Remembering Our First Nintendo Games Part I - Memory Block
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These discussions are a life saver sometimes. Great stuff.
What flavor? 🙃
I just love to hear you guys talking about games. I would be really stoked to see you talk about your first Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, DS and Wii games
Yeah that’s more my generation but it’s just fun to listen to them talk about games they played while I’m at work lol
Diddy Kong racing is the first game that really struck me as a gamer. I remember as a kid, opening the N64 I recently got for Christmas with my brother, and desperately trying to plug it to my old VCR which in turn was plugged to my TV since that TV didn't have AV components. Pressing every button to try to get it running, changing the channel between 3 and 4 until I finally got it running and i heard the glorious intro of Diddy Kong racing with the rareware, N64 logo and Diddy laughing on the back. Loved remembering it.
Yes! It wasn't my first game but it left such an impression. The vibrant colors, the music! I remember my elementary school's little library had a subscription to Nintendo Power magazine and on the December issue that year (I guess 1997?) DKR was on the cover. I could wait for Tuesdays so I could pull it back off the shelf and look through it again and again. This was pre-Internet (or at least, my family didn't even have dial up) so you could only wait for a magazine to show screenshots and artwork of upcoming games.
First game I played was Super Mario Bros Advance. I was 5 years old, and my parents bought me and my sister a Gameboy advance so we would be quite on road trips. It was absolutely magical at the time and got me hooked on games, I couldn't stop thinking about games ever sine
For my 5th birthday i was given an NES with Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt 2 in 1 cartridge. I was hooked to gaming from then on.
this video was perfectly timed. i was just thinking about how i needed a long nintendo life video (like the “our most played switch games”) to listen to in the background while i do other things
I love doing other stuff and listen to the guys😄
My Dad's a gamer so he loved watching me play in the living room, especially when it's a game he got for me.
Man i feel that! My 3yo daughter is finally able to play a little and its nostalgia overload watching her die repeatedly as various characters haha. Her first game was flying around as Phobos in Odyssey. Good times.
I have a similar feeling with my niece and nephew. My niece use to ask to play the "horse game" when she was little...
She meant Zelda Twilight Princess.
I had Spy vs Spy as a kid too, pretty sure I picked it up at a garage sale or something, and also never figured out what the heck was going on or how to actually play it. This is the first time I've thought about that game in probably 25 years!
My first ever Nintendo game was Kirbys dreamland on the GameBoy,, it was my 7th birthday and my Dad took me to Toys “R” Us to get the GameBoy Tetris bundle and Kirbys dreamland, i’m now one month of 35 and I remember this like it was yesterday being so excited, I still have both Tetris and Kirby dreamland cartridges.
Same here and my second was bubble bobble :D
Alex The Immortal: a timeless being who just wants to talk about Nintendo games
Sundays are always such a vibe. Ty for posting so much banger content 🙏
Episode 1 Racer is great! it is a bit weird at first, but feels fantastic once you understand that it doesn’t control like car racing games
I love the dynamic with the three of you. I have been watching the channel for a few years now but the three of you make me make sure I watch all the videos
The first Nintendo game I ever saw was Donkey Kong on colecovision. Then arcade. I spent a whole summer playing Mario Bros as a 6 year old. Saw DK Jr later that year too.
One of favorite memories is how bassy the arcade Mario Bros. music is.
A link to the past on the gba advanced sp. Will never forget the beauty I felt when discoveries the dark world. Felt like playing botw for the first time
Been gaming since the 70's and my memory is rubbish the further back 😆
In about 1994 or maybe 95, my parents bought me the Donkey Kong Country SNES bundle and got the DMG Game Boy with Tetris for my little brother for Christmas. He was pretty young (I was only 5 or 6, he would have been 3 or 4) so I mostly played with both systems. It was basically my Game Boy. I remember playing Tetris on that thing and they also got us a copy of Missile Command/Asteroids. Real banger for sure. Not sure why of all the games they could have picked to go with the Game Boy they chose that one. It wasn't very fun. Donkey Kong Country consumed my life for a long time though. I didn't fall in love with the Game Boy until we got Game Boy Colors and Pokemon a few years later.
I had fun with Nintendo games
Its nice having y'all to listen to. I don't know people I can talk to or hear talk like this about Nintendo games. That Nintendo Passion 🔥🔥🔥 Thanks Team ❤️
My 1st N64 game was Glover, I was 5 years old at the time and I remember being scared by the hub world and only playing the training level. Until like 2 years ago when I actually decided to play it again.
Can so relate.
You guys have great chemistry. I enjoy listening to you three talk about your memories of gaming!🙌🏻
These discussions are the best. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
I love these discussions, great to listen to in the car like a podcast
Brought back a lot of lost memories of my own listening to you guys.
i really like these styles of videos please keep them up
My first console was a cheap NES with only Mario/Duck Hunt in 1996. My grandma always had a brick Gameboy with Tetris. I got an N64 in 99 with Smash and Pokemon Snap. After that, Pokémon was a phenomenon and I got Gold version about the same time I went to a friend's house and saw his NES copy of the 1st Zelda.
Petition for Nintendo Life to have a monthly video talking about anything _not_ Nintendo that they're genuinely interested in
I'm in the UK and I remember the hype for the NES being massive at one point, even adults who never really enjoyed video games before were buying up the stock at my local game store back then, maybe you were too young to remember? xD it definitely wasn't unpopular here though lol
I was just about to say that. That's incorrect Alex. They probably don't know because they weren't born yet when the NES came out over here in 1986. It was huge all over Europe, including the UK. I remember it well, because I got my NES for my 9th birthday in December that year.
NSMB and MP8 were my first handheld and console games respectively
first nintendo game I remember playing is donkey Kong country. first game I loved was smash 64
These discussions are really great
First system was a PS2. I got it as a birthday gift when I was 6 and my first games were ATV Off-road Fury 2, and Pac-Man World lol
Love this channel, love you guys 🥰
It is so relaxing and interesting to just listen to You talking. Only thing I wish... Please make these wonderful broadcasts/shows as podcasts or just audio recordings to play on Your website. That would be superb. Every upload feels like a treat!
i first played the n64 at my grandma’s house, then the gamecube at my cousin’s house & my parents bought me a gameboy advance back in around 2005 or so & i did buy all of the pokemon games, the super mario bros 3, super mario world remakes & mario kart super circuit brand new from toys r us & i think rented the zelda & metroid games to. gameboy advance is also really expensive now a days so it’s cool that people who probably weren’t even alive back then found out about how great these games are & started buying them
Zion:
A) hello my fellow Wisconsinite! Greetings from Oshkosh.
B) your grandparents sound like amazing human beings.
C) good show. Looking forward to Part II.
I loved watching the Glover footage while you all blabbered on. Loved that game.
Glover for smash!!!!!
My first was Just Dance Disney Party. I still remember the first time I played against another kid at summer camp, and I won. I was so happy. When I got a Wii, it was the first game I got for it.
Nintendo is life. Life is Nintendo. Thank you 1980s for making me a video game addict.
Aldershot! One of the many random places I've lived in the UK, how funny to hear it mentioned :)
I’m so happy to have seen the bubble game shown on here. I got mine from a garage sale and it came with a box full of games. I had this really old antenna tv in my room and I was only allowed to play in my room as my dad wanted the tv in the living room. Unfortunately Zelda wasn’t included in the box of games.
First Nintendo game I owned was Mario Kart 64. And I didn’t even know that you had to play 150cc to properly finish the game. I didn’t care. It was phenomenal
What a great video. Thanks for this one.
I bloody love this channel
My parents had an Atari before I was born in 1981 but they got us a nintendo nes for christmas of 1987 and mario bros/duck hunt was the first game I played. Christmas of 1989 I got a gameboy and mario land, christmas of 1992 i got a super nintendo and a bunch of games, christmas 1998 i got an n64 and ocarina of time, christmas of 2004 i got a gamecube and Metroid Prime. Best Christmases ever of my life.
NES and Super Mario Bros 3 are the best of my childhood. Damn, it still feels like I played it yesterday...
My first game was SM64. I was only 3 years old but thankful to my parents for getting me it
Spy VS Spy was one of my favorites growing up!
Diddy Kong Racing was my first. I remember getting Drumstick and being like blown away lol. Awesome times man.
Metroid on nes 🥰
I had a situation every kid would dream of.. My dad owned two small Videogame stores in the 90's. When he closed down the second store me and my brother inherited something like 30 SNES and 20 Genesis games. But my first was at my grandma's house when I was about about 5 or 6. She had Zelda Link To The Past, Donkey Kong Country 2, and a Pacman puzzle game on SNES.
I remember playing Zelda Orcarina of Time at Didongo cavern I was scared of the dark cave lol. Completed it years later.
My first game played was Tetris on the classic GB. My first owned was Pkmn Blue with my fabolous GBC. Lovely memories.
My first Nintendo game was a hand-me-down copy of Pokémon Red that my older sister passed down to me when she finished the game back in the early 2000s
I remember Spy vs Spy!! I used to love the MAD comic series. I grew up with the PS2 so I played a lot of the PS2 version. I haven't played the GB version in so long!
My older brother had a Coleco Vision, so my earliest Nintendo game was Donkey Kong. He later gave my the Coleco and I still have it.
First played NES at my older cousins place.
They were in their teenage years and I was around 4 or 5 at the time.
He also had a few Game & Watch but they mostly had the Disney ones that Nintendo got the license of.
But the first game I played on the NES at a external family member's house was Super Mario Bros with Duck Hunt.
Then played Super Mario Bros 3 at a friends house who also had an NES.
My neighbour had a SNES and I was around 7 or 8 at the time and I remember playing the Mario All Stars as well as Super Mario World game as well a Super Mario Kart.
A friend of mine also had the Donkey Kong Country games and thanks to him allowing me to play DKC2 Diddy's Kong Quest, I was able to play with the sexy Dixie Kong as she was one of the first female characters I played as.
I was not old enough for the Metroid games at the time though.
It was not until the N64 era when I finally got the money to own my own console via pocket money and saving up by helping my own parents and being really diligent with saving up and buying N64 magazines so I know what was coming out and what to save up for.
Zelda Ocarina of Time was one of those games that led me onto other games outside of Mario and Donkey Kong and games like Jet Force Gemini and Killer Instinct GOLD made me invest into other RARE games.
On the Nintendo GameCube the Dreamcast game Skies of Arcadia was what started me into collecting JRPGs.
When I found Visual Novels on DVD from Hirameki like Hourglass of Summer, that was my first experience with Japanese Dating Sims and being a fan of Japanese Games as well as collecting Retro Gamer magazines were my first real experience of finding niche games that nobody else would even know about.
Woolworths, what a throwback! I used to buy games from there too
My first Nintendo game was Tennis on the Game Boy in around 1999. I was already a huge fan of Metal Gear Solid, and I saw they were making a new one for the Game Boy, so I promptly sold our Mega Drive to buy a system. The shop didn't offer me much for it, but it was enough to get a Game Boy Pocket, which I assumed was just the same as the Game Boy Color but in black and white. I didn't get enough money to buy a game as well though, so for around a week or so, all I could do was turn the thing on and off and dream of the day I'd be playing Metal Gear Solid game on my new Game Boy Pocket. Around a week or so later I saw that Woolworths were selling Tennis for £10, which wasn't a game I had much interest in, but it was a game I could afford, so I snapped it up. That was my Game Boy Pocket until I eventually managed to get a copy of Pokémon Red and played it to death.
Months later, the box art for Metal Gear Solid popped up on Sky Interactive's "Gameplay" channel, with the "ONLY FOR GAME BOY COLOR" logo on it, and I don't know if I've ever felt deeper despair. Getting into Pokémon had definitely softened the blow though.
"The Master System rocks. It's such a sexy system."
~Jon, 2021
It's cool that you showed spy v.s spy man I loved that game growing up it was fun lol me and my brother would play it all the time
The first game I played was Bart vs the space mutants on the ZX Spectrum but then played Snake Rattle 'N' Roll at a family friends. Loved it so much my parents got me a SNES a few years later when it released with Super Mario World.
It was kinda nice to finally know that Alex was indeed born.
I thought he was produced by some other process, more ancient and cool.
I would absolutely love a round 2
"eh, you gotta come help me weed the uh Patio"
I am dying
My first Nintendo game was New Super Mario Bros, I remember going to Toys R Us with my birthday money (6th birthday I think), and choosing it for my DS. I wasn't disappointed, it was a fantastic game.
My first game was Wii sports + resort, which came with my Wii. (Also I would love to see a sequel to this video)
Up until I was 10, my family only allowed us to play games on road trips. My parents kept a bucket of 5 Game Boy Colors with a few games in their closet that they would bring on long rides. So, technically the first Nintendo game I played was Super Mario Bros Deluxe for the Game Boy Color.
On the other hand, the first game that I purchased myself was Sonic Unleashed for the Wii.
When I hear you guys talking about not being allowed to game in the living room, I suddenly realize how lucky I was. My mom was super into zelda 1 and 2 and because of that we always played together. Now and then we had a fight that I wanted to play Zelda or my mom wanted to play 😂
She fixed that problem by playing when I had to go sleep cause I catched her playing at night when I wanted to go to the bathroom lolol 🤣
Also my mom loved watching me play games. Sometimes she asked me to play cause she loved watching and helping out
I had the same experience as Jon did but with my neighbour! I would spend hours watching him play Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda OoT on his N64 and he would not let me have a turn. I would beg my parents for a N64 but they couldn't afford it at the time. Now I have a Switch which is my first Nintendo console and I am experiencing N64 games for the first time.
good remember of friendship with zion joh & Alex from Nintendo life, best remember of family.
It’s raining here while I listen to you guys
My first Nintendo game was Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo.
I still enjoy that game to the point where if I see on something like the Eshop on the new consoles I will buy it as soon as I can.
One of the first games I bought for myself was Conduit 2 for the Wii. Such an underrated gem for the console.
Everyone talks shit on The Conduit, but I am so happy I found another copy of Conduit 2 a few years ago. Easily the best FPS on Wii, and among the greats of that generation in general.
My first NES, SNES, and Gameboy game experiences were probably from the masterpieces section in SSB: Brawl.
The nes and the snes was huge at the time in the UK. Back in 1990 all everyone wanted was a snes.
Great video guys 👍👍
I got a GBA SP from my mom with Snood and WarioWare. Before that, I was so fascinated with handheld games that I tried to build one out of Lego with a little cursor that moved back and forth over paper reels.
The first Nintendo game I got was a Game & Watch Snoopy or possibly Game & Watch Mario Bros.. I bought a NES which came with Ice Climber included. When I bought my SNES it came with Super Mario World included. Tetris was my first Gameboy game. My first N64 game was Lylat Wars.
Rare: "Nintendo, can we publish this?"
Nintendo: "Why?"
Rare: "Because we can"
The game boy came packed with Tetris so that was officially my first GB game, but I shortly after got Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and Bart Simpsons Escape From Camp Deadly. I did get my hands on a used SNES Link to the Past cartridge that I would bring to my friends houses to play, way before I actually had a SNES. Sometimes it was magical just to hold that cartridge in anticipation.
My earliest video game memories:
NES - Excitebike and Duck Hunt
Gameboy - Super Mario Land and Kirby Dreamland
SNES - SMW, SMRPG, DKC Trilogy, Super Mario All-stars
Because I’m ancient, the first Nintendo game I ever played was either Donkey Kong or Donkey Kong Jr in the arcade. The first non-arcade Nintendo game I played was the Snoopy Game & Watch.
My own game-watching friend Daniel was actually the first person in the galaxy to find the secret helicopter in OoT and he found it after school one day and it was in Talon’s bedroom.
My first official was a football-game (LCD) from Korea.(1988) My first official game, Alex Kidd in Miracle World (1991). Got the original Game Boy for christmas 1992, my dad took Tetris under his wings quite early and played all evening, paused it and had the adapter in all night because he was about to beat it. I wasn’t alllowed to play like late next day. 😂
People complain about game prices nowadays but I remember walking into Babbage's when Shadows of the Empire just came out and paying $79.99 for it. Crazy but I had to have my Star Wars fix.
Never owned an NES, N64, GC, Wii, Wii U, or Gameboy.
Got an SNES from my uncle, and we only had 2 games: Mario All-Stars and Goof Troop
Got a GBC from my cousins, and we had Pokemon Yellow, Shrek, and 4x4 Evolution. We had Pokemon Red at some point, but my brother (very stupidly) traded it for some Pokemon Cards...
First Nintendo system I actually bought (well, my dad bought) was the GBA SP and I was dumb enough to choose Quad Desert Fury for my first game. I've owned every handheld since.
Side note, as soon as the Vermillion City theme started playing in your video, I paid no attention to anything y'all said and just kept bopping to that theme. Pokemon Yellow was the only noteworthy handheld game I played for a very very long time, and I played the hell out of it. Instantly recognized my favorite theme in that game
This was a good topic:
My parents bought me the NES with Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, and Mickey’s Mousecape
The first NES game I bought myself was Duck Tales
My uncle bought me & brother a Gameboy with
Super Mario Land, Tetris, & Fist of the North Star. First game I bought was Super Mario Land2
Me and brother bought a SNES w/ Super Mario World, Zelda Link to the Past, Illusion of Gaia, and Super Mario Kart. First games bought after that was Super Mario RPG
My parents bought us N64 with Pokemon Stadium and Mario 64. The first game I bought was Zelda Ocarina of Time.
GameBoy Color(Teal) with Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. And first game I bought Ms.Pac-man
Snes was gifted to me with about 15 games. What I remember playing most was Mario kart, killer instinct and NBA jam. This was 1996 I believe. 4th grade
I'd love to see more
This was such a lovely video
Man I loved the small Gamecube discs, I just thought they were so cool
i was playing nintendo since i was 6, once i was like 12 i convinced my mom we had to get a ps1 because i wanted to play mgs, ff, resi, tekken, gta etc instead of mario and pokemon for the rest of my life. i was a fucking kid and even i knew that cartridges would be the nail in the coffin for the n64 and that no one would make games for it.
The first game I played was SMB on the NES at a cousin’s house but the first one I owned was SMB3 which was packed in with my NES
This video was great but I'm just going to take a minute and say "Alex-102 Dalmatians is JUST AS GOOD AS ITS PREDECESSOR!" it was one of my favorite films as a child but actually Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams were in the first one as Jasper and Horace and I do wish they had brought them back for the second one. But back on topic of the video, I loved hearing each of your stories of first games and how you each started playing or acquired each of the consoles :D.
The interesting thing for me is that I was only allowed to play games on the living room TV as a kid. I couldn't get a TV in my room until I got my PC at 15-and it was actually a monitor, not a TV.
I think my first experience with Nintendo consoles and games was Super Mario Bros. on Nes. But the first Nintendo console I bought was GameCube with the Zelda collection which included the two first Zeldas, Oot and Majora's mask and a demo of Wind Waker.
Sorry for the many separate posts. I'm commenting along as I watch. Growing up, my dad only allowed games on the living room TV if it was something he wanted to play and/or if there wasn't any rugby on. Now as an adult in college who can't afford their own place even with a job, I still live with my mom so I'm stuck in the garage turned office/den. I'm basically the stereotypical gamer in their parents' basement except we don't even have a basement 😅
I never owned an NES, but my first memories with the system were with Super Mario Bros 3 and I played it to death with my best friend later in life. I was born in ‘90 and I like to say I was born with a SNES controller in my hand, and A Link to the Past was my first game, but my staples were that , F-Zero, Tiny Toons Adventure, and Megaman X. The Gameboy was my first love, there were so many games that I played for it, but the first were Super Mario Land and Tetris, I remember my mom bought the magnifier light to play Tetris after I had to go to bed. Finally the 64 was the first console I could say was ‘mine,’ because I got some money after my grandma passed, but I had one game. Banjo-Kazooie. Everyone talks about Mario 64, but I played that much later, but my main games were B-K, Daisy Kong Racing, and THE BEST GAME EVER OCARINA OF TIME!
My first videogames were Metroid Fusion and Pokemon Pinball Ruby/Sapphire for the GBA.
Being a (dumb) kid, I played the heck out of Pokemon Pinball, while I couldn't quite grasp Metroid. To the point that I later sold it together with a couple of other games (Pokemon LeafGreen, Pokemon Sapphire, Mario Kart Super Circuit and Fifa 2004) to save some money towards a DS Lite.
If only I could go back in time...