The game that started it all

[Rheden_Sol]

i think the first prince of persia way back when on the pc

 

[curlycrouton]

I am over 70,000 years old and my first game was a simple board game using small animal bones.

 

[Chilango2]

I know it started with the Atari 2600, I'm not sure which my first actual game for it. It might have been Crystal Castles or Ghostbusters.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

jumpman on the com64. But it was hotwheels, ghostbusters, and aztec challenge that made me an official gamer.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I can't remember what I played first... It was either my Cousins PS2, GTA3, my PSone, either Croc, Bugs Life or Crash Bandicoot, or A giant Gameboy that needed 4 AA batteries, and a faulty Pokemon yellow. But all of them bring fond memories back...

God I wish I hadn't thrown/given some of that stuff away...

 

[NeedAUserName]

a mickey mouse platformer on ps1 can't remember the name

Steamboat Willy, that was one of the first games I owned! Great game...

 

[RyuGaiden]

Oh wow, I think my first game was Sonic the Hedgehog. It may have been Zelda, but the ones I definitely played the most were Sonic and Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf on Sega Genesis.

 

[Amarok]

The first game I ever played was one belonging to my dad, 'twas on a floppy disk and played on a system that my young self only knew as "The Computer"
That game was superfrog, and it amazing! I bought it again a few years ago off eBay.

The second game I ever played was Worms, which is also amazing, and which I also bought again recently!

 

[6unn3r]

Mario Bros. on the NES, my friend and i get to the last level and the last Bowser fight when the electrition turned off the power.....there was much swearing and curseing from two 5-6 year olds that day.

 

[JimbobDa3rd]

Yay lets all post our DB's online on a public forum which anyone can view thats never gotten anyone in trouble (*extreme sarcasim in voice*)

and first game for me was either mario kart on the 64 or the star wars one on the sega cant remember which

 

[esserius]

It was Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt. Good times either way.

 

[Steve Dark]

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?

Kinda sounds like that old game that came was hidden in the menus of Encarta... *Wikis* Ahh here we go: "Encarta also included a trivia game called "MindMaze" (till Encarta 2007) in which the player explores a castle by answering questions whose answers could be found in the encyclopedia's articles. The feature has been removed in 2008 and later versions." Maybe that's the game you mean? I certainly remember playing that when I was a kid and guess all the answers.

I think the game that started it all for me though would have to be the original worms. I remember having so much fun playing that against my little bro and dad... Good times...