Ultimate Test of Gaming Memory: Which was the very first video game you played?

[Vermiform]

Whoever replies Fortnite, Overwatch, Among Us, Seed of The Dead or Apex Legends gets perm banned, I have settled it with @Ral personally.

Ok now that we have a set of rules it's only proper if I start this show off!

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I was but a wee boy larva and my dad and mom actually taught me to play this when I was like 5 or so. From what I remember and were told my dad actually often played tricks to get extra time on the NES, for he was one selfish bastard with a raw gamer soul somewhere deep inside

 

[jane]

how the heck can you remember that. i started playing games when i was like 2 or 3 but i can't remember what was the first one for the life of me. i distinctly remember playing bubble bobble a lot. also killer instinct lol

 

[Adamant soul]

It was either Mario or Sonic, one of the earlier games but I have no idea which one specifically I played first.

I can say that I enjoyed Sonic more.

 

[Vermiform]

how the heck can you remember that. i started playing games when i was like 2 or 3 but i can't remember what was the first one for the life of me. i distinctly remember playing bubble bobble a lot. also killer instinct lol

I am a very visually oriented person, I still have images in my head from so far back in time I scare my mom by how accurate they are yet I can't for the love of me connect them to an actual coherent memory or even make sense of most. It's how I found my first horror movie Blue Monkey (aka Insect) by having almost dream like flashbacks of certain scenes and according to mom I saw it when I was again 5! I saw Aliens the year after and after I was 7 my memory was a lot better at sorting pieces.

Believe it or not I tracked down my first console only recently by gathering all the mental images I had and it turned out it was a NES which really puzzles me since in my country as back as 94-95 consoles of any kind were very veeery uncommon, considering we just broke from the communist regime literal days before I was born in nov 89 it's quite unusual that my parents got me one before I could even read a book proper

 

[Dead Lock]

 

[Aurelian]

Super Mario Bros 2

 

[Disquiet]

Sonic 1, on my childminder's daughter's Game Gear. Probably in 1991. I wasn't allowed to play it often, but it was a whole new experience when I could.

I still hum this tune to myself sometimes.

 

[Nep Nep]

Sonic 2 on the Genesis, when I was 2.

 

[marf]

I know it was a ps1 game, but I'm not 100% sure which one it was. It's either Rainbow Six, Tekken 3 or Ridge Racer at the age of 3 or 4.

 

[Silver]

Might have been something from the Game Boy.
Or, Pokemon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition on GBC.

 

[Baka]

super mario land on the original brick gameboy when I was 2 or something

 

[Stocking Anarchy]

Yoshi's Island or Castle of the Winds

 

[Sigismund]

Was Worms on my Mom's Gameboy color, first console game was Crash Bandicoot 2

 

[SSMG]

Sonic 2.

 

[Ral]

Mario 64 and I have picture proof somewhere too where I played it on an ancient ass TV

 

[Syla]

Bomberman on the Snes

 

[Maddie]