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My dad had an NES set that he got as a christmas gift from my moms family. When I was born he took it out when I was like a year old.

I remember being 2 or 3 and he'd come home from work and play NES cause I'd love watching him play even though I was too young to play properly. He'd play punch out and mario and duck hunt.

My earliest memory of gaming for myself was being like 3 or 4 and getting a SNES and Mario World for my birthday.

driving around the hub world in diddy kong racing
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My first game ever: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/563506-adventures-of-yogi-bear
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Watching my dad play Mario 2 and Zelda 2

Doom II on DOS

Being about four years old and watching my brother play Felix And The Fruit Monsters (Acorn Electron game) and having the realisation that he wasn't watching television, he was controlling it!

How the fuck do you remember being two years old? Drugs and alcohol Must be fried my brain more than I realized.
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Super Mario Bros on NES, TMNT2 was also around the same time.

I just remember the surreal magic of it, I was like 3 so I was terrible at everything but I have a permanent ingrained set of memories of those games and some others from around the same time. Even the black pre-level screen on SMB was magical to me, I didnt see it as a utilitarian way to show the level info before it started, but rather I saw it as a kinda set moment before action, like at a theatre when the lights go dark before the previews start. It felt ceremonial almost.

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Paper Boy for SNES for me.
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Watching my dad play DOOM on MS-DOS back in the early 90s. I would've been 3 or 4.
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Ski free on the pc.
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Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet.

Honorable mention to Torpedoes Away!!, Paperboy, Skifree and SMBs 2 and 3.
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All I can remember is something vague from World 2-2 in Yoshi's Island, probably back when I was 4. I was gaming before that though, I had Super Mario All-Stars.
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Trog for the NES

So much fun
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A Commodore 64 game called Pathfinder.
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Playing the Lion King and constantly running into enemies because I had no grasp on what gameplay was supposed to be yet.
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Getting scared shitless by the first Banzai Bill in SMW.
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Tripping over a snes in daycare.
The other kids were in the last world of Donkey Kong Country 2 and the game reset.
Understandably, they were pissed.

Also, renting Ocarina of Time as a kid.
The save file I played started me in the Temple of Time as an adult, and I walked out into Hyrule Market and ran into all those redeads.
BOY, THAT FUCKED ME UP FOR YEARS!
I went back a few years later, and it's my favorite game now.
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Pitfall for Atari 2600 at my grandparents' house (in the early 90s)
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Bits and pieces of assorted DOS games.

Commander Keen I probably remember the most.
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Never beating some water level in Sonic 2. I died so many times, and it got to the point where I wouldn't stop crying and obsessing over it so much that my mom took it away and hid it. God, I must have been like 4 or something. I've come a long way. Can't think of the last time since a game has made me rage so hard.
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A few; I can't recall the order.

My parents bought an NES with a bunch of games; Mario 1, 2, 3, Megaman 2, 3, 4 and a few other games.

I also remember my dad bringing his Intellivision home from my grandmother's home and playing that. I think this was after the NES though; I had more fun on the Intellivision though!
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Being awful at Asteroids.

...still awful at asteroids.

Watching my cousin play Donkey Kong on Colecovision
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Mines was streets of rage for the genesis, followed by sonic 1.
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Fun Run on mobile

Playing Dragon Warrior on my NES in 1991. I was five years old.
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One of the Sonic games on Genesis

I used to load up Final Fantasy on NES and get scared in the battle screen from the music. Also remember not knowing how to run in Super Mario Bros and always dying to one of the first pits in 1-1
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If handheld, Tetris & that cowboy game where you shoot whiskey bottles & glasses.

If vidya, the first Super Mario.
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I want to say my first gaming memory was either Pitfall or Battlezone for Atari (around age 3), as that was the first console my family owned, but my memory is so choppy, I have no clue what order things happened in, so it could have also been one of these;

Playing the sewer level in TMNT at some friends house (getting frustrated, but refusing to go home 'till I beat it)
Or playing Mario Bros 3 in an attic(?) at my cousin's house. No idea what level though, I just remember thinking how cool the overworld map was.
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Mario and Duck Hunt on NES

blablablax17 posted...

Tripping over a snes in daycare.
The other kids were in the last world of Donkey Kong Country 2 and the game reset.
Understandably, they were pissed.

Also, renting Ocarina of Time as a kid.
The save file I played started me in the Temple of Time as an adult, and I walked out into Hyrule Market and ran into all those redeads.
BOY, THAT FUCKED ME UP FOR YEARS!
I went back a few years later, and it's my favorite game now.

Yeah I remember beating the Forest Temple as like a 9 year old and refusing to play for like 4 years because I was so scared of it.

Creepiest dungeon ever.
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Space Invaders. I played the hell out of that game along with Centipede.
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This sums it up imo.

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Playing Super Mario Bros. on a Famicom (I distinctly remember the gold and red controllers).
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Watching my older sister play Sonic the Hedgehog.
Little 4-year old me was curious to try it too, though my sister only jokingly offered to let me play during the hard and intimidating-looking parts, like when being surrounded by lava in Marble Zone (or 'laven', as I pronounced it back then).

First game I actually played was Columns, when I was 5 or 6. A safe, easy and colorful start of what would become a string of addictions that would occasionally eat my nights away.
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Super Mario Bros. 3 in 1991.
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My older brother had a commodore, I don't remember the very first game we played on it, I do recall Kickstarter, a fruit machine game and a shark one though - it used tapes and took ages to load!

We also had one of those yellow handheld Galaxy Invader game things, the little stick would hurt your thumb after a while
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Roland in the deep
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Being awful at Asteroids.

...still awful at asteroids.

Asteroids is hard af bro.

I actually really don't like Asteroids for this reason. Can only shoot and boost in the same direction, top-down relative turning, turns far too fast, it's a control nightmare.
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Playing arcade machines on trips to Germany at the game corners of cheap hotels

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Does tetris count?
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Getting chased by a floating mask in Super Mario Bros 2
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Does anybody remember Tiger Electronics? I had this one, and it was totally rad:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRbNXJ2u39t7drz7eh-Ndl7MBzt7PTPA_jW7zn11Rs4bb-jpxZV
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Talking to the woman outside of your house in Pokemon Blue for an hour because I thought it was a Jynx and I wanted to catch it.

In my defense, I was 6 and didn't understand English yet.

Prolly playing a game called adventure on the Atari 2600

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eh it's hard to say which was first; we had both an NES and an Atari 2600 hooked up when I was very young because that was back when my dad still played video games other than like slots on his phone or whatever

super mario bros and pitfall were both really early memories, but my most vivid early memory is playing Rush'N Attack on NES

actually I still like run and guns more than hop and bop platformers
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Pacman on Atari. I hated Pacman for the longest time and could never understand why so many people loved it. Then I played it in the arcade when I was about 13 and I realized how much the Atari port butchered the game lol.
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I remember my dad brining home a NES when it was released. Had no idea what it was so I wasn't too hyped or anything. My mom was going to the grocery store and I usually liked going with her so we went while my dad hooked it up.

When we got home and I saw him playing Mario Bros. I was blown away. It was literally unlike anything I had ever seen before
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