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[koam]

This is mainly for old schooler gamers and not people who went back and played it years later.

The very first time you played Super Mario Bros. Did you die on the very first enemy? Did you jump over it? Or did you kill it?

I jumped over it, it was overjoyed. My brothers both died.

 

[Red Scarlet]

So THAT'S what you're supposed to do..

I honestly don't remember; I was 3.

 

[flsh]

I was less than 3 back then, so I guess I died
I was so obsessive with this and SMB. 3. I swear, I finished these games so many times by 6 it's insane.

 

[Wario64]

hell if i remember. that's 18 years ago or so D=

 

[Tarazet]

I still can't always do it. That may be why I liked the Genesis better.

 

[mCACGj]

When I was 2, I'd watch my brother and cousin play for hours. I love watching, so I knew what to do when the time came and the controller was put in my hands.

 

[Matlock]

I hopped on its head.

Now for a real goomba challenge, find Mike Orlando's comic over at PlanetGameCube and try reading it without killing yourself. It's hard, ain't it?

 

[Zeo]

First game I ever played: Mega Man 2

Must have been 4 or 5 years old.

I picked Wood Man.

Kept walking to the right thinking "OMFG I'M MOVING HIM".

Kept walking into the tiny little platform wall that I had to jump onto, not knowing there was a button on the controller that made me jump.

The first set of bats quickly killed me.

 

[Wario64]

the first thing that amazed about Mega Man is that he actually FUCKING BLINKS!

capcom are truly innovators

 

[belgurdo]

I just did what the demo did (except I hit the warp pipe instead of died)

 

[Unison]

I played lots of Atari, so Super Mario Bros. wasn't an amazing revelation to me. I have no idea what my first videogame was... They've always been around.

I remember my friends & I made fun of Simon Belmont because he had no face.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

i remember the days before the internet or strategy guides or even magazines with games like Super Mario Bros where me and my friends and brothers would name shit in the games ourselves. The main badguy in Double Dragon was forever known as "The MachineGun Man" in arcades where i lived. Some people even gave names to random baddies in DD. The growth mushrooms in SMB were called "The Bigness". GET THE BIGNESS! :lol I remember one of the jumps later in the game (i think world 7) where you have to make this long ass jump, land on a tiny little platform, then jump again quick before your momentum took you off the ledge was dubbed "The Jesse Owens".

 

[Version 3.0]

I squooshed him. He just looked so...squishable.

 

[LakeEarth]

I stomped right on him, but that's because I watched the CPU play the beginning in the arcade version.

 

[FortNinety]

I killed the fucker on my first try. And I fell down the first pit I came across as well.

 

[Pimpbaa]

I was pretty good my first time. I was far from new to videogames at the time (having had played countless games on my colecovision and c64).

 

[Red Scarlet]

What about the minus world? I've still never once gotten that to work to this day.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Squished and bounced though the first few that I came across no problem...until the first bottomless pit (right next to the first hidden 1-up on 1-1). Of course, it wasn't entirely my innate video gaming skill that allowed me to do so well, IMO. This was on a VS. arcade unit that had come into the Kirtland AFB bowling alley arcade around 6 months before the NES released in the States and I had watched several others play the game for about an hour before I decided to risk my first quarter in the machine. Now...getting the hang of the momentum and friction for controlling Mario took a bit longer than a first play...just getting used to jumping up and onto single floating blocks and such was harder than killing enemies.

 

[Datrio]

First I ran away from it. Then I accidently jump on his head. It died. I laughed like a little kid.

Actually, if I remember correctly, I was a little kid.

 

[Ironclad]

First time I played, I ran at him and jumped clear over him. Then, I turned around and hopped right on his head. It was the funniest thing at the time. Just sailing right over that damn Goomba.