When I was four or so I my family went to have lunch at another family friends house. Their sons were a bit older than me at the time, and they let me play some games on their new PlayStation console. I canβt remember exactly what order we played them in, but the first game I ever played was either Ape Escape or Crash Bandicoot: Warped. Both games are excellent and hold a special place in my heart to this day.
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First games I remember playing, at least on console, were Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario 64 on my cousins' Nintendo 64 (which later got passed down to me). I would frequently get Mario stuck in the castle moat and my cousins would have to get him out of it so I could keep playing, haha.
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Gaming in general? First game was Duck Hunt and the game that got me into gaming was Super Mario Bros.
PC gaming? Leisure Suit Larry 6.
The first game I played was broken sword on our family's windows 5.2 pc or whatever it was.
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I can remember my Dad and I playing on the Amstrad console - "Pang" and "Burning Rubber" (I think?) .... The controller connections used a serial type port and I can recall him having to fix the pins on more than one occasion!
I also remember one uncle showcasing the PS1 to us, with Gran Turismo and Time Crisis, and another uncle introducing me to Unreal Tournament on PC, a game that I still play today!
Forbidden Forest on my dad's Commodore 128. I still have a MIDI of the title music on my phone.
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I think Super Solvers - Gizmos and Gadgets was among the first games that really got me excited for gaming.
Minecraft
NFS 2SE
Need For Speed Underground 2 and Burnout 3. Got it as a combo deal for Christmas as a kid.
Does jump-start pre k count?
Ocarina of Time. There's, like, a whole world out there. I can walk around and see stuff. There are people to talk to. Hey, big owl. Scary monsters wtf. This shit's awesome.
Been chasing that feeling ever since :(
Frankly it's why I'm so into TTRPGs now. Video games can rarely give me a true sense of wonder, of exploring the unknown and unexpected anymore.
Pokemon Blue that I got from a girl my mom babysat. But I think really getting into the hobby would be minecraft when I started hosting servers for my friends in middle school. I owe my career to that game.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula on Game Boy Color
River Raid
My man!
Halo/a slew of freemium MMOs I'd play on my dinky laptop in the mid 00s
Sly Cooper.
Zillennials rise up.
Pong.
Minecraft, and then Cuphead again
Probably space invaders on the Atari 2600
I didn't have an Atari new I believe it was already an old system when me and my sister got it.
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Bastion by Supergiant Games.
I'm actually not sure how precisely it happened, but a good decade ago as a teenager I somehow stumbled upon a torrent of the game. I didn't really know anything about the game, but I distinctly remember reading the description and looking at the art and being like "this is so cool", and then being like "this is even cooler" again when it turned out Rucks basically narrates the entire game with that deep hopeful voice.
And that was that; my early gaming continued with things like Hawken, Detective Grimoire and Machinarium, but Bastion definitely holds a special place in my heart.
More than a decade later, I've played (bought) and replayed basically all of Supergiant's games several times. Such a wonderful studio. Darren Korb is a fantastic composer as well, just doesn't miss a single vibe :)
Hawken
I still feel like this had one of the best atmospheres in gaming. Something about it felt so visceral. I had such high hopes of playing it in VR eventually, but by the time VR really came out, Hawken was already dying away.
It had a fantastic gritty futuristic vibe for sure! It's a shame the recent reboot, well... basically failed at delivering that old Hawken experience. Here's hoping the old game gets magically revived someday (and I must agree, a VR port would be very cool).
super mario brothers 2 baybeeeeeeee
It wasn't the first game I played, nor the first I was really drawn in by but Ultima IV on the Master System just seemed like a miracle. There could be an entire world with a rich history, populated by diverse characters where I got to step into the role of the protagonist of a story like in a fantasy novel only I had the freedom to make my own choices about how to respond to the story, the gameplay rewarded careful thinking over twitchy reflexes and the game world was so big it expanded into real world artefacts. I had no idea of the potential of the medium until I encountered that game but it all unfolded before me once I had.
Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.
The first game I ever played was Mario on the NES, but the ones that really got me into gaming were Duke Nukem 3D and Quake on PC. It's been 27 years and I still enjoy them.
I think it was Tetris on the GameBoy, then Super Mario Land 2 and Kirby's Dreamland.
After the mandatory army service I stopped, studied and began gaming again with Portal 1&2.
Laser Blast and Pitfall 2 on the 2600
Cruisin' the world. Would sit and drive for hours
Edit: just looked it up and it's actually called Cruis'n World
Sonic on sega was the first game I played, FF7 was the first game I loved.
Moraff's Revenge