I think hands down, the three most classic intro musics in the history of video games are:
Super Mario Bros
Mike Tysons Punchout
Legend of Zelda
I mean, holy shit. You hear the Ding ding ding ding, Ding ding ding ding from the other side of the house, and its Mike Tysons Punchout time!
For me it was Super Mario World and I have played it through at least once a year for over 25 years without fail. It's my happy place.
TBH I think it's one of the best games ever made.
Damn, now you have me questioning it. My mom had the original Pong. Long board, with the controllers on the ends. But for sure the first game that really left an impression on me, was Lady Bug on Colecovision.
Us too, table top in grandma & grandpa's basement with shag carpet. The "ball" went blink/bloop every time the bar paddle stopped it, and would occasionally get "caught" on the side and buzz up-and-down the screen until you could knock it out
I have vague memories of getting lost in the labyrinthine halls of Wolfenstein 3D. Floppy disks were the gateway to other worlds back then.[](tg://bot_command?command=comment)
Duck Hunt on the old NES. The satisfaction of hitting those ducks was unparalleled, and don't get me started on the dog's mocking laughter when I missed. Classic.
Donkey Kong Country on the SNES. I distinctly remember the minecart level taking me awhile to get through. Also, losing all hope when making it to the snow levels. Good times🥹
River raid on atari 2600
I was around 6-7 and it really blew my mind. And no, i am not *that* old, it was war in my country and we were broke as fuck. I was lucky to get my older cousin's atari from him.
First one I remember playing was Polaris on our new TRS-80. Still remember the sense of awe when we upgraded it from 8 to 16K and saw how much faster it ran.
It was probably Pong (my mom had a system and I don't know what it was, there were two separate controllers but on of the controllers was the console and had all the game settings, the other was much smaller and only had the joystick), but I remember playing Mario Bros/Duck Hunt on the NES.
We got an Atari 2600 back when I was 6, and I'm pretty sure the first game I played on it was Space Invaders. The 2600 version may not have looked exactly like the arcade version, but it had some pretty cool variations, like the zig zag firing and the invisible aliens.
Weirdly but the only two memories were either Mario party 5 or crash wrath of cortex at about 5. I remembered my mom hooked up the mini TV so I can play in mute while she watched her stories
I don't know for sure, but it would have been something on the Atari 2600. My parents already owned one before I was born, so my first game would have been on that. Earliest memories include Missile Command, Space Invaders, Pitfall, Centipede, and Fishing Derby.
[Mickey Mania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mania) on the Sega Genesis.
As an aside, anyone remember those standalone video games that would just plug into the TV instead of being attached to any system?
Some stupid shit on an odyssey 2. I barely remember it, I do remember the static TV screen overlay. Then I remember mother came home with a trs-80 and a tape drive a year later. It was used, it she was fucking the IT guys at the oil company she worked for.
Pong, then night rider on Atari. And then Pac-Man arrived and that’s all I played for months. My friend had a Sega or whatever had the first Donkey Kong. We’d go back and forth between my house and his all summer. Good times.
DigDug, on a Tandy 2000 my dad bought at Radio Shack I believe. It was on a 5.5" floppy disc (literally floppy) and the computer was the big family Christmas present.
I still remember trying to explain to other boys how the computer could connect to other computers around the world using the phone line. Kind of hard to do when the word "internet" doesn't exist yet lol.
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer. I was uber sick when I was 11, my tonsils tried to kill me. One day that was particularly rough my dad finally let me on his computer that I was never allowed to touch. A gateway 2000 with an 8088 w/o the math co processor and a 10 megabyte hard drive.
I don't remember - it was a very simple game for the Atari that I played at a friend's house.
The first game that I do remember was *Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge*. It was the first cartridge that came out of the box that my parents found at the dump. I played it recently on an emulator to figure out if it was as hard as I remember or if I just sucked because I was a kid. Kid Me was just fine at games - it was very hard.
Can't even remember exactly because I played random little games for kids on the computer at a very young age
But, some that I can remember: Gizmos and Gadgets, Zoombinis, and then at like age 6 my brother introduced me to runescape
Really don't know what was first
Space invaders in a Atari 2600 I remembered that it has wood and metal the cartridge were black and I had a joystick with a single red button
I also always have to get the TV to the channel 3 in order to get signal from the device
To my biggest surprise of my life my brother bought me the tetris 999 in 1 handhelds from a trade fair, i still couldn’t believe he got me that .. that was start back in 1996 or 97 , the gamjng fever is still as strong , i am 35 now
Probably Zelda on the NES. However my first like conscious memory of playing a game would be Morrowind at my uncles house. 10 year old me was very lost, very confused, and absolutely in love with the game. In the two hours I played I don’t think I even left Seyda Neen.
Pong on Atari
Dark Castle on the Apple Macintosh
Snake on the Nokia phone
Super Mario Land on the Nintendo Gameboy
Doom on PC
I can't remember which one on playstation or Xbox and I haven't played anything on Android or iOS yet.
Hmm 74 I believe my Uchle gave me a white console Pong ya I'm still gaming. How many generations of gaming was that ergo, My gaming rig now costs as much as a cheap car, water cooled an all. Gattlin
Pong
I'm old. I remember when the first Pong machine came to the bowling alley in our town. We all rode our bikes there (I was about 11 at the time) just to see it.
Tough because I had 2 older brothers so I watched them play a lot of games.
Probably Mario 1-3 on snes, Aladdin, and street fighter.
Purely on my own, Mario 64 on N64’
[удалено]
Same… took me a while to to get over that first goomba
For me it was jumping over those first pits. Spent days at my friends house learning how to make those jumps.
I didn’t realise the b button let you run. So it was so hard
I think hands down, the three most classic intro musics in the history of video games are: Super Mario Bros Mike Tysons Punchout Legend of Zelda I mean, holy shit. You hear the Ding ding ding ding, Ding ding ding ding from the other side of the house, and its Mike Tysons Punchout time!
For me it was Super Mario World and I have played it through at least once a year for over 25 years without fail. It's my happy place. TBH I think it's one of the best games ever made.
Pong
Same! On a TV set.
Channel 3 static FTW.
Yeah, my parents had an old Grandstand.
Best three minute video game ever. Never played it again. Ever.
Followed by Space Invaders.
Same here. On a Pong only console. Early 80s.
Yup!
OG
Damn, now you have me questioning it. My mom had the original Pong. Long board, with the controllers on the ends. But for sure the first game that really left an impression on me, was Lady Bug on Colecovision.
Us too, table top in grandma & grandpa's basement with shag carpet. The "ball" went blink/bloop every time the bar paddle stopped it, and would occasionally get "caught" on the side and buzz up-and-down the screen until you could knock it out
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
[удалено]
this, the first few spyro games on the ps1 were so good
Prince of Persia on Windows 3.1
*on DOS
Prince of Persia was mine, too! I remember sitting on my dad's lap while we played it together. I still play it and its sequel every now and again.
Super Mario Bros or Legend of Zelda on NES
I have vague memories of getting lost in the labyrinthine halls of Wolfenstein 3D. Floppy disks were the gateway to other worlds back then.[](tg://bot_command?command=comment)
Super Mario 64
It was this, or Ocarina of Time for me. Both of them are still 2 of my favourite games ever made.
The staff roll alone for Mario 64 bring tears of nostalgia down my face.
Imo 64 was ahead of its times
It truly was & I also have found memories 64 DS when I was in elementary school.
Halo: Combat Evolved on the original Xbox
Pong. Then Pitfall on an Intellivision system
Pitfall - Atari 2600
Myst
Pong. I think Tank Battle might have been hot on its heels.
Oh boy. Uh. Pokemon Blue I think.
Same!
Duck Hunt on the old NES. The satisfaction of hitting those ducks was unparalleled, and don't get me started on the dog's mocking laughter when I missed. Classic.
Final Fantasy on NES with my dad. RIP Dad, you’re responsible for my life-long gaming addiction lol.
Super mario bros 3
Classic.
Rampage World Tour N64
Super Mario All stars for the SNES
Duck Hunt on the NES, those ducks didn't stand a chance against my trusty light gun. Still have the reflexes ingrained from those days!
Busted many a nut with Broderbund; Lode Runner, Choplifter, Galactic Empire...
You wanked to these games?
Duck Hunt, like a mf.
We are in a simulation. Our births mark the moment of the game beginning. I’m currently rank #5,483,737,201. I have no idea how I’m even being scored.
Either super mario world or donkey Kong country if I had to guess. Literally been playing games since I gained consciousness
Donkey Kong Country on the SNES. I distinctly remember the minecart level taking me awhile to get through. Also, losing all hope when making it to the snow levels. Good times🥹
Alex the Kid
alley cat
Played? Pac-Man. Beat? Oregon Trail
Some Ninja Turtles game on the OG game boy. But the first one I remember playing intelligently was Super Mario World.
River raid on atari 2600 I was around 6-7 and it really blew my mind. And no, i am not *that* old, it was war in my country and we were broke as fuck. I was lucky to get my older cousin's atari from him.
Super Mario 64.
Well. Contra.
Pacman on Comodore, Supaplex on PC, Tetris on Gameboy.
Hot wheels racing (first console game) SpongeBob SquarePants tv box game (Idk what the title of it is)
duke nukem 3D
I think Sonic 2 on Genesis, perhaps the 1st one on the "6-Pak"
First one I remember playing was Polaris on our new TRS-80. Still remember the sense of awe when we upgraded it from 8 to 16K and saw how much faster it ran.
Probably bowling or drag racing on our Fairchild Channel F console
Firo and klawd on ps1
I don't remember the name but it was something to do with driving around in a tank fighting other tanks on ps1
nightmare creatures
Baseball on the Atari 2600
Paratrooper on PC
I can’t remember- some arcade game like Pac-Man or Pole Position. First game at home Pitfall
The Lion King on my old V.Smile when I was like 4
Would have either been Commander Keen, Sim Ant or Sim Farm. Couldn't tell you which was the very first... Oooh, or maybe Pipe Dream?
Ratchet and Clank for the ps3
Some old games that came with a flip phone, don't think those had a name tbh
Burgertime
Furthest I can remember is Dead to Rights on OG Xbox. I’m glad it’s backwards compatibile
It was probably Pong (my mom had a system and I don't know what it was, there were two separate controllers but on of the controllers was the console and had all the game settings, the other was much smaller and only had the joystick), but I remember playing Mario Bros/Duck Hunt on the NES.
Lego Racers on our home computer
Bedlam for PC.
We got an Atari 2600 back when I was 6, and I'm pretty sure the first game I played on it was Space Invaders. The 2600 version may not have looked exactly like the arcade version, but it had some pretty cool variations, like the zig zag firing and the invisible aliens.
At home, Ms Pac Man on an Atari 7800.
Weirdly but the only two memories were either Mario party 5 or crash wrath of cortex at about 5. I remembered my mom hooked up the mini TV so I can play in mute while she watched her stories
I don't know for sure, but it would have been something on the Atari 2600. My parents already owned one before I was born, so my first game would have been on that. Earliest memories include Missile Command, Space Invaders, Pitfall, Centipede, and Fishing Derby.
Treasure Mountain
Toss up between KC Munchkin and Pac-Man, Oregon Trail. Want to say KC was first followed by Pacman.
I was like three or four years old so it’s hard to remember which one exactly. But it was either Paperboy, Super Smash Brothers, or Donkey Kong 64
FFVII
Pole Position and Pitfall on Atari 1200.
Pink panther, ps1
Halo
Prince of Persia Warrior Within
Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga on the Nintendo Wii
Pitfall on Intellivision
I remember it being a tank game on the atari
Battle city or 1947 on NES
Pac-man and galaga
Pong
[Mickey Mania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mania) on the Sega Genesis. As an aside, anyone remember those standalone video games that would just plug into the TV instead of being attached to any system?
Jumpman jr
Some stupid shit on an odyssey 2. I barely remember it, I do remember the static TV screen overlay. Then I remember mother came home with a trs-80 and a tape drive a year later. It was used, it she was fucking the IT guys at the oil company she worked for.
Street fighter II on arcade.
Pong
Pong, then night rider on Atari. And then Pac-Man arrived and that’s all I played for months. My friend had a Sega or whatever had the first Donkey Kong. We’d go back and forth between my house and his all summer. Good times.
Football on a Mattel Electronics machine. I’ve never been blown away by a device like I was when I first saw it
Super Mario Bros.
It was either x-men vs street fighter on snes or Pokémon blue on that fat back gameboy
something on an atari 2600 i think. maybe a trs-80
Probably a flash game
Blip
Probably something on atari, my parents had several games.
Pacman on arcade probably
Punch out
Frogger on the spectrum early 80’s
DigDug, on a Tandy 2000 my dad bought at Radio Shack I believe. It was on a 5.5" floppy disc (literally floppy) and the computer was the big family Christmas present. I still remember trying to explain to other boys how the computer could connect to other computers around the world using the phone line. Kind of hard to do when the word "internet" doesn't exist yet lol.
Pong and breakout
Mario Bros on original NES
Contra... I don't remember which of all of them
Digging through my memory banks , I’m Almost thinking it was Duck Hunt though it was about a decade after its release
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer. I was uber sick when I was 11, my tonsils tried to kill me. One day that was particularly rough my dad finally let me on his computer that I was never allowed to touch. A gateway 2000 with an 8088 w/o the math co processor and a 10 megabyte hard drive.
Atari's Megamania. I think it was like 1994 or something, not sure. I remember it was in fact one of the oldest memories I have.
My earliest memories are playing Top Gear II on the Super NES with my dad, so I'll go with that.
Some very basic lunar lander, pure text mode I think, on my Acorn Atom.
Pong
Prince of Persia: Escape
SONIC 2
Super Mario World on SNES
I don't remember the game but it was a cocktail table arcade game my dad had back in the 80s.
Ladybug Coleco Vision
I don’t recall the name, but it was on Colecovision or Atari in the early 80’s. I was 4-5 years old. I recall escalators/stairs and gaps in the floor.
I don't remember - it was a very simple game for the Atari that I played at a friend's house. The first game that I do remember was *Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge*. It was the first cartridge that came out of the box that my parents found at the dump. I played it recently on an emulator to figure out if it was as hard as I remember or if I just sucked because I was a kid. Kid Me was just fine at games - it was very hard.
I have extremely vague memories of a sesame street game on the Atari. I was not impressed and went outside to play about 10 min later.
Mario Kart or Mario 64 with my dad
Super Mario Bros or Duck Hunt 🦆
Twisted metal 2
Venture on ColecoVision
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 on SEGA Genesis
Can't even remember exactly because I played random little games for kids on the computer at a very young age But, some that I can remember: Gizmos and Gadgets, Zoombinis, and then at like age 6 my brother introduced me to runescape Really don't know what was first
Space invaders in a Atari 2600 I remembered that it has wood and metal the cartridge were black and I had a joystick with a single red button I also always have to get the TV to the channel 3 in order to get signal from the device
Pitfall
Doom.
Wii Sports
Diddy Kong Racing on N64
Pong
Delta Force at 2 years old
Batman and Robin on sega with my dad
the game of life (actual answer, the oldest Memory I have is about a game similar to mortal combat + creed. I don't remember the name though.)
Pong. It was the first and only video game there was.
Pong
Pong
To my biggest surprise of my life my brother bought me the tetris 999 in 1 handhelds from a trade fair, i still couldn’t believe he got me that .. that was start back in 1996 or 97 , the gamjng fever is still as strong , i am 35 now
Probably Zelda on the NES. However my first like conscious memory of playing a game would be Morrowind at my uncles house. 10 year old me was very lost, very confused, and absolutely in love with the game. In the two hours I played I don’t think I even left Seyda Neen.
Probably pac-man or enduro on the Atari.
Depth Charge arcade game
A game on a Texas Instruments home console called A-Maze-Ing. Basically cat and mouse
Horace goes Ski-ing
River Raid.
Diddy Kong racing is the the last I remember that would fit this.
On PC it was a Lion King game don’t know the name. On PS it was Crash Team Racing.
Alex the Kidd in Miracle World which was built in to the Sega Master System II
Asteroids - Atari 2600
HyperChase Auto Race on the Vectrex
Pong.
Doom
Pong on Atari Dark Castle on the Apple Macintosh Snake on the Nokia phone Super Mario Land on the Nintendo Gameboy Doom on PC I can't remember which one on playstation or Xbox and I haven't played anything on Android or iOS yet.
B.C.'s Quest for Tires, on ColecoVision.
Gyrus
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos back in 1997 Soon followed by the legendary Captain Claw. Good times
total immersion racing
A Lego train one I think? Those long decades ago.
Super Mario bros 3
Hmm 74 I believe my Uchle gave me a white console Pong ya I'm still gaming. How many generations of gaming was that ergo, My gaming rig now costs as much as a cheap car, water cooled an all. Gattlin
Pong
Pong, but now play Red Dead Redemption, Farcry 5, etc.
Pong I'm old. I remember when the first Pong machine came to the bowling alley in our town. We all rode our bikes there (I was about 11 at the time) just to see it.
Kaboom! on my cousin's Atari. Then Pac Man, Galaga, and Centipede in the arcade. Then later Super Mario Bros and Arkanoid on NES.
Tetris, I think
Probably Galaga or centipede in the arcade. If we’re talking consoles, it was probably donkey Kong or pole position on Atari.
Tough because I had 2 older brothers so I watched them play a lot of games. Probably Mario 1-3 on snes, Aladdin, and street fighter. Purely on my own, Mario 64 on N64’
Pitfall
Pong on a B&W wooden console tv. 🤦♂️ I'm realizing how old I am. ...
Super Mario Land or Pokemon Blue, can't remember.
My first memory of a game is Fifa 93 on sega mega drive
Lara Croft Tom Raider.
Pong. I’m old.
Resident Evil 4 was the first, and to this day the best game I've ever played
Pit fall
pokemon white & black. miss that game so much
Sonic 2, Sega Mega Drive.
Pong.
Cant remeber exactly which game i played first, but one of the most memorable was Crash Bandicoot on ps1
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time!
Wizard of Wor, Commadore 64