[General Discussion] First gaming experience

First game I ever played was Final Fantasy 1 for the NES. My parents got me an NES and my buddy brought over the game to try it out. I was fucking hooked, have been an RPGaholic ever since.

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Originally Posted by Soluzar

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.

Oh, we're talking pre-console stuff? Then ya, Pong on a million versions of pong with the paddles. It hooked up to screws on the back of my grandma's tv. TENNIS PONG. HOCKEY PONG.

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

Those things were great, they could basically call it any sport they wanted but it'd still be the one game. Pong.

"Hockey!"
*Pong*

"Soccer!"
*Pong*

"Baseball!"
*Pong*

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

Hockey pong just had two static pong "defenders" in the center. It was ridiculous.

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