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The First Video Game You Ever Played?

Ringed RaygunRinged Raygun
edited September 2012 in General Chat
The very first one you've played -- or at least remember playing? Looking for non-kiddie stuff here -- the first REAL video game, with a dedicated story and non-educational entertainment and such?

For me, it was Starship Titanic. Funny game, great design, weird logic. I finally beat it only about a year ago after an enormous pause. This was shortly followed by Grim Fandango, which I was also clueless at. Didn't even get past the second year until I revisited it so long after my first tries at it -- and I had to be helped to even accomplish that.

Weird games for a three or four year old to play, though. X_x Hehe, to explain, they were my brother's, and I borrowed them for some . . . reason I can't remember. He's just under 10 years older than me -- probably he just showed them to me so I wouldn't bother him while he played Playstation or something.

Whenever I was done I'd play a Sesame Street thing or something. I don't know.

/life story

So what's the first non-kiddie game you remember playing? Not looking for any arguments on what really constitutes a "non-kiddie game," and you should know what I mean by that.
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  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited July 2012
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  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited July 2012
    Mario Paint
  • WarpSpeedWarpSpeed
    edited July 2012
    Space Invaders!

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    I go back a ways, though.
  • Shadowknight1Shadowknight1
    edited July 2012
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    Classic. Too bad I only recently got to finish this game on the 3DS Virtual Console. Plus, I kinda screwed myself by not reading ANYTHING, either the story scroll or the game manual and assumed that the character's name was Zelda. Gee, guess who got confused when he tried to follow the map to the dungeons.
  • Nintendo Boy1Nintendo Boy1
    edited July 2012
    If you read my name it's easy to tell it was Frogger!
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited July 2012
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  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited July 2012
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  • SydSyd
    edited July 2012
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    I had a very generic introduction to video games.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited July 2012
    Whatever the first game I played was, I know it had to be something on the Atari 2600. The first game I can really remember playing would be something like Super Mario Bros. or Gyromite.
  • JohroJohro
    edited July 2012
    uh... SMB wasn't the first I know that(first I owned though). It was one of the mess of arcade games from the early 80s.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited July 2012
    I THINK it was Alex Kidd on the Master System. It's so long ago I can barely remember though.
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited July 2012
    It was a SNES game, I'm pretty sure of that, but which one I don't know. (I was about 4 at the time)

    I think it was either Super Mario World or The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, I remember playing those.

    I also remember playing Yoshi's safari with a super scope.

    We might of had Dungeon Master, and Pilotwings as well. And Super Probotector (aka Contra 3) as well. And Donkey Kong Country.

    (I must of been very young when we had it, because I was born in 1991 (And we traded the console in to get a N64 sometimes around its release))

    I know the game that got me hooked on gaming and that was Pokemon Blue.
    Playing that game to the extreme, even as a child, kind of sparked a flame that hasn't been extinguished yet! :D

    EDIT: I had a Mega Drive as well. I remember having Lion King and Sonic, (we sold it at some point, then we got another one from my uncle).
  • JohroJohro
    edited July 2012
    RetroVortex wrote: »
    I also remember playing Yoshi's safari with a super scope.

    I just threw away both of those last year. Time to clean house.
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited July 2012
    Also, it may have been a Gameboy game. Tetris or Super Mario Land (being the most worn cartridges that we have! XD).
    My old man claims we got a Gameboy first, but I don't think he got it straight away, (don't forget how expensive games were back then!).

    Man. I got fantastic memory when it comes to games! XD
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited July 2012
    Syd wrote: »
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    I had a very generic introduction to video games.
    Same here.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2012
    Ringed Raygun wrote: »
    The very first one you've played -- or at least remember playing? Looking for non-kiddie stuff here -- the first REAL video game, with a dedicated story and non-educational entertainment and such?

    I think you're really underestimating the age of a lot of the community members here.

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  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2012
    The NES came with a game. No actually 3.

    Super Mario Bros.
    Tetris
    Nintendo Football World Cup.

    It was one of those.
  • lovetodo22lovetodo22
    edited July 2012
    King's Quest I
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited July 2012
    Super Mario Bros., I think. I know it's the first video game I got for Christmas (I also got the NES bundle that came with SMB/Duck Hunt).

    I also remember playing Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Jr. at truck stops when I would go with my dad on his landscaping trips. But, I was probably older then since I don't think he would have taken a 7 year old to truck stops with him. I also remember playing a sitdown cocktail version of Millipede in the lobby of our local Pizza Hut. But I think that came after I got an NES for Christmas too since I remember joysticks feeling foreign to me since I was used to the gamepad. So, yeah, probably Super Mario Bros.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2012
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    The NES came with a game. No actually 3.

    Super Mario Bros.
    Tetris
    Nintendo Football World Cup.

    It was one of those.

    The NES came with SMB, and only that.
    I confirm that for Germany at least.
  • RingmasterJ5RingmasterJ5
    edited July 2012
    Myst. I was young enough to not have any clue what the hell I was doing, but just walking around was cool.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2012
    Vainamoinen wrote: »
    The NES came with SMB, and only that.
    I confirm that for Germany at least.

    Not when I got mine. I was late for the party though.
  • JohroJohro
    edited July 2012
    Should've got Batman, that was a kick-ass NES game. I still have that music in my head.
  • ZeruisZeruis
    edited July 2012
    First handheld was Pokemon Crystal, and first console game was Mario party 7.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2012
    Johro wrote: »
    Should've got Batman, that was a kick-ass NES game. I still have that music in my head.

    I had that one. Was too hard for me and I got stuck on a boss.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2012
    First game I really fell in love with - Faxanadu - was way too hard for me when I first played it. Same with the Game Boy cartridge Gargoyle's Quest. I eventually beat them sans problems when I was older.
  • JohroJohro
    edited July 2012
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    I had that one. Was too hard for me and I got stuck on a boss.

    I'll admit I never beat it as a kid either. Took me forever to get past the security boss or whatever the hell those two grey boxes were, and when I did, Firebug annihilated me. One game genie years later, I realised I was right before the Joker.
  • St_EddieSt_Eddie
    edited July 2012
    Nooooooooo... my PS3 just crashed on me, just as I attempted to post a lengthy and heartfelt account of my earliest gaming memories. Please mod gods, say that you can wave a magic wand and retrieve my post? It was the most heartfelt thing that I've ever written (I sincerely mean that)! :(

    Here's the second most heartfelt thing that I've ever written; fuck you Sony. From the very depths of my heart - fuck you and your shitty web browser. You're always sure to let me post some drunken rambling (that I inevitably regret posting in the morning) but the one time I seriously needed you to work without a hitch, you fuck me in the arse. Fuck you, fuck you very much, Mr. Sony.

    EDIT: There is a God and he's not a mod! For some bizzare reason I discovered that the crashed page was still present... kind of. It was invisible to the eye but the PS3 was registering the page as being there. A ghost page! Sadly, I was unable see or interact with the phantom page but I pressed L1 (the 'back' shortcut) and hey presto; my post was back on screen.

    Long story short; my post is below...
  • St_EddieSt_Eddie
    edited July 2012
    The year was 1986 and I can still vividly recall being on a Ferry to France at the age of 4 with my family and seeing some older boys playing on the arcade game 'Kung-Fu Master'. I was too young to reach the controls of the cabinet at the time but it fascinated me nonetheless; an animated character on a screen, that could be controlled by you. I remember finding it to be a wonderous and fascinating concept.

    It wasn't until a year or so later that I got the opportunity to actually play my first game; 'Frogger' on my Dad's friend's computer. The experience of finally controlling a character on a screen myself was every bit as exciting as I had imagined it would be, having watched those lads beating up pixelated martial artists during the previous year. 'Frogger' remains one of my favourite games to this very day.

    The first game that I owned came in the form of an unexpected present when I was a 7 year old boy. My Dad arrived home from work one day and told me that he had a surprise for me; an old DOS based computer that he'd rescued from the office skip, along with a 5 1⁄4-inch floppy disk containing a 'Qix' clone, titled 'Styx'.

    It felt as though I must be dreaming as my Father set the computer up on the desk in my bedroom. I could hardly wait to start playing, for fear that I may suddenly awake and realise that the whole scenario had been nothing more than a figment of my fertile imagination. However, it was no dream and for the next couple of years, I would be itching to finish school for the day so that I could rush home and eagerly await my Father's return from work, so that we could resume competing for the high-score on 'Styx'.

    I hold all of the above memories very close to my heart. They represent a happier time in my life and an introduction to a life long love for gaming. I am certain that I will forever remember these moments with great affection, up until the day I die.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited July 2012
    I can't exactly remember, except that it was something on the Intellivision in the mid 1980s. I would have been around 4 or 5 at the time so say 85/86.
  • Juicius MaximusJuicius Maximus
    edited July 2012
    Man, wish I could pinpoint it for certain, but probably something on the Commodore 64. Bruce Lee or Hero, maybe.
  • gamer247gamer247
    edited July 2012
    I remember my grandmother buying me the original Rayman on the pc when I was like four, and remember that my parents told me that there was something wrong with our copy of the game because no one in my household could get past some level fairly early on in the game. I now realize that their was nothing wrong with the game, the problem was the game's brutal difficulty and no one wanted to put up with it. My parents did save the game but I wasn't able to play it until recently because of it's lack of compatibility with modern operating systems and my lack of knowledge of the existence of dosbox.

    The following year I got an N64 for Christmas and got a few games along with it. I believe the games were Mario Kart 64, Toy Story 2, Pokemon Snap and Banjo Tooie; Later I got Super Mario 64 and can remember playing it every night with my dad when he got home. We played it all the way to the end, with that being said I believe he was the one who made most of the progress through out the game.
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited July 2012
    To be honest, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.
  • St_EddieSt_Eddie
    edited July 2012
    Noname215 wrote: »
    To be honest, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.

    You know, sometimes I feel so depressed. When exactly did I transform from a cool young guy, into an old fart?!
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited July 2012
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    You know, sometimes I feel so depressed. When exactly did I transform from a cool young guy, into an old fart?!

    Once people become pretentious like us, they lose all optimism they may have had.
  • St_EddieSt_Eddie
    edited July 2012
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
    Once people become pretentious like us, they lose all optimism they may have had.

    My goodness Sir, you certainly know how to get to the root of the problem. Tell it like it is, why don't you?
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited July 2012
    I'm just glad I was born in an era between generations.

    Where 2D and 3D games, of various different genres and platforms were available.

    I can appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of both, and simplistic graphics in either don't necessarily put me off, (Visual design > "Graphics").

    Oh how it pains me to see younger people not appreciate the classics.
    (Like Castlevania, M.U.L.E, Aladdin (Gen), Super Smash Bros. ect)

    I grew up with the SNES, GB, GBC, PS1, Dreamcast ect. When you think about it, all those sort of games are radically different.

    EDIT: I really freakin' LOATHE it when my parents are dismissive when I get an old game.

    "Oh its. Its Old. Its Old! It looks shit! Its unplayable"

    ^ No FUCK. YOU. Goddamn hypocrits.

    You worshipped Space Invaders and Tetris, but won't give something similar the light of day?

    Just because its old. Doesn't mean its crap!
    If anything a lot of old games are BETTER than newer ones.
    Hell I'd play Ninja Gaiden (NES) over FFXIII any day. ANY. DAY.

    EDIT 2: I have a bit of paper with goddamn Pac-man highscores on it.
    (Shit scores. TBH. I'm not very good at pac-man! XD)
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited July 2012
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    My goodness Sir, you certainly know how to get to the root of the problem. Tell it like it is, why don't you?

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  • St_EddieSt_Eddie
    edited July 2012
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
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    *insert witty GIF response*
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited July 2012
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    *insert witty GIF response*

    How about this?

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