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    First game I ever play was the original Zelda at my fathers house. Then when my mom got married my step father had a MacPlus and I played Sim City on that.

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    It'd be hard to pick a first for me. I'm one of those older generation gamers who started out on the Atari. It hadn't been my choice to pick up a game and try it 'cause it looked cool. It is possible though, that I picked out Crystalis at some point for the NES. I still have about 20-25 games for the NES (three copies of Mario Bros). My dad, my uncle, my mom, and I all used to take turns doubling on Twin Eagle. My dad beat it once or twice (I had been partnered up til near the end... then I died my last death and just watch him finish the game).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
    It's hard to talk about when I first became a gamer because I always have been one.
    This. But I remember, before I could understand how to play, I loved watching my dad play the early Legend of Zelda games (NES and SNES)



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    The very first video game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. followed by The Legend of Zelda and then a bunch of other NES games (lol StarTropics) and then some SNES stuff and then I moved on to the Genesis and had a pure awesomeness overload in my brain the first time I played Contra Hard Corps. I had some good times on the PlayStation after that and on the Game Boy, but I always kept going back to the older systems.
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    I...don't remember. I played games on ancient PCs at my mom's place of work at the time before the NES console truly exploded. All I knew at such a very young age that I loved interacting with a screen.

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    Pac Man for the Atari 2600.

    It wasn't until adulthood that I heard it was the worst port of any game ever.
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    The first game I can remember clearly was, I think, Castles.

    Followed closely by the original Master of Orion, and the Super Solvers edutainment games.

    There's another game from the early floppy era that I can remember in bits and pieces, surprisingly detailed at times, in fact, but haven't ever been able to put a name to.
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    In 1988 my dad brought home an NES and The Legend of Zelda. I watched him play though Zelda and then picked it up myself. I was five and I loved it - sometimes amazing people that I could beat the game when they as adults couldn't I also sporadically played Mario Bros. From there my life-long hobby expanded although I didn't get into RPGs until FFI in 1994. Dragon Warrior was my first RPG a few years earlier but it didn't draw me in as much. It was more of a different style of game to play.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shattered Dreamer View Post
    What game started it all? If I think back far enough there were 2. First Flimbo's quest on the C64. My older sister had a C64 which came with a cartridge that had 4 games on it.
    YES fellow C64 friend! The C64 was where I started as well.

    Because of that I can make some educated guesses on what my first game was. It would've been something like Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Donkey Kong, Pitstop (a racing game), Q*bert, Crystal Castles, maybe Gorf... one of the many arcade classics that was ported to C64.

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    Sonic, or maybe Double Dragon. I played a bunch of RPGs on the SNES too at one point, but don't remember much about them at all (in fact I have tried to track them down a few times here unsuccessfully). If we move further forward in time, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. Those are the two I remember playing quite a bit, but by this time I would have already been "into" gaming, as such, so I don't know. Somewhere between Sonic and Spyro, I guess?

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    For me it was Mega Man 4. I remember the first time I beat Pharoh Man. I used to play R.C. Pro-Am all the time too. One of those two were my first games. My first RPG was Mystic Quest.

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    Tomb Raider II!

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    aw yeah Jesswee gimme some TR love!

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    Super Mario 3, man.

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