[–] DrPandemicPhD ago
Playing Summer Olympics on an Apple II - I was absolute garbage at it, but that and Zork really instilled a love for gaming in me early.
I can't quite remember what I played FIRST. Though one of my oldest gaming memories, which has a chance at being my first and also one of the games inflated the most, is UT99. Loved me some BT, MH, and sniper TDM. Low grav insta gib in UT04, and Invasion. But 99 wins in time spent playing, easy.
Mario Game Gallery is the first game I ever "beat", but I recall my brother not letting me play A Link to the Past, very faintly. (I was only able to play games at school due to being a young child who had to wait until big brother got off the console, which was never. I had to buy his 64 from him before I could really play games to my heart's content.)
[–] HortManDeux ago
My earliest gaming memory is playing Asteroids in a small regional airport lobby sometime in early 1980.
[–] calajekyll ago
I remember, after my report card came out and I had gotten all A's, my dad took me across the street to our neighbor's house. The neighbor sold my dad their family's Nintendo for $20, including Ninja Gaidan! His kids had failed two classes each. I guess this was some kind of dad conspiracy to teach us all a lesson about how important it is to do well in school, but all it really taught me is that kids are jerks and that you're going to get beat up at the bus stop for "stealing" their Nintendo.
That's my earliest memory. My favorite memory, though, would be saving up my allowance for most of the year, and then buying the SNES bundled with A Link to the Past. I had never even heard of the series before, but after the first night playing it, I would get up two hours early before school everyday to play it in the basement, then sneak back upstairs so my dad could wake me up to get ready for school.