30-ish days of video games, day 1

[dragonfly_izzy]

-So the basis of this list comes from Xenoplush here./"/

\"\I say 30-ish because I might group a couple of shorter days together and/or add my own extra questions but I will aim to hit 30 days over all.-

-So. Day 1: Very first video game/"/

\"\This one is very easy for me, as is probably meant to be the intention for Day 1.-
-The very first video game I played was on December 25th 1993. Sonic the Hedgehog. My parents had gotten me a Sega Megadrive for Christmas and it included three games; Sonic the Hedgehog, Flashback and I always struggle to remember what the third was, perhaps Revenge of Shinobi but I can't be certain of that-

-Incidentally I recall hearing an anecdote from my dad a couple of years later that before they gave me the console they had set up the console one night to 'test' it and my mum got playing Sonic and she would lean with the controller while she was playing as though it would make her go faster or otherwise help her play./"/

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[cassini]

[aw gosh that's cute about your mum though but don't even lie we do that today, like when we fuckin whisper in stealth sections ]

[post expansion, if you choose to accept it: seeing as you've had many more platforms than me, how about the first game(s) you played on all your platforms?? 83 ]

[dragonfly_izzy]

-I actually almost made that expansion in the post itself and I wasn't sure whether to add it in as a 31st day or not but I suppose this is really the best place to answer and that you asked is a good way to start./"/

\"\Also, I'm going to list the first game i played on any console I have played on, whether or not I owned the system-

-So, First game I played on the Gameboy was Pokemon Blue. It was one of the original brick Gameboys, but a limited edition white console. The screen protector fell out more times than I care to count but it I still loved it./"/

-The first game I played on the original PS was Theme Park, I believe. Not a very technological game but I enjoyed it a lot. It was on my cousin's PS, which is a console I have never actually owned myself./"/

-Another console I never owned but played a few games on was the Nintendo 64 and the first game I played on that was Goldeneye, actually. A few of my friends when I was young had the console but EVERYONE at the time had Goldeneye./"/

-Sega Dreamcast... This is a hard one and my memory is a bit blurry because it was with the Dreamcast that I started getting heavily into video games. If I recall correctly, though, the first game I played on it was Toy Commander. A streange little game consisting of missions, races and 'open world' busywork playing as various toys on rampages of destruction agasinst other toys. I put a lot of hours into that one./"/

-I have never played on an actual Gamecube but the first Gamecube game I played was Phantasy Star Online. I bought a gamecube disk to play via my Wii./"/

-Speaking of the Wii, the first game I played on that was Wii Sports, no real surprise there. Second, though, was Zelda Twilight Princess and I'm only mentioning that because the first was kinda a no-brainer like saying 'I played Snake on an old Nokia once'/"/

-The original Xbox I first used to play Halo, again no surprise there. The second game was... I honestly don't remember any more, It was a surfing game but I don't recall the title./"/

-I played on a Sega Game Gear once but I can't for the life of me remember what it was that I played on it.../"/

-I got a Gameboy advance for the Ruby/Sapphire generation of Pokemon, I played Ruby on it first./"/

-Likewise The first Nintendo DS game I played was Pokemon Diamond, although I didn't have an actual Nintendo DS. I gave in to a craving to play a Pokemon game and got a Nintendo 3DS to play it on to 'future proof' myself on the handheld front./"/

-On the Xbox 360 I recall my first game was whichever Burnout was most recent at the time as it was bundled with my console/"/

-I never had a PS3 but the only game I ever recall playing on the PS2 was Tekken-something-or-other. I don't remember which one in all honesty./"/

-The first game I played on the PS4 was Lords of the Fallen. Again it was on a friend's console, but I have one myself now and I think the first game I played when I got my own console was GTAV./"/

-The first xBONE game I played was... Sunset overdrive? I think? I honestly find it hard to remember. It was probibly something ewlse but I've been so 'meh' about the xbone that I've only ever used my brother's to kill time (note that I don't own one)/"/

-And for the sake of completeness! The first game I played on PC, which arguably is a platform not a console but since it is a distinct machine I thought I'd include it: The Sims!/"/

-And there it is, a rather comprehensive list of my 'first' games on the consoles I can remember playing/"/

[cassini]

[i said platforms because i did want to know pc too :p ]

[jegus chrisp girl you had like everything. fuck me. between me owning nothing and my memory problems i'm like only sorta sure of like three games. tetris on og gameboy, not mine; vectorman on pc (!) where i also played phantasy star 2 hella late; some commodore 64 shit; dynasty warriors... 2? 3? on ps 2... idek but i bet i played skyrim first in the ps4 ]

[did i play oblivion first on the 360 do you think ]

[eta i played house of the dead on someone else's dreamcast lol ]

[dragonfly_izzy]

-I think Oblivion was indeed the first 360 game you played, and I think it was DW3 you had on PS2 iirc/"/

[cassini]

[how come you remember my pre-pixelpoltergeist life better than me ]

[ladypoetess]

I almost thought my first game was the first SMB on Nintendo, but then I remembered that my first console wasn't Nintendo.

It was the Magnavox Odyssey II, with a full QWERTY keyboard and 2 permanently attached joysticks, and big ol'cartridges.

My first game was very likely KC Munchkin, a Pacman clone, and the source of my childhood nickname of 'munchkin' from my sister.

[cassini]

[awwww~ we were obliged to google this and it looks excellent 83 those cartridges particularly look fantastic ]

[dragonfly_izzy]

-indeed! I love the fact the cartridges had handles on them. Were they heavy or hard to slot in/out of the machine? /“/

[ladypoetess]

I don't remember them being particularly difficult, even for me as a child. My mom & sister smoked in the house, though, so that would make things a little bit... gummy? after awhile. That would sometimes make it a bit difficult to pull them out of the console.

I used to get extra time to play with the Odyssey2 by "studying my spelling words" in the game that let you put in a list of words and then play games with them, like unscrambling them and stuff. :D I was a clever little 7 yr old.