I'm 20, and my first game was Alex Kidd, man that game was amazing, but hard near the end. Amongst that was transbot, The Ninja, and a mess of other games on the master system. But could you believe I actually got an amstrad AFTER i got a master system? I was only little, i could care less, it was just more gamez for moi!
By the by, can anyone actually remember the final stage of Alex kidd (i doubt it) where you are in the castle, and you have this huge jump, and spikes on the ceiling, and if you overshot the jump, you hit the spikes, and if you didn't jump far enough, you hit the spikes below? yeah, as a boy, I was pissed when that happened, I had one life left.