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Atari 2600! Dragster, Centipede and Pac Man!

Got 'em all on RetroPie these days too.

I remember intellivision. I played pit fall. God damn that makes me feel old

Still vividly remember the day I saw and plated Space Invaders (1979) for the first time. I was walking home from primary school and there was a new machine, that Was Not Pinball!, in the arcade (called pinball parlours then).

I watched for about 30 minutes while I waited my turn, played 2 games and was hooked and still am 45 years later.

It was a Sinclair ZX81, which I built from a kit with my brother. I was astonished when it actually worked.

It came with a tape which included about 6 games in BASIC - all extremely simple since they had to fit in 1k of memory, of course. I can't actually recall what they were exactly though.

Crash Bandicoot on the original PlayStation. I sucked at it then and still do lol.

My first one was NES. I was just the right age in the late 80s to be caught in all of it. Funny thing is, I don’t remember asking for it. I think my parents just got me one, but I fell in love with games from that point on.

Heck, my second system was the Genesis, and I didn’t ask, or know about it, either! One of the best memories I have of growing up.

Went to the movies with family friends. When I came back, my dad had set up the Genesis and had Altered Beast playing on the tv. Coming from only knowing the NES, my mind was blown.

Thanks for the excuse to walk down memory lane.

The earliest game I remember is Dangerous Dave that I think was on a 386.

Either that or Gorillas, a DOS game on a similar system. Still remember having to park the heads!

I remember playing Joust on the Atari 2600. We had a little black and white TV to play it on.

Atari, tanks

Atari Lynx! It was awesome, but it broke all the time.

A NES at a cabin with gems like excitebike, megaman, paper boy, rush n attack, and tetris.

Atari 2600: combat and ET

Mine was an IBM 286 system. Played Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem (1)... It was magical.

Some kind of Pong game. I was really little and it was my grandmother's, so I don't even remember what the actual unit looked like.

Then the Atari 2600 (my aunt's), then the Atari 5200 (my grandmother's - she was unstoppable at Pac-Man and could start from Cherry and work all the way up to nine keys without dying once).

Then there was the day we rented an NES. That day changed my life.

It was Super Mario Bros. Start the game. "Oh hey, the screen moves sideways! Good lord, this is a huge game." Dies a bunch. Find pipe shortcut. "Oh wow!" Finally beat level 1-1. "Yay, I beat the game! Oh wait, World 1-2? WTF?!?!?"

It's hard to explain the feeling when the most immersive game you've ever played was Pitfall.

Super Mario Bros on the NES. The second game I played was Duck Hunt.

GTA San Andreas on the PS2! (Barely remember it though because I was a smol wee little boy)

Other than that, Skyrim! This freakin game introduced me to the wonderful world of Bethesda Games! ❤️

Edit: Boy, there are many people here with decades of experience. I’m just 21, guys, don’t make me feel left out 🥲

Atari

Jumpman on the Commodore 64.

Super Mario Land on the original Gameboy.

I invested so much time in this game as a kid and when i replayed it some years ago i was shocked at how short it actually is..

Super Mario World! My grandma bought a SNES for her grand children but only has SMW and Wheel of Fortune lol

First console was an NES! First games I remember playing were Ghostbusters and the TMNT arcade game. First time I fell in love with a video game...FF7. I'm excited for Rebirth to come out some day lol

Colossal Cave on the PDP-11. Yes, I’m old.

The Commodore Amiga. But before that I remember entering into an arcade room when zi was camping with my parents. It was semidark, and there were all these machines: Dragon’s Lair, R Type, Double Dragons. Boy, I’ll never forget that.

Atari Frogger and centepide

First video game?

DOOM on my grandparents PC

It has to be ran with a smaller image to play but I loved it.

When DOOM 2 hit it was amazing

Duck Hunt FTW!

Still one of the best shooters ever

My first memory was "hey, who chewed up this Atari 2600 controller?" Before realizing it was me...guess I was just forming memories at the time.

The Atari 2600. I don't remember which games we owned, I was about 4 at the time, didn't even understand the objectives of the games. But then our parents got us the NES with the Zapper a few years later and by then I was old enough to understand how to play both Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt.

I had an off-brand pong, then got an Odyssey game console. Then got a Commodore 64 and played BC's Quest for Tires for hours.

Super Mario World 3 for the NES.

Donkey Kong Country on SNES! Still love it.

I had one of these bootleg Atari systems because we were poor and these were assembled locally.

Then I made enough money to buy a Mega Drive

Maze 3D on DOS

Oregon Trail on Apple IIGS. I was in elementary school, and those particular Apple computers were already outdated by the time we got a hold of them, but we were from a poor county, and by god it was some great fun. We would have little competitions to see who could get the furthest without having their whole party die.

My first video game system that I ever bought was a NES. I got it back in 1986 I think.

First game might be Lemmings on this huge i486 computer.

First console played was the NES. First console owned was a Game Boy.

Dynomite on Windows XP