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.

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

Jumpstart games and Tonka games

Snake on a gray Gameboy.

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).

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.

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.

Finishing the first level of Doom II and thinking i had beat the whole game. hehehe

My first proper gaming memory was when I played Myst on my dad’s computer, I didn’t get it at the time, but later when me and my sister got our own computer I played it much more intently, then came Riven and The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time, they were really cool.

My first genuine FPS experience was Half-Life, but I was too scared of all the monsters, so I turned on cheats, god mode, get all weappons and make monsters ignore you.

My first multiplayer gaming experience was when me and my class mates got the demo of UT99 running on the school computers and gamed after hours, I sucked, but it was really fun regardless.

I don’t remember what the game was called, but I played it from a diskette on DOS, if I remember correctly. You were controlling a sort of space ship and jumping on different platforms while continuously moving forward. I loved it. But I don’t remember what it was called so I can’t look it up any more.

We also had some sort of maze game and Commander Keen. But I sucked at Commander Keen, so I never got past the first level.

I was about 17 when Pong first came out, so it would have to be Pong and all the Atari games (we had the console) that had one little square to represent a human and a bunch of other squares that would be walls or enemies or trees or whatever.