The First Game You Ever Played (Or Remember Playing)

[johnxfire]

First game I ever played was some F1 racing game and Popeye on the Famicom/NES. Gooooood times, goooooood times.

[OmegaVesko]

Either Super Mario World , SMW2: Yoshi's Island or Super Metroid.

[damian]

Mortal Kombat II on the SNES at around 4/5? I probably didn't even land a hit on an opponent though, considering I still can't complete it, Shao Kahn is practically unbeatable

[Elin]

A range of games on the Atari 2600 when I was about three years old. My brother really liked them, but I wasn't very impressed, and swiftly went back to my other toys.

The first game I can remember actually taking a liking to was Sonic on the Mega Drive, when I was maybe four going on five. We played it at a friend's house and really liked it, and then got a copy of our own for Christmas that year. My strongest memory is of how strange the controller felt in my hands, and how impossible I found it to make the very simple jumps across the moving platforms at the end of Green Hill Zone 2. I think we have a tendency as people who have been playing games our whole lives to take for granted how much holding a controller in our hands and pressing sequences of buttons in response to on screen stimuli has become second nature to us. It's really not that much easier than sitting down in front of a piano for the first time and trying to play a tune. :'D Especially when you're young and your fine motor skills are still developing. I always find it funny when my mum asks for a go of whatever's being played in the house out of curiosity, and ends up being so gangly and clumsy with a controller in her hands, but like...games are hard to begin with. XD

[Blue Electrona]

So true. Whenever I was playing my old man at video games I would literally have to hold myself back to try and not beat him and whenever he started to get cocky I'd let him have it, man he would get so pissed at the game XP. Best part is my mother would have a go and she would sometimes do better than him by button mashing. Hysterical, how I miss those days.

[unnoticedninja]

I remember playing random fighting games with friends for the first time and beat everyone by button mashing, even the person that knew all the moves and was awesome at all fighting games, then I started to lose my beginners luck and had to try lol. I never play video games with my parents because they're no fun to play against. @ Mimori, experience using different game controllers really does make a difference when playing, for example I used to be horrible at fps games, and only in the past few weeks of owning a 360 did I get better. I recently beat Halo Reach on heroic, never knew I even had a chance at it.

[deadnarwhal]

It had to be Pac-Man in the Arcade. This would have been 3 or 4 years before the atari 2600 was released.

[toffeechris]

I think that would be trans am on the spectrum 48k+.

[Quiji]

I think it was Mega Man 2 on the NES. What a beauty to start on.

[brolylssj1987]

that would be Doom on the 368er PC good times never beat it on nightmare only got the second level cleared^^

[Shareware]

Mega Man 2 was the first Mega Man I ever played. I grew up with an NES and a SNES from age 5 to like 12. Of course, I got a PS1 and N64 down the line, too, but the NES was my best friend after I lost most of my SNES games somehow.

Mega Man 2 was my favorite game to play. Still have that same copy and that same NES.

[Michael Callahan]

Super Mario World for SNES

[BigJohnTomas]

Storm warrior on the commodore 64

[Drageuth]

I think it was Mega Man 2 on the NES. What a beauty to start on.

You are a god among men.

[MasterOfGravity]

Daley Thompson Decathlon on Commodre 64