What was the first game you ever played?

[henrythomas]

For me it was pong on a computer with a 5 inch green screen built right into the computer and a drive bay just as big as the computer to read the disks like a floppy but bigger and thin

Pong frist second was frogger.. on the same green screen computer..

 

[CooleyJr]

Super Mario Duck Hunt

 

[pink freud]

Lemmings.

 

[Esp Griffyn]

Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Megadrive, back in about 1992.

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

Super Mario Duck Hunt

This. As well as Ghost and Goblins and that horrifically hard TMNT game on the NES.

 

[loktide]

i think it was montezuma on a commodore

 

[Daemoniac]

A Boy & His Blob and Dr. Mario on NES

 

[Deadseen]

I think it was duckhunt and super mario bros on 8-bit nintendo because my neighbor had it, but then I got myself an atari st but I can't remember what game was my first.

 

[IDLE]

Dunno the first one I remember had beans and tippy cups. I'm not sure what the point was, but I got the beans stuck in my nose so it didn't matter anyway,

 

[Variant]

Yeah, pong it is... my mom had it back when I was a strapping young lad.

 

[MF_Kitten]

commondore 64 and/or atari. anonymous games that no-one ever saw again

it was awesome fun though!

then there was lots of DOS games from then on, and NES and SNES, and all that stuff.

 

[zeal0us]

DOOM

 

[sami]

I was 3 or 4 years old living in Germany (1978-1979). My parents had an Odyssey 300. It's had Pong, Hockey, and Smash on it. I wonder if they still have it.

Then they bought an Atari 2600 before we moved to the US

 

[leftyguitarjoe]

I had an SNES when I was really little. I cant remember any specific games. Sonic 2 took up alot of my time as a child though. I still play it from time to time.

 

[phaeded0ut]

It was Pong on an Atari 2600 or Zork on a Timex Synclair.

 

[splinter8451]

Prob Paperboy or Super Mario 3. It is a tough call which one I played first back in the day.

 

[jerry424]

If arcade doesn't count, then probably "Combat" on the Atari 2600.

 

[jymellis]

it was some thing called a collecovision i think it was speeled? didnt have removable games but a switch on the console to change between 3 games lol.

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

I was 3 or 4 years old living in Germany (1978-1979). My parents had an Odyssey 300. It's had Pong, Hockey, and Smash on it. I wonder if they still have it.

Then they bought an Atari 2600 before we moved to the US

Shit, that's what that fucking thing was! I was trying to remember what the hell it was, I was like 5 (or less) and I remember playing Pong on the TV with family on Holidays and shit.

Also had an Atari, and oooooooooold Mac (got that when I was 5) and then a couple years later a Packard Bell 486 to play DOS games.

Seriously, someone needs to compile a shit ton of DOS games, update the look so they'd look okay on big monitors, and release that shit for newer OS's, like a big fucking collection of them. All the old school Lucas Arts games (Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, etc), this Pirates game that I really have no idea what the fuck it was called, and a shit ton of others. Those were the golden years of computer games, graphics were shit, but games were a lot better.

I look at games now and it just seems like it's a bunch of eye candy. There are exceptions, but the majority of games today suck

 

[Randy]

I can't say I remember, but I'll almost guarantee it was some shitty Tiger handheld.

From my earlier memories, though, I believe it was Super Mario Bros. 3 or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Either way, it was at my friend's house. The first game of my own that I can remember playing was Street Fighter II (pre-turbo). Arcade wise, I think it was either Knight Rider or Knights of the Round.