First Gaming Experience?

[Terror_666]

Duck hunt on the NES.
I actually hooked up my NES recently just to see if it still worked and it did, I subsequently spent 3 hours playing duck hunt non-stop and fell right back in to my old habit of sitting so close too the tv I could put my gun on the screen.

 

[Elderly Possum]

Mortal Kombat 3 on PS I think I can vaguely remember my friends brother having just unlocked Classic sub zero and telling me to do the spine rip... as soon as fatality showed up I vowed to uphold MK's honor no matter what stupid decisions it made... that oath was shattered around the time MK Vs. DCU came out

 

[Howlingwolf214]

This old school game called Chuckie Egg. It was on a computer that used cassettes.

 

[SimuLord]

1982, the Four Seasons Chinese restaurant in my childhood hometown. My mom gave me (age 5) a quarter and told me to go play Pac-Man while she settled the check with the proprietor. That Pac-Man machine was still sitting in that restaurant when I was in high school.

 

[Evilbunny]

Kirby, on the original gameboy. Good times.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

Pokemon Yellow! Yay! Then pokemon blue and pokemon red (i was scammed so badly)

 

[ae86gamer]

Mine was when my older brother let me play Mr.Bones for the Sega Saturn. I was 4 and it was amazing.

 

[LordSnakeEyes]

Mine was Donkey Kong on the gameboy original. The one where you're mario trying to save the princess from DK.

 

[cikame]

Odd answer, MS Paint was the first thing i did on a computer that was for fun, but we're talking actual games here so here we go.

"..." yeah, i don't know what it was called, it was a DOS game where you were a helicopter that could fire lines sideways (cannon) and drop big squares (bombs), can't remember what the enemies were but the aim was to rescue little stick men by landing on them carefully, land too hard and the helicopter disappears (explodes). The game started off easy enough but then you got to levels where you had to guide your helicopter into underground caverns to rescue people so it got quite tricky.

2nd game was Overkill, nuff said.

 

[dallan262]

mine was either playing the original PoP on my cousins mac or alex the kidd on the master system

 

[hermes]

When I was sick, a friend bring his computer to my home, we loaded some cassetes and played some 2 colour games in that spectrum... Yeah, I am that old.

 

[Captain Picard]

Mine was "Mixed-up Mother Goose", when I was about 4 and 5.

This was soon followed by "Treasure Mountain" and "Math Blaster"

The first combat game I ever played was Mechwarrior 2.

 

[Knight of Cydonia]

when I was about 8 I got a PS2....and I still remember the 3 games I got with it.....spider man....Jak and dexter....and something else...

 

[DragonChi]

played super mario world at some other families house.

 

[R3dF41c0n]

The first video game I ever played was the original Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. I don't remember the exact year but it was sometime in the mid 90's and I must have been six or seven years old.

I didn't really get into gaming until I played the original Doom in 1997 followed by Half-Life in 1999.

To this day I still own a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog, proudly displayed next to my other games on a shelf.

 

[Shapsters]

Super Mario 64 baby!!! First and best gaming experience.

 

[vonne]

atari 2600 - maze craze, astroids, warlords, missle command, breakout.

we were on vacation in the states, stopped at department store - perhaps toys r us....not sure how old that chain is.

ataris 2600 were for sale - they didnt have great exposure in Canada yet, and were hard to get when you live in the sticks.

the parents bought the system, and 5 games. i remembering it cost a lot of money, 6 or 7 bills Canadian...and this was in 1980 dollars...think of inflation...way more expensive then any 360, ps3, etc.

we set it up in the hotel that night...best vacation ever for a 5 year old....needless to say, i blame my parents and that night for my on going addiction to video games.

 

[RYjet911]

Super Mario Bros on the NES

Completed it at age 4, sped run it at age 5. ^_^

 

[Oshroth]

My first was some kind of Atari. It has been so many years since I've played it though, so I don't remember much. I remember some kind of Kung Fu game where one of the bosses was an evil midget and some kind of Helicopter or tank game; oh yeah and Space Invaders.

 

[Fbuh]

I used to play on my uncle's ancient gray Gameboy, y'know, the one that you could combine with mortar to build walls? After that, my mom, brother, and I would get home at the end of the day and play the old NES Legend of Zelda for hours. Those were good times.