Your earliest gaming memory

[nelsonr100]

I was just curious as to other peoples earliest gaming memory. I know some of you may have only been gaming a few years but it would be great to hear what got you into it in the first place. For everyone else maybe some nostalgic memories of when you were 6 years old.

Ive been playing games for almost as long as i can remember and started out with a gameboy and a SNES. For the gameboy I just remember the classic super mario brothers and how I sould never quite get past level 10. For the SNES I remember the awesome that was the polygon filled land of Star Fox.

 

[SharPhoe]

My earliest gaming memory was dying during the Stampede stage of The Lion King for Sega Genesis. A lot. Man, I was bad back then...

 

[Insomniac Gamer]

Tetris on the original Game Boy. Classic memories. Hated the lack of SAVE though.

 

[nelsonr100]

My earliest gaming memory was dying during the Stampede stage of The Lion King for Sega Genesis. A lot. Man, I was bad back then...

Haha I had that game on PC (not sure if it was a direct port) but i just remember those damn monkeys that swung you around

 

[Fingerprint]

Thinking that Wolfenstein 3D had the best graphics I'd ever seen.

 

[Susano]

Choplifter on the original Gameboy, which I still have (the Gameboy, not choplifter)

 

[TaborMallory]

Ski Free, Chip's Challenge, Age of Empires (back then, I thought it was Vampires), Riven, and Bubble Bobble. I don't remember any specifics, other than I figured out how to outrun the yeti on Ski Free with the "F" key.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Super Mario Land or Kirby's Dream Land on the original Gameboy, or Zelda on Game & Watch.

 

[Unforgotten Ninja Turtle]

Mine is probably playing SNES games on computer with my uncle. Bomberman was my favorite. I think I was 6-year-old or so.

 

[nelsonr100]

One that sticks out is remembering my awe at the graphics for mario64, wish I could be that amazed by a game again

 

[ace_of_something]

At the tender age of five I went to my cousins house to play and I found him instead playing his his brand new NES. He was playing a game called "Super Mario Bros." It had been out for about 3 or 4 months but I'd never even HEARD of a video game.
He told me to be careful after explaining the premise (get to the flag) he handed me the control and said "But you have to be careful"
"Why?" I asked
"Because if you touch the bad guys" (he points on the screen to a goomba) "You'll die"
I immeditly dropped the control and went outside. As I feared the death the goomba would bring to me.

Yes, I thought the game would literally kill me. Hey! It was 1985, give me a break!

 

[axnxgxixe]

I remember having to have my dad beat the bowser levels in super mario bros because those levels made me nervous.

I remember playing Wolfenstein 3d (or "the Bad Guy Game" as we dubbed it) with my dad and getting mad that he liked to switch to a knife, sneak up behind a Nazi, stab him once, run away, and let him chase us.

I also remember playing with my cousin's big chunky gameboy everytime we went to his house because my mom didn't like videogames in our home.

Good times, good times.

 

[Lazarus Long]

The earliest thing I remember was a terrible edutainment thing on the Vic-20 where you played a tiny guy flying a toothbrush over an endless gumline. I wish I could remember the name.
The first real game was Joust on the C64.

 

[nelsonr100]

I remember having mario all stars on my SNES and never completly understanding mario 2 lol. It was just confusing for me then!
Also beating my dad at superstar soccer 96 was pretty cool haha

 

[Simon Hadow]

Getting my cousins old gameboy because he had just gotten a color, and having two games with it, Baloon Kid, and Pokemon yellow.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

It's either The Secret of Monkey Island, which is probably why I continue to say it's the greatest game since ever.

Or Maths Blaster which was about aliens on a spaceship clearing up the litter out in space with maths! I think I still have it somewhere.


Oh! I also remember my dad playing Mafia (and me playing a bit too!), but that was much later.

 

[arc101]

i was playing driver one when it was new... it was strangely brilliant

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's activity pack, my friends.

Edit: actually, probably Bachman on my parents old Powerbook 165 or Super Mario Bros at my cousin's house.

 

[Amanov]

Playing a demo of Hercules on the PS1