The first game you ever played? On What System? How Old Were You?

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Thread 'The first game you ever played? On What System? How Old Were You?'

Thread title is pretty well self-explanatory. The first game I played was Sonic The Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis. I was 3 when I played it. Meaning I first played videogames in 1998. I wasn't good at them until I was 7 though :lol:.
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The first game I ever played was some Pong clone on the Spectrum 48k (ZX+) in the mid Eighties, I think what the first system you dropped your own coin on is a different question. That said there probably isn't as much of a difference these days with consoles being more prolific, but for kids growing up in the Eighties, you probably knew someone with a system long before you got one of your own, which was probably not one you bought yourself.
 
Oops, well...great consoles guys. I'll take a look at that thread you posted.

@Sprite Wow that thread is 14 years old. I didn't even see it.
 
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Indeed, I recall a couple of games I had to do that with. One was a game you were flying a fighter jet on the CPC 464, can't recall the name of that game though. It wasn't Afterburner.
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Could be one of many. ATF maybe? https://www.mobygames.com/game/53276/atf-advanced-tactical-fighter/

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My first game is unknown, but probably Space Invaders in an arcade somewhere.
 
It was the original Pong shortly after it came out. I pestered my dad to go to Kmart, across the river on a rainy Sunday as they were the only store open on Sunday due to those archaic Blue Laws we used to have. We got it back home and he might have played twice with me and never played again.

My first system with multiple games was Intellivision. I bought it from one of our employees.

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The first game I actually remember playing was the Genesis port of Bart vs the Space Mutants, because my mom bought a Game Genie just to cheese through it after she broke a controller playing it the week prior. I was probably about... 4? I had never actually beaten it until I did a playthrough for a forum videogame event last year, which is when I also learned that they rushed the game so much that they rereleased it a few months later to make it more Simpsons-like in art design.
 
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Pong on a domestic-made console called "Nesa Pong": Just a little black box with two paddle-type controllers embedded. It also had soccer and hockey games, just variants of Pong, really. I may have been 7 years old. Some years later we got the Atari 2600 and Enduro was probably my favorite game.
 
I think for me it was Spyro the Dragon which I played on a friend's PlayStation since I didn't own a console yet at the time. Considering the game was released in 1998 I was seven years old. I remember really liking the colorful levels and visual effects as a kid back then.
 
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The first game/title was a pong type of game. I played it over a friends house.

It also had a motorbike game which involved jumping buses.

The controllers just had a dial to turn for throttle. Or left for up, right for down (Pong).

Can't for the life of me remember the name of it.
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This to was my first game experience, but we had several different controllers for it. The bike game i played had handle bars just like a motor bike had with a twist grip on the right, the left one did nothing.
The fun bit of the game was when you had to jump busses that after about four lines were off the screen and you could not see the last bus , but the game still added busses after each successful jump.

My first pc game was on a ZX 81 and was 3D monster maze, which involved navigating a maze and avoiding a t-rex all in black and white.
 
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I think for me it was Spyro the Dragon which I played on a friend's PlayStation since I didn't own a console yet at the time. Considering the game was released in 1998 I was seven years old. I remember really liking the colorful levels and visual effects as a kid back then.
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OMG, I remember Spyro from the old ps1 back from 1997-2003. My stepdad had a ps1 that be bought in 1996 that he let me use for any games that I purchased. I miss the memories and action packed games with that dragon, sparx, Bianca, Hunter and his other dragon pals.
 
The first console I ever "bought" for myself was a PS3, which came out the year I left home to go to university. I say I "bought" it because I traded in three Sainsburys bags for life full of DVDs at CEX and walked out with a hardly used PS3 complete with £425 price tag on the box, two controllers, Rainbow Six Vegas and Resistance: Fall of Man at a cost of £15 (and all my DVDs).

Funny thing is I bought it specifically for the much rumoured/delayed/anticipated GT5 and when it finally came out years later I pre-ordered it, left the console installing the game the day it arrived to go and eat dinner, came back and it had died! Yellow light of death style. Managed to get the disc out and went out to buy a brand new PS3 Slim the next morning, which I still have because it has every Metal Gear game that Hideo Kojima directed on it.

Prior to that I'd had a Mega Drive II (if you can't pronounce "aluminium" you know it as a Genesis), both of the pre-weight loss PlayStations, a Dreamcast, a ton of Macs that I gamed on, a Game Gear, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance and I inherited my younger brother's Xbox 360 and Vita when he got bored of them. Since the PS3 I've had a PS4 Pro, three PCs and since early 2022 I've gamed exclusively on a Steam Deck. I think that's it.

Wait, no, I had an Ouya as well.
 
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The first console I ever "bought" for myself was a PS3, which came out the year I left home to go to university. I say I "bought" it because I traded in three Sainsburys bags for life full of DVDs at CEX and walked out with a hardly used PS3 complete with £425 price tag on the box, two controllers, Rainbow Six Vegas and Resistance: Fall of Man at a cost of £15 (and all my DVDs).

Funny thing is I bought it specifically for the much rumoured/delayed/anticipated GT5 and when it finally came out years later I pre-ordered it, left the console installing the game the day it arrived to go and eat dinner, came back and it had died! Yellow light of death style. Managed to get the disc out and went out to buy a brand new PS3 Slim the next morning, which I still have because it has every Metal Gear game that Hideo Kojima directed on it.

Prior to that I'd had a Mega Drive II (if you can't pronounce "aluminium" you know it as a Genesis), both of the pre-weight loss PlayStations, a Dreamcast, a ton of Macs that I gamed on, a Game Gear, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance and I inherited my younger brother's Xbox 360 and Vita when he got bored of them. Since the PS3 I've had a PS4 Pro, three PCs and since early 2022 I've gamed exclusively on a Steam Deck. I think that's it.

Wait, no, I had an Ouya as well.
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Wow, interesting...that's a nice collection of gaming consoles.
 
My first console that I bought was a Playstation. I bought the 2 player edition because it came with an extra controller and a memory card. Still can’t believe the sold playstations without memory cards… I had Road Rash and Tekken 2 as games.

This was when I was 14 years old. All other consoles were bought second hand by my parents: Amiga 2600 and an Atari.

The playstation was my first console because I got tired of playing games on a second hand crappy pc. I just wanted to be able to play all the games that I bought.
 
One of my first games was Test Drive 2. Not sure if it was my very first but not far off. My first PC was an Amiga 500 and my first console was the SNES. The good old days ☺️
 
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One of my first games was Test Drive 2.
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Along with a working Playstation 2 found in my basement last week I found a box of old PC games including Test Drive 3! Somewhere in the junk is an Intellivision console and boxed games.

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Street Fighter 2 on the SNES at around age 7. Swiftly followed by the first racing game with Nigel Mansell's World Championship on the same console.
 

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