Earliest Gaming Memory

[Helmo]

I came home one day and my mom got me a used(?) N64 with mario kart 64

i was like 4 iirc

i remember my mouth dropping and moving the controller around trying to get it to work

still have the n64 but the game was stolen by my neighbor and sold for $1

[Mr. Jam]

Ahh... the days of my youth... like the scent of fresh lemon.

I was two or three years old when I played my first few videogames. All I remember playing back then was Mario Bros. 3, Chubby Cherub and Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout on my Nintendo Entertainment System. I didn't know how to play those games when I was little and I would always get a game over early on in the game... I later got a Nintendo 64 and a Game Boy when I was around 3-4 years old and I stopped playing my NES.

I still have my N64 and Game Boy(I even still play them every once in a while), but my parents got rid of my NES around 10 years ago because I stopped using it

[Speed-X]

Oh yay, more threads about sharing the intimate details of our personal lives!

Hahah, sorry. Feeling oddly rambunctious right now. Late night crazies, maybe. Anyway, where do I begin?
Started with those kid games, like ones by Fisher Price, on our old Win...98? Yeah, I think it was a 98. I loved that computer. We apparently had an NES for a while, and the games I specifically remember are Kirby's Adventure, Mario Bros., and...some Bugs Bunny game. Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout, or something.

The latter game traumatized me. If you asked me why today, looking back I would not have any idea. Maybe the image that popped up on screen just looked scary in my little-kid mind (It's actually kinda a cute game). Anyway, the game over screen (which, oddly, is not shown in TSR's sprite archive for that game) gave me nightmares for...maybe five or so years? A long time. It was just his facial expression I guess.

My most fond memory was when I first got a PS1. Spyro the Dragon. That was my freaking passion. I still love that game (and the next two titles to come out after that). I still am fond of Spyro...well, kinda. Just not a big fan of Skylanders. I love the concept, I guess it's just too expensive and media-sensationalized. I'm hoping that they'll pass him off to another gaming company soon. Spyro seems to be quite a "hot potato," constantly being passed around. Like STDs.
I'm sorry. That had to be said.

[Sengir]

Spyro seems to be quite a "hot potato," constantly being passed around. Like STDs.
I'm sorry. That had to be said.

Spyro The Dragons

[Speed-X]

Sengirbug: mother of god

I can't believe I didn't notice that! If it weren't for everyone being asleep I would have burst out into a fit of laughter.

[Dolphman]

First thing i remember, was my parents had an Atari 2600 with game like Rampage, Crossbow, Pitfall, and the ill-fated port of Pac-man.
Besides that, my dad had an old MS DOS computer back when internet didn't have graphics yet. Way back when i wasn't in school yet.
He had games like Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DooM, and a few obscurities like Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf & Course Design.
There were times me and my two brothers would go to friends' houses to play on either their NES, SNES or Mega Drive.
One neighbour had a Commodore Amiga, first game i remember was Team17's Superfrog. (Frustrating game, that was)

We still have the 2600, plus a Super Nintendo we got one Christmas back in 1995. With Killer Instinct as our first game for it.
And i like hunting down DOS games for DOSBox online. Even for ones i never heard of.

[Rapidkirby3k]

Despite my mom and my brother having an Atari 2600 before I was officially born, my earliest gaming memory was Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, which was the Zapper bundle for the Nintendo Entertainment System. =)

[recme]

i remember my brother having a n64. he played ocarina of time, conker, and kirby (i remember erasing his kirby files eheheh). i really wanted to play games, so he gave me his game boy advance. it was a see thru game boy, and i had memories of playing kirby atam and pokemon blue.

good times had

[Maxpphire]

Beating the first 3 sonic games and Sonic and Knuckles when I was like 3 years old.

[Sketchasaurus]

AH, I just remembered: When I was a kid my dentist's office had a console set up that had Sonic & Knuckles in it. That was the first time I'd seen/played a Sonic game, it was pretty darn cool. it made waiting much more tolerable and it even made it hard to want to leave. aha

[Psycho]

first game i've ever played was either pokemon yellow or contra
can't remember which was played first, but i remember both being so fun and addicting

[Gors]

Contra is the shit

[Koopaul]

Well I was four when I played Super Mario Bros. 3.