[–] Blodyavenger ago (edited ago)
My first three games as a 8 year kid were:
* Pentix
* Sokoban
* Epic Pinball
My passion for games grew with these 3 games, they were just aswesome! :D
Laters I was playing Super Mario Bross (NES), Crystal Caves, Gods, Warcraft 2, Lost Vikings, Civilization 1 and many many more :)
Sonic the Hedgehog and a Tiny Toons game were my first experiences. Then straight to Diablo for a week before I was like "I'm five years old, fuck that."
Then I played Mario Kart 64 and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for a bit. But then, it was Pokémon after that, forever until now(with two or three multi-month or year breaks).
[–] lawofchaos ago (edited ago)
I was about 6 (1992) when my parents picked up a console from some local market. It was called the 'Pegasus Entertainment System' and we had one game cartridge that was something like 150 games in 1. Super Mario Bros, Battle City, Bomberman, Pooyan, Mappy, Excite Bike, Elevator Action, all that jazz. Back then we didn't even know any better, they were just referred to as 'TV games'. Only much later did I even find out about Nintendo or that our 'TV games' were chinese knock-offs, my parents didn't care about that shit so I only found out from friends who had magazines or something.
A few years later I got hold of a Sega MegaDrive II. There was a local video shop that you could hire (and sometimes swap) MegaDrive games from so luckily I got to play quite a few. My favourite games then were Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets Of Rage, Golden Axe, Light Crusader, Battletoads, Vectorman, Comix Zone (I partly credit this game for my taste in music today).
Nintendo prices have never been very third world friendly so it's never been too big here even to this day. Back then Sega had the lion's share of the console market and in later days it was Sony. Only got my first PC two years ago.
First video game I can ever remember playing was in DOS - the original "Digger". There were a couple other really old PC games, but I can't remember what any of them were called (because they didn't have as simple of a name as "Digger"). I remember one game where you were a detective, or something, but I wasn't very good at it because I was really young and it was too slow paced compared to just messing around in Digger, or whatever the hockey game was called where you only got a penalty for fighting if you lost the fight.
[–] Cockblockingteats ago
i go all the way back to the Spectrum 48k but my favorite memory was hammering Secret of Mana on the SNES over and over again during school lunch times.
Name any cartridge for the old ATARIs, and I probably played it.
50 Mission Crush (B-17 game for ATARI, on floppy disks. Probably had a C64 version too)
Mail Order Monsters (ATARI)
Archon and Archon 2 (ATARI)
Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Falcon, all on IBM compatible PCs.
Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl, oh god the number of hours sunk into those... Only those flight sims listed above got more play time I would figure.
That's just a few. My childhood was nothing but toys, video games, Saturday Morning Cartoons, and touch football.
[–] jellyman64 ago
Although the first console I played was an N64 my parents had in college, the first one I personally owned was GameCube. I played Pikmin 2 constantly, Luigi's Mansion, and Super Mario Sunshine. I never owned Zelda until I bought Wind Waker near the Gamecube era ending. But the Wii was something that I owned, and I guess I could consider myself a little kid for the initial two or three years I had it. But damn, I saw how graphics could completely immerse you in Twilight Princess. I guess I was a Nintendo gamer when I was a kid. Its fitting, because I still am. :)