The First Video Game You Ever Played?

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

The NES came with a game. No actually 3.

Super Mario Bros.
Tetris
Nintendo Football World Cup.

It was one of those.

The NES came with SMB, and only that.
I confirm that for Germany at least.

[RingmasterJ5]

Myst. I was young enough to not have any clue what the hell I was doing, but just walking around was cool.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

The NES came with SMB, and only that.
I confirm that for Germany at least.

Not when I got mine. I was late for the party though.

[Johro]

Should've got Batman, that was a kick-ass NES game. I still have that music in my head.

[Zeruis]

First handheld was Pokemon Crystal, and first console game was Mario party 7.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Johro

Should've got Batman, that was a kick-ass NES game. I still have that music in my head.

I had that one. Was too hard for me and I got stuck on a boss.

[Vainamoinen]

First game I really fell in love with - Faxanadu - was way too hard for me when I first played it. Same with the Game Boy cartridge Gargoyle's Quest. I eventually beat them sans problems when I was older.

[Johro]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

I had that one. Was too hard for me and I got stuck on a boss.

I'll admit I never beat it as a kid either. Took me forever to get past the security boss or whatever the hell those two grey boxes were, and when I did, Firebug annihilated me. One game genie years later, I realised I was right before the Joker.

[St_Eddie]

Nooooooooo... my PS3 just crashed on me, just as I attempted to post a lengthy and heartfelt account of my earliest gaming memories. Please mod gods, say that you can wave a magic wand and retrieve my post? It was the most heartfelt thing that I've ever written (I sincerely mean that)!

Here's the second most heartfelt thing that I've ever written; fuck you Sony. From the very depths of my heart - fuck you and your shitty web browser. You're always sure to let me post some drunken rambling (that I inevitably regret posting in the morning) but the one time I seriously needed you to work without a hitch, you fuck me in the arse. Fuck you, fuck you very much, Mr. Sony.

EDIT: There is a God and he's not a mod! For some bizzare reason I discovered that the crashed page was still present... kind of. It was invisible to the eye but the PS3 was registering the page as being there. A ghost page! Sadly, I was unable see or interact with the phantom page but I pressed L1 (the 'back' shortcut) and hey presto; my post was back on screen.

Long story short; my post is below...

[St_Eddie]

The year was 1986 and I can still vividly recall being on a Ferry to France at the age of 4 with my family and seeing some older boys playing on the arcade game 'Kung-Fu Master'. I was too young to reach the controls of the cabinet at the time but it fascinated me nonetheless; an animated character on a screen, that could be controlled by you. I remember finding it to be a wonderous and fascinating concept.

It wasn't until a year or so later that I got the opportunity to actually play my first game; 'Frogger' on my Dad's friend's computer. The experience of finally controlling a character on a screen myself was every bit as exciting as I had imagined it would be, having watched those lads beating up pixelated martial artists during the previous year. 'Frogger' remains one of my favourite games to this very day.

The first game that I owned came in the form of an unexpected present when I was a 7 year old boy. My Dad arrived home from work one day and told me that he had a surprise for me; an old DOS based computer that he'd rescued from the office skip, along with a 5 1⁄4-inch floppy disk containing a 'Qix' clone, titled 'Styx'.

It felt as though I must be dreaming as my Father set the computer up on the desk in my bedroom. I could hardly wait to start playing, for fear that I may suddenly awake and realise that the whole scenario had been nothing more than a figment of my fertile imagination. However, it was no dream and for the next couple of years, I would be itching to finish school for the day so that I could rush home and eagerly await my Father's return from work, so that we could resume competing for the high-score on 'Styx'.

I hold all of the above memories very close to my heart. They represent a happier time in my life and an introduction to a life long love for gaming. I am certain that I will forever remember these moments with great affection, up until the day I die.

[corruptbiggins]

I can't exactly remember, except that it was something on the Intellivision in the mid 1980s. I would have been around 4 or 5 at the time so say 85/86.

[Juicius Maximus]

Man, wish I could pinpoint it for certain, but probably something on the Commodore 64. Bruce Lee or Hero, maybe.

[gamer247]

I remember my grandmother buying me the original Rayman on the pc when I was like four, and remember that my parents told me that there was something wrong with our copy of the game because no one in my household could get past some level fairly early on in the game. I now realize that their was nothing wrong with the game, the problem was the game's brutal difficulty and no one wanted to put up with it. My parents did save the game but I wasn't able to play it until recently because of it's lack of compatibility with modern operating systems and my lack of knowledge of the existence of dosbox.

The following year I got an N64 for Christmas and got a few games along with it. I believe the games were Mario Kart 64, Toy Story 2, Pokemon Snap and Banjo Tooie; Later I got Super Mario 64 and can remember playing it every night with my dad when he got home. We played it all the way to the end, with that being said I believe he was the one who made most of the progress through out the game.

[Noname215]

To be honest, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.

[St_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Noname215

To be honest, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.

You know, sometimes I feel so depressed. When exactly did I transform from a cool young guy, into an old fart?!

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by St_Eddie

You know, sometimes I feel so depressed. When exactly did I transform from a cool young guy, into an old fart?!

Once people become pretentious like us, they lose all optimism they may have had.

[St_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

Once people become pretentious like us, they lose all optimism they may have had.

My goodness Sir, you certainly know how to get to the root of the problem. Tell it like it is, why don't you?

[RetroVortex]

I'm just glad I was born in an era between generations.

Where 2D and 3D games, of various different genres and platforms were available.

I can appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of both, and simplistic graphics in either don't necessarily put me off, (Visual design > "Graphics").

Oh how it pains me to see younger people not appreciate the classics.
(Like Castlevania, M.U.L.E, Aladdin (Gen), Super Smash Bros. ect)

I grew up with the SNES, GB, GBC, PS1, Dreamcast ect. When you think about it, all those sort of games are radically different.

EDIT: I really freakin' LOATHE it when my parents are dismissive when I get an old game.

"Oh its. Its Old. Its Old! It looks shit! Its unplayable"

^ No FUCK. YOU. Goddamn hypocrits.

You worshipped Space Invaders and Tetris, but won't give something similar the light of day?

Just because its old. Doesn't mean its crap!
If anything a lot of old games are BETTER than newer ones.
Hell I'd play Ninja Gaiden (NES) over FFXIII any day. ANY. DAY.

EDIT 2: I have a bit of paper with goddamn Pac-man highscores on it.
(Shit scores. TBH. I'm not very good at pac-man! XD)

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by St_Eddie

My goodness Sir, you certainly know how to get to the root of the problem. Tell it like it is, why don't you?

[St_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

*insert witty GIF response*