What was your first video game and what was your favorite memory associated with it?

[Erikkolai]

I don't recall exactly what my first one was, but I do remember being terrified by Nurse Edna chasing me in Maniac Mansion (1987).

[Cantis]

My oldest memory is the Atari 2600's circus atari, but my favorite memory was my first PC game. It was X-wing at a friends house. One person would fly the X-wing with the joystick and a second player would take the keyboard and manage the power and shields. We referred to this role as being the R2 unit. I also have some fond memories of making my own null modem cable with Radio Shack supplies to play Warcraft (off 4 floppies) as my first multiplayer PC game.

[JIRWINKO]

The first videogame I ever played was on the NES in the closing days of '93, leading into '94. It was my birthday, and my grandma bought me an NES and the combo cartridge that had Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt on it. My favorite memory associated with it, is just the amount of wonder that it brought me. It was unlike the toys and such I'd had until that point, I remember my room didn't get messed up for months because I was parked in the livingroom in front of the TV when my folks weren't watching it just trying to beat Super Mario Bros. If you would've asked the child version of me if I ever could've imagined videogames advancing as far as they have, and still are, I wouldn't have thought it possible. But no matter how far we've come in the technology, I'll never forget the point that started it all for me.

[CyberJ]

It wasn't the first video game I had but Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 was an obsession of mine when I was young. My parents had an aunt babysit me once and she suggested playing the game with me. I got to go first. An hour or so later she got bored since I hadn't given her a turn yet .

[Verhoven 69]

Console videogame, SNES. Legend of Zelda LttP. Wonder, awe and excitement!

[CapnPu]

Many years ago i got an Intellivison for christmas when i was 8.
It came with three games, Space Battle, Armour Battle and a football game.
It was the best Christmas i had as kid. Even now 36 years later (ouch, that hurt) i still have the console and it still works.

[Yoshi]

My first home game was Combat on 2600, but frankly I have more vivid/fond memories of other 2600 games, like Atlantis, The Empire Strikes Back, Pitfall, etc.

[MoonlightChimera]

Banjo Kazooie
Fondest memory was getting home from school and getting those jiggies.

[Oysterhead]

Tetris & Dr. Mario on SNES at my grandparents. They used to play that against each other. Some of the most brutal gaming I have ever seen. It was many years later that I had my own gaming platform. I think they had a major influence on me regarding my gaming habits.

[ImminentOwl]

The first game I played was Pokemon Red, it's what got me into gaming. I remember getting a GameBoy Color and Pokemon Red while on a football (or soccer) trip one summer and playing it with a bunch of other kids on a bus ride home. I distinctly remember not really understanding how evolution worked and thought it was random. I chose Charmander as my starter and remember reasoning that Charmeleon took so long (in my 8 year old mind) to evolve was that in the anime Charmeleon was stubborn so it had to grow to like me more.

[Turbotailz86]

I think my first game was Pitfall that was on Atari. I suppose my most memory of it was successfully jumping over the crocodiles and not hearing that death song.

[Good Apollo]

Super Mario Bros on NES. I was 3 and used to play it with my mom and it is a very good memory of her that I still remember.

[JackofTears]

I don't even remember the name of my first game, it was an Atari contemporary system but it actually saved your progress in some of the games. The game itself was about you being chased through a maze by a caterpillar, which you had to kill by eating all of its segments. It was a wonderful game for its time but, what I remember most, is that it was a family activity in those days and we'd all sit around and play the game together, for hours at a time.

I also played Pong and really enjoyed it.

[MetroidJunkie]

I can't say for sure but the first game I still remember vividly is probably Doom. I'm especially fond for Doom II: Hell on Earth. I had to resort to cheating to make progress, I was quite young and the default controls aren't exactly user friendly.

[Grimsayer]

The first game I ever played was Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle on my dads pc when I was 4.
I love this game and still go back and play it to this day.