First Game You Ever Played

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yawning sneasel said:
Everyone has to remember this. If not, what was the first one you ever owned. For me, the first game I ever played was Keystone Kapers on Atari 2600. It was a basic chase game where you had to chase a criminal who was trying to escape your jailhouse. You pick up random suitcases and ride escalators from level to level. There are also round orbs and when you catch the prisoner you have to do it again. This is what gaming was in the mid-1980s folks.

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Crash Bandicoot 1

First game ever beat to the credits: Pokemon Gold
 
Mario / Duck Hunt cart, I don't recall which game I actually played first.

When I was super young I used to force my dad and babysitter to play Mario while I watched, because I thought it looked super cool but I was terrified of making Mario die. I'm still proud of my dad for beating Sonic 2 for me, even though he'd never have touched a controller of his own volition.
 
I remember playing forbidden forest on the commodore 64, and the final stage with the devil scaring the absolute shit out of me when I was about four years old.
 
Kevin Spencer said:
Don't remember the name, but you were two cowboys trying to shoot each other through obstacles and such. Was on Atari.
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Sounds like Outlaw:
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I would guess some Pong variant on one of those things you plugged into a TV.
 
First game I vividly remember playing was super Mario world, it came with the SNES I got for Christmas that year crash bandicoot wrath of cortex was another really early one I remember well.
 
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LazarusOwenhart said:
Sounds like Outlaw:
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Wasn't the arcade version of Outlaw seen in the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead? I think that one was black-and-white, but, still, it must have seemed amazingly high tech at the time. They also showed one of those weird analogue video racing games.

EDIT: More green than black-and-white, but I think it's Outlaw. Pretty good graphics for a game released in, what, 1977? (The movie was filmed in January 1978 if I remember correctly.)

 
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sasazuka said:
Wasn't the arcade version of Outlaw seen in the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead? I think that one was black-and-white, but, still, it must have seemed amazingly high tech at the time. They also showed one of those weird analogue video racing games.

EDIT: More green than black-and-white, but I think it's Outlaw. Pretty good graphics for a game released in, what, 1977? (The movie was filmed in January 1978 if I remember correctly.)

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That was Taito's Gun Fight, a pretty similar game where you shot at an enemy through obstacles. (I looked it up.)
 
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I suspect that Outlaw might have been "inspired" by Gun Fight, but the Atari 2600 didn't have the resolution or memory to have as many obstacles or the size of the play area as the (presumed) original.
 
Legend of Zelda on the NES.

I think I was about 4 or 5, but I got through Level 1 and then proceeded to wander around and kill everything because I had no idea where Level 2 was.
 
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