What was the first video game you had?

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I had amazing luck with my first video games (I'm going to cheat and say my first overall and my first non-handheld game).

For Christmas in 1998 (I was eight years old), I got a Game Boy Pocket and two games. One was a Star Wars game (I played it first because who doesn't love Star Wars?). It sucked. So I put it down and started to play my second game: Pokémon Blue. I loved it instantly. Even today (obvious to anyone who has looked in this forum) I love Pokémon.

My first non-Game Boy game came on Christmas in 2002. I got a Playstation 2 (and there was much rejoicing) and two games. One was a Men in Black game (I don't even remember what its name was; I think it was Alien Escape? If that's it, never ever waste your time on that game). It was awful. So again, I played my second one: Ratchet & Clank. Again, I absolutely loved it. I didn't even have a memory card, so the first day all I did was play the first five levels over and over and over again.

What were everyone's first games, and did you like them as much as I did mine?

Mine was the first Kirby game on the NES

Super Mario Bros. for the NES. Such fond memories.

My first system was a spectrum but I don't remember the actual first game I had

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You started off with a BMX bike, with a truly terrible sound effect (ee-oh! ee-oh! ee-oh! ee-oh!) before progressing to the motorbike, at which point you inevitably crashed into a line of cars and were sent right BACK TO BMX. Repeat ad tedium.

Funny that the blurring caused by it being mpeg-ified (or whatever compression youtube videos use) makes it look like it has more colours and more rounded edges than it ever did.

Heh. Got DF open alongside Chrome, and I can imagine my younger self looking at me now. "How many million colours? And you're talking to people on the other side of the world? ...and you're still playing a game that uses text for graphics?"

My first console was a Sega and my first game was Sonic the Hedgehog.

The great Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt.

Kirby's Dream Land 2 for the Gameboy.

My first game ever was The Little Mermaid for Sega Genesis.

I don't know *exactly* what my first video game was. My mother had gotten a hold of a secondhand Atari 2600 back when I was four years old (1984, so during the Video Game Crash era), and it had already come with a bunch of games. I do remember among those were Pac-Man and ET (as well as non-crap games Pitfall, Mario Bros., and Donkey Kong). I don't think I need to comment about ET. I enjoyed Pac-Man back then, despite its suckage (I don't know how I dealt with all the flashing, though... when I tried playing it when I was 19, I had to turn it off after a few minutes because it was making me sick).

I do remember my first games for most other systems I owned, though:

NES (1988): Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
Game Boy (1991): Tetris, Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, and Dr. Mario
Genesis (1992): Sonic the Hedgehog
SNES (1994): Super Mario World and Super Mario All-Stars
Playstation (1995): 3D Lemmings, ESPN X-Games, and Ridge Racer
GBA (2001): Super Mario Advance
GameCube (2001): Super Monkey Ball and Luigi's Mansion
Xbox360 (2009): Dragon Age: Origins
PSP (Not yet - but getting one soon): Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (yep, I got the game before I got the system - what can I say, Lunar is one of my special interests )

The first console I could call my own was a Sega Game Gear which was given to me for my 11th Birthday back in August 1992. The two games that came with it were Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Monaco Grand Prix. I still love them to this very day.

My family also had a few consoles while I was growing up. We had a Commodore VIC-20 which packed up when I was eight, an Atari 2600 and a Sega Mega Drive. I would say Sonic the Hedgehog on the MD was the one that really opened up video games for me.

My first game was cookie monster letter crunch (1985-1987), was one of the first PC games available on the 5 1/2" floppy disk drive (yes, very much old school).

Crickey, that's going back a bit. It was probably Jet Pac on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

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The Lion King for SNES. It was insanely difficult and had no save feature, but I loved it anyway.