Earliest video game memory

[YankeeH8er]

Mine are playing Zaxxon and lady bug on the Colecovison. My mom would wipe the floor with me at Lady bug. There was also a baseball game that used this weird controller that you held in one hand and there were 4 buttons on the grip and each one would throw a different kind of pitch, that game rocked to. Here it is (http://www.mobygames.com/game/colecovision/super-action-baseball), but I can't find any pics of the controller.

[Conjoshus]

Archon on the C64 all the way!!!!!!!!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/C64_Archon.png

I don't know if you guys are at all familar with this title, but when the light side and dark side would meet up, the two pieces that touched would go into an arena and fight to the death. Each "unit" had different capabilities, for example... the Unicorns on the light side ran fast and shot bolts while the Dragon on the dark side could fly over opponents on the chess board and shoot fireballs in the arena.

The Knights and Goblins used swords and clubs. Awesome fucking game, one that needs a modern remake... hmmmm

[Bruhaha69]

I loved that game but I had it on my Apple II C. Such good times. I loved the golems with their boulder throwing........at least, i think they were boulders. That's what I imagined them to be.

I think my earliest gaming memory was frogger, though. We had that and a bunch of other games for the Atari 2600. Aside from that, games like Centipede (damn those videos that were just posted), Pacman, and Combat. I loved Combat.

Sadly, my mom gave away our Atari to our jackass adopted cousins

[Conjoshus]

And they probably never played it. A similar fate befell our SNES. We couldn't get a 3DO unless we "sold" one of our systems (and I wasn't about to lose any Sega greatness). To this day, that pisses me off. Right before Killer Instinct came out on it :(

[The Skies]

My earliest memory is the NES and mario, dont remember much, but I know I played it alot, and then I played zelda alot as well.

[Luminous]

I think it was playing arcade games at amusement parks. I know I played that gun game where you shot at sharks.....I think it was in JAWS.


At home it was the Atari 2600 and Combat. Yes I am old....... ;)

[shinjirod]

milipede, centipede, defender, all those games on the atari 2600.

[mr_chun]

The first game I played was on the NES at a friend's house.

To this day, I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It was a Platformer/Sidescroller, where you could do two-player co-op. It involved shooting and such. Lots of green forests in the first stage, water too. Some sort of robot boss I think? Great music. The only other thing I remember about it is that one player was blue, and the other was red.

[Bruhaha69]

Sounds like Contra:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_series

[shinjirod]

thats contra for sure, one of the best games ever.

[jp]

Playing some Hide and Seek game on some Atari.

They also had Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, and Incoming.

[Katie]

My earliest would be playing Jungle Hunt and Miner on our Atari. I'm not sure if it was then, or if it was once we got out NES, but I remember my brother set up rules that he would get to play for a life, then I would. But he was 3 years older and a hell of a lot better than me, so a lot of times I'd die in less than a minute, then he'd be playing something for 20 minutes or more. It really sucked having to share a system when I was little. Oh, we played a lot of Q-Bert, too.. I really miss that game. It's not the same without the giant joystick controller, with the suction cups on the bottom. Oh yeah, and Popeye!!

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/5200/jungle_hunt.png

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/5200/miner_2049er.png

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/5200/q_bert.png

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/5200/popeye.png

[YankeeH8er]

That does sound really unfair. Those graphics actually don't look as bad as I would expect.

[Katie]

I wonder if my atari would still work now... I wouldn't mind having the chance to play those games again. Maybe I could petition XBL to add them. ;)

[Luminous]

I remember playing Jungle Hunt at the local roller skating rink.

Oh yeah 80's style.

[YankeeH8er]

For you they just might.

[Luminous]

Damn Yankee I love that icon......I have that as my desktop wallpaper. :D

[Katie]

I remember playing Jungle Hunt at the local roller skating rink.

Oh yeah 80's style.

Lucky! I never saw it in an arcade. A bigger screen would have been nice. Do you remember if it had more than 4 levels? I remember the vine jumping one, the one where you swim, the one where you jump over boulders while going up a hill, and then the one with the canibals. Any that I'm not remembering?

[YankeeH8er]

Damn Yankee I love that icon......I have that as my desktop wallpaper. :D

After seeing that leaked screen my hype is now off the charts. I can't even imagine how awesome it is going to be.

[Luminous]

Hmm.....good question. I can't remember any others, but again I wasn't all that good at the game.

I do know that it is on the Taito Legends game that I USED to have for Xbox.

[Frogacuda]

I remember playing Jungle Hunt at the local roller skating rink.

Oh yeah 80's style.

Lucky! I never saw it in an arcade. A bigger screen would have been nice. Do you remember if it had more than 4 levels? I remember the vine jumping one, the one where you swim, the one where you jump over boulders while going up a hill, and then the one with the canibals. Any that I'm not remembering?It had the same 4 levels, but the main difference was that they scrolled. It was the second scrolling platform game ever. Also the original version (Jungle King) featured Tarzan, but they got sued for using the character and had to change it in later editions. Pretty far ahead of its time.

My earliest clear gaming memory definitely wasn't the first time I played video games, but it was the first time I owned one. I was 4 or 5 and I got an Atari 2600 with Berzerk and Missile Command.
Archon on the C64 all the way!!!!!!!!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/C64_Archon.png
You heard they just announced a new sequel, right?
http://pc.ign.com/articles/763/763199p1.html

Someone must have read your post.

[Hunter]

Either some really old atari football game whose name I can't recall. That or some old car racing game on MAC with a bunch of lines. That game was awesome.

[YankeeH8er]

I loved Missile Command back in the day. Fantavision reminded me of that game a lot.

[Conjoshus]

You heard they just announced a new sequel, right?
http://pc.ign.com/articles/763/763199p1.html

Someone must have read your post.

Yes... they should all read my posts of games to bring back!

Eternal Champions 3 anyone?

Awesome news!

[shinjirod]

archon is a fucking amazing game. i think il get that on pc if mine runs it.

[ngt]

Archon on the C64 all the way!!!!!!!!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/C64_Archon.png



that would be my first as well....along with sea fox, congo bongo, jumpman jr, and many more :) My first stand alone game was a coleco frogger tabletop.

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/still-image/Coleco/coleco.frogger.102634525.lg.jpg

[ShinobiWan1]

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1070584521-00.jpg

Not the first, but the first to leave an impression! Wizard of Wor!

[Bruhaha69]

bastads didn't allow your link to stay up:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Wizard_of_wor_gameplay.png