What was the first video game you ever played?

[Twinrehz]

Honestly I can't tell what was my first, but I would assume it was either Pole Position, a bug shooting game, Donkey Kong, or some penguin platform game, on the Atari XE. My parents got that instead of a NES, because the NES was so much more expensive.

The games we had for the Atari XE was terrible, and I'm not sure if there were any good games for it either. What I would have liked to be part of my childhood though, is a SNES.

Somewhere in the attic we had an old Texas computer as well, that you could write BASIC on, and save stuff on cassette tapes. I was never introduced to it, tho.

 

[Reasonable Atheist]

Commander keen on an old ass computer thhat was running that version of windows that was all blue with choose your option with a number key interface.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

First game ever for me was probably Super Mario on the NES. I know we had others but I think I jumped into that one first.

 

[Taggart3131]

I can't exactly remember but I think it was somewhere between the first Doom, Top Gun, Jazz Jackrabbit, Microsoft Flight Simulator all of these on the PC and Super Mario Bros on the NES.

 

[Signa]

I have no idea what it was called, but it was a kids game on the Commodore 64. It was loaded with a boot command called "menu" and it brought up a menu of 5 minigames. The fifth, if I remember correctly, was a game where you move a forklift from one side of the screen to the other. You had to grab either shapes, or numbers (I can't remember which) and move them over to the right side to match the pile you just grabbed. I was 3 years old then, so I'm happy I remember even that much about it.

 

[PizzaDJCat]

It was either Tetris or Super Mario on a family friend's GameBoy. They gave it to me while we were travelling to keep me quiet.

 

[The Cliffe]

The first console my family ever owned was a Sega Master System, which came with Hang-On and Safari Hunt built in. Also had Thunder Blade at the same time. So one of those three. That was Christmas 1987. I've been a gamer ever since.

 

[hybridial]

Might as well make my first post on this forum be the answer to this question.

I believe it was Super Mario Bros 3 on NES, although it's hard to swear to it.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Eternal Champions that came with my Sega Genesis.

 

[Frezzato]

The first console my family ever owned was a Sega Master System, which came with Hang-On and Safari Hunt built in. Also had Thunder Blade at the same time. So one of those three. That was Christmas 1987. I've been a gamer ever since.

So weird, I never knew there was a light gun for the Sega Master System until you mentioned it. Then again, sightings of the Master System were rare for me as I didn't start buying games until the Genesis/Mega Drive came along.

 

[FPLOON]

Well, after much thought[footnote]Basically excluding games that I nor my family didn't owned a copy of... So, sorry "that one time I played Pokemon Crystal/Oracle of Ages off that one dude's GameBoy Color" in 1999... Or the fact that <link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/9.847767.20923098>this happened back in 1997...[/footnote], I have narrowed my answer down to three choices:

-An 80s Namco arcade game (Between Pac-Man and Galaga)
-A Jumpstart PC game (Only played 2nd Grade and then Typing)
-Rayman Advance for the GameBoy Advance (First game I got on the system)

But, then I rememeber saying something in the past:

I was going to say Rayman Advance for the Gameboy Advance, but that was my first game as well as my first unfinished game...

And I realized that my past self was wrong... The first time dabbing into Namco was back in 2002 with the Namco Museum Collection off my cousins (formally their parent's) PS2 and I was playing Jumpstart 2nd Grade back in 2000, the same year my mom got her first Gateway PC from her step-brother-in-law... I've never touched Rayman Advance until 2001 while we were on a trip to Circus Circus in Las Vegas with my Grandma and cousins...

So overall, the first video game I ever played was an educational game about a lion chasing after a rabbit in a maze of a mansion and then, at the end, gets trapped in a rocket ship that's blasting off into space... Once you figure out the consistent answers or, worse, find out how to skip basically the whole game and win in under 5 minutes[footnote]Let's just say that the game didn't no know the definition of "invisible walls", if you know what I mean...[/footnote], then the predictability really begins to shine brighter than the scientist in Jumpstart Typing who locked himself under his typing-driven security system...

Edit (2/26/15 11:55 PM PST): So apparently, after reading <link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/9.847767.20923098>this comment that I made back in April of 2014, my first video game was actually a CD-ROM demo for Hot Wheels... (Take of that as you will...)

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Atari's Night Driver coin-op sometime in the late-ish 70s... but only because the pinball machine it was next to at the local fish and chip shop was out of order that day.

 

[varunastra]

Pong!

 

[dohnut king]

The Pong game on the Magnavox Odyssey. Which actually predated Atari's Pong.

I'm that old.

 

[Randoman01]

Star Trek Armada was another one I played

 

[Timeless Lavender]

Devil May Cry introduce me to a genre that I love so much (Hack n Slash)

 

[mrdeclandeadly]

Flimbo's Quest, way back on the Commodore 64.

 

[RagingTiger]

Into The Eagle's Nest, Wolfenstein 3D and the old Apogee games, my dad was into games in his 30's so had nice collection to start with