Warped and Test Drive for the PS1. Good times.

[SigmaSD]

I was very young at the time, but my parents still decided to buy me an original Nintendo with a copy of Super Mario Bros 3

[vegeta45]

ooh nfs most wanted and call of duty 2 :crossfing:cool:

[ParaParaJMo]

Console game? Most likely an Atari game. For arcade, I remember Final Fight and/or Ninja turtles.

[La Féline]

Its fun to see how your first games demarks your generation. The first game i played through was Dragon Age Origins. I really got into the lore and relationships.

[Apostolos]

hmm first game i remember playing was the first legend of zelda on the nintendo lol

[CapnJack]

Space Invaders on an Atari 2600.

Yeah, that's how old I am lol. I can barely recall it, though. I must've been like, three or four years old. I was at my cousin's house. I can't remember why it was there but there was the Atari in the dining room and everyone was alternating between playing Space Invaders and some side-scrolling racing game.

Incidentally, that very same Atari+cart is in my cupboard.

Same here. When my parents got an Atari 2600 in '83 or '84, Space Invaders and Pac-man were the first games I ever remember playing. Our game collection grew to about 30 or 40 games and we still have it. It's just dusty and the connections for the controllers are sensitive and don't work well.

The first arcade table I can recall playing is a Pac-man table top stand at a Pizza Hut restaurant. I mean, back when there were Pizza Hut restaurants.

First hand held game was either a really simple football game (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f4/48/71/f44871b5c119fc2691e610e8aaa97c15.jpg) with red lights as the players, or this mini Pac-man game (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/58/0c/a9/580ca95421703b8fb46752792419037e.jpg).

[Tasuke]

perhaps SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 on my Aunt's NES, IIRC.

first VGC i actually owned, however was a first-edition SEGA GENESIS, and first game(s) played in my own home
were the original 1989/1990 pack-in ALTERED BEAST and the single additional game my folks got me, -all for X-Mas of '89- THUNDER FORCE II...

[RunnerNoah]

Super Mario on the NES.

I remember my cousins would put a chancleta in the NES to hold the cartridge down. It's funny when I think of it now, but when I was child, I didn't pay attention to it. I only cared about playing video games and beating my cousins in the game.

[TattooArtist]

Final Fantasy III ⚚

[bluebird1789]

This must be almost 25 years ago; Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System. :D It was so magical for a 5-year old. And I still own the game and a working NES console.

[Immoral]

Very hard to remember what game I played first... A toss up between Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and The Legend of Zelda for NES I think. My father was trying to teach me how to play.

[Tasuke]

like i mentioned above, my first console was a SEGA GENESIS in X-Mas 1989. sometime in 1990, my mom got me a nicely decked-out NINTENDO NES setup from a newspaper ad,
console, controllers, NES ADVANTAGE arcade-type stick, ZAPPER light gun, GAME GENIE and a big ol' stack of carts... all for $80.00.

X-Mas of 1991, i got an NINTENDO SNES, and the GENESIS/NES/SNES was my good-time-trio up until about 1995, when mom got me a SEGA SATURN, 1996, when i got a NINTENDO N64,
and 1996/1997, when we were compelled to buy into the SONY PS1, largely on the strength of FINAL FANTASY VII.

PS2/GCN/Wii/PS3/Wii U/PS4, me and my family have hardly missed out on a major VGC in 25 years now. i got myself a SEGA CD for $5.00 at a yard sale back around 2001ish,
found a complete SEGA DREAMCAST at a thrift for $40.00 back around 2009, and found a PANASONIC FZ-1 3DO at a thrift for around $3.00 or so just last year 2016,
though i'm gonna need a controller and a game for it someday.

in sum, while my folks were never Wealthy, they did rather spoil me, keeping me healthily in the VGs since i was nine years old, and never once requiring me
to trade any of it in to get the latest and greatest. as a long time gamer since pre-teen childhood, i do consider myself to have been singularly lucky in that regard,
as today i can pop in and play at will any of the wide variety of the exact same games that i literally grew up with...

[Vincent Valentine]

It's an emotional memory for me, but the first gaming experience I had was with the Sega Master System. I believe it came with Hang-On and a light-gun game called "Safari" built into it. I'm a lover of the RPG genre, and one of the first roleplaying games I played was Phantasy Star, which was nightmarishly hard for a very young child to comprehend. My Grandfather was solely responsible for introducing me to many of these gaming devices, and I spent countless hours there at my Grandparent's house playing away without a care in the world.

Then came the NES, then the Mega Drive/Genesis, then the Super Nintendo – Finally, the Sony PlayStation, and that was the last time I got to spend with the person who'd made all these fond memories possible. It just didn't particularly feel the same after that. To make matters worse, when my Grandmother passed away some years later, familial greed saw their house put on the market for sale and all of the retro gaming consoles and games tucked away within were simply discarded during that clinical process.

In one fell vulture's swoop, the entire scope of my childhood memories and my early gaming experiences were gone, never to return.

I still game, and I still play retro games, but it isn't quite the same as it was during the heyday of these old-school consoles and all the precious memories they held for me. I also remember when you bought a game cartridge and that was it – You didn't need net access to play it or update it, and you didn't need to pay the asking price twice over just to unlock additional content. In many ways, I have fonder memories of gaming then than I ever will in relation to the present day.

[InvaderBen]

Yoshi's Island for SNES. Good old times.

[bakazable]

i loved digimon rumble arena on the ps1 xD and star gladiator, were awesome.

[Anji.]

I love it! Such a variety shows how diverse in age this group is. I will have to date myself here and show how old I am by telling everyone my fist game. Wheel of Fortune on a gigantic Macintosh PC. The game came on one of those giant black disks that was like 3inch by 3inch. And then we had an Atari and I would play Asteroids and PAC-Man like it was going out of style lol.

[anc_voin]

the first game was in gba. its harvest moon friend of mineral town. i played that game since i was 9 y.o . and yeahh now im still playing hm

[Kaleohano]

Ape Escape (PS1)

[Zainox]

First game I remember was Donald in Maui Mallard for the SNES. It was this really whack game where you played as Donald Duck. He would transform into a ninja and you would beat down a bunch of other ninjas.

[Blackmagezero]

My first system was a NES and the first game I remember playing was super Mario 3. But the first system I ever bought with my own money was a Nintendo 64 and the first game I bought was Pokemon stadium.

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Pokémon Yellow on a Pikachu-inspired Gameboy.

[Blackmagezero]

Pokémon Yellow on a Pikachu-inspired Gameboy.

I had one of those, I wish I still did but my sister broke it when we were little. (It was an accident)

[Kumagawa]

My first game I ever played was motherflipping Krazy Racers, which is a bargain bin Mario Kart ripoff featuring obscure konami characters. It's lame as heck and once I got so angry that I couldn't win the final race tour that I kept bashing my GBA on the bathroom sink repeatedly until it shattered and plastic went everywhere and later my dad stepped into one of the pink shards (I had the pink GBA dont judge) and lost his sh*t

[OtakuInu!!!]

The first one I remember is either Tomb Raider III: The Adventures of Lara Croft or Syphon Filter both on the PS1.

[debra5]

It was Will Rock :cool:

[Takatofan1986]

It's really hard to say. I was born in the late 80s and even before my brother got a NES for Christmas around 88 or 89, we always had Atari's around, and DOS games on the computer, so it's really hard to say what I played first.

[Tasuke]

Pokémon Yellow on a Pikachu-inspired Gameboy.




though it was far from my first VGC, i too had YELLOW and a yellow-colored GB Pocket to play it on, during my POKEMON phase of the late-90'/early-00's...

[kun_Kun]

Totally Spies. A combination of an action game and a computer version of the tabletop game. Ideal for a 5-year child.

[Kagakoko]

Harvest moon ps1

[Zona]

On PC : Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

[Takatofan1986]

Man some of these answers make me feel super old... My first games, I think, were on the Atari. (Though that was old at that point, but still.) Soon after my brother got a NES for Christmas and I played SMB.

[Groovy]

My first game was Mario and one more, but I do not remember the exact name! It was something about turtles on the spaceship. Maybe someone can help me remember?

[Immoral]

My first game was Mario and one more, but I do not remember the exact name! It was something about turtles on the spaceship. Maybe someone can help me remember?

Turtles In Time?

[Hikarin]

The first....
I was very young and barely understood video games at all. I wasn't convinced that they were real (I was probably five) and couldn't work out if you really could control what was happening with a controller, or if it was just a TV screen that people pretended with.

So, I was at a family friend's house and playing a jet-ski game. I've since tried to figure out what it was, and I'm guessing from the time period that it was either "Wave Race 64" or "Jet Moto".
I remember the whole time that I was playing I was testing the controls to try and figure out if I was really moving them with my own will. XD
Some older boys were playing against me, and they wouldn't let me win - which was fine. I was used to that sort of thing. It made me try harder. Eventually, I accidentally discovered a hidden shortcut that they hadn't known about and beat them. They were in such disbelief; I just remember laughing so much.

After that, I was introduced to other Nintendo games on various consoles (SNES, 64, GBA) and also PS1 games.

[tomthemob]

It was the Dendi console, some aircraft game, don't remember the name...

[AfiLai]

Hmm, I'd have to say the games on my Sega. As a child of the 90s that was my go-to game. From sonic to streets of rage, those were certainly the days...
Wow, I sound like an old person :laugh:

[dandereperson]

Man some of these answers make me feel super old... My first games, I think, were on the Atari. (Though that was old at that point, but still.) Soon after my brother got a NES for Christmas and I played SMB.


How old are you? :D That game is ancient :D Really old gamer in da house :D

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It was the Dendi console, some aircraft game, don't remember the name...


I have played something similar, but it wasn't my oldest game, my oldest game was duck hunt :D

[rockingmusic]

Tetris, with portable hand console, I had colored one, it was really rare

[Prove]

Counter Strike 1.5 and Half Life on PC.

[Yormon]

Half Life and Unreal Tournament

[plasmarain21]

Can't remember. But I do remember the very first FPS game I ever played - Serious Sam (2001).

[Circuitry]

it's either kirby super star or mega man x. it's been so long ago, but i do recall it being a snes game.

[Aderonimo]

It was WoW for sure :)

[Hyuntai]

I played Donkey Kong with my Atari 800XL in 1985.

[Harper67]

Maybe World of Warcraft

[Kyuss]

3Xtreme and the Wu Tang game for PS1.

[SweetHelen]

The first games were on my Sega:) Counter Strike on PC.

[Kay_Bur]

The first game was "The Hobbit", then I played "Need for Speed", I went through all the parts that came out before 2012. Then he no longer followed the release of new parts, he switched to World of Warcraft.

[NekoDemiBoyAlex]

my first one will show my age ....space invaders :lol2:

[Aderonimo]

It is strange that I see no POE fans here :confused::confused::confused: Doesn't anyone play it here? In the next thread there was a great post about this game ) I strongly advise you to give POE a try ;)

[Jannick]

It is strange that I see no POE fans here :confused::confused::confused: Doesn't anyone play it here? In the next thread there was a great post about this game ) I strongly advise you to give POE a try ;)

Yep, PoE do worth playing if you like MMORPG and i even bought a lot of poe orbs (https://www.ssegold.com/path-of-exile) when i playing this game.

[sirius707]

Prince of Persia 1989. we had a DOS computer back in the day and my father renamed the file with my name to teach me how to spell it every time I wanted to play it haha, clever old man.

[Audreeana]

super mario?

[Tsundere Magus]

Pokémon Blue, on a borrowed Gameboy. I look back and think about how amazing it was to sink into another universe and live an adventure. Quite innocent back then... just like now? Duh!

But yeah, even if right now it is just a bag of bugs and old graphics, it means a lot to me. And to a lot of people as well!

[Friserion Murty]

World of Warcraft Classic. We had an XP computer back in the day and my father renamed the file with my name to teach me how to spell it every time I wanted to play it (https://despize.com/wow-classic/) haha, clever old man.

Good game indeed, I remember playing WoW too. :) it was the 1st game we played with my friends all night long :cool::eek:

[majorgamerjay]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It was like in 2008 or something, I had gotten access to a CD of it and installed it in my PC. It worked very slow but it was quite enjoyable and fun. :)

[Digimon_Sommelier]

Pokémon Blue, on a borrowed Gameboy. I look back and think about how amazing it was to sink into another universe and live an adventure. Quite innocent back then... just like now? Duh!

But yeah, even if right now it is just a bag of bugs and old graphics, it means a lot to me. And to a lot of people as well!

Pokémon Red Version for me.

[Kay_Bur]

Does Mario count? He played in deep childhood on the Dandy console. I used to stay up very late.

[Clayton_n]

Remember those little handheld things?

https://www.eightieskids.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CoverHandheldGames.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHC0nZSoOd4

[BoostingBoss]

It was Warcraft 2 for Sony Playstation.

[NetherFalcon]

i think at one point, i played super mario bros on an nes, though for me it wasn't like. the 80s as i was born in 2006 (november 28th to be more specific) so i was a smol baby.. the console was, for what i remember. some aftermarket off brand nes clone hardware (what i meant by that is those nes clone consoles that can load nes cartridges, and no. it wasn't one of those "oh there's 934565432 totally not pirated nes roms in 1" consoles)


idk what happened to the console since then though, it just sorta vanished

[hightime1s]

Mortal Kombat on a SEGA

[Reina]

I had forgotten which Mario game but one of those.

[unmampa]

What aspect of playing Mortal Kombat on SEGA stands out the most in your memory, and did it contribute to your continued interest in gaming?