What's the first game you ever played?

[King of Town]

For me it was RBI baseball, I was then and still am baseball crazy. I still play that game with my friends. I can beat anyone with any team.

 

[BasketCase]

It was either that handheld football game where the players were red LED dots, or Pong. I forget which.

Yer talkin' to a serious Old School type here.

 

[Riptide_Monzarc]

Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, reprezent!

 

[t0mme]

Either Qix or Grand Prix Circuits

 

[Mr_Fusty]

For me, it was Alex the Kidd in Miriacle World on the Master System - April '94 Happy days.

 

[warpstorm]

Mine was Pong when that was new.

 

[Till]

It was either Sokoban, Grand Prix Circuits, or Captain Comic on a 386.

There was also some flight simulator installed, but i never found out how to start the damn engine of my plane.

 

[Sullla]

For me it was RBI baseball, I was then and still am baseball crazy. I still play that game with my friends. I can beat anyone with any team.

RBI Baseball! Yes!

There's a screenshot from my best game ever. For those who haven't played this marvelous oldie, the game calls a slaughter rule if any team is leading by more than 10 runs at the end of an inning. So in this particular game, I managed to score 31 runs in the top of the 4th! I've never been able to respect the Saint Louis starting pitcher (Tudor?) ever since. Batting around four times in a single inning will have that effect.

I also had a stretch where I won 147 games in a row, and that overlapped with a longer run of 248-1. Err, maybe I've played this game a little too much?

 

[Leonel]

You kids and our 386's! In my day, I had to get by with a Macintosh IIsi!

I don't remember the name. It was this scrolling jet fighter game for the Commodore 64 that I could play with a joystick and I had to land every now and then to refuel or I'd crash.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I don't know, probably one on the Amstrad CPC 464.

 

[The Yankee]

I don't even remember what my first game was. Either a Nintendo or Atari game. After that, I had a Sega Genesis system not all that long after those came out and I haven't stopped since, although my gaming prime was years ago.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Can't remember, but I think Super Mario World on the SNES. I know that we had Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? back on an old computer in the early 90's, but I can't remember which came first.

 

[JtheJackal]

Probably either Donald Duck's Playground or Mixed-Up Mother Goose, both were on the Atari ST. Update: I most likely played Dungeon Master on the Atari ST first.

 

[sirtommygunn]

i played the original zelda game as my first (either that or dr.mario)

 

[Mirc]

I can't remember at all...

 

[Maniacal]

Quite very possibly;

Civilization II (it was on the two comptuers in the school library, sadly they changed the computers after a couple of years, but I got the game from a friend a few years later).

Or a couple of old games that were in neon colours and weren't even at the cartoonyish NES graphics. The school changed their comptuers between when i went ot kindergarten and grade 1 though, and then we had Oregon Trail, Yukon Trail, and a bunch of other educational games.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

At best guess it was Super Mario/Duck Hunt on the NES.

 

[Chris85]

The original NES Legend of Zelda, I first played it back in '89

 

[Synobun]

Red Alert Retaliation on the Playstation One.

Yeah...

 

[GoodSarmatian]

If you count arcade games it was Donkey Kong when I was five or six during a vacation in Yugoslavia,
If you don't count them it was probably Tetris or Super Mario Land on the Gameboy.