/vr/ - Retro Games

>for the DS

>>1081184
Mine was Super Mario Bros. for the NES. Also OP, shit son how old are you?

>>1081184
>First retro game is a remake on a non-/vr/ system

>>1081207
18, I started playing video games in the 6th gen when my family got a PS2.

>>1081213
It's still basically the same game with some added stuff and tweaked graphics

>>1081217
>added stuff
Then it's not the same game. Levels were changed, characters were added, stars were changed/removed/added.

>>1081229
Still close enough that it didn't completely changed it. Point is, it was the first game to get me into older games beyond the PS2 and Gamecube. I started asking my parents to get me older consoles like the Dreamcast and N64 afterwords.

It was either Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt on NES. It was the three-in-one cart that everyone had back then. I just don't remember which one I played first.

>>1081184

>ds

Why do i keep comming back here. Jesus christ

Okay, we get it, OP. You're young as shit.
A lot of us played retro when it the games were just released.

Pretty sure mine was SMB on my dad's Nintendo. If not, definitely Batman Returns on the Game Gear.

>>1081184

>first retro game
>on DS

>>1081305
A lot of us on 4chan were born in '95. I'm sorry.

Mario 3 or Super Mario World.

Ignoring the idiot troll op, Duck Hunt is the first game I remember legitimately playing and not just mashing buttons because they were there.

It was probably GORF on the Commodore Vic 20. Good old knock offs.

After that, probably impossible mission for C64 or Ghosts and Goblins for same system. I didn't play NES or even Atari games really until I was 8. Then again, I played Rescue Mission on Master System before either of those.

>>1081184
Legend of Zelda. First one

>>1081312

>people born in '95 are now legally able to browse 4chan

Pong.

The actual arcade game.

Back when it was released.

...I'm old.

hmm while I have to say Super Mario 64 for the DS is not retro. I might see OP's point here. Most of us ( myself included) played retro games when they first came out but I guess it wasn't retro when I beat Mario 64 on a 64 right? why no in fact it was brand new. Or else wouldn't this post be " FIRST game you ever played" ?

My first game was Super Mario Bro 3.

My first time playing retro grames was FF4 on a snes emulator in I guess about 2002-03 been playing retro games ever since

>>1081359
Going that route, I guess the first "retro" game I played on an emulator was Clash at Demonhead. I'd heard of it and seen reviews in the '80s but never played it until a few years ago.

In a weird way it surpassed my expectations, since I love goofy Engrishy stuff.

DS AND GAMECUBE IS NOT RETRO.

>>1081384


Shit man, thanks for clarifying.

You seem to be lost, OP.
Are you doing this to post it on your facebook and earn hipster cred among your friends?

>>1081390

>>1081359
OP here, I made this thread since I figured there's probably a lot of people on 4chan who started on 6th gen. People like me who were 5 when the PS2 came out, are now 18, and 4chan's always had a huge population of people age 15-20.

Anyway, I guess the equivalent for older people would be whatever game was considered retro when you first started playing. Like if you started with SNES, it'd be an NES or Atari 2600 game.

>>1081452
>there's probably a lot of people on 4chan who started on 6th gen. People like me who were 5 when the PS2 came out, are now 18, and 4chan's always had a huge population of people age 15-20.

Please stop reminding us.

Circus Charlie for NES.

Uhhh, well it wasn't really retro back then, but Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World I guess

Leave OP alone, he can't help his age, at least he appreciates the classics.

My memory is a bit foggy, but like a lot of folks in this thread I remember being wowed by Super Mario Bros. at a friend's house at a very early age.

I think my first "retro" games were the Genesis games on Sonic Mega Collection Plus for PS2.

As someone that was just old enough to be on 4chan (legally) when it first launched this thread is making me feel old. And to answer my first game was pong on the 2600. I was 3 I think (1988) and played it a few times after. Still pretty fun if you can enjoy pong after all these years.

I dunno if OP is trolling or not, but I'm not going to accuse him of it. You know why? Because not every family could afford the shit you could afford. Maybe his parents thought video games were evil. Maybe he just fucking read books until he became an adult.

Stop projecting your lives on to everyone else. There are a number of reasons someone would not have experienced SM64 when you did. Not everyone grew up in the same conditions you did, and you're stupid to assume so.

>>1081472
are you 15yo?

Final Fantasy 1, played 22 years ago (I was 3.). I've loved RPGs ever since, be they J, W, S, or Tabletop.

>>1081257
don't act high and mighty when you can't even spell correctly

faggot

Defender on fuck I dunno what Atari system, my house was poor as shit.

whoa OP

the first game I played was Super Mario World for SNES.

The first 'retro' game I played was the Gameboy Advance remake of Super Mario World

man I love that game

Mine was Megaman 1, the first video game i ever played in my life) on Nes at the age of 3 or 4 (I'm 26).

I think I first played Super Mario Bros. 3 on my cousin's NES, then I got my first Gameboy with Super Mario Land and also Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, I loved them so much. Then I got an N64 with Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64, yeah I had alot of Mario.

>SM64
>on DS

This thread is bait. And my first retro game was Street Fighter 2 in 1991.

>>1081184

I'm too old for this board. This is my last post here. Sorry.

>>1081592
>Wumpus

>>1081592
you're welcome here oldfag seriously id rather hear more about hunt the wumpus than some underage jerk off mario some more.

>lmao guys these old "retro" games are so cool!!!! whats ur favorite? Mine is "super mario"


Please leave. This board is not for you.

>all these youngfags

jesus christ I hope some of you are trolling. anyway my first game was Combat on 2600 in 1982? 1983?

>>1081605

Well, okay then.

Hunt the Wumpus isn't technically the first game I ever played, it's just the first one you can really call a game in the modern sense. Alpine Avalanche is the first game I ever played, but it has no real gameplay apart from dodging objects to reach the peak of a mountain to no apparent purpose.

But Hunt the Wumpus is the first one you can actually lose. You wander a tesseract looking for an invisible beast with no major clues as to it's location. Your only chance to defeat it is to come up behind it, so you wander the endless maze trying to luck out and hit the monster while it invisibly faces the correct direction.

Sadly, I don't own the system or the game anymore, so I can't really recall how you determine it's location or facing.

>>1081612

Ever played Moon Mine? That was the first game I played that ever truly terrified me. It's basically a Sinistar clone, but I was too young to go to arcades when the game was out. So the Zygonaut was the first voiced villain I ever heard.

The blasted monster appeared in my nightmares until I was seven.

>>1081619
interesting i woulda played the shit out of it as a kid i loved mazes. I'm a lot younger but i still loved old tech even when I was a kid my frist system was a hand me down NES in 94 but I had played tetris before that. I was so young the first time I played though I dont remember what it was but I remember playing tetris. I had no clue what the object of the game was I just made pictures with the bricks hahaha, I remember making what resembled a giraffe in my 3 year old mind and I was so proud of myself.

so are you guys suggesting that mario 64 isn't a retro game because it's not *old enough*?

this shit could be 50 years old and still be modern as hell -- as long as recent games still try (and mostly fail) to replicate it's mechanics, yeah.

>>1081628

It's still pretty easy to get a hold of the system itself, but since they almost require the round tube CRT televisions, they aren't easy to get working. Also, the system itself is fairly prone to hardware failures.

I'd like to see this particular game return somehow, but I doubt anyone besides myself remembers it.

>>1081619
Oh I think I played that back in mid/late 80's. Thing scared the fuck out of me (I was 3 or 4). I think you find him by the different noises.
>>1081608
Hey my favorite game is Super Mario World. Was the first game I personally ever owned. I still play it every few years and still have great enjoyment thought out the world.

>>1081641
I think it's him saying the first retro game was 64 on the DS. Mario 64 is retro under the rule. And I personally think its retro and it blew my fucking mind playing a 3D Mario game.

My first retro game was a bunch of different games on the Intellivision. I played a bunch of memorable games, and some games that at the time I just could not make sense of. I think that game was adventure? there were some games that my brain couldn't abstract what the shapers were supposed to be. For the most part though I could see the value of them. This was in 98' when I used to get babysat by some of my parent's friends. Pitfall was ahead of it's time by my evaluation of how well the system pulls off representation of the games. The most memorable game was a space shooter that mimicked 3d like tempest but had an open ceiling instead of perspective of shit running at you.

>>1081184
hmmm... the first game I've played was (probably DOS game) "Gex" or something.. (does that even count as one?) Haven't found it anywhere so it could've been misnamed. 2nd was the first Duke Nukem

My first "retro" game was Ice Climber, must have been around 1989. It wasn't exactly retro back then though.

>>1081654
I wanna clarify I was a nintendo kid, but this was the first game system that I played for the mystique of being outdated and knowing what came before.

>>1081462
Mine was this one too, its a preety cool game considering is a minigame game

probably The Lost Vikings on MsDOS or Prince of Persia also on MsDOS.

>>1081184

PC too or only consoles?

In this case the first vidya machine was the GameBoy, so obviously Tetris

>>1081184
C64 stuff, Rick Dangerous, Henry's House, Giana Sisters. Your pick

grand theft auto 5

The first game I remember my dad bringing home was Super Mario Bros 3.
The first game I specifically got as a gift was Kirby's Adventure.

No idea about the first game I ever played. Either SMB1 or 2, Ducktales, Tetris or some Amiga game.

>>1081850
That's quite a range of time...Ducktales didn't come out til 89

>>1081867

I was born in 88.
My father buying SMB3 in like 1990 is literally my oldest memory. I might have watched him play other games and held the controller a few times before that, though.

>>1081875
Oh, ok, just that *Amiga* and those other games are a few years older

Close to the same age as OP, but not as much of a faggot. My first retro game, I'm not sure what was the absolute first due to not remembering, but to rattle off names of things:

Megaman X (SNES)
DKC3 (SNES)
Ms. Pacman (SNES)
Goof Troop (SNES)
Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)

Oddly enough I play almost nothing but NES and Gameboy now.

>>1081184
Original GameBoy.

>F1 Race bundled

First game I can remember is probably Dynamite Dan on the C64. I sucked terribly at it.

'94 fag here.

If memory serves, my first game was Super Mario World for the Gameboy at age 2. While I never had a console other than an NES until the year 2000, Doom and Sonic CD were popular choices as well. Those were only a year later.

First game I remember playing was some sort of Arkanoid on the IBM XT.

I was born in 1988. My first game was Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on the brand new NES my father brought home when I was three years old.

A few years later, I played with my father's Magnavox Odyssey II for a while. So, I guess one of those Odyssey II games would've been my first "retro" game for my age group.

banjo ka-jew-ie because it has the best game play and most intelligent level design of any platformer evar. i cant imagine how better graphics would improve the experience at all.

Wasn't retro at the time, but I got a SNES with Star Fox and SMW for my 3rd birthday in 92. Didnt beat star fox on hard til I was 21.

>>1081184
get out

I was old enough to get Super Mario 64 when it and the Nintendo 64 were brand new.

Thank you for making me feel ancient somehow, OP.

fucking this,
it played off a tape
pong followed soon after
im old

>>1081184
I was a young kid in the mid 90s and my cousins showed me A Link to the Past on SNES.

It was a hell of a start to video games and my favorite game to this day.

You should be banned based on principal

Either one of these two. I wouldn't be able to say which.

>>1085273
I played this game on the nes... one of my favorite from a multigame cart

Earthbound, funnily enough. I got it and a SNES that came packaged w/ Donkey Kong Country, but the Earthbound box was so fucking huge, I knew I wanted to play that game first.

It's weird to think that I was 8 in 95, while OP was being shot out his mom's vagina.

>thinking a DS game is retro

>>1081184

Either Robot Rascals on the C64 or Omega Race on the VIC20. Robot Rascals was awesome.

>>1081184

I'm ok with people barely old enough to browse 4chan, I'm not ok with faggots like this browsing 4chan.

I am 26 and my first game was Mario 1 in 89. Just something about trying to figure out the controller was a lot of fun.

>>1085420

>ports of retro games aren't retro

ok bub

>>1085486

No one cares what you are and are not okay with.

>>1085264

I remember, as a Playstation kid, going over to friends' houses and being AMAZED at how you could control Mario with the analog stick.

Like, I couldn't believe you could control a game character's movements with such precision in a 3D space.

>>1081184
>on DS
Oh...
I am not gonna argue with you don't worry. It's just something I noticed...

First game for me was Sonic 2 (Genesis/Mega Drive)

Duck Hunt. My family couldn't afford an NES until 1989. So I played at a friend's house. I was about 7 and my friend's mom thought we were too young to figure out Mario. But I guess we were old enough to murder innocent pixel ducks with a plastic light gun.

Sonic 2 on my uncle's genesis. First videogame I can recall playing as well.

The first game I have any memory of playing was Frogger in the garage on my dad's Atari.

The first game I obsessed about was Super Mario Bros.

>>1085530
>murder innocent pixel ducks

Oh man, that reminded of how horrified my grandmother was when she first saw us playing Duck Hunt, it was "so violent."

I suppose she's lucky she never saw the Mortal Kombat games or Grand Theft Auto, her head would've probably exploded.

Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the first video game I ever seen since I was 3-4 years old back then at early '80s. The only thing I remember is that it was a space fixed shooter like Galaga and Space Invaders and since it was the first time I ever saw a video game I was like "Wow!" like it was a technology from the future. Yeah, when you are a little kid you have very wild imagination.

The earliest I can remember is Sonic 2.

first video game ever was Super Mario Bros in 1993 on a NES my uncle (17 at the time) showed me randomly one day.

First game I remember is Zelda II on a relative's NES .

The first game I played knowing it was "retro" was probably a random NES/SNES rom back when zsnes and romsets started being a thing in the late 90s/early 2000s.

>1st retro game is a remake on a 7th gen console
>not liking Super Mario Sunshine more
The fuck?

>inb4 why do you like SMS more

>>1081619
>filename
You are pretty good bro

>>1081475
>old enough to be on 4chan (legally) when it first launched this thread is making me feel old.
I got married around the time 4chan launched. My son is old enough to attend school now.

>>1081481
>playing rpgs before knowing how to read
My nigga. Sometimes I think think that's why I started reading a year earlier.

pac-man i'm old

>>1085787
SMS has better level design but 64 has better control and movement

It was either Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey 98', Super Mario 64, or Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside.

I'm sure it's been pointed out already, but WOW that's a really shitty OP. Way to taint the thread.

I suppose my first retro game was the Kaboom! remake back on the Atari 5200. I used to play it with my step-dad when I was like three years old, even though the 5200 was over ten years old by the time I was even born. It made our switch to the Playstation even more of an eye opener.

>>1081184
I am 31 so i guess it would be my first game i remember playing. I guess i would say Spiderman for the Atari 2600.

>>1085902
Actually, it was the original 2600 version, now that I think on it. We didn't even have a 5200.

Wizard of Wor on the C64. around the same time, i remember visiting a friends place who had a nes and SMB. i fucking sucked ass at it, probably because i was used to a joystick and not the awkward as fuck rectangular nes controller

Super mario world. Have finished this shit like 10 times never gets old. Remember getting Tiny toons Bust loose and Un Squadron with it by then.

>>1085875
Who you linked

I wasn't really implying I was really old. It's just one of those things where you read what OP wrote and it dawn on you that 10 years went by. Hope you shown your kid some amazing retro games.

>>1085902
>Kaboom!

Fuck yeah. Took me forever to get the pattern down.

>People like me who were 5 when the PS2 came out

That was the last console I bought, what are we up to now, PS5?
Shit I haven't even got around to playing GTAIV yet.

Oh yeah, first game? Doughnut Dilemma on the Tandy Colour 3

>>1085493
Hows it feel to be retarded?
If they updated the graphics, changed shit, and added stuff to the game, it's not fucking retro.

If 6th Gen. was considered retro, would you think Wind Waker HD was a retro game? No you fucking wouldn't.

Give it up, kid, you're not a "supah kewl retro gamer! XD :P" like you think you are.

Grand Prix Circuit on MS-DOS. I was six or seven
The opening theme is forever etched into my mind - quite catchy

My grandparents bought me a NES in 1987, I was 4 years old. I didn't have serious contact with video games before that time

I ended up getting some really great games for it
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Contra
Super Contra
Star Trek
Maniac Mansion
Bubble Bobble
Double Dragon
Double Dragon II
Marble Madness

Good times

woulda been something on Atari 2600, hard to say what, I just played whatever my cousins had

but I didn't get reeeeally into it (because there wasn't much depth to get into yet, except maybe in the arcades which I couldn't usually get to) until Super Mario Bros., and to a lesser extent Ice Climber, Excitebike, and a few other early NES games came out

I am always amazed how people can remember this. My first retro game was a full 28-30 years ago or so. I know my first recognizable one or noteworthy one was probably just Super Mario Bros. on the NES. I played a lot of strange stuff on PC before that, but I couldn't begin to recall those.

>>1081305
>>1081348
>>1081460
>>1081608
>>1085170
>>1085396

At least there are younger people who are interested in retro games and not all this FPS bullshit that's popular nowadays.

some bowling game for Intellivision

>Date of birth
May 29, 1986
>First Game
The Legend of Zelda. It continues to be my favorite game to this day.
>First "retro" game
Fucking what? I never stopped playing games.
>Concerning youngsters
I'm glad you're not a douche that writes stuff off because it's old and "lol shitty graffix anon"
>Concerning old fucks
Don't get mad and appreciate that the youth "get" it. You're not special, faggots.

>>1085405
Ah, good ol' Master System. Alex Kidd was the first game I ever played.

I'm still very fond of it (and the Game Gear too), too bad I had to sell mine so I could buy a SNES.

This, as far as I remember. I must've been, what, 4?

Hopping on the SMB/Duck Hunt train.

>filthy casual that had to press the Zapper against the screen just to not get a Game Over

>>1086629
don't be hatin on a whole genre. quake 3 is a good ass game

>2/21/88
>Mega Man 2

I probably played something before that, but MM2 was the earliest I remember playing.

>tfw I realized I've had internet connection in my house (95) since before some people on this board were even born

Sneak and Peek is the earliest one I can remember.

>>1086692
Not hatin on Quake, I was implying Call of Duty.

34 yo oldfag here, I think it's nice to see younger people like OP taking an interest in retro games. who the fuck cares how how he got there, or what game sparked his interest?

SMW in '93. i managed to play most of the other contemporary consoles and handhelds through my friends though.

>>1081592

I played Hunt the Wumpus at my dad's friend's house when it first came out. I was really jealous because I had a TI994A but this guy had like EVERY game for it- I would seriously jones to go over to his house.

That game really stuck in my brain because it a variation of Hall of the Mountain King for a theme song, remember?

>>1086931
i know right. would you get pissy at a 10 year old for reading a book that was written before he was born?

Mario Kart 64, Doom 64, or Starfox 64. I want to say Mario Kart was the actual first, but I remember playing all of them with family members when I was like 3 or something.

>>1086931
Truth.

I think pic related was my first home video game.

Never did figure out what the fuck was going on in it.

>>1081312

I was born in '96 and I played nothing but N64 and NES and 90s PC games like Diablo and Starcraft for years, and still do. Age is not an excuse, the taste you have for games is what ultimately defines whether you're considered a 'retro gamer' or not. I grew up with those games at a later period.

>>1087236
Underage b&.

My first retro game was Super Mario World, except that was still current gen at the time...

>>1087208
>see that screenshot
>looks like someone tilted the cartridge a bit too far
is that what it always looks like?

Dungeon Master after playing Grimrock. Its pretty cool. Though now I think of it I played Wonderboy 3 at some point too.

Also, is the N64 seriosuly retro?

Pokemon Pinball (1st gen version)

My first gaming console was the PS1 and the two games I got when I bought it was Spyro 2 because I had a thing for Dinosaurs and Dragons and the Euro cover had both of those things and some football FIFA game.

So yeah Spyro 2 was my first game ever.

OP is a massive troll, but I will contribute.

Ice Climber, 22-23 years ago.

>>1086916
don't be hatin on a whole series. Call of Duty is a good ass game

Must be Joust or Asteroids on Atari 2600 in the early 1980s. I was born 1979.
No I don't consider the N64 including that generation to be Retro. SNES is pushing it.

>>1089423
So is 2, and largely 4.
The problem isn't solely in COD games like everyone wants to make you believe, they knew how to make a fucking awesome scripted campaign. I loved 2 when I played it for the first time and the regen health was an interesting departure from most FPS. But then every fucking game started copying it and it killed creativity. That's the problem.

>>1091486
World War II set Call of Duty is best Call of Duty.

>>1081312
im born in 95 and i played NES in my childhood since my older cousin gave it to me and my family had no idea what consoles are
i cant really remember whats the first but i know i played smb3 a lot with my cousin

I'm not sure I understand the question, but I think the answer would either be Rush 2049 on the N64 that me and my brother got from a guy my dad worked with and went to Kid Rock concerts with my mom.

Otherwise, the answer would be the collection of arcade games(mostly Namco I think) that was on the computer our uncle gave to us, since he was computer people when that was special, and he'd upgraded.
It ran Windows 98, and I was shit at Doom and Pac-man, but I was decent at Centipede and Galaxian.

>>1081184
I remember playing Super Mario World and Street Fighter with my brother and cousins when I was very young. I also remember playing Pokemon Red on my brother's GBC. Although I didn't really get into gaming until a few years ago (around the age of 15).

First game I'd say is either Time Bandits or Impossible mission on the Atari ST.

First Retro game that I'd discovered years after it had been released, though, probably metroid 1.

I loved metroid 2 and super metroid as a kid, but I could never find metroid 1 until I realized it was on the NES and not the gameboy.

I printed out a 20 page walkthrough of it with full maps and everything in all black, and my dad got fucking pissed at me for wasting the printer ink

The first system my parents bought for my sister and me was a NES. You know the $99 bundle that came with a zapper and Mario/Duck Hunt? That was Christmas 1990 for my family.

But before that, my aunt let us borrow her Atari system. I can't remember if it was the 2600, 5200 or 7800, but my earliest /vr/-related memory was switching the TV back and forth between Frogger and Star Wars: Ewoks when I was 4 years old.

You guys are making me feel old.

(Although if I'm honest, I was born in time for the NES generation and the Atari was my Dad's)

Not showing off, but my first gaming system was the Vectrex. It was a hand-me down from my parents in the late 80's, but it was still my first system/game. I still have it and the games it came with. Spike, Armor Attack, Rip-Off and some others.

>>1092047
Awesome.

First game I ever played: Prince of Persia. On the black and white Apple computers my elementary school had.

First game I owned: Super Mario Land.

>>1085887
Even today's hipster generation play Pac-Man. Remember that Minecraft is too mainstream for them. And Pac-Man was one of the first video games I've played including Night Driver and Combat when I had the Atari 2600. Call me old but I still have plenty of hair and run 5 & 10K races. U mad?

Sanic 1 & 2

>>1092115
I don't think anyone cares.

>>1092115
hipsters eat up minecraft

>>1081184
>>1081217
>>1081452
Really, guys?

>>1081348
>time actually goes by
I was born in 95. I played SNES and genesis growing up. Age has nothing to do with someones love for video games, you fucking aspie.

This, Atari Pac-Man, and some other game where you controlled tanks that shot at each other.

The first game I have memories of ever playing in Mega Man 2, so maybe that, but it could have been something else.

>>1092613
>controlled tanks that shot at each other.

Combat. Or Armor Ambush.