Probably playing Prince of Persia at a friend's in the late 80s or very early 90s, before having a PC or console at home.
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Prince of Persia is one of the earliest games I remember playing as well, however, it's The Sands of Time one, not as early :D
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Man, I was just thinking about Prince of Persia. Playing on my cool brick of a Powerbook laptop in black and white lol
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My dad brought home this thing, I was maybe 8, and I remember a black and white game with a crosshair you'd move with the stick and had to fire to spaceships that looked like this |-O-|
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One of my first memories is playing Sonic R during a summer vacation with my dad
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A game watch called Jungle Kong in the early 80's. https://donkeykong.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Kong
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When I was little my older siblings had a couple of the old consoles (Atari 2600, Colecovision and the like, maybe another) and I wish I could remember what the game was, but I remember playing a game by myself, in the dark (not sure if I snuck out of bed to play or what), and playing a game that had super freaky (to me at the time) game over music. Whatever it was, that music scared me to my core. I thought it was the game Ladybug but I just watched a video of that and it has no game over music, haha.
Anyway, tl;dr earliest core gaming memory is being scared to death of something that probably wasn't very scary 😆
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Haha, that sounds like a good incentive to not lose the game :DD
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There were certainly some other games, that I've played earlier on my Timex Sinclair 1000 and Commodore VIC-20, but the first 3 games, that I vividly remember playing (on Franklin Ace, an Apple IIc clone) are:
- Fighter Command: The Battle of Britain (SSI);
- Lode Runner (Broderbund);
- Joust (Williams Electronics/Atari).
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Early 90s, my grandparents had this old gaming console in their basement and we used to play Burger Time a lot with my sisters. Also there was a game with a policeman and a burglar that made me laugh.
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Pong. An early adoption of Monopoly. And some unknown top down shooter.
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I remember playing Jet Force Gemini. I got it for my 6th birthday. i really enjoyed the game but i don't remember if i actually beat it :D
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I remember playing the same few first levels of countless games and never being able to beat a game as a kid :))
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I remember playing Winter Olympiad 88 in a floopy disk on pc.
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I remember playing game Neverhood. Years later I watched lets play on youtube and found out that what was for me "end game point" was like first 15 minutes of game. I wasn't the smartest kid.
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I remember pointing at Horace Goes Skiing for the ZX Spectrum and my mother ignoring me. Does that count?
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You know what? If you want it to count, then it counts!
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scroll down, I am even older, respectively: Got more XP ;-)
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We're probably not too far off from each other. ^^
I just didn't know anyone who owned an Atari 2600 or at least I don't remember playing anything on that but my father got this baby pretty soon after it was available:
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yeah. That neighbour got a C64 afterwards, I sometime later the Amiga 500. Fun times :)
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Oh well, then we would have had to fight 'til death though, since I had an Atari ST (or STFM I think?) 1040 later and everyone knows how much Amiga people and Atari people hated each other back then. Fun times indeed! ^^
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hahaha :D
No, absolutely not. At least I wasn't in any trench regarding systems.
I think we would have had fun on each others system. Couch gaming still is the best! :D
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Probably. They both had their pros and cons and I have played on friends' Amigas back then. :)
Still, the Amiga<->Atari war was a thing back then, at least in my bubble. It was like the predecessor to the console wars. ^^
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I remember my brothers got an Atari 2600 in the early 90s(92'-93') but can't remember playing any game from that. what i remember is later playing Super Mario Bros, Contra, Bomberman and various other same generation games around 95'-96'.
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An older version of this on black and green screen
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Blue: Tis but a scratch.
Red: Look you stupid bastard you've got no arms left!
Blue: Just a flesh wound.
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Some black and white mario game on a floppy disk.
Yes a 3D printed saving icon /s
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I've been thinking about this question for a little and thought I might ask you guys as well. What is your earliest memory of playing a video game, any type of game? Or if you are not sure of the earliest one, feel free to tell us about a very old, happy, gaming memory of yours.
For me, it has to be around the early 2000s, probably between 2004-2006, late at night, for some reason I wasn't asleep at that hour, playing that Tetris game from "Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games" with my mom, on my uncle's computer at the time.
It is quite a simple memory, but one I cherish a lot and like to go back to every once in a while, at least mentally, since we can't turn the time back.
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