Everyone Always Remembers Their First...

[mellow]

My first gaming system was an Atari 3200, and fucked if I remember actually beating any of those. Can you win at Joust or does it keep going on forever? I distinctly remember pumping a ton of money into the Simpsons Arcade game with three other guys at a birthday party held at Alladdin's Castle and conquering that motherfucker.

Also, I beat the primary Super Mario Bros. games in this order:

Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario World
Super Mario Bros. 2 (many years later)

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I played the original Legend of Zelda a few months back. New games must be watering down my skills because I honestly don't remember the game being this hard.

 

[oldskool]

I don't even remember what game I beat first. It was a while after I started playing, I know that much. I always played a lot of sports games that have no official ending, so it's possible I didn't finish a game until SMRPG/FF3 on the SNES.

 

[NoCalMike]

I remember beating Mega Man 3 felt like such an accomplishment.

 

[luke-o]

As it well it should, those games are hard!

 

[Black Lushus]

I remember getting stuck on the big rock dude on the first Megaman, didn't know the pause trick...then I heard about the pause trick and it was ON!

Controls have gotten so refined and we're so used to having 8 buttons to do a variety of actions it really does feel hampering when you go back to only two damn buttons to operate with!

Has anyone here beaten Street Fighter 2010? Based on a recent emulation play, I can't do fucking shit in this game. I don't remember it being this hard at all...though I didn't beat it back in the day, I got farther than THIS!

 

[FLAM]

It was either Street Fighter 2 or Bubsy 2. I'm not 100% sure which one I beat first, but probably SF2.

 

[Agent_Bond34]

I might be wrong, but I think it was Super Mario World on SNES. I too have a hard time remembering which games I beat back in the day.

 

[ericmm]

Definitely Super Mario Land

 

[Mik]

I have absolutely no recollection of the first game I beat. Probably Double Dragon, as that was my first NES game. I remember the day I got my NES and playing Double Dragon/Mario for days at a time exactly, though.

 

[Black Lushus]

After having played the hell out of the Double Dragon arcade game, I was tremendously let down with the NES version.

 

[Youth N Asia]

The Master System version crushes the NES one.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

That's for damn sure. I have a magazine around here with a back cover featuring several side-by-side screen shots.

 

[foleyfanforever88]

Aladdin for the SNES.

This is the first one I can remember. I very rarely beat games. I suck at figuring out what to do and I usually give up on hard levels pretty quickly. I've probably owned 60-70 video games and I've beaten maybe 10.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

I'm gonna go with Super Mario Bros. or TMNT II. I don't specifically remember beating the latter--or TMNT III, for that matter--or their endings, but I feel like I must have, given how much I played them. I know I saw that princess after that fire-breathing, bouncing, hammer-spamming motherfucker, though.

I do know I never beat SMB3 without a Game Genie. And never got all that far without Warp Whistles, either.

I think I did beat Mega Man 4 once. Possibly with a password to pass all the main stages, though. I tried playing it again more recently on a Collection disc. Damn thing kicked my shit. I'm gonna blame the Xbox controller and its D-Pad. But I know I just suck.

First one I fully completed was probably Super Mario World. 96 star, baby! (That one level with a 200 timer was a beast.) That, or Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, with copious guide use for heart pieces, of course. Probably did the same for Super Metroid.

 

[The Metal Maniac]

I'm pretty sure it was Mega Man 2. That or TMNT 2. I don't specifically recall the first time I beat MM2, but I do have a very vivid memory of figuring out Crash Man's pattern, beating him, then running around yelling in excitement because he was the first boss I'd managed to beat.

I also remember beating TMNT 2 vividly, but I'm not sure if that would have been before or after MM2. The worst part was, I was playing by myself, so no one could attest to my victory.

 

[Migoli]

I can't remember for sure but I'm pretty sure it wads either Bionic Commando or Duck Tales.

I do remember getting one of the early Megaman games and Mario 3 taken from me because I threw a big fit because I couldn't beat them.

 

[Mazto]

SMB 2 for me.

I was the first out of my cousins around my age to get to Mike Tyson in Punch Out! as well, only to get summarily owned, but it was a thing of beauty beating Super Macho Man as an 8 year old.

 

[Mazto]

DAMN YOU DP!