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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

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 I was in elementary school, and those particular Apple computers were already outdated by the time we got a hold of them, but we were from a poor county, and by god it was some great fun.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.

Super Mario World 3 for the NES.

Donkey Kong Country on SNES! Still love it.

A rudimentary analog type of Pong, assembled from a PCB that came with an electronics magazine and parts from the local equivalent of RadioShack. The controllers were potentiometers mounted on plastic salt shakers, the display was a crt b&w tv.

I was 11, it was my first contact with electronics, coached by one of my mother's former student who was visiting - he was from Japan, my mother was a highschool teacher and taught him Portuguese (I'm Brazilian) after classes, for which he was grateful.

That kickstarted my interest in electronics and tech, which defined my whole career. Thanks Kenji, wherever you are!

I vaguely remember playing Aladdin on the N64 and a ton of Super Mario 64, that game was oddly ominous in my memories

Super Mario World on the SNES.

First video game I remember playing? Short Order on NES (with the pad.) That was followed shortly by monopoly- also NES.

First game I beat? was dad's copy of Zelda (NES,) Which... I wasn't supposed to be playing. I got caught when I saw my dad was struggling with the water temple.
"Dad...dad DAD. you go here. get that. Do this. And then do this that and this."
"Oh. Cool. wait. how do you know this?"
"Oh i beat it last week."
<awkward pause>
"you better pay attention. that's the boss."
"We're not telling mom about this."

Nintendo Game & Watch. (ca. 1981)

I guess that counts?

I used to play this RTS called Dune 2000 i think. It was my first ever RTS and it was mindblowing.

I think the first my sister and I played was A Link to the Past. We didn't know what we were doing, and we didn't know why the princess and the green guy had the same name... We really got into the series when we watched our dad play Ocarina of Time. Detailed graphics, 3D, a day-night cycle, horse back riding... That game had it ALL.

TurboGraphx-16. Keith courage. I mostly remember arguing with my brother about whose turn it is lol One controller. How did we ever survive?!

Dynablaster aka bomberman Wolf3d on win 3.11

The first game I played was Space Invaders in my dad's local pub, he took me specifically to see and experience it.

The first to play at home was a variant of the grandstand 5000.

Then I played an atari 2600 at a cousin's house, and I fell in love with centipede.

Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Blue. I may have played Space Cadet on a PC before I got my Gameboy, not sure.

Some Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn game on the Apple 2e.

The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.

The oldest system I played on was an Atari.

The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.

Not sure which game was first, but I have early memories of Tomb Raider, COD2 and Larry on a Win95 PC. My first used console was an PS2 while the first I owned was an original Xbox. My first used handheld an original GameBoy, with the Advance SP being the first I owned myself.

The oldest ones I used are different tho. I'm not that old but I went back to try a few older devices over the years.

Captain Comic. I've hated birds ever since.

N64

Ti-99. I'm old, but I can still Hunt the Wumpus.

NES, with just a handful of games at the start. Neighbor kids started passing around those knock-off cartridges containing a few games (usually titled 100-in-1 or 1000-in-1), as well as other games ("Super Mario 4", for example, which I found out decades later as just a ROM hack of a relatively unknown nintentdo game).

Before I started school my mother sometimes would have to bring me in to work with her when she couldn't find a baby sitter. She worked in a restaurant in a bowling alley, during the day it wasn't very busy so she would be running the place on her own. There were a few regulars who would give me quarters to play the Galaga machine, and sometimes they'd give me a couple bucks and I'd go across the building to the arcade for some Spy Hunter and Donkey Kong.

The first computer game I played was Scarab of Ra on a macintosh 512k. The first console game I played was Super Mario Bros 3 on NES.

I don't know the game, but definitely an Atari.

My earliest memory is playing either Chase HQ or Kinnikuman Muscle Tag on the Famicom.

Unsure, and depends on what counts as "playing". My brother got an old computer for cheap a long time ago. There was a floppy disc with a game on it. I don’t have more impressions of it than walking around in some weird geometry on the black-and-white monitor. Some sort of chess-board floor I think.

Truly gaming would probably be one of those small Tetris handhelds. I still have mine. Used to play for hours on car rides. Either that or Game Boy Pocket.

Atari

I'm not sure its the first, but one of my earliest memories is of Alladin on the SNES

Karateka on Apple IIe

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on the NES. I was much better at Duck Hunt than SMB as a kid.

Sim Farm on MS-DOS. I'm pretty sure it came on a 5 1/4 floppy disk.

I vaguely remember an Atari and Pong, but that's so hazy that I can't be too sure.

Toy Story The game on sega mega drive. My parents bought me a mega drive for my birthday, it was such an experience for me.

Atari and Pac Man

Mmmh, not sure. Problably Outlaw.

I remember it was duck hunt or an snes game of Popeye which is based on the original Donkey Kong iirc.

Can't quite remember if it was Donkey Kong Country on SNES or Pokémon Blue on Game Boy Pocket, but one of those.

First I can recall was definitely either Yoshi's Story on n64 or some pirate themed edutainment game on PC. Those two are most definitely the furthest back I can actually recall with certainty, even if I cannot remember the pirate game.

Though there also was some Egypt themed Tetris like matching game we had on the ps1 that could also have been the first. It's all kinda blurry since this was before I was even in kindergarten, so I could very well be misremembering some things or not remembering another game that came before all of those.

C=64

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