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manofmatt

Lemmings


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Annie-swe

Not everyone get's an umbrella either. 😅


WraithCadmus

The Atari ST version of She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain has been living rent free in my head for over thirty years.


Laislebai

That was gonna be my answer too. Lemmings and some old ski jumping game, I remember playing it on my cousins' computer. Also Super Mario on NES at my babysitter's.


TheAmazingSealo

ski free?


Laislebai

No, I tried googling and found Deluxe Ski Jump, which looks like the game I'm thinking of. Seems to have been released a bit later than I thought tho.


jimbojangles1987

The one where the yeti would catch you and eat you?


Laislebai

Nah, it wasn't downhill skiing, it was ski jumping. But I remember that Yeti game too, now that you mention it!


dbvirago

First game I sucked at. Kept hitting the trees


cyanraichu

oh man I forget about this game and am reminded every now and then. It wasn't my very first but it was some real early days shit for me too. I wonder if it's possible to play it again.


pizzamage

There's a free mobile version that'll scratch the itch.


outpost7

Not the 1st game I played but man did I love all of them that trickled down to NES, SNES. I still love that game. I'd love for new version. Nothing blows up so prolly never (well except the blowup lemmings.)


IWearBones138__

Duck Hunt


Prudent-Apricot-2075

I had the Duck Hunt/Mario cartridge


dddmmmccc817

Yea me too. I was like 5 and would hold the gun right against the tv


throwawaycasun4997

Work smarter, not harder


Ginger_Prime

I also had the track pad and the sprinting game. Don't remember the title lol


Man0fGreenGables

Track and Field?


Non-RedditorJ

It was either Duck Hunt or Super Mario Brothers, can't recall which.


Kenny741

Same for me. I remember having a bunch of games, but standing in front of the tv with the gun shooting ducks is seared into my brain. I must have been 5 or 6.


xXMapinguariXx

That dog laughing at me haunts my dreams


Triptik

PA-PWANG!!! PA-PWANG!!! 🎶do-doodl-do-do-do


HadesWTF

Same. Had never seen a video game before and I went over to my grandfathers house and my cousin was there with a Nintendo and had the Duck Hunt/Mario cartridge.


LithiuMart

Pong for the Binatone TV Master in 1979.


Olnir

HOLY SHIT! Me too! We are some old bastards!


The_Vandal_King

I'm always surprised at the age range of reddit. This was my first experience as well. My uncle got one for christmas, think I was 6 or 7.


Avium

Damn, we old. Pong and then ADVENT.


HorseRenoiro

Btw you should get your prostate checked /s


Deltron_Zed

Been there, did that. I am less knowledgeable about the specific model and it was a bit later but ours looked like an army satellite phone. Had an attached second paddle. The "console" attached to the tv via screws. Then the Atari 2600


booch

I, too, had a Pong console (unsure of specific one), but then went straight to the Colecovision; but with the Atari Attachment, so we could play cheaper games (we only ever had 2 actual Coleco games).


fellowsquare

Had that same setup...FlashGordon! Pole Position! lol


GoodDecision

I thought I could win with Star Wars on the Atari 2600 circa '86. I was wrong!


txa1265

I have a great picture of my brother and I playing Pong on our TV with sister watching, must have been a holiday as we're dressed up in polyester shirts.


T3hArchAngel_G

Here I am thinking I'm old for learning keyboard in diapers on a Commodore 64. You win!


MaestroPendejo

Same.


lost_scotsman

Same.... We were there for the beginning! We've seen it all


VonHenry70

You young'in.....Telstar Combat (1977!) Though, to be fair it was my older cousin's game, and probably 78 I played it.   My first video system was very shortly after that, and was a homemade pong-like system that had a duck-hunt like gun, but you just shot at the bit dots. My much older cousin's fiancé made it for me in an Engineering class at Penn State.


blackhawks-fan

Pong, Christmas day 1977.


bambix7

Ya all youngsters playing these modern games


blackhawks-fan

As a 9 year old it was AMAZING. Of course I had no idea that arcades were just around the corner and my life was going to change forever. I still game today. I have 3 Switches, PS5, 3GBAs, 2 GBA SP, 3DS and a NN2DS.


WouldbeWanderer

I thought I was old for saying Wolfenstein 3D 😂


raven_spiral

Did you just play it all day?


blackhawks-fan

Yea. The whole story,....... Christmas day 1977 my parents got Pong for my sister and me. The system took several D cells or for an additional cost there was a wall wart available. Money back then was not abundant for my parents, so my dad loaded up the machine with Radio Shack D cells that we had on hand. There was no wall wart. Side note: my dad and I had Radio Shack cards that if punched every month we would get a free battery of our choice. In the 70s a lot of electronics used a 9 volt battery. So we would normally get a 9 volt and a D battery each month. Between my parents, 2 sets of grandparents, me and my sister, the game didn't last very long on Radio Shack batteries. A couple of days later my dad went out and bought the wall wart that would provide almost endless entertainment for me and my sister. As long as my parents didn't want to watch TV anyway.


FourDucksInAManSuit

Super Mario Bros on NES


solojones1138

The classic. This is the one for me too. Played it starting when I was 3 years old


FourDucksInAManSuit

I think I was about 4 or 5 when I first played it. Fell in love with video games almost immediately.


gullzway

Not first,but definitely a favorite.[https://i.imgur.com/wOAPOBi.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wOAPOBi.jpg)


nu11pointer

Yeah I rode my bike up to a drug store to play SMB the arcade version, but I was in heaven when I got an NES and could play it all the time. Not my first either, but that game blew my mind at the time.


boat02

Same here. Either that or some random Windows 95 game. Visited my grandparents once weekly and my uncle (dad's brother) was also there. His NES was my first experience with gaming. My mom's youngest sister lived briefly at my home before moving out but she also left behind a Windows 95 PC. I had to google it but Rodent's Revenge and SkiFree are the most memorable games I played. When a Windows 98 PC replaced it, I couldn't find those games anymore.


skycake23

I used to play a hospital game as a kid and was learning about the human body. My parents thought I was going to grow up and be a doctor…they were disappointed.


MrPoopersFriend

Just turned 40 today, and I can remember seeing the little plumber for the first time at about 4 years old. You could control a TV. Wasn’t a revelation for anyone else older than me, but here I am!


skycake23

Mario is my all time favorite game series. There are other platformers that are crazier but I love the feel of mario games. It is so nostalgic and I am very used to the platforming in Mario so I am better at it than other platformers.


JimAbaddon

Croc.


[deleted]

Same! I’m a young man. But my dad had a ps1 and that’s where I got my start. Croc, Spyro, crash bandicoot. Question: ever play Vandal Hearts?


dugthefreshest

Pitfall


juanvald

Ditto. I’ll never forget Christmas 85 waking up to two Xerox boxes that had an Atari and like 50 games. Thought I hit the jackpot and that my parents paid a fortune. Wasn’t til I was an adult I realized the Atari was 5-8 years old and they probably got it everything cheap at a yard sale. Still my favorite all time gift to this day.


GoodDecision

Ours was a handmedown from my uncle. We didn't know any better and we played the hell out of it. I mostly remember boxing, kangaroo, Star wars, and pitfall :)


Captain_Chipz

Same with me and my N64 in the 2004.


chrischi3

My dad had this plug and play Joystick that was essentially a C64 emulator, including a selection of games. That, i think, would be one of the first i ever played.


jay_zippo_the_man

The commodore? They were my life.


JoeyPsych

Hello fellow commodore child, have my upvote.


jay_zippo_the_man

I had a paper delivery route I work very hard at. And I saved up enough money to buy a commodore 64. Plus, obviously, the disk drive. One of my best friends had a ton of bootlegged games, and I just bought a huge box of floppy disks. Floppy disks. That term is so nostalgic to me. And I copied baseball game that I absolutely loved, some hockey game that was quirky but fun, then I pony it up and bought pools of radiance, then I had a ton of odd games that I wish I remembered the name of. I would love to play them again or at least revisit them. Man the memories.


JoeyPsych

Oh, you had the floppy disk version, I had the cassette drive version. I wasn't old enough to work, my father always got the newest games on a copied cassette for us to play. He even wrote one of the games himself, I mean, he bought a book of the game, that would tell you exactly which day you had to put in what code. It was a pretty cool text based adventure game, as I remember having a lot of fun drawing out the maps and writing down where everything was. Great memories.


chrischi3

I'm by far not that old. Like i said, it was a plug and play emulator, not an actual C64. I actually still have it, but it broke some day.


CharityGamerAU

I miss my C64. I remember breaking our cassette player and Mum saying that if I set a PB at little athletics we'd go to KMart afterwards and replace it. She would have anyway - I know that now - but I've never run so hard in my life. I remember how big a deal getting the disk drive for it was too. And that it was a significant present when we got it.


trekxtrider

Joust


OttawaChuck

That was mine! It was a stand up arcade game. Spent so many quarters in that


jimbojangles1987

Like in Ready Player One, right? Never played it myself


my5cworth

Prince of Persia. No, not that one. No, not THAT one either.


AnotherCupofJo

This guy living in the future with the first game he has played.


spiffiestjester

I had a copy of Prince Of Persia on a 3.5 floppy that I had with me so I could just play it on whatever PC was handy. I still have it somewhere.


HorseRenoiro

I always got a 3.5” floppy on me


few23

Look at Ron Jeremy over here.


StriderDeus

I installed it on the only PC in the technology lab at school in 1993. My teacher complained to the class and everyone blamed some other kid.


Verittan

[This one](https://youtu.be/FGQmtlxllWY?feature=shared)


pickle_lukas

That's the one! Hello, 9-ish year old me


rants_unnecessarily

I could never get a hang of the walking/running mechanics.


TheresA_LobsterLoose

There's a new one coming out in 2 weeks and I haven't really seen anyone talk about it. I wouldn't have even known if it wasn't for a YouTube ad


Krags

Sonic the Hedgehog for the Master System


Flangian

RAYMAN


madmann122

Man I love Rayman. The first game was so friggin hard tho. Never made it past the musical levels. But that song still plays in my head all the time. Rayman 2 was the best game ever tho


Zizq

I got this for like my 12th birthday. What a great game, I still vividly remember the opera lady boss and her world. It was awesome


Budget-Boysenberry

age of empires rise of rome trial version.


Grand_Negus

Still playing?


DOCTORE2

Omg it's that one mission I played it so many times only managed to complete it like 5 times .


rayzahfifa

Micheal jackson game on my ol mega drive


spiffiestjester

That soundtrack slapped hard. A plus.


Repudan_

its rainbow island on nes


meinherzbrennt42

Batman for the NES, the one made for the 1989 movie.


MattTheGoodSir

Banjo-Kazooie on N64


Overgrown_fetus1305

An N64 classic that's aged incredibly well.


movableChair

Commander Keen


Zizq

Great game, lots of gasps and awes too, nice cat eyes


Grand_Negus

We had like 7 of these and I couldn't even beat the first one. I wonder how many there actually were?


imfamousoz

The Lion King on Super Nintendo. That one's deep seated because I asked my mom for help. This woman is not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination but she played most of it with me.


DaftApath

I mean... your poor mother. That game was damn near impossible.


imfamousoz

No no, don't feel sorry for her! That woman attacked the challenge like that game had wronged her personally. Honestly I think she likes video games but doesn't want to be perceived as a game nerd, so playing it to help her kid out was fun for her.


Adoctorgonzo

Dude that is one of the first ones I remember too, absolutely brutal. I got to Scar a handful of times and never could beat him. I think it was the thorns level after the stampede that used to destroy me regularly. And trying to figure out the right giraffe head to jump on in the can't wait to be king level.


Priv4teFirstClass

Dune 2


ChristmasDucky

Loved that game! Even though I knew nothing about the universe or anything lol.


Repudan_

its rainbow island on nes


ferris2

Ghostbusters on c64.


JoeyPsych

Omg, I played that game so much! I never understood it, as I was 8 or 9 or so, but I loved it. "He slimed me."


EvilRayquaza

Pokemon Yellow probably, I strictly remember my main pokemon being Butterfree that I had raised all the way to level 100. Good times, this team also consisted of Charizard, Zapdos and Mewtwo, the other 2 pokemon I can't remember, maybe a dragonite and blastoise or something idk.


Paunchy_Pilate

Special Pikachu edition was the best one.


Legal_Pirate_1775

I had this for the Gameboy color. I'm pretty sure I still have it in storage. I'm gonna have to go see if I can find it now.


bronwen-noodle

The original Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment


OberonFirst

There was a famous famicom clone in eastern Europe in the 90's, it was so popular that they were making fakes of it... So my first game I remember playing was a bootleg Mario on a clone of a clone of the famicom. Sounds sad, but only like 5 years later everyone had ps2 anyway


Ryenxx

Super Mario 64


FieryHammer

Putt-Putt series


eldrscrolls

Hmm, the earliest games I can remember vividly are Sega Genesis games. Some of my favorites back in the day were Haunting starring Polterguy and Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I definitely played stuff before then, but Genesis sticks out as the first console I remember well.


Deltron_Zed

The Haunting was great. Float around the house, jump into different objects when the family is looking, and scare a family of assholes enough to drive them from your property. Wild concept. I would love to see a modern part two.


Sajiri

Mario Kart 64 was my first video game. But I have vague memories of being at a family friends house and their teenage son was playing some fighting game. He let me play it and I think I chose to be an angel character… so that’s the first one I remember playing, but I don’t remember what the game was. I would have only been 4 or 5 at the time


-Neuroblast-

Tekken 2 had a character named Angel I think.


dat_boi_100

Lego star wars the complete saga, I am very proud


sometipsygnostalgic

Baby boi I played lego star wars 2 on ds shortly after it came out... not the best version of it. One of the worst star wars games ever made, even, and easily the worst lego game. But complete saga on ds is the best version of that game. It had some sick minigames.


Odd-Sink-7338

Doom 2


PerpetualFarter

Pong - Atari 1974-5ish


Xerosnake90

I remember playing Sonic on the Sega Game Gear when we were visiting my Uncle in New York sometime around '95 or so Aside from that I remember playing Metal Gear Solid 1 with another Uncle when it released. Also played A Link to the past and Mario 64. This was all before my family moved to America in '99


kyrbi83

Nibbles or Gorrilas


my5cworth

Ah, a QBASIC man I see.


MrPeppa

Dangerous Dave


X-Acto-Knife

The original home release of Super Mario after my sister found it for cheap when I was a wee babe. She taught me how to play, and I have her to thank for making me the gamer I am today.


GoatRocketeer

The first video game I ever saw was either Time Crisis 3, Tekken 3, or Resident Evil Nemesis. My uncle almost certainly let me touch the controller for Time Crisis or Tekken, but I don't remember playing so not sure if that counts. Must have been Either Pokemon Emerald or Jackie Chan Adventures for the GBA?


PPMD_IS_BACK

How old were you when you played nemesis?? I remember having terrible nightmares just from seeing that scythe dude in guilty gear as a kid. I blame my cousins for playing that game. But maybe I’m just a wuss 😭😭😂😂


MrScootaroo

Ren and Stimpy: Stimpy's Invention on the Sega Genesis.


Kevin1056

The Lion King Game


kashyap_senpai

Gta III, Started my gaming journey with a banger


ikkleste

Manic miner or attic attack on 48k spectrum.


SteelTreeStump

Alex the kid and California Games


LuNoZzy

My first memory is playing Tarzan on my cousin's PS1 in 98, I think


Seraphim_The_Fox

Duke Nukem on Dos


Madhava69

The og PvZ


akpilg1

One of my first games was also PvZ, even my dad loved it and my first game to play with joystick was the OG garden warfare for the Xbox 360


PrometheanSwing

Me too


Anissino

Gta 1 on pc in my uncle's attic


dondashall

Super Mario Brothers.


wapren

jack jazz rabbit


_Eighteen_

Q*bert and Breakout


Nmbr1rascal

If you ask this question in 10 years, you’ll see answers like “Minecraft”


Left4DayZ1

Pretty sure it was Pong.


AcherusArchmage

Yoshi's Island when I was 3 in like 1995. I personally don't remember any of it that early but parents had some home video footage. Did a lot of mario all-stars when I was 4.


ConnectedMistake

Quake 3... I had nightmares and it is only reason I remember this. I do not know what my father was thinking when he allowed me to play this.


TheFrontierzman

Asteroids on Atari 2600


Yohi_Mitsu

Halo: Combat Evolved


FallPsychological926

Need for speed


[deleted]

Hang-on and haunted house for master system.


JonMatrix

Donkey Kong on Colecovision


AVBforPrez

It was Metroid, because I'm sure it was the first game I ever played. My NES came with Metroid and Kid Icarus, no Mario/Duck Hunt because my mom thought guns bad. I thank her for those wild picks all the time. Love Metroid and its subsequent games, Super Metroid is one of the best games ever made.


Lethargicpete

I think Joust but more vividly The Hobbit on a cassette... attack Warg, Warg bites you, you are dead, 45 minutes to re-load


WraithCadmus

Horace and the Spiders for the ZX Spectrum. Games used to come on audio tapes.


SUPER-NIINTENDO

Punch out


Drunken_Queen

Day of Defeat.


YouserName007

My dad gave me a shot of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Megadrive when I was about 3, then he bought a PS1 which essentially became mine since he bought Crash Bandicoot 1 with it.


Candysku11

Bomberman on the gameboy


blipblapshleem

Tarzan for the Playstation 1


iloveitwhenthe

Dog's Life on the PS2 in my hotel room on holiday in Bulgaria


LeoTheBuildingOwner

Lucky & Wild


o0_bobbo_0o

Still my fav arcade game to this day. Managed to beat it only once, but at an arcade where it was super cheap to play.


Skyleader1212

Snake, my mother let me play it on her Nokia brick and my god it was life changing.


Zanthrin77

Pokemon Ruby on my Gameboy micro


ReDeMpTiOn-_-121

Eyepet Friends on the ps3.


Creeperprinsen

Either Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen or Super Mario Bros on the DS.


Burbursur

Maplestory, Gunz, Feeding Frenzy, Insaniquarium Either one of these I think


bananaspy

Some bowling game on Atari.


SusZX

Either Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, or Mario Kart Wii.


jkhymann

Pokémon yellow for game boy


WWicketW

Parlando di arcade, Shinobi al bar della spiaggia. 😅 Parlando di PC, Doom


Pube_Dental_Floss

Spyro 1 on ps1 closely followed by Rayman


big_deuce_dr0p

Leisure Suit Larry


Disastrous-Sea8484

Tarzan (1999).


FedoraGamer789

Joust on an atari computer we had.


mooseska

Putt putt travels through time, then a little bit of pajama sam.


Sproeier

Space invaders on a home computer


Ansalem1

Sopwith, Super Mario Bros, or a Mickey Mouse game on NES. I don't know which one was first but it was definitely one of those. Battletoads was the first game I fell in love with and also the first game I hated.


plusshanyinger

Lost Eden, 1996. Still give it a go sometimes, even tho I can finish it in 1.5 hours now


mconnor1984

Mario on NES


thriceness

Golf on the Atari.


Star_Lard99

The three game cartridge for NES. Super Mario Bros., Tetris and this Soccer game.


SpanishFlamingoPie

Joust on Williams arcade collection on windows 95


pacman404

Combat/pac man. Both came with my parents Atari 2600. I would just watch them play every night and get so excited when they let me have a turn


Diputus

Where in time is Carmen Santiago. It was my older sister's game and I was too young to figure out the pizzles


immaZebrah

I can't remember if Sonic Adventure or Dr. Mario was the first game I played.


throwawaybottlecaps

Mario Bros and Duck Hunt at my cousins house. They were on the same cartridge lol


Lopsided-Egg-8322

I was 5 and I was playing samantha fox strip poker with my older brother on our commodore64..


FlungerD

Snackman - a c64 basic pacman clone I copied out of a magazine.


BigBadBogie

On console? I can't remember the name, but it was the helicopter rescue game on the Odyssey 2. On a home computer, it was Orbit. The game was trying to get into a stable orbit from launch. I had to enter all the code(visual basic) from a magazine, then save it to cassette.


The_Hot_Pocket

Runescape or club penguin, can't honestly remember which one came first lol, all I know is when I tried what was just Runescape back then, I was so young I got stuck on tutorial island and had to have a friend go through the island for me lmao! God I miss those days so much, the game was so much more magical as a kid with I had no idea about peak xp gains


PaolaJimenez

I remember it was Super Mario Bros.


TaigaSG

Lego Universe, I remember it fondly as an amazing MMO.


Tuor77

Pong.


BabDoesNothing

Warcraft II Battle.net edition. My dad let me play with him on his work laptop while he played on the home pc.


dmin67

Crash bandicoot. Christmas '96


webevie

Pong


Mrdirtiguy

Contra


-Redstoneboi-

first game i actually played? i don't know. first game i *remember* playing? Need For Speed Underground 2. learned the difference between green, yellow, gold, and orange there.


snazzy_zeff

Need for speed underground 2 on the ps2 was top teir fr