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Your first video game you ever played.

Started by RobbieL2415, August 18, 2019, 08:59:18 PM

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RobbieL2415

Mine was, with certainty, Super Mario Bros. on the NES.  Probably around 1997.


kevinb1994

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Quote from: RobbieL2415 on August 18, 2019, 08:59:18 PM
Mine was, with certainty, Super Mario Bros. on the NES.  Probably around 1997.
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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).

jeffandnicole

Most likely Pacman on the Atari 2600.

Max Rockatansky

#3
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. 

Rothman

Arcade version of Battlezone, I think.

First console game was Combat on the Atari 2600.
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Unreal Tournament 2004. I believe I was 5 years old.
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noelbotevera

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For me, Pokemon FireRed. Played it on my brother's DS around 2007-2008. Followed up by Pokemon Sapphire (the better game).
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bandit957

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.
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bandit957

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.
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Nacho

#12
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.

ce929wax

Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt in the early 1990s.   I never was good at Mario.

dlsterner

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

tolbs17

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.

allniter89

Super Mario Bros. on the NES. in the mid 80s.
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cjk374

It was either Pac-Man on the arcade machine, or something like Astrosmash on the Intellivision.
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formulanone

#19
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.

Throckmorton

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.

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nexus73

Pong in console form, hooked up to a TV, was the first one for me. 

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cpzilliacus

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.
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index

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.

bandit957

Does Speak & Spell qualify as a video game?
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