First game you can think of that you played?

[wozzaofrare]

for me its the classic: Alex Kid in miracle world

How bout you?

[Cornelius]

Paratrooper (http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/203)

My dad worked for IBM, so we had one of the earlier home computers before we ever had any sort of console. I think I played it on a 5150

[heybtbm]

Home console: Either Combat or Pac-man for the 2600.

Arcade: I have no idea. I'm guessing Pac-man or Space Invaders.

[jajaja]

The way first game must be some Game & Watch game (or some LCD game). Remember it from kindergarden :)

[c2000]

The couple of first; Warlords (2600), Mario Bros (C64) and Alex Kidd in Miracle World (SMS).

[Sniderman]

In arcades: My local Kentucky pool hall got one of the original yellow Pong cabinets. Played that, and the Gunfight machine right next to it.

At home: Coleco Telstar system with gun attachment. Played tennis, handball, jai alai, hockey, skeet- and target-shooting. Of the choices, I'm certain my brother and I played Pong as soon as it was out of the box and hooked up.

[RadiantSvgun]

Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.

[Snapple]

SMB/Duck Hunt, Christmas 1988. I was five.

[p_b]

Either Donkey or Decathlon. Both on an IBM XT. Donkey was a very simple game, where a donkey would slowly walk up a road while cars were approaching it. You just had to steer him left or right to avoid the cars.
I have no idea what version of Decathlon I used to play. I recently replayed the Activision (or Microsoft?) version for the XT, but it's not the same.

Strangely enough, shortly after I started playing King's Quest and Larry I, although I didn't speak English :-) And it took some time until I realised what Larry was all about...

[swlovinist]

console: I remember playing combat and getting my ass handed to me at my cousins house. I do believe around the same time(1981 or 1982) I also was playing on a dedicated pong system that my dad got from Radio Shack.

[handofg0d]

First game I remember playing was Ladybug on Colecovision.
First arcade game, I'm almost positive, was Donkey Kong.

I still love both.

[Captain Wrong]

Odyseey 1

[slip81]

warlords and empire strikes back on the 2600

[diskoboy]

Space Invaders (arcade).

Myrtle Beach. July, 1979. At the pavillion.

I remember it like it was only a few hours ago....

My first home game was my sisters pong console before we got our Odyssey 2..

[Gabriel]

The first game I can recall playing was Tank in the arcade sometime in the 70s, probably 76 or 77. The Tank II cabinet on KLOV looks like what I remember.

Sometime later, I got to play the Space War arcade game. The Cinematronics stand up model looks like the one I remember. I loved playing the ship that looked like the Enterprise.

The game that really hooked me though was Space Encounters. That was the first game which had me going to 7-11 every day to play. My parents actually forbade me from going to 7-11 because of my obsession with this game.

[Caius11]

Pac-Man, cocktail style, in my Uncle's bar. He propped me up on a bar stool and gave me a bowl full of quarters. Funny how nowadays I am addicted to both gaming and beer...hmmmm.

[rcgamer]

It was either Pong or Pac-Man, can't remember wich one I played first.

[Gentlegamer]

Either Combat, or Centipede coin-op, both with my dad.

[Nebagram]

Combat, Atari 2600, vs. my brother. It was 1986 (no, really), and I was 3. My brother was 13. Bastard slaughtered me every time. :-(

[Psyleid]

Specter (computer), Super Mario or Donkey Kong Country.

[fishsandwich]

I think Space Invaders but it might have been Pong.

Damn I'm old.

[mario2butts]

Either Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt. I forget which one I played first :)

[Slate]

I remember seeing an arcade game at the age of three. I'm not sure if I was playing it.

If I wasn't playing it, Then I played a game at CompUsa. It could have been Wario land, Pokemon yellow, Or 1080 Snowboarding for the N64. Or some other game that I can't think of.

[Nature Boy]

Pong of course.

Couldn't tell you which model or anything. But I do remember my dad bringing home one of the ones with the gun and returning it because it didn't work well enough or something (I have a feeling my mom made him return it because of the price!)

I was going to say Combat but remembered Pong just as I submitted this!

[Pantechnicon]

In a house: Pong, 1977.
First arcade machine I played was Space Invaders in 1978.

[schnuth]

The first video game I ever played was Asteroids. I must have been like 5 or so years old. My Dad held me under one arm while he controlled the direction of the ship. I just hit the hell out of the red fire button. :) We did pretty decent though and I got to put my my initials in. That one time was all it took to get me interested in games. This remains to be one of my earliest memories too.

As for home consoles, it would have been playing Pong on my Dad's old Odyssey 2000. Before we got an Atari he used to hook it up for me and my brother. I'm pretty sure he still has it too. Once we got an Atari though that pretty much killed playing Pong. :)

Aaron

[shoes23]

Jungle Hunt for the Atari 2600 is the first game that I remember playing, but it may have been something else.

[DefaultGen]

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[rbudrick]

Pitfall! for VCS, I believe. Maybe Pac Man for VCS, maybe Megamania...hard to say.

-Rob

[xtremegamer]

I never played video games until we got our Nintendo in 86' so it would have to be Gyromite and Duckhunt, the pack in games.

[djjaye]

good topic

mines

blobbo on the memotech
and frogga on the memotech

god that memotech 512 weighed a ton.


im still looking for one to have and the games and tape deck.
i miss it. guess you do miss the first computer and games you played as
a kid.

[goemon]

I remember when I was in elementary school, one of my friends brought their Gameboy with him one day. I can't remember exactly which game it was (could have been Rockman World 2 or Super Mario Land 2) so I'll say that it was the first game I got for MY Gameboy -- Yoshi!

[Leo_A]

The Coleco 2600 game Solar Fox on a Coleco Gemeni clone.

[Damaramu]

Arcade: I'm pretty sure it was Space Invaders.

Console: It would've been the 2600, most likely Pac-Man or Combat.

[wallydawg]

TI Invaders for TI 99/4A.

[Flack]

Home: Pong (1977)
Arcade: Galaxian (1979)

[KillerCheese]

Duke nuk'em 3d, lol im too young for consoles like the 2600

[Vinnysdad]

Console-Boxing on 2600

Arcade-Pole Position

[snes_collector]

Street Fighter II Turbo on my cousins' SNES when I was about 3-4

I feel so out of place in this thread....

[cyberfluxor]

I'm reaching into my short-term memory. Here's what I'm seeing:
1991 playing Shinobi on the SMS...
1990 playing SMB 3 at a hotel party...
1989 playing Jaws on the NES...
1988 playing Mario Bros, PacMan, Fire Fighter and a whole lot more Atari games. My uncle owned an Atari 7800 and still has it and over 40 games. I'd be more of an Atari collector if there were more boxed games commonly found. :-/

[Hwj_Chim]

Mortal Kombat, On the Genny.

[mezrabad]

First arcade machine I played was PONG in a bowling alley near New Paltz, NY. in 1973.

First home system I played was the Odyssey 300 in 1976 and the game I probably played first was Tennis, but I played Hockey the most.

[dylan0228]

Pac-Man, Combat or Space Invaders on the 2600. My father came home with like 12 games & an Atari one day. I can`t remember which one I tried 1st.

[Icarus Moonsight]

My first gaming experience was on the Atari home Pong dedicated unit. My dad borrowed it from a co-worker at HBO. That was about 81 and that made me 2-3 years old.

First arcade experience, I can remember, was Joust and Donkey Kong. Maybe a year or two latter (kinda fuzzy).

First console was, of course, a VCS. My first game was Pac-Man. Also got the light saber Star Wars game but, we couldn't play it. It was early 84 when we got a VCS and the Vader unit my dad bought didn't come with paddles. My favorite game for the VCS was Ghost Manor... which probably led to my insatiable Castlevania lust I'm afflicted with to this day. :D

[starfox316]

Duck Hunt, NES. So began an obsession.

[DarthKur]

.... I got to play the Space War arcade game. The Cinematronics stand up model looks like the one I remember. I loved playing the ship that looked like the Enterprise.


That's great. I was the same way. In fact that particular game might have very well been the first actual video arcade machine, not including the old mechanical type ones, that I played. The sad thing is that I can not recall. It could be that one, Pong, Tank, Speed Race, Stunt Cycle, Starship I (another one that had Star Trek type ships in it) or some other one from way back in the mid 70's.
I had to browse through KLOV to find the particular names of those above. I distinctly remember playing them just not their specific names or the exact time period. ;)

[PentiumMMX]

Pac-Man (Atari 2600)

[DigitalSpace]

I'm not quite sure, but it was either Pac-Man, or a Donkey Kong Jr. arcade cab at a laundromat in the mid to late 80's. I remember begging my mom to let me play it while she was doing laundry and she finally gave in. I remember the laundromat, I remember the DK Jr. and Pac-Man cabs (and fooling around with the buttons and joysticks while the games were on attract mode), but I can't remember what game I spent that quarter on. Eventually she got me an NES Action Set, one of the main reasons being that so that I wouldn't ask her if I could play an arcade cab while we were out and about.

[NE146]

EM's.. I believe the first really was that Shark shooting game they showed in Jaws the movie as my dad held me up. And later it was some shufflepuck bowling.

As for videogames themselves it gets blurry.. I dont remember if I played a Pong cocktail first or something like Starship 1 as it all blurs together.

I DO know that the first time I really got enthralled and addicted to videogames though, and that was with Starfire and Space Invaders.

[Jumpman Jr.]

The first game that I have a recollection of playing is actually Popeye for the NES. I'm sure in reality, the first game that I played was SMB/DH or something like that, but I really have a vivid memory of getting all those hearts in that game.

[Rockin' Kat]

I'm pretty sure the first video game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. for the NES. I recall having really bad motor skills and getting my ass kicked by it. I got pretty pissed off at that game.

[bangtango]

Something on the Atari 2600, I'm sure. We had a decent sized library when I first played it in 1983 or so. It would have been something like Pitfall, Missle Command or Asteroids. I'm inclined to say Asteroids.

[djsquarewave]

Super Mario Bros., back when my parents first bought an NES for me and my sister aound 1989. I also remember playing lots of Tetris and Yoshi, though that would have been a few years later, and watching my sister play a hell of a lot of Dragon Warrior and Dragon Warrior II.

[The-Bavis]

Hard to say for sure at home. I remember the day we bought our 2600, but don't really remember playing it right away. We got combat, of course, and then my dad bought ... the name of this common game escapes me atm... the one with the different cowboy shooting games. My first vivid memories were playing Circus Atari and having a really hard time at it, though. I remember the vivid shades of gray on that 13" TV like it was yesterday...

In the arcade, I have no idea. Earliest memories are of post-PacMan games, but I remember having played pacman before we got it on the 2600, so I don't know anymore.

[bazariah]

atari 2600 combat at around three years old way back in 1982

[The-Bavis]

Also wanted to thank whoever mentioned paratrooper and provided a link! Just got done playing some of that. It's pretty tough!

[BHvrd]

In arcade: Dragon's Lair

At someone else's home: Pong-2600

At my home: Lock N' Chase-Intellivision

At crossdressing videogame character rainbow popsicle fanatic lovers convention: nevermind ><

[Stark]

Atari 2600 Combat or Pac-man.

[landamo]

E.T for the 2600. When I was really young like 3 or 4 my dad had a 2600 and a butt load of games and I remember playing a bunch of them but the only one that I specifically remember was E.T

[Steve W]

Pong, baby. My dad bought us a Coleco Telegames pong unit, the kind with separate 9v batteries for picture and sound. For years I never realised it could play in color, since I had always played it on a black and white TV. :)

[Gentlegamer]

E.T for the 2600. When I was really young like 3 or 4 my dad had a 2600 and a butt load of games and I remember playing a bunch of them but the only one that I specifically remember was E.TThat must really have been the pits. :)

[videogameking26]

Frogger on Atari I believe

[PDorr3]

oh boy remembering my first will be really tough, but I will take a guess. Since my dad owned a colecovision and thats the first game system I remember playing when I was really young I will say it was either donkey kong, donkey kong jr, congo bongo, zaxxon, something like that.

My grandpa had a sega genesis and all I used to play as a kid was sonic the hedgehog, so maybe I played sega first, but I really doubt it.

[Master Chu]

I was either 3 or 4...and i got to play a Millipede cabinet in this little Kwik-E-Mart store. My my mom literally had to drag me out kicking and screaming, lol.

To this day Centipede & Millipede are my favorites in any form, and i kinda kick a little bit of ass at 'em too... :)

[Nikademus1969]

Waaay back in the day, I remember standing on a chair to play Pong with my dad at the drug store. I also recall loving the game Seawolf, even tho I never really knew what I was supposed to be doing LOL

[CmdrChesticle]

I used to have an orange handheld Donkey Kong thing...it was powered by watch batteries!

[Rogmeister]

I really don't know. I played Pong...probably both in the arcades and at home. Not really positive about playing it in the arcade but I know we had a home version of it. Early arcade games in my life were Space War, Space Invaders and Lunar Lander.

[BydoEmpire]

First one I remember specifically is Poker & Blackjack, packed with the Inty my family got as a Christmas present in '82 or so. I probably played some arcade games before that, though, but that's the one I remember.

[Ace Comics]

Growing up my parents had a 2600 with a couple dozen games... so, I'm sure my first was one of them... I'm thinking either Spider-Man or Pitfall...

First 2600 game I bought (err, was bought for me... but I picked it out) was Q*Bert

[Three-P]

Donkey Kong for the Colecovision.

Quite possibly the greatest arcade-to-home translation of its time.

[greedostick]

I can't remember the name but I believe it was on coleco vision. The game where you run across the bridge and avoid dragons and what not. Anyone know the name of this game? If that was not it then it must have been stampede for atari. Although now I hate all games pretty much that do not have music so it's 8bit and up for me. My first 8bit game would have been super mario bros, duck hunt, or gyromite. Don't remember which I played first when I opened my deluxe set.

[Dingo]

I can't recall exactly the first game I ever played, but I do know that the earliest games I played were Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Contra, and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. My older brother and I shared an NES (I was born in 1988 so I was very young) and we'd play it at our grandmother's house.

[BydoEmpire]

I can't remember the name but I believe it was on coleco vision. The game where you run across the bridge and avoid dragons and what not. Anyone know the name of this game? If that was not it then it must have been stampede for atari. Dragon Fire by Imagic? Not sure if there was a CV version, but I loved it on the 2600.
http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/dragonfire/dragonfire.htm

[GM80]

I can remember by platform. First game I ever remember playing was Barnstomer for 2600 at the local Boys' Club computer room.

First game at home was Little Computer People for C64.

First PC game was Space Quest.

First arcade game was Donkey Kong.

First Game & Watch was Donkey Kong Jr.

First NES game was Gyromite. First NES game at a friend's house was Ninja Gaiden.

First GameBoy game was Quarth :/

First Genesis game was Columns.

I'll stop there for brevity.

[oesiii]

Pong and pinball machines at the arcade and a Telegames Pong unit at home. Maybe around '77?