What Was Your First Game?
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I remember the first time I saw games it was my older cousins playing Command and Conquer, they were having a LAN and I was so confused as to how they could play with each other if they were in different rooms of the house. I would run back and forth between rooms to see what each of them was doing with their soldiers. I think the first game I played though was Spyro the Dragon which I played at a friends house. The first games I owned though were Super Mario Bros, Super C, and Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden was crazy hard I don't think I ever beat it
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Pretty sure it was either Ms. Pac Man or Pole Position for the Atari 2600 when i was like around 3 or so. When I was five got my own NES with Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt and TNMT.
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Link's Awakening. It was my older sister's copy, but I played it over and over again before getting any other games.
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Mortal Kombat or Rayman, but I don't remember what I played them on.
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My sisters had a few games for the PC and genesis by the time I was born. The first game i played was probably sonic the hedgehog or Aladdin for the genesis.
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@flower_arrangement said in What Was Your First Game?:
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That looks like something I would have loved to have played as a kid. Sorta terrifying too.
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mario duck hunt it the lion king tiger handheld
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I definitely can't pick only one game (for obvious reasons) but I know among my first games there is Viper Racing and Montezuma's Return, both on PC. There is nothing to care about Viper Racing but sure Montezuma's Return has its unique mood and is still (at least for me) playable.
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The earliest games i can remember playing are Pokemon Yellow, Star Wars Episode 1: Racer and Super Mario 64! Pretty unsurprising seeing as they were all (and still are) popular games :')
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I had an odd order to my gaming. I started on Kings Quest V, and THEN went to Mario on the NES.
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Game and Watch, early Nintendo handheld games using LCD screens, similar to a calculator or digital watch.
Gunpei Yokoi was a fucking dude.
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We had a family NES, so that technically is first, but one of my earlier fond memories is watching my cousin play Megaman X while I was supposed to be sleeping.
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@flower_arrangement I had a similar one a a kid! :D even though for me it was a burning house and you controlled firemen with a bouncy mat and put them all in an ambulance :D
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My dad won a Gameboy with Tetris and Dr Mario in a company raffle right before I was born. I eventually found it buried in his desk drawer. Thus, a legend was born.
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@flower_arrangement Such an underappreciated genius and innovator in the medium. Gone far too soon.
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Super Mario Bros. my grandma would keep falling in a pit and apparently i got the controller from her and after a few attemps i managed to jump over. I was 2.
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I was about 3/4 years old and it was between two games:
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Mortal Kombat II on Commodore Amiga 500
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Paperboy on Sinclair ZX Spectrum
The former is definitely the better of the two.
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I'm pretty sure it was either Mahjong or King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown on my grandparent's PC. They lived in a house out in cottage country so we'd visit once or twice a year and I can remember them getting a little frustrated with me that I was always bugging them to turn the computer on for me so I could play, rather than play outside.
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Super Mario Bros on NES. My mom liked playing it, and I was content to just watch. Then she passed me the controller on World 4-1, where the Lakitu's chuck Spinies with impunity. My 3-year old self was so devastated I went and cried, but I kept coming back. Donkey Kong Country was given to me on my 4th birthday, and that was the first game I cleared.
