The first two games I ever played were Socom 3 U.S. Navy Seals and Call of Duty World at War Final Fronts

Nice! I haven't really played any of the military FPS games for years. The last ones I spent any major amount of time with were Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam back in the early 2000s. :)

I see

Best two in the series, in my opinion! Did you ever try the star wars galactic conquest mod for 1942? It was mind blowing being able to walk around in the Millennium Falcon as it flew. Vietnam was a ton of fun too, loved playing with friends in the helicopters.

Onimusha demon seige 3. Fell in love with the oni gauntlet and been power hungry and addicted to dragons ever since.

Haha, I'm not familiar with that game, but it certainly sounds fun based on that description alone. :D :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colos.....Cave_Adventure

Ooooh, awesome! Love a text based adventure game. :D

And none better to start with than one of the first ever made!

Good choice. :-D I never played it, unfortunately. Zork was my first text adventure game.

Luckily technology has a solution for that problem http://rickadams.org/adventure/advent/

it was either an Atari game I don't recall or Super Mario Bros. on the old ass NES. xD

I wonder what percentage of folks' first game experience was some sort of Mario game. I guess it'd depend on generation, but it feels like it'd be particularly high for folks of a certain age!

Way long ago - don't recall a lot of them but I had a TRS80 growing up.

Remember Dungeon's of Daggorath, Poltergeist, Empire...
Also, had a friend of the family that was the head of the Computer Services department in a nearby State College so played also Zork.

I've seen some gameplay of Zork! Love an old-school text adventure, but good lord some of them were rough. XD

Yeah, it was brutal - no guides or websites to look up help. Lots of trial and error. I don't recall much about the game, it was roughly 40 years ago.

Super Mario 64

A classic! I loved my N64 when I got it, but weirdly never had Mario 64. o.o

River Raid on the Atari 2600...

I had to google that one, haha!

Super Mario World on the SNES

Another for the Mario brigade. :D

I'm a greymuzzle, so my very first games were the original Mario Brothers, Pitfall, Asteroids, and other classics on the Atari 2600. I also had a Pong console and my neighbor had a Collecovision that I got to play sometimes.

Pong had a dedicated console when it was new? That's awesome. :D

When Pong was made, there weren't general-purpose game machines that could play multiple games! It was more like the arcade console, made for one game. Pong basically launched the video game industry, the implication of that was there weren't general purpose consoles because there weren't successful video games yet. Atari made Pong and the Pong consoles, and they created the Atari VCS (later rebranded the Atari 2600) so it could play Pong, and other arcade titles that Atari had previously released as dedicated hardware machines.

Riven - really good game, but I my kid brain never got far with the puzzles.

I know of Riven! A Twitch streamer I follow brings up Myst and Riven fairly frequently, haha. Never played it myself though!

I think it was Gran Turismo 2 and Driver 2.

Oh gosh, I had a friend who had Driver 2. But, for whatever reason he'd only ever let us take turns at the driving test mode when we were playing it. I remember thinking "Is... this the whole game??"

The first ones I really remember were for our Windows 3.1 machine. Chip's Challenge, Ski Free, King's Quest V, and Microsolft Flight Sim. There were a few Disney ones thrown in there but those were the key ones

Oooh, I loved some of those older Windows games. Ski Free was fun, also Jezzball and... oh god, I can't remember the name, but the one where you had to quickly connect a bunch of rotateable pipes before they filled with water and overflowed. Never played Kings Quest 5, but 6 will forever hold a place in my heart.

* Alexander feels a strange pulling sensation *

Sounds like Pipe Dream...

Yes the pipe one! I forgot about that one. Kings Quest was too difficult for my little 6yo brain to figure out, but was fun to futz about in

Toppler/Perestroika, I'm guessing, as well as Blues Brothers, Xenon 2 by the Bitmap Brothers (a favourite!), Commander Keen... oh, and the Windows 3.11 Minesweeper.

Commander Keen!! Played that as a kid at my great aunt's house on her PC, well before I was allowed to get one myself. <3

Super Mario 3 and donkey Kong country were a few of my firsts

Yay for another Nintendo kid. XD

I think when I was very young I played a bit of Sonic on a Sega at my cousin's place, but I don't think I was really playing much of it. And there were kids games on Windows 95, like those interactive kiddy ones or the storybook type ones. Microsoft Hover! was a favourite of mine as well. My first proper console type ones that I played were the Disney based ones, like Tarzan and Hercules.

Ooh, I never really played any of the Disney games beyond the notorious Aladdin one with the impossible Cave of Wonders magic carpet escape! How were the others?

They were alright. Could never really do the Hercules game, Tarzan was alright. They are for kids, so nothing too crazy or special.

My first experience with those two characters in a game was Kingdom Hearts.

Well that makes sense. Though as an adult, the games are pretty easy. As a kid, hard as fuck

The first games that I still clearly (and fondly) remember were the Amiga version of Elite and Space Quest III.

They both in their own way sucked me in like nothing else at the time.

That's awesome. :D And, it's always wonderful to think back on games back then and how they could absorb so much time/attention. I tried to replay a classic game from my childhood fairly recently and... I just wasn't able to get into it in the same way. Still, there are definitely some from back then that absolutely hold up. :D

You started gaming with Elite? Dang, that sounds like a rough time :p

Didn’t the old game not have assisted docking so you had to manually match the station’s rotation?

I guess it took a particular kind of nerd dedication to learn how to do that reliably enough to actually get anywhere. XD

Plus, the controls didn't make it easy. You had up-down and rotate, no left-right.

First games I ever tried to play?
Probably some old Sesame Street edutainment on the NES that my folks got at a garage sale.

First game I played and actually gave a shit about?

Spyro the Dragon.

Haha, I dunno if I ever had any edutainment games. That being said I'd play the hell out of a sesame street game. :D And yay Spyro, one of the games that birthed a thousand furries. :3

I was super envious of my cousins who got a PONG machine for Christmas. And yeah, we played the heck out of it.

I only learned by reading a prior comment that Pong had its own dedicated console. I guess it makes sense given that it was like, one of the first ever games so it had to have something to be played on, but it never occurred to me. :D

My first console was a PS1, though to begin with it wasn't even mine, my mum got it for my dad half seriously and half as a joke 'midlife crisis' present. He and I played a few games together, the very first being Street Racer I think it was called? Pretty mediocre cart racer. But Crash Bandicoot was the first and fondest PS1 memory of mine, and after dad got bored of trying to race me to beat the game, it basically became my new obsession. That and Pokemon once I got mitts on my mum's Gameboy when she wasn't absorbed in Tetris (which to this day she's still half-decent at despite never playing for the longest time; what is it about mums and just having lifelong muscle memory expertise for Tetris?!). And like you, yeah it was the CHUNKY non-colour kind. Think it's still somewhere in the family home's attic.

That's awesome! And it'd be super cool if you still have the Game Boy somewhere. Mine died when it went through an airport scanner without my parents realising it would screw up the electronics. The jump button stopped working so I couldn't play it for 6 months until my birthday, when I got a Game Boy Colour. :D

My earliest gaming memories were in my grandparents' basement when I was 2 playing Super Mario World, Super R-Type and FF Mystic Quest. Then there was my friends next door that had Legend of Zelda, Dr. Mario and a few other NES titles. Also playing Sonic the Hedgehog and Ecco the Dolphin on the Sega Gamegear and Mario Land 1, Tetris and Dr. Mario on the big gray brick Game Boy. I should mention that there were many other games whose names escape me at the moment kind of like how I just remembered Castlevania 3.

That's an awesome selection of early games! :D Also, yay Tetris! I imagine most kids went through a tetris phase at some point because it was so readily available on many platforms. (I actually had this weird off-brand handheld that played like, 99 different 'block' games, about a third of which were just tetris variants).

I had one of those too and I'd bet you played every version of Tetris it had just like I did. Oh did yours have a flip up screen, mine did.

Some of my first games that I loved as a kid were Commander Keen, Chrono Cross, Pokemon Crystal, and StarCraft. I think my first game ever might have been Myst, but I was so young I don't think I got very far - I played through it later as an adult and it was so cool!

Myst and other games like that certainly aren't ideal for young kids with the puzzle-solving requirements. XD Also, I kinda wish I'd gotten into StarCraft or another RTS when I was younger. I played a few of them a bunch, but never touched or learned how to do multiplayer in any meaningful way.

Yeahhh, LOL, the 3d environment of Myst sure made an impact on me as a kid though, so magical! I was the same as you with StarCraft to be honest, I've always just liked playing against the CPU, especially co-op with friends! Some of my buddies got into the PVP of StarCraft 2 and it was fun to watch, but not my kind of thing. We also used to play Age of Empires and I way prefer playing against CPUs in those games too.

My very first game was Megaman X on the super nintendo, when I was three and a half years old. Second was Spyro on the PS1. I've literally grown up alongside video gaming and enjoyed every hour of it.

Sweeet! I've never played a Megaman game, but I'm intimately familiar with most of the Robot Masters due to this youtube video. :D

Super Mario Kart for the SNES in my dad's garage, sometime in the late 1990's. I spent five minutes bumping into a wall as Donkey Kong. Good times.

Hahaha, oh gosh, racing games seemed impossible to me as a kid too! Still are now tbh, the only one I could ever play decently was Star Wars Podracer for the N64.

First games I have any memory of playing were those old learning-type ones, and those fix-em-up/puzzle hunt ones like Freddy Fish or Putt-Putt.

I think the first ADULT game I ever played was Diablo 2...at like 11 or so.

Oooh, I never really played the Diablo games, but that sounds like an awesome first (non child/educational) game. :D

My brother had both a Mega Drive and an Atari Lynx around the time I was 4 or 5 - I honestly can't remember much of anything on the latter except Summer/California Games, but I do remember on the former that one of the first games I played, if not THE first, was Sonic the Hedgehog. There was also ESWAT: City Under Siege (Which I never properly beat til a few years ago, that game was HARD even on easy mode!) and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse.

I'm surprised I haven't seen Sonic pop up more so far! :o

That is a bit of a surprise XD

My mom worked at the elementary school I went to so I waited in the after school care held each day while she finished up her school work. They had a Super Nintendo and I was always first in line to play donkey Kong country or super Mario all stars.

Which is funny because as I grew up and started getting to pick my games it turned out 2D platformers are one of my least favorite genres lol.

Haha, I'm probably quite similar. Started on the Mario games, but I can't even think of the last time I bought/played a platformer.

Don't remember exactly what was first but it was likely Super Mario Bros or Legend of Zelda on NES.

* Zelda theme intensifies * <3

Tetris and Sonic the Hedgehog, some time before I was 5 that I can remember

Two of the all time greats!

I'm gonna show my age and say...
.. a "Pong"-type clone in a very early B&W game console at an "industrial exhibition" in Timaru in the late 1970s, when I was about - oooh, nine or ten I guess. I mean, this has high-tech stuff back in the day! You could even plug it into your TV!

It would then be no surprise that the first arcade video game I played was the venerable "Space Invaders" in the early 1980s, which was the first colour video game I played. Of course, "colour" in this instance mean coloured plastic filters over the top and bottom of a black-and-white video screen, but as this was in the local fish-and-chip shop it was still something special...

"Kids these days..." <wanders off, shaking his walking stick>

I have recollections of plugging my TI 99/4A into the TV, but we had to wait for five minutes because it took the old big (probably wasn't that big, but I was a kid so everything was huge!) CRT tv to warm up and show an image.. but it smelled kindof yucky when warming up too. All that burning dust!

My high school's first "computer suite" in the early 80s had six Commodore VIC-20s, a lone Commodore 64, a single 1541 disk drive networked via a "VIC-Switch"... and a bunch of old donated valve (tube) black-and-white TVs as monitors, which had the unsettling habit of throwing out fat voltage spikes down the line when turned on and causing soft resets on the computers. Which really pissed off people who were in the middle of playing video games at lunchtime...

Wow. A lot more than my school had, but it was a really small school. We had a few Apple IIe, and eventually an Apple II gs

I love that even then, folks were getting their games cloned. Also, I want a chip shop where you can play Space Invaders. The ones I went to as a kid only had electronic slot machines (though thankfully thanks to stricter gambling laws, they're gone now)

prettymuch everything on the atari back in '88 Pilot wings and the super mario on the SNES in '93

Never played Pilot Wings before, but I know it's super well regarded from its time!

I remember putting quarters into Mario Bros. (no, not _Super_ Mario Bros., this was the repetitive arcade original!) as one of my first video game memories.

Though when I got a Coleco Adam Family Computer System (after it was discontinued) I was able to play the pack-in game, "Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom" from the cassette tape! Despite shooting lots of asteroids in that game, I still have very little knowledge of Buck Rogers to this day. Maybe it's 'cause we don't make games on cassette tapes anymore.

When I was 12-13ish, a friend of mine had an old Spectrum Sinclair 'console' that used tapes. We used to switch out playing weird games on that between Final Fantasy 10 and GTA 3 on the PS2.

Super Mario Bros. on the NES.

Certainly one of the more ubiquitous responses I've seen! :3

I used to play it with my grandmother.

I was probably 4 or 5 years old. A friend of mine had a Nintendo and it was the first time I played Super Mario Bros.

Yay for the 'indoctrination by a friend' route. :D

This was 1984.

The first game I ever played was this ancient dungeon crawler called Cavequest on my Mom's old IBM PcJr. I've never been able to find any mention of it anywhere on-line, but the basic plot was that Zeus sent you down to the mortal world to clear the monsters out of vast dungeon. The character was a basic stick-figure and the cave walls were made of keyboard symbols, but it kept track of things like encumbrance and tiredness, and the heavier the armor you wore, the more your stamina went down with every step. Or swing of your weapon. It was brutally difficult, too, but a lot of fun. I was, oh, six or seven when I played it, I believe, back in the mid-80s.

We also had a text adventure game thing called Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It which was all about clever word play - changing a chocolate moose into a chocolate mousse to clear the aisle at a grocery store, or putting the cart before the horse to sooth a nervous animal so you could go to town.

And of course there was Oregon Trail at school, and the slightly less well known Odell Lake, where you had to survive as a fish in the titular lake. I was so bad about eating the wrong thing and finding out it was bait on a fishing hook, or getting snagged by the osprey.

Oh my gosh, that first game sounds like it's from the same school of programming as Dwarf Fortress, haha. :D

Sonic 3 (1994), in Epcot of all places.

Ah yes, the famous Disney mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. :D

I remember playing all sorts of Educational CD Rom Games by followed by old flash games on the internet before I had access to any actual video game console or handheld. The first actual video game I had played was either Mario Kart DS or Wii Sports.

Haha, I'm feeling older by the minute. Admittedly I got a PC much later than many of my peers, but I hadn't played/even heard of flash games until I was like 13-14.

Maybe, although I think it had more to do with me getting into video games when I was older. My parents were not really into non-arcade cabinet games except for Madden since my father really likes American Football, and did not want me playing them. They got the Wii and stuff because they played it on a cruise and thought motion controls would help them exercise. But we all know how motion controls actually played out.

My dad had a janky old Commodore 64, so there are photos of me in diapers playing boulderdash. But truthfully, the first game I truly PLAYED was Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past on SNES. That game rocked.

Link to the Past is an amazing first game. :o

Also: Mystic Quest, Starfox, and Megaman X. Miss those games.

Hard for me to recall. It might have been... Pac-Man? In a pizzaria? I can't remember, but I know I was at arcades in the early 1980s, maybe even the late 1970s.
But as for the first video games my family owned, well I can't remember which computer we got first: The Texas Instruments TI99/4A, or the IBM PCjr.
If it was the 99/4A, then the first home video game I played was Parsec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCSQd0eJKQQ
If it was the PCjr, then it was King's Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0TLhR51uGY
It would be those two games, because they were the ones which shipped with those computers.

I'm thinking the TI was first, because the PCjr was introduced in 1984, and the TI was discontinued in 1983.
A wild card entry would be that my neighbors had a Vic-20. I don't know what years those were -- the Vic-20 was introduced in 1980, but they might have bought it used years later. But if this predated our TI/IBMs, then Joust was my first game.

Arcades were something I just never really encountered in my childhood. We lived in the countryside and didn't have enough spare money to really take trips to big cities very often, so I never really encountered an arcade machine until I'd already experienced other video games.

I had an Atari 400... yes, the numbers really went that low. The first game I can remember playing was its version of the ancient Popeye arcade game.

I didn't know there was a Popeye arcade game, haha!

In the early 1980s, there were WAY TOO many video games. Lots of companies with no experience making video games ended up making games. Dominos Pizza had a video game. Purina wrote a video game based around the "Chuck Wagon" dog food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase.....he_Chuck_Wagon

The games tended to be such poor quality that consumer confidence plummeted, eventually resulting in the great Video Game Crash of 1983.

A few years later, Nintendo came out with the Famicon (NES), and not wanting to repeat those earlier failures, strictly controlled who could make games for the NES. Thus the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" you found on games in the 8 and 16-bit eras.

Today I learned! Also, I think that 'seal of quality' was still on things in the N64 era. I feel like I remember it from my childhood, so it was either that or some of my game-boy games. :o

In fact, it recently got a remake! ...Which was so horrifically bad that it provoked an entire Jimpressions episode! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lHyFhyRFM

Incidentally, the first Mario game was created as a Popeye ripoff after Nintendo failed to license the rights to the Popeye arcade game.

yeah, Atari didn't help themselves much with their numbering scheme. The 2600 came out two years earlier than the 400, but the difference was that the 2600 was a video game console, while the 400 was a personal computer meant to compete with the Apple II.

Age of Empires and Rayman. Still haven't beaten any of the campaigns in AoE1 (and probably won't now that the definitive edition is out), and only actually finished Rayman 1 for the first time like three years ago after more than fifteen years.

Good times.

Ooooh, AoE! When I was younger I used to love playing RTS games, but only ever against AI opponents. Never touched multiplayer. Still, I was older before I got to that genre.

First game I remember playing was Ouranos, on a Commodore PET.

Had to google that one! :D

Gex: Enter the Gecko and the Spyro trilogy

Oooh Gex! I played that on one of my last days of school one year. A kid brought their playstation in, and it was probably the first time I ever got to use a playstation. :D

Kuma games ww2 experience, it had planes, tanks and ships
https://youtu.be/MDo3eJFquUM
https://youtu.be/ziktLnUfOWY
Couldnt find a ships video

Maybe I had an earlier experience with videogames but those 3 are the ones that marked the kind of games I still play to this day

They had better graphics in my memory though

Seeing those planes flying reminds me of the gameplay in Battlefield 1942, back when I played that. :D

That is going a ways back... I rember playing the donkey kong arcade in the late 80's
Then got an NES with Mario brothers for Christmas.

But I think for me, I think the video game Quantum leap point was Star Fox.
But that is an opinion.

I'm not sure whether arcades sound like a great way for a kid to be introduced to games, or really frustrating as you'd potentially only get to play for a few minutes before inevitably dying, if you'd never played games before.

Digimon Rumble Arena 2
I used to go to an after-school program, and the only sort of video game available was a GameCube, and they only had one game. It became a sort of once-in-a-blue-moon sort of thing, because the caretaker who owned the game and system wasn't always there. We lost access to it when he moved away. To this day, it brings back feelings of pure nostalgia to think about it

Oooh heck yeah! Never really got to play any of the digimon games, but even as a kid they sounded super cool to me.

I too messed around on my dads old PC, though the only game I can remember on it was Gorillas.bas, there was some wizard one as well but I never found the name again. x3

The first console I owned was a Genesis (aka Mega Drive) that I won in a draw/coloring contest, I remember playing Sonic 2, Lethal Enforcers 2, Cyborg Justice, Thunder Force 3, and Chakan. Lots of fun memories with all except the last one, no idea where I got it from or why. Terribly difficult and nightmare fuel for most kids, the opening scream and drums are forever burned into my memory. It's about a swordsman who challenges death and wins immortality, at the cost of being condemned to wander all existence until he destroys all of the supernatural evil in existence. It was a metroidvania-like game except there was a hub world you got sent back to if you were defeated.

Also had the big chunky Game Boy, though as far as I can remember, the only games I ever owned for it were Pokemon Yellow and Gremlins 2.

Whoa, winning a games console in a competition as a kid must have been awesome. :D

As far as I can remember it was a mix of Sega games. Sonic 1/2, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe.
My first games of my own were all on the PS1 though, the first SpiderMan games were probably some of the first bought specifically for me by parents :3

Fond streets of rage memories. <3 <3 Gimmie dat phone booth chicken!!

First time I ever played a video game was at my best friends house. It was Golden Eye back in 1997. Some damn good memories =D

Boris - Proximity Mines - Bunker - 1st to 10 kills!

I have vague memories of playing a tank/cannon style game on the television where your cannon was a T shape except you could angle the tip of the T left or right to shoot in that direction while facing forward.

One of the first games I definitely remember playing was Gorillas.

Haha, that's a couple of folks who have mentioned Gorillas, while I'd never heard of it before at all! :o

Super Mario World. Family had a SNES and I first played it when I was very young, probably 4 or 5.

Also played the shareware version of Doom on the family computer when I was around the same age. Don't know what my parents were thinking letting me touch that one, lol.

Hahaha, oh gosh, I never really thought about the kids who were scarred early on by playing really age inappropriate games. XD

My first Game was Super Mario World for the SNES

Mario games in general, whether for NES or SNES, certainly seem to be the most common answer to have cropped up! :o

I had an old 386 PC my dad's workplace tossed out, and it had a game called Dangerous Dave on it - and I played it a lot. It was kind of a platformer before side-scrolling was a thing ^^

Very cool! Never played the game, but the name rings a bell, I think I must have read something about it before. :D

My first ever video game was one of the old Pole Position arcade cabinets (either the original or Pole Position II, I know only because I still have photos of it.)

After that, the first game I ever bought and played was Need For Speed IV: High Stakes (subtitled 'Road Challenge' outside the US.) and around the same time, I had gotten my hands on a demo for a little game called Tomb Raider III.

Finely honed reflexes from a young age, starting off with racing games! :o Also, gosh I remember the days of demo disks. Used to have a friend when I was a kid, and I swear we rarely played actual games on his PS1, just demos from all his playstation magazine demo disks.

Depends on whether you count the title I'm told I first played, or the one I definitely remember first playing.

My father got an Atari 2600 from a work colleague and claims we played Space Invaders and a few other games on it when I was around 4. However, I distinctly recall the first time I ever learned what a video game even was when I picked up Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt for the NES.

Never even knew about the Atari till a few years later when I found it sitting on a shelf under our stairs.

Haha, it's always funny how memory from young ages can totally fail to write to our long term memory. I have like... 3 memories from a house we lived in till I was four/four and a half, and even those aren't about the actual house itself.

Spyro the Dragon on the original Playstation

Another furry birthed by early Spyro exposure, haha. :D

In actuality, what really cemented my desire to BE a Dragon was the movie DragonHeart. I was about 7 when it hit me, and 18 before I knew "Furry" was the word for what I'd become.
Spyro totally helped, though.

Haha, awesome!

We had an Atari 2600 but I don't recall all the games we had or I played much of. What I remember more is my mom playing The Legend of Zelda on the NES. Would often join in on that but mostly watched as I was maybe 4 or 5 at that time. Dad often played Punch Out and Gumshoe when they got the gun accessory. And of course Mario.

Me personally Castlevania 1 and 2 and after getting an SNES Castlevania IV was one of my favorites. Sonic 1 and 2 on Genesis. WWF Royal Rumble on SNES. Starfox, Zelda Link to the Past, Wonderers from YS. Went on from there with the N64. But plenty of first games listed.

Spider-Man on PS1.

Ohh, the memories.

Oooh, that sounds like a really fun first game. :D * Thwip * :3

Super Mario bros/duck hunt that came with the NES

Ooh, did the console come with both games as a bundle? That's quite a classic pairing, haha.

They're both in the same cartridge.

Oooh!

SUPER SMASH BROTHERS!
...for N64 in case no one gets it

Sweeeet! My first exposure to Smash Bros wasn't until Brawl, even though the N64 was my first and only console for years!

Brawl was my reintroduction into Smash, and I have Sonic the hedgehog to thanks for that.

For the Playstation 2, my first game I remember playing was Frogger's Adventures 2: the Great Rescue. I still hold some huge nostalgia for that game 💛
That, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, then eventually the original Star Wars Battlefront 2

I'd certainly played lots of games before the PS2 era, but good lord there were some amazing games on that console that definitely shaped my interest in games as I grew up through my teens.

I think I either played Mario Kart at a neighbour's house or Crash Bandicoot 1 at another neighbour as the very first game.

But the first one we owned and played properly? Super mario 64 for the Nintendo 64. We later got a PS1 with Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot 3.

A great collection of classics for your first experiences. :D

Ill really show my age here...My first video game was PONG, all the way back in 1976.