Oh man, that flute. We were young and careless with our fingers, so we just thought a magical tornado would randomly come pick us up and take us to different worlds. Probably the old "press B, no that wasn't it, so press A" (use item). Man, but giant land was the coolest thing ever. But then world 5 was my sister's fave. And world 6 was my fave. World 7 was the killer, so we normally skipped past that one, which is why we go back to 7 these days the most.
Yeah, same, lol. I think the first official gameboy Color Games was Gold and Silver. I spent many hours of fun with them, too. I did have a small break around the DS era and got a 3ds later and picked up where I left off, lol.
I like the new games, but I would love to relive that nostalgia and play an HD remake of Pokemon Yellow, I think that game was one of my favourite games of the whole series.
My aunt bought them for me. Started with the first one. I still have all the boxes. Two of which have their UPC codes cut out for the coupon. I have the games, but they're not my original carts. They were stolen by letting the wrong person borrow my games. Getting them back is what is what inspired me to start collecting twenty years ago.
When I was six, there used to be an arcade 400 (or so) feet from my house.
So from my very vague memories, and assuming if I had enough quarters.
Probably Pong, Tempest, Asteroids and Tail Gunner. I don't remember if what the names of some of the other cabinets were. I know Atari Football was in the mix but I didn't understand the rules and 4 player pong was also there.
I was 6 when my parents got me my first gaming system, the NES, specifically the Power Set:
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_Power_Set
So, the 3 games included in that.
6? We still only had Atari 2600 and Pong consoles at that time.
So, for summer fun, we'd alternate between Atari 2600 (mostly just going through the stack of titles, and coming back to classics like Donkey Kong, Astroblast, Ms. Pacman, Wizard of Wor, etc), board games, card games, riding bicycles outside, roller skating, playing games outside amongst ourselves and the neighbor kids in our yards, their yards, in the street, and in the ballfield across the street from us when we were in the city. We'd sometimes play a version of tag that was pretty much dodgeball, but around the yard...finding and hunting each other down with a ball. When we lived out in the country we'd play floor-is-lava, but outside along tree-line fences, the challenge being that we had to climb up or around each tree the deadwood fence branches were nailed to. We'd catch geckos and horny toads and climb under houses looking for old toys from kids that used to live there. Climb trees. Jumped off a barn once when I was around that age.
Back in the city there were more kids so we played Pink elephant/Wall Ball and a different version we called Assassin to help keep the little kids in the game, where you couldnt make use of whatever appendage got hit. So, youd lose use of whatever arm if it got hit and would make catching the ball to get the other person out much harder. Or losing use of one or both of your legs and limping or rolling/crawling around to dodge future throws. If you got hit in the head the rule was that you had to close your eyes and lost your sight and try to dodge future throws while blind.
And, we'd play tag/freeze tag/hide+seek. Basketball games of horse/swear-word/whatever to make it interesting. Three-Flies-Up with a football if there was one around, mushball with a bat and an old soccer ball or volley ball if it had been hot enough lately to expand the air inside it and make it firm enough to play with, since we didn't have an air pump attachment we could use to inflate it.
We had a blast.
At six year old I don't think we'd gotten our first console or computer then.
We got an Intellivision a couple of years later or so and I'd play whatever we had. The first ones (so closest to me being six year old) were probably Auto Racing, a top down car racing game, and Astrosmash, an asteroids/space invaders type game.
I think I was 9 or 10 or so when the SF2 The World Warrior came out on SNES. The hype was real. Then the year after SF2 Turbo came out and I had a budddy that got it at release. I think I spent more time at his house than mine.
My favorite home console port was the Championship Edition on Saturn, though.
These are core childhood memories for me, no doubt.
I would have been 7 and would have been playing Space invaders.
I used to get out of school, walk down the hill and into the pub where my mam worked, she would hand me a stack of tokens and I could either use them on the Space Invaders machine in the Games room of the pub or on the Bell Fruit fruit machine in the bar
Space invaders was later replaced with Galaxian and then Moon Cresta, which remains one of my favourite games to this day!
I was 6 for most of 1979, I was obsessed with my Star Wars figures, though mum's work friends daughter (about 9 or 10) had home Pong machine we would sometimes play.
In the summer of 1975 my grandma had a Coleco Telestar Pong clone. So that, if anything. But I was outside doing dangerous 70s kid stuff instead most likely involving the lot where they were building houses on our street.
Something on a computer. My parents didn't let game consoles into the house until I was 8.
But the computer was a "tool" (which I used for CD ROM games)
1999...
Well, I'd say either Sonic 2, Aladdin, or The Lion King on my dad's GAME GEAR or Toy Story or Need for Speed 2 on PC. Maybe Operation Krabby Patty but I don't remember if that was 1999 or 2000.
Am I six years old in 2024, or in 1985 ?
2024: Minecraft
1985: Atari 2600 Vanguard and Adventure. Also we would ride our bicycles over a mile to a small gas station with Super Mario Bros arcade cabinet. Good times.
It's 1987 andâalthough I don't know itâI won't have an NES until Christmas... So probably in all likelihood I'd be throwing my bookbag on the floor as I walk in and immediately sitting down at the family Macintosh 512k to attempt a futile rescue of my most recently doomed adventuring party from the proving grounds of the Mad Overlord.
This little game called "Outside." I mean, I had an NES at the time since it was the mid-90s, but why stay inside when all my friends were playing outside with super soakers?
unfortunately not much probably minesweeper or 3d pinball space cadet on my dads. pc or maybe a random game that i got from the corn flakes that i don't remember the names of. there were games based on local comics that nobody on reddit knows about. or point click adventures similar to myst. and games like Freddy fish. i got my game boy when i was 7 i would sometimes play alleyway and operation c on my friends game boy .
I grew up on gameboy advance but the only home console I had was at my babysitters and it was a Snes, so I played link to the past on either snes or gba, that jump from snes to ps2 was mindboggling
Around that time I was playing these games:
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap/Monster World II (SMS, 1989)
DuckTales (NES, 1989)
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES, 1989)
Adventures of Lolo (NES, 1989)
The Revenge of Shinobi (MD, 1989)
Super Mario World (SNES, 1990/GBA, 2001)
Mega Man 3 (NES, 1990/PS1, )
Gargoyle's Quest/Makaimura Gaiden (GB, 1990)
Little Nemo: The Dream Master (NES, 1990)
Catrap (GB, 1990)
âGremlins 2 (NES, 1990)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
Sonic the Hedgehog (MD, 1991)
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (w/ speed mod)(GB/GBC)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project/TMNT III (NES)
Quackshot Starring Donald Duck (MD)
Street Fighter II (ARC, 1991/SNES, 1992)
Super Castlevania IV (SNES)
Super Mario Bros 3
Yep! I used to aim to make it to Giant Land. This was before I understood what the flute was for đ
Oh man, that flute. We were young and careless with our fingers, so we just thought a magical tornado would randomly come pick us up and take us to different worlds. Probably the old "press B, no that wasn't it, so press A" (use item). Man, but giant land was the coolest thing ever. But then world 5 was my sister's fave. And world 6 was my fave. World 7 was the killer, so we normally skipped past that one, which is why we go back to 7 these days the most.
I type " load "g*",8,1 " on my c64 and have fun playing Giana Sisters
Same! But it was Wizards of Wor for me :3
I wore up two joysticks on Wizard of Wor
Same, but Spy vs Spy or Ultima IV
With mud & a stick đ
Same. It was 1975 so I wasn't going to be playing videogames yet?
Probably donkey kong country
I played that often starting about age 8
Pokemon Red, on gameboy color, The amount of AA batteries I went through was unbelievable, Good times.
I played it on Game Boy Color, but it was actually an original Game Boy game. I never knew it for years.
Yeah, same, lol. I think the first official gameboy Color Games was Gold and Silver. I spent many hours of fun with them, too. I did have a small break around the DS era and got a 3ds later and picked up where I left off, lol. I like the new games, but I would love to relive that nostalgia and play an HD remake of Pokemon Yellow, I think that game was one of my favourite games of the whole series.
Let's Go Pikachu is amazing. You should pick it up.
I heard it was far too easy, that's why I haven't got it.
Spyro the Dragon.
I was almost 13 when that came out
lol, I was exactly 6.
Star Fox.
I wish I'd known about it
Can't let you do that
Tomb Raider with my dad.
I did this with my brother. Usually, I just watched lol.
Dr. Mario-- I played on my parents' FamiCom when I was that age.
Wish I'd known about Dr. Mario as a kid
My Mom was so competitive in that game. lol
Great choice! I didn't know about it as a kid but it's one of my favourite nes games now :)
Hoop and a stick. đ
The original Super Mario Bros, or Duck Hunt
I was 6 in 1977. Most likely âCombatâ or âAir Sea Battle.â
If my neighbors mom is at home we are playing some diddy Kong racing. If she isnât we are playing tekken of resident evil 2.
What was wrong with you playing Tekken?
Her mother didnât really like it. Too much violence for us as little children.
Super Mario Bros. 3
I would say Pong on a brandless console, as the Atari 2600 was not even live yet... #Dinosaur
There were no home game consoles when I was 6. My parents bought Pong for Christmas 1977 when I was 9 years old.
Mega Man 2
Atari wasnât out yet when I was 6, so I was probably playing Candy Land.
Finally, an answer which makes me feel at least a *little* younger! đđ
Rocks and dirt
I only started gaming at 8, I feel like 6 is too early? Let's see what my policy will be with my son though...
My 5 year old is a Minecraft artist, he builds awesome stuff.
NES Double Dragon, Super Mario 2 and or Contra.
Super Mario 64, and possibly Star Wars Pod Racing
I wish I'd had a Nintendo 64 as a kid
Mario on NES, or Mortal Kombat 2 at my cousins house.
most likely The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past or Lufia on SNES.
I wish I'd had ALTTP as a kid
Donkey Kong and Space Invaders at my grandparents house
Mega Man 2
Didn't know about Mega Man as a kid
My aunt bought them for me. Started with the first one. I still have all the boxes. Two of which have their UPC codes cut out for the coupon. I have the games, but they're not my original carts. They were stolen by letting the wrong person borrow my games. Getting them back is what is what inspired me to start collecting twenty years ago.
Pac Man on the Atari 2600.
Probably space invaders or Donkey Kong in the arcades or something. 1 more year in 1981 I'll be getting my first console...the Intellivision though
Smash Bros 64
When I was six, there used to be an arcade 400 (or so) feet from my house. So from my very vague memories, and assuming if I had enough quarters. Probably Pong, Tempest, Asteroids and Tail Gunner. I don't remember if what the names of some of the other cabinets were. I know Atari Football was in the mix but I didn't understand the rules and 4 player pong was also there.
Star Fox 64
Sonic or Alex Kidd
Gran Turismo 2 Arcade mode cause I could not get the license tests beat at that age.
The original Castlevania and Mega Man
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Or Tiny Toon Adventures: Wild & Wacky Sports
Letâs copy a post from 14 hours ago and change the age by a couple years no one will notice đ
Metroid or Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda, and I did exactly that during the summer of '87.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES)
A Link to the Past, DKC, or Mega Man X more than likely
Ninja Gaiden NES
It's 1985. The bus finally brings me home at 415pm. I immediately run to the porch and play Super Mario Bros on NES. Life is perfect!
Mega Man, The Goonies 2, Castlevania 2:Simon's Quest.
Exodus, Tetris, or Super Mario Land on Gameboy.
I was 6 when my parents got me my first gaming system, the NES, specifically the Power Set: https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_Power_Set So, the 3 games included in that.
Either Super Mario Bros 3, Dragon Warrior, or Super Mario World
6? We still only had Atari 2600 and Pong consoles at that time. So, for summer fun, we'd alternate between Atari 2600 (mostly just going through the stack of titles, and coming back to classics like Donkey Kong, Astroblast, Ms. Pacman, Wizard of Wor, etc), board games, card games, riding bicycles outside, roller skating, playing games outside amongst ourselves and the neighbor kids in our yards, their yards, in the street, and in the ballfield across the street from us when we were in the city. We'd sometimes play a version of tag that was pretty much dodgeball, but around the yard...finding and hunting each other down with a ball. When we lived out in the country we'd play floor-is-lava, but outside along tree-line fences, the challenge being that we had to climb up or around each tree the deadwood fence branches were nailed to. We'd catch geckos and horny toads and climb under houses looking for old toys from kids that used to live there. Climb trees. Jumped off a barn once when I was around that age. Back in the city there were more kids so we played Pink elephant/Wall Ball and a different version we called Assassin to help keep the little kids in the game, where you couldnt make use of whatever appendage got hit. So, youd lose use of whatever arm if it got hit and would make catching the ball to get the other person out much harder. Or losing use of one or both of your legs and limping or rolling/crawling around to dodge future throws. If you got hit in the head the rule was that you had to close your eyes and lost your sight and try to dodge future throws while blind. And, we'd play tag/freeze tag/hide+seek. Basketball games of horse/swear-word/whatever to make it interesting. Three-Flies-Up with a football if there was one around, mushball with a bat and an old soccer ball or volley ball if it had been hot enough lately to expand the air inside it and make it firm enough to play with, since we didn't have an air pump attachment we could use to inflate it. We had a blast.
Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt, because I think that dual cartridge was the only one we had at the time!
King Fu Heroes
I was not allowed to game until I was 8 or so, it was an LCD Tiger electronics game. So I was probably coloring or playing with jigsaw puzzles.
It was 1978 so it was probably the Crossfire or Game Of Dracula board games.
Mousetrap or turbo on the colecovision
Duck duck goose
I had a lcd handheld called jungle hunt, you had to shoot ducks. I was 9 when I got a Sega megadrive, sonic 2 was my jam.
Unfortunately when I was 6 the Atari 2600 was the best console you could get. You had to go to the arcades to play good games.
Turbo on Colecovision
At six year old I don't think we'd gotten our first console or computer then. We got an Intellivision a couple of years later or so and I'd play whatever we had. The first ones (so closest to me being six year old) were probably Auto Racing, a top down car racing game, and Astrosmash, an asteroids/space invaders type game.
If my kid is anything to go by then its Street Fighter 2 CE on the Saturn with my dad. And kicking his ass.
I wish I'd known about Street Fighter 2 as a kid
I think I was 9 or 10 or so when the SF2 The World Warrior came out on SNES. The hype was real. Then the year after SF2 Turbo came out and I had a budddy that got it at release. I think I spent more time at his house than mine. My favorite home console port was the Championship Edition on Saturn, though. These are core childhood memories for me, no doubt.
I would have been 7 and would have been playing Space invaders. I used to get out of school, walk down the hill and into the pub where my mam worked, she would hand me a stack of tokens and I could either use them on the Space Invaders machine in the Games room of the pub or on the Bell Fruit fruit machine in the bar Space invaders was later replaced with Galaxian and then Moon Cresta, which remains one of my favourite games to this day!
Commodore plus 4 shark attack, or one of those shitty lcd games from back then. My 6 year old doesn't know how lucky she is.
Don't think I had my master system yet, so nothing
Beamrider, Mountie Mick's Death Ride, Boulderdash
I was 6 years old. I'll give you 1 guess.
1986...I had my first console then, a hand me down Atari 2600. I played a lot of Desert Falcon so likely that.
Atari or nes
Nothing, got my 8-bit when I turned 8.
Squish em Sam on colecovision
Pole Position on the C64
I was 6 for most of 1979, I was obsessed with my Star Wars figures, though mum's work friends daughter (about 9 or 10) had home Pong machine we would sometimes play.
Space Invaders, Yars Revenge, Asteroids, and Missle Command on the Atari 2600.
Pokemon leaf green or my v smile
Manic Miner and Thanatos on the speccy (had no idea how to play Thanatos, I just liked the dragon sprite)
In the summer of 1975 my grandma had a Coleco Telestar Pong clone. So that, if anything. But I was outside doing dangerous 70s kid stuff instead most likely involving the lot where they were building houses on our street.
Laser Gate, I guess.
Something on a computer. My parents didn't let game consoles into the house until I was 8. But the computer was a "tool" (which I used for CD ROM games)
Pac Man or Pitfall, probably.
1993, probably playing sonic 2,
Super Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing. Maybe we rented Mario Kart 64 from Blockbuster too.
Pacman or some other game on Atari.
Radio Shack's version of Pong
Probably playing with my He-man toys because our Intellivision was broken at that point.Â
Skate or Die!
1999... Well, I'd say either Sonic 2, Aladdin, or The Lion King on my dad's GAME GEAR or Toy Story or Need for Speed 2 on PC. Maybe Operation Krabby Patty but I don't remember if that was 1999 or 2000.
Pacman / Space invaders clone on videopac or that racing game whose name I forgot. 1986 wasn't that great for gamer me. Still better than nothing...
My 5-year-old is playing Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and Moving Out.
Am I six years old in 2024, or in 1985 ? 2024: Minecraft 1985: Atari 2600 Vanguard and Adventure. Also we would ride our bicycles over a mile to a small gas station with Super Mario Bros arcade cabinet. Good times.
Godzilla Unleashed or Godzilla Save the Earth. Both on PS2.
Astrosmash on the Intellivision
At home: Super Pong console, Combat (2600), Video Olympics, Maze Craze At the arcade: Boot Hill, Space Invaders, Night Driver, Fire Truck
Zorro (Datasoft 1985), Montezuma's Revenge (more likely Preliminary Monty), and the usual suspects of River Raid and Moon Patrol, all on Atari 65XE.
It's 1987 andâalthough I don't know itâI won't have an NES until Christmas... So probably in all likelihood I'd be throwing my bookbag on the floor as I walk in and immediately sitting down at the family Macintosh 512k to attempt a futile rescue of my most recently doomed adventuring party from the proving grounds of the Mad Overlord.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Frogger.
Tag, king of the hill, and after dinner street fighter until i get annoyed followed by Zelda
With my Thundercats figures. We didn't have an atari and hadn't heard of intellivision or coleco or tandy or commodore.
Defender on 2600.
Mega Man!
6? Probably my little game machine called Astrowars
Space Quest on PC
Prolly Super Mario World. If I was lucky and got to go to my uncle's, I could get down on some blast processing and play some Sonic 2.
Either Mario Kart 64 or Pokemon Stadium.
Outside. It's 1985, so I'll be playing outside. I didn't get an NES until my 8th birthday two years later.
megaman 1
Right after I got my NES so this would have been Super Mario/ duck hunt and excitebike
Ghostbusters Atari 2600
Genesis - Sonic or MK
Earthworm jim, Mario Kart or Rock n' roll racing
Sorry if that was too young
GTA vice city
Hrmm at six it would have been raiders of the lost ark or vanguard on Atari.
Rastan arcade machine
Conan on the Apple II. Or more likely would play with my GI Joes in the yard.
River Raid on the Atari 2600 for sure, I loved playing that game at my babysitters!! I don't think NES was even out yet lol.
Bubble Bobble was my jam! Donât forget to beat it with a friend or it doesnât count lol!
outside, we didn't have video games at home when i was 6.
1980, no consoles yet. Probably playing with my hot wheels while watching mighty mouse.
My Zaxxon Coleco tabletop.
Yars' Revenge
Sonic 2 or Streets of Rage 2
In a tree. Video games wouldnât be household thing for another 3-4 years, and they were essentially glorified pong derivatives.
With a friend or crash bandicoot 3
This little game called "Outside." I mean, I had an NES at the time since it was the mid-90s, but why stay inside when all my friends were playing outside with super soakers?
Pick Axe Pete on the Odyssey 2 (I think this was a looooong time ago)
River Raid, Missile Command, Combat!, or Defender.
At home? Super Mario World. At my sister's ice skating practice? Sonic on my GameGear
unfortunately not much probably minesweeper or 3d pinball space cadet on my dads. pc or maybe a random game that i got from the corn flakes that i don't remember the names of. there were games based on local comics that nobody on reddit knows about. or point click adventures similar to myst. and games like Freddy fish. i got my game boy when i was 7 i would sometimes play alleyway and operation c on my friends game boy .
Oregon Trail? Or maybe the dos bowling game on my grandpas 486
I grew up on gameboy advance but the only home console I had was at my babysitters and it was a Snes, so I played link to the past on either snes or gba, that jump from snes to ps2 was mindboggling
Tonka Construction and Spiderman on PC đ€
Combat
Halo 2. Very age appropriate, I know
BomberMan and Super Mario Land 2
Mario, Duck Hunt, TMNT
Super Mario Land on GameBoy, TMNT on NES, and Sim City on PC
New super Mario bros
Around that time I was playing these games: Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap/Monster World II (SMS, 1989) DuckTales (NES, 1989) Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES, 1989) Adventures of Lolo (NES, 1989) The Revenge of Shinobi (MD, 1989) Super Mario World (SNES, 1990/GBA, 2001) Mega Man 3 (NES, 1990/PS1, ) Gargoyle's Quest/Makaimura Gaiden (GB, 1990) Little Nemo: The Dream Master (NES, 1990) Catrap (GB, 1990) âGremlins 2 (NES, 1990) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) Sonic the Hedgehog (MD, 1991) Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (w/ speed mod)(GB/GBC) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project/TMNT III (NES) Quackshot Starring Donald Duck (MD) Street Fighter II (ARC, 1991/SNES, 1992) Super Castlevania IV (SNES)
Burai Figther on gameboy!
Atari 2600âŠprobably Adventure or Combat.
Hmmm at 6 it was probably Pac-Man or Frogger on the shit show that is the Atari 5200
It was 1996 and I preferred playing outside with the neighborhood kids. That all changed in 1998 the year Pokémon came out. But still we would play together with the link cables.
Riding my bike around for a few hours until my parents get home then probably Metroid. Lol
Well my uncle would be playing with me soâŠ..
My dad was probably why I ended up with Al Unser Jr Turbo Racing