[General Discussion] First gaming experience

The first would be Pong, on one of those devices that play 15 different variants of Pong. Yeah, they were fun for a while. Then there was the Atari 2600. Pitfall was goooooood. Then came Mario on the NES, and all else was forgotten.

The Pong machine was something that we actually owned, but the 2600 and the NES were always consoles that belonged to friends. I still played them a lot, but the first console I actually owned myself was a Megadrive (Genesis) with Sonic. Starting from that generation, I owned (and still own) most of the major consoles. I've rarely owned any of the greatly less popular or more expensive systems. No TG-16, Neo-Geo or Jaguar for me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

"Wait that isn't baseball why are you trying to pass that off as base-*PONG*

The football one was the best. What possible connection to football (either soccer or American) did that particular variant have? It was most similar to table football, and a videogame simulation of table football just sounds unbelievably ludicrous, from a modern perspective.

Originally Posted by speculative

I guess I'll say Pole Position, since my dad played it with me.

Oh man, how much money did I "waste" on that game? I played it for hours, and hours... the early arcade machines were allways new and exciting to me, because I'd not had much experience of gaming (who had?) at the time. Nothing can ever quite recapture the sense of total NEWNESS that those first few years had.

There's nowhere I can't reach.