What's the first game you ever played?

[K444wsr]

The 1st game I have memory of playing and can actually remember playing is Super Mario World on the SNES. We got it shortly after the UK launch, so 92 I think and I would've been about 7.

Having said that, the first game I ever played was Mr Heli on the commodore 64. I have no memory whatsoever but we've got a photo of me playing it when I would've been 4 or 5.

Feel blessed to come from a family of gamers 😊

 

[Nola]

Mario/Duck Hunt

Have always wanted to try duck hunt again as well

 

[TechMetalRules]

I was at about 4 when my older brothers and I got an NES with Mario and Duck Hunt. I don't remember playing any arcade games before that.

 

[Kupo Kupopo]

the opening screen of the first computer/video game i ever played:

 

[antitrop]

Either Super Mario Bros or this, too young to actually know for sure

 

[two_headed_boy]

Probably one of those Namco games that came installed on Windows in the 90s.

 

[NightmaresHunter]

1-3. Too young to remember.

but my brother used to tell me I liked to play The Super Dimension Fortress Macross on NES when I was at that age.

 

[lmog]

Sonic 1 for Master System

 

[James_liv]

Manic miner on the Spectrum

 

[nullref]

I was young enough that I don't have a concrete memory (2--3, I'm guessing), but based on what I can remember, it was probably this:

Would have been in the mid-80s sometime, and would definitely have predated us getting an NES.

 

[Xx 720]

Pong type game back in the 70s. First time i ever saw an arcade game was space invaders in a hotel lobby, played it for like a minute died and thought it was a rip off lol.

 

[Nickgia]

Kirby's Dreamland for the gameboy.

 

[Aurongel]

DOOM 1993.

 

[Butt-shot Katana]

Space Invaders at a bar in Wisconsin (kids are allowed in bars with parents there.)

 

[Zaied]

Not 100% certain, but two of the earliest gaming memories I have are playing Final Fight 2 and Street Fighter II on SNES. Had to be one of them.

 

[Van Bur3n]

 

[Sheng Long]

Space Invaders (possibly Space War but that's fuzzy) cabinet in 77/78 when I was 4/5.

 

[TheRulingRing]

Interesting that the poll skews so young. Is it that people just don't get into videogames at a later age if they weren't already into them when young? Why is that the case when other hobbies don't have the same issue?

 

[Eugene's Axe]

Combat on Atari 2600

 

[LonestarZues]

Either Super Mario Bros or Duckhunt.

 

[Platy]

i have no idea how old i was, but it was Sneak'n Peek for the atari

the hide and seek game where one player hides and the other has to find them ... in the weirdest places like under a rug

 

[ArmoredArmed]

I remember it was super mario all start SNES

 

[DinoBlaster]

First console game I ever owned was Pokémon R/B, but played? Probably one of those old computer games like Brick Breaker, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, or Microsoft Golf.

Does anyone else remember Hunter Hunted?

Edit: I just remembered playing what must have been Super Mario Land for a couple minutes at a friend's house when I was even younger. What a blast from the past.

 

[Citizencope]

Sears Pong. I was 4.
It was so amazing!

 

[The Albatross]

Probably 3 or 4. My dad had this handheld "basketball" game from Tiger or one of those electronics companies in the 80s. It had dots on it and you moved another dot around to set up a shot and either got awarded points or not and it counted down. The game made nos sense to me as a kid and no sense to me today. We got a working updated one for my dad within the last 5 years and my nephew knows how to play it but it still stumps me.

We got an NES in the late 80s, so I played a console probably at age 4 or so. But the first game was that basketball game.

 

[sugar bear]

Space Invaders on Atari 2600 in the late 70s.

 

[Kyrios]

I think I just turned 3 or a little younger when I first tried Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.

 

[BossLackey]

Super Mario Bros. at age 4.

 

[BasilZero]

Super Mario Bros 1 on NES at the age of 3.

 

[The Three]

MS-DOS version of The Adventures of Captain Comic.

 

[cheebdragonite]

I was probably 5 at this time, and I remember playing either Super Mario Bros. on a bootleg system or this Mickey Mouse game on the Game Boy for the first time. The Mickey Mouse game had something to do with a magic wand you can make ice blocks with, but can't remember the title off the top of my head.

 

[Deleted member 4260]

Sonic 3 at like 3-4 years old? Still love that game too

 

[unholyFarmer]

Some old DOS game I don't quite remember when I was 1-3.

I do remember playing Animal Quest back then, when I was like 3 or 4.

 

[xendless]

Age 2
Sega Mega Drive
Mortal Kombat
Button mashing vs my dad, one of my earliest memories
I would also watch my sister play Sonic and have drawings of scribbles resembling the boss fight against Robotnik at the end of Green Hill

 

[LiftGammaGain]

Played a bunch of stuff on old computers and ZX Spectrum...but i like to think that Out Run and R Type stole my virginity.

 

[Automagical]

I was 5, my parents' friend smuggled in an Atari 2600 from panama and I got to experience Enduro and River Raid for one afternoon.
My mind was blown.

 

[Massicot]

I think it was Wolfenstein 3D

 

[VenomousCoffee]

My parents got me a 2600 for Christmas way back when. I'm not sure either I or they really knew what a game console was. They had probably seen it was the big toy that year. So something for that. Most likely Donkey Kong, Pong, or Combat.

 

[retrosega]

With me I think I was 6 or 7, so 1982. It was either a Commodore Vic-20 or a BBC Micro.

From 1986 I was addicted to Outrun in the local arcade and my first computer was a Amstrad CPC 464, Christmas 1987.

 

[Scuffed]

It was on the Magnavox Odyssey 2 and it was a Pac-man clone that is all I remember I have no idea how old I was. I looked it up and the game was called K.C. Munchkin lol.

 

[Famassu]

The first one I remember playing is C64 GIana Sisters but I'm not 100% certain if that actually is. Might've been some other C64 game.

I really need to play that game through as an adult. I remember kind of liking it but I sucked at it so I'm not sure if I really got too far into the game.

 

[Eppcetera]

The earliest memory I have of a video game is playing Super Mario Bros. at my cousin's house. I think I was three at the time (could have been four). The main thing I remember is thinking the game was the most amazing thing ever.

 

[Turin]

Batman Returns on my friends SNES. I was 6 at the time.

 

[Addleburg]

I don't know if it was the very first game, but my earliest memory is playing I think what was a Mickey Mouse game on the NES at a family friend's house. I was probably 7 at the time and I think I only played it once.

 

[J_Viper]

I remember clicking with the controls very quickly

 

[James3D]

Super Mario Bros. on an NES. Feels right.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Pole Position on my baby sitters Atari when I was 3.

 

[QisTopTier]

Duck Hunt at 2

Beat Mario when I was 4

 

[Lord Azrael]

Pokémon Yellow when I was four

 

[Sojiro]

Thinking I was 6 or 7 when I played my first game, and it was Kung Fu, that I distinctly remember. It was on the NES at a kids house whose parents were friends with my mom, it was just amazing, I fell in love instantly and my mom saw that and got me an NES later that year for Christmas, although it was the Mario/duck hunt pack which was even better.