Earliest Gaming Memories

[Superior Mind]

Playing Apogee Math Rescue I think. Either that or the games "Paganitzu" and "Alleycat". All on an old Amstrad PC. PC gamer from the very beginning it would seem.

 

[Guffe]

Mario 64 on the Nintendo64 and on the Snes a Tennis game.
The earliest I can remember.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

I was also brought up on the pokemon games, but on the computer. Ahhhhh floppy disks how I miss you

 

[Elgnirp100]

Screwing around in the overworld of Spyro: Year of the Dragon instead of actually doing the levels that my brother insisted were the point of the game.
I miss the good old days of games like Spyro and Crash Bandicoot.

 

[Kyrian007]

Little home console with attached knobs for control and only played one game. It was a terribly boring toy, but it's the first I can remember. A short time later my brothers introduced me to a place called "the arcade." It was there that a gamer was truly born, one quarter at a time. Games like

and

really hooked me.

 

[Rastien]

Prince of Persia

Jason Storm in: Space Chase

Lemmings

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much me watching my bro playing Tetris with the themetune being played loud. Granted I did play it after him but I suck on it during that time.

 

[Dr. Mongo]

Spoiler: snipped for space

Little home console with attached knobs for control and only played one game. It was a terribly boring toy, but it's the first I can remember. A short time later my brothers introduced me to a place called "the arcade." It was there that a gamer was truly born, one quarter at a time. Games like

and

really hooked me.

Same for me. Pong at home, Elevator Action, Donkey Kong, Moon Patrol and the likes at the Arcade.
Good times!

 

[Kahunaburger]

Messing around in the mechlab (Mechwarrior 2) turning things into jumpjetting laser boats.

 

[Archl]

Trying to eat all the berries in yoshi's home in Super Mario World. It was one screen, with a large tree like thing and about 8 or 9 berries, and I wanted all those berries. Some of those were just out of reach and sometimes when trying to get the last one, I would accidentally jump out of the side of the screen and back into the overworld.

ahh, good times...

 

[ubersyanyde]

My Dad and I playing Space Invaders (the PC one that was released in 2000) on co-op every Sunday but never completing it. One thing I always remember about that is killing the Uranus boss in 2 or 3 seconds because we had all of the power ups.

Also I will always have fond memories of Crash Team Racing despite never having owned a PlayStation. Numerous friends and relatives had copies and I believe it might have been the first video game I played. I spent countless hours at their houses playing it and had a tantrum every time I had to leave.

 

[anthony87]

The same thing I say every time a thread like this shows


Some of you kids might be too young to know this, but Sonic used to be good

I mean really good.

Like, before Michael Jackson fell into musical obscurity, good.

I see your Sonic 1 nostalgia and I raise you with something even nostalgia....er!


The good ol' Sega Master System. Very first console I could ever call my own.
The good old days....*sniff*

 

[Ldude893]

Earliest I can recall was Super Mario 64 on a TV monitor in Canada at the age of 3, or at least I think it was. I remember Mario running around this dark gray chamber with paintings hung on the walls, and Mario jumping into some of them.
It scared me.

 

[AD-Stu]

Playing monochrome ASCII Unix games like Digger on my Dad's work computers. Oh yes, I'm feeling my age...

 

[Penguinis Weirdus]

I can remember being dragged up with a weird mix of classics. Including games on the Acorn Archimedes (with its massive 1MB of RAM) such as

Mad Professor Moriarty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1hJn8ufPAE
Or classic RTS' of the time, Red Alert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXu_3qtsl4

This would be when I was about say 5ish?

 

[w9496]

I remember playing DOOM when I was 4. That didn't end too well for DOOM guy. I beat the first level with less than half of my health, which looking back, I'd question whether or not that's possible.

 

[lRookiel]

I remember playing 2 games as a child, Age of Empires and Baldurs gate with a mixture of sega mega drive games, I can't guess which is first :/

 

[Mysterious Username]

The final boss fight of Kirby's Adventure on the NES. That moment will never leave my mind, so epic and yet so very easy even then.