Coffee Talk #256: Your First Videogames

It was cool watching you guys talk about your first videogame console in yesterday’s Coffee Talk. To follow that up, I’d like to know about your first console games.

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It was cool watching you guys talk about your first videogame console in yesterday’s Coffee Talk. To follow that up, I’d like to know about your first console games. What was the first console game you ever played? What was the first console game you bought with your own money?

I honestly can’t remember the first game I purchased on my own. I do remember playing Videocart-1: Tic Tac Toe, Shooting Gallery, Doodle, Quadradoodle for the Fairchild Channel F. I was completely fascinated that I could play Tic Tac Toe with something other than a crayon or a pencil. In some ways it’s funny looking back at how enamored I was with digital Tic Tac Toe. In other ways it’s amazing how far videogames have come. Going from Tic Tac Toe to Heavy Rain is quite a leap. Ha!

Now it’s your turn! What was the first console game you ever played? What was the first console game you bought with your own money?

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33 thoughts on “Coffee Talk #256: Your First Videogames”

  1. first console game i ever played….? i dont remember exactly…it was for the 2600, might have been combat, pitfall, enduro, spider fighter or journey escape

    for some reason journey escape scared me to death

    I believe the first game i ever bought with my own money was either rygar for the NES or mike tyson's punch out

    of course i mean that i bought those games with money that i was given for christmas or something

  2. I had Indiana Jones for my Atari and then my grandmother showed up with about 20 more games she got at a yardsale. It was great.

    The same thing happened with my NES. My dad bought it from a neighbor who was pissed their teenage son (I was about 6 or 7) wrecked a car
    so they sold all of his stuff. I got the NES, zapper, 2 controllers, useless robot, and about 25 games.

    First game I bought with my own money was Mortal Kombat

  3. The first game I ever purchased was MKII with my report card (getting A's) money. I got the Prima strategy guide and all that.

    I think the first game I ever played was Mario on the NES.

  4. the first console i played was an Atari. i think i was like 3 or 4. i loved playing pac-man on it. The first console i bought on my own was a N64, while i was in the service my locker got broken into and stolen :(

    so i had to buy another one when i got sick with strep throat. i had to do something to pass the time. the first game i bought on my own, since we are counting xmas or any special occasion (sp??) money was Mega Man 2.

      1. wow putting me on the spot. when it comes to Mexican fighters i always tend to go with the ones out of Mexico City, where i was born. One day i'll go back there, hopefully it's for a Morales-Marquez fight at Estadio Azteca. who were you rooting for?

      2. I was always a Barrera guy. I loved how he made Hamed look silly. I also didn't like how Morales behaved after the third fight when Barrera tried to congratulate him on a good fight.

      3. yeah the Prince never recovered after that fight with Barrera. Yeah unfortunately Mexicans can be stubborn and have too much pride at times. Morales proved it that on that day.

  5. I played SMB first most likely on consoles. On my game boy I played SMB the 6 golden coins, wave runner, paperboy, and one of the older zelda games. I used to have like 20 games for the system, but those are the only ones I can remember anymore. Star Fox or SMB 64 were probably the first games I played for the N64.

  6. Probably either Enduro, Ka-Boom, Pitfall or Pac-man on the Atari 2600. I was also one of the poor unfortunate souls who owned E.T. The Video Game.

    I also remember playing a truly awful game about the Space Shuttle where literally all you did was take off, try not to miss an unmissable satellite and then land.

  7. I'm pretty sure the first console game I ever played was Donkey Kong.

    As for first game I bought with my own money… that's a difficult memory to recall.

    I have no idea if I bought a game with birthday/Christmas money for NES as a kid. If I did, I don't remember. I do remember trading a stolen copy of Street Fighter 2 for SNES for a dimebag of herb with a friend of mine, but i don't know if that counts either.

    I do indeed remember going to the store and buying Ocarina of Time. I don't know if I bought the first Resident Evil before that though.

  8. Let me guess…

    Tomorrow's Coffee Talk will be "What was the first game you beat all by yourself".

    Because, I'm sensing a pattern here.

    1. Just another reason to get away from Comcast if possible. They have poor service with their internet usually in my area anyways, and that is what I use the most.

    2. Indeed, but that seems to be more of a peering issue. Regardless it’s no good for us. The DHS is also seizing domains now…..that is not good either.

    3. To be fair, both companies are in the wrong. Level 3 isn’t completely innocent either. It claims it’s not a CDN to Comcast but tells its clients that it’s a CDN.

      1. I have a problem with Comcast wanting extra money because their users want to use level 3's product. Level 3 and their customers, netflix subscribers, pay for bandwidth already.

        I know that isn't necessarily the focal point right now, but that is what it is coming to. I don't think we should be allowing any priority packets from any partner on lines that have federal subsidies. Just sayin.

      2. I agree with your larger point. I just think an inaccurate picture has been painted by most articles I read. It makes it seem like Comcast is the bad guy and Level 3 is the innocent party. That's simply not true. Both companies are guilty of shenanigans.

  10. First console game? Uh Double Dragon and Castlevania were def my first ones. That's even technically before I got to own my NES, I played those first at a cousin's house lol. After that I owned all 3 Castlvanias, Final Fantasy, Super Spike V'ball, Roller Games, Solstice, Paper Boy, all the Mario games, Zelda, Mega Man 2, and I swear Total Recall but idk lol.

  11. So… my wife is about to buy me another 360 today (the slim one with the 250 GB drive). This way we can put my old one in my son's room and he'll quit clamoring to play mine.

    I should also have a new PS3 by my birthday (January 20)… so I will need PSN ID's for all of you. First games on the PS3 wishlist:

    MGS4

    The Uncharted series

    Heavy Rain

    and whenever DCU comes out… that one.

    1. I'd recommend GT5 if you like that sort of thing. I'd also recommend getting the cheapest PS3 possible.

  12. I can't remember the first console game I've played, exactly, but it had to be either Joust or Frogger for the Atari… it could have even been Centepede.

    The first game I bought with my money? Not sure, but I do remember that I bought the Gamecube and Rouge Leader on launch day with my own money. That was the first console I've ever bought on my own.

    -M

  14. *Rant*

    I am too pissed off right now with Halo: Reach. The new map pack came out today and I just got a chance to really turn on my 360 to play, and figured I would relax while getting an awesome kill count on team slayer. I load up Halo, go to matchmaking, and can't play team slayer. So I go to living dead. same thing. I check all 9 of the competitive match types and all of the arena types. Same thing. Cannot play without the new map pack. All I can do is play Firefight, which frankly is boring to me and not as much fun. At least in Halo 3 you could still play a minimal number of maps without buying any new map packs. And the thing was that when I did play with all of the new maps available thanks to the ODST disc, the new maps rarely ever came up and I ended up playing all of the old maps 9 out of 10 times. So now I cannot play any of the competitive match types unless I pay another $10, which isn't a big deal except I am completely broke and I already spent $400 for the entire system and everything. I have been a big fan of Halo since before the first one got popular. I supported Halo: Reach on day 1 with the biggest purchase you can make on a game pack, and now they want another $10 just to let me play ANY more competitive matches. Fuck you Bungie!

    *end rant*

    Disclaimer—I probably wouldn't be this pissed if there were at least a couple match types (like rumble pit, comparable to Lone Wolves in Halo 3 which you could play without any DLC) that didn't require the map packs. But it's the fact that ALL of the map packs require the DLC.

    1. I did a little digging and turned up three things.

      1) It's $5

      2) The map pack is only necessary for the noble pack playlist.

      3) They have matchmaking set up to link up plays with the DLC first. If you wait long enough, it should put you in a game.

      1. I took another look at it all and did see that it will let me play, so I suppose I suppose I should retract some of my rant. Anytime I chose a competitive match type it flashed a message, similar to how it did on Halo 3 when it didn't let you in to a match. I guess I made an ass of myself with some of that, regardless- I still do not like map packs usually, and it is a big reason why I don't play CoD games online. However, it shows up as 800 MS points for the download, which equals $10.

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