Tell GR: What Was Your First Mario Game?

First game was Mario Bros. for the NES. But I think my favourite was Super Mario World for the SNES. Not to say that I don't also have a soft spot for Mario 64 or Galaxy and the like, those are all awesome games too, but I really miss the old school style Super Mario World.

I can't remember if it was the first Mario Bros. or if it was Super Mario Land on GB, but it was definitely one of those two.

Also I always enjoyed Yoshi. That little puzzle game on NES. My sisters and I would always try to beat each others scores growing up. Even long after N64 was out we were still competing for the top slot.

If you really wanna be technical, then my first Mario game would have been me attempting to play Dr. Mario on my Dad's old Gameboy, before I was old enough to grasp the concept of what I was supposed to be doing in the game.

My first real Mario game was Super Mario World, on the SNES. I recieved the SNES, SMW, and Donkey Kong Country as gifts for Christmas when I was either 4 or 5 (I'm too lazy to actually go into details like doing simple math and asking my mom what year it was).

In first grade my teacher would have the class make drawings about once a week, and I'd had a tendency to draw whichever castle my Dad and I had just cleared based on its sprite on the world map (they kinda all looked the same, except for the signpost for which number the castle was). It kinda annoyed my teacher that I kept drawing nearly the same thing every week.

Some of my fondest memories from childhood were playing games with my Dad. Any time we'd beat one of the castles in Super Mario World, or took down a big dinosaur boss in Joe and Mac 2, I'd jump up out of my seat all excited and high-five my Dad repeatedly while the 'plot' advanced to the next area of the game.

We also played the Donkey Kong Country games, rent StarFox and Mortal Kombat, and I'd watch Dad play Doom because I couldn't quite wrap my head around FPS gameplay at that age. But trust me, looking back, it's hilarious picturing a 6- or 7-year old kid excitedly cheering his Dad on to kill the bad guys with a chainsaw, based purely on the innocent connection in my head that there was a chainsaw in this game, and my Dad used a chainsaw for his job in a golf course maintenance crew.

Nominated for TPS for father-son-video-game-bonding-awesomeness.

Watching my father play Doom was one of my favorite childhood pastimes. He would get to the final level and have no idea how to win, so he would just keep running around killing the ever-respawning hordes of Hell until they finally overran him.

Super Mario Bros for NES, and I remember thinking Super Mario Bros 2 was one weird and ****ed up game.

The 1983 port of donkey kong to the C64 was the first game with mario in it I played I think...

Same as most people, Super Mario Bros for the NES.

The first Mario game I played was Super Mario Bros. with my dad. He'd be Mario and I'd be Luigi. Since first player also has the ability to pause whenever I'd try to jump over a pit my dad would pause the game mid-jump and let me fall to the pit so he could have a turn.

That is comedy gold.

I'll nominate this.

Mario Kart on the SNES. always played bowser.

I distinctly remember playing SMB3 on the NES when I was almost 3 years old.

Super Mario Land for GameBoy. loved it... but oh nelly the amount of rage i'd get in those final stages.

but not nearly as much rage as Donkey Kong Land gave me. that game taught my GameBoy how to fly. and taught me that you got a much crisper image when you remove the external glass on the screen. Remove... Throw against wall so it falls off... whatever. tomato, tomato right?

I was very young when the SNES was launched, so I don't know which was the first Mario I played.
I don't even remember if I played Donkey Kong or just imagined it after looking at a picture of it.
What I recall is that level where Mario and Luigi play against each other, with a POW in the middle, while animals come out of the pipes, like rats from the sewers. I know I owned a NES with Mario Bros.

I played MB3 as well, but the only Mario game I came close to beating was Super Mario World.

But the Mario games I have played for millions of hours with friends were all from N64: Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart and Mario Party.

I remember playing Super Mario Bros. & Super Mario Bros 3 as a kid, but the first Mario game I beat was Super Mario 64. I remember playing that game every weekend for a month. After that I hadn't played a Mario game until Super Mario Galaxy which kind of ruined Nintendo for me. I couldn't help feel like I played it before and ever since it's been that way with all other Nintendo exclusive titles. I finished SMG and Zelda: TP purely out of nostalgia. I enjoyed them but it made me realize I had grown up and that Nintendo has always had the console for kids, not adults. I enjoyed my time with Mario and Zelda but its time for the kids of this generation to gain their nostalgia. As long as those games improve without really changing at their core then I may be lucky enough to be playing Mario with my kids some day.

Playing Super Mario Brothers with my sister was first experience. Having duckhunt combined simply took it to another level.
Except I always made her do the water levels as these would usually end in tears...They still sometimes do /s...
Had these memories re-lived last Christmas with New Super Mario brothers.
You stay cool nintendo, I hope my kids can benifit from your wisdom someday...

Funny how you can almost guess what age everyone is :P My first Mario game was the original, but i think i was a lil late there (born in '86). But i had that nintendo until Sega genesis came out. I never had a Super NES as a kid so i missed out on those mario's lol

i loved the second mario though, being able to be the other characters was always fun :)

Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Wasn't crazy about Super Mario Bros. 2 when it came out. It felt really weird at the time. Super Mario Bros. 3 was awesome though. I loved the SNES Mario games too, but kind of stopped following them when it hit the N64 generation of Mario games. I've never gotten back into them.

Super Mario Bros was my first. 2 was meh, 3 was awesome. I however spent more hours on Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 than anything else. Also, I'm surprised nobody mentioned Super Mario RPG - easily one of my favorite Mario games.

First was Super Mario Bros. 2. Not a big fan of Mario games, except for them on Super Smash Bros.

Mario tennis on the virtual boy... Not really, but I felt like mentioning that awesome game.

The original, but not on the NES but it was on the Japanese Famicom. I was still very young and never got that far. The first Mario game I beat was Super Mario 2 on the original gameboy, but after playing Wario World I learned who had cooler powers. Yes, I need the baddie to hit me to acquire that power

Mario Bros. on the NES was my first. Super Mario Bros. 3 still wins the gold medal in my heart though.

Donkey Kong in the Arcade... Mario Brothers as well... I've seen and played nearly everyone kind of mario... except the migraine inducing Virtual Boy....

Well, even though I've been playing video games since I was 5 years old, I actually never have bought, or been given as a gift, any Mario games, of course I came across Mario Bros on the NES eventually, I don't remember how exactly (borrowed I think) but officially the only Mario game I've played seriously is Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, which I rented and finished sometime around early 1996, and now 15 years later I'm about to buy for the first time a Mario game, Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS.