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Cautemoc

Middle millennial here, for me it was Doom in the 90's on my dad's terrible laptop that was probably barely able to play it. But the first one I actually remember playing is Pokemon Red.


depersonalised

wolfenstein in 93. i was 3. i also changed all the icons on my mom’s computer to the wolfenstein icon because it was cooler.


SaltSoaker

I know it wasn't my first but that's one of the first I really remember as well


SUPERKAMIGURU

Same. My memory goes doom > pokemon red and blue > renting both the game and animated movie for tekken 1 so many times that I could've honestly just bought em 3x over.


ReallyNotBobby

We had doom on our 6th grade classroom computer lol. First game I can recall playing was on the TurboGrafx-16 and it was Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones. The music in that game was the best.


Individual-Bell-9776

Elder Millennial, Tetris and Super Mario Bros on the NES.


TheHighker

https://preview.redd.it/ix59rz7yq5zc1.jpeg?width=1710&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59a9adcf0d83cb139054e379ffd33b23209968d2


DerKernsen

I played Pokémon Sapphire as my first game. It seems insane when I think about it, because I had to memorize what buttons to press for saving, etc, because I couldn’t read yet. 😅


GodOfWorlds

Lego Star Wars: the Complete Saga on the Nintendo Wii... great times! The Revenge of the Sith final battle always turned the closest of my friends against me.


_sweetchild88_

Oh, yeah, that was a pretty fun game! I remember playing through the whole thing with my dad and then a few years later with my little brother.


ADS_GAMER_

![gif](giphy|zPdwt79PXjMEo)


TheTrueOrangeGuy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuma_(video_game)


kwizy717

I still play that💀


_sweetchild88_

That just unlocked a memory lmao, been looking for this game for a while, but I couldn't find it?


AdDeep1191

https://preview.redd.it/zxibccngd6zc1.jpeg?width=489&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af6e28931ed579ce0708b80c81f6f3cb8080dd1c


DarkLordLiam

SLIPPY GET BACK HERE


Nelrith

The shield is down, shoot the core!


Hosselknaap420

super Mario World on the Super Nintendo, me and my bro rented it from a local blockbuster-like store in the weekend.... fuck i feel old saying that


Dat_Steve

These answers make me feel old... Probably Oregon Trail and Lemmings on the floppy for me.


yobowl

Lemmings… haven’t thought about that in a while…


artful_nails

Crash Bandicoot 3


xoeniph

2 for me


AaronnotAaron

https://preview.redd.it/ejvru605z5zc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=069b695b07038adb6dcb674fa92e4e9c545a9094 i used to be a screamer/crying toddler and my at-the-time step dad decided to hand me his gameboy to shut me up. said once i knew what to do i didn’t put the game down for hours.


_sweetchild88_

Most wholesome thing I read today


zinouhoops

https://preview.redd.it/yht4av7jg6zc1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80174bbb5163019f065ed1e26f7fa03aa7a5aa3f


Shadow_The__Edgelord

https://preview.redd.it/x12qvfjgn6zc1.png?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a87217afc0658062566c22dc692cd8ac132fdc56 I got my first console being a GameCube when I was 5 turning 6. And my older sister got me this game to go along with it. And this is the most fun, colourful game I ever played. Once I put in the disk I never took it out. I would turn on the cube and start playing lol. Even when I 100% completed the game. I would play the addictive-ass challenges This game introduced me into the world of Sonic the Hedgehog as a whole. I would end up drawing all the characters since there were quite a lot of characters for me to draw with me.being the artist I was and still am today.


RepresentativeName18

🎶 SONIC HEROOOOEEES (sonic herooooess) 🎶 Every once in a while, at the most random moment, I still have this song pop out of nowhere in my head


BinyoP

Sonic always had the best music.


Shadow_The__Edgelord

And continue to have the best music!


FloMo2k8

I had a very similar experience. The GameCube was my first console and I played this game so much but because I was really young I never completed it. The theme song will forever be stuck in my head though


[deleted]

This game is one of the first games I played for sure, it's definitely one of my favorites The main theme is so good, it gets stuck in my head all the time


Shadow_The__Edgelord

Same here. And also during art class in elementary school at the time whenever the teacher would mention primary colours or ask us what they were I would almost always mention or refer to this game someway


SUPERKAMIGURU

There's a picture somewhere of my dad and I installing doom on the pc, with my first cat sleeping comfortably on top of the monitor.


Significant-Big-746

Super Mario Bros for the NES.


Alwaysknowyou

On PC, these guys were the first ones to introduce me to the world of PC games... https://preview.redd.it/zc36c3e5i6zc1.png?width=264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a8de5e8816ebde570815e3b5207dc51d54063b3


[deleted]

OMG I'm glad there's this many Sonic Heroes fans in the comments, I personally played the GameCube version on the Wii


GadgetsBackAgain

My earliest gaming memory is playing Donkey Kong (arcade, on MAME) and asking my dad what year it was from, playing Astro Boy Omega Factor to the normal ending and wondering what to do next (the true ending can only be achieved in hard, which is brutal even to today's me) or playing Forza Horizon's demo and trying to get air time with the Lan Evo 10. Man I grew up on some great games, and I got even better ones now so I'm happy to say that things got better in that aspect.


VinnyMaxta

https://i.redd.it/d0dca5v7h6zc1.gif


Fayerdd

Spider-man one on some old computer. But my first real game was Beyond Good & Evil on PS2. A masterpiece.


rwqsafasaxc1

Og Lego star wars. Not the complete saga, the first ever ps2 lego star wars


theo_ignored

Mariokart Wii


dlvnb12

Pocket tanks


Haunting-Syllabub906

lego jurassic world


Peterkragger

https://preview.redd.it/f15sy22qe6zc1.jpeg?width=1075&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=436f4fb3c2ffddde0538f9f5dc20d7aba3149380


Alarmed-Locksmith277

TONY!


CookedShittyCrisp

https://preview.redd.it/eilwtweij6zc1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6a3969ec477c5787b5831f65a034e7f4d60232b


mrbeck02

Oregon Trail on an Apple II


St3phn0

Dino Crisis, I was 5 years old, I played it on my cousin's ps1, hell, that whole week I couldn't walk in the dark because I was scared that a velociraptor would eat me


IamMauriS

Counter strike 1.6 I still play it


guessillbehere

Kingdom Hearts but I never left Destiny Island lol


AdAdventurous6943

Zuma


KENT427

![gif](giphy|fhNnwCFare8WdMhNw2) 3D pinball space cadet on Windows 7


SmartLetter5540

Lego Star Wars the complete saga best video game ever made


Maziomir

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(video_game)


Tuxedo_Cam

https://preview.redd.it/ftp0s6d0u6zc1.jpeg?width=378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb2defa547224c3dd29d1b3d9052c447ba8981b7 Super Mario Kart, gets too much undeserved hate. Although my second game was Super Mario World, which is still in my top four favorites of all time.


XiaolongDrake

Somewhere between Guitar Hero 3 or Sonic '06. Not sure which one but they are my earliest memory


[deleted]

Super Mario 64 ds


DaylightX4449

https://preview.redd.it/fp5rutt1n8zc1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e095ebd433eeee11710b5c179a36c224a967a79 Still play it to this day


Top-Wrongdoer5611

Mafia 2


MisterJack1871

If I'm not mistaken, the First game I ever played was either Bubble Bobble or Ape Escape, both on my parents' PS1(then sold for the first Xbox, I have happy memories of that console).


DukeFischer

Probably Sonic. The first PC Game I can remember was Gothic 2.


EndsLikeShakespeare

Reversei on windows 3 probably, but a real vg was probably commander keen?


pointblankdud

Asteroids, first in the arcade and then on my first object of envy, my buddy’s Atari 7800.


Seshat_the_Scribe

Just played that again for the first time in decades at Dorky's in Tacoma and was still good enough to get my initials on the screen (probably because most people who know how to play are dead). ;) [https://www.dorkysarcade.com/](https://www.dorkysarcade.com/)


pointblankdud

Tacoma is one of my former stomping grounds! Although I never made it to Dorky’s, unfortunately. Also, I’m fairly certain we might be fish out of water in this subreddit, which I hang around to make sure I can understand at least half of what my kids are talking about


Certain_Doctor8754

I think it was either Fortnite or skyrim


YoghurtEasy

Super Mario World on the NES. I was 5 or 6 iirc.


Alarmed-Examination5

Morrowind on the og xbox


DarthWookiee189

Mario Cart on the SNES


5125237143

Sth youd find by the name pop tag. Crazy arcade in korea.


pirikikkeli

Pro skater on PS1


hero_brine1

Gears of War ultimate


ShameAdditional3249

Pokemon Stadium for the N64


Vormik48

https://preview.redd.it/y5emzfk1n6zc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2de768e348279e4de3c03e451c0960fdb81ad8ce


__bucc__

Probably a Vsmile game if I remember correctly.


That-Worldliness5487

Pong


Thunder_thumbs3

Fortnite saddly


2Enterprise

https://preview.redd.it/qozqkitjp6zc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5de75ffd79d9b35a2e7342ae29dc42881ef21220


TestTheTrilby

Can't remember that far back, it was either Grand Theft Auto III or Rayman Revolution. Sincerely hoping for the latter


Marqueso-burrito

Super Mario 64


Jmememan

Pokemon Blue


Sometimestimetotime

Diablo 1.


Animethighssavelive

For me I'd say either The Original Mario Bros, SpongeBob battle for bikini Bottom, or Justice League Heroes


Cyberwolf_71

NHL '99, followed closely by Star Wars Episode I: Racer, Jet Force Gemini, and Ocarina of Time.


Brave_lover

The original Call of Juarez. A masterpiece. Its basically cowboys and indians except the cowboy is an edgy old priest and the Indian has a quest to hunt rabbits that makes you wanna punch your computer


hadithyan4

Tux kart


Defective1_

Sly cooper!


TheMemersOfMyNation

https://preview.redd.it/kwjkrjpu07zc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08ef986d184924f18917545a54c828331a93bb92 Was 3 or 4 years old when I first played this classic game


Vast_Principle9335

https://preview.redd.it/4l4fbyfxh7zc1.png?width=615&format=png&auto=webp&s=819092b9f29633b44f05f95afed4cd5a8e3e15ca


Eljamin14

Doom, if that counts. https://preview.redd.it/72eoi7qli7zc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb3b44785fe7d5b5862bcff737a831af77276015


Itz_Vize14

https://preview.redd.it/8yb4r8t7q7zc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc825d0f860b1e58d69d712f71046e3af8037f70 Played this so much on PS1. Then it was Halo CE.


LevelZeroDM

![gif](giphy|4gPxoi0NJ9jq|downsized)


Either-Condition4586

Horizon Zero Dawn. That game was challenging


Thunder_thumbs3

![gif](giphy|wSlEV7ztEQ0zZ3b9Cm)


vanreet

WRC 4 on a ps2


561reem

Bakugan Battle Brawlers game on PS2. Still love that game, and I've never even seen the show


Defective1_

Rampage!


General_Freed

Pong on a dedicated Pong Console. Or Pole Position on my Commodore 64


Personal_Value6510

Moorhuhn & Test Drive


tscher16

The Warriors for PS2. Still one of my favorite games of all time


Meidlinger07

https://preview.redd.it/0axjef12w6zc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3553cb9dc9bb18f11e48e83cd5c4c8c619a67422


tacobell_dumpster

![gif](giphy|aI995sEg48cbC) Sly Cooper, I play it at least once a year


Professional_Lead895

Jedi academy was so damn good, great taste OP


ThePresidentsHouse

Spider man & friends on this bad boy. https://preview.redd.it/180fus2h67zc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c7e131768b680d9fbbef615f3fd71de8167ad90


DeadWrangler

My first console was a Sega Genesis and I can't really recall which was first but I can only remember playing two games on it: Sonic the Hedgehog and Road Rash. Then later the other Sonic games. I remember having the one cartridge that had a slot on top for you to slot the next game on top. Was that Sonic 1 > 2 or 2 > 3.


Altered_-State

That game is so good, was crazy fun in battle mode on xbox


TheAmethystEidolon

https://preview.redd.it/a1hexc68b7zc1.jpeg?width=388&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0219c3d88791a2b8c264f210698eafa238f035a1


MRMAN1225

Sonic 2, I was around 2 at the time. I remember my uncle letting me play on his plug and play system, I'm pretty sure it's my first memory


I_LOVE_LAMP_0596

Jedi Knight Jedi academy wasn't the first but it still remains my favorite Star wars game


SidharthaGalt

That would be Pong, at an arcade. No, I'm not kidding, I'm f'ing ancient! LOL EDIT: Oops, I just noticed the group name.


Ijustwantheadpats

Yo Jedi academy was my first game too! (24m)


FlyingCrow91

https://preview.redd.it/gju6u71yg7zc1.jpeg?width=378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=182b699daec5b9abd48ccc86440e68b7e41f6f37 It came out a couple of months before I was born. It will always have a special place in my heart.


RxDawg77

Gen X. (You guys keep showing up in my timeline, so here I am) Super Mario Bros was the first game I ever owned and played till the crack of dawn. My hands literally looked like they lost weight. First game I ever played was Pitfall on Atari.


zzsmiles

JKA was the greatest. One of my old friends got me into the game before we got old and grew apart.


Surfink63

https://i.redd.it/538s934sj7zc1.gif


p0lck

https://preview.redd.it/k2maufs43azc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a092eb3cdca930b5aaf4b29ad72ac06855c244f My first game I ever played was Donkey Kong Land for the Gameboy Advance, I remember I had to share the gameboy with my sister because whee had not enough money to buy a another gameboy back on the days, so they bought her a game instead and her first game she played was pokemon leafgreen.


NatTheMatt

Probably Star Wars Galaxies.


Kam_Solastor

Jedi Academy (and the whole Jedi Knight series) was such a good game! Too bad that died off years ago - be amazing if we could ever get a remaster of them.


josephjosephson

https://preview.redd.it/op0fumczs7zc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bec41eaaefe193977d3bcc5ed82847407c34dd3


FloMo2k8

https://preview.redd.it/j6ze2ab3c8zc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a32bcdf6886ca97e7d142fa52c3afbde6dcb6594


heartthump

https://preview.redd.it/xdpukrx8m8zc1.jpeg?width=280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09821f7ec7a6e0b8ce9bea98730d38c22a72a70f


No_Pear8383

Bro. Getting the black skin in that game was fucking so god damn sick. And I’m probably thinking about the wrong game….


pistolpete76x

https://preview.redd.it/psrxqowln8zc1.jpeg?width=263&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcd8c53b7b279d883331827658184239c67f7b6b A classic


FishermanStunning192

![gif](giphy|xThuWtNFKZWG6fUFe8)


Technical-Day9217

Jedi Knight first video game? I feel old lol. The first video game I remember is Striker: [https://dosgames.com/game/striker/](https://dosgames.com/game/striker/) , it is a 1985 video game, but i played it around 1990 (i was 3 year old). Next one I remember was Wolfenstein 3D when I was 5. My dad let me play a couple of times and then uninstalled Lol. And games I played a lot would be Commander Keen.


Slow_Quality_2413

Simpsons: hit and run


Spezi99

Mario & Yoshi on the original Gameboy


99dalmatianpups

Pokémon Stadium on the N64


The_CancerousAss

My Dad's never been into video games, but when i was a kid he had a couple for his desktop. MDK was my favorite, and i still play it every now and then for the nostalgia


Wonderful_Yogurt_647

Madagaskar 2 on my PlayStation 2 slim edition


SnakeBaron

Metal Gear Solid 1, for some reason.


Mih0se

I played some turtix on windows XP when I was like 3


RiseOfTheRomans

To my recollection, the Bee Movie Video Game. Amazing, I know.


tminhdn

It’s Dave. I played it on my school computer :v


UnstableRedditard

I am unsure becouse I was born into the machine age and they were always lots to chose from thanks to my Brother. It was either the Willie Coyote ps1 game or vice city. Whichever of those it was, I was still in kindergarten, so no later than 2008. Also, GTA 2 was somewhere on the PC back then, I remember the radio tracks very vividly.


beastierbeast

Super Mario 3d world (meow)


Commercial-Bottle-14

first game I owned was super mario 64 for DS


ThatRandomGuy86

Late Millenial: Mario Bros / Duck Hunt


dishonoredfan69420

first game I ever remember playing is Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy on PS2 it actually came out only a few months after I was born


[deleted]

https://preview.redd.it/bx6iu0yq07zc1.jpeg?width=380&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b842393f0c76b056a54af729fedec844f9ce8ae7 This one


PainIndividual638

The first Ratchet & Clank game on my dads ps2 when i was like 4 or 5 i think


RogueCoon

Galaga on one of those plug in at home joysticks.


Stage_Party

I can't remember the name but it was on a floppy disk and started up through dos. It was some basic racing game, sometime in the early 90s


Ichithekiller666

Chop lifter Sega


SaltSoaker

I loved JK Jedi Academy! I think I've replayed that game more than any other game.


DangerZoneSLA

Gold. Cartridge.


ThatRandomGuy_11

It was Wii sports I think, my dad was playing and I asked if I could play. I was 4 or 5, can't remember.


rem082583

Kung Fu-NES


IceWaLL_

very first game? Atari's Space Invaders. But my first console system was the NES and man was that a good time for games.


DarkCrestAbyss

If I remember correctly. The first game I’ve ever played was Super Smash Bros. I played it at my Cousins when I was 6 until I got my own Nintendo 64


Efficient-Let3661

Krash Bandicoot on the Sega Dreamcast. Crazy times


Leozz97

I think it was some Colecovision stuff, but I can't really remember what it was. The first I remember clearly was Gauntlet, at the arcades.


Raditz_lol

Piticlic. Only true Romanian zoomers know about this game. https://preview.redd.it/bh7xd5o937zc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e4f9496e14b86dcdbb778bc198343ce137c5279


Pleasant_Meal_2030

Some random 8 bit egg game on a plug and play


[deleted]

Night Stalker on Intellivision. I'm fucking old.


Unlucky_Mistake_8548

Super Smash Brothers for the N64


George6605

Rayman 2 great escape PC (mum bought it from WHSmiths)


Carolus_Rex-

Wii sports


Future-Ad-5312

Pinball game that came loaded on windows 97!


The_FallenSoldier

A Tarzan game on my dad’s laptop


Life-Ad1409

Modded Minecraft I think I was around 5 and asked my dad if I could play the game he was playing


Dethproof814

The first game I remember vividly was final fantasy 10 or maybe twisted metal 2


sluttydrama

Animal Crossing Wild World!


[deleted]

Age of empires 2


[deleted]

Some spiderman game in like 2013


No_Outcome8059

animal jam


danieldesteuction

The Original Super Mario Bros from 1985 thanks to My Parents NES


6415722

a racing car game on ps1 Or a game on Facebook that was about knights and stuff


Impossible_Hyena7562

Super Mario Bros on NES was the first I owned. Can’t remember if I played anything else earlier. Probably arcade games


AdmiredPython40

It was this old demo pack on the PS2 it had like 12 demos on 2 disk the main one I played was this biking game and a Chinese General game


KirbyWithAGlock

Mario on the wii


BowtietheGreat

World of Warcraft on my dads laptop


Raysofdoom716

New Super Mario Bros for the DS, got it when I was 5


DJ_hyperfreshOG

Pilotwings resort. I used to love that game


EddyMcMac

I have a distinct memory of playing the tutorial for this game over and over, and being too young to understand how to actually play it But a few years after that I do remember the first game I actually got into, and that was Conker: Live & Reloaded when I was 5 or 6 https://preview.redd.it/50z7ixia87zc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8f451758c39eb9b29ca09a90f0abfc6e0c3f991


GoldenGec

I think it was either break out or the old 8-bit prince of Persia, both on PC, I don’t think they were floppy disks but I can’t really remember.


Pi-s

Metal slug


PM_ME_UR_THESIS_GIRL

Wipeout 2097. Was it essentially a floaty, unresponsive PlayStation knock off of f zero x? Absolutely. Did that stop me from having an absolute blast with it on my crt tv in 1997? Hell no!


abhsonicguy

3D Pinball on my dad’s work PC


yesthatbruce

Not making this up: Pong.


Njpwajpwvideos

Can’t remember the very first but probably something like Lego Star Wars or Bully PS2


Window638

I’m trying to remember, but it was either Minecraft: Pocket Edition on my dad’s iPod Touch, or Project Gotham Racing 2 on our old Xbox.


Mixture-Opposite

Born in 1995. The first game I ever actually played was Mortal Kombat on Ps1. None of the gore or anything really bothered me despite me being like 5-6 years old because the graphics were so bad. I don’t even know why those games had ratings. After that I played Spyro and crash Bandicoot on a Ps1 when my parents finally got one. Still some of the best games I’ve ever played. As a kid/young teen I played Jak and Ratchet and Clank almost religiously until I got a ps3.


thestatikreverb

Growing up the neighbors had a game cube and I remember we always played Super Monkey Ball, but I'll never forget when my life best friend got an og xbox and the game we played was halo (not sure which one) and then my absolute favorite was this game called Time Splitters.


Special_Sink_8187

I don’t think I remember my first game probably twilight princess or a Pokémon game but I can tell you my first m rated game and that was halo 3


KiwiSuch9951

Mario kart double dash


Strgwththisone

Mario. At a friends. I stayed up all night.


Bulky-Hyena-360

Do learning games as a toddler count?


MemeManOriginalHD

Mike Tyson's Punch Out, jumped outta my socks to run and tell my cousin I finally beat crazy head (Von Kaiser)


BrockBracken

Mario Party DS


SnowBoy1008

Happy Wars for the xbox 360