What?s the very first video game you EVER played? (arcade included)

Obviously, a lot of the older gamers will say Pong, but it?s fun to put things into perspective and see which games were ?firsts? for gamers across the board.

 

Alex The Kid

for sega

 

empire strikes back

on atari

 

Same here played Empire on atari and Centipide(SP?).

 

Centipede? There's a title I haven't heard in years. I played a lot of hours on that game but nowhere near the amount of time I spent of the game that got me started. Defender! That game rocked my youth and made the game lover I am today. What was the game that made you love gaming?

 

The first game I ever played was Space Invaders, but playing Tetris on the Game Boy in '91 got me into gaming.

 

Honestly, I can't remember.

 

It's tough to remember...I think the first one I might have played was Flight Sim 4, way back in the day of 16-colour graphics (if you were lucky; I played it on a monochrome monitor) and optional mice.

 

Silworm on Amstrad 464

 

Pong, then a few years later came space invaders.

 

Rebel Assault.

I kid you not.

?Eaglet

 

...i think the title is gonna have to go to
"Venture" for the Colecovision..


Either that, 'Frenzy' or some weird Pong-like table tennis game for some "Videotv" system thing that my dad brought home, way back when...

 

Pretty sure it was Pac-Man.

First console game I ever played was either Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack or Frog Bog on the Intellivision (I was probably one of the few 5 year-olds who knew how play card games like Poker, Blackjack, 7 Card stud, etc. and knew how to gamble).

First console game I was addicted to where I would make friends with people who owned a Nintendo just so I could play the game: Super Mario Bros. I have no idea what made me so addicted to that game, but I was. When I finally got my own NES when I was 10 (Duck Hunt/ SMB bundle!), I didn't leave my room for like a month straight.

I'm fine now though. Sort of.

-Jomero

 

Duck Hunt for NES. I can still remember cheating by putting the gun against the screen. Good times, good times.

 

It was on NES and you played a slow ass little dude (I think he was purple)who had to get through mazes and activate switches and stuff. The controls were Mario Bros style.
I couldn't remember the name if my life depended on it.

My other firsts were 'Mario Bros', 'Tetris',Capcom's 'Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers' and 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch'.

 

I'm not quite sure. Possibly Super Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda. I used to go to my best friend's house to play them (well, watch him play them mostly).

 

Nai, there was a two player mode for SMB.

The first video game I played was some machine I don't recall the name. It was after Pong, but before Atari. It was this box you hooked up to a TV and it had controls and it was some kind of driving or racing game. My cousins had it when I was young. Next would be Combat on Atari. Super Mario Bros. is what drew me back into video games after the empty years after Atari - I too played at my friend's house, but they let me play I dropped back out soon after the release of Super Nintendo, and Dreamcast brought me back in again.

 

Pong in about 1976. We called it "The TV Game".

I can also remember that my cousins and I LOVED going to the airport when we were kids, but not to see off family members, but to play Missile Command, Space Invaders and Asteroids.

 

Pong, of course.

First vid game that GOT to me, though, was Adventure on the old Atari 2600. I used to be able to play that sucker for HOURS. Stumbled across the designer's signature completely by accident, and was afraid I'd broken the game!

 

I'm not quite old enough to have played Pong back in the late 70s (Seeing how I was born in '77), but I do believe that it was either a form of it on Atari 2600 (Video Olympics??), OR Pac-Man that I first played.

 

First Computar game was ZORK in 1982, on some mainframe thingy at my Uncle's work.

On my first home computer (a Commodore Plus/4) it was Scott Adam's "Pirate Adventure".

Ahhh... text adventures. You kids don't know what you're missing.

Mind you, those Scott Adams ones were awful (though the guy was a "star"), not a patch on the wonderful Infocom adventures (Zork, Hitchiker's Guide etc).

As a side note, if you guys like reading, and enjoy Tolkienesque stories, try downloading the Zork adventures. They have been released as FREEWARE by Activision.

 

For me it's either pong or space invaders..... don't remember which it was.

 

PONG. I remember my uncle had this old console with two paddle knobs which you hooked up to the TV. It was a 70's machine, it even had a bit of wood panelling. Damn, I'm so old...

For arcade...wow...I'm pretty sure it was Ms. PacMan. What's funny is that it was a more common arcade machine down here than her male counterpart's.

For the PC, it was ye olde and hokey Rebel Assault II. Blech...

 

First game I ever played was Track and Field for the NES, followed by Ms. Pac-Man in the arcade. First PC game was King's Quest.

Man, that was a long time ago.