What is your earliest video game memory?

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me and my bro playing super mario world on the snes

Playing the first Duke Nukem and not being able to beat it at 4 years old. Years later I decided to play it again and beat it in one sitting... that game was friggin' easy...

Trying to play Dragon Warrior around the age of three... didn't go over so well. It was my first RPG and I couldn't read very well so I didn't know what to do, and kept on exiting the first village and not knowing how to attack so I was killed by the slimes. I haven't played it since but it would be extremely nostalgic to...

The cutscene that plays when you die in the GBA version of Tak and the Power of Juju (great game BTW, it was my first GBA game)

Watching kids play Resident Evil at my church

A game on the C64, don't remember the name but it was all about crossing a street while there's traffic riding over it.

Probably playing some Commodore 64 game. I remember gold and some driving game, but can't what their names were. Oh and I used to play the hell out of some Turtles game on that. Other than that... 
 

 

Alex the Kid on the Sega Master system,

Gradius III on the SNES was a family ordeal.  My brother would pilot, since he was the only one to ever reach the end of the game, while the rest of us - my sisters, my cousins, my best friends - would claw our ways into a contraption of plastic pipes, and pretend we were in the shuttle, rocking back and forth.  Sometimes, I would distract my brother deliberately, just so we could make the ship rattle when he crashed. 
 
Now I can't play a shoot-em-up without thinking about that.  I get the feeling I never will.

Weird. Thought I already answered this. Anyway, mine would be playing a racing game of sorts on the Commodore 64.

Mine was either getting my N64 and playing Starfox 64 and the star wars games or playing Gex or the original sonic at my babysitters house, my baby sitters were awesome. 

Every once in a while, the parents would rent an NES from the Blockbuster or whatever, and we'd always get Mario Bros / Duck Hunt with it. That stuff was the shit.

Pac-Man on my father's computer, back when I was about 5 years old.

" Wizard of Wor on C64.

I played some Pong clone before that, but I don't really remember.

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My first video game related memory was sitting there waiting  15 minutes for Rambo:First Blood Part 2 for the Commodore 64 to load.

The original Prince of Persia on the PC. Awesome game obviously. It was pretty mature with all the gore like prince's death scenes on spikes or those giant blades. Nice :]

My first game was Super Mario RPG. Needless to say I've been hooked on video games since. 

Playing Yogi Bear for the Spectrum

Tekken. Lots and lots of Tekken. And Sonic the Hedgehog. :)

Getting a Game boy and playing super Mario land.

Playing Aladdin for the Mega Drive.

Probably Cool Spot or Ecco the Dolphin on the Megadrive.

Pokemon on the Gameboy. Can't remember what colour.

I vaguely remember playing an Atari game with boxing, and then one with tanks, but the one I really remember is watching my uncle play something called a Nintendo, and wanting to find out exactly how he was making this guy in red jump through colorful levels. I vaguely remember not being able to get through 1-1 without assistance.

Playing coin-op games on the boardwalk of Wildwood, New Jersey in the late 70s.  Pong (1972), Atari Baseball (1979), Sea Wolf (1978), Tank (1974), Biplane (1976), Asteroids (1979), etc...

Deadly Tide - PC. 2nd? Killing teenagers at 9 years old in Doom 2 LAN.

These aren't my earliest memories but they are great ones nonetheless: 
 
Using a code wheel to decipher the password to be able to play Pool of Radiance on the PC. 
  
Playing "Lock 'N' Chase" on the Intellivision (it was no Pacman, but at age 4 I didn't know any better) 
 
Playing my first Co-op game at age 4 (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons on the Intellivision - My mom would run and I would shoot) 
 
Seeing my first NES game at my friend's house and thinking how cool it was...too bad I was too stupid to relize that Rambo on the NES really sucked. 
 
Beating Andre the Giant  and Million Dollar Man in the first Wrestlemania game in the arcade. 
 
Being the first one of my friends to get Super Mario 3. 
 

Asking my dad for help in super mario bros 3, a game based on that disney movie the jungle book -_-, playing a game based on the power rangers, and playing a game based on star wars.... I miss those days 
 
Then I got into Sonic and fighting games :P

Going over my cousin's house and watching him play Super Mario World on the SNES. It took a while for my brain to process the concept of a video playing and you controlling what's going on but didn't really feel the need to buy one. My dad had other plans, hooked ever since.

My Fat Game Boy playing Bo Jackson Baseball and Football

Super Smash Bros. on my cousins N64

I wonder what's the staff earliest game memory. DO YOU HEAR THAT GUYS!

The original Mario/Duckhunt that was bundled with the NES.  When I was first shown this thing, I didn't think much of it.  I didn't know what it was.  It was just a gray box with a remote attached to it.  Then my parents turned it on and started playing.  I was totally blown away by the fact that they were making stuff on the TV move.  I was little more than 3, mind you, but that was the beginning of a lifelong addiction for me.

Sonic on the Genesis.

Me watching my mother get backhanded by my grandfather when he found out that me and my brother got a Super Nintendo for Christmas. Apparently he doesn't like video games or technology....

When that bitch Navi woke me up.

Lemmings on CD-Rom in the early 90's

NES Track and Field mat at my parents friends house when I was like four.
 
Then the next year my dad brought home a NES wrapped up in his coat. When ha came in the door he was like "go put my coat on the bed" and hands my tiny ass this massive heavy box wrapped in a coat which immediately goes crashing to the ground. Then my mom starts yelling at my dad. The end.

"The day I got my N64 when I was about 4."

I remember playing the original Mario with my dad intermittently, as well as a whole lot of Castlevania and Splatterhouse. He bought me the very first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game when I had been sick in the hospital for a week. I also vaguely remember trying to play Mario while having an IV strapped onto my right hand via some weird plank. Made playing REALLY difficult.

My first memory is very fuzzy.  Something about being around a Donkey Kong arcade machine in a car shop when I was 3 or so.

Playing duck hunt on nes back in the day.

My earliest gaming memory was me and my dad taking turns on Mario 64. Ever time some died we past the controller. He ended up beating the finale Bowser because I could not do it. Man good times.

me being really sick and playing contra on NES. i threw up a couple of times that day. i remember one time i was getting contra out and threw up. 
 
another great memory was getting n64 and golden eye for a birthday. all of my friends had n64, ps1, while i had a SNES. i always begged my parents to get me one. finally my birthday came and i got a n64. i was the happiest boy alive. lol until we found out that the tv we had didn't have composite cables on the tv. we had to run to radioshack to buy some. i was upset and my dad was mad that we had to buy another cable for the system to work.