i still have the pokémon blue cartridge but not the teal GBC it came to me with.
my dad still has some spectrum bits around and recently rebought a bunch of atari ST stuff, which is the first thing i remember playing. Xenon II: Megablast! one of the most important games ever i think, if for no other reason than its influence on Tetsuya Mizuguchi
sure don’t lol
i got a PS1 with a dozen or so pirated games when i was 4 and i kept them on one of of those carrying cases which i have lost and found again over the years. i was never too attached to them to begin with so i never took much care
I do not. A divorce happened and the Nintendo ended up left at my father’s house, never to be returned. I also, about ten years ago, purged 90% of my physical video game stuff.
Nope. I traded in my SNES and games to buy my N64 and the SNES was the first console that was mine, and it came with Super Mario World (a bit embarrassed that that might be the first game I ever owned—we had an NES before it but it was my parents’). Even if I hadn’t, pressure to grow out of video games from basically everywhere would have forced me to part with them eventually. I think my copy of Majora’s Mask might be the only 64 game I’ve owned continuously since that era and didn’t need to buy back out of trade-in regret.
No, I sure don’t.
It was the 3-in-1 cartridge that came with my NES. I sold my NES and all its games for credit to buy a PS2. I was too poor to keep my old games if I wanted new ones.
Pretty sure this is mine. And if you doubt its provenance, you can check my dental records because I gnawed on it!
This was a good selection of games as my intro to the concept! I mostly played Streets of Rage and Shinobi up to the point where you fall into a waterfall repeatedly and game over. Columns has a great soundscape but the core mechanics never really grabbed me. Super Hang-On is arcade excellence. The football game seemed fairly competent but I never really got into it.
I still have a bunch of childhood games, but I’m not sure which would have been my first or if I still have it. My mum always had computers which always had heaps of shareware/pirated games on them, which we don’t have any more. Our first console was a master system with Hang On/Snail Maze built in, but I think it belonged to my sister and we don’t have it any more. I think the first cartridge we bought was Wonder Boy, not sure who it belonged to but it’s gone. I still have my Wonder Boy in Monster Land, which might have been the first game I bought myself but I just don’t remember.
No, if you count any of the C64/Genesis titles I had. I might know where they are but I don’t have access to them (long story).
I do have the first RPG I bought, Legend of Legaia.
I do.
Only just, though, because I’m mid-cull.
I don’t have it, but my brother does. Our first game ever was Super Mario All-Stars
I don’t, but I wish I still did. I had played my brother’s games for years but the first game that was really mine was Swamp Thing for the NES. The game is junk, but as a kid I didn’t really understand that and fumbled my way through the first stage over and over. Now its far too expensive to try and obtain another copy.
First game that was legally(?) my own was the Parachute Game & Watch. Should theoretically still be at my parents’ house but I’m not 100% sure I’ll ever get to retrieve anything from there.
My first game i owned myself was World of Illusion for Genesis.
My brother got it from a friend and i played it a lot. My brother gave it to me for cleaning up a huge dog turd which was his chore to do.
I traded it to a Software Etc. along with many Genesis games. I later found the same copy of it though! Had the same sharpie marks on it.
The first game i remember ever playing is Mario 3. My brother still has that copy.
After that first trade in of genesis stuff ive pretty much held on to everything since other than my atari stuff and a few rare games i dont ever play. We traded in a perfect Contra Hard Corps and that still haunts me.
No, mom sold my NES and all of my games for like $20 in a garage sale
I still have my copy of SMW! I don’t actually break out the SNES these days because the mister core is so good
Many of my first games were what my dad had when I was growing up. So mostly PS2 and GameCube games like gran turismo 3/4, SSX 3 and tricky, various Mario parties, Sonic mega collection, etc. We still have most of these somewhere at my parent’s place and honestly I should see what I can take next time I’m there.
I’d say the most of my first personal purchases were for handhelds. Most of the GBA Pokemon games, all the sonic games, and a couple license games every child has to have. Unfortunately dumb kid me sold most of the GBA games I had to get a DS. For some reason though I still have my original copy of Sonic Advance 2 and Sonic Battle. Neither of which were my favorite (Advance 3 was my fav of the advance games).
That’s incredible, I played that so much on my grandpa’s computer before I got a Sega Genesis.
The first games I was gifted was a pack of games that we got with the Sega Genesis for Christmas from my Grandma. I remember Sonic & Knuckles, a game called Comabt Cars, the other games are lost to memory and they are all lost to time and were all traded into game shops for Burger King cash. But technically those games belonged to the family and not just me, so…
Yeah, I guess I do still own the first game I ever got. On a car trip back from visiting the same Grandma, she gave me a copy of Sonic 3 for the Genesis when I was around 7 or so. I remember it vividly. It was early morning in the car and I was in the front seat and my siblings were in the back. She gave them both toys and I saw a rectangular shape in the bag and got really disappointed thinking it was a book. I didn’t say anything to that effect, but when she pulled out Sonic 3 I instantly felt guilty for judging what I thought was a poor gift and it really shifted my perspective of how to appreciate things at a young age. That copy still sits on my shelf with all the save files still full from the times I cleared them as a kid.
The other standout game from my childhood that I still have is Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast. It was the first game that I followed the development on and that I was super excited for the release of, counting down the days and such. I downloaded tons of media about the game in the weeks leading up to the launch and would watch the gameplay video of the City Escape demo over and over. When launch day came, I had my money ready and my folks refused to take me to the store to get it because my uncle could burn games. It was true, he’d done it for us before, but I really wanted a real copy for obvious reasons. They insisted they get me a burned copy because “why would you spend money on something when you could get it for free”. In any case, the uncle never came through with that and my mom relented and took me to Wal-Mart to get it.
I’m actually very fascinated by this sort of thing and I find myself picking those two games off my shelf to hold and really think about how this is the same, exact, physically material copy of the game that I can close my eyes and picture receiving decades ago. Whenever I look at the back of the CD case for SA2, I am transported to a 13 year old me standing in line at Wal-Mart looking at the back of the case, vibrating with excitement and impatience to get home and play for the first time. A very rare instance (for me at least) of being able to connect a distant memory in my head with something I can hold in my hand right now.
