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My favorite gaming memory has always been my 6th birthday where I got a Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64. First time owning a videogame, first step in becoming a gamer. The rest is history.

Wow. That's one hell of a first game.

Most vivid memory is probably playing then-amazing-looking Star Fox 64 for the first time and feeling the rumble. 

I remember a lot of games you mention as well.

Stay safe and warm if you can.

The N64 was truly a standard bearer in many ways when it came to how 3D games were controlled. I can't imagine using a controller without analog sticks or rumble functionality now.

I know what u mean about the Dreamcast. When I saw that displayed in a Sears or something playing Soul Caliber, I couldn't believe it. 

My first game memories involved Defender.  I'm a bit older than you, so the Atari was kind of my formative era in my childhood. 

I love Battle Arena Toshinden.  Good times with me and my brothers with that one. 

Me and my brother played the hell out of Toshinden too...until we got Tekken. :p

And I LOVED going to Sears to look at game stuff back in the 90's. It's a shame they've cut back on that so much now.

I can't do childhood gaming memories unless you want me to talk about hide and seek, cowboys and indians or make the kid next door eat toadstools (ok, that last one isn't really a game but I had fun until my mum found out.) I can do gaming memories in general though.

My parents buying me a Commodore 64 for Christmas. It was supposed to be for me to learn about computers and programming, at least as far as they knew. :D

My wife and I taking the bus out to the mall to buy our NES system. So many hours of Super Mario and Duck Hunt. (Stupid dog!)

Seeing Super Mario 64 in action on my TV for the first time. Sometimes I would just run around from level to level looking at shit and not really playing. My son used to do that too. Swimming in the moat was his favourite. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree right?

The Dreamcast. Damn I love that machine. I put almost 50 games on Amazon a couple of months ago and they're selling like hotcakes. (My heart hurts)

The PS2 my first memories of that are Final Fantasy X and Primal. I spent so much time with both those games. I sold Primal last year then bought the digital copy from PSN when the pain got too much for me to bear.

Finishing Persona 4 and getting really depressed that it was over. Seriously there was a palpable sense of loss.

there are probably a ton more but I'll stop there.

W...why are you selling your Dreamcast games? D:

Final Fantasy X was one of the best games on the PS2, and remains one my all time favorite titles. Mario 64 was a real revelation as well; games with 3D graphics were never the same after that.

You got an NES at launch with your wife? That is O.G. status. My big brother was in elementary school when it came out, LOL.

I'm selling most of my game collection because I need the extra money coming in. I didn't want to but I have to.

I tried playing one of the earlier versions of Street Fighter II a little ways back. It was so damn slow and I couldn't beat anybody. I mostly remember how cheap Sagat was. Infinite tigers (both low, high, and at varying speeds) then when you finally got close to him... tiger uppercut!

Looking back, the old Street Fighter games were pretty brutal. The pace at which the series evolved in the 90's was crazy; stuff like Street Fighter III, the Marvel Vs. series and the Alpha games were radical departures from the original, and those came out just a few years later.

Yet the main appeal for Street Fighter 4 was how it hearkened back to SF2 in terms of playstyle. Funny, that.

Just a few:

Playing my first video game, Pac-Man, at a Kroger grocery store.

Being totally surprised at my Atari 5200 Christmas present.

Getting my SNES two weeks before its release.

Gawking at the Mode 7 effects in ActRaiser with my best friend.

Reviewing games for The Dallas Morning News and now GamerDad.

And many more!

Man, Mode 7 and the FX chip were some crazy shit back in the day. And you got an SNES two weeks early? So lucky...

Are any of your old Dalls Morning News reviews around online? I'd love to read them.

You used to could find my reviews onine everywhere, but not so much anymore.

My first gaming memory is playing Asteroids in the arcade with my step-dad to be when I was ten. A few years later, my step-dad borrowed a friends Apple II to do some work and the friend loaned us a few games, as well. The one that hooked me and made me a gamer was Wizardry: Proving Ground of the Mad Overlord. My first console was a Genesis and I racked up so many late fees playing Landstalker that it isn't funny. I was working 2nd shift at LL Bean and living alone at the time, so gaming made my late nights less lonely.

We were VERY well acquainted with late fees from our local Blockbuster when I was little. There are still games in the house we never returned, LOL.

I have a vivid memory of playing Star Raiders on Atari 2600 in the attic of my parents house where I had built myself a photography dark room. I was warping around the Galactic Chart and then fighting enemy spaceships with the stars as background. It really took me to another place.

I starting gaming when I was about 4 too.  And I use to spend my allowance on gaming mags too.  I still do. 

Battle Arena Toshiden was a great game. I remember liking it more than the first Tekken though admittedely Tekken 2 blew me away! "The devil theme" always got me pumped to face a new day. (And during college I needed all the "motivation" I could get)

As a younger teen my favorite games were Chrono trigger,FF6,FF4,Secret of mana,Secret of evermore,and what many gamers would call a shitty port of Street Fighter Alpha 2. Still,I played the heck out of all of them! 

Who can forget those beatings one gets when they stay up too late playing games. I got plenty of those growing up. Oddly it wasn't a deterant for me to continue gaming.

Enjoy all that snow, you can keep it as far as us Nebrasian midwesterns are concerned =P