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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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[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I think Pong, but I can't remember if I played it before getting the Atari XT. The first game I played on that was Galaxian.

[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Oregon Trail on Apple IIGS.
We also had Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, but I wasn't as interested in that as much.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

For me it must’ve been either one of the Commander Keen games or the original Prince of Persia back in the early 90s. Still damn good games.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oldest game I remember playing (when it was new) was Lemmings on the Macintosh. Early 1990s. I can still hear the tunes.

[–] Evrala@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Pole position on the commodore 64.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The original Prince of Persia, in DOS.

Played the shit out of that game. I could probably draw maps of every level from memory.

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[–] chloyster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

Pajama Sam: There's no need to hide when it's dark outside

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum.

It was shit. And I don't have to tell you why. Just look it up, sound on, that bit is mandatory.

My first ever gamer was a disappointment lmao. I did get super into the Megadrive and everything was fixed. But man.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[–] AlgonquinHawk@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure it was either Excite Bike or Contra on NES at my neighbours house. Also had Radio Shack pong.

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't know the name. In the afternoons in the early nineties after school I was at a neighbor's house. Her husband had a PC and a joystick connected to it sparked my interest. He showed me a flight game. I don't remember much detail, but it was a vector based game with fast action based flying and you had to bombard or shoot enemy bases. The next thing I remember is my mother calling our neighbor when I planned to come home because it was already getting late and I had never stayed that long before.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It was a racing game I can't remember the name of on our first computer, a TI-99.

[–] Vedlt@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Combat on the Atari 2600. There are games I remember better, but I do know that was my favorite... just no one would play it with me.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Probably Duke Nukem 3D, introduced by way of my uncle’s at the time high end computer.

I’d seen arcade games and things, but an actual interactive 3D world I could walk around in was wild. It was also a much bloodier and more “adult” game than anything I’d seen before.

Later that year, 1997, I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas along with Goldeneye and StarFox64. Those two games became mainstays for me at home.

[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and I played a couple levels as recently as a few weeks ago.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Wizard of Wor on C=64

we had quite a few carts so it might not have been first but it certainly was the most played

Various demos on PS1 demo discs

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Sonic 1 on my newly acquired Mega Drive at Christmas when I was 5. Died to that first ladybug repeatedly for months on end but never gave up!

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Duck hunt with the gun. That shit ass dog. Oh wait no....

There was a typing game with a frog that ate letters?

Not fun.

But that is the first game I remember. In school.

[–] capt_kafei@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

My first game was Yoshi's Island for the Game Boy Advance! I still go back and play it every few years, I love that game.

[–] slinkie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Jumping Flash (ps1) was my first ever game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Flash!

It was pretty hard as a 5 year old.

[–] Boldizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

First game I remember playing is a DOS game called Snipes. It was at my stepdads work and I remember getting smoked by his workmate as we were playing it LAN and I remember crying haha.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Earliest memory is c64 gridder

[–] DesolateMood@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

New Super Mario Bros on my sick red Mario DS. Although Pokémon would come shortly after which I remember much more fondly.

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let me take a personal spin on that question.

This wasn’t the first game that I played but it was the first game that I PLAYED. It really got me, made me draw stuff from the game, scratch my head and glued me to the screen.

My little brain melted from not understanding. The bitterness of every mistake and death was sprinkled by some mysterious force with the most magical feeling of solving the next level. This game explained by the example how games can be and are amazing. Before it, I just enjoyed the fun aspects of playing but here I was gaming and every level felt like a real achievement.

Now, when I think about it, this game made me skip building with LEGO for some time.

Oh, the title? Gobliiins.

First, first? Some bootleg version of Tetris.

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Gobliiins! I loved that game. I did buy it off gog to play again because it had been many years.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago

Roadrash and prince of Persia

[–] Renevar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights on the ps2, other than that maybe Freddie Fish or one of the other humongous games on mac

[–] xebix@lemmy.srv0.lol 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t remember exactly, but it would have been on the Atari 2600. Probably Pac-Man or Q-Bert.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

Adventure for me, but we had Atari 2600 Pac-Man too. And Combat, Space Invaders and a few others.

[–] halfwaythere@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It was an Apple ii I think and Star Trek of some sort. ASCII based graphics and words. Idk I was 6. Didn't have a clue what I was doing. It was on my bio father's computer. He used it as a way to distract me while Mom and him argued over child support. Last time I saw him thankfully. But at least I have that memory of trying to catch a "k"

Fuck I'm getting old.

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We didn’t have much money when we were kids, so when I cousin brought over his SNES with LttP, my mind was totally blown.

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Going to my step dads house when my mom first started dating him and playing Pitfall on his Colecovision in the late 80's. I was 3.

[–] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago
[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

While I had probably already played a couple of counterfeit NES games at a friend's house before that, the first 2 games I clearly remember playing on PC were Tux Racer (on my dad's Linux setup) and Warcraft 2.

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

King's Quest 6, on my dad's old Compaq Presario Windows 98 laptop

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

x-wing vs tie fighter.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

The cart said Final Fantasy 2. We now know it as Final Fantasy 4.

My father had my playing it and reading all the text out loud. I played that game over and over and over. I have all the hidden paths and treasures memorized.

The opening scrawl ended in something about Cecil and Kain vanishing "into a deep fog." For years and years I thought it said they vanished "into a deep frog." Let me tell you... the hours I spent lying awake at night wondering what that meant...

And of course my Dad didn't correct me.

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