First game you ever beat

[Croooow!]

The correct way to pronounce the word "forte", meaning "one's strong point" is fort. However, so many people incorrectly pronounced it as fortay. So much so, that it ended up also being a correct pronunciation, and being added to the dictionary. Even though fort is still a correct pronunciation, it will be perceived as incorrect by the ignorant majority. Fort went from being correct to incorrect, all because the intelligent people were vastly outnumbered by ignorant people.

But hasn't that happened with pretty much every English word of French/Latin/Greek origin? That's just what English does to words of that origin so I think it's more fair to blame the language than the people.

[ZeroAX]

So Nintendo are idiots as well? Cause they still call it Super Mario Bros 2.

[SwooshBear]

Pokémon Blue!

Pokemon Red! (thus the Charmander avatar)

[SpaceBooger]

When I was younger my best friend's dad was real into gaming and my buddy and I would help him beat (mainly just yell out ideas) Maniac Mansion and Zach McCracken. So I guess those were the first games I ever beat since I thought I was playing along too.

As for games I beat on my own, using the Konami code I beat Contra.
The first game I beat without cheating is either Metal Gear or Duck Tales. My memory is a little foggy, but I do think it was Metal Gear.

Off topic, yet related to my post:
Funny story about Metal Gear; I was at Sears and both Metal Gear and Gyruss was marked with a price like "$ .98". I was at Sears since my mom worked there and we were going to use her discount to buy Duck Tales and I noticed the price of those two games. We took the three games up to the counter and the clerk noticed that the price stamper didn't print the first two numbers on the sticker (this was before everything was scanned at the register) and he said it was definitely an error but since he knew my mom he just gave us the price without us having to argue.

[msimplay]

Funnily enough in those days I had played a lot of games but I never stuck to any game for long enough to complete them. For me with an Arcade background just getting far in them was good enough because we used to measure performance by our high scores.
Getting to the point I vividly remember the first game I ever clocked was Mario Land 1 and the second game was Street Fighter 2 Snes and then 3rd Super Mario World and shortly after Zelda 3
I wrote down four because these are the games that I felt most proud completing as before I never used to complete games after Zelda 3 I became a somewhat good gamer enough to clock a lot of games relatively easily but because it was all new games meant a lot more and the challenge of completing them was enough to make me keep playing.
Back in those days I had a Gameboy and Snes most of my play time was on the Snes ah magical days.
The Gameboy also got a decent amount of play because the games it had were not on the Snes like Super Mario Land 3 and Zelda Links awakening.
Plus people had other platforms such as the Megadrive well some anyway most had Super Nintendo but even those with other platforms had one thing in common and it was the Gameboy everyone had a Gameboy so it got a lot of play time just based on the fact that you could borrow other peoples games.
In those days to have even one brand new game was expensive plus Gameboy games were half the price of Snes ones.

[Limewater]

I understand what you guys are saying about Mario 2. Being wrong a million times is more powerful than being right one time.

This is ridiculous. You act as if it is impossible for two different games to have the same name. There are tons of counter-examples to this, though.

Aladdin (SNES) vs. Aladdin (Genesis)
Star Wars (Famicom, by Namco, 1987) vs. Star Wars (NES, probably Famicom, and lots others, by JVC, 1991)
Terminator 2 (NES) vs. Terminator 2 (Gameboy) vs. Terminator 2 (SNES) vs. Terminator 2 (Arcade)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) vs. Super Mario Bros. 2 (FDS)
Asterix (Atari 2600) vs. Asterix (SMS) vs. Asterix (Arcade) vs. Asterix (NES)
Battlezone (Arcade) vs. Battlezone (PC)
Combat (Atari 2600) vs. Combat (arcade)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (NES and others, Taito) vs. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (NES, UbiSoft) vs. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PC, Lucasarts)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Attention to Detail, PC, Action Game) vs. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Lucasarts, PC, PnC adventure)
Stargate (Atari 2600) vs. Stargate (SNES) vs. Stargate (Gameboy)

There are probably hundreds more.

I mean, seriously, what the heck else are you going to call Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)? You can't call it Doki Doki Panic for several reasons.

[hashiriya1]

Super Mario Bros 1 was the first console game I beat, Strider was the first arcade game I beat in one credit.

[OldSchool_Boy]

Super Mario Land 2:6 Golden Coins

When I got the Game Boy Pocket that christmas morning, it was this game and Pokemon that was getting played non-stop.

[CFFJR]

For me, that would be Super Mario Bros.

[EllertMichael]

NES - hmm.. probably Super Mario Bros.
Genesis - Streets of Rage 2
Game Gear - Terminator 2
N64 - Starfox 64
Saturn - Virtua Cop
Super Nintendo - Super Mario World
TG16 - Ninja Spirit

Thinking back, probably before I even beat SMB (no warps) I can remember beating my friend's Mortal Kombat tiger electronic handheld

That can't be the first game I've ever beaten, though... ugh. this is gonna drive me nuts