First video game you truly remember playing...

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Aceman

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I got an Odessy 2000 for our 25" Black and White TV back in about 1976-78 timeframe We could choose from three games....Pong, Tennis and Hockey.
 

ryko212

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I would have to say the game that sticks out in my mind the most would have to be Final Fantay on the NES. I have owned systems from the old wood garin/ heat vent top Atari to now and that one remains as one of my most cherished video game memories.


It was a freaking epic and a half...;)
 

pac1085

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The first video games I remembered playing were on my Commodore 64. I dont remember the names, I was really young. The first games that I remember the names of had to have been either Wolf 3d, Duke Nukem(original not 3d), or duckhunt/super mario bros on nes.
 

sharkeeper

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Not really a video game but I can remeber keying certain numbers on an Omron calculator (with the humming nixie display!) and turning it upside down to spell words! :p I think this was about 1974 or so.

Cheers!
 

Lunarcade

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Definitely Frogger, that game taunted me when I was little I swear. However, I have seen video of myself playing a space invaders type game at an earlier age, but I don't remember it happening. :p
 

Chaotic42

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Boulder Dash on my C64 in 1986. That game was awesome. I couldn't beat it at age 4, and I'm not sure I could now!
 

lesch2k

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i know i played atari, although the first one i remember playing was super mario brothers, i could get most of the way through world 1 level 2 on the first night i played
 

dude8604

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For me I think it would be Mario Kart for SNES. I don't remember it too well though. I remember playing Super Mario RPG for SNES a lot when I was about 10.
 

WarCon

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Pong then Space Invaders then my addiction Asteroids......:)

Me and a friend played one game for 34 !/2 hours switching every 100 thousand (which had to be counted separately on a piece of paper). I OD'ed on No Dose and did a little hallucination thing for a while about 25 hours in. We were very dumb and started at 9PM and had been up all day. That was the longest a single game that had ever been played. It lasted for a week or two until this one guy played for almost 40 hours straight by himself.
 

Wipeout667

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Originally posted by: LordMaul
I don't remember the name, but it was a chinese dude on a unicycle with a pointed hat that would go back and forth on the screen and you'd pop the falling balloons.

Commador 64..

That would be "Kick" or "Kickman" (released under two different names). Pac Man makes a guest appearance in the game. ;)


 

bonk102

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midnight pinball for the atari 2600, i was additcted to it, and i also played the game with the guy running through the jungle (dont remember the name) for the original atari fun shiznit, at the dentists office
 

Dedpuhl

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1. Atari 2600/5600 - That game with the clowns and you had to jump on a trampoline

2. Nes - Super mario Bros
 

p0ntif

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I think it may have been either castle wofenstein on the apple IIe (The first one), or lemonade stand (also on the apple IIe)!
 

CrazyDe1

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rad racer...
then mario
actually before that it was jumpman on the commodore...

by the wy...anyone remember hte movie the wizard?

I love the power glove...its so bad haha
 

carmat4

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I really dont know the name but it was in the mid 70's, somewher in Latin America. it was a shootem up game. Very primitive but fun at the time.
 

MoJoichiban

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Comes to a tie between Pitfall, the smurffs game, and some game I vaguely remember involving a space ship, overhead scrolling, and dodging walls..........yeaaah......