[General Discussion] First gaming experience

I think Space Invaders was the first game that I ever played and it was in an arcade.

But, the first actual game that I remember playing for a console is Jungle Hunt on Atari.

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My first actual game was either Super Mario Bros. 3 or Duck Hunt. I don't really remember which one.

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My very first would be Super Mario Bros. for NES and I was around 8 years old I think. A friend of mine just got a NES (gift from his parents) and I played the thing at his house, I got instantly hooked, shortly after my parents would buy me one (NES Action Set) and the rest it's history.

Even now I still have my good old NES. Don't know if it works though, lost all the cables except the controller and Zapper.

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I was five or so when I played my first videogame (1990). It was at one of my dad's friends place and his son had hundreds of games for Nintendo (NES). The first game I popped in was Super Mario Bros. I got my first console in 1994 (NES), in 1996 I got an SNES, and in the summer of 1998, I got a Playstation. In fall of 2001 I got a PS2.... I haven't bought a console since. I don't think I have bought a game since 2003...

I still own each of my consoles. Including the NES that started it all.

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I really can't remember but I think it was a Friday the 13th game for the NES if there ever was one

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Pac-man on the Atari 2600, god I loved that game!

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I have no clue - probably some random arcade game of the time like Pac-Man or Centipede or Pole Position.

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

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

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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.

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Good to see so many old-skool atari players. First ones I got with the 2600 were:

Centipede (when that got harder it scared me... I was only 5 though)
Galaxian (the unofficial prequel to Space Invaders)
and Pole Position (didn't really ever get to grips with this very well)

Originally Posted by SonicPanda

Well, in mid-'86, my mom won $40 on a scratch ticket and decided to splurge about a quarter of it on a post-crash Atari 2600 with a few games - Asteroids, Missile Command, and ET.

Yes, that ET. I really enjoyed it, actually.

I borrowed ET off a mate not knowing anything about it...

...and I still don't know anything about it! I'd just fall into a hole straight away. And I couldn't get out of it. That was it. There weren't even any heplful hints or instructions! Bloody load of crapness

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Hmm, well I remember playing SMB3 and Duck Hunt the most, so I guess those would be my first gaming experiences (in terms of videogames, anyways). It probably stuck because I remember being infuriated at how bad I sucked at Duck Hunt...

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Originally Posted by Soluzar

The first would be Pong

Same here. To think how exciting this simplistic game was for us...

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PacMan for atari 2600
Kunf Fu for Nes
Mario World for nes
sonic 1 for sega genesis
Mario Kart For N64
Resident evil for saturn
the bouncer for ps2
rogue squadron for gamecube
halo for xbox

I was speaking idiomatically.

The first game I remember playing was Super Mario Bros. for the NES. I don't remember how old I was when I played.

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Dunk Hunt on my cousin's projection (i think) T.V. back in the day.

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GORF - Commodore Vic-20 - 1982 !!!!

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I was 2 years old when I first played Super Mario Bros. on the NES ahhh good times.

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Some of you need to get some serious perscriptions on your eyewear.... Topic asks for first experience, not your entire histroy!

But, it so happens to be that my first gaming experience was on a ancient Apple computer. Remember those computers that played video games in green? Everything was green. I can't remember some of the games anymore except one. And I can't remember any of their names either. But there was this one airplane/fighter game I used to play. Being that the game worked in 2-D, it wasn't too bad for its time. But you basically fought around an aircraft carrier, your aircraft carrier. Often there'll be enemy fighters that swoop in and try to bomb your carrier + shoot you down. The idea was to basically kill them and save everyone. Then, when you notice your running low on ammo, fuel, and need repairs, you have to actually land on the carrier. Often that was a pain in the butt. But what was cool was how you entered the refilling bay. Your plane, upon a successful landing, goes onto the carrier, comes to a stop, and a elevator takes it down. You don't actually see the elevator, but your plane sinks into the carrier.

And of course, during the same time period, I'd watch my dad play his Wizard game.

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My first experience (or at least my most significant gaming experience) would be Final Fantasy VI. Watched my cousins play it, was drawn in so much even without playing and wasn't even reading (the game was in Japanese). The gameplay had me hooked. Hence my favorite RPG (and always will be my favorite RPG) is Final Fantasy VI.

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Super Mario Bros. came with the NES my parents bought back in 1986 when I was 2. That pretty much guarantees that was my first gaming experience. Not the most notable though; I recall more notable feelings when playing SMB3 or SMW.

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Originally Posted by Mojougwe

But, it so happens to be that my first gaming experience was on a ancient Apple computer.

Shit, I forgot about them old things! Must've been around the same time as getting the Atari when I first played the Cannon Fodder game (not this one) on the Apple Macs at Junior school... loved that game. Wish I could play it again...

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Super Mario Bros., my sad bought the NES for some reason and of course I was 4 or something and wanted to play. Few years later my older cousin let me borrow Final Fantasy I but of course I didn't really get much of it at the time. As I got older I played Final Fantasy II (IV) but still not getting into to it because I loved platform and fighting games more. The reason I got into RPGs was Pokemon.

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I grew up with Atari everything. Atari 300, Atari 600, and so on. I remember occasionally playing with an Amiga, or a Commodore 64, and whatever the heck that one console was... Vectrex? I believe when I first started REALLY playing games though was when I played Millennium on our Atari ST. I got so good at that game, and that began the long, oft-repeated sequence of someone introducing me to a game, and then me playing it until I could play it better than them. After that came Deuteros, which I considered the "sequel." I also loved Joust, and M.U.L.E., and games like Purple Saturn Day, Day of the Viper (and of course Slaygon before that) Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games, Pirates!, Lemmings, Dungeon Master, Speedball, Arkanoid, Shufflepuck Cafe, Paperboy, Rampage, Klax, Todd's Adventures in Slimeworld, Star Raiders II, Gates of Zendocon, STUN Runner...

There were TONS. And two of my favorites that I can't even remember. One, you were the commander of a ship that you could fly to different planets and get out and fight things with your gun or lightsaber-esque weapon, gather items, etc, and along the way your ship gets boarded by aliens every once in a while, or hijacked, and you can never be sure if a room you wandered into just two minutes ago is safe to wander back into. It was a tough game but it was super rad.

And of course the classic classics. Pac-man, asteroid, pong... yeah.

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