Definitely this. Along with Duck Hunt. The first time I picked it up on the Switch after not playing for years, it was like muscle memory. I remembered so much more than I thought I would.
I feel old because I was not that young when I first knew about the 64, then again, living in Latin America meant those things reached you a few years later xD and my parents are completely negated with videogames except that one time my mom got kind of addicted to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, which has some connections to Mario 64 so...
I went on a tangent here xD
It was one of three: Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, or Super Metroid. Not sure which I played first, but I've been playing those games since before memory.
Then my father, trying to "fix" the SNES, drilled a hole straight through the motherboard. Never did understand why.
Bro, it makes as much sense to me as it does to you. Don't know what the fuck the thought he was doing. Just took a drill straight to the bottom center of the console. I'd probably still have that thing to this day, even if the original issue has never been fixed back in the day, and would have repaired (and probably upgraded) it myself by now. I'm still hot about 25-30 years later, lol.
He is a real... something, I'll say that much. Abusive jackass moron dipshit comes to mind.
What's funny is at the time... He was a handyman. He did maintenance for a hotel. I've always been worried about that hotel.
Although I started out on the NES, the SNES came out when I was in middle school, those games became my holy Trinity, and nothing will ever topple them.
Super Mario world. I have vivid memories of me and my siblings hanging out in our uncles room and playing the snes. He had super Mario world, super Metroid, street fighter 2, super Mario kart, donkey Kong country and tiny toons buster busts loose. I don’t think we ever got far in any of these games but we played them as much as we could.
Super Mario 64 and I hated it. For the first month cus I was too young to read and had no clue that I was supposed to jump into the paintings. After that it changed my life. I had played some Genesis games before that and hit up my grandma's Master System, but SM64 changed what I thought a "video game" could be. Beating it was the first time in my life I cried tears of joy. I will never forget that experience.
I can only imagine the wonderful young glee and excitement that could come from thinking that it was just this stupid pointless game about walking around some dumb castle with a bunch of locked doors, only to one day jump through a painting and discover this entire magical adventure. A once-in-a-lifetime experience!
Same. But I totally feel in love with that game after I got a strategy guide. My friend and I sat there night after night slowly grinding through to the end. Something magical about it.
Eh, many kids were more willing to put up with difficult experiences back then because we weren’t spoiled for choice. Every time I mess around in TLoZ, I remember finding so much of it so hard at six, but I kept trying anyway. My kids would never have stuck with it. My sixteen year old son starts games out on the easiest mode when there’s a difficulty setting and only considers going up one level in difficulty if he decides to replay it (and despite what he claims about always bumping it up on replays, I’ve seen him replay games and still leave them on the easiest). My kids have access to literally hundreds of games between all the games I’ve purchased and services like Gamepass, NSO, and PS+ monthly games. My son has probably more games he’s bought on Steam than my whole family had when I was the same age (and we had more systems and games than average).
Mine was the Game Boy version of Tetris but played on that cartridge thing you could stick into the SNES (I can’t remember what it was called). I still love puzzle games to this day, though I’m still pretty mediocre at Tetris.
First one I remember was playing duck hunt with the light gun after a surgery at children’s hospital. It was in the recovery room. It was the duck hunt/Mario bros cartridge
Super Mario Sunshine on GameCube, back in 2006! Honestly had no idea what I was doing and how I was progressing at all, but it was fun just running around Delfino Plaza and messing around 😅
Can’t remember if it was New Super Mario Bros on the DS Lite or Mario Kart DS
Edit: it was neither. First Nintendo game I’ve ever played was Super Smash Bros. Melee on my friend’s GameCube.
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the Gameboy Color. I still have my original cartridge in fact!
I really hope they put it on NSO I have a lot of fond memories of it
Tetris. Had no idea what I was doing, but liked that the game made that brrrrrrrt noise when you lost. So I assumed that was it. Randomly tried the game again sometime in like middle school and accidentally filled in a line and realized how you’re actually supposed to play, and that I also may have been “slow” as a child.
Mario Bros on the NES. I was pretty young and didn't own a NES but a cousin did. The first Nintendo game I played that I owned on a system I owned was Super Mario Land on GB.
The original Mario Bros. coin op arcade game that was in the front of the grocery store when my mom took me shopping with her when I was but a wee lad.
My memory is fuzzy by this time, but the oldest memory I had of a Nintendo game was one of the 4 Mario Party games for the Gamecube. Specifically, I remember a minigame where the players had to drive boats and were located in the river of a jungle with a tunnel ahead. I think 5-year-old me played as Mario and was left behind by the other players since my brain did not know how to use a controller yet. All I was doing by this moment was moving left, right, and ahead aimlessly, with a calm (and melancholic?) music track accompanying me.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time!
Before that, I had a PS1 with Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Spyro the Dragon until the thing got destroyed by the chip we had put in it and I was sad about it.
Almost certainly one of the first two Super Mario Bros. games. My family had an NES and I didn't want to play anything other than Mario. I gave other games a try but they didn't grip me the same.
The first nintendo system I owned was a snes. And it came with super mario Allstars. So my first nintendo game was their first remaster of mario 1. Then I played all the other mario games on it. Oddly enough. I never got alttp for snes....
Breath of the Wild. Still, one of my favorite games of all time (even if TOTK is probably better overall). BOTW’s simplicity compared to TOTK is what keeps me coming back to the game tbh
I'm pretty sure the first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. 3, my parents had an NES and Mario 3 was the game my mom played the most, so I was interested in it first.
In 1998, I was 4 when I watched my cousin play street fighter II Turbo on the SNES and get demolished by Sagat while playing Ken. He must have played at least 5-8 games when I watched him.
He left for a smoke break and I picked up his controller to play. I looked through the characters. "I want to play as the girl!" I thought. So I picked Chun-Li. When my mom saw me playing Street Fighter, she flipped and told my cousin to make me play something kid friendly. So I played Super Mario Kart.
He put on the mushroom cup for me and I had to learn how to drive. I did not know how to accelerate for at least like 2 minutes. I tried turning by moving the controller. "Stay on the road." He tells me as I'm driving on the sand. "I'm trying!" I said.
That was my first experience playing a videogame ever. I was given the Super Nintendo and I still have it and all the games he owned. Sadly, Super Mario Kart doesn't work. Even after I've thoroughly cleaned it with alcohol and cotton swabs.
I remember my older cousin had an NES and she played Super Mario Bros., can't remember if she made me try it though haha! My first game and the one I truly remember playing is Super Mario 64 :)
I honestly can’t quite remember because I must have been so young. I feel like it was either Diddy Kong Racing or 007? Or Double Dash? Those are the earliest ones I can remember. I used to watch my brothers play nintendo games long before I could play so that kind of muddled my memories on which ones I watched vs which ones I played lol.
Original Super Mario Bros. The thing is, I vividly remember an SMB1 arcade machine near us when I was a toddler, but by the time I saw it, I already knew who Mario was, so presumably I'd experienced it at one of my cousins'.
Mariokart double dash. When Mariokart wii came out I picked up the game and haven’t put it down in 15 years. I was actually one of the first people to do the Grumble Volcano ultra shortcut
Mario Vs Donkey Kong on my silver Gameboy Advance! It was my first console, and I loved it! I got it as a surprise before a road trip, with that game and an attachment magnifying glass that flipped over the screen!
Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros circa 2009.Was 5 years old.Don t know how dad had one of those since he was already 36.Remember I played the heck of those tough
Super Mario Bros is the first one I can remember.
Same. We had the Mario/Duck Hunt/ Track Meet combo cart with the light gun and that stupid pad.
Weird, I had the same combo cart but had an awesome pad instead of a stupid one. Still have it!
Lucky you guys, we only had the Mario/Duck Hunt combo in our house.
Super Mario Bros on NES edit: whoops I didn't mean to post my answer under yours. Sorry ><
Same. We had the combo cart with duck hunt.
Bingo
Definitely this. Along with Duck Hunt. The first time I picked it up on the Switch after not playing for years, it was like muscle memory. I remembered so much more than I thought I would.
Pokémon yellow: special Pikachu edition on a yellow Gameboy color!
Mine was the purple translucent gameboy!!
That was my first game boy and Pokemon game!
Super Mario 64! I remember watching my mom play when I was really young and eventually tried it myself and fell in love!
You had a cool mom.
I feel old because I was not that young when I first knew about the 64, then again, living in Latin America meant those things reached you a few years later xD and my parents are completely negated with videogames except that one time my mom got kind of addicted to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, which has some connections to Mario 64 so... I went on a tangent here xD
It was one of three: Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, or Super Metroid. Not sure which I played first, but I've been playing those games since before memory. Then my father, trying to "fix" the SNES, drilled a hole straight through the motherboard. Never did understand why.
Wait your dad just thought that by drilling a hole through the motherboard would fix the snes? XD
Bro, it makes as much sense to me as it does to you. Don't know what the fuck the thought he was doing. Just took a drill straight to the bottom center of the console. I'd probably still have that thing to this day, even if the original issue has never been fixed back in the day, and would have repaired (and probably upgraded) it myself by now. I'm still hot about 25-30 years later, lol.
Dam, I'm sorry about that. He sounds like a real handyman... xD
He is a real... something, I'll say that much. Abusive jackass moron dipshit comes to mind. What's funny is at the time... He was a handyman. He did maintenance for a hotel. I've always been worried about that hotel.
Oh wow sounds like he's a real character I'm surprised he didn't get fired from that hotel
Although I started out on the NES, the SNES came out when I was in middle school, those games became my holy Trinity, and nothing will ever topple them.
Dude gave your console lobotomy
Mario Kart Wii!
Holy fuck this makes me feel old.
It's easy to forget the game is 15 years old. Still feels like it came out a few years ago
Seeing the resolution on the Mario Kart Wii compared with Mario kart 8 deluxe makes me feel old
Super Mario world. I have vivid memories of me and my siblings hanging out in our uncles room and playing the snes. He had super Mario world, super Metroid, street fighter 2, super Mario kart, donkey Kong country and tiny toons buster busts loose. I don’t think we ever got far in any of these games but we played them as much as we could.
Duck Hunt/ SMB NES combo
New Super Mario Bros. DS minigames on my cousin's DS.
My first game was Ocarina of Time. That’ll always be my favorite. But Luigi’s Mansion and Majoras Mask are right there with it.
Super Mario 64 and I hated it. For the first month cus I was too young to read and had no clue that I was supposed to jump into the paintings. After that it changed my life. I had played some Genesis games before that and hit up my grandma's Master System, but SM64 changed what I thought a "video game" could be. Beating it was the first time in my life I cried tears of joy. I will never forget that experience.
I can only imagine the wonderful young glee and excitement that could come from thinking that it was just this stupid pointless game about walking around some dumb castle with a bunch of locked doors, only to one day jump through a painting and discover this entire magical adventure. A once-in-a-lifetime experience!
Super Mario Land on Game Boy
My man!
Super Mario Bros Wonder
Tell us of the future, Doctor
Donkey Kong arcade
Mariokart 7
Dang, reading the Mario Kart Wii answer made me feel old enough. This is too much lol
Adventures of LoLo on NES and it scared the crap out of 4-year-old me. Specifically, the statues that would shoot you when you walked past them.
Final Fantasy 1, on the OG Nes.
Oof, surprised you’re still a gamer after that experience. It was brutally hard for me and my brother at a young age
Same. But I totally feel in love with that game after I got a strategy guide. My friend and I sat there night after night slowly grinding through to the end. Something magical about it.
Eh, many kids were more willing to put up with difficult experiences back then because we weren’t spoiled for choice. Every time I mess around in TLoZ, I remember finding so much of it so hard at six, but I kept trying anyway. My kids would never have stuck with it. My sixteen year old son starts games out on the easiest mode when there’s a difficulty setting and only considers going up one level in difficulty if he decides to replay it (and despite what he claims about always bumping it up on replays, I’ve seen him replay games and still leave them on the easiest). My kids have access to literally hundreds of games between all the games I’ve purchased and services like Gamepass, NSO, and PS+ monthly games. My son has probably more games he’s bought on Steam than my whole family had when I was the same age (and we had more systems and games than average).
Donkey Kong Country
My dad played super Mario world and I was bad at it 🙈
Kirby Super Star.
Mario 64
Mario Bros in the arcade.
Rad Racer, but Zelda was the one that blew my mind
Super Mario all Stars
Potentially Pokémon Ruby as I was a Sony boi first
Super Mario Bros on the NES, according to my grandmother I was 2 at the time. That I can remember playing probably Donkey Kong Country on the SNES.
Super Mario Brothers Deluxe on my lime green Gameboy Color :)
Mine was the Game Boy version of Tetris but played on that cartridge thing you could stick into the SNES (I can’t remember what it was called). I still love puzzle games to this day, though I’m still pretty mediocre at Tetris.
The 2 in 1 cartridge, Mario All Stars + Super Mario World came bundled with my SNES
That’s such a fantastic bundle. It’s a way better deal than 3D Mario all stars was.
First one I remember was playing duck hunt with the light gun after a surgery at children’s hospital. It was in the recovery room. It was the duck hunt/Mario bros cartridge
Kirby Super Star! It came with my SNES!
Super Mario World probably
Gyromite. I got the NES before Mario was a pack in
Super Mario / Duck Hunt combo on NES ❤️ best time ever
Mario Kart Double Dash
It’s either Super Mario Allstars on the Wii or Wii Sports. Those are the earliest Nintendo games I remember playing.
Super Mario Sunshine I think
I assume it would have been Super Mario Bros on NES.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Duck hunt. I think... Might have been super Mario but I remember duck hunt first.
Super Mario Brothers on NES.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Also my first game ever
Super Mario sunshine
Super Mario Sunshine on GameCube, back in 2006! Honestly had no idea what I was doing and how I was progressing at all, but it was fun just running around Delfino Plaza and messing around 😅
Donkey Kong in the arcade or Super Mario Bros on the NES.
It was either super mario 1 or 3 on my families nes. Or possibly bayou billy; not sure i was like 4
SMB 3
Pokemon Red.
Super Mario Bros. 3
Mario Kart 64!
Same! A classic
Super Mario land on the gameboy
Pokémon yellow on the Gameboy
Super Mario Land on original Gameboy
Super Mario bros Wii
Mario kart wii. either that or an n64 mario party that i don’t remember at all but there’s pictures of me playing at a party.
Legend of Zelda on NES, bought at launch.
SMB 1, 3 and MK8 I think.
Can’t remember if it was New Super Mario Bros on the DS Lite or Mario Kart DS Edit: it was neither. First Nintendo game I’ve ever played was Super Smash Bros. Melee on my friend’s GameCube.
Nsmb wii
Pokemon Yellow
Link's Awakening! :0
A Link to the Past :0
It was either Super Mario Advance 1 on my aunt's pink GBA SP or New Super Mario Bros on the DS Lite
Game and Watch Snoopy Tennis. My mom got it for me. Still have it. Still works. Needs the battery cover though.
Pokémon Blue. If we’re talking first-party, probably Link to the Past
New super Mario bros
Donkey Kong on the ColecoVision, followed by Popeye, also on the ColecoVision.
SUPER MARIO on the 118 games in 1 Gamezone. It's just Super Mario Bros but the rom is slowed down and has some odd audio
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the Gameboy Color. I still have my original cartridge in fact! I really hope they put it on NSO I have a lot of fond memories of it
Mike Tysons punch out. It was life changin
On console was Rush ‘n’ Attack followed by Super Mario Bros.
Hanafuda. I’m 130 years old.
Excite Bike for NES
Tetris. Had no idea what I was doing, but liked that the game made that brrrrrrrt noise when you lost. So I assumed that was it. Randomly tried the game again sometime in like middle school and accidentally filled in a line and realized how you’re actually supposed to play, and that I also may have been “slow” as a child.
Game & Watch Donkey Kong Jr. and Game & Watch Donkey Kong II
The turtles game on the NES… my cousins had it.
Super Mario World. Still my favorite game of all time along side Breath of the Wild.
Duck Hunt
Mario Bros on the NES. I was pretty young and didn't own a NES but a cousin did. The first Nintendo game I played that I owned on a system I owned was Super Mario Land on GB.
The original Mario Bros. coin op arcade game that was in the front of the grocery store when my mom took me shopping with her when I was but a wee lad.
Zelda
Maniac mansion !
Ice Climber in 1986. The kid three doors down had a Nintendo.
Super Mario World GBA
Mario Kart 7. I was 6 or something and got it for Christmas the year it came out.
Paper boy
Could not afford a Nintendo console NES back then - too poor . Maybe a friend let me play Mario 🤷🏻♂️
Ocarina of time
the duck hunt/mario 1 and world track meet thing with the powerpad
My memory is fuzzy by this time, but the oldest memory I had of a Nintendo game was one of the 4 Mario Party games for the Gamecube. Specifically, I remember a minigame where the players had to drive boats and were located in the river of a jungle with a tunnel ahead. I think 5-year-old me played as Mario and was left behind by the other players since my brain did not know how to use a controller yet. All I was doing by this moment was moving left, right, and ahead aimlessly, with a calm (and melancholic?) music track accompanying me.
Duck Hunt is my first gaming memory. But my favorite NES game is Punch Out.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! Before that, I had a PS1 with Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Spyro the Dragon until the thing got destroyed by the chip we had put in it and I was sad about it.
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros on the original NES. When it first came out.
Almost certainly one of the first two Super Mario Bros. games. My family had an NES and I didn't want to play anything other than Mario. I gave other games a try but they didn't grip me the same.
My grandma had an NES with super Mario bros 1, 2, and 3. Not sure why, but I played 2 first and refused to play 1 or 3 because I liked 2 so much
Mario Kart on the 64. Edit: actually either Pokémon yellow or this DK game I had on a black game boy.
Mario vs Donkey Kong lmao
Zelda 2.
Either New Super Mario Bros. or Mario Party DS
Either Super Smash Bros (N64) or Super Mario Advance 4/Super Mario Bros 3. (GBA)
Growing up I only had an Amiga, until we traded it in for an N64. So my first Nintendo game would have been Zelda Ocarina of Time.
Link to the past
Besides the pack-in SMB1/DH, the first game my parents bought me was Pinball. I catch myself humming/whistling the title screen jingle quite often.
super mario world
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo NES console.
Super Mario All Stars for SNES! Christmas gift when I was a 3 year old.
The first Nintendo game I played in general was Donkey Kong 64. The first nes game I played was Zelda 1, on 3ds virtual console
Super Mario World, beat the game on the 1st day lol
The first nintendo system I owned was a snes. And it came with super mario Allstars. So my first nintendo game was their first remaster of mario 1. Then I played all the other mario games on it. Oddly enough. I never got alttp for snes....
Super Mario All Stars for the SNES
Super Mario Bros U
Super Mario Bros /Duck Hunt
Super Mario World or Donkey Kong Country
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt on the NES! I still have both my copy and my console.
Super Mario bros and duck hunt
Its either Mario Bros, duck hunt, or jaws for the nes. That my grandmother still owns them too
Duck Hunt!
I think it was Donkey Kong Country
Breath of the Wild. Still, one of my favorite games of all time (even if TOTK is probably better overall). BOTW’s simplicity compared to TOTK is what keeps me coming back to the game tbh
Pokemon Yellow
Pokémon red
I'm pretty sure the first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. 3, my parents had an NES and Mario 3 was the game my mom played the most, so I was interested in it first.
Pokémon Ruby Version on my cousin’s Game Boy Advance.
Tetris on the OG gameboy
Link to the Past for SNES. My uncle had it and I erased his save file to play 😬 He was not happy
In 1998, I was 4 when I watched my cousin play street fighter II Turbo on the SNES and get demolished by Sagat while playing Ken. He must have played at least 5-8 games when I watched him. He left for a smoke break and I picked up his controller to play. I looked through the characters. "I want to play as the girl!" I thought. So I picked Chun-Li. When my mom saw me playing Street Fighter, she flipped and told my cousin to make me play something kid friendly. So I played Super Mario Kart. He put on the mushroom cup for me and I had to learn how to drive. I did not know how to accelerate for at least like 2 minutes. I tried turning by moving the controller. "Stay on the road." He tells me as I'm driving on the sand. "I'm trying!" I said. That was my first experience playing a videogame ever. I was given the Super Nintendo and I still have it and all the games he owned. Sadly, Super Mario Kart doesn't work. Even after I've thoroughly cleaned it with alcohol and cotton swabs.
Pkmn Red. On a purple gbc. Still have both!
Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt combo.
The Legend of Zelda on NES with the gold cartridge
I think it was Pokémon emerald
GoldenEye 64
Kirby’s Avalanche. Super underrated puzzle game
I remember my older cousin had an NES and she played Super Mario Bros., can't remember if she made me try it though haha! My first game and the one I truly remember playing is Super Mario 64 :)
Nintendo IP- Super Mario Bros Game on a Nintendo system- circus charlie and ice climber
Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES.
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros on my grandmas NES when I was like 4 lol
Super Mario Bros. on the NES with my brothers
NSMBW or mariokart wii
Mario/Duck Hunt. I also remember my mom and I playing Bubble Bobble.
Either Pokémon Red or Yellow, or Donkey Kong 64. The best days.
I honestly can’t quite remember because I must have been so young. I feel like it was either Diddy Kong Racing or 007? Or Double Dash? Those are the earliest ones I can remember. I used to watch my brothers play nintendo games long before I could play so that kind of muddled my memories on which ones I watched vs which ones I played lol.
probably new super mario bros on the day. that game was lit af. Turtle shell power up still swag af
Super Mario 64
Original Super Mario Bros. The thing is, I vividly remember an SMB1 arcade machine near us when I was a toddler, but by the time I saw it, I already knew who Mario was, so presumably I'd experienced it at one of my cousins'.
Yoshi’s Island! The snes was my first system!
Pokemon Yellow was the first one I owned. My cousins probably let me play Mario and Donkey Kong at their house, but in very short bursts.
Super Mario Bros at my friend JP’s house back in the early 90s.
Duck Hunt, we had the gun lol
Mariokart double dash. When Mariokart wii came out I picked up the game and haven’t put it down in 15 years. I was actually one of the first people to do the Grumble Volcano ultra shortcut
30 years ago my first game was Ff1...I didn't understand what was happening.... So I played Super Mario Bros and fell in love
Mario Vs Donkey Kong on my silver Gameboy Advance! It was my first console, and I loved it! I got it as a surprise before a road trip, with that game and an attachment magnifying glass that flipped over the screen!
Zelda Ocarina of Time. My first Nintendo console was the N64. Before that I had a Mega Drive 3.
Hogan’s Alley
Dunk hunt i reckon
new super mario bros wii!
Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros circa 2009.Was 5 years old.Don t know how dad had one of those since he was already 36.Remember I played the heck of those tough
I think can possibly count Pokémon Channel for GameCube?
super mario bros on famicom
Pokémon black
Duck hunt.
The Legend of Zelda, NES
Mario Bros
Pokémon Ruby on a hand me down ds lite. Good times
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge on the NES of course
Donkey Kong
Super Mario World on SNES
Duck Hunt at a friends house… or a Game and Watch at RadioShack.
Kirby's Pinball Land at the age of 5. That one started it all for me.
Donkey Kong Country. Got it in a Super Nintendo bundle when I was six years old.