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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Gamers Zone => Topic started by: WeirdRaptor on September 24, 2007, 10:15:21 PM

Title: What was your first game?
Post by: WeirdRaptor on September 24, 2007, 10:15:21 PM
OUt of curiousity, since there seems to be a lot of fellow gamers on here, what was your very first game, or at least the first game you remember that left enough impression on you to get you into games.

Mine was the original "Super Mario Bros." for the old Nintendo console, along with "Duck Hunt" and some track running game where you ran in place on a mat to make your characte run. It was a three-in-one deal.
Title: What was your first game?
Post by: action9000 on September 24, 2007, 10:28:50 PM
Similar to yours, WR;
Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt for the NES.  It was a 2-in-1 game.
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Post by: DarkHououmon on September 24, 2007, 10:53:40 PM
Some old Atari games. I don't remember their names though.
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Post by: Manny Cav on September 24, 2007, 11:24:55 PM
The famous killer-game for the original Game Boy -- Tetris.
Title: What was your first game?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on September 25, 2007, 12:10:41 AM
Oh god, it was super mario world.  I remember because I kept crying cuz I couldn't get mario onto the yoshi :lol: It's still my favorite game :D
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Post by: Manny Cav on September 25, 2007, 12:12:04 AM
The battery on my copy of Super Mario World is no good. It can't keep a save for it's life! So, I tend to not play it.
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Post by: landbeforetimelover on September 25, 2007, 12:14:15 AM
Hehe.  I have the emulator file for it.  It's fun! :D

also, replacing the battery is extremely easy. :lol: Just take the cover off and charge it with a AA battery :rolleyes:
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Post by: Manny Cav on September 25, 2007, 12:15:13 AM
Whu? AA? Will it save and keep it, too, like new?
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Post by: landbeforetimelover on September 25, 2007, 12:17:14 AM
well, the battery is non-replacable so you have to take it out.  then you just take 2 paper clips and a AA battery and use them to charge the mini battery.  It only takes about 5 minutes.  The battery is not replaceable so you have to charge it.  I do this to all my games once every 4 years.
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Post by: Manny Cav on September 25, 2007, 12:20:39 AM
Hmm... a detailed step-by-step guide either posted here or PMed to me (to keep this on-topic) would be nice.
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Post by: Cyberlizard on September 25, 2007, 01:49:44 AM
I believe the first game I ever played if I can remember very far back was Super Mario World.  If not that then it would be Sonic the Hedgehog.
Title: What was your first game?
Post by: Malte279 on September 25, 2007, 03:25:11 AM
The first computergame I played (never had a console) was Sid Meier's Civilization.
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Post by: Keni on September 25, 2007, 09:53:03 AM
My first game? Gee, pretty much like a lot of people, Super Mario Bros. God how I played my games to death, my grandma told me I used to play 'till late at night like 3AM XD
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Post by: TheNumberOneShmuck on September 25, 2007, 11:54:00 PM
Oh, man, I can't remember. Some Atari 2600 game, can't tell which one.
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Post by: Flathead770 on September 26, 2007, 12:07:50 AM
Mine would also have to be Super Mario World. I loved that game so much. :DD
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Post by: WeirdRaptor on September 27, 2007, 03:26:41 PM
A lot of us seem to be in the same boat with the Mario series.
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Post by: lbt/cty_lover on December 15, 2007, 09:35:46 PM
I'm from the mid-90s, so my first game was Super Smash Brothers! It was awesome!
Title: What was your first game?
Post by: Kor on December 15, 2007, 11:41:44 PM
This will severely age me, but my first was playing pong a few times at a cousin's house.  Years later I played some other, more fun, games at a cousin in laws house.  I forget all the titles, I think they were, ms pacman, pacman, the first game with mario and donkey kong, whatever name that was.  Maybe the first mario brothers.  Think it was on the atari something system.

I remember finding ms pacman easier.  And for some reason, did slightly better playing luigi in the original mario brothers.  Thought I'm terrible at video games, I guess due to lack of practice, I still like them.
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Post by: Manny Cav on December 15, 2007, 11:45:22 PM
The first game with Mario (Jumpman) and Donkey Kong -- was Donkey Kong. :p That set the pace for Nintendo games for years to come. :) Before then, didn't Nintendo actually make playing cards?
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Post by: Kor on December 15, 2007, 11:56:18 PM
I think I read somewhere they did.
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Post by: landbeforetimelover on December 16, 2007, 02:28:45 AM
I also liked DK3 for super nintendo, which was my second game I ever played.
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Post by: Chikara on December 16, 2007, 06:00:25 AM
Going waaaaaay back, my first game was...Batman on the Commodore 64.
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Post by: StarfallRaptor on December 16, 2007, 04:36:07 PM
First ever game: Earthsiege for the PC
First Game for Console: Starfox 64
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Post by: Loofah on March 22, 2008, 12:39:18 PM
I think the first game I have played was Turrican on the Commodore64 :D
OH, I really like this soundtrack of all Turrican Games! :yes
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Post by: mcr mad on March 22, 2008, 12:41:27 PM
sonic the heghog, i hate it tho
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Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 22, 2008, 01:02:05 PM
My first computer game was "adventure mountain".  It was an old MS-DOS game that I installed with those 5 1/2'' floppy disks. :lol It took 12 of those suckers! :wow
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Post by: Littlefoot1616 on March 27, 2008, 08:35:49 AM
The first game I ever OWNED was (this is showing some age here  :P: ), a Sega Megadrive game called "Altered Beast". Unlike the majority of the flock it seems, I was on Sega's side of the 90's console war so I was subjected to their line of games moreso. Altered Beast was apparently remade for ps2 later but, as with most ressurected greats, it flopped.

As for first ever played? I couldn't tell you. I was far more interested in the flashy lights and bangy noises the games made than what the names of the games were!  :lol
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Post by: Cancerian Tiger on March 27, 2008, 12:15:09 PM
The original Super Mario Brothers :P:  :lol!
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Post by: Malte279 on March 27, 2008, 12:40:16 PM
I never had a game console as I was usually happy with the computer games. The first which I remember was Sid Meier's Civilization. Did anyone else play that classic?
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Post by: Clawandfang on March 27, 2008, 12:56:01 PM
My first ever game...I honestly don't know. When I was old enough we already had a few games around, so I got into them all at the smae time. My first console gmae though was Crash Team Racing.

Malte, I have played Sid Meier's Pirates fairly recently, but not Civilisation.
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Post by: kjeldo on March 27, 2008, 01:01:40 PM
my first game (and from my point the best) mario kart 64 for the N64 and the wii, and i'm warning you! i'm a mario-kart veteran! i played every mario kart! and you will bite my dust when i'm gonna own you!
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Post by: Malte279 on March 27, 2008, 01:03:30 PM
^ I used to play the predecessor of that one, "Pirate's Gold". It is a funny example that computer games may teach something. I accredit most of my knowledge about the names and locations of Carribbean islands to that game :lol
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Post by: ZENUS-X on March 28, 2008, 12:47:40 PM
My first games was on NES (Dendy). It was Mario, Battle city and more others. Than i bought Sega mega drive- my first game here Sonic the hedgehog 3. At last in 2001 year i bought PC.  On PC my first and favorite games- C&C Tiberium sun and Age of empires 2.
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 28, 2008, 02:33:13 PM
Harry potter and the Scorcerer's Stone on the PS1.  It was kinda lame compared to the others.
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Post by: Sky on March 29, 2008, 03:10:30 AM
The first game I played was most like the others the classic Super Mario Bros.  
And it's still fun to play. :^.^:
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Post by: Mornai on March 29, 2008, 04:15:22 AM
The first game I've ever played was Crash Bandicoot for the Playstation 1. It was an awesome game and to this day i still have it, as well as every other Crash Bandicoot game created. :D
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Post by: Littlefoot on March 29, 2008, 10:01:14 AM
Wow for me that was really long yeas ago. (Welcome to the past muahahaha  :nyah ) My first console was Atari 2006. I used to play my favorite games like Asteroids and Missile Attack.
Title: What was your first game?
Post by: Mirumoto_Kenjiro on April 09, 2008, 07:10:56 PM
Let's see...

First games played:  Original Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt (I was a horrible shot then... <_< )

First game owned:  Tekken 3.  That was when we got our first console (which was later fired by a lightning strike).  

Now the family has at least 1 PS1, 2 PS2, 1 GB Color, 2 GBA, 1 GameCube, 2 Nintendo DS, and PC games on all of our computers.   :blink:
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Post by: KingdomKey23 on April 09, 2008, 09:03:56 PM
My first game was, of course, Super Mario Brothers. I played that game so much as a kid that I didn't stop for bathroom breaks. XD Yeah, kind of a funny story. My mom had to pretend that it was broken in order to get me to stop playing the game. Of course, that's what got me started as a Nintendo fan.
Title: What was your first game?
Post by: WeirdRaptor on January 18, 2014, 08:33:40 PM
Bump. I know this might be frowned upon, but there are a lot of new users here with their "first games" stories to tell.
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Post by: Simba King Of Pride Rock on January 18, 2014, 08:57:58 PM
The first games I truly played and owned were the Donkey Kong Country games for the SNES. I played those non-stop. My entire family and I are Donkey Kong fanatics.
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Post by: The Chronicler on January 18, 2014, 10:50:55 PM
I can't remember specifically what my first game was, but the earliest I definitely remember was Lego Island for PC back in 1997. I loved that game as a kid (back when we had only one computer in the whole house and I was never allowed more than one hour per day on it).

If I ever find the time and willingness to figure out how to instal it on a modern computer, I'd love to play it again someday.
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Post by: Belmont2500 on January 18, 2014, 11:08:32 PM
The first game I ever owned and played was Need For Speed IV: High Stakes on the PC. Many fond memories resulted from it.
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Post by: CeraTheRed on January 18, 2014, 11:35:33 PM
My first games (that I remember) were the first Sega games my dad rented for me as a kid. I also played Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, in school, actually. My teacher gave it to me (as a loan), for...stress, I wanna say. The first games that really inspired me were Super Mario Bros. (courtesy of my BFF), then SNES games when I wanted an NES and my dad got me the upgraded version. This evolved and expanded and now I own a Wii, Nintendo DS, and PS2.
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Post by: Nahla on January 19, 2014, 01:46:33 AM
I was 5 years old and my older brother by 8 years had a PS1. I always wanted to play it but I did't really like 'boy games',so he went and bought me my own game I can play on it-Barbie: Race & Ride. Ah memories,I played for hours. Ride my horsey Princess through the meadows,beach and whatever the others were.  The game was dull to everyone but me-but I was 5 it didn't hit me the game sucked..pardon me,I just wanted to ride Princess.

It basically a horse racing game for very very very young children,if you  lost nothing happened-just hit retry. The game had preset names you chose for your horse but man was there  a lot of them-but I always picked Princess,besides racing you explode the world and try and find the hidden ranch-and stop every 40 seconds to interact with NPC....

I have since moved on to real horse racing games (Gallop Racer) where one bad move will cost you the race (Start race to slow,spurt too late,get boxed in etc).

I recently bought Babrie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp for $3 for the Wii,just to relieve my childhood memories...when I can gain enough sainty I'll actually complete it I will and then pass it on my niece-she can deal with the games awfulness xD.


When I got my very first very own console-a PS2 at age....11? (They were sick of be bothering my brother to play his xD) they gave me Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue with it (and they surpised I fell in love with horses.....) it was just that-wild horse rescue (though the horses were all tames so I never got why it was WILD horse rescue...) I played that for a while before I found Gallop Racer at a garage sale-I had got quite the interest in horse  racing by then due to Makybe Diva who was top racehorse in Australia at the time-instant addiction,I loved it so much I bought the sequel to it-Gallop Racer 2 (dah). Then along came Okami-I love that game to death,still have my original ps2 copy with the closing song they got cut from the Wii,Xbox 360 and PS3 versions which were released some years after ps2 Okami.

I also bought quite a few 'Harvest Moon' games.


Race & Ride will be forever special to me as it was the first game I ever owned but the Gallop Racers will forever be my top games,the graphics aren't epic but they were from  2003 and 2004 so one is 11 years old and the other 10-and from what I hear in gaming that is considered very old. I don't judge by graphics anyway-gameplay that matters and GR is full of it.

Too many people today instantly judge a game by graphics without even playing it.

Well there is one game I did judge by graphics but actually did play-Minecraft and as I thought-it sucked..to me..I'll stop now before the Minecraft fans come...


Thats my gaming story,peace out.
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Post by: Mumbling on January 19, 2014, 04:09:56 AM
First game I ever played (and first computer I ever got in contact with) was some 'match the shapes' game in kindergarten. I asked my mom and dad if we could get a computer that same day, amazed as I was by the technology. Relatively soon after we owned a computer, and the first games I played were all on a 'games' disc that my mom asked the computer store owner to create for us.

The disc included many, many DOS games, some notable ones were The Lion King, Aladdin, Creating stuff with 101 Dalmatians, Trollz, Bumpy, Heretic (AKA. the scary game!), Risk...

The first 'Stand alone' game that I got was an educational game. Robbie Konijn (see video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNzOtdUGucM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNzOtdUGucM))

DemonStar was pre-installed on our PC, so I played that a hell of a lot as well.

Real first big games were The Sims, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation and Age of Empires, all copied from the neighbours, haha.

And the first console game that I owned was Pokemon Gold. First that I played probably something on N64, Pokemon Stadium, Mario 64 or Mario Kart.
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Post by: bushwacked on January 19, 2014, 06:38:46 AM
First game I ever played was 'Disney's Tarzan' on the PS1. I loved it, but I remember I was always too scared to play the level where you fight Sabor  :p
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Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on January 19, 2014, 08:01:24 AM
I taught myself how to read on this old computer with Reader Rabbit installed. It's why I was already reading books before I even started kindergarten.

This unfortunately meant I had a really awful kindergarten because they'd instituted new strict policies that required each student to finish a significant body of alphabet-tracing work that was tedious and far below my current English level...The term "letter box" still leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it meant "A big piece of paper where you had to trace a certain letter at least twenty times in several different sizes and provide examples of words that started with said letter". Failure to complete the letter box meant you couldn't go to recess, but I couldn't focus enough to do them since I was already reading full-length novels like Captain Underpants and Hank the Cowdog.
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Post by: LoyfeCycleProtector on January 19, 2014, 12:18:12 PM
The oldest game I can remember playing was a vertical shoot'em up called Tyrian 2000. Actually, it was a pretty awesome game. It had stellar ship designs, stimulating game play, lots of replayability, and (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtiUXckAVg) music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHaHkj_rvos) so (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkvmegH5ci4) incredibly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmR1tEQSY5Y) awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rcKidHEITw) that not only do I still listen to it a good fifteen years after I first played the game, but I'm actually trying to learn some of them for electric guitar! It's made by the same company that made Jazz Jackrabbit, so if you ever had that on your computer when you were little, odds are you had this on there too.
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Post by: jansenov on January 19, 2014, 12:32:34 PM
My first game ever was Harrier Attack, which I played on a TIM-011 computer in 1992 (or was it 1991?). My father decided to see how the 1.5 or 2-year old me would handle using a computer, and I managed to move the aircraft, but I didn't get far and after several failures I lost interest in the game. I didn't know how the game was called back then, I only found that out years later.

The next time I used anything with a CPU in it was in 1995 when I got my first and only game console, some sort of Nintendo clone. I played Galaxians, Super Mario, Bomberman, Load Runner, The Flintstones and Street Fighter.

In the meantime the old TIM was replaced with a 286, and the 286 was replaced with a 486. When I started using the 486 in 1997, I started playing games like Prince of Persia, Prehistoric, Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom, which scared the hell out of me.
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Post by: rhombus on January 19, 2014, 02:21:57 PM
I am unsure what the first game I ever played was.  However, the first one that I remember was the "Superman" game for the Atari 2600.  "Super Mario Brothers" and the original "Legend of Zelda" were other early games of mine.
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Post by: RockingScorpion on March 14, 2014, 04:39:28 PM
The first game I ever played was Super Mario Land for Gameboy. Recently I beat the game for the first time in my life and boy, that felt good. xD

The first one I really had myself was Disney's Dinosaur for Gameboy as well, and I still have my copy around. I think this game is a gem with pretty cool levels. Also, some of them are pretty tough.
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Post by: LeventeII on May 12, 2019, 06:02:11 PM
What my first game was and at what age I played it, I unfortunately can't remember exactly. I know that I was very young. It was at the age that one can't remember anymore. One of my very first games was "Tony and Friends in Kellogg's Land". I played it on a Windows 98 (Incidentally, I still have this computer and it always helps me when I do a nostalgia trip sometime!).  :) It's a really challenging game, even if it's old. I wasn't able to beat it yet.

My first console game was "Super Mario 64". I was about 4 years old at that time. It took me more than ten years to beat it... How time flies...
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Post by: Sneak on May 12, 2019, 07:32:15 PM
The very first game - it was one of console games on SEGA. I was 2, I don't remember. I had many of them at the same time.
But I remember my first PC game - Stronghold Crusader.
And first Flash game - Labyrinth.
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Post by: Anagnos on May 13, 2019, 03:27:18 AM
Ah, I'm so bad at remembering things like this, but I believe that Crash Bandicoot was one of the first console games that I ever played. My first PC game was probably Runescape.  :)
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Post by: Flathead770 on May 13, 2019, 01:27:40 PM
Not sure if I've posted before or not, but the first game I remember playing was Super Mario World.
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Post by: pokeplayer984 on May 14, 2019, 10:06:36 AM
The main reason I never answered this is because I can't remember what game.  However, I can tell you the system.  The Atari 2600.

It's my Dad's, and yes, it does still work!
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Post by: StardustSoldier on May 14, 2019, 12:30:24 PM
Mine was the original "Super Mario Bros." for the old Nintendo console, along with "Duck Hunt" and some track running game where you ran in place on a mat to make your characte run. It was a three-in-one deal.
Oh, I remember that! Including the track-running game. It wasn't my first game, however, as it was my cousin who owned that one.

As a kid, my family (but mainly my brother and I) owned a SNES, and I think it was Super Mario All-Stars that was my first game. It's the oldest game I can remember owning anyway. Many, many fun hours were dedicated to that.

Speaking of which...
The first game I ever played was Super Mario Land for Gameboy. Recently I beat the game for the first time in my life and boy, that felt good. xD
Ah yes, that's a classic. I'll always have a soft spot for that one. Even though there's other Mario platformers I like better, SML has a magical and charming quality to it all the same.
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Post by: ImpracticalDino on May 14, 2019, 04:34:05 PM
This is not one of my first games ever, although I don't even remember that either. But when I was back in elementary school, I would play Pokemon Sapphire on my blue Game Boy Advance a lot. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had such fun memories battling trainers, catching Pokémon, and it felt so satisfying to beat the Elite Four and Champion so many times. Although, I do have the tendency to overlevel my Pokémon, therefore making the game much easier. Thinking about it now, I wouldn't want to do that as it takes away from the challenge of the game. It didn't stop me from feeling so superior defeating everyone with just one hit though. I had restarted the game many times because I liked it so much, and each time I had a varied team with different Pokémon, and yes I had that problem of overlevelling my Pokémon again. And yeah, I'm not forgetting about the music that game had. I loved the classic GBA sounds and the TRUMPETS that go along with it. Steven's Champion Theme was awesome, 'nuff said, and so is the Gym Leader Theme. The surfing theme was also nice. It was so tranquil and it had that pleasant, breezy like feeling you get from it. I stopped playing the game a long time ago, but I have tried to pick it up and play one time with little success. It seems like I lost the spark I had when I was little, or maybe the game isn't as appealing anymore?

But since then, I have gotten more Pokémon games, such as Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon Moon, and Pokémon Ultra Sun. Those games I haven't touch in quite a while as well, maybe like a year or less?
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Post by: Compsognathus on January 03, 2021, 02:48:26 PM
My earliest games were
Pokémon Snap (Nintendo64, german version)
Pokémon Stadium (Nintendo64, german version)- I was very obsessed with Pokémon in my kindergarten and first two elementary school years, and I very enjoyed these games, even if I did understand hardly anything other than Czech. 
Midnight Club PS2- I remember
, Tomb Raider PS1 (played on PS2),
I had a good time while playing both these games, but I was to get very far, because I did not understand many things, and in Tomb Raider, I had no PS1 memory card, so I did many times tutorial or first mission, then beginning of mission two, when I died, and this is the end.

My earliest PC games, which I remember good, were windows 98 games like
Minesweeper, Hearts etc.,
Bomberman
Commander Keen 4- Sometimes I was scared of some enemies from that game, so I did chicken out, and did not want to play it.
and some Czech freeware games, you probably do not know.
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Post by: Anagnos on January 04, 2021, 07:55:53 AM
I think my very first game was probably the original Crash Bandicoot.
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Post by: Littlefoot fan 1990 on January 06, 2021, 07:34:55 PM
My very first console game was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Mega Drive/Sega Genesis. I used to play it all the time; each time, I progress to a later level. Yet, I could never beat the game because of those two final bosses in the last level.
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Post by: chomper94 on July 12, 2021, 02:45:31 PM
Mine was Mario Tennis Open on the 3DS.  The 3DS itself was the first console I played on.
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Post by: Loire on July 12, 2021, 03:22:39 PM
My first game I can vaguely remember is either Hunter Hunted from Sierra Entertainment or Age of Empires, but the first game that got me really into gaming was Halo Combat Evolved when I first got my Xbox in 2001.
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Post by: Mouse-a-saur on July 13, 2021, 10:48:25 AM
Mine was probably JumpStart Kindergarten, of which I’m still very fond :MomCompassion
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Post by: Nanotyrannus on July 13, 2021, 03:49:43 PM
This thing, which I'll concede was a weird introduction to video games:

Spoiler: ShowHide
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Post by: Enchanted-Valley96 on July 13, 2021, 04:20:18 PM
First game I remember playing and beating is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 for the PS2.
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Post by: Mouse-a-saur on July 13, 2021, 04:21:09 PM
This thing, which I'll concede was a weird introduction to video games:

Spoiler: ShowHide
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ET7FAN8QL._AC_.jpg)

I had that game too!  :ChomperImAwesome
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Post by: Little Bro on October 19, 2021, 04:02:21 PM
Wii sports was the first game I really played seriously. I still enjoy playing it and got the rest of my family into it too!