Your first video game you ever played.

[inkyatari]

My mom refused to get us video games until she eventually caved Christmas 1998.  For Christmas my brother and I got an N64, so the first console game I ever played was Super Mario 64.  I still have it to this day--and the N64 is the only console I kept from my childhood, for nostalgia reasons.

A very solid first game indeed. Sadly I am still waiting to play this one.

My first title was probably something on the original Xbox. It might be Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. Such a classic personally and still my favorite 3D platformer. And yes, I'm beyond excited for the remake coming soon.

That's a great game.  Had it on the Gamecube at one point. Running it on a gamecube emulator currently.

[Max Rockatansky]

My mom refused to get us video games until she eventually caved Christmas 1998.  For Christmas my brother and I got an N64, so the first console game I ever played was Super Mario 64.  I still have it to this day--and the N64 is the only console I kept from my childhood, for nostalgia reasons.

A very solid first game indeed. Sadly I am still waiting to play this one.

My first title was probably something on the original Xbox. It might be Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. Such a classic personally and still my favorite 3D platformer. And yes, I'm beyond excited for the remake coming soon.

That's a great game.  Had it on the Gamecube at one point. Running it on a gamecube emulator currently.

Still have my copy and my N64.  That's one of the best pick up and put down games since you can just play a couple levels, save your progress and go do something else. 

[ET21]

StarFox 64 on the N64, followed immediately by Redline Racer on the old Windows 95

[Finrod]

For first arcade game played, at first I was going to say Frogger summer of 1982, which is the first arcade game I paid to play, but then I remembered my older brothers taking me to the arcade in the local mall to play: Death Race, from 1976!  Glorious monochrome black-and-white.  Man, that game was controversial in its day.  I never had a chance to play it again until last year at the Southern Fried Gameroom Expo.

First console game, I don't really remember; I remember playing the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision at the local JC Penney's, but I think before that there was this pong variant that had this odd joystick that was this triangular knob atop a stick that also could be rotated left and right to make your pong paddle rotate.

[GCrites]

^like this?

[Finrod]

^like this?

That's it exactly!  Good find.

[inkyatari]

^like this?

That's it exactly!  Good find.

I think that's the controller for the Fairchild Channel F

[7/8]

For a console game, mine was probably the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis (1991). The game is four years older than me, and it's still a lot of fun to play! The system was a hand-me-down from my older cousin. I also remember playing Golden Axe II co-op (also 1991). The Genesis is the only system from my childhood that got thrown away .

For a PC game, it was probably Roller Coaster Tycoon (1999). I would play it until my eyes were sore, and I still didn't want to stop .

When I was five, we bought a PSone and my favourite games were Spyro 2, CTR, NFS III, Spiderman and Rayman 2. I've bought some PS1 games more recently including Chrono Cross (I really enjoyed the battle system) and Final Fantasy IX (I loved the dialogue in this game).

[Darkchylde]

The first video game I ever played was League of Legends (LoL). I got hooked right away because it's so exciting and strategic. Even after all these years, I still enjoy playing it.

I used to get banned sometimes, which was really annoying. I found a fix by using an HWID spoofer from this website. It helped me avoid bans and keep playing without problems.

[LilianaUwU]

The first video game I ever played was League of Legends (LoL). I got hooked right away because it's so exciting and strategic. Even after all these years, I still enjoy playing it.

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My answer is either three of the original Super Mario Bros. games on NES.

[GaryV]

It was probably Pong. My brother suffered a head injury and they thought playing games might help him regain his motor skills. He was injured in 1982, so this might be 83 or 84.

[ZLoth]

PONG!

[Rushmeister]

Pong. 

At a Sears store in West Lafayette, Indiana.  Had to be about 1975.  The home video game idea seemed pretty cool at the time, but it wasn't enough to diminish my love of pinball. 

[JayhawkCO]

I would guess my first ever was Ms. Pacman which my sister had a little hand-held version of. Next was probably Frogger on my Commodore 64.

[SEWIGuy]

Pong.

But Asteroids and Space Invaders were not far behind.

[SectorZ]

I don't know if it was the first I played, but the first I remember playing was Adventure on the Atari 2600. Not the best game to start out with, since that was, to use the AVGN term, the very first "Where the f*** do I go?" games.

[GCrites]

I think the end of "Sweet Child 'o Mine" is about those games

[Life in Paradise]

Either Pong or Space Invaders.

Pong for me. In an arcade.  25¢ per play.

Yep, Pong for me; either in 1973 or 1974. Local bowling alley had a sit down arcade game with a faux wood top and a black and white screen facing up and two knobs that you could move your paddle.  If you were sly enough, you might be able to get a little "spin" on the "ball".

[Scott5114]

It's hard to say for me because my dad was an early adopter on video games, so we had a decent number of games when I was a small child, and I don't remember which was the first I actually played myself as opposed to just watched. It's a tossup between Surround for the Atari 2600 (basically two-player Snake), or MS-DOS Lemmings or the MS-DOS Wheel of Fortune where the attempted Vanna had bright pink hair.

[epzik8]

I think Jak 3 on PS2.

[Dirt Roads]

I'm certain that I played Pong long before any other video games, but I got a Magnavox Odyssey in 1973 and it had its own version [inaptly] called "Table Tennis". 

But in 1974, I was able to add the "Light Gun" accessory, which we nicknamed as the "Ray Gun".  There was a precise point close to the top left of the TV screen that whenever you aimed there, the rifle would register a "hit" no matter where on the screen that the moving target was.  My father was a sharpshooter, so I already had the knack; but whenever friends came over I would set up the "Shooting Gallery" game and discretely line up the rifle toward "the spot".  Soon after, I would turn my head sideways and keep shooting a few times.  Nobody ever figured out the dirty trick.

[triplemultiplex]

^like this?

This looks like some kind of vintage sex toy.


Earliest one I remember is some iteration of Pac Man that was at a local restaurant/bar we went to occasionally.  Arcade version, of course.

[Rothman]

^like this?

This looks like some kind of vintage sex toy.


Earliest one I remember is some iteration of Pac Man that was at a local restaurant/bar we went to occasionally.  Arcade version, of course.

You should see what it looked like when you played with it. 

[Molandfreak]

Pokémon Silver

[Roadgeekteen]

Probably angry birds (2009)