[–] stillborn86 ago
It was Road Rash on the SEGA Genesis at a BEST store. It was on display and I was just a kid... so young I don't really remember any of it other than the fact that it happened.
My parents "lost" me while we were shopping (I probably just wandered away like children do) and they found me playing the SEGA. The next Christmas, my father bought me both a SEGA and Road Rash. I remember spending almost all of my childhood (nearly all of the fond memories that I can remember) playing this with him... this and Ms Pacman.
My older cousin and I playing paper boy on the NES, which ultimately lead to playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out. We would always see who could get farther in that game, and I remember we both got stuck at Soda Popinski. Im pretty sure the feeling I got when I got past Popinski before my cousin did is what go me hooked on gaming. I can still remember the look on his fat face when I got it.
Intellivision. Games started coming with their own custom slide-in front for the controller.
[–] drakescale ago
Sitting down and watching my dad play Might and Magic VI: Mandate of Heaven when I was 6 or 7. Then one day he sat me down and helped me make a party and taught me how to play!
[–] ButcherOfBlaviken ago (edited ago)
The earliest I can recall is Donald Duck Quack Attack (AKA Goin' Quackers)
Another game would be Super Mario World at my grandma's house.
I should hook up that SNES again sometime...
[–] Spaceape ago
First owned games were text based on Spectrum. C64 Chucky egg? and some crazy maze shit by Jeff Minter. I am embarrassed to admit I spent more hours/days than I care to remember, chasing a dot on a blue screen on early flight sims