What was the first game you remember playing?

Post by **Sload Soap** » Wed May 13, 2015 4:23 pm

You guys have excellent memories. I couldn't even say. At a guess...Sonic. Maybe a football game.

Post by **Mad_Hatter** » Thu May 14, 2015 10:33 pm

Honestly, I cannot remember.

On a console, it would have to be some Genesis game, most likely Sonic or Batman and Robin.

Zelda: Links Awakening was probably the first game I actually remember playing and getting involved in mentally.

Post by **Key-Glyph** » Fri May 15, 2015 10:18 am

3DSStrider wrote:The oldest memory is of me watching the intro to Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast. I was two years old, if I remember correctly. My mom probably hates that game because I made her play it with me all the time.

Aw, that's adorable. I love it when parents throw in like that. My mom once helped my older brother take down Shredder in TMNT II: The Arcade Game for NES way back in the day. I was so nervous for them, though; I stayed in another room and didn't watch.

Website · Post by **BogusMeatFactory** » Fri May 15, 2015 10:47 am

I just realized that my baby's first console generation is the Wii U/PS4/Xbox One. Going to make sure that the first game she remembers playing is going to be something awesome...like Animal Crossing, because I would love to have a town with her in it. Leave her messages, create scavenger hunts and just see what she does.

Animal Crossing is seriously one of the best family games I could ever imagine.

Post by **Ivo** » Fri May 15, 2015 3:37 pm

I'm not sure. It was possibly either a Game & Watch style game (if you count those), in which case it may have been Donkey Kong Circus (which is an actual Game & Watch game), or an arcade game, in which case it may have been either Thunder Blade or Hang-On.

Then it could also have been some 8-bit home computer game at some friend's house, but I think the above two options are more likely to have been first.

The actual first games we owned were on the Amiga, and I remember a few of the first ones, but I don't know which one I actually played first. The Amiga ports of Silkworm and New Zealand Story where included in the first batch, for example. I have the vague impression it may have been Silkworm that I played first at home.

Post by **Tanooki** » Fri May 15, 2015 9:53 pm

BogusMeatFactory wrote:I just realized that my baby's first console generation is the Wii U/PS4/Xbox One. Going to make sure that the first game she remembers playing is going to be something awesome

That sad realization hit me too. Her first game at a year technically speaking was river city ransom on my gb micro. She reached out and mashed A a bunch, caused a dude to go BARF! and I was laughing and surprised at that. Since then she's developed an interest in Super Mario Bros 1-3 and digital pinball (and real pinball.) I've kept her away from the modern console stuff as I don't see it having much redeeming value for her age group, and the fact it's pretty weak and too much hand holding.

Me though, mine was Pac-Man around age 5. Went up to the mountains on a little trip, ended up going to an A&W burger joint for lunch. Ended up getting a few quarters, a chair, and some time on Pac-Man and it was all down hill from there.

Fun fact, I still have the take home glass short mug I got with that meal in the room here with me in fantastic shape.

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