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mine was snafu on intellivision. i think i liked it because it reminded me of the light cycles from tron.

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[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 2 points 2 years ago

Mega Man X on the SNES. I still have my cartridge. For the longest time, my parents had a poloroid of me playing it for the first time. Idk if they still know where it is.

[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oregon Trail on Apple IIGS. I was in elementary school, and those particular Apple computers were already outdated by the time we got a hold of them, but we were from a poor county, and by god it was some great fun. We would have little competitions to see who could get the furthest without having their whole party die.

[–] crossfadedragon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

our computer lab at school was half ibm pcs and the rest were apples. i dont remember which apple but i think probably the same as you played.

played a lot of isle of dr quandry, word muncher, treasure math storm, gizmos and gadgets. i think oregon trail too, but the dos/windows one.

when it would rain during recess the teachers would let us play otherwise we only went to the lab one day a week.

there was animation/art program all of us used to mess around with. cant remember what it was called.

[–] YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Duck Hunt FTW!

Still one of the best shooters ever

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Maze 3D on DOS

[–] -hypnotoad-@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

My first memory was "hey, who chewed up this Atari 2600 controller?" Before realizing it was me...guess I was just forming memories at the time.

[–] HomesliceAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the first my sister and I played was A Link to the Past. We didn't know what we were doing, and we didn't know why the princess and the green guy had the same name... We really got into the series when we watched our dad play Ocarina of Time. Detailed graphics, 3D, a day-night cycle, horse back riding... That game had it ALL.

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I think it was either Mario Party on the GameCube or Crash Bandicoot on the PS2. The first one I remember well would have to be PokΓ©mon Firered in the GBA SP.

[–] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I forgot the name, was on a 8086 machine. You controlled a little diamond shaped character and have to squish enemies shaped like the letter H (on higher levels with double outlines) between moveable and immovable blocks. Later they also lay eggs that would hatch faster and faster.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_(video_game)

[–] marito@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The Atari 2600. I don't remember which games we owned, I was about 4 at the time, didn't even understand the objectives of the games. But then our parents got us the NES with the Zapper a few years later and by then I was old enough to understand how to play both Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt.

[–] crossfadedragon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

i think i played superman for the 2600. i remember just flying around each screen trying to figure out what to do.

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[–] mae_86@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Donkey Kong Country on SNES! Still love it.

[–] OutdoorDining@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had one of these bootleg Atari systems because we were poor and these were assembled locally.

Then I made enough money to buy a Mega Drive

[–] Coud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Red alert on my brother's psx.

[–] Azeon@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Blue. I may have played Space Cadet on a PC before I got my Gameboy, not sure.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

C=64

Wizard of Wor

[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.

The oldest system I played on was an Atari.

The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.

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[–] counselwolf@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I remember it was duck hunt or an snes game of Popeye which is based on the original Donkey Kong iirc.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Mmmh, not sure. Problably Outlaw.

[–] LuckyLu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The system was a PS2. I think the first games I played personally would have been Ratchet and Clank or some licensed Disney shit like Peter Pan or Cars.

[–] GRODIE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Gameboy with Metroid 2: Return of Samus

[–] orcrist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know the game, but definitely an Atari.

[–] Rabbithole@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

48k ZX Spectrum.

Treasure Island Dizzy is better than all modern gaming and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Atic Atac for me. TIL it was made by the guys who founded Rare. After school always playing that game. I am still gaming, but back in the day it was a whole different experience to me.

[–] in2thesame@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Amiga 1200. Great times πŸ˜‰

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It was dome child friendly puzzle game that was given us for free with the school milk.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can't quite remember if it was Donkey Kong Country on SNES or PokΓ©mon Blue on Game Boy Pocket, but one of those.

[–] Spiracle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unsure, and depends on what counts as "playing". My brother got an old computer for cheap a long time ago. There was a floppy disc with a game on it. I don’t have more impressions of it than walking around in some weird geometry on the black-and-white monitor. Some sort of chess-board floor I think.

Truly gaming would probably be one of those small Tetris handhelds. I still have mine. Used to play for hours on car rides. Either that or Game Boy Pocket.

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

NES, with just a handful of games at the start. Neighbor kids started passing around those knock-off cartridges containing a few games (usually titled 100-in-1 or 1000-in-1), as well as other games ("Super Mario 4", for example, which I found out decades later as just a ROM hack of a relatively unknown nintentdo game).

[–] Shurf116@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. It was a good one. Replayed it several times later.

[–] Screwthehole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Wonder Boy on Sega

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The first computer game I played was Scarab of Ra on a macintosh 512k. The first console game I played was Super Mario Bros 3 on NES.

[–] cottonmon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My earliest memory is playing either Chase HQ or Kinnikuman Muscle Tag on the Famicom.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago

Some Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn game on the Apple 2e.

[–] Hillock@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I am not sure which I played first but the most memorable ones are Bubble Bobble for the C64 or Goriallas on a really old DOS PC. Putting in really high velocity numbers to make the exploding banana fly through the building rather than trying to figure out an arch was my favorite strategy.

[–] ehrenschwan@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I don't really remember the first I played, but the first I owned was a Nintendo DS Lite with Mario Kart. Yeah I'm not that old.

[–] Xperr7@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

PokΓ©mon Yellow on the GBC.

[–] Conowelle@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

My first was the GameCube, the one that came with Super Mario Sunshine and I would play that game for hours. Even though the Gamecube wasn’t Nintendos best console it’s one of my favourites just for the nostalgia factor.

[–] jaanus20@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I think it was some tux related game, supertux 2 or some other

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

First I can recall was definitely either Yoshi's Story on n64 or some pirate themed edutainment game on PC. Those two are most definitely the furthest back I can actually recall with certainty, even if I cannot remember the pirate game.

Though there also was some Egypt themed Tetris like matching game we had on the ps1 that could also have been the first. It's all kinda blurry since this was before I was even in kindergarten, so I could very well be misremembering some things or not remembering another game that came before all of those.

[–] Klawn@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It was fruity Franck on armstrad CPC. You had to insert a floppy disk and type EXACTLY the program’s name, which i couldn’t because me as a child always called it tutty fruity. My uncle needed to be here if i wanted to play.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on the NES. I was much better at Duck Hunt than SMB as a kid.

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