Do you REALLY remember your FIRST Video game ?

[FAST6191]

As ever you all make me feel old. Many of the things I see being initial or notable earliest experiences for you I was playing either new or at a point when I could already think about things/quasi review them as art or whatever.

As for the question then nothing I will note as my first. Various friends, people I was visiting (their power as child distraction devices has long been recognised), cousins, hand me downs from parents/uncles all feature here as things it could have been. Even if I do remember it then I will have trouble distinguishing it from what I played of them afterwards; I was doing retro before it was cool and realised the games still played just fine so continued on with them for years, not to mention no flash carts and Christmas and birthday money is so far apart that you would only get a minor injection per year to do anything with. Even when I did start to get pocket money it would have taken an age to get games.

Equally computer gaming was not a distinct thing for most of my youth -- barring the easily ignored piece on the news it was mostly a toy for children and treated as such, no different to playing with lego really.

 

[SG854]

Back in my day video games didn’t even exist.

 

[Kioku]

Watching my dad play Super Mario Bros. That's kind of how my video game kick started. I had to have been about 2... So young, but I remember the controller, the TV, and having to share.

 

[Plstic]

The first game I played was mattel basketball if that counts or mario 3.

 

[Conex]

River Raid on Atari 2600, my dad bought it and I played it for a long time.
Then we bought a Master System and it was a new world. (yes I'm kinda old)

 

[WiiHomebrew+Snes]

I would guess mario golf for gamecube? no idea..

 

[frostii]

Lock n Chase on the Intellivision.
Total Pac Man ripoff, but was awesome back in the day.

 

[kingtut]

The first game I played was Jazz Jackrabbit. After falling in love with the game, that is what made my parents buy me a console because my PC was mostly for dad's work

 

[Alexander1970]

These are in a few places very deep experiences.Thank you for letting us part of it.

 

[osaka35]

centipede on my grandmother's atari. She loved that game.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

You're talking to someone who watched his dad play Kingdom Hearts when I was prolly just a year old.

 

[Deleted User]

Snoopy Game & Watch - still running along with Gold Cliff and Zelda

 

[6adget]

First game I saw, and played? Pong. Not sure how old I was when it came out, but i'm 44 now. Spent all the money I made mowing lawns at the arcade. At the time arcades had games that you just couldn't play at home. Then it was Karate Champ on the C64. I remember typing in page after page of basic on the C64 to program a pong game. if you turned off the computer then you lost all of your work. Now the earliest game I fell in love with? The first Zelda. That shit changed my life.

 

[Seroczynski]

BC's Quest for Tires

Played on our Commodore 128D on a black and white monitor. Good times

 

[Stwert]

Surprising as it may seem, I can remember 40 years back to my first game. Pong, on my Adman Grandstand MK3 TV Game - on a tiny B&W TV.

 

[lucoia]

That's an easy one for me, I got a 1975 picture of me standing over a chair in front of the Pong coinop playing it in the bar my family owned. That says it all about my passion and bond with videogames.

 

[M7L7NK7]

I can't tell, my parents got a sega master system with F1 world grand prix, so I won't ever know if we tried that first or Alex Kidd as it was built in to the system

 

[mike087]

Tetris

 

[JoeBloggs777]

Binatone ping pong back in the mid 70s

thou i still remember seeing Space Invaders for the first time in the late 70s in the local arcade and a mass of people stood around it

also another one that stood out was DK country on the Snes, the sound, graphics and game play was amazing

 

[leon315]

1st videogame ever was CONTRA made by konami on NES, burnt so many hours with my cousin during summer holidays. if i could travel back i would slap myself in the face and tell him to go to play outside lul

 

[BORTZ]

I want to say it was Tetris on my aunt's brick Gameboy. But it might have very well been Sonic 1 which I played in a hospital waiting room. My brother had a really really nasty bout with ecoli when he was about 2. I was 4 I think.