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

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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.
 

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