What is your earliest recollection of gaming?

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**Ratius**

I had to have a quite a think on this one but I think my earliest recollection is playing 1942 on a friends C64 around 1985.

I looked up some gameplay vids of it on youtube and it looked vaguely familiar. After that it was probably Harrier Attack on my first Amstrad CPC.

**Nevelon**

My folks had a Pong console. Later an Atari 2600 (which I still have/use). So probably the earliest is going to be one of the classic atari games like space invaders or combat in the very early 80’s.

**squidhills**

Breakout on my father's cousin's husband's Atari 2600. And then I got my own Atari 2600.

But not Breakout, because I totaly suck at that game. I rocked at Bezerker, though.

**Eumerin**

Star Raiders on an Atari 800.

"Starfleet to Starcruiser 7. Mission Accomplished. New Rank is Garbage Scow Captain."

**Overlord Thraka**

Playing Age of Empires II Joan D'arc Campaign.

I was 6 and I was terrible

It was either that or the old Gen 1 Bionicle game. With the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva

**VorpalBunny74**

Commando on the Atari, I wasn't very good at it

**Lynata**

Gaming in general: Super Mario Bros., Tetris and World Cup on the 8bit NES (all part of a package) my parents gifted my for birthday.
PC gaming: the original Elite on a friend's computer.

**daedalus**

Probably playing Hogan's Alley at Showbiz. Either that or those old games you typed in to your Commodore 64 out of the magazines (that's text printed on glossy paper for you youngins) in order to get an ugly sprite to move across the screen. Not sure which came first for me, but my dad worked as a tech at Showbiz, so that was pretty early on.

**Melissia**

E.T. on the Atari.

... yes.

**Hanskrampf**

Mario Land 2 (the Lego level) on the Gen1 Gameboy.

**ScootyPuffJunior**

Playing Duck Hunt on my Nintendo Entertainment System in my basement rec room on a TV that looked like this:

**trexmeyer**

Aces of the Deep back in the mid to late 90s. I sunk many Allied vessels. My first introduction to the world of "modern" gaming was Jedi Outcast. I played the hell out of that game, KotOR and Morrowind back in the day.

**Avatar 720**

Pokemon Red on my Gameboy Pocket. For consoles, Super Mario 64 on the N64.

**daedalus**

Melissia wrote:
E.T. on the Atari.

... yes.

Gross.

**Ahtman**

Combat on Atari at my cousins house. I know we had a K-Mart Pong console but I only remember that we had it, don't really remember playing it much. Combat sticks out much more in my mind.

**BrookM**

Maniac Mansion on a Commodore with tape player.

**Trondheim**

If my memory serves me correct it was a Western game named Outlaw or something like that.

**BrookM**

Now there's a great game!

**Radiation**

I had a mini donkey kong arcade that used a couple of c or d batteries. I took that thing everywhere. It even played the song.

**Ahtman**

Radiation wrote:
I had a mini donkey kong arcade that used a couple of c or d batteries. I took that thing everywhere. It even played the song.

Was it this?

I remember those, they just weren't my first memory. I think we might have had the Pac-man one.

**SagesStone**

Started with Super Mario Bros on NES when I was under 5. So early 90s.

**Radiation**

That's the one.

**Co'tor Shas**

The first "game" I remember playing was Microsoft flight simulator (one of the 90's). That was only really messing around, the first games I really member getting into were when my dad bought me two packs of PC games for Christmas, a bunch of need for speed games, although the only one I really played was underground, and the first four harry potter games, as well as quittich. I also remeber playing Pokemon sapphire on one of my friend's GBA.

I really only played PC games (other than Nintendo handhelds), because the consoles were too expensive, until I got a Wii.

**filbert**

Playing tennis on a Spectrum

**Cheesecat**

Probably Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Super Mario Bros and/or Math Blasters.

**sarpedons-right-hand**

Playing Ad-Astra on my dad's 128k Speccy.. Also playing Ikari Warriors and Buggy Boy on a mate's Atari a few years later...

**Doctadeth**

Hm, ah yes. Bionic Commando on the C64, and a tooth fairy game as well.

**lord_blackfang**

I don't know what exactly was my first game, but I do know I owned this and it was the bomb.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8p4XP0EWYbU/UsKaqv6fFlI/AAAAAAAAIRE/V8jvmmCRKcM/s1600/game_watch_octopus_inspiration_05.jpg

Then a Game Boy, then a C64, then a 286, etc...

**Daston**

The first game that got me into gameing was probably the original prince of Persia we had on our first pc (was running gem). Then digdug, off-road and test drive in cga graphics.

Oh and my mate had the starwars trilogy on his Amiga many weekends lost to that.

**daedalus**

lord_blackfang wrote:
I don't know what exactly was my first game, but I do know I owned this and it was the bomb.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8p4XP0EWYbU/UsKaqv6fFlI/AAAAAAAAIRE/V8jvmmCRKcM/s1600/game_watch_octopus_inspiration_05.jpg

Then a Game Boy, then a C64, then a 286, etc...

Uh, do you have that in reverse? Game Boy THEN C64? Those were around when I was barely old enough to remember. I don't recall Game Boys being a thing until I was, like, 10-ish.