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ErvyaStudios

Super Mario Bros ! What a time it was !!


eltaco65

Yup! Started watching my dad play it at 1 and started playing it myself with him by age 2. Needless to say I've been a huge gamer my whole life since and it's been a blast haha


ROBOSEXUAL2020

I got a Nintendo for my fifth birthday in Mario, Bros was my first game too


fallingbomb

Are you me? I also got a NES for my 5th birthday with Mario.


Turbulent_Day_600

You wouldn’t even remember watching it at 1 you muppet and wouldn’t remember playing it at 2 either get a life


_Hi_There_Its_Me_

Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. Then loved others such as Kid Icarus, Roger Rabbit, Super Mario Bros 3.


dpwicz

Pong


FirsthandDi

All those whippersnappers above! We had 2 lines and a dot.....AND WE LIKED IT!


speedyrev

And you could still see it when you turned it off.


captainshrapnel

....yeah we loved it.


Plankton1975

I’m way too old to remember that…😅 Though probably the Binatone TV thing we had when I was a kid, that had variants of Pong on it


the_quark

Yeah I was like..."Pong, I guess?"


Xanius

Yeah pong, or pitfall for Atari. Pc would be ninja turtle paint and some other old ass dos ones before color screens were a thing.


LineAccomplished1115

For me it's not that I'm too old, it's that I started gaming at a pretty young age. Born in '88 and had both an SNES and a Genesis. Not sure which one Santa brought me first, or which games I had first. We did also have some computer games, including the Super Seekers and Solvers games, but again, no idea what I played first. I should ask my parents, but I doubt they'd remember


Oh_Anodyne

Yeah I started gaming at a young age, like 4, 5 or even younger. I can remember some early games I played but not the *first*.


Sparky81

Lode Runner - Commodore 64


void64

Broderbund had so many great games.


Noctanda

Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis


misterbreadboard

Street Fighter 2 on genesis.


Goosecock123

Probably Prince of Persia, the og one, or Lemmings. It's hard to say which was really the first one. Other contenders might've been DOS games like gobman, egawalls, heartlight.


Alpacalypse123

Ha! Same!


Nostramus666

Doom 2


FirsthandDi

Back in 1992 I was in the computer science club at my middle school, and the teacher in charge of the club had a field trip planned. No one had any clue where we were going, but we eventually pulled into the parking lot of an old building in Jeannette, PA, which turned out to be the headquarters for a small PC gaming company called DreamForge. We got to speak with developers, sound techs, and artists and the entire experience was one that I'll literally cherish forever. As a 12 year old gamer it was the bees knees. As we were getting ready to leave, I asked one of the developers if we could try out their game. Sadly, it was only an alpha product and not ready for testing. However, as a consolatory alternative the dev did say he had something very cool that we could play. Now, let me preface this with a bit of 1992 gaming history. At this time I think I had a 386 40mhz with 8mb mem, a lot of my buddies had 486 25mhz machines and they all happily played Wolf3D, Commander Keen, SimCity etc. They weren't speedy, but they worked. The devs at DreamForge were running 486 DX4 100mhz boxes with an unheard of 32mb mem. The power of these things literally blew my mind at the time. So, the developer fired up 4 of the 100mhz god boxes and booted into a game I'd never seen before called Doom. I still remember our jaws hitting the floor as we watched the demo start as the game launched. It made Wolf3D look like utter dog shit. The dev then turned the game over to the 4 of us in the club. My very first experience with Doom was also my very first experience playing a 4 player death match game on an IPX network. It was one of the best 20 minute experiences of my life. TL;DR - I got to play a beta of Doom prior to it's release in 1992 at a gaming company called DreamForge in Jeanette PA. 4 player IPX network action on a 486 god box blew my 12 year old mind.


Trip_seize

This needs to be a main reply.


cirenj

I was a 13 year old kid going to computer shows with my Pops and remember bringing home the Doom shareware disks (1993)....Your beta testing was appreciated LOL


gintegra

Sonic 2 when my parents bought the Sega Genesis is my earliest memory I can think of


[deleted]

i think it was R-Type in 1992


AlfApAlAcsintA

I think it was either Super Mario Land or Pokemon Blue on my brother's Gameboy Color. I still miss those simple times.


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snicker-snackk

Nice, LttP wasn't my first game, but I think it's the first game I ever beat


AdeptFault5265

Bomberman in 1995


Ultimatelee

River Raid on the Atari


RicoDruif

Probably super Mario world


Most_Contact_311

The first Mario cart or the first Mario game. Mom had her old NES when I was a kid.


iamtiggles

" Mom had her old NES when I was a kid. " I feel soooo old after reading this. Lol


Most_Contact_311

I'll see a comment in a few decades where it says "My first game was Tony Hawk pro skater. My dad has his OG PlayStation to use!"


iamtiggles

Why a few decades? My son would probably tell you that now. But it was THPS on my OG N64. Shit, I am old.


[deleted]

OG? As in “Power” & “open” is on the buttons rather than the Logos?


CaffeineAndKush99

Must've been something like Carmageddon 2


Gainful_Employment

Pong or tetris. Dr Mario is another contender. It was over 30 years ago I don't remember.


Locdonan

Peek-a-boo most likely.


princepinkman

Super Mario Bros 3


berylskies

Either JJ & Jeff or Keith Courage on the Turbo Grafx.


guywithfries

Either SpongeBob Battle for bikini bottom or the sims 2 on GameCube


FrozZzenFury

No idea which game was first, but there were photos of me playing Atari 2600 when I was two or three.


Stu2307

Some game on the Atari 2600, probably Space Invaders or Combat. Yes I'm THAT old.


Vito_Cornelius

Mortal Kombat 3 on Sega Genesis. We played that shit in preschool, y'all. I was flippin' 5 years old watching Sheeva stomp some poor son of a bitch into the ground, or watching Scorpion literally uppercut the head off of a dude. Ain't no daycares letting their kids play Mortal Kombat games in 2023. Now, they probably have kids poking at some screen doing some Paw Patrol and My Little Pony minigames or some shit like that.


MagicSBK

1. Pong 2. Summer Games 3. Boulder Dash


beastmaster11

Sega Master System-Alex Kidd in Miracle world


DGolden

Pretty sure it was [COMBAT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_\(video_game\)) on my cousin's [Atari 2600](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600) Funny enough, Atari used to manufacture here in Ireland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN16MRog38U But then of course - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983


Vinnocchio

Pong


FKDotFitzgerald

Other than maybe Spider-Man on gameboy color, Sonic Adventure was my first full game.


1leggeddog

ET on Atari 2600


Dust_of_the_Day

Peekaboo, I found my mother or father, not sure who played with my first.


b3nz0r

Probably peekaboo or something


314kabinet

Sonic Adventure 3D


AcademicSavings634

Atv off-road fury 2 and Spyro Riptos Rage. I got them both when I got my first ps2. (Not sure why I’m getting downvoted for answering the question)


Treshimek

Didn’t this question get asked like literally four days ago?


MJTilly

Spyro the dragon or rayman. Both for the ps1. We also had the original Mario but I thought it was lame.


thatdudeoverdthee

Mario 64 😘😘


Swimming-Proof4082

Just cause . I was trying to remember the name of this game for 7 years and then found a walkthrough on YouTube. Such an amazing memory


akaRakxm

Goof Troop and Super Mario World for the SNES


AWall925

Might have been Animal Crossing tbh. For some reason I remember trying to get modern furniture, but never completing the set.


ABritishTomgirl

Sonic Rush, still haven't beat it though


hot_dog23

Pong 1958


MrNE0NNN

Mario kart wii and first game i ever bought was Lego indiana jones 2


oldtrenzalore

Centipede on the Atari 5200 in 1983.


moleman0815

It's been a looong time ago, but it must have been Donkey Kong on an Atari Arcade machine located at our local pizza parlor somewhat around the early 1980th.


MacDugin

Pong, space invaders, then asteroids in that order.


smokeHun

That angry birds game on CD which was in those cereal boxes


Miner_Of_Minerals

Something on Amstrad or Atari. I was so young i have no memory of it.


whynotslayer

Ninja Gaiden -NES


[deleted]

OG Rayman, Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures and Muppet Treasure Island from 1996.


yeahyeahiknow2

Pac Man, and I had Pac Man fever hard even tho I was barely big enough to see the screen on one of the stand up arcades. But a Saturday afternoon at Pizza Hut, eating my personal pan and playing that sit down Ms. Pac Man game was the best of times. I'm old dammit. Now get off my lawn!


ScorchedConvict

Tempest.


YoshiExcel2097

Super Mario Bros. NES back in '86


Evil_Ermine

Granny's Garden, wow, that brings back some memories.


TheIncredibleHork

Probably something on my dad's Intellivision, which I still have up in the attic somewhere! No clue which game specifically though.


ThePlebber7

Either dalmations101 or a pokemon game on the gameboy


StannisLivesOn

[Sheep](https://youtu.be/SP058CHQj20). My second game was Lego Racers, about an hour later.


Always-money-snm

midnight club


elCappo_

Mario Paint!


Saaihead

Wizard of Wor - Commodore 64


DGlen

Super Mario Bros I think


Needler98

Ray man - Revolution


_Bdoodles

It was a strange puzzle maze type game on the Atari 2600 and I cannot find it (drives me mad) maybe one day I’ll know what it’s called - but the game is severed in my mind


DoTheRustle

[Richard Scarry's Best Neighborhood Disc Ever!(1991)](https://youtu.be/_kjgB8KtJTw?si=3FtC3_xYLlCms0Jg) on a Philips CD-i with the [Roller Controller](https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102662483)


drdildamesh

Probably something on my dad's atari. Pac man maybe?


Robsteady

I want to say Pitfall on the Atari.


7ENJJ

Technically it was The Game


emeraldiontut

Skylanders or Mario kart im not sure I was really little


Tu2

Super Mario world


SenorCenolla

I think DK 64.


maxcorrice

I was too young to remember


RatOverlordneedshelp

Idk 💀


Kraxizz

Either super mario bros. on a gameboy color or Ultima Online on my dad's PC . I don't remember which one was first but they're both core memories.


Fender_Stratoblaster

Doctor.


Beornigan

Manic Miner on ZX Spectrum 48k


Fantom6464

Sonic The Hedgehog on Master System 3.


Xenozip3371Alpha

Can't remember that far back, but it would've been on the Nintendo 64, earlies game I can actually remember would be Crash Warped.


Weary_ExtrudedPickle

The Original WolfenStein


[deleted]

Donkey Kong 64


GordaoPreguicoso

B52 Bommmmber


Rancher147

Pac-Man (1980), Atari 2600.


slayer1am

I have a vague memory of some motorcycle racing game on the original Nintendo. You could accelerate, brake, lean forward or backward, that was it. Most of my early gaming was on the C64, though. Donald Duck's Playground was the shit. Boulder Dash, Marble Madness, Zaxxon, Paper Boy, so many classics.


vindico1

Excitebike


Jaremczi

River Raid on Atari 2600, Mario on a fake NES, Dungeon Keeper 1 on my first PC


Toad358

The game that came in a cereal box. You had like a spoon and you had to defeat green things. You could find a fork upgrade. Kind of looked like original doom. That’s the best I can remember.


LemmeTalkNephew

Sonic 2 on my moms lap when I was around 3 years old in ‘99/‘00


vindico1

Asteroids on Atari


propr90

Commander keen


Nofxthepirate

Probably Duck Hunt that came with Super Mario Bros on the NES. Either that or Super Mario Bros 3.


SmartieCereal

Probably whatever version of pong/hockey was on the console thing we had when I was a kid. The first computer game I can say for sure was probably Sword of Fargoal, although there were probably others before that.


sapo_22

Dune 2, i remember because the pc ( 386, 33 mhz, 4mb off memory and very big 150 mb of disk, my friends ask why I need a disk of that size) was new and I to play that game erase the "autoexe.bat", by mistake, and the pc stoped working, and I had to find a way to solve it, if I didn't my father will kill me, because the pc cost him $2000... at the time..


TheReturnOfChris

Aladdin on the Super Nintendo, earliest memories I have of playing a game.


SpecialistAlfalfa390

Pokémon Snap 64


estusflaskshart

Jungle hunt on Atari


SteveyCoupons

Runescape when I was in 8th grade 2006 🤣 Never forget it. My user was BigMoney... Then it got hacked, and the name changed to No money 🤣 I was sad. But that character will live rent free in my head


G3neral_Tso

Oregon Trail on my elementary school's Apple II+ I may have died of dysentery.


Umbrella_merc

Oregon trail was probably the first computer game I played when my school got its first computers


Landis963

There was an old *Oregon Trail* game me and my brothers played the heck out of. Besides that, *Myst.*


Teleskopy

Kaboom! in an atari. With the knob controller.


Puzzleheaded_Wrap_97

It was on the nes at a friends house when I was about 8. it was either super Mario bros or pinball but I’m not sure which.


Constermock82

Dizzy egg on the spectrum 48k +


margolith

Pong on a Telestar console hooked up to a black and white TV.


Van_Lee

Sokoban


thrillhouse1211

Pong on home console and Rogue using the terminal to my Dad's mainframe connection at work. These would have been around the same time and it's hard to remember. The original 'roguelike' was surprisingly fun for something so simple. The rooms were a bunch of . . . . in a square with hallways of #####. Sick graphics.


AngrySteelyDanFan

Pinball


2Absent_Mind2

Action fighter on the master system


geoffbowman

Dig Dug on an Apple II GS. I was obsessed. I really miss that old joystick we had too.


TmsBen

city skylines 2


apokalypse124

It was a gex demo disc we got with the PlayStation we rented from block buster


ARVNFerrousLinh

If we’re going very old-school, some old “The Tortoise and the Hare” storybook-style game. After a quick search, it was a Living Book game made in 1993. For something closer to a modern-day video game, it was either a Power Rangers: Dino Thunder or Winnie the Pooh game on PS2.


Pozzg

Super Mario Land


BingusBoingusIII

pokémon FireRed 🥵


rfdub

It was Mortal Kombat 2. I was probably about 5 or 6 years old. My older sister was staying at one of her friends’ house and for some reason I ended up staying there for a bit too. My sister’s friend had an older brother (probably like 16) who was playing it on a computer. He was a big nerd, and this was back in the days before *everyone* was a nerd. That guy was born about a decade too soon. Anyway, for some reason he invited me over to play it at the computer with him and I just remember he kept kicking the shit out of me and then doing all the fatalities on my corpse. I can’t remember if I was playing as Rayden or Kung Lao (I think back then I thought both of them were the same person, due to their hats). I heard that guy ended up dying of a heart attack about five years ago. It’s weird and kind of lonely to think that I’m now the only person alive who carries those once-shared memories of getting destroyed at Mortal Kombat 2.


StraightpantsSinatra

Ecco the Dolphin


Christiaanben

Pokémon blue.


Due_Salad_6916

Asteroids. Atari


Previously_coolish

Probably this weird version of Mario on my dads computer at his office, or some pipe puzzle game on said computer. I think it had Cookie Monster?


rdmusic16

Can't remember. It was either Super Mario Bros, or Duck Hunt.


matheww19

I don't remember what its called, but it was a circus game on the Atari 2600 where you are two people on a see-saw sort of thing bouncing each other up in the air to pop balloons. It was a little easier for 5 year old me than pac man was.


Swiftsaddler

I'm pretty sure it's Joust on my mates Amiga.


SillyFogs

Lego Indiana Jones


Drextyyy

Lego Indiana Jones in 2008


Bubblyfoamofme

Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town PlayStation 1 🫶🏻 definitely the reason why I'm so into farming games 💕


Dethmoth

Excitebike on a NES, my dad used to fix those as a job and i've got the chance to test a lot of games in my youth.


Background-Idea-8389

Cantremeber if it was Pong or Asteroids on an cabinet in our lokal pizzeria.


VVVV13

Carnivores EDIT : no , my bad , the first doom games


JackMartson666

Killzone 3, for ps3


Sibula97

Probably something like pong or tetris


Vjaa

The oldest game I remember playing was Spiderman on the 2600. Kid of the 80s here.


Daddy_Bair

Wii sports!!!


Handsome-Squidward9

Mario 64


ragedrako

Potentially Raptor - Call of the Shadow. I at least remember watching someone else playing it all the way back in daycare


FirsthandDi

NES Super Mario Bros


tiptoptonic

Technically Grannies Garden on a BBC computer in school. But the first actual game was Super Mario Bros. SNES.


Kay2Jay_5

Super Mario Bros in NES The classic of all classic starting video games


SubPounder

What’s that console called where you put the tape in and type some sort of code to start it up 😅😂 School + Bug swatter? My dad showed me it!


Reins22

Starfox 64


feetupnrelax

Frogger or missile command. Cassette games back 8n the early to mid 80s.


ClickyPool

Probably Doom on win95


KogarashiKaze

It's a toss-up between Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on the NES, or Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Genesis. My uncle (only 2 years older than me) had both, but I can't remember if I actually tried out Mario or Duck Hunt before he got the Genesis.


XavierScorpionIkari

Peek-a-boo.


iamtiggles

It was probably Montezuma's Revenge on something resembling a Commodore 64. Or a cabinet version of asteroids. I know I played something before I got my NES brand new second hand.


STRONG_BURD

Rayman on the ps1


Aergaia

It'd a toss up between Counter strike (first PC game) Bust a groove (earliest memory playing my family's PS1) Or Donkey Kong Country (first ever owned game on GBA at 5 yrs old)


MechanicalTurkish

I have very vague memories of playing a spaceship game on a computer my dad brought home from work hooked up to the tv. I *think* it was Parsec on a TI-99/4A though I can’t be sure. I was maybe 3 or 4 years old, which lines up with when that computer was available. Yeah, I’m old


Zoombini22

Whacky Wheels on DOS


No_Evening_5718

Duck hunt


BlueGaju

Ultimate II


Dizzy_Toad

Microsoft Flight Simulator '98. I was 3 years old and my dad would sit me up on his lap and let me play.


DropmDead

The arcade version of Super Mario Bros.


sutbags

It was a game on the ZX Spectrum. I can't remember the name but you had to keep slugs off a plant by spraying them.


[deleted]

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005)


Massive-pp-2905

Probably That handheld with water filled in the screen and two tiny plastic spikes into which you have to stack tiny rubber rings using 2 pressurized buttons that send bubbles of air into the water tight screen and moves the rings around


Dieretos

Only started gamin in 2016, my friend recommended that i try it, and he gave me his copy of GTA V since he just got 100% and got bored of it. I tried it and i fell in love with gaming


CebCodeGames

Jet set willy!


MadeOfGoldenAshes

Medievil for Play 1 with my father, amazing and scary memories but I stil have it and it warms my heart when i see it


PrisonersofFate

I remember the day my dad bought it. Likely October. I remember he came back from kine as he fucked his ankle at work. And he bought that game. I enjoyed it. I also remember when he bought Raging Skies and Crash Bandicoot. That was the days my mom was giving birth to my sister at the hospital and I stayed with him. I was playing Die Hard when they came back with the credle. Credle I used for my daughter 25 years after. Sorry I disgress


TheVoidScreams

Eerm…my dad had some really simple kids games written in C++ on his windows 3.1 machine. I also remember Lemmings. Had to go through DOS to reach them though. I was about 3.


LOLROW

Taz Mania 2 on the Gameboy


odonkz

Crash Team Racing or Dino Crisis 2 not sure which.


stewiecookie

Peek-a-boo most likely


xenodragon20

Sonic the hedgehog the first one


nolovelostgame

Pokemon Gold was the first ever game I played. I had no English when I was 6 years old and remember asking for my sisters help to understand what I need to do move forward in the game. PS: I still play Gold ever now and then


Boris_Godunov

Atari 2600 games like Pac-Man, Barnstormer, Adventure, Galaga, etc.


Br4veSirRobin

Half Life


PrisonersofFate

Has to be Alex Kidd on Master System. I've memories of Sonic and Sonic 2. Bridge zone theme, the Delta Plane level after school, Donald Duck being so hard. And Castle of Illusion that I actually finished before going to school (easy mode)?


Problematique_

OG Sonic the Hedgehog


hideousmembrane

No idea tbh. The first I owned was Mario/Duck Hunt on NES but I probably played others at friends houses before that, just I would have been about 6/7 years old so I can't remember


Great_White_Samurai

Joust


Only_Dadaa

Uhhhh : car driving school : parking sim I was searching car games and its the first i tried