You Always Remember Your First... (Videogame)

[digitalpress]

Hmm. I THOUGHT I had answered this somewhere else - if I have, excuse my redundancy.

The first arcade game I ever played was Gunfight, played at a class trip to Space Farms. The class trip sucked, but the game room, adorned with pool tables, ping pong, and GUNFIGHT, was quite memorable, even to this day.



The first home game I ever played was - yes, the Odyssey. I'm not sure which one I played first though I think we had the home game first. I'll never forget taping those plastic color overlays to our TV screen. My parents weren't real thrilled with that. It wasn't long before I had my OWN TV because they had heard that this game and other "pong" games would ruin the TV screen. w00t!

[Starcade]

Though my memory is shitty, the first I REMEMBER is SMB/DH, oh the fun i had sitting 3 inches away from the tv shooting helpless ducks.

[Daltone]

The first home game I ever played was...erm...I pretty sure it was a Lord of The Rings game that came on a tape and had a text interface and a still one colour graphic to show the scene. I was really young at the time, so I don't remember it too well.

In an arcade? I don't really remember. Playing Operation Wolf and some Marvel game (where you could be....spiderman, the Green Arrow was it? Some woman with a whip?) in Butlins comes to mind. Heh, I found the marvel game in Canada for 20cents a go the other year. That was fun.

Sonic was the first game that I really remember playing, although I think I had Robocop on the Gameboy before that. The first game i actually owned (that my parents didn't buy or anything) was probably Flashback on the Megadrive. I remember being stuck in the first two screens for ages because I didn't realise you could hang from ledges.
Doom or Raptor (shareware - of course) were the first PC games I played.

[Savedman]

Sears brand Pong. My brothers and I were in heaven!!!!

[Kidcritta]

Oh the memory is still burned into my brain

It was H.E.R.O on the Atari Vader :P


My mum got one from a friend and her and i sat up all night
playing that sucker and we couldn't finish it!!!

Two days later i had 5 games and so on and so on .........
I have thought about games every day since!!!!!!!!!

[dreamcaster]

First game I've played....hmm.....

Actually, I've been meaning to ask you guys to help me out with this one. The first video game I'd ever played was this top down racing game. You guided the car to avoid crashing into oncoming racers from the right side of the screen. It was black and white only (no, it wasn't a b/w TV) and the controls were a large woodgrained brick that had a white joystick and white buttons, and it sat on the floor - it was too large to actually hold. That was the first video game I'd ever played - can someone help?? I know the description's a bit vague but hey - I was only three years old!

First computer game I played? That was probably Captain Comic for PC.

First video game ever owned? Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)

[Oobgarm]

Time to raise an old thread...

My first home game was Asteroids on the old 2600, while on vacation in Cleveland. The system could have belonged to my parents, but I think it was my cousin's.

The first arcade game I remember playing was Spy Hunter at the local bowling alley. I was barely tall enough to see what was going on over the steering wheel.

Once I was actually old enough to play and really understand what I was doing with games, I got an NES. And the first game I played on it? Duck Hunt.

[Super Mario Fan]

My first game was Donkey Kong on....I believe, the 2600. Then I got an SNES and my parents got rid of the 2600.

I guess as a kid I was kind of a retro gamer, playing a 2600 in'95.

[Azazel]

Mine was Galaga in the arcades.

[robotriot]

My first one was Bubble Bobble on the Amiga ^^

[Sotenga]

I've been playing video games since I was two. No lie. I really sucked at them, but I played them nonetheless. I can't remember my very first one, but there's this video tape of me as a REAL little guy, jamming on... Low-G-Man. Yes, in theory, Low-G-Man was my first game. It probably wasn't really my first, but damned I am if it was going to be my last.

[MegaDrive20XX]

my first game I remember well...I was only 3 years old...it was a Coleco Mini-Table Top of Pac-Man back in Christmas of 1983....I never had such a bond with a game like this...I wish I had one again....*sigh*

[Retsudo]

The first console game was PONG

The first arcade game. I think it might have been that racing game that guy was playing in "Dawn of the Dead". The 1978 movie of course.

[Mitch_Naz]

I think it was Super Mario Bros (nes), or Mario Bros (2600) - but more likey sbm.

[Leo_A]

Solar Fox on the Atari 2600. Been hooked ever since.

[TEXASGAMEPLAYER]

Asteroids at the arcade and VECTREX at home

[GameNinja]

Mine was Steel Empire or Sonic 2 for Genesis.

[Jasoco]

Asteroids on the 2600.. or was it Video Pinball? Or Fast Food. Either way, those were my firsts. I wish I could say Super Mario Bros. But no.. it was a 2600 game. Back when I didn't even know what a video game was. Just that in order to play, I had to beg dad to hook it up. Ahh.. to be young and 4 years old again.

[dreamcaster]

First game I've played....hmm.....

Actually, I've been meaning to ask you guys to help me out with this one. The first video game I'd ever played was this top down racing game. You guided the car to avoid crashing into oncoming racers from the right side of the screen. It was black and white only (no, it wasn't a b/w TV) and the controls were a large woodgrained brick that had a white joystick and white buttons, and it sat on the floor - it was too large to actually hold. That was the first video game I'd ever played - can someone help?? I know the description's a bit vague but hey - I was only three years old!

Since posting this, I've been able to determine that I was playing Grand Prix for the Atari 2600. However, I still can't figure out what kind of controller I was using.

Probably some third party thing.

[potatobob]

The first game i can remeber playing is duck hunt for NES and i was about three or four so i just held the gun on the tv screen and shot the duck.