themisfit138 | 523 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Most likely Defender, River Raid or Star Raiders for Atari 2600. I had the boxes for those three. All my other 2600 games were yard sale buys. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inzoreno | 102 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Pokemon Blue for Game Boy Color. While my family did have games before that, I wouldn't say I 'owned' any of them. I had no say in what games my parents bought and played them because that's what we had. No idea how my parents decided what to get us, and somehow deciding Yo! Noid was worth owning. Pokemon was, however, the first game I remember actually wanting and asking my parents for. I had already seen a few episodes of the show and gotten the cards, but because we didn't have a Game Boy yet, it took a little longer before they bought me the game, alongside the system. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues | 18 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Pong Clone. Don't remember exact model. I've searched before to find one that fits my memory, but I was pretty young. Got a 2600 later... so I'm sure Combat was second... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHero1006 | 10 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 12 hours ago, fsped09 said: Asteroids for Atari 2600!!! Yep. Same here. Got a used Atari and Asteroids. Funny enough, when I bought an Atari again a few years ago Asteroids was my first single game purchase. Still holds up today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenKoopa | 15 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Super Mario bros 1 on nes when I was 6 years old. Was the only game I had for 1.5 years and I absolutely thrashed it. I got so good, I finished six times in a row without getting touched (4 warp finishes, two full run throughs). After that, I asked for a new game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,837 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 It would have been Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt that came with the NES. Other early games would have been Pinball and Ice Climber. If I remember correctly and I can’t be sure that I do, Legend of Zelda would’ve been one of my first as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesmaster | 402 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Had SMB/DH and Golf at the same time. My parents got my NES off my uncle when I was really young. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drxandy | 3,225 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) My dad was into early computing so I remember him going to Atari meetups and having a toolbox filled with 51/2 floppy discs. Loads of games and software on hand, but I remember river raid for either 2600 or the 800xl computer standing out as a game we would play together (him introducing it to me as one of his favorites, and it quickly became mine too) but the less fun answer is my first game specifically purchased for me was some sesame street atari game. Edited December 5, 2019 by drxandy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuNKeY | 241 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Atart 2600 with Pac Man (pack in?) and Combat, Breakout, and Slot Racers all on Christmas of '79 a bit fuzzy on the exact details now though. ...gods I am getting old. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstralSoul | 502 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 The first game I ever played was either Pitfall or Combat on the Atari 2600 but it wasn't my system, it was my dad's. The first game and system that was mine was Super Mario Bros + Duck Hunt on the NES, which I got the console bundle on Christmas 1989. I was 6 at the time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 There are two types of gamers in my world--those who had a home console BEFORE the NES and those who had a console AFTER the NES. I don't know why, but I just feel like it was such a huge turning point. All of you guys saying something from the NES or later just don't know how well you had it. For the rest of us, we had to stare at blocks, squint and imagine what what we were looking at was a human... no, wait, that's a hockey stick! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drxandy | 3,225 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 28 minutes ago, RH said: There are two types of gamers in my world--those who had a home console BEFORE the NES and those who had a console AFTER the NES. I don't know why, but I just feel like it was such a huge turning point. All of you guys saying something from the NES or later just don't know how well you had it. For the rest of us, we had to stare at blocks, squint and imagine what what we were looking at was a human... no, wait, that's a hockey stick! Sometimes trying to figure out what to do in a game was part of the charm of it too, I never had access to instructions and some of the 2600 games are very ambiguous with what the goal is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DorkOverlord | 686 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Sometime in the mid 80s after the big crash, my mom bought me an Atari 2600 at a yard sale. It was a good, cheap way to keep hyperactive little me entertained for hours. Some of the games I remember she picked up with it were Missile Command, Space Invaders, and Breakout. Little did she know this was the beginning of a lifelong addiction. Thanks Mom! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winkinator | 2 Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 My first game was the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo cart that came with the NES Action set. I still love playing both those games and recently got my kids into Duck Hunt. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendo Historian | 43 Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 My first video game was “Super Man “on the Atari 2600 ,both were “hand me downs “..My first brand new console and game was the NES Action Set with the SMB /Duckhunt comb cart .Which I still own ,the very same I use as my Avatar on here .. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendo Historian | 43 Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 4 hours ago, Winkinator said: My first game was the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo cart that came with the NES Action set. I still love playing both those games and recently got my kids into Duck Hunt. Which means you still have a CRT TV ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winkinator | 2 Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 1 hour ago, NES CONNOISSEUR said: Which means you still have a CRT TV ? 27 inch RCA in the basement with a NES, SNES, N64, Wii, Genesis, PSX, PS2, Dreamcast, and Xbox hooked up to it. Just wish the wife would let me spend more time down there. I found a 30 inch Sony Triniton during the last spring cleanup and hooked everything up to it and it worked for a couple days before it broke. I'm hoping to find another one this upcoming spring cleanup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,317 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 The first console I had was a SNES in early 1992 - with it I got two games - Tetris and Final Fantasy II. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arch_8ngel | 1,597 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I got a Power Set for Christmas '89 and my sister got Mickey Mousecapades. She was 5, so needless to say that game was enough to scare her off of gaming for many years. (My dad and I worked together to beat it 2p) First that I bought in the store was going to Toys R Us and finding Legend of Zelda. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strikezone1 | 154 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Excluding the SMB/DH game bundled with the NES Action Set, the first games my brother and I got were Bubble Bobble & R.C. Pro-Am. IIRC they all came Christmas of '89. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitsupremacy | 208 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt pack-in with an Action Set...watched that sucker roll out on the conveyor belt from the magical back room of a Service Merchandise, it was glorious. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitsupremacy | 208 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 On 12/3/2019 at 6:11 PM, MovieTom said: First game I ever owned and was MY game and not my brother's was Dick Tracy for the Sega Genesis. I was 6. We had just traded in my brother's Master System to Funcoland for a used Genesis with Altered Beast in early 1991 and we then went to Target to see if they had any games. We were looking at everything and I noticed that a copy of Dick Tracy was mispriced at $5.99. Back then they used stickers on everything and I was so excited that I found screw-up. My dad convinced the manager to honor the sticker price and that's how I got my first game. You pioneered the concept of catching one slippin'! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foochie776 | 1,051 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 First game I paid my own money for was Felix the Cat and the local Funcoland 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodysGameRoom | 2,008 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 2 hours ago, arch_8ngel said: I got a Power Set for Christmas '89 and my sister got Mickey Mousecapades. In June of 1989, I was about to turn 5. My family had a family reunion. My cousins brought their NES and my grandpa saw how obsessed I was with it. On the way home from the reunion, he stopped at Sears and bought a Power Set, bought my sister Mickey Mousecapades, and bought me Sesame Street 123. I still have it all, and I have a deep nostalgia for Mousecapades because of it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arch_8ngel | 1,597 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 19 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said: In June of 1989, I was about to turn 5. My family had a family reunion. My cousins brought their NES and my grandpa saw how obsessed I was with it. On the way home from the reunion, he stopped at Sears and bought a Power Set, bought my sister Mickey Mousecapades, and bought me Sesame Street 123. I still have it all, and I have a deep nostalgia for Mousecapades because of it. Was your sister similarly put off of gaming as a young kid due to the surprising difficulty level of the game? I have a lot of nostalgia for it, because it was a lot of fun 2P time with my dad, and was one of the only simultaneous 2P games I had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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