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Title says it all, what was the first game you remember playing and had fond memories of?

For me it was the PS1, and hearing the OG Crash Bandicoot theme song never gets old for me, got it as my ringtone too!

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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Intellivision. Sea Battle. 1987.

[–] smokeymcpott@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I think it was Lost Vikings on an old DOS laptop.

[–] neurosnail@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mario Kart on N64

[–] Avorn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Good old Pokemon Yellow

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Lunatic Fringe, it was a screensaver so to play it you had to wait for your computer to go to sleep, and if you moved the mouse the game would end.

[–] JMHershey125@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door on GameCube. I am super excited for the switch remake.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Crystal_Shards64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Crash Bandicoot was also my first game! I was only around 2 years old give or take. I enjoyed the NES and Sega genesis a lot more until I got a bit older as it was easier to get the hang of.

The second game I saw(but did not play) was tomb raider. It made me cry when the wolves jump scare you in the first level lol.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's either Super Mario Land on gameboy, or Super Mario Bros on NES. I can't remember which.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard to say, but possibly Spectron for the Spectravideo SV-328. The first game I remember really having an impact was Super Mario Bros. Played it at my friend's house and afterwards I begged my parents for a NES. That was a happy Christmas.

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[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Rocky's Boots on Apple II. It was an educational logic game using logic gates to complete puzzles.

[–] Konraddo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was either the dungeon crawl game "Eye of the Beholder" or a Japanese translated strategy game “Romance of the Three Kingdoms III” on a floppy, around 1991-1993 I think.

[–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I doubt it was the literal first game I played, but Ghouls n' Ghosts for the sega genesis was my favorite as a kid, with sonic 2 as a VERY close second

[–] ehrik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Descent. My dad had a joystick setup for it and I remember being stunned by the graphics and the ability to fly around

[–] BoBTFish@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Iirc it was a Sega Master System racing game. Can't remember the name.

Math Munchers on one of the old school Mac desktops.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

All of the games in the 42 in 1 cartridge for the Nintendo Famicom.

[–] Reucnalts@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Fond memories i have of Golden Axe and Warcraft 2. They werent my first games. But ones i played alot. My Dad had an Amiga and the only game i can remember by name is Golden Axe :) maybe Gianna Sisters too

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Probably something on the Amstrad CPC computer, and I couldn't tell which game specifically.

I had the Donkey Kong arcade port on it, ironically better than the NES one because it had the full 4 levels instead of just 3.

Other game of note was Jet Set Willy. Despite the simplistic style that game was creepy as hell to me. The intro music was a pretty good 8-bit rendition of the Moonlight Sonata. Not sure how much of this is due to the game, but that music still kind of gives me the creeps.

Then on that computers I had lots of forgettable games, often in compilations. And a few bad ports (Salamander a.k.a Life Force), okay ones (Contra) and a very late addition of Lemmings, probably the best game I had on it yet not the best version of the game by far.

I got a NES as a secondary gaming platform at some point. Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 were not the first games I played, but after playing so many crappy platform games on the CPC they definitely had a huge impact on what I still consider good game design now.

[–] Hamartia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mazogs on my godparents ZX81. The game was basically navigating a maze and occasionally fighting spiders. Which was a luck based thing where you just ran into them and waited for the result. Not very exciting but novel at the time.

But it probably wasn't the very first game. I grew up in a tiny coastal tourist town that had four arcades. So it's more likely the earliest games I played were in them but I don't have a defined 'first' memory. They were fairly ubiquitous arcade games so: Space invaders; Donkey Kong; Pac-man; Asteroids; Frogger; Pole position; Paper boy; Lunar lander, etc.

I think the first game that I ever got addicted to (partly because I had the pocket money to sustain the addiction) was Ghosts and Goblins. Been chasing that buzz ever since lol.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Man I don't remember I was like 1. Probably kidpix or something like that lol. Some of my earliest memories are watching my dad play Doom though

[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The first game I played was somewhere between those Disney Storybook Games on PC, and the Tonka games. And sitting on my Dad's lap playing Police Quest and Wolfenstein 3D Shareware. Eventually we got a PS1 with non-point and click games with Spyro the Dragon and I think Crash Bash and CRT. Can't remember which one we played first.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can't remember which came first, my mom got some games for her Commodore 64, or my dad getting a used Intellivision from one of his buddies at work.

It was either Pitfall or Frog Bog depending on which came first.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Either btd5 on pc or Block dude on a ti calculator

[–] zout@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Boulderdash 2 and Kickstart 2 on the Commodore 64.

[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Mario kart on the Wii. still load it up on occasions to play with friends

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

croc for ps1; first game and system I owned - this was when ps2 just came out time wise - had to sneak buy the ps1 and hide from rents

[–] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Either Combat or Pitfall on Atari 2600.

Blew my toddler mind. Which happened again the following year when Santa delivered an NES for Christmas with Super Mario & Duck Hunt.

[–] vairse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My first gaming experience was when I was stuck in the hospital for days due to surgery on my feet when I was super young. My mom's friend let me borrow her kid's NES and, as I couldn't get out of bed, I did nothing but play River City Random, Super Mario Brothers, and one other game I no longer remember.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First game I remember:

Playing a friend's copy of Pokémon Red. Many a late night was spent getting as far as I could without being allowed to save.

First games I remember owning:

Sega Genesis 6-PAK with Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi, Columns, and Super Hang-on. Mostly played Sonic. Mom forbade us from playing the "violent" games, so we'd get in trouble if we were caught playing GA, SoR, or RoS.

First game I have fond memories of:

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. This was one of the first games we got when we upgraded from the Genesis to a PS2, and I played it many times over from the start before we invested in a memory card. The first game I actually beat start to finish without saving. I fondly remember 100%ing it over a weekend, leaving the PS2 on overnight while I slept.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Jet Set Willy on the Amstrad CPC6128

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think it might have been Falcon 3.0?

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Sheesh. That's a tough one. My memory is trash from TBIs... Maybe pong, or space invaders? I think it would be something that was in an arcade. Our first console was the NES with SMB, but we definitely played in arcades before that.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mostly flash games on some websites. However, the main one I remember was Colin McRae Rally 2.0. Getting a cheap controller with force feedback was amazing.

[–] pgetsos@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The very first game I remember was Alex Kidd on Master System II, my mother was always playing it!

The very first I played was probably NFS 3 on PC with my father. I remember playing it during the 1999 Athens earthquake aftershocks and getting scared

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Probably "ports of call" on PC. Still haven't found an actual modern version of it. There were some half assed attempts in recent years, all with such huge flaws that they still haven't managed to be considered "playable".

[–] LZamperini@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Backyard Football and Baseball for PC. I'm pretty sure there were some earlier puzzle games but those two had me loving sports and stats for years.

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