Earliest Christmas (birthday?) present I can (kinda) remember.

Funny enough, if it's the game I most recently played.

I think I was six, or maybe seven. far too young, at any rate. was fun tho, this is were my love for setting stuff on fire was born.

My memories are incredibly fuzzy. Might've had this on an NES or something.

This game had the best sound effects.

  Speedball

Shufflepuck Café.

God, the memories.

One of the Street Fighter and Zelda games. Not sure which, nor which I played first.

Altered Beast

This level specifically.

And I'm just as bad at it as the day I got it.

>>86974
Goddamn Amiga owners and your goddamn 4096 colors. Goddamn.

On topic: see pic.

>>86986

I was only allowed to play it at a neighbours on rare occasions. To get my gaming fix between those moments I had to make do with Chuckie Egg on the schools BBC Micro. Also some game where you spoke to a Roman woman.

Golden age computers fuck yeah.

I'm not sure it counts because I remember playing SMB due to it being on tape.

Seriously.

You know, I'm not actually sure.

I think the one that springs to my mind the most is the demo of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.

I have no idea. I think it was either Super Mario Bros. (which is weird because I was born the year it came out) or maybe the Bucky O'Hare arcade game. Man, just thinking about the old cabinets I used to play on... I must have wasted hundreds of dollars in quarters on those machines.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt on the NES. Good times. I also had this Sesame Street spelling game that I played all the time.

>>87010
Was it the one that had Cookie Monster in the bathtub and you used pipes to create random water flowing things?

Either Duck Hunt, NES baseball, Link's Awakening, or Super Mario Land. My memories a little fuzzy on whether I started playing my family's old NES or my Gameboy first.

Tetris or Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

The very first game I can remember, though, is some RPG for the NES. Your character was Blue, I think, and it was an action RPG. I watched my cousin go through this mountain area back and forth 10 times to level up before continuing on. There was a fight in the forest with this big eye/scropion thing. It freaked me the fuck out. I have no idea what the game was.

Super Mario.

Also, looking back now it's silly, but the Drybones from Super Mario Brothers 3 disturbed me greatly as a child. I didn't like the idea of the walking dead. Not one bit. :X

>>86987
In the words of M.J. Hibbet:
It made a generation
who could code
a bubble before proper consoles
who all know
that the games you get today
well, they might be very flash
but they'll never beat the thrill
of getting through Jetpack.

Trufax.

Pac Man.

First game I owned and played? Illusion of Gaia. That shit takes me back in a way that I don't think most cartoons I grew up watching ever will, sadly.

The OP's. My preschool had it.

Super Mario Bros.!

I wasn't born until '85 but this seems very very familiar. I distinctly remember floppy disk games before playing stuff on the NES at my cousin's (My family's first console was a SNES). Astro Grover creeped the shit out of me as a kid.

I'm so ooooold.

The first two video games I ever played.

I was like 2 or something and the 'big kids' let me play for about 30 seconds.

>>86985
This. I'm also horrible at it.

>>87068
What kind of fancy rich school did you go to?

>>87088
Funnily enough, it was this cheap little churchy-place. It was more of a daycare, really, but I called it preschool.

It was a good childhood.

>>87095
Sonic 2 is one of my favorite Sonic games, tied with Triple Trouble.

>>87092
That is just amazing. We weren't near anywhere that would let kids near something as expensive as an NES. Maybe a Jaguar or something, but never an NES.

My memory is not too good, but this is the earliest game that I can remember playing. First game I ever beat too.

I was talking about it with my friends a while ago and those of us who've played it can say with confidence that it is one of the the most fantastic experiences ever held in a game.

>>87022
Nah, I just remember Big Bird was there and you'd have to spell as many words as you could within the time limit. I was about 4 or 5 when we got it so I just BARELY remember it.

>>87095
Got this, a Sega Genesis, the Deluxe Megazord, and that awful TMNT NES game for my Birthday when I was six. Good times. Then my uncle took me out to get the Dragonzord at Toys R Us. To this day that's one of my favorite games ever.

myup.

I also remember being really scared of all the castle levels when I was a kid. Always had my dad, uncle, and/or sister beat those levels for me or used one of the warps to just bypass them.

>>87103
I think it was one of the caretaker's son's things, really. I sssoooorta remember him. He was a dorky dork. Like, oldschool D&D dork.

My dad taught me how to push buttons when I was almost two years old, so, Super Mario Bros. I wasn't any good at it, but I played it.

Also we had Whomp 'Em, Snake Rattle and Roll, Kirby's Dreamland, and Final Fantasy. I learned to read primarily by playing Final Fantasy. Again, I wasn't any good and I only have vague memories of the original battle screen, and I'm pretty sure I might've made it at most as far as Bikke, but I still played it, dammit.

I think I was 3 or 4 when I first played this, my second game was Street Fighter.

At the Pizza Hut in near Boulder, Co. Soooooo long ago

Some Barbie point'n'click adventure thing on my mom's old laptop. Yeah, I know.

First REAL video game? Either Starcraft, Ocarina of Time, or FFVII... The memories are sort of hazy.

And yeah, I got a late start. I was 10ish when I started playing games, which is a little later than most folks here, I think, but I also only started playing games because my BROTHER started playing them and he was 7 at the time, which seems to be the more common age-of-play.

>>87163
When I started, I was two. Hell, anyone born just two years before NES was a gamer from day one.
Ask anyone born in the nineties with a big family.

>>87204
See, I wish I had the benefit of an early start. I get a whole lot of "you haven't played _____! Why!?" and all I can think to say is "D: I wasn't playing games then and now I don't have the time to get caught up!"

And then I feel inadequate :<

>>87206
Don't sweat it Nurse. There's always someone who has been doing it for longer. See >>86990, >>87129.
Gaming has been a tremendously different experience for each generation of gamers, each with it's own highs and lows. Don't let old farts talk you into believing that our cultural touchstones are somehow 'better' or 'more pure' than yours. That's a huge wank.

>>87206

Consider that because of my upbringing, I've never played a single non-Nintendo-console game until I was 16. And none of them, aside from Metroid Prime, were rated above E. One can certainly argue I started late as a gamer despite having owned a console since I was two.

Everyone's experience with vidya is just like their experience with movies: you'll acquire certain tastes that are all your own, and while you'll gladly accept recommendations of good games if you have the time, you'll always have a certain area that you'll fit very comfortably in.

>>87207
I'm not a fart.
I'm a thirteen.
Why would you say that, man?

>>87206
The only games I ever pull the "YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED" on are Mario and Donkey Kong Country. Zelda with some people, but I don't expect everyone to have played it the same way that I would the Mario games.

Super Mario Bros.
Maybe Tetris, it was one of the two.
Or maye it was Contra, I never could get past that first level.... you know what, fuck that, I'm going to go dig that shit up. MY HONOR MUST BE AVENGED!

>>87213
I actually had myself in mind, Thirteen.
But you can be a fart if you want to.
Even if you're a Thirteen.

>>87204
I think I was 3 or 4 when I started...leaning towards 4 though.

Seems like Mario is the winrar.

Jumpman Junior.
Commodore 64.
Fun times were had.

I'm pretty sure it was CAPTAIN MOTHERFUCKING SKYHAWK.

>>87207
>>87209
These two posts prove that /cog/ is superior to /v/ in every way. Well said, gentlemen.

>>87322
BROFIST.

>>87326
DOUBLE BROFIST.

Personally I had no consoles until the 6th gen. Not one. I played a bit with my friend's stuff, but mostly I just had a few PC games and that was it. First consoles I owned were a GBA and Gamecube.

  My first sega game.

>>87419
And my first Nintendo game.

Given that, it was really no wonder I ended up being a sega fanboy.