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What was the first video game you ever played?

Started by boolean Aug 19, 2004 at 3:18 AM 81 replies 14k views

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Aug 19, 2004 at 3:18 AM

As the title says: What was the first video game you ever played? I remember playing a game when I was probably 10 (I think that means it was in 1992), it was on one of my dads mates systems that cost him nearly AU$6000. It did two things: 1. Let you type in a horrible word processing program on one of those wonderful green monitors 2. Play a game where you had a stick figure that you had to steer through a maze. If you hit one of the walls, the futuristic pc speaker would make a noise that sounded like pain. Ah, then the days that I got my first 486DX100, complete with a 64k hard drive on the motherboard, and those wonderful 5 inch disks. Now, lets get reminiscing

cozman

Aug 19, 2004 at 3:24 AM

Good question, this brought back a lot of good memories for me.

When my dad got to bring home a PC (most likely a 286 b/c of the time, perhaps a 386) I played mahjonng although I had no idea what I was doing. In first grade or kindergarden we had an Apple ][ w/ some garfield game on it that I'm pretty sure was monochrome. The first game I actually played a lot of was the Carmen Sandiego game.

Super Mario Bros. was my first console game, but I remember my parents playing it a lot more than me b/c I was so young.

Prozak

Aug 19, 2004 at 3:28 AM

I remember my dad playing some games on the ZX Spectrum, but the first game i really *played* would have to be Prince of Persia on my spanking new IBM PS/1... ahh... the memories...

algorhythmic

Aug 19, 2004 at 3:36 AM

nibbles in QBasic & SimCity1 for windows 3.1

bastard2k5

Aug 19, 2004 at 3:41 AM

Super Mario Brothers, on the NES when I was about 5. First PC game, Wolfenstein 3d, when I was about 9-10.

aftermath

Aug 19, 2004 at 3:45 AM

Doom. It's still the only game I've completely passwed without using cheet codes.

kanzler

Aug 19, 2004 at 3:59 AM

Pac-Man on the Philips VideoPac (videogame console built around WWII [grin]).

JesusDesoles

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:17 AM

Consoles:

A Pong game. The controller had a wheel.

Computers:

There was a moped. There were lanes and cars. The view was down from the sky. I controlled the moped left to right while the road and the cars scrolled down.

VIC-20 by Commodore.

JD

pan narrans

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:22 AM

Am I the only person who has no friggin' idea? It was sooooo long ago, and there have been so many.

evolutional

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:24 AM

BattleZone on the awesome arcade machine it had back in the 80's.

DigitalChaos

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:24 AM

First game I ever really _played_ was Hugos House of Horrors, I remember going to a friends housed down the street when I was like 5 or 6, grabbing his 5" floppy and running home to play with it. The second one was probably Prince of Persia. Oh the memories.

Rixter

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:27 AM

Smurfs for the Atari 2600 over at a friends house, must have been like '84 or '85. Not long after that though it was Super Mario Bros.

First computer game must have been something for the Amiga 500, maybe Marble Madness, can't really remember.

I can kinda remember the first time I played an arcade machine but I have no idea what game it was, something like Ghosts 'n Goblins. And I don't remember if I played it before Smurfs or not but my dad had to hold me up because I was too short to see the screen.

simpo

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:30 AM

Monkey Island 2

rypskar

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:47 AM

I dont remember exacly which game was the first i played. I never had a consol, started playing on a pc in 85 or 86. I remember digger from what I belive was my parents first pc, probably a 8086. I remember lots of games from the next pc they got, an 80286 laptop w/external vga card to conect it to a color! display. Arcanoid, snake, tetris, one F1 game I dont remember the name of, etc.
Ah the memorys :)

klems

Aug 19, 2004 at 4:51 AM

I have no idea, but Super Mario Bros is probably pretty close.

shmoove

Aug 19, 2004 at 5:09 AM

Early eighties, the folks just got me an Atari 2600, with the paddles and the joysticks, and a few games. Can't say which was first, but I loved that game where you had to jump off a see-saw and pop balloons. I'm not sure about the name, I think it was Circus.

shmoove

23yrold3yrold

Aug 19, 2004 at 6:11 AM

Probably Mouse Trap on the ColecoVision. Or Combat for Atari.

Khaos

Aug 19, 2004 at 6:15 AM

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, anyone? Heck yes.

Mosh

Aug 19, 2004 at 6:19 AM

I think it was Slueth first, a game like that board game 'Cluedo'. Or maybe it was Zak McKraken And The Alien Mindbenders! Now that game kicked ass!!!

Tree Penguin

Aug 19, 2004 at 6:39 AM

CD Man, Sokoban, Prince of Persia and then Pinball Fantasies (ow yeah [cool], all 4, not only the demo).

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