www24What was the first video game you ever played?
I’ll start: my earliest memory is playing Cool Croc Twins with my big brother on his Commodore 64. I also remember watching him play Shinobi or The Last Ninja (although both games look entirely different, I can’t say with any certainty which one it was).
eezeebeeSuper Mario Bros. on NES
Same here!
Xmas ‘85 was magical!
Same, but on Gameboy Colour
Same! The Mario and Duckhunt combo.
That’s the one we had! I still have that zapper somewhere…
Mine was a baseball game on an Atari 2600. Couldn’t tell you more than that, my granpa was super into baseball and tech so he bought an Atari brand new. We dug it out years later and played.
Wow! What year was this??
Would have been around '93 or '94. I wasn’t very old.
Elaine CortezSuper Mario Bros 3 on a secondhand SNES, there was this jump on the first level that I struggled with, the one with the wooden textured blocks and I had to get either my mom or my dad to help me with it hahaha
breadsmasherZelda Orcarina of Time!
BjörnCommodore 64 for me as well. Can’t remember which one was the first for me either. Maybe Giana Sisters or Usagi Yojimbo. We had tons of floppies with games and large printouts showing which game was where.
Nice! My big bro had the cassette for the C64, no floppy drive. Ahh… memories.
When my father got a new computer I got to have the C64 in my room, along with an old TV as a monitor, which I was only allowed to use for the computer. My brother tried to warn my parents that I would just get an antenna cable and use it to watch TV but they didn’t believe him.
Of course I did get the cable and through the way our in-house cabling worked I could also watch what my brother watched on his VCR. I really miss his BMX videos, they were great. That way I was also able to watch the Street Fighter 2 anime when I was much too young.
Good times.
Pong.
Lexi SneptaurI’m a young millennial so for me it was either Spyro the Dragon or Super Mario 64. I was born in the era of 3D gaming!
Dangerous Dave on DOS, must have been in the early 90ies somewhere. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Dave
Naja KaouthiaCombat on Atari 2600.
Same here. Either that or Missile Command, I got both at the same time and I just don’t exactly remember for sure.
Missile command really needs the trackball…
Here I thought I was ancient because it was combat. Seems like there are many of us old farts around here.
earliest memory is of the Nintendo 64, but it’s a blur to me whether i played Crash Bandicoot, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, or Mario Kart 64 first. Probably Mario Kart because we had the steering wheel attachment and that’s irresistible to kids.
Altered Beast for the Sega Genesis.
“WISE FWOM YOUW GWAVE!”
“WELL-COME TO-YOUR-DOOM!”
Never got past like the 3rd level.
Mazogs, on the Spectrum ZX81.
Don’t know the name… It was on DOS, exploring a castle or something, your character was the spade character from cards, and in one of the first rooms you find a… helmet, or was it sheild?
MS Dos Castle Adventure?
Looks like it, yeah! Thanks!
No problem, happy to help :)
Max Power Racing on the PS1. Surprisingly good fun. Plus I had to get it out of the way before I played Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider.
For most people under 50 i would guess they cant remember which it was. Even 40 years ago there were lots of arcade games, home game systems, and little portable game devices. So most people under 50 probably can't remember the actual first one they played.
But you can answer the question "what's the first video game that you remember playing?"
For me it was some atari 2600 game that a much older cousin had, i don't remember which specific game it was.
I’m 47, and the early games for me were clear. Five year olds don’t get to play arcade machines in we 1982, but they do get to play an older relative’s game and watch
And that stuff is memorable
I doubt the post iPad (maybe the post home computer) people have much chance though. 3 year olds have games made for them, though they’re in this thread, naming popular games
ripcordSome five year olds got to play arcade machines in 1982 :)
Lucky kids
I mean, the machines were everywhere. And if your parents happened to have a quarter (or sometimes a dime), and if you were good/persistent enough…
Pong on Atari 2600. But was very small. Probably pac-man in an arcade if you include those.
Why wouldn’t they include them? Those were certainly video games.
ianovic69Does a strategy war game on the Commodore Pet count? Can’t remember the name, I was 8 or 9 so it would have been around 1977/78.
My friend had the console with Pong but I don’t know if that was before or after.
It was something on Windows 3.1 or DOS, but I can’t say for sure which game it was. I played a lot of Microman, so it might have been that.
The Adventures of Microman - Speedrun (1993) [WINDOWS]
Mario Kart DS on my cousins Original Model Nintendo DS.
Castle of the winds.
Star Wars at the video arcade.
Wolfenstein 3D or Doom. It’s hard to think which I played first. Probably Doom.
I don’t actually remember if this is the first video game I ever played, but two of the first was Myst and The Gene Machine, and I mostly treated them as activity centers
Putt Putt Saves the Zoo
Used to play the parade one all the time and eventually figured out you could half ass your way when mowing lawns and still get completion credit
queermunist she/herDoom! 😈
That soundtrack still rocks.
guilhermegnzagalike the fact that doom metal bands always get in a doom vibe sometime at their album
I think it was Microsoft Flight Simulator for Macintosh (roughly FS2).
ShadowEither my brothers intellivision, or SimCity in black and white on an old Mac classic.
FennekI’m not sure which one was first in order so I’ll just list them
My first console was Sega Mega Drive 2 (Genesis 2 in the US) with Lion King. I just recently read a thread where people said the giraffe and monkey level was so game breaking for them while I remember that I ran this level blind as a kid.
My school buddy’s sister had a NES with Super Mario Bros. and World Cup.
My first own PC was my uncle’s old 286 DOS PC which could run Prince of Persia in black and white.
On my uncle’s new PC i played Command & Conquer for the first time which started my love for RTS games.
dirtybeerglass [none/use name]Pong.
I fucking know, ok ?
It’s wild to have emulators so you can play them all with infinite quarters. I built a picade arcade machine just for asteroids. I love your comment.
It was either Super Mario Bros. on NES or Excitebike. Unfortunately followed shortly by Ghostbusters and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Mind you, the NES was a good bit before my time, and I was playing a hand-me-down. I count myself lucky to have had the same experience many kids in the 80s had on Christmas Day when the NES hit North America. Even with all the gizmos now, the NES and N64 really capture me in a way that I’m not sure they would had I grown up with a PS2 like everyone else.
I think it might have been that firetruck game where one player drives the engine and the other drives the trailer
The World's First Ever Co-op Video Game! (Fire Truck, 1978)
OG Mario Kart and Mario Party 2. Played those until I found Halo, then my video-game addiction set in
kurcatoviumI remember playing a few games at my cousins 286 when I was like 6 or 7. There were Accolade F1 and Moto GP, Zany Golf and one more game I just can’t remember the name. Its gameplay was a bit similar to pacman - narrow paths with obstacles and I think enemies chasing you, you played as a boy and there was even raft across a creek and I believe there was grizzly bear involved somehow. But the name? No idea…
Centipede.
All the trackball games ruled. Missile Command, centipede, crystal casnles, marble madness…