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Question is the title.

For me the first game that I actually remember playing was some kind of crazy psychadellic game for the Atari st. I don't remember the name of this game but perhaps the folks at NSG could help out. All I remember is that you were some sort of strange animal, maybe a hamster or a slug or something. You were brown! And the levels had this nice christmasy music, and I think they mainly had a candy style stage (it was a side scroller), I think I remember being able to turn into a paper aeroplane and I think the second level was really bouncy. Any ideas?

As for the first game I ever played, it was either lemmings, CIV or a superscope game for the snes. Not sure which.

Super Mario Bros on the NES when it first came out.




Damn, I'm old.

The first game I have any clear memory of playing was Mario Bros. I remember thinking level 8 was so hard.

Super Mario Brothers.

Mortal Combat!

I also remember playing something on the Atari, involving a little blocky "tank" at the bottom of the screen that was used to shoot down various objects flying across the top of the screen. But it wasn't Space Invaders, it was something else. The objects all moved across, right to left or left to right, and sometimes they would bomb you.

I think. I was probably about 5 years old at the time.

My dad tells me that we used to play games together on his Apple IIe when I was just barely old enough to sit up. But I don't remember that very clearly.

Mario, duck hunt and paper boy. Those were the days.

Wolfenstein 3D.

The grandpa of all FPS's, and I can still remember the secret area with the machine gun from the first level. My aunt let me play it while she babysat my sister and me when I was around 5 or so.

Combat 01

Wolfenstein 3D.

The grandpa of all FPS's, and I can still remember the secret area with the machine gun from the first level. My aunt let me play it while she babysat my sister and me when I was around 5 or so.

I never liked wolfenstein, there just seemed something a bit... off about it. However Doom on the other hand...

The earliest computer game I remember playing was a text-based game called Gotcha! I played it on a mainframe terminal at my dad's office. I have no idea how it was played but I was thrilled to be clacking away at a computer in an office.

If I remember correctly, I was prompted to input a number and press Return, which returned a set of coordinates. Plug in another number, got back some more coordinates, repeat. I'd do this a few times until presumably losing the game which resulted in the word GOTCHA! being displayed.

The first video game I remember playing on my home PC (a Compaq Deskpro 4.33MHz monster with 10MB hard drive) was Spacewar - one of many remakes of the first computer game ever made!

Probably either Zork or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Do text-based games count as "video" games?)

Any number of old Atari carts:

Defender
Asteroids
Pac-man (the crappy Atari version)

It's been too long for me to remember the exact one.

The very first one I remember was for the Commodore 64, I think. You had this purple character that could squeeze through all these odd-shaped pipes and I think the goal was to get through the maze or something. There were probably dangers and stuff - hard to remember.

I think we had Pac-Man on that computer as well.

First gaming console I ever used was the Atari, and I remember Dig Dug and Frogger on that.

First game console I ever owned was the NES, and obviously Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt were the first games I played there...

Wow, I'm old.

Pong! Very first video game I ever played at the age of 9 on my daddy's old Atari Jaguar.
Then Pac Man and Donkey Kong.

I'm not old, only 23...

pong. on a coin operated machine.

Minesweeper

Duckhunt.

I still hate that damn dog.

It was an included game on the Apple Macintosh with the black & white screen. It was basically a game where you had to drop a parachuter into a moving wagon filled with hay. It was awesome.

Minesweeper

Unlucky :p

I think the first game I remember is the original SimCity for Windows when I was about 6, so this was in 97.

It was an included game on the Apple Macintosh with the black & white screen. It was basically a game where you had to drop a parachuter into a moving wagon filled with hay. It was awesome.

Had a game like that for the Atari.

The fun part was watching the little guy fall from the sky and hit the ground.

I think the first game I remember is the original SimCity for Windows when I was about 6, so this was in 97.

I remember my brother going literally crazy at sim city 2000, i'd never seen anyone so angry. Apparently that game is the best at inducing anger in people.

I remember my brother going literally crazy at sim city 2000, i'd never seen anyone so angry. Apparently that game is the best at inducing anger in people.

I always thought 2000 was inordinately hard. I got 3000 and it seemed much easier.

It was an included game on the Apple Macintosh with the black & white screen. It was basically a game where you had to drop a parachuter into a moving wagon filled with hay. It was awesome.

Helly-copter I think it was called.

I remember the first game I completed; Kirby's Dreamland for the gameboy, I thought Dedede was so hard back then.

My first was probably Doom when I was about 4 or 5.

I remember Pong, Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Mario on NES, and Tetris on the brick GameBoy. I still have my grey gameboy and it still works!

Question is the title.

For me the first game that I actually remember playing was some kind of crazy psychadellic game for the Atari st. I don't remember the name of this game but perhaps the folks at NSG could help out. All I remember is that you were some sort of strange animal, maybe a hamster or a slug or something. You were brown! And the levels had this nice christmasy music, and I think they mainly had a candy style stage (it was a side scroller), I think I remember being able to turn into a paper aeroplane and I think the second level was really bouncy. Any ideas?

As for the first game I ever played, it was either lemmings, CIV or a superscope game for the snes. Not sure which.

Pong.
Withthe two paddles and the box that hooked to your television set.
Pong.
The original video game.
Pong.

Duckhunt.

Also, PacMan at some restaurant. Not sure which was first.

Yar's Revenge.

I remember Pong, Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Mario on NES, and Tetris on the brick GameBoy. I still have my grey gameboy and it still works!

So do I. It'd work if I slapped some batteries in there.

I remember Pong, Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Mario on NES, and Tetris on the brick GameBoy. I still have my grey gameboy and it still works!

My husband and I would have an old GameBoy, but it got stolen. =*(

*coughs*

Pong

Space Invaders, Atari 2600.

The first one I beat? Super Mario Bros. 3. It took me three months. I thought that was an incredibly quick time. But to be fair, I'm pretty sure I was about 7 at the time.

We had a Pong machine that had variations on a switch, but I don't remember the variations. So, like all the proper video game old men, Pong.

Then I played a cocktail version of Pac-Man in a bar that someone dating my grandma owned (which is why such a small kid was allowed in a bar). I had never heard of the game at the time, but within a month he had to go fix it and found that it was jammed full of quarters. Pac-Man Fever had just broken out.
I remember the first game I completed; Kirby's Dreamland for the gameboy, I thought Dedede was so hard back then.
Pff...'finishing.' In my day games didn't have 'endings.' You didn't 'finish' a game, you just kept on and on until the eventual churning onslaught of the game finally killed you for good. If you completed a task you were rewarded by getting to do it again. We lined up days worth of lunch money quarters to participate in something the Greeks would consider some sort of hell...

And we liked it.

Kids today, with their video games that have 'endings'...bah!

Megaman for the NES. The first one.

Super Mario Bros on my cousins NES when I was like 4 or 5

We had a Pong machine that had variations on a switch, but I don't remember the variations. So, like all the proper video game old men, Pong.


Basic paddle, tiny paddle, a version of catch where they made a wall with a hole in it.

Resident Evil! Good ol' low budget, live action and bad acted fun.

Basic paddle, tiny paddle, a version of catch where they made a wall with a hole in it.

Thats it! At least that sounds right. We still had that thing plugged in and playing it when other kids started to get 2600s. In fact, the first counsel that I ever owned was a Playstation and that wasn't until Gran Turismo came out. I was deprived...

Resident Evil! Good ol' low budget, live action and bad acted fun.

B'huh?

In the arcade it was the original Space Invaders.

At home I had this....

http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/philips-videopac-g7000-a.jpg

1978 ;)

In the arcade it was the original Space Invaders.

At home I had this....

http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/philips-videopac-g7000-a.jpg

1978 ;)

Ewww

B'huh?

Real actors in the cut scences.;)

In the arcade it was the original Space Invaders.

At home I had this....

http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/philips-videopac-g7000-a.jpg

1978 ;)

Oooh - I had one of those :)
"Pickaxe Pete" and the game with the acrobats were my favourites :)

Ewww

Yeah. You should have seen the TV's we had back then!

http://designterminal.hu/pw/english/designed-in-hungary/oriontv45.jpg

I think Commander Keen may have been the first computer game I played, but I'm not sure about that. That was quite... weird.

Yeah. You should have seen the TV's we had back then!

http://designterminal.hu/pw/english/designed-in-hungary/oriontv45.jpg

You call that a tv! This (http://www.tvhistory.tv/1929-Western-Television.JPG) is a tv!

Super Mario Brothers.

Ditto. Old school fun.

In the arcade it was the original Space Invaders.

At home I had this....

http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/philips-videopac-g7000-a.jpg

1978 ;)

that's ancient....it should be in like the museum of civilization or something :p:D

that's ancient....it should be in like the museum of civilization or something :p:D

Museum of prehistoric artifacts perhaps?

You call that a tv! This (http://www.tvhistory.tv/1929-Western-Television.JPG) is a tv!

Dude...I'm not THAT old! LOL

Yeah. You should have seen the TV's we had back then!

http://designterminal.hu/pw/english/designed-in-hungary/oriontv45.jpg

You call that a tv! This (http://www.tvhistory.tv/1929-Western-Television.JPG) is a tv!

Try this one
http://chicago.metblogs.com/archives/images/2006/02/old%20tv.bmp (http://chicago.metblogs.com/archives/images/2006/02/old%20tv.bmp)

Real actors in the cut scences.;)
So low budget they couldn't even animate the cutscenes. But the bad acting is still my favourite. Extra points for Richard Aiken's Oscar-winning performance!

Oooh - I had one of those :)
"Pickaxe Pete" and the game with the acrobats were my favourites :)

Yeah I think it ran until the mid to late 80's...

Mine had pong and pong type games, worm and a dodgy version of Space Invaders LOL

Real actors in the cut scences.;)

Were you playing the same Resident Evil I was? I remember such masterful dialog like, "Jill, since you're the Master of All Lockpicking why don't you take the Lockpick," (paraphrased, I think) I don't remember them being live action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(video_game)

Hell yeah, Mama Kangaroo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxDo17SwSI

Mine had pong and pong type games, worm and a dodgy version of Space Invaders LOL

Mine also had "computer programming". Which in essence was a course in assembler...

donkey kong for the atari 7800. wow, those were the days.

Donkey Kong the original, on freaking ColecoVision. How's that for old?

Sorry....sometimes I spontaneously reminisce...

First game I played when I went to school in the UK in 81ish.

http://www.beebgames.com/screenshots/2/94.png

LOL wow!

Sorry....sometimes I spontaneously reminisce...

First game I played when I went to school in the UK in 81ish.

http://www.beebgames.com/screenshots/2/94.png

LOL wow!

What the hell is that? Coz it sure as hell isn't the real original donkey kong!

Sorry....sometimes I spontaneously reminisce...

First game I played when I went to school in the UK in 81ish.

http://www.beebgames.com/screenshots/2/94.png

LOL wow!

Here's your Donkey Kong (http://youtube.com/watch?v=E0PuZ-i4b_Y)

Mine also had "computer programming". Which in essence was a course in assembler...

Cool! I'm not sure mine did...I really don't know...all the instructions were in Dutch! LOL

Missile Command (http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/missile_command/)

What the hell is that? Coz it sure as hell isn't the real original donkey kong!

Ahhh...it was Donkey Kong for the BBC Micro in 81ish... ;)

Pong.

Ahhh...it was Donkey Kong for the BBC Micro in 81ish... ;)

The bbc had a console? :eek:

Then in 84 the first space game...utterly ground breaking

http://www.tleaves.com/weblog/images/articles/elite_msx.png

Elite for...the BBC Micro ;)

Don't worry...I also played with this at school...

http://www.royhunter.co.uk/images/380z.jpg

Some game on an Amstrad my dad got in about 1989 when I would have been about 3. It was awesome.

The bbc had a console? :eek:

No...ran on BBC Basic off the 6502chip...32k memory...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

When I say BBC Micro I mean the A series btw.

Found a screenshot :)

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/3293/pickaxe1it0.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Pick Axe Pete - released in 1982. A man waving his tool around ;)

the original mario on the NES

The bbc had a console? :eek:

Different BBC (I think).

I remember using those old BBC's in primary school.

Some old game on the Vic-20 ... I think it was called "Adventure"

So any ideas on what the game in the op could be?

Found a screenshot :)

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/3293/pickaxe1it0.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Pick Axe Pete - released in 1982. A man waving his tool around ;)

Holy shit! Yours had COLOUR!!!! Now I am very envious! LOL

I do remember Pick Ax Pete....wow...another blast from the past!

Do you remember Tempest?

Ah... the BBC's i remember them. Floppy discs that really were floppy, priters with tractor-feed and one page every 30 seconds or so...

Born in '88 and the first game I played was Iceberg. One of those ones you could home-code onto your Atari (I still have the book that gives you the code for that and a whole pile of other games somewhere).

It's something close to the original survival horror game as your relentless and manouvreable enemy hunts you down and the only way to fight back is to lure him into an iceberg...

I also remember a flightsim game with wireframe graphics but that was my dad's, he had the patience for it :p

I probably played Starglider on it too, we've got the story-book from that as well I think (forget in-game story, this thing had a mini-novel attached, halfway between biggles and hitch-hiker's Guide :D)

Mortal Kombat II, with my cousin. He was two years older, and I won. Fried gold, that.

So any ideas on what the game in the op could be?

dunno what game that could be...

here's another question... what was your first console.

Fairchild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F) system was my first. Infact, I think we still have the unit somewhere...

then we got the Atari 2600...

Mega Man III

dunno what game that could be...

here's another question... what was your first console.

Fairchild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F) system was my first. Infact, I think we still have the unit somewhere...

Atari 2600. I bought a Coleco Vision for $8 at a yardsale a few years ago.

Pokemon Blue

dunno what game that could be...

here's another question... what was your first console.

Fairchild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F) system was my first. Infact, I think we still have the unit somewhere...

then we got the Atari 2600...

WOW!!! Now thats a blast from the past!

Space Invaders

My first video game was Safari Hunt on the Sega Master System. My first favorite,though, was Fantasy Zone: The Maze on the same system. I still have the damn thing and everything that came with it.

IIRC, my first video game was the original Lego Island.

(Who, me, a Lego fan? No, nevar! Just ignore the bins and shelves full of the little bricks in my room...)

Sadly, I don't remember any of the games I played on the ancient Didaktik Gama we had at home...
My first IBM PC was the XT model. I remember my first games there being some Tetris clones (Bitris and Lextris or something like that). The first true computer game I played was the Prince of Persia. Really an amazing game! I remember that the first day I got my hands on it I forgot to go to a music class (flute) and my mom calling dad asking where the hell am I coz she was always waiting for me after class :D
I want those days to come back! I hate being an adult! :(

does anyone remember colecovision?

it was such a good console realeased in the early 80s and blew anything else out of the water at the time

Sonic the Hedgehog.

I got through the first two zones...and I didn't even know what I was doing.

It would've been on the Acorn Electron. The only one I remember on that was Frenzy:
http://www.stairwaytohell.com/electron/scr/Frenzy.gif
You had to fill in as much of the screen as possible, killing the bouncy-things if you could, avoiding other enemies... It was ace.

Mario

Sonic the Hedgehog.

I got through the first two zones...and I didn't even know what I was doing.

I remember doing much the same thing. :p

I think Lunar Leaper on the Commodore 64.

It would've been on the Acorn Electron. The only one I remember on that was Frenzy:
http://www.stairwaytohell.com/electron/scr/Frenzy.gif
You had to fill in as much of the screen as possible, killing the bouncy-things if you could, avoiding other enemies... It was ace.

The same here with Acorn Electron, but I think it was some Space Invaders clone or something like that.

Whoa, look at all those "I think it was",... most of us were so young when we touched our first videogames, we can't exactly remember the details of it.

A generation of people who grew up with videogames, come to think of it, I was born shortly after Pong was released.

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego%3F) and The Oregon Trail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_%28computer_game%29) on the Apple ][ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II)

Put the 5 1/4" floppy disk into the drive and hit Control+"Open Apple"+Reset...

The first I can remember playing, is Super Mario World, I think. Great game! Had it for years and still haven't finished it.

Pong clone. Its case was covered with woodlike laminate.

River Raid, on my Atari 2600.

PacMan, Hogan's Alley, Zelda, Tetris.

Lemmings, never really been one for console games though - always preffered a PC

Eh... Pac-Man and Space Invaders. On coin-ops.

Christ, I feel old when I read of people whose first videogame was Wolfenstein.

does "pong" count?

never owned one as such. can't really see much point in ever doing so.
unless it'll run on something i can write it on and is infinately modifyable.

i was over 30 already when archade games included xaxon and vector gx 'tank' and frogger and pac-munge.

i remember going to what had been a computer store the first time it had been turned into a video game store, when the first wave of dedicated vg machines came out, and thinking "what the 'f' is this crap?", about the same time home computers were making the transition from 8 to 16 bits.

my first p.c. that worked had been an osi c1p, and my second was a vic 20. so i was hoping for something more powerful i could actually USE to be CREATIVE with! so the whole transition to mind numbing-ness, the same politicly motivated dumbing down that had 30 years earlier robbed television of what it might otherwise have become, seeing that rot invade the neerd nich, that it was bad enough had come to pander to bizzdroidism, was pretty major thouroughly turn off time.

if the internet hadn't come along and 3d authoring, i'd have probably become a raving ludite by now. well not quite. i love tecnology, the challange of making infrastructure environmentally harmonious and inovating the tecnologies with which to do so, which incidently, i still haven't seen a decent sim implimented of.

you know that's the real 'battle front' humanity faces.

so 'video games' = meh.

=^^=
.../\...

Alex the Kidd for the Master System. Never got past level ten...

blaster on the vectrex where i shot a blip on a screen with a light gun

after that asteroids ie the first game i bought new from a store was 20.00

Pong. I was in high school.

I remember the console with control knobs mounted right on it, no handheld controlers. Not to long afterward asteroids, space invaders, lunar lander and the like first came out and started infiltrating pinball arcades. Things have changed just a bit since those days.

Super Mario Bros on the NES when it first came out.




Damn, I'm old.

"Breakout" (as an arcade machine) makes me older. Then there was the one with the 2 cowboys either side of a wagon, can't remember the name of it.....

Outlaw for the atari is the one your thinking of with the cowboys

i forgot to mention star castle, reputedly the first video game ever. programed on one of the first pdp-8e's at m.i.t. i wasn't there and didn't play it on a decsystem, but i did play the arcade version in the student union at some university up in the northwest when they had one there.

i don't know what kind of hardware the arcade box had, but it may very well have been based on dec boards and versabus, as a lot of industrial apps at the time were too.

=^^=
.../\...

Do you mean "SpaceWar"? That's generally considered the first computer game, although Tic-Tac-Toe and an oscilloscope tennis game were earlier, according to this (http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_videogames.htm).

Aside:
It makes me feel old when people describe the Playstation 1 as a "retro" gaming system.

My sister's still got her Master System somewhere (although she replaced it with my MegaDrive for actual use). I've still got a GameGear, the first console I owned... That's got to be sixteen years old now. I was about ten when I got it. Dad's Acorn is sitting in its box somewhere, I think.

CD: A life in computer games.
I am old.

Outlaw for the atari is the one your thinking of with the cowboys

It was probably called that, but it was an arcade machine i played it on - probably around 1976/77 but i can't say for sure....

oh my word, happy memories :)

I think the first game was galaxians, or something similar - a coin machine in a cafe / boathouse. Then there were lots of platform games on the spectrum, and those terrible text adventures:

"You are in a square with exits on each side. what do you do?"
"Go north"
"You are dead."

grrr

I've always been a bit of a games addict - I thought the Atari Lynx was amazing, I loved loved loved my Amiga (The Bitmap Brothers ruled :D), and have owned pretty much all the consoles out until a few years ago. Now I don't really have too much time to play and stick to my PC.

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on the NES round a friend's house. or maybe Sonic 3 on the megadrive... that would have been a while after.

then Mario Land/World/whatever on the SNES

then Sim City 2000 on the PC :)



edit: lol, those text adventures at school are probably the first actually, and/or other shitty DOS games

My first video game I can't remember the name of. It was some old system that used floppy disks.

The game was in very basic colour. The game consisted of a spaceship that scrolled to the right constantly. The fire button caused a bullet to fire forward from the ship and similtaneous drop a bomb to the ground. The first part had the ship flying over small green hills, bombing enemy vehicles and stations, and the next bit had you dodging green objects that constantly moved up and down. I cant' remember much after that, I think thats as far as I got.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Some old game on the Vic-20 ... I think it was called "Adventure"
cool! Still a good game! Even though I never finished it! For me, it was Blockout or a Tetris clone... at least it ran on a Turbo XT :)

It was probably called that, but it was an arcade machine i played it on - probably around 1976/77 but i can't say for sure....

That sounds like Desperadoes. I loved that game and spent many a 20c piece in the arcades. I'm glad someone else remembers it.

That sounds like Desperadoes. I loved that game and spent many a 20c piece in the arcades. I'm glad someone else remembers it.

Rembered the whole "intarweb" and the search facility. The one I used play was ......."Boothill"
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7193&letter=B

lemmings, simtower, simcity 2000

My first video game I can't remember the name of. It was some old system that used floppy disks.

The game was in very basic colour. The game consisted of a spaceship that scrolled to the right constantly. The fire button caused a bullet to fire forward from the ship and similtaneous drop a bomb to the ground. The first part had the ship flying over small green hills, bombing enemy vehicles and stations, and the next bit had you dodging green objects that constantly moved up and down. I cant' remember much after that, I think thats as far as I got.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

It sounds similar to Fantasy Zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Zone), but I don't think it is, because in FZ you could fly both left and right, and the weapons were different buttons...

The dropping bombs and firing bullets at the same time rings a bell >_<

Pong. This was several years even before Atari 2600.

I played two consoles, one named Odissey and another called Intellivision. They weren't that famous.

I remember Frogger, something about Dungeons and Dragons, although I didn't know what "Dungeons and Dragons" meant. In the Odissey, I remember a duel of cowboys and a bowling game...

About the same time, I played Gravedigger, and Space Invaders on the PC...

Also, this.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9459

and
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=A&game_id=6971

Well, the first game I remember playing was some kind of extremely old PC game...I remember something about a bouncing ball...and I think a wizard...and it was all completely red, and the game could only play on some ultra-slow computer...on our brand new computer--40 MB harddrive, 17 MHz Processor, 1 MB RAM--it ran way way WAY too fast.

The next game I remember trying to play but never getting working was some really old sports game...American Soccer 88 or something like that...no matter what I did I never got it working. Was the first thing about computers to piss me off.

Then there was some kind of old, old, old game that I think was either a version of Risk or one of the very first predecessors to RTS games...I do remember something about...allies.

But the first game I remember in detail, as well as how much I enjoyed it, was Secret Agent:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/secretagent/index.html?q=Secret%20Agent&tag=result;title;2

(Ignore the idiot who's review is first...that guy knows nothing. For its time, that game was awesome.)

Anyway, I played a whole bunch of other Apogee games after that, like Crystal Caves, Wolfenstein 3-D, Commander Keen, and so on and so forth. I didn't get into console gaming until 2002 or so, and didn't know about ROMs until around 2004, though I wish I had. Before then I was always a PC gamer, and even now my PS2 has been collecting dust for months, or it was until I let my little brother take it and my small T.V. into his room...that way it actually gets used.

I remember the Apple II and Apple II+ there were a lot of games some vaguely video like.

Pong would have to be the first console video game

I remember:

1. Intellivision
2. Atari
3. Vectrex
4. Nintendo

I had all of them at one time or another.

I remember before there was floppy disks. I remember when 10 Megabytes hard drive was big and nobody could afford one.

I remember 8 inch floppy disks and 5 1/4.

Punch cards were just coming out when I was coming in.

Hey Apple fans Do you remember the "1984" commercial.

The first mario bros. on NES.

But the most joyous memories: Yoshi's Island!

An old 8-bit Atari game, I can't remember what it was called, but there was a little dude bouncing on a trampoline, and you had to move the trampoline around to stop him going splat. That was probably about 1988.

The first game I remember playing extensively, though, was Alex Kidd in Miracle World.

I played two consoles, one named Odissey and another called Intellivision. They weren't that famous.


I used the Intellivision of a friend of mine. Looked futuristic back then...:(

Aging, alas! But it is the only way I've found to avoid dying young.

I used the Intellivision of a friend of mine. Looked futuristic back then...:(

Aging, alas! But it is the only way I've found to avoid dying young.

So as an older gamer, what do you think of newer gamers who are all used to games like Banjo Kazooie or Final Fantasy VII or Ratchet and Clank and what have you rather than, say, Pong?

Pff...'finishing.' In my day games didn't have 'endings.' You didn't 'finish' a game, you just kept on and on until the eventual churning onslaught of the game finally killed you for good. If you completed a task you were rewarded by getting to do it again. We lined up days worth of lunch money quarters to participate in something the Greeks would consider some sort of hell...

And we liked it.

Kids today, with their video games that have 'endings'...bah!

No offense, the endings in modern day games kinda, well, suck. The game that never ends always rock.

*morphs into Lambchop and friends* This is the game that never ends, Yes it goes on and on my friends. Some people started playing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue playing it forever just because this is the gaem that never ends....

It sounds similar to Fantasy Zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Zone), but I don't think it is, because in FZ you could fly both left and right, and the weapons were different buttons...

The dropping bombs and firing bullets at the same time rings a bell >_<

Nah. Much worse graphics and colour.

It seems the younger you are, the less chance you spent hanging round smoke filled 'pool halls' playing video games, pinball etc...

Hey, being in bars at such a young age taught me how NOT to drink.

probably mario or tetris or something on someone else's gameboy or nintendo. the first game i got for myself was red alert.

probably mario or tetris or something on someone else's gameboy or nintendo. the first game i got for myself was red alert.

Gotta do the Mario Test and Play some Motherf***in Tetris on the Motherf**in Plane.

(I'll love the person who knows where the first part came from)

Pong. On the original machine, which would only play Pong.

It was Xmas 1975, I was 7, and we were the first people on the block to get a PONG console.
:)

I had Android Zim on my TRS-80

I remember playing football on my Atari before that, like when I was 2 or something.....

Android Zim was the first game I played in earnest though.

...A text-based game called 'Babaji', wherein you play the leader of a fictional nation. Your aides would prompt you to make decisions ( "Babaji, Babaji the people are starving! And then it'd prompt you along predetermined courses of action - increasing crop production, slaughtering cattle, initiating irrigation projects, etc.) This is going waaaaaaay back to the 1970s, on a neighbours' then-very fancy-schmancy TRS-80.

In a way, it was kinda like NationStates, but your aides would never ever leave you alone for a minute. I managed to keep my head above water and avoid a coup d'etat for about a half an hour at best.

In the arcade it was the original Space Invaders.

At home I had this....

http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/philips-videopac-g7000-a.jpg

1978 ;)

The Philips G7000 was a great machine. The basketball game was my favourite.

Damn... tough question...

It might have been Megaman on the Nintendo, just normal Nintendo.

Or it could have been something on the Genesis... Sonic maybe?

Hmm....

Ouasimodo on the Old Oric

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Oric1.jpg/800px-Oric1.jpg

Dangerous Dave, followed by Shooting Gallery, a puzzle game, Chess, then finally Wolfenstien 3D.

Wolfenstein 3D and a few others from around the same time whos names escape me.

First video game I ever played or owned was "Pong". I guess that makes me an old man on NSG.

Fifa International Soccer.

Back in ohhh, '95...

That's the first PC game anyway, I'd plaid some consoles at other people's houses before that, but don't remember 'em.

Qbert. Close friends had an Atari back in the early '80s.

I had three first games but am unsure which of the three I played first . Frogger, PacMan and Asteroids.

zelda- link to the past

Oh geeze. I think it was a baseball game. It was 2-d and i can't remember what console it was on :( I believe it was before the Super Nintendo (awesome console btw) came out, but i'm not sure

First video game I ever played or owned was "Pong". I guess that makes me an old man on NSG.

You and me both.


Pong. This was several years even before Atari 2600.

On a personal note, this is the second time today I've posted something, then someone posts almost exactly the same thing because no one noticed my post.

Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, well actually it was Batman & Robin but I'd much rather it'd been Crash Bandicoot really.

You and me both.




On a personal note, this is the second time today I've posted something, then someone posts almost exactly the same thing because no one noticed my post.

what... you're saying that no one else can call pong their first video game? :confused:

Space Invaders. I thought it was crap. It was.

I probably played Pong, too. Some things are not worth remembering.

Damn, that wasn't even meant to be funny :D

Space Invaders. I thought it was crap. It was.

I probably played Pong, too. Some things are not worth remembering.

I loved Space Invaders, and Missile Assault (I think it was called) too. Saving the earth from destruction with primitive graphics - doesn't get much better than that. :p

Space Invaders. I thought it was crap. It was.

I probably played Pong, too. Some things are not worth remembering.

What about Lemmings, Tetris and Asteroids. They hold up. Vector Graphics FTW!

has anybody played dungeon keeper, it is not that old but I played it when It still worked on my computer, it is useless and crashes all the time on XP, that is if you manage to make it work at all... I cannot find number 2 anywhere and they are not going to make number three :(

Either Driver or Pokemon Blue...*Both for Gameboy Color, of course*

really showing my age here:
brick breakout on the ZX-Spectrum

really showing my age here:
brick breakout on the ZX-Spectrum

I think I remember that one. Good times. :D

Anyone remember Dig-Dug? Another classic.

The first game I ever played was MEGAMAN and I still think its a awsome game:D

Something called 'Jason' on our 8086.

The graphics were ascii characters, and you had to run and jump your little blob past a bunch of obstacles in platform game style.

I pine for that game like a lost love.

Super Mario Bros on the NES when it first came out.




Damn, I'm old.

Fuck that! My first video game was pong.

The first game I ever played was MEGAMAN and I still think its a awsome game:D

If I remember correctly, if you get the elec-gun you can unlock a special weapon that provides you with the 'n' you need to bridge the gap between vowel sounds.

But I agree with the sentiment. I keep telling myself I have to get the playstation versions, but it keeps slipping my mind. I think I'm subconsciously afraid that they will disappoint and ruin childhood memories.

what... you're saying that no one else can call pong their first video game? :confused:

Of course not, that wasn't at all my point. Did it hurt jumping to that conclusion?

The New Zealand Story on an Amiga 500. Oh, yeah, that was cool. Though the defining memories of gaming I have as a kid almost all involve playing Commander Keen (1-6) on the computers at my dad's office. I remember thinking how amazing those computers were.

Also, Humbug on my grandad's computer when I went to visit him. I'm still playing that game to this day.

I think it must have been a game called 'Rockford', similar to 'Boulder Dash'.
I loved it. :)

Caterpillar, arcade.

"Babaji, Babaji! The toilets need flushing!"

Do you:
a) have the servants flush the toiletsxxxxxxxxy/n
b) nationalize the porcelain industryxxxxxxxxxy/n
c) initiate latrine-construction campaignxxxxxy/n

My first video game I can't remember the name of. It was some old system that used floppy disks.

The game was in very basic colour. The game consisted of a spaceship that scrolled to the right constantly. The fire button caused a bullet to fire forward from the ship and similtaneous drop a bomb to the ground. The first part had the ship flying over small green hills, bombing enemy vehicles and stations, and the next bit had you dodging green objects that constantly moved up and down. I cant' remember much after that, I think thats as far as I got.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Could it have been Defender (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_(game))?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Williamsdefender.png/225px-Williamsdefender.png

That Duck Hunters game on the original nintendo, then Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong on Super Nintendo.

I played two consoles, one named Odissey and another called Intellivision. They weren't that famous.

The Magnavox Odyssey was the worlds first homeconsole - which I daresay made it famous ;)

The Odyssey 2 is the same machine as the Philips G7000 videopac multiple people already mentioned & posted screenshots of.

has anybody played dungeon keeper, it is not that old but I played it when It still worked on my computer, it is useless and crashes all the time on XP, that is if you manage to make it work at all... I cannot find number 2 anywhere and they are not going to make number three :(

yeah, I loved Dungeon Keeper :D

has anybody played dungeon keeper, it is not that old but I played it when It still worked on my computer, it is useless and crashes all the time on XP, that is if you manage to make it work at all... I cannot find number 2 anywhere and they are not going to make number three :(

I own them both. Wonderful, brilliant games - tough I preferred 1. Even with all its bugs :)

One of those 'anthropomorphic object bakes a cake' or 'anthropomorphic animal visits this place' games...

Super Mario Brothers...for NES

I think it's either mario or pong thats come out on top as the first video game most people have played.

Something for the Genesis.

Maybe Earthworm Jim.

Dune on the Amiga, when I was really little

Lemmings on the Amiga was the first game I was able to beat, and I was about 6 at the time

I own them both. Wonderful, brilliant games - tough I preferred 1. Even with all its bugs :)

I own both with the expansion for the first one. Keeper 2 can be found on the £5 or less racks in most British stores or in Asda/Tesco (assuming you live in Britain)

Fury3. A very old flight-combat sim.

I never had a system growing up, and the first friends of mine who did have one played some sort of fighting game that was similar to Street Fighter. It was probably one of later incarnations like Street Fighter IV: Streets of Blood!!!1

some frog game on a very old pc that used Cassette