First game ever played?

[cainx10a]

Prince of Persia
Commander Keen
Pacman

 

[ShogunGino]

Curiosity, what is the first game you can remember playing? Also what system was it for?

For me it was Super Mario Land for Game Boy, but i was 5 so i had a Game Boy Color to play it on =D

Coincidentally, Super Mario Land is the first game I also remember playing. I remember it was when I was young and my dentist would give me a game boy with that game to play while I waited for the fluoride in my mouthpiece to set in. That was one good dentist.

 

[Hookman]

hmm thats tough for me to remember...I think it was Donkey Kong Country 2 for SNES

 

[Simriel]

Cant remember the first game i ever played, But the first time i got a huge nerd stiffie for and spent any serious time on was Goldeneye 64. Rogue agent never happened...

 

[Nazulu]

Spectre on Mac, some old 3D tank shoot-em-up that I cannot find on the net

 

[MotionOTheOcean]

Doom PC

 

[coldfrog]

River Raid for Atari. Damn refueling stations.

This was my first game as well, only for the Commodore 64. Hell yeah joysticks!

Though actually my first game could have been Lode Runner or Bagitman or one of a million games that we had for it, but River Raid was both my favorite and the one I remember the best.

Except for Agent USA. That game was the bomb. The FUZZ BOMB! AIEE!

EDIT: Seeing the number of N64 and later firsts makes me feel old.

 

[eternalphear]

Mario Kart 64, I hope I don't have to tell you what console.

 

[ExplosionProofTaco]

Pokemans Yellow. Gameboy

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Umm I'm not really to sure... i THINK it was E.T on caleco or however it's spelled. Or possibly Jumpman on com64... ages ago.

 

[Antiparticle]

Hm, must have been some game on the Philips G7000. (apparently called "Magnavox Odyssey²" in America, according to Wikipedia.) I really don't remember which game though.

By the way, wow, for lots of people a Nintendo 64 / Playstation 1 game was their first game ever played! I was already gaming forever when the N64 came out. Man, I'm really getting old.

Oh, and also:

The original DOOM when I was about 5.

Awesome! Best first game ever.

 

[crepesack]

goldeneye 64

 

[Jadak]

Gorillas, MS DOS.

 

[gantzsurvivor1]

Turtles 2 for the NES.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

Super Mario Bros. 3

greatest game ever by the way

 

[naftali1]

Super Mario World for SNES...I miss that type of game.

 

[Fightgarr]

I think it was Commander Keen 6 ("Aliens Took my Babysitter" or something to that effect). Great game. I can think of one game that I played earlier than that, but the name eludes me. It involved navigating an animal of your choice through habitats in which you had to eat everything lower on the food chain than you and avoid everything else. I think it was called Animal Quest or something, but I can't be sure, I was 3.

 

[coldfrog]

I can think of one game that I played earlier than that, but the name eludes me. It involved navigating an animal of your choice through habitats in which you had to eat everything lower on the food chain than you and avoid everything else. I think it was called Animal Quest or something, but I can't be sure, I was 3.

I actually remember a game similar to this that I played in school, but with fish. It was sort of a puzzle game, you start with your fish on the left side, a random fish or other creature on the right, and you had to pick to swim high, low, or center. If you swam directly toward the other thing (it could sometimes be a seal or osprey or some algae, as well as other fish) you would either eat it if it is small enough, or be eaten if it was big enough, or swim right by. You would get points based on your decision, IE, if you eat it but it is not part of your main fish diet, you would gain only a few points, if you get eaten you probably got no points, and other such points schemes. It was actually pretty interesting and I wish I could remember it, I'd love to look it up and play again. OH NO SEAL RUN!

 

[Fightgarr]

I can think of one game that I played earlier than that, but the name eludes me. It involved navigating an animal of your choice through habitats in which you had to eat everything lower on the food chain than you and avoid everything else. I think it was called Animal Quest or something, but I can't be sure, I was 3.

I actually remember a game similar to this that I played in school, but with fish. It was sort of a puzzle game, you start with your fish on the left side, a random fish or other creature on the right, and you had to pick to swim high, low, or center. If you swam directly toward the other thing (it could sometimes be a seal or osprey or some algae, as well as other fish) you would either eat it if it is small enough, or be eaten if it was big enough, or swim right by. You would get points based on your decision, IE, if you eat it but it is not part of your main fish diet, you would gain only a few points, if you get eaten you probably got no points, and other such points schemes. It was actually pretty interesting and I wish I could remember it, I'd love to look it up and play again. OH NO SEAL RUN!

That is exactly the game I'm think of. There were also levels for a temperate forest and an African savannah.