First Game You Ever Played -

[GS 281]

Everyone has to remember this. If not, what was the first one you ever owned. For me, the first game I ever played was Keystone Kapers on Atari 2600. It was a basic chase game where you had to chase a criminal who was trying to escape your jailhouse. You pick up random suitcases and ride escalators from level to level. There are also round orbs and when you catch the prisoner you have to do it again. This is what gaming was in the mid-1980s folks.

 

[BILLY MAYS]

 

[Overcast]

According to my old man, it was Duck Hunt on the NES.

Since I don't remember that (I was probably three at the time), the first game I remember playing was either Donkey Kong for the game boy or Crash Bandicoot 2 for the PS1. Most likely the latter.

Wasn't the first game I played, but it was the first I've ever beaten. I remember feeling so proud of myself when I saw the credits roll. At the time, I thought that was only a thing in movies and TV shows., so I was pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong.

 

[Somar]

I'm pretty sure it was Wario Land 3 on GBC.

 

[Morose_Obesity]

It might've been either a Pong home console or that original Asteroids arcade game. I do vividly recall getting yelled at for spending $2 on the Star Wars arcade game in Kroger when I was little.

We did get a secondhand Atari from our grandma and played lots of Pitfall, Combat and some dumb one screen Tron game.

 

[timecop]

i cannot for the life of me figure out a way to play it again on windows 10.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Gator Pinball for the Gameboy. My dad got it and the Gameboy as a gift while serving in Desert Storm.

 

[TiggerNits]

Asteroids in the arcade attached to the local seafood shack my parents used to take us to. Circa 1980-ish

 

[sasazuka]

It might've been either a Pong home console or that original Asteroids arcade game.

I'm old enough that I have early childhood memories of a Sears Pong TV console too. That was the only device in our house that played any kind of video games until 1984, when we got a Commodore Vic-20 (already obsolete by then but better than nothing). I'm not 100% sure what the first cartridge game we played on the Vic was, but Radar Rat Race is the most likely candidate.

Yeah, it's a Rally-X clone. Also I swear the music in the video is a touch more high-pitched than I remember, perhaps because this is from PAL territory whereas I played it in NTSC land

Even though I'm the right age to have played Atari 2600 or Intellivision as a small child, I really don't have much first-hand experience with them as we didn't have them at home and my (few) close friends didn't have them either. My few Atari home console memories (pre-Lynx) are when they set up "arcades" at things like school bake sales, where I'd pay a nickel to crash repeatedly in Pole Position until time ran out.

 

[Erida]

I'm not 100% sure but I think it was Alley Cat

 

[BadaBadaBoom]

Probably some Atari 2600 shit like Megalomania or Dragonfire.

Looking back Dragonfire was a pretty cool game.

 

[piripiri]

probably pong as my dad bought me some generic computer game instead of an atari

 

[Dysnomia]

Probably Pac-Man in the arcade or grocery store when I was really little. Might have been Centipede. But since I'm not certain, do those Coleco tabletop arcade games count? My cousin had several of them. He was several years older than me and when I saw those I thought he was God. He'd bring them over and I was just amazed beyond belief when I got to play them. Seems primitive now. But back then that was really something.

For consoles it was Duck Hunt. My friend had Nintendo and their mom thought we were too young to play Mario. Which was weird. I guess we weren't too young to murder virtual ducks with a plastic light gun. I think in this day and age that thought process would be reversed.

 

[Bob Page]

Wolfenstein 3D:

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

In 1992 or '93 I played some sort of bizarre computer game on a 5" floppy disk. Can't remember the name, but it involved getting brightly colored aliens through a building by tapping letters on the keyboard and picking up important things like keys to doors by tapping Enter. I think it was a very primitive precursor to typing programs.
The first game I remember playing on a real system was Pokemon Red on GBC. I named all my Pokemon after the various members of Monty Python. I was a weird kid.

 

[piripiri]

first game i went 'fuck me, computer games are the best' was this

played versus another guy in work via a null modem cable(?)

 

[c-no]

I'm divided over Super Mario All-Stars, Paperboy 2, Mortal Kombat, and Mario is Missing on the SNES. I feel it might be Paperboy 2 but it could be any of the other three games.

 

[Strelok]

Super Mario Bros / Duckhunt (the dual cart) on my parents NES.

My first PC game was Nethack on my dad's work laptop that had I think Redhat Linux. I had no idea what I was doing and died on the first floor.

 

[Captain Toad]

The first game I ever played was Paper Mario. I remember getting stuck at the beginning and couldn't figure out how to leave Jr. Troopa's playground.

 

[sasazuka]

My father didn't bring a proper modem-enabled work-capable PC into our house until 1989 but he did some computer work from home before then and not on the Vic-20 I mentioned earlier. He had one of those terminals that was just a keyboard, a monochrome amber screen, and modem, and, before that, going back at least as early as 1980, he had another terminal (which I still have in the basement) that was literally just a keyboard and dot matrix printer, and he liked to play a primitive text-only adventure game based loosely on Dungeons and Dragons required printing out metres upon metres of paper for each session.

Another computer-ish gaming device we had when I was a very small kid was a Merlin. You know, that thing that looked kind of like a touch-tone phone with light-up red diode buttons and which was good for playing Tic-Tac-Toe.