How did you lose your gaming virginity?

[Flamezdudes]

I really can't remember. I think it was either Crash Bandicoot, Super Mario or Final Fantasy. I'm only 15.

 

[Nocturnal558]

It was a game on the NES. Not sure wether the first game I played was Mega-Man or some Mario game though...

 

[slipknot4]

I was six and i played Ratchet and Clank 1 at a mall.
That was the first real, proper game, not any arcing arcade shit.

 

[VenerableMonk27]

Ape Escape (ps1) as well as the two oddworld games (abes odessy and exodessy) as well on ps1 at the tender age of 4

The oddworld games... What was it that made them so good?

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

The Plumbers got me first :3. SNES, so I technically didn't start when I was.....err...6? 7? Don't remember exactly...

 

[Jammerz]

mario for the SNES i was 5 i think

 

[ninjapenguin981]

Pokemon Blue.

 

[VenerableMonk27]

Toejam and earl on the sega megadrive when I was 3

thus the avatar

(has anyone else heard of toejam and earl as I`ve yet to meet anyone else who has)

Yeah, I used to play Toejam and Earl. It took me a long time to find a rom for my sega emulator. I remember getting a Toejam and Earl cheats and tips video tape from lunchables or some other snack food company. That was back before you could get FAQs online.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Rayman. I was 4.

 

[tobyornottoby]

Mario 2 and Zelda on the NES
(the very first time I played Zelda I actually used "Zelda" as name... that was a hard game)

But I didn't marry with games until Ocarina of Time

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Mine was Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis. I was about 2.

 

[Rusty pumpkin]

wierdest phrased question ever...
for me, i thinks it luigis mansion for the gamecube... and i was 7 i think. probably played something like galaga before this, but i cant tell.

 

[Vacancie]

original Warcraft Battle Chest
Warcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

 

[Kinguendo]

The details are hazy but the police report says that I was drugged and then... and then... Oh god, Shinobi... why wouldnt you recognise that I was pressing the up button on the directional pad? Its quite integral to the game and you cant even get past the second level without it...!

 

[Zomb13]

I dont know what my age was but i use to go to my grandmothers house to be watched while my parents were at work. When she first got a computer I discovered the game Commander Keen. I could only make it so far before i died but i played the shit out of it.

 

[CaptainCrunch]

Swashbuckler [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashbuckler_%28computer_game%29] for Apple II.
I was "young enough to remember, but too young to be good at it". Makes tons of sense why I love Nazi Zombies so much, no?

 

[Just Carrot]

When i was six my dad, brother and I were playing LAN Doom2 on his work computers for about an hour every day after school.

 

[SimuLord]

I've already told the Pac-Man story about 50 times on this forum, so I'll describe a slightly different kind of "gaming virginity":

I created myself in The Sims 2, made myself a "Romance" sim, and WooHoo'd every female sim in the neighborhood. I got more tail in that game than I get in real life (and I married a girl who likes sex!)

 

[Rafe]

Must have been Mickey Mouse's Wild Adventure followed shortly by Final Fantasy VII -- Earliest I can remember anyway.

 

[redstar alpha]

Micro Machines on the Sega Mega Drive *looks of in to the middle distance with a faint smile* good times