Mine was, with certainty, Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Probably around 1997.
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on August 18, 2019, 08:59:18 PM
Mine was, with certainty, Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Probably around 1997.
Aren't you lucky :p
Mine was either the first three Spyro The Dragon games on PS1 (or just PlayStation) or the first two generations of Pokémon on the Game Boy Color (GBC).
Most likely Pacman on the Atari 2600.
Oddly Super Mario Bros 2 (which I still prefer over the original game). My brother left his Nintendo at my house in 1988 and never bothered to pick it up. I ended up buying his 2600 from him a couple months later with my errand money. This was all in the ball park of my 6th birthday. I still have that Nintendo and Super Mario Bros 2 cartridge.
Arcade version of Battlezone, I think.
First console game was Combat on the Atari 2600.
Unreal Tournament 2004. I believe I was 5 years old.
This thread reminds me how young I am...
For me, Pokemon FireRed. Played it on my brother's DS around 2007-2008. Followed up by Pokemon Sapphire (the better game).
Either Pong or Space Invaders.
arcade Space Invaders
I remember playing arcade games before we ever had an Atari 800. I may have even played children's arcade games in grocery stores in the late '70s. They had some next to the gumball machines.
I actually remember seeing an arcade game at a store for very young children that taught the alphabet. Each letter would fly across the screen. But I already knew the alphabet when I saw it.
Quote from: Rothman on August 18, 2019, 09:26:54 PM
Arcade version of Battlezone, I think.
Same here, about 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctr54kopo8I
I have no idea which game it would be specifically but it was certainly something for the Atari 7800 (possibly a 2600 game given the console's backward compatibility).
From the computer side we didn't get a PC until 1995 but I would've played some games before then in the school computer labs like the Munchers series, Oregon Trail and the like. On a tangential note I was surprised to learn just how old Oregon Trail is. I would've guessed it first came out in the 1980s but the original version actually dates to 1971 and ran on HP minicomputers.
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt in the early 1990s. I never was good at Mario.
Probably "Pong" in the late 1970's. It was a one piece console unit with two dial controllers which hooked up to your TV set. Seemed revolutionary at the time. Looked something like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Pong_game_on_TV.jpg (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Pong_game_on_TV.jpg)
I've first played a racing game (can't remember the game but it had something to do with the ps2) when I was 5 years old. My brother let me play that game and I had fun!
This was back in 2007.
Super Mario Bros. on the NES. in the mid 80s.
Anyone else play Missile Command at the arcades back in the day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUDCPHlCvI
It was either Pac-Man on the arcade machine, or something like Astrosmash on the Intellivision.
Either Space Invaders or Pac-Man. I recall playing one in an arcade and another in a grocery store – couldn't tell you which was first back then.
Quote from: Beltway on August 19, 2019, 04:15:43 PM
Anyone else play Missile Command at the arcades back in the day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUDCPHlCvI
That coin-op console had the biggest trackball I've ever seen. Maybe I was just really young, but many other games seemed to use palm-sized ones.
That looked like the Atari VCS version, though.
Quote from: Rothman on August 18, 2019, 09:26:54 PM
Arcade version of Battlezone, I think.
Same here, circa 1980.
I really preferred pinball. Firepower and Flight 2000 were my favorites.
Pong in console form, hooked up to a TV, was the first one for me.
Rick
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 18, 2019, 09:34:15 PM
Either Pong or Space Invaders.
Pong for me. In an arcade. 25¢ per play.
Some sort of educational game on a lime green iMac G3. If we're looking for actual games that aren't that kind of stuff, probably Marble Blast. This would've been around 2004, I have some pretty foggy memories of stuff back then, I would've only been 1 and a half to a little over 2.
Does Speak & Spell qualify as a video game?
Quote from: bandit957 on August 19, 2019, 08:25:47 PM
Does Speak & Spell qualify as a video game?
Only if people's heads are shaped like one.
Tetris, on the big ol' grey GameBoy!
Quote from: Nacho on August 18, 2019, 11:22:41 PM
I have no idea which game it would be specifically but it was certainly something for the Atari 7800 (possibly a 2600 game given the console's backward compatibility).
From the computer side we didn't get a PC until 1995 but I would've played some games before then in the school computer labs like the Munchers series, Oregon Trail and the like. On a tangential note I was surprised to learn just how old Oregon Trail is. I would've guessed it first came out in the 1980s but the original version actually dates to 1971 and ran on HP minicomputers.
OMG I could not for the life of me remember what those games were called! Number Munchers!!! I use DOS-BOX to emulate those old games I played as a kid, and I was thinking of that game series but couldn't remember what it was called.
I remember playing Pitfall on my older cousin's Atari X?00. The first one I was good at was Super Mario Bros. I still have all of the video games I ever bought, including that one. I'm quite good at it; I can go through and win the game, and then go win the second harder level, something my friends had never seen before.
Mine was an early version of Pong that one of my HS teachers in Indiana brought to school in 1973. It was a big box that connected to a TV, with a couple of crude joysticks. I'd never seen something like that before, and I have no idea where he got the thing or who made it.
Two years later, after college, I was hired by Midway Mfg. Co. in Franklin Park IL, west of Chicago, and worked on every game they manufactured between Wheels II and Space Invaders before I left in 1978. I think I've played only a dozen or so arcade-style video games since.
I think the first game I played was the 1989 DOS version of Wheel of Fortune back in the early 90's.
Super Mario Bros. on my older cousin's NES around 1993-94. I wanted one for myself ever since, so I was given a Super Nintendo for Christmas in 1994 when we were living in Belleville, MI. Even though I was 5, I remember it like yesterday. It came with Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario World, and my grandparents had thrown in "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" since l used to watch that movie a lot.
Looking back, I feel bad for my folks because I didn't pay much attention to the other presents I got that year, except for the red Radio Flyer wagon that I put in front of the TV in the living room to lay in with a pillow while I played the SNES. I don't think that's what my parents had in mind when they bought me that wagon! :awesomeface:
I assume it was Pac Man at the roller skating rink I went to as a kid in the early 80's. I have no idea what game I first played on the Atari 2600 when we got that, but I suspect when we went to my cousins house, we probably played Pac Man there on the one they had. Hell, my cousin and I would get into fights over Pac Man.
For me, it was Paper Boy on my nephew's NES. Apart from that and Silent Service, a WWII submarine game for NES that my nephew's stepfather and I used to play, I never really got into gaming. The sole exception is Train Dispatcher II, a railroad dispatching simulation that was made by a company that used to make signal control equipment for the railroads. You can set it to play in real time, and one of the simulations you can control is Amtrak's ex-New Haven line between Boston, MA and Guilford, CT.
Pong.
A game we have yet to cover on Pie Factory Podcast (my arcade game podcast)
Arcade: Ms. Pac-Man at the local DQ
Home: Either Space Invaders or E.T. over at a friends house in 1984. Maybe Asteroids. It was a binge, so I don't remember what order. And it was the setting everyone thinks of -- on a floor TV in the den of a split level with dark wood paneling and blue-green textured carpet.
I think it was Mario 3.
One restaurant that my family went to a few times circa 1974-75 named Pasta Time in Revere, MA had the original(?) arcade version of Pong near the cash register. That was where my brother & I played our first video game.
It could either be Pac-Man or Centipede on an arcade cabinet somewhere. On a home system, I can vaguely remember my uncle having an Atari 8-bit system, which I think I played Pole Position (if there were other titles he had, I've clearly forgotten them).
For me, it was Pac-Man in the arcade. My first console game would be Pong.
Quote from: dlsterner on August 18, 2019, 11:54:11 PM
Probably "Pong" in the late 1970's. It was a one piece console unit with two dial controllers which hooked up to your TV set. Seemed revolutionary at the time. Looked something like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Pong_game_on_TV.jpg (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Pong_game_on_TV.jpg)
That was definitely mine - my roommate and I played it a lot in our apartment, which we were in from 1977 to 1979.
I don't definitively know.
My grandparents had an NES, so it was likely something on that, but I don't know which game may have been in the system the first time I actually wielded a controller.
Shameless self-promotion...
Pie Factory Podcast (http://www.fab4it.com/piefactory)
The current episode, #99, we talk about the arcade games Blaster, and Cloak & Dagger
That probably goes to the Windows XP pinball game. I was around 5 years old. I installed Windows XP in a virtual machine just so I could play that game not too long ago.
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Pong, about 1977, when some family in the farm town of my youth could finally afford one.
Seemed pretty darn cool at the time....
Quote from: J3ebrules on August 19, 2019, 09:30:22 PM
Tetris, on the big ol' grey GameBoy!
We had the Nintendo version of Tetris for the NES.
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on August 22, 2019, 07:01:15 PM
Quote from: J3ebrules on August 19, 2019, 09:30:22 PM
Tetris, on the big ol' grey GameBoy!
We had the Nintendo version of Tetris for the NES.
I had the Tengen Version which in my opinion was better the what Nintendo put out for the NES. We had several DOS based copies of Tetris also, probably never would have gotten it on Game Boy if it wasn't the pack-in game.
RollerCoaster Tycoon
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.
Quote from: paulthemapguy on August 27, 2019, 09:27:41 AM
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. :cool:
Quote from: JoePCool14 on August 29, 2019, 10:55:55 AM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on August 27, 2019, 09:27:41 AM
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. :cool:
That's a great game. Had it on the Gamecube at one point. Running it on a gamecube emulator currently.
Quote from: inkyatari on August 29, 2019, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: JoePCool14 on August 29, 2019, 10:55:55 AM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on August 27, 2019, 09:27:41 AM
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. :cool:
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.
StarFox 64 on the N64, followed immediately by Redline Racer on the old Windows 95
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.
^like this?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qIkKUQQOXBqa5oHYgCWHZ-KLe-owDCZEI_h_K6MWige-V8v0-yiTWt1EJtaGT7fe)
Quote from: GCrites80s on September 22, 2019, 10:06:38 PM
^like this?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qIkKUQQOXBqa5oHYgCWHZ-KLe-owDCZEI_h_K6MWige-V8v0-yiTWt1EJtaGT7fe)
That's it exactly! Good find.
Quote from: Finrod on September 24, 2019, 02:00:41 AM
Quote from: GCrites80s on September 22, 2019, 10:06:38 PM
^like this?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qIkKUQQOXBqa5oHYgCWHZ-KLe-owDCZEI_h_K6MWige-V8v0-yiTWt1EJtaGT7fe)
That's it exactly! Good find.
I think that's the controller for the Fairchild Channel F
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 :-D.
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).