Thread: First game you beat

Originally Posted by mutton

Super Mario Land on Game Boy. I had awful timing and I didn't know you could run through single spaces.

That was the first I beat too, I think.

Also thanks for taking away from my achievement by describing how awful your gaming skills were.


Some of the parts I remember distinctly were the first sphinx boss, the sea horse boss (I think it was a sea horse boss??) and the coins spelling out a message in the underwater level, and the jumping Chinamen closer to the end of the game (even at my tender young age I had some awareness of how these were a sorta stereotyped depiction of Chinese by Japanese).

I can't remember how it ended but I do remember going back to the start screen after it was over and getting, like, some sort of harder difficulty? I don't know if I beat it multiple times in a row, but I think I had at least beaten it twice in a row or something.


The next game I at least can remember beating completely was Sonic the Hedgehog for Game Gear. And by beating completely, I do mean with collecting all the chaos diamonds.

I can't remember which other Sonic games I finished on the Game Gear.

Originally Posted by simonj

It would have been a SNES game, probably something like Street Fighter II or maybe the Power Rangers game I vaguely remember having. I vividly remember beating Aladdin but I doubt that would have been the first game I beat.

This isn't really relevant, but this brought to mind how distorted was my chronology of gaming system releases.

For a long time I thought the NES was released around like '90 and the SNES around '95. I only learned much later that the NES was released around '82 and the SNES around, like, '90 or '92.