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First game I ever owned was for the Vectrex games system, probably around 1982. I got the system, which had a built in asteroids clone, and bought a game called Spike for it. It was pretty poor, but I seem to remember it featured the first speech in any game ever. Ah the good old days!


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I remember playing Atari games back before my family had a Nintendo, but don't really have much of a memory of what games. I recall playing Breakout, Pole Position, and some baseball game.

The first game I clearly remember playing a lot of was The Legend of Zelda for Nintendo. Sometimes I'm still in awe of how far the video game industry has come since then.
 
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I remember when my Dad brought home Pong, but as far as purchasing a videogame with my own money… I believe it was Shamus for the Commodore VIC 20.
 
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I remember having an Atari 2600 that I got for 6th birthday with a 15" TV I distinctly remember playing Winter Games and Summer Games and a game where you were a scuba diver.


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There were a handful of games I played on the commodore 64 that some guy gave us on discs, we had 100s

The games I can remember were "tearaway thomas", "uridium", "base jumpers", "captain planet"


The first game I played that I own was "banjo kazooie" on N64



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Tennis, on the Magnavox Odyssey. Frowner
 
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If I could even remember so far back!

It played like Pong, it looked like Pong, but I am pretty sure it wasn't Pong - it was probably one of them Taiwan knock-offs. That was circa 1977.

30 years back! Boy, do I feel old all of a sudden...
 
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hmm... first game i ever played was sonic the hedgehog on the sega megadrive, got me into console gaming i spose, now i own an xbox 360 and a wii Big Grin
 
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Castlevania for the NES. I think i was six at the time, man i barely remember playing that
 
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Hmmm. The very first game, too young to remember, but the first game to get my undivided attention, Super Mario Bros.! I would beg my mom to go to Wal-Mart just so I could play their Nintendo! That game rocked! An entire day at school became unbearable once my mom finally bought me one! I was one of the last kids to get a Nintendo & now, I finally knew what everyone was talking about when they spoke of Warp Zones & saving the Princess Big Grin!


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The first game I played was Super Mario Bros. 2 for Super Nintendo.


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Golden Axe for the Sega Genesis. I remember playing with my older brother and him always stealing the potions that gave you the special powers. I still loved the game though, I heard they are re-making a completely new one for the next-gen consoles!


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Galaga, on some sort of little console looking thing. It took D batteries and was my cousin's - I loved it (still play that game!)

Then I got a 2600 and good ol Combat, Grand Prix and Defender along with a few others - those would be my first true 'console' games.
 
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Super Mario was the first game I owned for the nes. Kid Icarus was the second.

I played an Atari with the full range of pixelated goodness long before, when I was really to young to know what I was doing.

Super Mario bros was like an awakening to video games.
 
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The first game I ever owned besides a handheld was Astrosmash on Intellivision. Almost broke a million on that game too. Dad turned it off to watch Hill Street Blues when I had 625k and 150 free guys (yes 150 free guys).

The first game I ever played was Tic-Tac-Toe on a Mainframe.
 
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Well... Super Mario Bros. on an NES clone, called Terminator 2, in the late 90's (meaning '98 or '99)... I live in an ex-communist country (Romania), so yeah... -__- We only had PC gamers around here, playing pirated games ONLY back then... -__-

My first original game (meaning bought, not downloaded illegaly off the internet) was Hugo 2 on my PS one (played in 2001, i think)... just a crappy game...

Fist game on a Nintendo system was Fantastic 4 on my GBA SP... another crappy game

First Nintendo published game was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon on my DS... not that bad...

First TRUE Nintendo game: New Super Mario Bros. on DS!

Now I got lots of cool games tho... like Pokemon D&P, TLoZ: PH, SM64, Star Fox 64, F-Zero X, DKC etc.

So yeah... be glad you weren't born here!
 
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the first game i ever played was Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back for the ps1 and then it was FF7 also for the ps1 both very good games
 
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Quest of the Rings on Odyssey. That game was fun as hell. It wasn't my game, actually, but when I traded my Atari for my buddy's Odyssey, that's all that I played. The first game I owned, of course, was Combat on the 2600.


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my very first videogame was super mario bros...i think...and then some game that you had to shoot a duck or something with a plastic gun.pretty fun!


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Pacman (Atari 2600)
 
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