What is your first video game memory?

[Skorixor]

Title says it all. What is the earliest video game memory that you have? Game, system, where, when etc...

I'm gonna date myself right here, but here goes:

It was over at x'an's house...we were playing pong on his Intellivision console system (I believe) on his 13inch B/W tv...and we were having a blast!

[X'an Shin]

Title says it all. What is the earliest video game memory that you have? Game, system, where, when etc...

I'm gonna date myself right here, but here goes:

It was over at x'an's house...we were playing pong on his Intellivision console system (I believe) on his 13inch B/W tv...and we were having a blast!

Wha? Couldn't have been an Intellivision. Never owned one.

I had this triangular thing that had a light-gun, pong paddles, and a control interface (switches for changing game types), each on a side, and then triangular cartridges that snapped in flat on the top.

Can't remember the name of it for the life of me, though. I've seen it in gaming museum books though.

[Iri]

Mario Bros...the first one that also came with the duck hunting game...I had the little gun that went with the nintendo that you used to shoot the ducks, though I prefered Mario to the duck hunting.

[Jabe Adaks]

Me and my dad got an Atari 2600 from Sears and played the game that came with it, which was the tanks that woiuld shoot at each other.

Jabe

[Seret Sajet]

Well I could say my first video game memory was with my sister's Maganvox Odessey. It was similiar to the Intellivision but it had a HUGE Apple IIe style keyboard. Problem is I barely remember any games for it.

So my first real memory of that spark of true love for video gaming would have to be my 8-Bit NES. Playing Duck Hunt, Super Mario, Ice Climber, Ballon Fight, 10-yard Fight, and all the rest of the near-launch titles had me entertained for hours.

At night I am still taunted by the evil laugh of that canine that would pop up and cackle at me when I missed a duck with my light gun. Oh how he torments me so after all this years. CURSE YOU HELLHOUND!! CUUUURSSE YOOOOU!!!

[Dwilah]

We had...a screen like five by five inches, it was black and shades of green, it took those giant floppies that were actually floppy. I would sit there and use DOS to make directories and then delete them. SUCH FUN. I forgot all those commands pretty much. And there was this game with a submarine, you went through a cavern and shot stuff.

Later, there was King's Quest. I died so much. I remember when we got that in color. Just wasn't the same...it needs to be green to be awesome.

As for actual video games...every once in awhile I'd get to play my cousin Chris' Nintendo. Super Mario Brothers. And then when the Playstation came out I played Mortal Kombat allll the time with my pals...

Oh yeah. I spent a lot of time in my youth playing Privateer. It was in the Wing Commander universe and was by the Orion people...was copied loosely and remade into Freelancer by Microsoft...not the same. But Privateer I would say was a not-online SWG. You could be a merchant, a pirate, a mercenary, a law person...all in space. Different planets. You controlled your own finances and it was really about your cargo...I loved that game. I wish I had it still. ;___;

[Oroho]

A tandy computer and Lode Runner... and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandeigo?. I have recently re-downloaded both of these and have been spending obscene amounts of time playing them. Heheheheeeeeee... I want to find a ringtone that's the sound it makes when you've found a V.I.L.E. henchman.

And am playing the original Oregon Trail, althought I played that in Elementary school.. it was green. All green. But cool as heck.

I feel very 8-bit.

[Zyre Mercutio]

My mom bought a tv that somehow had Pong built into it and you plugged the paddle controllers in. My first system was an Atari 2600 and loved playing
Combat, Venture, River Raid, Pitfall, etc. My first PC was my C-64 and the 2 name games I remember most were Julius Erving-Larry Bird: One on One and Archon II. I was also a big fan of all the goldbox SSI AD&D games.


Zzzzzz

[Skorixor]

UGH, Looks like me and X'an have the most archaic system to date...

from there X'an had his IBM original, while I had my Apple II, (along with a commodore 64 I built in high school)

atari 2600, nes, super nes, sega/64/cd, and on


good times I remember:

at my house on my Apple 2e with green screen, me and x'an playing the sidescroller WWII flying game "Wings of Fury" for hours listeningto the first 3 songs of the TopGun soundtrack tape over n over...made by broderbund shortly after loed runner...best parts...buzzing the carrier, strafing the lil lode runner ppl and watch as they go plink plink plink and fly into the air as they get shot, flying low n slow and dropping a torpedo into the water for a battleship...
http://www.abandonia.com/games/160/Wing ... f_Fury.htm

Apple 2e again, playing the DnD like game Wizardry parts 1-???? for hours, x'an using his drawing skizills to map out the levels on graph paper

Apple2e yet again, this time it was Roadwar 2000...this game ruled! It is often placed very high in TOP Whatever list of all time...turn based Mad Max style game...so addicting...we would stay up for hours playing...the tape this time...Bruce Willis "Return of Bruno" (yeah I'm not ashamed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadwar_2000
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1360


when it comes to arcade games, there were many, but there was only ONE that mattered, because we were kings

CYBERBALL 2072
robot football at it's finest!!!!
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?let ... me_id=7470

and it was revolutionary when they came out with TOURNAMENT CYBERBALL 2072...they put 2 units together at an angle, so you could play another team, and they couldn't see what you were doing or plays you were choosing
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?gam ... 5&letter=T

[Weyune]

One word. "Adventure"

On my uncle's early, primitive Atari game system. Thats right where you were the brave knight represented by the square and your task was to journy across the land(only on the path) and retrieve the grails but you had to watch out for the dragons!*`

That right Adventurs in all its 2-color graphic glory!*




*Well 2-color if you had a color TV
*`The author of this post is so old, she cannot remember very much about the game at all, only the bits and pieces.

[Novall]

First video game I can ever remember playing was PONG! It had these 2 paddle things with dials on em that you use to move the stick up and down on the TV to return serves.

Next was the Commodor 64! Which I still have and it still works Forbidden Forrest, Zaxxon, Robotron and Pitfall were my favorite games.

[Keer]

Once again, Pong. 1977-78!. Down at my neighbor's house end of the street. And it was soooo convenient because I had a crush on his sister. I'd go over there, play Pong, and exercise my elementary school mack tactics :lol:

Can't remember the system, but I remember that it was highly advertised on TV at the time.

Other strong memories:

Defender on Atari 2600 in 1984 (still the neighborhood champ on Level 25!)

Pirates! on NES in 1989. The game that sealed my destiny...(undefeated in my college dorm; it was single player but we had a ranking system, Yarrh!!)

[Krusshyk]

Atari 2600. Q-bert. I had no idea that he was supposed to be cursing.

Lemme think...

Pitfall
River Raid
Pole Position
Frogger
Burger Meister (I think that was the name)

Those are the first gaming memories I have, I think.

[Lok'i Vidaar]

Burger Meister (I think that was the name)

Burger Time!!!!

Ohh yeah,

And on to my first gaming memories...

Atari 2600 at my buddies house, Indiana Jones, Pitfall, Tank Wars.

I had a commodore 64, and it was all about Lander, Later we got a Nintendo, plaed the crap out of some SMB/Duckhunt, also another favorite from my SMB days, Rush 'N' Attack! I loved that game..

Ohh and cool link for the day... http://everyvideogame.com/

[Krusshyk]

Burger Time...that was it!

Burger Meister is the mean guy from one of the Santa claymation specials. The one where Kris Kringle has a penguin friend named "Topper" or some other such nonsense. I like that one, too.

But Burger Time did kick ass...you got to make sammiches. I like sammiches.