What was your first ever computer game?

[Kyriakos]

Amstrad had some very hard games indeed. Rick Dangerous was another one:

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I don't know what would be my first game, but I know it would be played on the Amstrad CPC 464.

I know the first console game I played, it was Alex Kidd in Miracle World, which was built into the Sega Master System. The first PC game is probably one of those little Windows games, like Rattler Race or Rodent's Revenge, the first big one being SimCity Classic.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

The first two I remember was on a very old computer where the only screen colours were black and yellow, and the games were on hard disks. The two games I remember as a kid were Noughts and Crosses and Hangman.

 

[Optical]

First I saw: AgeofEmpires II.
Ditto for first I played.
First I bought with my own money: Civ4.

I'm still young.

 

[Michl2602]

this one (the oldest title in the series)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesliga_Manager#Bundesliga_Manager

but already my second was Pirates 1 from Sid (both on Amiga).

 

[ATC1983]

First games played were pac man and super bomber man on an old atari circa 1986/87 (I was 3). I then destroyed the family atari by putting my mother's nail varnish into the console points, stopping it from working properly which I later denied I did. Graduated to a Commodore-64, with such games as Flimbos Quest, Fiendish Freddies Flying Circus, Rambo, Cabal, Shinobi, Turrican (I think); alongside a Nes, for which we had Mario 1, then Turtles (remember my brother was given £10 in 1989 to buy this from someone at his secondary school they day we got our family dog), Mario 2 + 3, later metal marines, utopia, super bomberman etc. Got my first Amiga and got into the settlers circa 1993, syndicate, later civ 1 and colonization, alien breed, gloom, powermonger, megalomania and a few others.

 

[salty mud]

One of the earliest games I can remember playing was Medievil. Such fun. Along with AoE 2, like Mr. Olaf.

 

[Optical]

Mr. Olaf? I'm not even out of high school yet!

 

[sophie]

Mr. Olaf? I'm not even out of high school yet!

Man's world: enjoy it.

 

[Arakhor]

I remember playing Granny's Garden, the educational text adventure game on BBC Micro, at primary school, though since I didn't get a computer until I was 16, the first games I actually played by myself were golden oldies like Diablo, Master of Orion II, Warcraft and SimCity 2000.

 

[Newbunkle]

Oh god, Granny's Garden! lol

That brings back memories.

They gave us some other games as well. I remember one where you had to pick four modes of transport, and try to navigate a map using only those choices. The game didn't have a very advanced parser, so if you typed in swear words it would treat those as your selections. I remember getting in trouble for that.

They also let us play some kind of platform game called Frak. And some kind of game where you catch fish with a trawler, but you and your friends play different roles like navigator and captain. Many arguments would ensue when the captain put in the navigator's numbers incorrectly and the boat hit land. Great stuff.

 

[Arakhor]

Was Frak the platform game with a caveman who'd only say, "Frak!" when he ran into a monster or fell off a cliff?

 

[Newbunkle]

Was Frak the platform game with a caveman who'd only say, "Frak!" when he ran into a monster or fell off a cliff?

Yeah! And I seem to remember a yo-yo and some purple hairy things.

 

[Arakhor]

What was the one where you shrank down small enough to walk along the keys of your keyboard and into the monitor and then had fun chasing down micro-bugs in the computer code?

 

[Disgustipated]

I have no idea what my first computer game was. And it depends on what you consider what a computer game is. It also depends if my brother's games counted as mine (as I played the same games as him).

By a strict definition a console like the Atari 2600 is a computer.

Even this counts a computer. My brother had one of these: