Day 4: #25DaysOfGiveaways – Win 8-bitty game controller, iSkin Vibes case for Galaxy S3 & $20 free app shopping

by Antonio Wells Dec 4, 2012 12:06 PM – 76 Comments

Yay to Jose for winning! Please see today’s giveaway…

Day 4 in our #25DaysOfGiveaways is Retro. Enter to win an 8-bitty Bluetooth game controller courtesy of ThinkGeek (works for Android, iPhone and iPad), an iSkin Vibes soft case for the Galaxy S3, and $20 bucks promo code to shop in our own app store! Since we’ve gone faux-retro, we want to hear about the first video game you got as a child. Tell us the console and games you fell in love with in the comments below. Stay tuned as tomorrow’s giveaway is for gamers & a something to keep kiddies quiet in the back seat.

Pssst… don’t forget to enter to win either iPad Mini or Nexus 7!

AndroidTapp Store $20 Gift Card

iSkin Vibes for Samsung Galaxy S3

8-bitty Bluetooth Game Controller (Android, iPhone and iPad)

Check out the past giveaways & winners

Day 3 $25 Google Play gift card for telling us about your carrier’s service.

Day 2 $15 Google Play gift card for coolest homescreen on Instagram.

Day 1 $15 free app shopping on AndroidTapp Store.

Special thanks for ThinkGeek for the 8-bitty!

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76 Comments

By Sckt on December 4, 2012 at 12:17 pm:

Man, this 8bitty is brilliant! Beautiful!

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- By Sckt on December 4, 2012 at 12:19 pm:
  
  The first videogame I played was Pitfall for Atari. I can remember yet, those crocodiles makes me have nightmares til today! Hahaha!
  
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By Luigi Formica on December 4, 2012 at 12:21 pm:

My 1st childhood game was Prince of Persia…i’ve played it on an old Olivetti PCS 11

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By Ali Ataya on December 4, 2012 at 12:54 pm:

My first console was a game boy. My favorite game was super Mario bros 2.

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By Thomas on December 4, 2012 at 1:32 pm:

My first gaming that I did was at my grandma’s house. She had a ton of grandchildren so the gaming was always done there. We had competitions to see how far we could stand from the TV for duck hunt and still keep progressing. She still has the whole system and refuses to give it away/sell it.

So many fond memories.

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- By Antonio Wells on December 4, 2012 at 1:39 pm:
  
  Nicely done!
  
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By Arham Jamal on December 4, 2012 at 1:39 pm:

My first game was Contra for atari. Loved that game and still do. One of the best games ever made!

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By Ravi on December 4, 2012 at 1:42 pm:

i grew up without video games

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By Tiffany on December 4, 2012 at 2:18 pm:

Bad news baseball. It was a baseball game for the Nintendo that when you put in a special code would unlock girls teams. a special treasure for a girl gamer in 80 s, heck, even by today’s videogame standards it’s pretty cool.

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By bender23 on December 4, 2012 at 3:06 pm:

First video game: super mario 64

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By David on December 4, 2012 at 4:41 pm:

Oringinal Mario Bros. for NES

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By Sheri L. on December 4, 2012 at 4:46 pm:

First game was duck hunt!! Lol

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By Kevin on December 4, 2012 at 5:33 pm:

First game was Mario Bros. for Nintendo. I can’t remember how old I was but I do remember my mind being blown away…

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By DamonZ28 on December 4, 2012 at 6:15 pm:

Bushido for the PC! Had lots of fun playing that game, on an 8086 computer. My cousin had a Vectrex console, we had many hours of fun with that too. Don’t remember the name of the game we played most of the time though, that was nearly 30 years ago!

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By Mark Roedel on December 4, 2012 at 7:13 pm:

We had an Apple II. It came with King’s Quest, but I think Karateka was probably the first real “video game” that I played on it.

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By the360king on December 4, 2012 at 7:50 pm:

My first childhood video game was PONG! However, just in case some don’t want to consider that game legit, my next games were on the Atari 2600. My two first and favorites were Combat and Football. On Combat, I liked the tank and flying games, (never got the big bomber). I loved football because….I love football. But there was a cheat that my friends and I always used. If you got burned, your could run to the other side and catch them. That was the first glitch/exploit I ever saw in a video game.

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By knigma on December 4, 2012 at 8:00 pm:

Console: Atari 2600
Game: Miner 2049er was my favorite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner_2049er

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By Josh on December 4, 2012 at 9:15 pm:

Despite it being almost 25 years ago, I can still clearly remember the day my parents surprised me with an NES. They had set up the loft with a TV, cozy chairs, and a brand new NES with all the accessories (at the time, the Zapper and Power Pad) and Super Mario Bros. I remember my dad futzing with the connector on the TV, and my mom watching as I tried to complete the first level, at 5 years old and having never touched a video game before. I remember looking a the instruction manual and trying to figure out why the princess was a question mark. I remember trying to compete with my parents in World Class Track Meet, and feeling sorry for the ducks in Duck Hunt.

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By Rohit Mahadev Shringare on December 4, 2012 at 9:49 pm:

aah how can i ever forget !!! it was the legend of pac man..that was like magic to me.. still gives me so much joy to play that game !!

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By Mike Steinkamp on December 4, 2012 at 10:36 pm:

Wow I feel old here but Pong was my first game too and it was awesome people.

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By ChristopherH on December 5, 2012 at 12:09 am:

It was all about Atari and Space Invaders… Yea.

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By Jesus Cervantes on December 5, 2012 at 3:40 am:

My Childhood game was Super Mario Bros. 3 i grew up playing that. i played it on a Super Nintendo Good Luck to All

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By thomas munchalfen on December 5, 2012 at 3:42 am:

I played for hours in hours couldn’t get enough of it at that age thanks

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By Factroyd on December 5, 2012 at 3:51 am:

Beating a game called two crude dudes with my best friend!

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By dustin f. on December 5, 2012 at 4:06 am:

My first game was pong in the Atari….was like 4 years old and was clueless to video games….thought pong was the s#@t though lol…amazing how far we have come from a game like pong with no detail to a game like Skyrim with so much detail….

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By mike on December 5, 2012 at 4:16 am:

My first ever game was contra on a family computer. I will never forget the ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ B A Start code.hahaha awesome!:) it will remain with me for the rest of my life.haha:)

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By mike on December 5, 2012 at 4:19 am:

My first ever game was contra on a family computer. I will never forget the ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ←→←→B A Start code.hahaha awesome!:) it will remain with me for the rest of my life.haha:)

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- By Antonio Wells on December 5, 2012 at 6:30 am:
  
  @Mike I remember that code too! A few weeks ago I took my daughter to see Wreck It Ralph and one of the characters used that code to unlock the secret game world and I thought I was fantastic while she didn’t get it
  
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By L Maddox on December 5, 2012 at 4:32 am:

My first game was pong from enter i think…?

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By L Maddox on December 5, 2012 at 4:47 am:

My first game was pong by entel I think or was that Activision

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By L Maddox on December 5, 2012 at 4:52 am:

My first game was pong from Atari atari was the PS3 of the day back then..

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By Russell Hicks on December 5, 2012 at 5:02 am:

My First video game was Sear Pong it only had like four versions of this blinking dot, but I played that thing endlessly. Thanks for the memoirs.

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By patrick shaw on December 5, 2012 at 5:04 am:

The first game I ever played was top gun for the Nintendo.

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By T. J. FREEMAN on December 5, 2012 at 5:21 am:

Great giveaway! I’ll never forget the Atari 2600,classic!

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By Mike Penny on December 5, 2012 at 5:38 am:

First game would be mario brothers on the NES

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By Latoya Briggs on December 5, 2012 at 5:56 am:

B eing almost 40 years ago my first game system was the ATARI 2600 and my favorite games included dig dug pitfall

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By jj on December 5, 2012 at 5:57 am:

Hands down teenage ninja mutant turtles for nes! !!! Who can forget the intense, complicates gameplay controls of the game….. with a constant push of “A” to thrust your weapon ….with an occasional “B” action to have your turtles thrust in the air for an Ariel attach…. truly is American as it gets! !!!

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By Carlos H Brites on December 5, 2012 at 6:26 am:

My first game was Atari the tennis game , it have two stick one on each side

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By Josh Altice on December 5, 2012 at 6:30 am:

First game was super Mario Bros for N64. I still have it but it’s no longer useable

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By James on December 5, 2012 at 6:51 am:

My first game system was a Nintendo. I loved Zelda, I played that game everyday as long as my mother would allow. Still to this day I play Zelda on a emulator with my pc.

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By Aaron on December 5, 2012 at 7:16 am:

first video game?… WayBackMachine activated… Commodore 64… LoadRunner… what a flashback. that is the first ones that I would consider a video game. there were others before that that I could play strictly with a paddle, and some that worked strictly with a keyboard. then again maybe Burger Time on an 8088 was the earliest. how much easier that was when they added the second floppy drive, and when they updated the memory to 1 the whole megabyte. Those were the days.

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By lamont on December 5, 2012 at 7:30 am:

My first video game centipede on Atari. I use to spend hours on game. As the levels went up they would send spiders down the screen to get you.

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By Frank on December 5, 2012 at 7:51 am:

The first game I had gotten has got to be snake! On one of those old nokia phones. Undoubtedly one of the best games for the mobile phone back in those days. Nowadays you have Angry Birds, Cut the Rope and what not; but Snake was the original game!

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By Korwyn on December 5, 2012 at 7:58 am:

My first childhood video game was Space Invaders on my Atari game system. Hope that doesn’t reflect on how old I am. It was a great game for that era.

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By mickey dillard on December 5, 2012 at 8:10 am:

My 1st game was pong.And at the time all the kids in neighborhood,including me thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.Needless to say i had alot of friends all of a sudden.Of course we couldnt play during moms favourite soap opera, or after dad got home.Only had 1 tv.

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By Will on December 5, 2012 at 8:45 am:

My first game was the blocks game. You had two people hitting a little block back and forth. The controller were two circles that you twisted to move your block up and down. It was kinda like tennis lol

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By Karen Morris on December 5, 2012 at 8:54 am:

My first game was Ms pacMan loved her….. and still do

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By josh on December 5, 2012 at 8:57 am:

mario bros all night. thumbs get calasses and sleep til the afternoon.

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By Carl on December 5, 2012 at 8:58 am:

I can’t remember the exact name of the but you were a hunter and you walked around and shot stick figure animals. Lol. You’d shoot and a little white dot would come out of your gun. Looking back. How was that fun but back then I loved it. Then there was Oregon trail in school.

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By Connie on December 5, 2012 at 9:10 am:

My first game was Mario on NES. The one with Duck Hunt. I remember me and me and my twin sister shooting the ducks on the game and preteneding to make duck soup and pie out of them

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By Sam on December 5, 2012 at 9:22 am:

My first childhood video game was Dangerous Dave.
There was 10 levels and you had to get through all of them with out dying. I can tell you that this game was harder then any game you will play today.

Well, that’s my first childhood game, I wish everyone else good luck, but mostly to myself. Lol

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By Gregory Hill on December 5, 2012 at 9:29 am:

My first video game was Atari used to love playing asteroids that is when I could fight it away from my brother, miss the good old days wish I could go back!!!

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By Josh Taulbee on December 5, 2012 at 9:31 am:

The first video game I played was pong for Atari at my dad’s house.

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