Earliest Gaming Memory

[nokori3byo]

1980. The Place D'Orleans Shopping Center, just out side Ottawa, Ontario. The game: Space Invaders with a monochrome monitor. I was barely tall enough to see the screen, so I pushed the fire button while my dad worked the controller.

And that was more than a year before getting my first console, a Mattel Intellivision, for XMas.

 

[Raxxman]

Repton on the BBC micro B

 

[Jintor]

Sometime during the late 90's I have a confused mixture of the following games: Tyrian, Terminal Velocity, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, the Original C&C, Jazz Jackrabbit, and something else... I forget what.

But I remember being enthralled by the hookers in Duke Nuken 3D. And I was, I dunno, 7 or 8 or something.

 

[Warbie]

The first game I remeber well was a flying/shooting game on the Atari 2600. There were other, earlier games, but these have all blended into a collage of black and white geometric shapes that moved around on the arcade screens.

The first game I completed in the arcade was the original Wonder Boy - this got me hooked and 20 years later i'm still at it

 

[Bad^Hat]

Can't rightly say... most likely a coin-op machine somewhere. Or playing on the neighbour's Amiga

 

[Pulse]

Good idea for a thread, the earliest memory I can conjure up is of me playing Monkey Island on the Amiga Can also remember playing Granny's Garden in primary school on the BBC micro.

Those were the days.

 

[nokori3byo]

The first game I completed in the arcade was the original Wonder Boy

That must've taken hours.

 

[Gargantou]

First game I ever played was Duck Hunt on the NES, I was around 2-3 years old, complete with the NES handgun. Second game was some hockey game for the NES too, where the characters looked like Mario and Luigi.

 

[Jintor]

Oh gods, I forgot to say Lemmings.

I'll say it again.

Lemmings.

 

[CR0M]

1980. The Place D'Orleans Shopping Center, just out side Ottawa, Ontario. The game: Space Invaders with a monochrome monitor.

Like you I had my first taste of a video game in Ontario, while visiting relatives in Picton with my family in '81. I played Gravitar for a few minutes. I loved it. I can still remember how shiney and clean and new the arcade was. :dozey:

 

[xcellerate]

Well echo the dolphin may be the earliest, if not getting a SNES on xmas morning with mario. The one that was the most 'important' had to be the first time I played TFC, I was more addicted than crack.

The only reason I woke up in the morning was so I could finish school faster and get home and play. Which may explain why I was so eXtReMe in it.

 

[Loke]

Super Mario World for the SNES in 1994, United States of America. Great memories. :E

 

[Ren.182]

I think the earliest gaming memory is probably playing with my dad on the Atari. I was probably about 4 or 5 at the time. Then I got a NES and so on until I'm here today

 

[nokori3byo]

The first cartridge I ever owned was "Astrosmash" on the Intellivision.

The consoles I owned were--from earliest to latest--Mattel Intellivision, Coleco Vision, and The Sega Master System. It's been all PC snce then, though that may soon change.

The first PC game I ever owned was, I believe, Populous. I used to play it on my Step-Dad's old 286.

 

[The Monkey]

I don't know the name, but it was about gorillas on skyscrapers throwing bananas at eachother. There was wind which you had to take into consideration when you aimed.

 

[StardogChampion]

Dizzy's Treasure Island on my bro's ZX Spectrum. That came out when I was 2, so I maybe played it when I was 4 or something.

 

[Shippi]

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[Gargantou]

X-Wing with a mouse..*Shivers*

 

[Rapstah]

Something about jumping over snakes on a pogo stick.

 

[Laivasse]

Can also remember playing Granny's Garden in primary school on the BBC micro.

Wow, I remember Granny's Garden. That only arrived for us when our school splashed out and bought a CD-ROM equipped comp though.

Before that, in the infants, we used to play stuff like Pod ("Pod can..." whatever) and Geordie Racer.

As for my veeeery earliest gaming memory - that was probably a coin-op somewhere. Either Space Invaders in a chippie in Ireland or Karate Champ in a chippie in a place called St. Osyth's.

 

[15357]

The first game I ever played was Starcraft. Seriously. I hadn't even played Pac-man before starcraft.

 

[Gray Fox]

I think double dragon, and a shooting arcade game.

 

[Operational]

Alley Cat on a 8086. Not sure of the year, probably around 1990.
It looked like this, except for the fact that we didn't have a "colour" monitor so it was in green screen.

 

[Crushenator 500]

I don't know the name, but it was about gorillas on skyscrapers throwing bananas at eachother. There was wind which you had to take into consideration when you aimed.

i remember that game, we had it at my school

 

[nokori3byo]

My earliest memory i think was playing this strange DOS game, platform kind of thing. You were this wizard, in a dungeony castlely place, and you had to collect gems and potions and things.

Hocus Pocus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(computer_game)

Might be a little late in gaming history to be anyone's first, though.

 

[Adrik_Senturu]

Commander Keen.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

1993: playing sonic the hedgehog 2 for the first time (my first video game) *sniff*

 

[jimbo118]

First game I ever played was Duck Hunt on the NES, I was around 2-3 years old, complete with the NES handgun. Second game was some hockey game for the NES too, where the characters looked like Mario and Luigi.

duck hunt here too ...

i also had mario on the nes and a game called california games involving surfing, bmx-ing, playing frisbee lol and others

teenage mutant heroe turtles on the gameboy

the original prince of persia on my WANG computer, yes i had a wang computer

lemmings too, what a game...

sonic at a mates house

some DOS game called F-15 or sumit

that DOS game samon mentioned about the wizards sounds like one i had too.

some PC platformer where you played a blonde haired special agent, aw man what was it called!!??

 

[Gargantou]

Man, the original Prince of Persia brings back so many memories, I have to buy the 360 remake of the original Prince of Persia, it's so fun.

 

[NeptuneUK]

Sonic the hedgehog, I was 3 or 4.

 

[Warbie]

That must've taken hours.

And pretty much every 10 penny piece I couldn't beg/steal for months.

 

[Qonfused]

Incoherently crying at the final boss of Wolfenstein.

 

[staticprimer]

Hardball 3 and Dinopark Tycoon

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Rayman *shudders*

 

[Shippi]

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[Eejit]

The Heroes Of Karn on the Commodore 64

 

[Bad^Hat]

Oh gods, I forgot to say Lemmings.

I'll say it again.

Lemmings.

Yes!! Oh man I forgot about my grandpa's computer in his study. He had Lemmings on there, and some really primitive 3D flight sim. You flew an F16 I think... there was also a really crap world war 2 dogfight game that I could never figure out no matter how many times I played it.

Remembered a couple other things from reading you guys' ones aswell. A friend of dad's had a computer with Hocus Pocus and a bunch of other DOS games, so I played that quite a bit. He also had Doom, and I distinctly remember playing and being too shit scared to even leave the first room

Also, a friend had Commander Keen and Dune 2 on his family's computer. I remember that because I played it so much I got kicked off and asked never to come back...

 

[Ennui]

Incoherently crying at the final boss of Wolfenstein.

<3 me too. I played it when I was five or so (1994) and dear god did it vex me. Also the second boss, who threw needles at you.

Besides Wolf3d, I remember Dark Forces, Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, and Duck Hunt.

I haven't stopped playing PC games since then.

 

[Absinthe]

Something involving this. Or this. Or, most likely I think, this.

Stellar 7 was the shit.

That's actually a boss in the distance, and it's effin' huge. I'd get the living hell scared out of me whenever he spawned down.

 

[nokori3byo]

Final boss of Wolfenstein? That was Hitler, wasn't it? In a Krupp mech suit.

Some great last words, he had...