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What was the first game you ever beat?

Issun

Issun

Chumpy
(He/Him)
My first ever gaming victory was Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers for the NES. I still remember the elation I felt when I finally took down Fat Cat. I had to tell all the kids at church the next day. Before that, games were something I played, but never completed. A whole other world opened up for me that day. That might be when games went from a thing I did to a part of my life.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Hmm... not sure. I must have been Super Mario Bros simply by virtue of owning it but I'm sure I must have rented a super easy game at one point and beat it.
 
Torzelbaum

Torzelbaum

????? LV 13 HP 292/ 292
(he, him, his)
I think it would have been Super Mario Bros for me since you can't actually beat most Atari 2600 games (or arcade games of that period when you are young and have limited funds).
 
Lokii

Lokii

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(He/Him)
Staff member
Moderator
I don’t remember but it might have been Marble Madness Nes
 
zonetrope

zonetrope

(he/him)
Mine is probably also Chip & Dale. The only games I owned before that were Super Mario Bros., which it took me a while to get the hang of, and, uh, Legacy of the Wizard, which I still haven't beaten and never will.
 
Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
Definitely something on Game Boy, Mario Land would be my guess but honestly no real idea. My video game time was so controlled as a kid playing long enough on the TV to beat something that didn't save my progress was impossible. I got an AC adapter for the Game Boy fairly early on and would just leave it on to play more, and most of those games were short anyway.

I specifically remember when I beat Mario 3, my parents were gone for a long weekend and the babysitter didn't realize I left it on the whole time until late on Sunday. She was puzzled and worried, but I pointed out that yes, she'd enforced the rule that I was only allowed to play for 30 minutes at a time so it was fine. But I already had a SNES at this point so it was way later.
 
Rosewood

Rosewood

The metal babble flees!
(she/her)
The real answer is probably either Colossal Cave Adventure (with some assistance from outside our household) or an ASCII platformer whose name I don't recall, sometime in the late '70s or early '80s. After a large time skip with little or no video gaming, it was Super Mario RPG.
 
WildcatJF

WildcatJF

Let's Pock (Art @szk_tencho)
(he / his / him)
Damn, what a question. I'd have to guess Super Mario Bros.? It's the one game I owned for like a year as a kid when I got the system, and Duck Hunt didn't have a real end lol
 
Issun

Issun

Chumpy
(He/Him)
zonetrope said:
Mine is probably also Chip & Dale.
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Bruh!

I honestly owe C&D a lot. I can't remember if I'd finished the game by that point, but I was into it enough that I begged my parents to get me the Nintendo Power issue with that game on the cover when I saw it at the store. That issue also led me to Final Fantasy and Crystalis. So yeah, Rescue Rangers is the game that made video games a lifetime thing in so many ways.
 
Kazin

Kazin

did i do all of that?
(he/him)
I honestly have no idea. Best guess is maybe Sonic 2? I'd had an NES but I don't remember beating anything on it to that point.
 
Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
Actually upon further consideration if PC counts it was probably some edutainment software. Is Reader Rabbit a thing you can beat? If not maybe Oregon Trail? I spent a lot of time in the computer lab at USC when my mom was teaching. Super Solvers was later it looks like, I'd definitely beaten games by then.
 
Sarge

Sarge

hardcore retro gamin'
I'm pretty sure it was Super Mario Bros.. When I finally got the NES, it came with that, and I also got Zelda II, which also took me quite a bit longer to finish. I guess it's possible that I looped an Atari 2600 game or something when visiting friends or family, but that probably doesn't really count... and those opportunities were rare, anyway, early on.
 
Bongo

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
It probably was Kirby's Dream Land, but it's possible it was Super Mario RPG.
 
zonetrope

zonetrope

(he/him)
Issun said:
I honestly owe C&D a lot. I can't remember if I'd finished the game by that point, but I was into it enough that I begged my parents to get me the Nintendo Power issue with that game on the cover when I saw it at the store. That issue also led me to Final Fantasy and Crystalis. So yeah, Rescue Rangers is the game that made video games a lifetime thing in so many ways.
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I had Crystalis really early on too, because it looked really cool in Nintendo Power, but it took me another few years to understand the concept of experience points, so I was so confused why all of my attacks were completely bouncing off the first boss.
 
4-So

4-So

Spicy
The first Legend of Zelda.

Perhaps it should have been SMB, pack-in and all, but I could never get past 8-3. I still have not finished SMB.
 
Falselogic

Falselogic

Lapsed Threadcromancer
(they/them)
Outside of children's games, Space Quest or MegaMan 2, I think? It's very hard to remember that far back. If we include children's games i think it's Winnie the Pooh and the 100 Acre Woods
 
Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
I want to say Guerilla War on NES, which is a brutally difficult game but you have infinite continues and respawn exactly where you die when you use them; so beating it was just a matter of having enough time to play through it
 
pudik

pudik

the first one i can really remember beating was tmnt: turtles in time (co-op with my dad) but I think it was probably super mario bros 2 or 3
 
Büge

Büge

Arm Candy
(she/her)
Hmm. Unassisted, Metroid II. Technically, I beat Space Quest III beforehand, but that was with the help of a hint book.
 
FelixSH

FelixSH

(He/Him)
Definitely Mario Land. The Gameboy was the first console/handheld I owned, and we had, at the start, Tetris and Mario Land for it. For some time, I was scarred of Tatanga, or something - I always asked my sister to beat him for me. But at some point, she had no time and asked me to try it myself. Which I did, it wasn't that bad, I'm sure.
 
Droewyn

Droewyn

Smol Monster
(She/her, they/them)
Star Raiders, for the Atari 400. There were five difficulties, and I definitely beat it on the first two. I do not remember if I ever beat it on Warrior difficulty. I never attempted Commander or Star Commander.
 
Paul le Fou

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
Heck. I'm not certain I ever beat Super Mario. It might have been... Bubble Bobble, playing with my dad. I can't remember any big "I beat it!" moments that stood out as the first. Maybe Mega Man 5 (the earliest one I owned)? Maybe Darkwing Duck (no, don't think I did ever beat that).

Whatever it is was almost surely on the NES, but I think the latest possible contender for first game I beat would've been Sonic 2 or Shining Force.
 
Beta Metroid

Beta Metroid

At peace
(he/him)
Kirby's Dream Land. I played the crap out of SMB1-3, Castlevania, Punch-Out, and Ninja Gaiden 2 for a couple years before I got Dream Land, but I just didn't have the skill and coordination to beat any of the others. But I made steady progress in Dream Land...Kracko was a big hurdle for a while, then Dedede seemed impossible, then it finally happened. And beating that game gave me the confidence to start making real headway in the Mario (I ended up getting a SNES and beating SMW a few months later). I'd always heard that Dream Land was made to give young kids something they'd be able to beat, and it served that role perfectly for me.
 
lincolnic

lincolnic

can stop, will stop
(he/him)
I can't say for certain, but my gut says it was probably Mario Land on Game Boy. Either that or Super Mario World (we got an NES after the SNES, somehow).
 
Mightyblue

Mightyblue

aggro table, shmaggro table
(He/Him/His)
Almost definitely Sonic 2 on the Genesis, followed shortly by Sword of Vermilion (which was a feat for a 8 year old, let me tell you, I stumbled backwards into victory on that one).
 
Ghost from Spelunker

Ghost from Spelunker

BAG
(They/Him)
Not 100% certain but...
On NES maybe either Contra or Bubble Bobble.
Contra was released in Feb 1988, I got Bubble Bobble for Easter in 1989.
Contra I obviously used the 30-mans code.

Before that, Ghostbusters on Apple II was complex enough to have an actual ending, but I'm not sure if I beat it before I got a NES. I probably just wrote the passwords down over and over to buy the sports car.

I wanted to say this forum is pretty hardcore to beat Super Mario Bros so early. 8-3 and 8-4 are brutal, and we didn't have all these powerups the sequels had. I beat Mario 2 and 3 before 1.
 
Pombar

Pombar

Violentvixen said:
Actually upon further consideration if PC counts it was probably some edutainment software. Is Reader Rabbit a thing you can beat? If not maybe Oregon Trail? I spent a lot of time in the computer lab at USC when my mom was teaching. Super Solvers was later it looks like, I'd definitely beaten games by then.
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Yeah, probably the same for me. Most likely Mouse Practice for Mac OS.
Other than Edutainment, I pretty much went through gaming not beating anything as far as I remember, until maybe Spyro the Dragon.
 
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