Topic: What's your earliest gaming memory?

Chuck E. Cheese! (Im not that old lol.)

Well, I won't beat anyone here cause I'm too young but I remember just watching my older brother and father play against each other in Sea Battle on the Intellivision when I was closer to 3 years old, about 1991-2 I don't remember. I always got those old good feels when I messed with that old thing. Still have it, sort of just a corner stone for me. Then there were those times when I just watched my brother play on the NES either it be Dragon Warrior(Dragon Quest) or Blaster Master. It wasn't until the SNES that I truely got myself into gaming. But those times just watching the Intellivision were the best.

Here's a sleepy me in 1985 when I was a freshmen. I got the whole NES outfit that year, including the ROB. I had some photos from when I got my Atari 2600, but they were destroyed in a fire 5 years ago. So sadly, this is the first documented pic of me with anything video-game related.

Playing Super Mario Bros. circa 1988 on my brother's NES.

is it sad that i went there and played back when it was Showbiz Pizza, and Chuck E. Cheese was just a character there? i mean, i was little, but i was old enough to remember it. D:

I went to Showbiz pizza when I was little too. Anyway, my first gaming memory is Duck Hunt on the NES.

@Corbie: Awesome pic!
My first memory was of my Dad giving me a quarter to play Robotron in an Arby's. I was really young and I was facinated by being able to press buttons for the very first time! I didn't know what the heck I was doing but I still remember that experience to this day! I have a lot of other memories but this is the one that I believe started it all for me! Thanks Dad!
EDIT: Yes, I grew up in the 80's!

@Terranigma: Are you 15 (or nearly 16) too? I see you have 1993 appended at the end of your Skype ID.

Adventure Island on the NES. That is the first game I can remember playing. Strangely, I hate Adventure Island.

Pitfall on my uncles old Atari at my grandma's house. I was so happy when he got a NES and Mario Bros.

The first game I remember playing is Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. I think getting the original gameboy and Super Mario Land was the first thing I really remember having.

I think it was Centipede on the Atari 2600. I was in kindergarten and my father brought the system over for testing. We ended up with a Commodore 64 though. Good times!

I hazily remember playing Pong.

I remember when Space Invaders appeared at my local 7-11 and caused a sensation; first time I remember seeing a video game that wasn't in a bar. I cannot say if that was the first though, because I also remember playing Death Race 2000 and Sprint (or trying to, I was pretty small still!). I remember trying to coordinate using buttons for left and right and fire was pretty tough though. The game is still challenging and I was happy to pay 800 points for the SNES emulation (though I hate having to plug in the CC to play it).

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We had the Atari and I remember playing a game called War (or something like that). It was basically a breakout game for up to 4 players where you try to defend your corner of blocks.

I recall messing around on Sonic 2 on a rented Genesis when I was 2 years old. It's one of the three things I can barely remember from that age.

It's not a game I remember playing just because it was rare to get four players together and you needed two sets of paddles, but I think the name of the game you're referencing is Warlord.

First game, I ever played was "Combat" Atari 2600! Remember it? It had several modes, but the one that really sticks out in my mind is the stage where it's 1 big plane vs. 3 little planes. Classic stuff.

@Sean Aaron - Yeah, Warlord sounds right. I think you only needed at least two players but there were four of us kids plus my parents so it wasn't too hard to find at least one other person to play with.

I think my brother played the Atari a lot more than I did so I probably just more played the multi-player games when he needed someone to play with

That was really the only console that I ever had until I bought the PS2 a couple of years ago. I pretty much missed out on the NES/SNES/Dreamcast generation. I've been a PC gamer for a while though. Our first PC was the Apple GS. I think my aunt was in the computer industry and got us some Apples for either free or pretty cheap back in the late '80s early '90s.

I actually took the Apple IIc (c for "compact") to college with me with a dot matrix printer. Everyone else had a Window's PC with a laser printer that could connect to the internet so I felt more than a little out-of-date.

Oh, and Corbie, Pepper II is the bomb! I love the other two Exidy games of note as well: Mouse Trap and Venture.