What was the first video game you ever played?

Wait so suddenly this is my thread?

YEeesh

 

Mario Kart 64. Good way to start in the 90s, wish I started on the SNES though. Was a baby then. lol

 

DONKEY KONG

 

Wow. There are both some very old and very young people on this board. I guess I already knew that, but whatever. Say cactus! (instead of cheese)

 

I might have started with something on the Apple IIe, but unfortunately I was way too young back then and don't remember.

The first game I actually do remember is Super Mario World, mainly because I sucked at it (and still do with platformers; I'm too slow). To prevent the purchase from turning into a disaster, my mother stepped in whenever she had time, and we beat it together, which still took months. Division of labour was clear: my mother was doing most of the regular levels, I was responsible for the boss fights.
But before, we had to solve a completely different problem: how to get into the damn doors? The first door of the game is in the first fortress, at the end of the first hallway, and for some reason, none of us had any idea on how to get into there. I think there is an info box right there telling the secret, but I think we never bothered to read it. What we finally did was to notice that in the computer-controlled sequence when Mario enters the fortress, he looks up to open the door. Turned out that also worked later on :lol:.

 

God, I couldn't remember the very first game I played, one of the first games I remember playing were the Dizzy games on the Commodore 64. Fantasy World Dizzy, Magical Land Dizzy, Spellbound Dizzy, they were all really fun adventure games, especilly for the time, I have really fond memories of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DzknuVFdo

Bubble Bobble as well, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gggp9JkY1Pk

 

haha, that's a great game to start on!

 

Pong was the first game I ever played. I thought that was the best thing ever, then my parents bought me a NES with Duck Hunt. Pong was never played again.

 

Hogan's Alley - It was the game that came with my Nintendo.

 

The first game I remember seeing is that Horse Racing game on the Intellivision, when I was like 5 years old. My friend down the block (who's name was also Mark) had one of those along with a 2600.

 

One of about 20 Atari 2600 games. I don't remember which game went first into the cartdridge slot, but the only games I remember specifically from that time are River Raid, Pitfall, Pac-Man, Mario Bros and Donkey Kong.

 

Yeah!! :thumbsup:

 

Mario on the NES is probably my earliest memory of video games. That or TMNT on the NES. Whats interesting is the TMNT games I loved as a kid but now I can't even pick them up.
Anyone else remember how when we were kids we took shit from video games, no matter how hard or glitchy it was, unlike today were slightest sound glitch makes us call it a shitty game.
Oh how happy I am to have grown up during the end of the NES era.

 

I'm not so sure about that.. It was surely a C64 games (I was about 4 years old).. I can't decide between "Ye Air Kung Fu" and "Outrun" *__*

 

Pong on atari but i spent most of my youth playing ghosts n goblins arcade.

 

Actually I started at a friends house, who had a wonderful little cartridge called Sonic Compilation (so Sonic + Sonic 2 + the european version of Puyo Puyo known as Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine)... I mostly played Sonic 2, but it is most likely the number one reason I'm a Sega guy today.

 

I hear you, feel exactly the same way about gamers today and their "reviews".

 

Asteroids was a fantastic game. I spent a hell of a lot of 10p coins on it till i could beat all the older guys . They let me stay late and play the poker games. It was a back street arcade with rough looking guys. All was good.

 

I remember my dad bought an Atari 2600 dirt cheap shortly after the crash. The first game I ever played on it was a very strange game where you controlled a ship that looked like the one on the 2600 version of Asteroids and shot at giant ants(?) carrying giant blocks. I have no idea what the name was as we always called it the "spider game".