What was the first video game you ever played?

[DSoryu]

According to my father, when I was very very young at age of 2 (I barely remember obviously). My uncle used to buy Nintendo consoles at launch dates, and around that time the SNES was The Super Power Console™. Because they wanted to see my reaction to videogames, they put the controller in my hands with Final Fantasy 3 (best known as VI) and seriously, I just can't with what they did expect from a toddler without any abilty to read whatsoever trying to play an RPG game. That explanation came one day I was playing that same game (but now at the age of 25) on my 3DS on a family trip, and I said "Why is this intro music giving me such a nostalgic feeling, is the first time I play this game" then my father and uncle explained me what I have already said, so maybe deep in my memory, the intro music from the game got really stuck.

In case this doesn't count as my first played videogame, then that would be Super Mario Bros 3 at the age of 5, I used to play it as heck as I didn't had any other videogame available until I became self aware that other games existed (at the age of 6), so I started to ask for games as christmas gifts.

 

[Jayro]

 

[duwen]

A pre Atari 2600 Pong clone console in the mid 70's.

I don't remember very well, but I would say either "car game" in electronic handled before game&watch, or Simon (music game) even if not video output, it had visual lights output to interact with.

^ My next experiences were with similar handheld/tabletop electronic games. I adored Pocket Simon, and if by "car game" you mean Tomy's Demon Driver ...my first addiction.

 

[Deleted member 514389]

Super Mario Advance 2.

GBA.

 

[Cyan]

The lap counter and shift's buttons are really working?
Ah, it's more hardware, like a real rolling carpet? not an electronic game. but nice idea there !

the one I remember playing didn't have a wheel, and it was a lot simpler visually. just a on/off/left/right button.


I also played a computer with magnetic band cassettes, but it wasn't my first video mode.
too bad I don't remember the name, as it wasn't mine. I played that one at a friend's.

edit:
I think I played batman on that forgotten name computer.
I see (2 posts below) ZXSpectrum had magnetic cassettes. maybe it was it.

 

[Alexander1970]

Parsec on the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A from an School Friend.



...after that "Experience" I ran home and "asked" my Parents "Please can I have a Home Computer ? "
And a "little later" I got the Atari 800XL.

 

[AmandaRose]

This was the first game I can remember playing but I might be wrong as when I got my ZX Spectrum 48k it came with 20 games

 

[Robika]

For me, it was Sonic 3 & Knuckles. It's a great game that still holds up toady.
So, what was your first video game?

Sonic the Hedgehog on Mega Drive. I was 3...

 

[DanyH]

First video game I've ever played was Samurai Warrior : The Battle of Usagi Yojimbo
2^ Squba Kids for C64.
I was 6 when I was given a beautiful used C64. "Press Play on tape<3"

 

[JuanMena]

Mario Bros on a chinese Famicom

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

For me it was some kind of web browser games but when it comes to some real games i remember watching my father Play StarCraft but i never played it myself and because i couldnt read english and use computer properly and my parents never were really intrested in games besides my father playing StarCraft but he eventually stopped (he doesn't Play anything to this day i tried to make him Play something but he always says that he is busy he always does some work on computer or in the garage or in house in general and even when he is not doing that he just sleeps... I feel bad for him and i am worried what happens when i leave the house which will probably happen soon) eventually my cousin buyed PS3 and then was the first time that i played a real game and it was little big planet or noby noby boy and then i started being more invested in gaming.

 

[Attila_the_Hun]

It was Wii Sports. Nothing special with it. It just came with the Wii we bought.

 

[Almost_Human]

The forgotten frog game:

 

[TVL]

First game was Mickey Mouse on Game & Watch that a neighbor of mine had. My brother later got Donkey Kong on Game & Watch and we played computer games at our cousin's house, it was probably one of the 8-bit Atari computers. Before I had an NES me and my brother bought a TI99 4/A with Parsec for the equavalent of 10 dollars (not adjusted for inflation).

But for literal first video game it was Super Mario Bros. Before that my interest in games wasn't that big, but that game was the most fun I've had in my life. It made me want to create games, and it's what got me into programming. Still play it, maybe not yearly but not to many years inbetween playthoughs.

 

[zfreeman]

Pac-Man, Atari 2600, circa 1992

 

[Ryab]

For me, it was Sonic 3 & Knuckles. It's a great game that still holds up toady.
So, what was your first video game?

Super Mario All-Stars on the SNES in 2005 when I was 3

 

[Deleted User]

pokemon Crystal. It was a very well done game. now pokemon is about pushing out new stuff as fast as possible rather than making the game as good as possible.

 

[RyRyIV]

First I remember is Pokemon Yellow on Gameboy Color. Got it and my gameboy for Christmas when I was 6... and it was a slippery slope from there

 

[Ericzander]

Hmm... I don't know what the first game I played was. I know my first console game was Super Mario World.

But I'm pretty sure before that I played Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When it's Dark Outside. Lmao. Or Freddy Fish 2 or Putt Putt Goes to the Zoo. One of those classic Humongous Games games.

 

[delilah23]

GTA San Andreas! Ahh, how nostalgic