Donkey Kong Country 2 (Gameboy advance port) I was 6 years old and my sister and I shared it. My second game ever was Sonic Advance 3, followed by The Simpsons: Road Rage.
We had a SNES when I was little - around Preschool to 1st grade. I can't remember exactly what my first game ever was, but it was either Donkey Kong Country, any of the games in Super Mario All-Stars, or Pilotwings. I loved that SNES.
I lived in a trailer park and got a hand-me-down SNES from our godparents to play with my older sister. The only game we had for it was Street Fighter 2. My sister would beat me every single time we played against each other. To this day, I am still terrible at fighting games.
The first video game I ever played was Final Fantasy 6 (FF3) for the SNES when I was 3 years old (I was ambitious lol). The first video game I ever comprehended was Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt for the NES. I was also 3.
When I was 3, my parents bought a SNES for my sister, along with Mario Paint and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. She played them both for a short while and didn't touched the games for quite some time. Afterwards, I was curiously observing the hardware, the controller and the games. The temptation was so unnerving that I went ahead and poke around until I somehow powered up the console by accident and then the TV is magically displaying something else than a blank screen. Yoshi's Island was in, and I was trying to figure out on how to use that controller, and then the game itself.
Needless to say, Yoshi's Island is my first game that I actually played and pretty much defined what is a great video game to me. More games came in because of my interest, which then made my siblings even more interested because my skills took off much quicker than the rest of my family.
My dad had tetris and super mario land on his gameboy pocket, picked it up a bit. Really got into gaming when we get the N64 with Super Mario and Mario Kart. Pokemon Yellow was the first one I dove into completely.
The first game I remember playing was the Sims 1 with my big sister (She made me mostly watch tho) , but the 1st game I owned and played by myself was Spyro The Dragon <3
Since then I played all 3 of the PS1 ones and even bought the 3rd one again last year for that nostalgia.
Before it came out, video games were intimidating and I never wanted to play any. My neighbor showed me the game one day and. woah. It was so accessible, cute, and simple. For me (who was a timid little girl at the time) it was perfect! Everything snowballed from there. If it wasn't for AC, I wouldn't have purchased a gamecube.. which means I wouldn't have bought that first Sonic game. My life would have been completely different. lol