[ALL] Your First Video Game?

[calgaryballer]

What was the very first game you ever owned? Was thinking about that today and all the memories I had.

My very first game:

My parents got me Indianapolis 500: The Simulation for Christmas when I was a little kid. It was an IndyCar sim for the PC that was released in 1989 by Papyrus. I remember playing this ALL the damn time. It was almost impossible to win too. I remember the ONLY time I ever won a race was when I ran the track backwards and crashed every single car lol. Yeah, it was that difficult lol. It's pretty much the first racing game that differentiated itself from the arcade racers to the true simulations.

Pretty cool how much stuff was available in a sim-racer this old. You could adjust how much fuel you wanted, your front and rear wing, what type of tires you wanted, shocks, gears, etc.

Btw, this is also the same people that currently develop and run iRacing.


So, tell us about your very first game....

Man, I had this game too! Dunno if it was first, but I remember it early.

Duck Hunt + Mario was probably the first console game for me. This is the game I remember playing more than anything:

Starman FTW

 

[PepperNY]

Oh shit, great choices! The Twins were so good in RBI. Puckett was the man!

Tecmo Bowl goes without saying.

For sure! I remember my parents having to buy me new controllers thanks to those games haha. Me and my brother used to battle hard core at both games. I can still remember blocking every FG and XP with Lawrence Taylor up the middle lol

 

[Twigg4075]

Starman FTW

That was one of my first NES games. That game was so much fun although it had so many exploits. I think it was Kin Korn Karn (I hope I'm remembering that wrong because of the obvious!) that you could use to ust kick an opponent and they couldn't really defend it.

For sure! I remember my parents having to buy me new controllers thanks to those games haha. Me and my brother used to battle hard core at both games. I can still remember blocking every FG and XP with Lawrence Taylor up the middle lol

My buddy and I would buy about every baseball game that ever came out for the NES and then the Genesis. There were so many good ones. Bases Loaded, Baseball Stars, Little League, RBI...I could go on and on. For one of his birthdays he got Bad News Baseball and Baseball Simulator 1000 and we played until like 6 or 7 the next morning. I went home and slept all day. That was a pretty big deal for a 12 year old. Ha. I also remember my thumbs being so sore the next day. Four of us also ran a league in RBI 2. We would keep our own stats and everything. That is one of my fondest gaming moments.

I actually just ordered a bunch of NES, SNES and Genesis games from jjgames.com in anticipation of the Retron 5 release.

 

[jaxjaggywires]

Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt, when I got the NES for Christmas one year. Got Legend of Zelda shortly thereafter.

 

[JBauerisGod]

The first one my parents got for my brother and I was Super Mario Bros./Duckhunt from what I can remember. Had so much fun with that thing.

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

 

[MvP]

I think I was three or four years old. I didn't have any older siblings so there weren't any video games in my house early on. My cousin got a new Gameboy and gave me her old one (the original). It came with these two games.

 

[seaplus]

it was on a floppy disk that we could use at school...don't remember it at all. first "real" video game was probably Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo

 

[Golden Taters]

This was my first game, got it on my 5th birthday.

 

[Villain]

This was the first game I ever played, but not the first I ever owned. All of the Nintendo, then Super Nintendo games I played belonged to my older brother.

Then I got my own Playstation and the first games that were mine were:

 

and

The first game I saved up money and bought on my own:

I still own it and have popped it into my PS3 a few times. Fucking love that game but it's stupid difficult compared to today's games.