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Earliest Gaming Memory

Jonno394

Jonno394

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This area needs more activity, so i thought i'd make a shit nostlagia thread regarding your first gaming experience or your first memory.

My first gaming memory is waking up late one night in December '91 and walking downstairs to find my mom playing on this:



Previous me and my sister had begged for the console but my mom had told us she wouldn't be able to afford it that christmas so we'd have to wait. Needless to say I was ecstatic to see her playing it, until she told me "I'm just testing it for your auntie bernie, she's left it here so that your cousins don't find it".

I went to bed sad and forgot all about it. Christmas morning comes, and after opening the usual tat of skate boards, clothes, stationary, books, toys etc, my mom walks in with a big wrapped gift for me and my two sisters. My sister thought it was a Hi-Fi so she ripped it open and there was the master system. That was a great christmas where me my mom and my sisters sat round playing Alex The Kidd, Ninja and this glorious game



I remember my mom kicking my ass at it and then proceeding to get further than me in Ninja and I think she even finished it (a feat me and my sisters could never accomplish).
 
BarnDoor

BarnDoor

Witchfinder General
Pretty sure me and my brother got a NES in 1990. Complimentary game was the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt double bill, so of course it came with the gun. Many a good time was had, but precise memories are blurred.
 
S

Sweey

*RETIRED*
This bad boy, the Atari 2600, was released in 1977 (four years before I was even born) was the oldest console I played as a child. I also played on an Atari 5200, Atari 800XL and Commodore 64 before eventually going to Atari ST in the mid-to-late 1980s and PC in around 1992.



One of the earliest games I played was Adventure:

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Ali

Ali

It is happening again
I think mine would have to be playing Sonic The Hedgehog on the GameGear. Was the first gaming device I ever owned. My Mum used to hog it all the time, playing Sonic and Columns.

My Dad did have (and probably still does have) a ZX Spectrum, but I'm fairly sure that he introduced that to me after I had been given the GameGear.
 
IronCity

IronCity

Banned
After pinball machines, The Sears Super Pong IV game. on Christmas day, someone tripped over the wire leading to the big box tv and "game over'. Took some time to get if fixed. But still worked the last time I saw it. 4 player game.

 
Jonno394

Jonno394

XLV
BarnDoor said:
Pretty sure me and my brother got a NES in 1990. Complimentary game was the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt double bill, so of course it came with the gun. Many a good time was had, but precise memories are blurred.
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I got my NES the year after the Master system, but admittedly I never got Mario/DUck hunt till much later. Dr Mario was the first game we got and we had many a heated match between mom/siblings

Sweey said:
This bad boy, the Atari 2600, was released in 1977 (four years before I was even born) was the oldest console I played as a child. I also played on an Atari 5200, Atari 800XL and Commodore 64 before eventually going to Atari ST in the mid-to-late 1980s and PC in around 1992.
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Huge picture. I remember I got one of these handed to me from my uncle in the mid 90's and had loads of games, only ones I can remember are Combat and Pitfall though.

Ali said:
I think mine would have to be playing Sonic The Hedgehog on the GameGear. Was the first gaming device I ever owned. My Mum used to hog it all the time, playing Sonic and Columns.

My Dad did have (and probably still does have) a ZX Spectrum, but I'm fairly sure that he introduced that to me after I had been given the GameGear.
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Never owned a handheld machine myself until got a GBA, always wanted a Neo Geo Pocket colour :hmm:
 
S

Sweey

*RETIRED*
Jonno394 said:
Huge picture. I remember I got one of these handed to me from my uncle in the mid 90's and had loads of games, only ones I can remember are Combat and Pitfall though.
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Combat was ace!

I've actually got most of (if not all) my Atari 2600 and 5200 games as ROMs for a 5200 emulator. I've a huge load of Atari 800XL and Atari ST ROMs too.
 
Jonno394

Jonno394

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Thats pretty cool, I should do that with my library of games for other consoles, but I'd probably hardly ever play them.

Do you actually play them often ?
 
S

Sweey

*RETIRED*
Jonno394 said:
Thats pretty cool, I should do that with my library of games for other consoles, but I'd probably hardly ever play them.

Do you actually play them often ?
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I've not played the Atari 5200 games for a few years - last time I played them was with my two sisters who had also played them when were kids. In fact, I've just found out that the ROMs for the 5200 aren't with all the other ones that are on my computer so I'm going to find the DVD I saved them all to and copy them over to the PC permanently.

I play Bounty Bob Strikes Back, Chicken, Donkey Kong, The Eidolon and a few others (all Atari 800) now and then and Atari ST games now and then as well. I probably played Elf on Atari ST as recently as two weeks ago.

I never completed Adventure on the 2600/5200 as a child so really want to do that now.
 
Bish

Bish

Registered User
Similar to Barn with Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. Playing Batman on the Atari ST might be my first game though.
 
Lörd TH

Lörd TH

Registered User
I remember going to some shop with my dad in around 1998(I think) and buying a Playstation, I swear I got it for something like £111.

 
Ali

Ali

It is happening again
I got my PS1 at Christmas 1997. I think it came with 4 or 5 games. Total Drivin' and Worms were 2 of them. Rayman was another. Can't remember the other(s).
 
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Makavelian

Makavelian

Registered User
Vague memory's playing on an Atari (not sure which one). Best memory's are from the Commodore 64.






This taught me how to play chess at a very young age. Was awesome the animation at the time, how the pieces would kill each other. Especially the rook. These are the ones I can remember the name of.
 
Dragonfly

Dragonfly

Waiting....
When I arrived in England in the Spring of 1990, I never heard of a "video game". A year later, my parents took us round to their friend's house for dinner. Their son was playing a football game on his Commodore 64. I gave it a go and loved it. It was the first time I ever played a video game. On the way back home, my brothers and I bugged our parents for a C64. We eventually got one, which came with Terminator 2. We found the game tough as hell, but my mother seemed to be a natural! I kind of gave up with T2 and used the C64 for the music software that came with it.

A year later (or less), we got an NES and that's when I started playing genuinely good games.

EDIT: I just heared about Bayern's Dante's story, where he sold his PlayStation, so he could afford to start a career in football. :crymore:
 
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