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Post a picture of the first video game you ever played
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I forgot which of the two I played first but these were the only games i got with the original Game Boy and I assume it was in this order.
I was definitely a tiny toddler. My dad had to lift me up to play this at the arcade. The next youngest person was 5 and more than three times my age. I remember getting it for a DOS PC a some years later. My dad used to take me to arcades and get me to play these games. Probably why I've always enjoyed shoot-em-ups.
Frogger on Atari. I was like 4 or 5 and I thought to myself "I don't need to play outside anymore."
I used to play that tank game against an older lady who would babysit me.
castle of illusion on the Master system.
I got the MS as a Christmas present when I was 6 or 7 and remember saying that it was the best day of my life.
This would have been a couple of years before the Mega Drive and SNES released, and although my parents didn't have much money bought the system second hand with a load of games.
Sonic, Alex Kidd and Wonderboy 3 all being fond memories.
Our first family games machine was an Acetronic Colour TV Game in the early 80s, my first game would have been one of the various pong / bat and ball games as seen on the back of the box!
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Mario Kart 64. I was maybe 4-5 years old? I remember I couldn't get on the banana bridge because I sucked at aiming the kart, so someone always had to help me with that part. Lots of reverse driving too.
Windows 98 Pinball, on my dad's PC.
It's either that, or a Sonic game on my first console Sega Megadrive in the same year.
It's either that, or a Sonic game on my first console Sega Megadrive in the same year.
Mario Kart 64. I was maybe 4-5 years old? I remember I couldn't get on the banana bridge because I sucked at aiming the kart, so someone always had to help me with that part. Lots of reverse driving too.
MK64 gets a lot of flack, but it came out when I was 14 and my brother 17 and we had an absolute blast with friends round for 4 player tournaments. It might not be the best MK, but it's the closest to my heart.
this game slapped but our graphics card couldn't handle it so all the characters' faces and hands (as well as several objects required for plot progression) were invisible rip
Not the very first (I don't remember which one was the first), but one of the first, and definitely the first game that I liked to the point of becoming obsessed with it.
Watch this review if you are not familiar with it.
I still see it as the masterpiece of this console's library (Magnavox Odyssey 2, Phillips Videopac in PAL territories). I wonder who owns the rights of these IPs (Phillips, I guess). My family still keeps the cartridges and hardware, but I would happily pay for a commercial compilation with some extra stuff.
Grandstand Colour TV Game of some sort, no screen shot but looked a bit like this in action:
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I genuinely don't recall but it was a ZX Spectrum game so Jet Set Willy or the like. Daley Thompson Decathlon maybe? Willow Pattern? Uridium? Now I am just naming ZX Spectrum games I played but which was first I have no clue.
Table Tennis on the Magnavox Oddyssey in the mid 1970's.
It's a Pong clone.
My parents kept it upstairs in the attic with a tiny B&W TV that my brother and I would play each other on.
It's a Pong clone.
My parents kept it upstairs in the attic with a tiny B&W TV that my brother and I would play each other on.
So many youngsters in this thread, lol!
Here's a brief thread on mine:-
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VLTTP: Granny's Garden
Inspired by random threads over time (like "what's the longest time it's taken you to beat a game?") and a throwaway comment/question on the Giant Bombcast I got interested in this old BBC game. It launched in 1983 and I probably "played" it around then..probably 1984 or something like that...
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Legend of Kage for Famicom
I can't say for sure if I played it myself, since I was quite young, but I don't even have memories before being around video games, and this is the earliest one I remember seeing.
Our neighbours had this on an actual Famicom system and my older sibling and their friend would play it.
