I am interested because this is a very international group of users, what was your first Game experience? How old were you when you played your first TV Game?
I will go first!
1984 I was 9 years old and my family had a Nintendo Famicom and my first game was Balloon Fight! I really enjoyed it because it has many colours and the game is like magic. I played joust in a game center not too far away in Niigata City and Balloon Fight reminded me of this similar game. I practiced for hours but my friends were always better then me. This got me into TV Games and I still have my Famicom today. I always liked Nintendo because of the high quality game software. When Dragon Quest was developed I could not stop playing and had Game Fever that my mother soon discovered and I got into trouble for pretending to be sick and stay home from school.
The End.
Let’s get to know one another better through game experience!!
I can’t actually remember my first game. I think it was Super Mario Brothers 3. It was at my cousins house. My family lived in the country so we didn’t really have game shops until the 1990s. I got a Famicom in 1988 and played Rock Man and Dragon quest II a lot. We played a lot of board games though.
I can’t actually remember my first game either. I want to say it was Wii Sports, probably somewhere in the time period of 2012-2014, not entirely sure (although we had a Wii before then). I’ve spent countless hours playing that and Wii Sports Resort.
I got a Wii U in December 2014, along with a DSi XL earlier that year around May I believe?
Anyways, my first game could’ve been something like Super Mario World, or Cod 2 on the 360. I grew up with my parents playing Wii U and Xbox while I played my PSP and Super Nintendo, this was likely before the idea of Pretendo Network. Nothing but good memories!!
I am so bad at Mario 64, but Zelda Ocarina of Time was such a good game! It still is. I use to have the sound effect for when a riddle was solved as the sound alert for mail on my PHS.
So funny story im not gonna blab on and on but i started as a sega boi at first my dad owned a sega genesis while i can’t remember it was either golden axe or mario galaxy or wii sports resort i think
I don’t remember it, but in the grand old year of 2004, my family bought a GameCube, (mainly for my siblings), I was only about 1 or 2, hence why I don’t remember it.
A few years passed and I was about 4 or 5 and I see this purple little box sitting next to the TV, and I was intrigued, so I walked towards it and pressed the power button, but nothing happened, obviously due to it not being on the right input, though someone changed it and for the first time, I saw Mario’s head in Mario Sunshine, in all his glory.
Hmmmm I am believing that my first experience of gaming is Pachinko, but that may not count. I do think most possibly that it was Pacman. I was at an event center for computers and electronics as my father worked for Hudson Soft and Namco had the game on display. I was in elementary school at the time and my father was a developer of software.
In japanese language exhists a word for eating fast that is called Paku Paku so we call him Paku-Man and when you play it hes say Paku Paku Paku Paku. ( so very cute! ) Everybody Love for Pacman
I did indeed also obtain a Famicom when I was 13 in 1983, and I think we had a baseball game. I forgot, hahahaha
I do remember spending hours playing 4 Player Mahjong and Shogi
This whole comment feels like a great story. I find it very interesting to hear about older people’s gaming stories! (Not saying you are old !), but I imagine that at that time, gaming consoles were the new, hot items. I would pay a lot of money to be able to experience consoles of the past, at their release.
I liked your story about the Gamecube. For some reason a lot of people considered it a failed console but it had so many good games. Plus it had a gameboy add on to play GBA and GBC games on the tv with a link cable! Super Mario Sunshine and Luigi Mansion were such good games. I think someone at Nintendo loved vaccum cleaners?
that my mother soon discovered and I got into trouble for pretending to be sick and stay home from school.
so we didn’t really have game shops until the 1990s. I got a Famicom in 1988 and played Rock Man and Dragon quest II a lot. We played a lot of board games though.
I also played that. It was mysterious and had nice music.
I am believing that my first experience of gaming is Pachinko, but that may not count. I do think most possibly that it was Pacman. I was at an event center for computers and electronics as my father worked for Hudson Soft and Namco had the game on display. I was in elementary school at the time and my father was a developer of software.
!), but I imagine that at that time, gaming consoles were the new, hot items. I would pay a lot of money to be able to experience consoles of the past, at their release.