What was your first video game?

[Narz]

Mario on the NES.

Yeah this. As for computer games, some game on the Apple IIe, don't remember which. I remember playing Taipan, Jungle Hunt, Montezuma's Revenge & one fighting game that looked alot like Karateka which Kyriakos posted.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Belot, made for the Windows XP. Granted, I never learnt how to play it, but I guess it counts.

The first game I played for real was Torchlight, which is funny as it's a Diablo clone.

 

[Spidernova]

Civ 2 on PC, Mario Kart, Starfox, Super Mario on n64. I remember making a really bad joke about what civ my dad should play. "you should play as the geeks"

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Civ 2 on PC, Mario Kart, Starfox, Super Mario on n64. I remember making a really bad joke about what civ my dad should play. "you should play as the geeks"

In one game...Alpha Centauri maybe?...there is a not activated but fully developed Firaxian faction, headed by Sid Meier. A quick mod to activate them and that could be viewed as 'playing as the geeks'.

 

[Arakhor]

Granny's Garden. (Yes, pity the poor '80s Briton.)

Other than games at school, though, I think the first one I played was the original Civ 2.

 

[classical_hero]

I can't even remember what the game is called but it was a war game and it only dealt with battles and not diplomacy and the like in Civilization I, which I also played. Trying to find it is a nightmare, since most search go to the movie War games, which is not what I am looking for.

 

[Zack]

Probably either Madden 2000 on the n64 or Backyard Football on the pc. I can't remember playing anything specific before that, but it's possible.

 

[civvver]

Spoiler :

AWWW YEAAA!

I was born in 1984 and we got a NES when I was like 5-6 so it was a few years old already. We got a pc right around then too but I can't remember the really old games. I do remember the first time I play civilization and playing a lot of those bargain bin games from office max. Anyone remember that? You could go to office max and they had a bin full of floppy disk games for like $5 each. So I played weird stuff no ones heard of like Rotox and The Scoop.

 

[Phrossack]

The earliest one I remember was Jungle Strike for the SEGA Genesis.

 

[MobBoss]

Wizardy: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on the Apple II. Released in 1981.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Pong

"The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 5 characters."

 

[Zack]

Pong

"The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 5 characters."

Putting a period there would have been easier.

 

[Sedwick]

Some weird racing game on the MSX I don't remember the name of. It was isometric and prominently featured a red car. It was Pac Man like in its gameplay, and you had to avoid black cars. It also had a distinctive theme song.

Not Rally-X?

I think my first exposure was to Pac-Man on my relatives' Atari 2600. In grade school there was stuff like Chaos, Frenzy, and Flip-Flop on the Apple II(e?). The bowling alley arcade hooked me on Paperboy and Roadblasters. My best friend introduced me to Super Mario Brothers on the NES. And I fell in love with Digger and Alleycat on my Amstrad PC1512.

 

[Yeekim]

I got my first PC when I was 14.
With HoMM 2 and AoE 1.

 

[Commodore]

The earliest one I remember was Jungle Strike for the SEGA Genesis.

The Strike series was awesome. My first exposure to it was the game Soviet Strike on the PlayStation and I loved it. After finding out there were games before it, I just had to try them.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Is that a Sikorsi helicopter (or how that name is spelled...) ?

NM, it is an Apache, right?

I used to have a poster with the main helicopters in my room, when i was in elementary school. Then i replaced it with some medieval-styled map.

 

[Borachio]

Yes. Pong. Then it was Space Invaders.


Link to video.

Then there was PacMan. And I went off video games for a bit.

 

[Arakhor]

I played Street Fighter II on an arcade machine a few times when I was 15 and Cannon Fodder quite a bit on the school library machines. I then played a lot of the rogue-like Angband: The Pits of Moria when I was in Sixth Form.

Other than all those, it was probably Civilisation II, as I mentioned above.

 

[Kyriakos]

Cannon fodder was a cool game

I recall the first map scene, with the corpse being carried away by the stream.

Cannon fodder II was weird, though, and iirc it had aliens too.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I lived through the era when they were first introduced, as some of the other old-timers here. But there were already arcades in the mall, with multiple machines, before I first took any interest in them. Defender seemed to be the hot game when I first bothered wandering into an arcade, but once I was in, there were a bunch of other games. And even some pinball games. (That was the early association for me: Oh, it's like pinball. Well, I don't play pinball, so I probably won't play these either.) Anyway, they had something called Tempest, whose play I couldn't even understand. Space Invaders. Centipede. Q-Bert, I want to say. Either Frogger or that came soon after. Donkey Kong came soon too. I myself was drawn to Asteroids, and a tank combat game that I think was called Battle Zone. But mostly Asteroids.

Pac Man was also a rage around this time. I remember a Mexican restaurant my family went to having a table-top version of it in the waiting area.

We convinced my dad to get an Atari 5200 for Christmas. It came with Super Breakout, as has been noted on this thread already, and it either came with Centipede, or Centipede was the first game we got for it. The joysticks went bad very quickly.

I still love Asteroids.