My First Game

[Kamakai]

Sonic. Adventure. No, not the gamecube port, I mean the original. I will always have a soft spot for this game; a spot that SADX simply can't fill. SA just feels so much more...natural. I remember me, my brother and my sister each had 30 mins to play my Grandad's Dreamcast while a family reunion was going on. The chose Crazy Taxi and SEGA Bass fishing, but I played the one with the blue animal. So... if blue wasn't my favourite colour, I might've never fell in love with Sonic.

 

...That's a scary thought.

[Sean]

My first video game was Kid Icarus. I couldn't really get into it, but that theme song was ingrained in my memory as a child. It was a bit of a nostalgic rush hearing it again in Brawl and subsequently Kid Icarus: Uprising.

[LATER BUDDY]

Sonic 2 was my first game I ever got along side a Genesis for my 4th Christmas. I've always wondered what would happen if it was something else, seeing as the spiky rodent has forever been glued to my side as I'm now here moderating a Sonic message board 20 years later, XD. But I probably wouldn't change it even if I had the chance since Sonic 2 has always kinda felt like "my game" because of it all haha.

[canderson]

My first game, I clearly remember, was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sonic Genesis when I was 3 years old. I really had difficulties with this title back then. For some reason, I could never get past either Chemical Plant Zone or Aquatic Ruin Zone and I eventually moved on to other games I received for the console as the years went on. Eventually, I came back to the game and successfully completed it, right before moving on to my next console, the Nintendo 64. I find it interesting how the first Sega Genesis game I've played, was the final Genesis game I've beaten.

Edited June 10, 2013 by canderson

[LATER BUDDY]

I could never get past either Chemical Plant Zone.

 

Yeah I had the same issue when I was small for the longest time. The boss would always wipe out whatever single life I had left, or the time counter since I liked to explore a lot back then. I recall after that though when I was around 5-6 I could beat the game fairly easy, though I still wound up running out the clock alot, like on Casino Night since I apparently had a gambling addiction as a child with the slot machine haha

[Teoskaven]

The first game i owned was the always classic Hercules game for the PlayStation, followed by some mediocre-meh games (like Barbie Race & Ride -i swear it was for my sister- and Colin Mc.Rae Rally 2.0) before starting my first journey into the Final Fantasy series with the seventh chapter. Still now i remember myself without any kind of help being invested with that game using it also to learn english language outside school (yeah, FFVII was translated in italian only with the recent Steam re-relase: the other versions are all fan-translated).

 

But the first game i ever played was Castle of Illusion on a Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis, call it whatever you want) to a friend's house.

Edited June 10, 2013 by Teoskaven

[Prince Manic the Hedgehog]

I can't remember but if I have to guess it may had to been the NES Classic Super Mario Bros. 1 8-bit glory oh yes the classic days that 8-bit was good before 16-bit came out.

[SkyLlama]

I know SMB was my first game, but I'm not going to go with it since a million other people will say the same. Instead let's talk about Dark Seed, my second game that for convince sake we'll call my first.

My grade three teacher had an old 486 (or something) running Windows 3.1 that she brought into the class so we could potently use it for class work. This computer had been heavily used by I'm assuming her son and had a lot of games on it as well. Most of the games didn't interest me, but Dark Seed did.

Dark Seed is according to Wiki "a psychological horror point-and-click adventure game" released by Cyberdreams in 1989. To my 7 year old self calling it a horror game was an understatement. Seriously this just wasn't a game I should have been playing when I was that young because well it scared me shitless, I just kept playing.

A huge part of Dark Seed beyond the plot was the amazing and slightly terrify to 7 year old me art by H.R Giger. Seriously without the artwork the game would just be another run of the mill game, but the artwork changes everything and helps build an incredible atmosphere.

Once you get past the scary aspect of the game it's incredibly difficult and unforgiving. Everything you do needs to be done at a specific time in the game and if you don't do something right when you need to the game will become locked in an unwinnable state. On top of this saving was very buggy and would often cause the game to hang.

There were many versions of the one and the Amiga version is the definitive one IMO, but the DOS version has the most memories for me.

 

[Jolt_TH]

Hmm, the first video game I ever played is a potential mish-mash of Games that my brother had. It could be Dynamite Headdy, Sonic 3 & Knuckles or maybe Sonjc Jam or NiGHTS (or Christmas NiGHTS). My brother was always playing games and even emulated a good chunk of the GBA games on my shared computer with my sister that we would play on a regular basis.

The first game I owned was Pokemon Yellow, that I got in a Pikachu Gameboy backpack full of chocolate joint with Wario Land 2 as I got both on my birthday. Next was Links Awakening which I acquired...somehow, I'm not too sure and then I received Skies of Arcadia for one of my birthdays because I LOVED the Demo! And to this day I still haven't finished it!!

[Phos]

Megaman 4 for me.  I remember Toad Man's stage, how it was raining at the start and then you go down into the interior.  

[Octarine]

The first game I can recall ever having played for any period of time was Sonic 2 when I was four or five, with the son of a friend of my mother's. We played two-player (I was Tails), and it was the most detailed, dizzying thing I'd ever seen. I was completely terrible at it.

 

...we played a few other games over the course of the couple of hours I spent there, including one of the Genesis versions of Jurassic Park. I'm pretty sure that game appealed to me a lot more than Sonic at the time, since I could actually kind of play it. I couldn't quite understand the spindash, but "press button to shoot" is pretty universal.

 

The first games I really spent a lot of time with were various classic DOS games at my babysitter's house when I was six or seven (I was kind of a late bloomer compared to some of y'all, apparently). The Commander Keen series was a particular favourite, but I played a whole bunch of things... even the hilariously age-inappropriate Duke Nukem 3D.

Edited June 11, 2013 by Octarine

[Amomynous]

It's hard to remember, but it was most likely Timon and Pumbaa's Jungle games.

[RK64]

While I played a number of games and owned a number of systems before playing this, the true first games I really played was Sonic Mega Collection and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on GC.  I got Mega Collection with my GameCube and liked it, but I really started to love video games when I first played Adventure 2 Battle a few months later.  Man, I loved the since of speed the Sonic and Shadow stages gave me and I didn't even mind playing as the other characters (though I never beat Cannons Core till a few years ago).  This singlehandedly made me love the sonic series and stopped my major frustration with video games (I had issues with them, as not knowing how to jump in Yoshi's Story, Snapping the Spyro disk in half, and not knowing what to do in Pkm Gold).  Since then I have gaming much more in my life with my library of over 100 games spanning across the DS, GC, Wii, PS2/3 and PSV.

[RisingForever]

My first console was the N64, so my first games were N64 games. I remember playing Super Mario 64 and getting stuck after the first Bowser fight. I also had no clue until years later about the Boo level. I also remember going up to my older brother excited that I had just gotten second place in Mario Party 2. 

[FromASloth]

My first video game....was Hey You Pikachu.

*feels glances from across the room* I WAS FIVE OKAY

I really did love this game, however. It was the first video game I'd ever touched where you could completely interact with the other character. Pikachu, as unresponsive as he could be ("NO DON'T EAT IT I SAID GIVE IT TO MAGNEMITE GODDAMMIT PIKACHU"), was really fun and enjoyable to play with, and at a such a young age it felt like he was a real animal. I remember me especially enjoying going to the beach in the game to have Pikachu collect free stuff by digging up the boxes.

Also, even though I never made a successful dish, I loved playing the forest area where Abra's hut was, since it had balloons and other cool stuff. All that stuff you bought/collected went back to your house, where you could have Pikachu interact with them. I'd have him eat all of the food items I collected over the years when we were in the front yard in the game.

Something I hated? The Megaphone section. DEAR. GOD. There was no easy way to play that section. You had to stand there and finally point the megaphone at Pikachu (who runs faster than fucking Sonic in the stage, mind you) so he'd come home with you since he stole your Pokedex. Yeah, fuck that stage.

Also, if you gave Pikachu corn and had him electrocute it, it made popcorn. You can't tell me that wasn't clever.

Edited August 11, 2013 by FromASloth

[JezMM]

 

Super Mario Bros. 2 was my first game, and remains a firm favourite, totally unaged for me.  You can imagine how happy I am that it is getting a little recognition at last with 3D World, even if that game is still traditional Mario style.

 

I still have a lot of memories of when my bro and I achieved certain stuff for the first time, and how exciting the mystery of the rest of the game was back in the days where you'd usually only progress by clearing about one more scene every ten playthroughs.

 

I used to play as Peach for her floaty jump, I sometimes wonder how much having a game with a strong female lead character who there was no shame in playing as might have altered my perception on gender for the better as a kid.  Also, when I figured out the Warp locations it was an amazing moment.  For many years my only route through the game would be World 1, warp to World 4, World 5, Warp to World 7, to the point that World 2, 3 and 6 still have a SLIGHT air of exoticness to them in my mind.

 

Art by GoshaDole

Edited August 11, 2013 by JezMM

[Vertekins]

 

Bubble Bobble. My father's Amiga 500 (I think. Might have been the 1000). 1990.

 

I was such an avid Amiga lover back in those days despite being only 3 years old. I'd play stuff like Lemmings, Robocod AKA James Pond, Pushover, Putty, Rodland.... but Bubble Bobble was the first videogame I ever played and I still consider it a classic to this day. It surprised me how many complexities it had such as air currents and items appearing in specific ways as well as very well hidden levels.

 

Heh, my father would have to boot-up the Amiga and put the floppy disk into the drive because I was too young and naive to make heads or tails of the hardware

[Jet Prower]

Like a few others have already said, the first game I played on my own when I was around 4 or 5 was Super Mario world. It wasn't the first game I had seen played, because for a long time when I was younger and played the games myself, I often asked my parents to play the games ,while I watched them play it. It shows that I still like doing that, since I do enjoy watching let's plays of games.

 

I didn't even want to play the games myself for the longest time. My mom had to eventually make me play Super Mario World, because she wanted me to do it and not just have me watch her do it anymore. She sometimes regrets that now she has said before =P. I'm so into gaming now that just that little push was all it took. I've been into games ever since and my now still growing collection of video games continues to get bigger every year. Yet, my first game, Super Mario World, is still here sitting on the shelf with the rest of the collection and still in working order. So, if I want to experience it on the console like I did back then, I still can. Sure I have the emulators and I have editted mario world levels myself as well trying to make my own game out of it, but its still great to go back to the console if I ever still want to now.

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This is the very first game I ever played. If you've never seen this game, it was an NES game released in late 1990 based on an animated movie called Little Nemo: Adventures in Dreamland. It was a sidescrolling game and there were animals that you could ride by feeding them candy.

 

I played it once.

 

Only once.

 

That was it.

 

I played it once and never went back to it ever again. Ever. I remember finding it boring and just not fun. Hurray, the first game I played left a bad impression on me. >_<

 

Now, the second game I ever played, mere minutes after Nemo by the way;

 

 

Ooooh yes~

Edited August 20, 2013 by Special Operative Blaire

[Sonic.666]

Mines Was Sonic The Hedgehog 2.

[Sean]

9 hours ago, Sonic.666 said:

Mines Was Sonic The Hedgehog 2.

If you're gonna be bumping a three-year-old topic, you'll seriously need to talk about it a lot more than what you wrote in this post. Try to put more effort into your posts in general next time, because these short posts constitute as spam and are strongly discouraged here.