Jumpstart games and Tonka games

It was some educational game about a british kid in a hot air balloon. Not the slightest idea what it was called, but there was one frog song that little me loved.

I remember playing the Neverhood on our first family computer back when I was 4. The art direction and story were really oddly appealing as a kid. I still think it’s a very underrated art style.

first, some pong-like game on someone’s zx spectrum in early 80ties. it was brief and short but very first experience. later, karateka, tetris, games like that on my and others C64.

the first game i was hooked to was Elite on same C64. it was just wow. 3d, freedom, trading, pirating, leveling up. i played only Elite for long time, played it on Amiga and my first 386 later on. still stands as my first serious gaming memory.

For me it was playing Mortal Kombat 1 on SNES since I could button mash and still have fun. This was probably in 1996 or 97

The first game I can remember playing was Desert Demolition: Starring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote on Sega Genesis. I don’t really remember the gameplay well. I still have the game (with the box and manual), but it’s stored away somewhere (probably a bin in my closet).

Six years old. My parents had got a Spectrum +2 bundle from Curry’s for Christmas, with a bunch of games in nondescript grey boxes. First one we played was a top-down snooker games called Snooker.

Many years later I ended up working with the guy that made one of the games in that bundle and, I think, ported another from the C64. Small world and all that.

It’s either Sonic the hedgehog on the Megadrive or Tetris on the GameBoy. I don’t remember a time where I didn’t have them.

Several educational PC games in the mid 90s mostly, which I guess technically count as gaming. I remember Super Mario Teaches Typing, and Math Blaster of course. But there was another one that had a top down view and you had to rescue animals with a helicopter or something. All I remember was that I liked the weird sound it would make when you lifted the animals up with the heli, or maybe it was the sound of the monkeys.

As for “real” games one of my earliest memories is getting dragged to a house for a dinner party and my brother and I would just hang out with their older son in his room playing floppy disk games. The only one I remember was Arkanoid.

Battlezone on the Atari 2600 https://atarionline.org/atari-2600/battlezone

Jill of the Jungle is the first one I can remember playing when I was about six.

Snake on a gray Gameboy.

Off the top of my head, it would be getting a Super Nintendo for Christmas and thinking my parents must’ve sold the car to pay for it.

Oooff, it’s long enough ago that I have some vague memories or Lemmings and (a clone of) digdug on the Amiga, a ZX spectrum game where you could morph between plane and car (Swif? That had a concept similar to it). Tank on the Atari2600. I mean, I know the Spectrum is older one there, but I really don’t know which was first for me.

My most solid early gaming memory is Toejam and Earl on the megadrive. Getting it for my birthday, and finishing it some 5 years later.

Another is seeing my older brother play the orignal Alone in the Dark, and finding it sufficiently scary that I had nightmares for days.

The day-care I went to when I was a little kid around 2007 had an old Super Nintendo hooked up to a giant CRT, which we’d all play Super Mario All Stars (+ World) on it, taking turns whenever we’d lose a life. I remember we’d go into the bonus vertical “1 in 3 chance of a 1UP” rooms in World and as we’d hit the blocks, we’d go “life, liiiiife, LIFE!” and celebrate if we hit the right block. I remember not knowing how to jump properly in World, and would just spin jump everywhere instead.