What was the first video game you ever played?

[Ranger0001]

For me I don't remember exactly but it was a Nintendo game of some sort probably one of the Mario games. All of the first games I played were 2d platformers for years, granted I played video games uncommonly back then.

 

[amadeus]

Probably Radar Rat Race for the Commodore VIC-20 on a black and white TV from Montgomery Ward.

That music still haunts me.

 

[Zardnaar]

Some sort of arcade machine. Probably Space Invaders.
Otherwise Pac Man Atari 2600.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Atari 2600.

Not sure the exact game.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The first computer game I ever played was Shanghai, which was a basic Mahjongg type of game that came with my Amiga 500. Other games that came with that computer included Zany Golf and Ports of Call, both of which I really miss.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Asteroids

 

[BenitoChavez]

I'm not entirely sure but it might have been Duck Hunt on the NES. It came out in 1984 which was before I was born so I must have been really young, but I still remember the gameplay

 

[Broken_Erika]

Scorched Earth!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)

 

[Birdjaguar]

IIRC Pong in bars in Chapel Hill NC in the late 70s.

 

[Synobun]

Wolfenstein 3D or Wacky Wheels.

 

[Zardnaar]

Scorched Earth!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)

Great game that one.

 

[NovaKart]

Might have been Pong or Pyramid, Sleuth and there was a version of Wheel of Fortune. These were all on our computer on DOS.

 

[Quintillus]

I don't remember; I would have been five or six years old. But some possibilities:

- Solitaire on Windows 3.1
- Mahjongg on OS/2
- One of several educational games that my parents with or soon after we got our first home computer. A good guess would be Treehouse, which I know we had early and is targeted at the age group I was in at that time.

The main reason my parents bought a home computer was so my sister and I could benefit both from technical competency, but also from the wealth of educational software being published in the '90s. It worked; we had plenty of games that taught math or physics or logic or history or geography, but were also fun games.

The first "popular" video game I ever played was probably Oregon Trail II. So much better than the original, which I played later on during rainy day recess at school.

 

[Snowygerry]

IIRC Pong in bars in Chapel Hill NC in the late 70s.

This yes - they're the original 'video games' to my knowledge the first time you could play computer games at home - we called them 'TV games' and just ignored the little black Atari box that did the actual work , it was ages ago.

I think the 'arcade' games in bars and amusement parks came even before that - but that could be memory playing tricks...

Half the fun of that was bumming small change from your parents

 

[amadeus]

Asteroids

Always makes me think of Vacation:

Rusty: You got Asteroids?
Cousin: No, but my dad does. Can’t even sit on the toilet some days.​

 

[Kyriakos]

Roland in Time, in my Amstrad CPC 6128 with shades of green...

It was Amsoft's ridiculously low level attempt to copy Jet Set Willy (and failing all the way).

 

[Sofista]

Pong on my father's office computer (which was the size of two fridges put together).

 

[Samson]

I cannot remember for sure, even what machine it was. It was definitely made by philips, I think it was Quest for the Rings on the Magnavox Odyssey 2.

Roland in Time, in my Amstrad CPC 6128 with shades of green...

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It was Amsoft's ridiculously low level attempt to copy Jet Set Willy (and failing all the way).

Jet Set Willy is the first game I got really into.

 

[Kyriakos]

Jet Set Willy was an important game for me
My copy (not sure if the original has this too) came with the Moonlight Sonata as the soundtrack, and I recall thinking the piece was composed for the game
It was one of the games which came in an Amstrad disk, along with the computer, and I spent a lot of time with it.

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

Civilization 1.

I had no idea how to move the settler wagon so gave up almost immediately.