What was your first gaming experience?

[cad2011]

Its either Final Fantasy 7 /Bushido Blade demo cd for ps1 or Street Fighter 2 Championship ed. for the sega genesis.

[mchaelal28]

Combat on the Atari 2600.

[Bucho]

Originally Posted by FletchLives

But it's such a good topic. Is it going to hurt anyone for a bot to have a successful thread? If someone clicks his signature, they deserve whatever it is.

Sure thing Fletch, looks like someone deleted the sig anyway so we're all hunky dory now. Mine was playing Pong at my cousins' house. Don't know what the system was, but it must have been 1981 or 82. It was mesmerising.

The most vivid gaming memory I have was being round at my buddy's house for a barbeque one summer's evening and having my mind blown by the genre-defining brilliance of Wolfenstein 3D.

[sagzy]

My first gaming experience was Altered Beast for the sega genesis, I was about 10 years old and we went to visit my cousin who went to an international school and I was literally hooked, I cried to my mom to let me stay so that we could play it all night. Safe to say that was the begin all end all. I was promised that if I studied hard and maintained top 5 in my class all year the next time my mom come to the US she would pick one up for me.
I was so hooked on the genesis that I refused to play Mario for about 2 years thinking that it was blasphemy in the name of SEGA and anyone who owned a NES was an idiot It was so sad in the following years to see the Sonic brand die out while Mario franchise took off and maintained for decades

[bw81]

Pong, ET, Empire Strikes Back on the ol' Atari 2600.

Then it was a Commodore 64 with the tape player, then an Amiga 500.

Dragons Lair! What an awesome game that was. I had it on the Amiga and played it so much that I could play by just listening (and sneaking a peak quickly on some rooms as they were randomly flip horizontally). Also loved Space Ace. Good times.

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by fluxquanta

Ocarina of Time on the N64. I'm not THAT young, but that was the first time I got a game/system that I actually played the shit out of.

I guess if we're going in terms of the first game we ever played and remember playing, not what got us into the gaming "culture", for me it would be a little PC gem called Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure.

[FletchLives]

Oh and BATTLE TOADS!!!!

[Chronicle615]

Front Mission for Super Nintendo!!!! Killer Instinct, Super Mario 3, Final Fantasy IV& VI.

[Sashi]

Contra on a NES knockoff in China. Won without getting hit by the time I was 5, 'cause I'm such a manly man.

[NZHippo]

My first gaming experiences apart from the odd arcade game were Wolfenstein, Seal Team, Chuck Yeagers Air Combat and the magnificent Xcom: Enemy Unknown all on PC. For my first console games what springs to mind is Driver and later Goldeneye. Ah classics!