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Whether you grew up playing simple games with basic graphics or your first system featured visuals that were nearly lifelike, video games were definitely a major part of your youth. Let's see if we can guess which gaming system was your first.Advertisement
Which game is the closest to what you played on your first game system?
"Final Fantasy"
"Sonic the Hedgehog"
"Pong"
"Super Mario Brothers"
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What was the biggest issue you had with your first gaming system?
Blowing air on the game and system to get it to work.
Random resetting of the system.
Disc read error.
Broken joystick.
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How would you describe the graphics on your first system?
Decent. It couldn't be called realistic, but it was pretty good.
Pretty terrible, but we were happy nonetheless.
Pretty amazing, and it got even better over time.
Not the best, but it was an upgrade from previous systems.
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Could you play online with your friends when you first started?
Absolutely. That was so fun.
Nope. the internet was just getting going back then.
That technology was still a few years away.
Are you kidding? There wasn't even an online yet.
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Did you ever play video games in an arcade?
Yeah, we went to the arcade pretty regularly.
Arcades were just getting started around then.
That was getting pretty rare by my time.
What's an arcade?
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Did you subscribe to a gaming magazine when you first started playing?
I used the internet to search for game information.
Those weren't as popular when I got started.
I don't think they had magazines for that when I started.
Yeah. I loved getting all the tips and tricks.
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Was there any wood on your first gaming system?
Yes there was, but I'm guessing it was fake wood.
No, that was super old-school.
No, we had evolved beyond that look.
There was wood on a gaming system?
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How would you describe what your games looked like on your first system?
Big block cartridges.
Thin cartridges.
CDs.
Small cartridges.
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Which movie was most popular around the time you started playing video games?
"Pulp Fiction"
"The Godfather"
"The Lord of the Rings"
"Back to the Future"
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How did you listen to your music when you started playing video games?
Digital.
Cassette tapes.
CDs.
8-track player.
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How new of an idea were video games when you started playing?
It was still pretty new and was catching on in a big way.
It was revolutionary.
They had been around for a while by that point.
Video games had been around forever by the time I started.
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Could you do anything else besides play video games on your first system?
Oh yeah, they could do a bunch of stuff.
The technology hadn't quite reached that point yet.
No way. They could barely play video games.
We were a long way from those innovations.
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Which action game were you most likely to play on your first system?
"Space Invaders"
"Yakuza"
"Mike Tyson's Punch-Out"
"Metal Gear Solid"
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Which fad was sweeping the nation when you started playing video games?
Break dancing.
Pokemon.
MySpace.
Platform shoes.
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Which music was most popular at the time of your first gaming system?
Grunge.
Disco.
Auto-tune.
Madonna and Michael Jackson.
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Did your family have a high-score board for games in your home as a kid?
People used to do that?
We did. It was a big competition there for a while.
There wasn't that kind of atmosphere in my home about games.
Absolutely. It was something the whole family was into.
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Which popular phrase would have most likely been said when you started gaming?
Gag me with a spoon.
Can you dig it?
Whassap?
Fo' shizzle.
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How many different gaming systems where there to choose from when you started?
There were a lot of them, but two really popular ones.
There were a handful.
Just the one.
Two.
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How complicated were the games when you first started playing?
They were very basic.
The games had a bit of complexity to them, especially in the later levels.
Some of the games had depth to them, but not a whole lot.
The games were very complex and detailed.
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What piece of technology best fits the time that you started gaming?
Sony Walkman.
Pager.
iPod.
Floppy disk.
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Which video game theme music still plays in your head?
"Sonic & Knuckles" theme.
"Frogger" theme.
"Final Fantasy VII" theme.
"Super Mario Brothers" theme.
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Which board game did you play the most around the time you starting video games?
What's a board game?
"Trivial Pursuit"
"Cranium"
"Trouble"
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How many of the games you first played could fit on one CD?
I'm guessing a handful could fit.
Probably all of them could fit on one modern disk.
Probably a couple of them.
Just one.
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Was competitive gaming a thing when you first started playing?
Yes, it was an international sport by then.
It was just starting to get competitive on a big scale.
Only among my friends and I.
I don't think we had gotten there yet, but the interest was growing.
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What kind of phone was popular when you started gaming?
Rotary phone.
Cell phone.
Cordless home phone.
Smartphone.
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Which TV show was a hit at the time you started with video games?
"Cheers"
"Seinfeld"
"The Sopranos"
"All in the Family"
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What fashion trend was popular when you started gaming?
Sagging pants.
Bell-bottoms.
Low rise jeans.
Acid-wash jeans.
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Who was President when you started to play video games?
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
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