What was the first video game you ever played?

[JohnnyDelRay]

Most of that age for me is a blur, so I'm not really sure on which games came first. It's probably from my Atari 2600 days, and was Karateka, but the one that I remember as being my earliest real game experience, was Starflight


Great space exploration game, and one of the few good memories I have with my older brother.

Yeah Karateka was pretty much the first game I ever played, in all its 4-color glory on the PC (pink, blue, b&w). Probably an XT or something. Then I think I ventured the courage to play Prince of Persia after my older brother was showing it to me. Either that or Space Invaders. I heard there was a remake of Karateka happening for awhile, I wonder if it got anywhere?

 

[jklinders]

Donkey Kong on the old Colecovision console. That was 1982 or 83 I think. Good memories. That was actually especially for it's a day a decent system.

 

[Quazimofo]

Besides the games which came with Windows XP, probably Freddy Fish. I can't be sure though, because the earliest photos are of my brother and I playing Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds at age 5/6 ish (remember when computer game/software boxes used to be 10 inches tall or so?), but my mother has mentioned me messing with the family computer as early as 18 months old, and I know I played Red Alert 2 before Galactic Battlegrounds.

To this day, Red Alert 2 is still hard as shit towards the end. I only ever beat the soviet campaign, and I only managed to do it once. Never managed to crack the final mission for the allies. I should dig up my old copy and give it a go again.

 

[karkashan]

The best of the NES Mega Man games, Mega Man 5.

Gravity Man's stage was what I nursed on as a young gamer. Shinobi was what baptised me in fire.

 

[TheMightyMeekling]

The game was Moorhuhnjagd. It's essentially similar to Duck Hunt. Was fun.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Centipede on the Atari, wow that was like 28 years ago give or take.

 

[FrozenEscapee]

I'm not sure, but it was probably either the original Star Wars arcade game, or something on the Odyssey 2 system. C64 and Atari 2600 games were the first to really get me into gaming.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Pong, because I am old as shit.

 

[Toblo1]

Final Fantasy 7 on PS1. I distinctly remember my confusion over the fact that the game had 4 discs..... -_-'

 

[ffronw]

The first game I ever played on a console was Combat on the Atari 2600, because they packed it in the box.

The first PC game I ever played was Zork. Text adventure, ho!

 

[Oroboros]

Space Invaders. That seems like ages ago...so I can't be sure.

 

[cathou]

i remeber that we had 3 games on the colecovision, donkey kong, venture and zaxxon. wich one was the first, i dont know i was like 3 or 4 when they come out.

i clearly remember that i was really really afraid by venture, because when you took too much time there was a skull like pixels creature that was chasing you. each time i run to hide behind the couch...

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I'm pretty sure my first game was Wolfenstein 3D. I wasn't supposed to play it, but I did anyway.

 

[Spushkin]

God knows what I first played, but I distinctly remember WATCHING WITH INCREDIBLE ENVY as my neighbour played Gianna Sisters in 1987, when his parents just opened a video cassette rental thingie, and had a Commodore there just for fun.

It still hurts a bit that they never let me play.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Dungeons and Dragons. It was this little hand-held game that my dad had. I was so little that I don't even remember how it played (back the late '80s).

Edit:
Found a video on it.

Spoiler

Yea I definitely didn't know what I was doing in that game

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

i think it was Yars Revenge on the 2600. back in the days they didnt worry about epilepsy

 

[laggyteabag]

Probably Gunstar Heroes on the Sega Mega drive/Genesis. I played a lot of games with my brother when I was younger, and I remember Gunstar Heroes being one of the earliest, if not the first. It is a little fuzzy now, but my money is on Gunstar.

 

[FrozenCones]

First console game would have been Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on the SEGA megadrive. Throwing your hat at gangsters to an 8bit midi of Smooth Criminal - BADASS!

First PC game was probably Duke Nukem on my dad's 286.

 

[SeanSeanston]

I often wish I could remember... but then I guess not remotely remembering a time before you played games has its advantages too.

Having thought of this before, the best I could figure is that it would pretty definitely have been something on the Amiga, and thinking of the early games we had on the Amiga and the ones I might be most likely to play, I can only take a stab in the dark that it COULD have been one of the following:

- Great Giana Sisters
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Turrican 2
- Bart Simpson vs. the Space Mutants
- Lemmings
- Rick Dangerous
- Pang

I'd say there's a reasonable chance it was one of those, but I guess I'll never really know.

Got an Atari 2600 too in in what must have been 1992, but I can't imagine it being possible that I hadn't already been playing games then since A. I remember getting it, and B. Presumably my liking games was why I got it in the first place.

Always loved Frostbite <3

 

[Randoman01]

Either command and conquer or some 4X space game I do not know the name of.