Your first time

[Rummy]

So I was thinking about Yamauchi passing away this week and his influence on both Nintendo and on me and I started to think - when? When did it all begin? When did I become a gamer? It's literally been so present all of my life that I kinda hadn't realised, I didn't know anything else. It started somewhere.

 

Then I remembered, I used to remember it much more but forgot. I'll tell it later(because it's fairly unremarkable), but really I just wanted to know(tl;dr);

 

 

 

When? When did you become a gamer? What was your first, if you can still remember it? Where was the point that you started, and never ever stopped?

Edited September 22, 2013 by Rummy

[Dcubed]

 

4 years old. Never stopped playing since

[Happenstance]

I honestly cant remember which I played first, my NES or my Dad's Atari 2600 that was in the house so it would either be Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt or probably Asteroids.

[M_rock]

Hehe my first game was kirby's dream land for the gameboy. My parents wouldn't get me any other games unless I finished that one first. So I practiced alot, was finally able to clear it after two years, and finally got pokemon blue too. Around 15 years have passed since then, and I still enjoy playing kirby and pokemon

[Blade]

My dad had a NES which was stuck in the loft. It was about 1994 and he let me play it. First game I ever played on was Super Mario Bros 3.

 

I then got a Megadrive and been a gamer ever since.

[yesteryeargames]

First game i ever played i think was horris or fantasy world dizzy for the zx,

 

mario and duck hunt on the nes was the game that hooked me but they were my brothers ,

 

first console i owned was the original gameboy thats what started my crazy collection and i have never looked back.

 

I also loved the game and watches before i got into proper games.

[Serebii]

I was two or three, and it was 1989...can't remember if it was early or late. My parents, who claim they knew computing was the way forward, decided to get a NES for me, my brother and my sister.

 

One of my earliest memories was playing Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros.

 

I then got a GameBoy with Super Mario Land, Tetris and Yoshi (US import funnily enough) for my fifth birthday.

 

Now, here I am, owner of one of the most popular site for one of the most popular gaming franchises ever to exist.

[Cube]

 

I got the Mega Drive with Sonic the Hedgehog bundled in. I was around three at the time.

 

My second console was the Master System 2, which was at my Dad's house.

[drahkon]

 

4 years old. Never stopped playing since

 

Same here, I was 4 or 5 years old, can't really remember how old I was, but I remember playing the game with my dad

 

The following years I have exclusively played Game Boy until one day...Having saved enough money I bought these two gems:

 

 

And that was the day I really got into gaming!

[Agent Gibbs]

Hmm lets see, i think the first time was Duck Hunt/Mario on the NES at a friends who lived across the streets's house, at the time i didn't have my own games console, i think it must have been 88/89? as my sister was a baby.

I played Mario, Zelda and Ducktales at his house and loved it!

I bugged my parents for a NES and never got one, i had an atari but i remember very little from that at all, but when the Gameboy was released i got that for Christmas, then my real "awakening" to computer games started when i got a SNES for Christmas with Super Mario World and Super Mario AllStars

 

from there i bought a second hand NES a Master System, Mega Drive 2 and kept going and going

[S.C.G]

Burnin' Rubber

 

 

It was the first game I really remember playing and getting properly into when we got our Amstrad 6128+ comouter back in the day although the unit itself could load from floppy disks it also had a cartridge slot on the side of the keyboard where the cartridge for this and the basic program went.

 

Recently I discovered that you could buy an Amstrad console that plays just the cartridges - of which they made less than 30 games - so I bought one and relived a part of my childhood.

 

 

Dat theme tune! :awesome:

[Londragon]

I was a casual gamer from the Atari 2600. My first game ever being Pong played on the rotating handles, not the joysticks. That piece of kit was purchased by my high-tech Grandad. So, I didn't play that much.

 

 

My first computer was the Commodore 64. Games like Rambo, Transformers, Power Drift, Creatures, Daley Thomson's Decathlon, were staple for me and my 2 younger brothers.

 

Ahh, that tape deck player. Many curses were said at it's inadequacies of loading.

 

Then came the NES with games like Duck Hunt, Bayou Billy, Mario Bros., Gremlins 2.

 

Now at this point I was still a casual gamer, it wasn't until the SNES that I was made into the future gamer I have become. Games like Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, Star Fox, and my all time life changing game on that system A Link To The Past, which made me realise the games were more than filling an hour of boredom, they transported me to another world, and I've never come back to reality.

[D_prOdigy]

I was nervous and it was a bit awkward and I didn't last very long. I think most people aren't really proud of their first time.

 

It was Tetris.

[Josh64]

I dabbled in some of my brothers games for quite a while, like Super Mario and Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat (it was the SNES version, don't worry :P).

 

But then the one day he bought this 'monkey game' that he wasn't too into. I tried it and man... it changed my life forever.

 

[Dog-amoto]

Probably 1983. I was five. We had a "TV video game machine" which had Pong, and derivative versions of. Later we got an Atari 2600 with Space Invaders and PacMan. Wasn't till 1985 or so when we got a ZX Spectrum 48k with rubber keys. I remember my dad buying a Commodore 16 which was faulty. So he took it back for the good ol' Speccy. First game I played on it was Manic Miner. At first I thought I was the enemy character (yellow robot walking on the conveyor belt) until I sussed it out.

 

I would say that the Spectrum turned me into a proper gamer. Though I lost interest in games in the mid nineties but got back into them again with the N64 and OOT, Goldeneye and Mario 64 which I bought in 1999.

[MoogleViper]

Three years old. Playing games like Sonic, California Games, Krusty's Fun House etc. on my brothers Master System. It would have been a Mega Drive, but just as my brother saved up enough money to buy one, he smashed the neighbour's headlight playing football, so could only afford a Master System.

[Fierce_LiNk]

We had a SpectrumZX, A Commodore64 and probably a few other things, but the first thing that I can consciously remember was playing Super Mario All Stars for the very first time. Loading it up, dat music, dat run and jump mechanic, dat dying music, dat victory music.

 

That's the first thing I can remember. I might have played something else before that, but this is the one that I'm counting. Starwing was shortly after this, with me not having a clue what the fudge I was doing at first and then getting the hang of it.

 

That had me hooked. After that, I received a Master System and then eventually got a MegaDriveII. Streets of Rage.

[Oxigen_Waste]

 

The game that changed the way I thought about games. I had been gaming ever since I was a young kid, but it was always casually... this is the game that changed that. I was 14.

[ReZourceman]

Ghostbusters on Commadore 64 was the first one I actually remember. I loved that machine, we had some cracking times on it. I don't understand how a game is played from a casette.

 

But the game that really made me fall in love with games was....

 

I dabbled in some of my brothers games for quite a while, like Super Mario and Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat (it was the SNES version, don't worry :P).

 

But then the one day he bought this 'monkey game' that he wasn't too into. I tried it and man... it changed my life forever.

 

 

YES.

 

Beautiful. The cover. Game. Music. Everything. Amazing. 10/110111101111001./101.1301011.1.afjiajfdiajfijaifj

[Jimbob]

If we are going into first time for gaming, then this bad boy was my first experience of gaming.

 

 

First Nintendo game, well it was this.

 

 

And i was hooked on gaming ever since, i blame the parents. Who in turn blame me, it's a never ending circle.

[Esequiel]

Alex the Kidd on the master system built in. Was about 5? Then had a NES, SNES, PS1, Saturn, N64 and so on and so on lol

[Guy]

Probably Super Mario Bros./Rescue Rangers/Duck Tales on the NES. I remember getting a brand new copy of Chip 'n Dale the same Christmas I got my NES actually. I bet it cost my parents a fortune.

 

My dad had an ancient Pong system, but it never got used much.

Edited September 24, 2013 by Guy

[MoogleViper]

 

The game that changed the way I thought about games. I had been gaming ever since I was a young kid, but it was always casually... this is the game that changed that. I was 14.

 

I genuinely think that Shenmue ruined gaming for me.

[Esequiel]

I genuinely think that Shenmue ruined gaming for me.

 

Because no game has ever reached the lofty standards set here? Amirite?

[bob]

I think the first game I remember playing was on the PC actually.

 

God knows where it came from (this was when I was around 6, living in the Caribbean) but I remember playing TQ (which stood for Think Quick) on the new family pc. You were a knight going round a castle running away from worms and trying to find keys...