How old were you when you beat your first game?

My first game console was a TI 99-4a. I remember playing through all 26 levels of Munch Man (Pac-Man derivative), beating Tunnels of Doom, and conquering many puzzles in Hunt the Wumpus. That had to be during or before kindergarten, so I must've been about 4, 4 1/2 (I was young for my grade). I used to get some bad-ass Dig Dug scores back then, too. Too bad I suck at Dig Dug now...

Mega Man 2 was the first NES game I beat. I bet I was 8. It was hard, but when you only had a couple of games, you played till you got good.
 
Wow, I read the thread title real quick and misread it......almost died laughing that someone would ask such a personal question

"How old were you when you beat your ________?"
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']Wow, I read the thread title real quick and misread it......almost died laughing that someone would ask such a personal question

"How old were you when you beat your ________?"[/quote]

I was probably 12. 7th or 8th grade.
 
i couldn't beat atari or nes games because it would require too much time in one sitting. So a shorter game, like contra, I could finish in under 30 minutes, and with my sister was probably the first game I beat. In fact, i've probably beaten contra more than every other game i've beaten of the 1st three systems I had combined (atari/nes/snes). Maybe around 10 then.
 
My brother and I use to try to see how many times we could beat Super Mario Bros. in one sitting. My record was 3. His was 8. I think I was around 7 years old.

But I didn't really get into video games until just after high school. And then I beat Baldur's Gate on my PS2. Those were sweet times.
 
Doing the math, I must have been six. I beat Dad at Circus Atari through no great skill of my own. I was just playing with the cool paddle thingy.
 
[quote name='Nephlabobo']Younger than 10
Maybe....7 or 8? I had a Vic 20.[/quote]

This goes for me as well. I was maybe 4 or 5 but it was on the Vic 20. I don't remember the name but it was a stick figure with a toothbrush running around removing cavities from a large set of teeth.
 
A week before he turns 6 my son just beat the second BW on the Wii. He had a hard time at first with the controls but ended up beating the game within a week
 
I remember beating MegaMan 2 when I was 4 or 5, and I remember beating SMB before that, but I'm not sure if that was actually me beating it, or watching my mom beat it...
 
Four. I completed Super Mario Bros. on our NES. It was one of the three games we had (Excitebike and Duck Hunt being the other two).

My sixteen year old brother was pissed, because he still had not been able to finish the game (and a four year old beat it first :lol:).

EDIT: I think my nephew has me beat though. He finished Pokemon Blue (with all eight badges/Elite Four win and a ton of Pokemon) before he could read. And for a game that is a ton of reading, I thought it was pretty damn good.

EDIT 2:

[quote name='javeryh']Anyone who thinks they beat a game at 3 or 4 is just crazy. I am around 3 and 4 year olds all the time (I have a kid that age and so does everyone I know) and they just don't have the reflexes and dexterity necessary to do something like that. I mean maybe a 4 year old could finish a game but he or she would have to be just shy of 5.[/quote]

I think it may depend on the child, and what their surroundings are. My siblings were much older than I was, and so, I had nobody to play with while they were in school. Naturally, games were a good alternative until they got home. And that's mainly why I remember when I finished SMB. It was before I was in school, and my mom actually wrote it down for me (and the note was tucked inside the SMB case at home :D ).

That being said, another young nephew, is making his way through SMB on the VC. He is four right now, and will be turning five in August. He isn't through it yet, but for his age, he is extremely good. (I think he makes it into World 4 or 5...but I haven't showed him where the warp zones are.)

Another thing I believe that helps is "pure concentration." I used to get red in the face while playing, and it was because I focused on nothing but the game. As you get older, you multi-task, or listen to other things while playing (music/people/etc.). My nephew seems to be able to ignore everything else but the game (like I did...haha).
 
Honestly I dont know if this is the first, but the earliest one I can recall is beating Turtles in Time. Right when it came out in 92' on the SNES, I was 7.
 
Honestly, I was 3. I actually vividly remember beating them too.

I beat both Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2. The funny thing is that I don't think I'm that much better at gaming since then.
 
I was as old as when Super Mario Bros. was released. I beat it with the help of my dad, but I beat it, nonetheless. The next game I finished was Bubble Bobble, also with the aid of my dad. Fun times. ^_^
 
I think I was around 6 or so, I beat Oregon Trail on the Apple II!!!

I always liked to go hunting and then float my wagon across the river (That guy charging for the ferry is a total rip-off!).
 
[quote name='Thomas96']My atari games didn't have an ending, but I saved a lot of people in defender...
first game beat, probably was mario brothers. Since i'm the same age as the OP, I figure I had to be around the same age.[/quote]

Same here. I loved playing Defender. I went straight from the Atari to the Genesis so the first game I beat was Sonic the Hedgehog. That's including getting all the Chaos Emeralds. Looks like I might dig out the Sonic Collection so I can go beat it again later today.

EDIT -- I forgot to mention I was 11 when I beat Sonic.
 
I beaten TMNT Turtles In Time many times playing with my cousin, I was probably 6 or 7 at the time. fucking love that game.

As for beating a game solo, I really can't remember. If I had to guess it might have been Kirby's Dreamland for the GameBoy, maybe when I around 9 or 10?

I never really tried to finish games until I got my PC. I finished Quake 2 when I was about 11 or so.
 
I was 4 or 5 when I beat Duck Hunt, 6 when I beat Legend of Zelda, and 8 when I beat Faxanadu.

Ah, Faxanadu. Damn, I loved that game. You could cheat like a mofo by going back and forth from one screen to another and killing one enemy over and over until you could afford this incredibly strong shield that you normally couldn't afford for at least five levels.
 
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