The game that started it all

[Jharry5]

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Megadrive. Still love that game.

 

[Fiskmasen]

That would be Duke Nukem 3D and Quake (can't remember if it was 1 or 2). The first console we got was a Playstation, many years after my encounter with The Duke, and whoever you played in Quake, and then my gaming habits took a turn to platform-goodness with Crash Bandicoot and Spyro (<- very, very fond memories).

 

[MrGFunk]

December 25th, 1975. I remember seeing Star Wars in the theater. I feel old now....

You just made me feel better.

First games

PC - Castle
BBC Master - Asteroids, Defender, Repton 2.
Acorn Electron - Dungeon - 4 players on one keyboard Awesome.
Spectrum - Jetset Willy

 

[almo]

Pong, in the arcade. I was 3 or 4 years old.

 

[Elurindel]

I first had a slew of Commodor C64 games, including:

*Toki
*Robocop 2
*The Shadow of the Beast (hell yeah!)
*Any number of Fun School and other edutainment programs
*The Last Warrior
*Dragon Breed

Ahhh, memories. After that, I had a Master System II, a Mega Drive, and an N64. All the time in between having varios levels of PC.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Been done many times before but this was mine.

 

[Fraught]

I'm 13, but I still played with the NES at first. It was probably Super Mario Bros, Dr. Mario, some football game, or one teenage mutant ninja turtles game, don't remember which.

After that I played Metal Slug 3, Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid on my second console, PS1. I actually played very little on my NES, but I played quite a bit with my PS1. MGS and FFVII give me so good memories, not as good as Kingdom Hearts does, but still.

 

[Ranooth]

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Megadrive. Still love that game.

Join the club my friend, maybe we could have jackets!!!

 

[Dudemeister]

Super Mario World for the SNES, me and my friends would play every day before elementary school, ah the memories.

YES!
Exactly the same for me, I must've completed Super Mario World a good few hundred times
Those were the days...

 

[Jharry5]

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Megadrive. Still love that game.

Join the club my friend, maybe we could have jackets!!!

Good idea - as long as it makes the distinction between that and the newer versions of it...
The less said the better.

 

[CIA]

Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 for the Game Boy.

 

[GonzoGamer]

You guys are making me feel old.
I fist strted gaming as a toddler on my uncles' atari, intellivision, and coleco machines. They were very patient with me but I learned how everything worked pretty quickly.

I didn't get my own system until the NES which came with gyromite and duck hunt. Got SMB when it came out.

Now I'm married & thankfully my wife likes to play too. We have a couple of DSs, a wii, a psp, ps2, and a ps3. Lately we've been playing Little big Planet, Saints Row 2, and Trauma Center 2.

 

[B-lockdown080]

My first game was Chex Quest for the PC. Some free outta the cereal box thing that was actually pretty fun. I was like 3 and hardly new what i was doing. It was also kinda scary for me because the enemys were litterly giant blobs of snot, gargaling and shooting god knows what at the hero guy.

 

[clicklick]

For starters I'll say that I'm 24.

The first video game I can remember playing was Super Mario Bros., as I received an NES as an Easter Gift (of all things) when I was four or five.

Before that I may have played a few slightly more obscure PC games, though. Most of them pretty generic clones of other games.

Same here.

I did play pong on the Atari 2600 if that counts

 

[The Rusk]

I started gaming quite late in my childhood, think it was when I was about 7. First game I ever owned and loved was the original Crash Bandicoot for the Playstation

 

[Son of Makuta]

Some of us have been with games since the beginning, some of us have just began playing, regardless we all started with a certain game.

I'm 15, and have been playing games since I was 4. My first game (I can't remember the title), was a game made in the early 90's. I played it on my dad's old Apple II. It took place in a castle, where you play a character that has to solve a series of questions, to get around the castle. The questions ranged from sports to politics. I was very young, and I barely knew any of the answers, so I just spent my time clicking on random choices (A, B, C, D). Even so, I enjoyed it. If only I could remember the title, I want to start playing again..

Anyway, what was your first game?

That sounds like the quiz/game from Encarta '95.

Oh yes.

I hope nobody else got in before me, there's 5 pages of text up there that I can't be bothered to fine-toothed-comb through. Anyway. The first game I can remember playing was probably Super Mario World on other people's Gameboys. On a home computer, it was that Encarta game and Pod, the king of racing games.

 

[haruvister]

Really glad some people are mentioning the '80s...

Mine was Starglider on the Amstrad CPC. In full 3D, baby! A year later (1987) my dad bought an Amiga 500... and so the obsession began.

 

[Sub_par]

the first thing i played was pitfall on my dads intelivision. My first system was a sega genesis with the obligatory sonic games (1, 2, 3,3d and the pinball one) and others.

 

[Avatar Roku]

3 games simultaneously for the N64: Goldeneye, Starfox 64, and Mario kart. I had a good childhood, especially once I got Perfect Dark.