Backloggd's First Game
This is a list made for YOU! Yes, YOU! What was the first video game you ever remember playing? Tell me in the comments, and I'll add it to the list. Feel free to add any anecdotes related to your first game, and I'll include it with your entry. Don't worry if your game is already on the list, you will be represented separately.
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It's the RTS one, I'm sorry I don't know how to classify the game either
Pac-Man World for me. My Mum and Dad split up when I was young and I didn't get to see my Mum as much for a while. I have fond memories playing it with her on the rare occasion when I got to see her. To be honest, it isn't just my first memory of playing video games. It is one of the earliest things I can remember in my life. It was a confusing time in my life and playing Pac-Man World provided an escape from it all. It might not be a masterpiece, but it will always be a favourite because of this.
Surprised no one has mentioned Mario 64.
I'm old enough to remember when that game came out and I would play it at the demo station in Zellers all the time before my family got an N64 with that game in 1997.
I'm old enough to remember when that game came out and I would play it at the demo station in Zellers all the time before my family got an N64 with that game in 1997.
Kinda foggy on my early years as a whole but the earliest gaming memory I can place is running around the hub area in Lego Indiana Jones lol.
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Apologies for the long time between your comments and me updating the list. I appreciate the participation and the stories!
Apologies for the long time between your comments and me updating the list. I appreciate the participation and the stories!
My first gaming experiences were on my iPad and iPod Touch around 2010-2012, with the main games I remember playing being Angry Birds, Jetpack Joyride, and especially Asphalt 6: Adrenaline (which would be my pick). I used to play on my iPod Touch against my dad who'd play on his iPhone 4. The first console games I played wouldn't come until late 2012 with Forza Motorsport 2 and Skylanders Giants
Over the Hedge... like, the DS version. Not a port btw. I assume I was in the same boat as a lot of people, it's a christmas knight, you get your first console and your family looks at you indulging in this new kind of media. I don't even remember my 2nd game, so I couldn't tell you anything other than a mass-produced licensed game.
@The_Gaming_Dog12 Do you just want me to go with Angry Birds?
maybe not the absolute first as the handful of Game Boy games all blend together - and on PC it was Age of Empires II campaigns since I saw it on the desktop and didn't know how to get on the internet - but I remember trying to play Pokémon Blue with a broken battery lol. I was only allowed to play on our handhelds and the save file reset every time so I could never get past the first gym. was I conditioned to like permadeath mechanics (roguelikes) at an early age?!?
i think the first video game i ever saw was monopoly on the snes cuz that's what my dad was playing for some fucked up reason, but the first game that i know i for sure played (and actually know the name of, i played a bunch of like educational games on some shitty windows 95 desktop before that but i wouldnt be able to tell you wtf they were called) was mario paint cuz i was too afraid to play real games until like, my brother let me play his copy of pokemon blue when i was 7. i mostly just colored and drew comics and made music -- the fly swatter game terrified me lol
nah asphalt 6
oh you said that and i didn't see it skull emoji
chandler
7 months ago
anyway, while i'm sure the first thps i played was 1 or 2, the one i actually remember playing first - and the one i've always played and liked the most - is thps3. it's one of the few games i'd consider genuinely perfect. it's infinitely replayable, the skill ceiling is nonexistent and i'm sure it played more than a small role in forming my music tastes - that and the old skate tape, transworld's modus operandi, which i watched and rewatched so many times i'm surprised my vhs copy is still in one piece