The year was 1976 America turns 200 years old, Rocky punch out the boxoffice, a penut farmer by the name Jimmy Carter elected US President and I got my very FIRST video game ever The Atari Super Pong. my mother gave it to me and my uncle hook it up on our old Black & White TV set and it was somthing that I had never seen before in my life that you can use a TV set other then just wicthing it! So here's a Atari Super Pong poster I made from photo of the unit and screenshots. What was your first video game?
Interesting story, Atari. Always nice to hear how others were introduced into video gaming. My first video game was Super Mario Brothers. I remember my mother coming home with a television she bought specifically for playing this grey video game system, the Nintendo. She bought everything from a pawn shop for a pre-Christmas gift. Ever since then, gaming has been my thing. I do remember, our second game was Contra. Whenever the Nintendo messed up like they all do, we ended up throwing it away, as well as the games because we didn't think it was going to work again.
My first video game system was some kind of Atari. I'm unaware what kind though. I think it was 5200. I did play it some I suppose, but I really got into video games when we got a NES for christmas. Ever since then I've been glued to video games. I don't know what year it was that we got our NES though. Obviously it was an age where you don't remember much. I remember one of those family videos for one of my sister's birthdays and hearing and briefly seeing myself playing Mega Man 3. Good times.
I remember my first video game system. I was the first generation Odyssey system. My dad was a CSAA rep and won it for most sales. I remember having to tape the screens to the TV in order to play the games.
oooo memories well first memory of playing a video game was on an phillips cosnole, Maganavox/Philips Videopac G7000 think it was the bowling game or mabye the castle smashing game still have it but colour dosent work so its only in B & W but after that first real memory is off alex the kid and pyscho fox on the master system they were and are great
When I was like 3, and my brother was like 14, he was an Atari fan. He had a lot of Atari stuff (that sadly, was stolen in Christmas of 1986). He went and bought the "kids controller" and the Sesame Street series of games, and taught me how to play. Then he taught me how to play more advanced things. I started learning English from the manuals, too. Eventually, when I was 8 or so, my dad bought me a used Commodore 64 which was the first system of my own, but I've been playing since I was 3 - with my brother's 2600.
Radio Shack Pong, 1979-80. That was my first introduction to gaming; it was located in the bar/swank pad my grandfather has made out of his basement, where the family came to get together every year for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other occasions. I was only 2-3 years old back then (born in '77). 20-something years later, I found that exact same Radio Shack Pong variant on eBay for $5. I bought it and keep it as one of the best memories of my life. I'll have to hook it up one of these days and give it a whirl.
some Atari, too young to recall which one. Up and running on an NES by 1988, when I was 3. Duck hunt and Super Mario Bros. combo was one of my favourites back at the time.
I got my nintendo in 1987 i think, i was 10. I had a 2600 before that but the nes got me hooked. My dad messed with me on christmas and wrapped my nes up inside a box with layers and layers of shipping tape...it took me forever to get the dam thing open!! LOL
Mine was this: My parents took me into their room one day (would have been 1984 I believe) to show me their new purchase - a ZX Spectrum +. I didn't know much about computers, being only 5 at the time, but they had this game all loaded ready to go, and I loved it! And yes, I still have it!
The first time i played a video game was when my father bought me an NES along with SMB3 a few weeks after the game came out. I should still have it in my basement somewhere, but i've never been able to find it. I had a flood last year, so i'm sure it doesn't work anymore anyway.
Well, I believe it was in '91 my brothers received their very own SNES, and I was only two years old at the time.. I don't even remember this date, but only from a picture of them unwrapping the awesome box on Christmas Eve. Anyhow, I believe two years later on Christmas '93, I was at the celebration at Grandma's house. There, my uncle and two barely teenaged brothers, a smattering of cousins, and I sat. My uncle, barely an adult, but a cool guy, buys and plays videogames. So, at four years of age, I get the smart idea to cry like a bitch to play Super Mario World, because.. c'mon, they aint gonna let you any other way! Well, I've learned from that. SMW was my first (and top) game choice a while. I started playing a lot during Kindergarten, and even remember when my brothers beat K. Rool in Donkey Kong Country (November/December '94). So I started playing that, and this and that... Loved the SNES to pieces. It's amazing, I was always ahead of the other kids at school when it game to video games. Not specifically in availability, but thanks to the EGM and Game Pro magazines my uncle and brothers supplied, I knew "all". I'm the first to see early ('94) PS1 demo screens, the first to read about Nintendo's Dolphin (Aug. or Sept. 1999 EGM), the first to know about the GBA SP (January 3 or 4, 2003 announcement on PlanetGamecube.com). I never paraded myself as some "superior being" because of all the scoops I knew, but I was content with exclusivity. Heck, I was first on the block to know about the Revolution last May (and printed pics), it's controller in September (pics, too), and it's download service. You gotta take news to school to talk about -- I sure don't know a thing about sports/entertainment as I don't care or watch them. I suppose only a handful of people at school know what a PC Engine is. Do they also know that Nintendo kinda sorta created it's pwn arch rival? Who remembers the Neo Geo Pocket? Anybody? I have an idea for a site in mind.. To inform those who don't know these things. I'm leaving the description vague right now, but I expect to fully open up with reviews (much old, some new), editorials, history, video reviews. And you all may know much of the info I'll be putting up, but people I know would like to see what I can put up. Gotta make this work.. after May.
Ahh Hungry Horace. Probably my first computer game, though I dont remember it really - my uncle had a spectrum and I remember that was always what was played. Horace goes skiing was also pretty damn good First memory was probably either a game called ninja rabbits on the PC: That was followed by good old super mario bros/duck hunt. I don't think we need an image for that one :lol:
Chuckie Egg was my first serious videogame experience, I was quite addicted at 6 or so. I also remember, when I was very young, one of my primary school teachers sitting the entire class down around one BBC to play through Grannie's Garden, which is pretty amazing when you think of it - when was the last time you heard of a teacher sitting down a class to spend the afternoon playing through a videogame? That face meant Game Over, and it's still burned into my brain. In it's own way Granny's Garden was a survival horror, because at any moment you were waiting for that damn witch to jump out at you and send you back to the start. Afterwards at about 8 or so I got this: my first serious game system, and a game that I love to this day.
Ok here goes for I don´t know how many a times, the first time I ever touched a computer, it was a Lambda (a ZX81 clone), and then when I was 6 I tried a drawing program on a 286 , and then next time I played on something it was a NES, but I got an SMS. And also in school I used some shitty 386 pc in about 3. grade (I am by the way born in 1982). And then I got an Amiga 2000 with HD later on (I threw it out in a dumpster later on , yeah I know silly me). And with my SMS I think I gave it away with all my games, or something like that. But also I got a SNES, and that one I still have . And nowadays I have a PSX, and two famiclones, and a GBA SP , plus a GB colour, and an old GB too. and a C64. So it must have been the Lambda computer that made me become inspired in consoles
I remember vaguely playing my 1st NES as a child. I have never beat SMB1 (don't kill me). I do however remember my mother buying me the new top loading NES. I also had the power pad, and god awful power glove. I thought it never worked right because my TV was small and it had rounded edges. The damn receiver never could stay on straight, or on for that matter. I had a crapload of games, but my older bro sold most of them to get money (pretty shi**y right?) I used to get so angry not being able to beat Castle Vania III I think (the one where you can play as alucard). I went through about 3 controllers. My dad then bought me a super NES (ha when Ps1 had already come out so it was cheaper). I never owned too many games. I rented often. Chrono trigger and breath of fire were my most memorable games. My TV was old and b & w. I had to put the dial between 2 and 3 to get the right channel. Paper clips worked their magic, haha. I used to go to my cousin's house JUST to play their amazing PS1. We'd have marathons of tekken and twisted metal. It’s not until I got older (20s) that I was able to buy the next gen system (xbox) and buy a crapload of games. This was when I was still living at home. Now I’m living on my own and treat myself to 1-3 used games a month. If the price is right heh. I only own a game cube. I can’t afford to keep up with more than one console, haha.
