The Big Question: What's The First Game You Ever Played?

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In this week's Big Question we're getting nostalgic, thinking back to the first games we ever played—or at least the first ones we can remember playing.

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I vividly remember the morning I got a Sega Master System for Christmas. It was in the late '80s or early '90s. I can't recall exactly. Some UK consoles came with Sonic the Hedgehog built in, but others—including mine—came with Alex Kidd in Miracle World instead. This frustratingly difficult platformer was my introduction to video games, and I played the hell out of it, even though I spent most of my time dying. I loved it, but I wish I hadn't revisited it recently after feeling a pang of nostalgia. It has not aged well at all.

I don’t remember when my parents bought our first games console, a used Mega Drive with Sonic and Sonic 2. I must have been about three or four, though. Although I didn’t actually beat Sonic until about 15 years later, I distinctly remember being sat in the living room trying to beat Robotnik at the end of Green Hill Zone. It was dark out, the fire was on, and I was eating pink wafers and strawberry custard creams while frantically trying to jump over his wrecking ball machine. Unlike Andy, I’ve never really stopped playing Sonic, so have never had nostalgia to ruin - I’ve just always loved it ever since. Pink wafers aren’t as good as they were in 1997, though.

I guess you could say I’ve always been a *drops shades* kula dude. Anyway, Kula World was a game where you play as a sentient beach ball and have to move around a floating stone platform while avoiding spikes and traps. I don’t think there was a story, but I remember some levels were set in Ancient Egypt, and others were inside of a