Your First Video Game

[cman1783]

It was either Pitfall for Atari or SMB/Duck Hunt on NES. I was about 4. 27 now.

 

[Mantis41]

Panic 64

Also had the following handhelds: I think they were before the C64, fuzzy memory

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

My first video game was
Combat for the Atari 2600 (It came with the console)


First one I ever beat was
Raiders of the Lost Ark


I still hear that music in my worst nightmares.

 

[TrolleyDave]

The first arcade game that I ever played was Donkey Kong. The first computer game is a little harder to remember, or maybe even define. The first few games I played were on our ZX81, I typed them in from one of those 100 Games for the ZX81 books. The first commercial computer game I played was either Summer Games or Beach Head on the C64.

First console game was exactly the same as Vulpes!

Was hooked on Combat for a long time. Also played Parachute the same night along with Pitfall!

First handheld game (not console!) was Mattel Hockey.

 

[thegame07]

I think it was Street fighter. I'm not sure though probably some snes or genesis game.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Super Mario All Stars on the SNES. I got it (and the SNES) on the 19th July 1995 because my brother was born, and my parents were worried they wouldn't have time to do fun stuff with me during the summer holidays. Maybe they didn't....I'm pretty sure I didn't care.

 

[_Chaz_]

Super Mario All Stars on the SNES. I got it (and the SNES) on the 19th July 1995 because my brother was born, and my parents were worried they wouldn't have time to do fun stuff with me during the summer holidays. Maybe they didn't....I'm pretty sure I didn't care.

This was win.

 

[Akdul]

The first game I ever played was Accolade's Grand Prix Circuit for MS-DOS (on an Intel 486DX PC). I have been a PC gamer since then.

 

[House Spider]

My first word was Sega & I can remember playing Sonic 1 & 2 on the Mega Drive. So my first game was obviosly a Sonic Game on the Mega Drive. But I don't know why I would be playing those in 1999/2000. :\

 

[DeMoN]

Besides a bunch of old handed down DOS/PC games my first game was Super Mario 64 for the N64, which was my first console.

 

[Demonbart]

A Gradius port for PC. I loved it, but I never got past level 4

 

[Cyan]

it might be a text based point and click game on TO7 with retractable stylus clicking on screen.
I was 6 years old, in 1984~1985. My primary School had a IBM server with some TO7 linked into each others (nanolink).

It's also at that time I started my first programming language (LOGO

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Why is PSX used as abbreviation for Playstation/Playstation 1/PSOne?

Good question. I've never really understood that myself.

It was the Playstation codename (after it left the "Play Station" name from nintendo) like revolution for wii, dolphin for Gamecube, PSX for Playstation. The PSX codename was used by magazine publisher if I remember well, that's why this name was used by most first players.
PSX isn't PSone codename.
I didn't know that mediacenter with the "Playstation 2" and "PSX" written on it. First time I see this picture ^^

 

[Hiz_95]

Back in Christmas 2000 when I was 5 I got a GBC +GB with a few games such as Super Mario Land, Pokemon Yellow(which confused me at first), a power Rangers game and a Tom & Jerry game.
The first one I played was Super mario Land.

 

[_Chaz_]

Back in Christmas 2000 when I was 5 I got a GBC +GB with a few games such as Super Mario Land, Pokemon Yellow(which confused me at first), a power Rangers game and a Tom & Jerry game.
The first one I played was Super mario Land.

Lol, I have Super Mario Land on my Lameboy DS app.

 

[mysticwaterfall]

Pong, the sears rip off version. Good times.

EDIT: Reading the rest of the thread, I'm glad I'm not the only old person here I remember pong when I was like 3 or 4, then we got the 5200 when it first came out (so, I was like 5 then), then the 2600 a few years later when a neighbor was selling it and games for cheap (My dad thought the 5200 was going to be a lot better, which it would have been if Atari had actually choosen to support it. Still has an awesome version of Pac Man and Missile Command on it.)

EDIT 2: First Arcade game was Centipede at the Mexican place a few blocks from us. I remember once I was determined to get on the high score board there so my dad gave me like $8 in quarters so I could. I finally got 9th And I used to play Ms. Pac Man at the the pizza place.

 

[Sportsmaniac1322]

My first videogame was Pokemon Red back when I was 6 or 7. My cousin gave it to me and he had already beat the game, but I had a blast going back and demolishing the Elite Four for hours and hours! That was the only thing I really knew how to do! My first console game was Diddy Kong Racing for N64. That was a blast, and I seriously regret selling it.

 

[Bently]

Um, it was either Gunbound or Survival project, or Mario lol xD.

 

[Psyfira]

Another tally for a twistybat pong/squash/x-in-one TV plug in machine

I don't remember having it for very long though.

 

[choconado]

I love how this thread quickly became partitioned between the old school and new school gamers. And how the oldest the new schoolers get is LATE SNES games...

I'm in the old camp. First console game I had was iirc, "Night Driver" for the 2600 (My dad actually bought the game to play bridge. He still uses video games almost exclusively for card games), but my first "video game" experience was probably this bad boy:

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My first arcade trip that I can remember, I can't remember which I played first: Pole Position, or Space Ace (which was actually an interactive Laser Disc hidden in the console! And the first 50 cent game I can think of), or possibly Ms. Pac-man.

 

[bnwchbammer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaws_(1997_video_game)
Fuckin, Outlaws, which is the best game ever with the best soundtrack ever!
Seriously.

Seriously.
Grew up on this shit, and it was EPIC!