Your first video game!

[Trifixion]

"Adventure" text game. On an Apple ][. In 1977.

Still has one of my all time favorite bits...

Player: "KILL DRAGON"

Computer: (giving you that typical snarky text adventure response) "With what, your bare hands?"

Player: (after much frustration trying to come up with a different idea) "YES"

Computer: "Congratulations, you have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands!"

Player: *headdesk*

where can I find that game?

You can find a ported version of it for all sorts of different computer platforms...slightly renamed as "Colossal Cave Adventure"...at this location. [http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/]

 

[steelguy17]

desert strike for the snes, is the earliest game I remember, but i know i played normal nintendo games before then

 

[SageRuffin]

Super Mario Bros for the original Nintendo. I was spending the weekend at my grandma's house when I played it. It was short-lived though, since shortly thereafter my uncle got a Sega Genesis and I almost immediately fell in love with Sonic.

 

[baneofall66]

eye of the beholder for the NES
ths was before i beat everyone in the aracde at soul calibur and earned my now wife

 

[Doctor Robert]

Ms. Pac Man

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Sonic the Hedgehog- Megadrive

 

[pelopelopelo]

Formula 1 '97 was my first. I can still remember my dad coming home that night with a Playstation and thinking "nah, must be using the box for something else (probably boring)," then the unmitigated delight of the realisation. Yes. By god. We have a FUCKING PLAYSTATION.

I recently brought my PS1 up to uni with that, Gran Turismo and Disney's Hercules for some nostalgic fun. Good times indeed.

 

[enzilewulf]

Ah man... I'm gong to say pacman or this one fighter plane game... I know it was on Sega.

 

[MinishArcticFox]

My first was Pokemone Blue on a see through purple gameboy but the game that hooked me was the first Star Wars Battlefront.

 

[JeanLuc761]

Doom II when I was 4 years old. I still hate Cyberdemons.

 

[cartzo]

spyro the dragon

 

[GraveyardTricks]

Street Fighter 2 and DOOM.

 

[bioshockedcriticjrr]

the original super smash brothers

actually that was my first console game as well, my first game in general was pokemon yellow. ahh, so many great memories attached to those games

 

[ScarletScapegrace]

My memory is a bit hazy on this subject, but I it would either be Adventure Island, Super Mario Land, or the original Mario Kart.

 

[BloodyThoughts]

Super mario brothers 3 for the NES. God that game was just so awesome. You could be a flying hammer guy what more do you want.

 

[WillSimplyBe]

My first game was Super Mario Brothers for the SNES, It made me so frantic when I was little, I spent most of my time watching other people play it instead, lol. The game that really got me into gaming was Final Fantasy 9 for the PSone.

 

[Rainboq]

Stitch, for the PS2, loved the movie Lilo and Stitch and this game showed the back ground to the character and was an extremely good movie tie in

 

[braincore02]

Hmm I think my first videogame was Hardball on the Apple IIGS

 

[Ekit]

Super Mario 64

 

[xagira]

Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. I don't even remember how old I was at the time, I just remember loving the game... and thinking that it was pretty hard