What's the first video game you ever played?

Pong, literally, at some point in the early 1970s.
 
The earliest I can name is Choplifter on the Apple ][+ but there were others - I remember a vertical scrolling game.
 
First game I played was either Turtles Tournament Fighters, or and another fighting game were you control characters made out of dough, on the Super Nintendo :)
 
Clayfighter?

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Grand Prix on the Atari 5200. I was 3 or 4, picked it up really fast wound up being the best at it in the family. My parents were surprised.
 
Spy Hunter or Sopwith, maybe an NES/turbografx-16 game at someones house?
 
Atari Combat!

I might have played something earlier, but this is the first thing I have good memories of playing.
 
That would be Turok : Dinosaur Hunter on the N64. Played it a little on my nephew's console. After that when I got back home I bought the game and a N64. Kept me captivated for months. Then Goldeneye came out and I was hooked on gaming for good!
 
Elvira pinball was my first game i played she talked as u played witch was kinda sexy :) mind u this was before pong :)


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then there was this game :) my first FPS and muti player game i played back then before there was such a thing :p




and heres a walk down memory lane

 
It was probably Wizard of Wor on C64



I'm not exactly sure. It might have been H.E.R.O. or River Raid. But the one above is more likely.

On PC the first game was Test Drive III: The Passion.
 
Quartz-1 said:
The earliest I can name is Choplifter on the Apple ][+ but there were others - I remember a vertical scrolling game.
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I remember Choplifter from the early days. But damn that game was too difficult for me. Well about every game was too difficult for me back then except maybe LeMans.

Hell it's entirely possible this was the first game I played I just can't tell anymore.
 
Hard to say for sure, my memory isn't that great. Think my parents had an old Pong system in the 80's, never played on Comadore or Atari. I remember playing Mario and a few other NES games at a friends' house. Parents would never buy me a console, but dad came home with our first PC (think it was a 286) sometime in the late 80's. Played random old DOS games on it, earliest CGA games i remember were Kong, Janator Joe (or Jump Joe), one called Airborn, or Striker, or something like that.
 
Unfortunately I can't remember the first video game I played. It was probably something on the Atari 2600. I do remember the first game I played, in an arcade, was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
 
Yah, I had Odyssey when it became available but my meaning was the actual arcade-style but since arcades in those early 1970s didn't really have "video games" just yet since Pong was literally the first one to be created for that purpose. I have very distinct memories of those times, almost comes back to mind when I recall them in a black & white montage, oddly enough. Guess I really am getting old. :)

The Odyssey and the original (and I do mean the original) Atari 2600 were the only "consoles" I've ever owned in my life as I jumped right into personal computers and never found the limitations of consoles worth the trouble, and to this day I still feel exactly the same: PCs are just better overall since they're capable of more potential. Sure they lack some games that are console only given the platform but, I'm not a gamer, never have been so for me it's irrelevant.
 
Tiberian said:
Yah, I had Odyssey when it became available but my meaning was the actual arcade-style but since arcades in those early 1970s didn't really have "video games" just yet since Pong was literally the first one to be created for that purpose. I have very distinct memories of those times, almost comes back to mind when I recall them in a black & white montage, oddly enough. Guess I really am getting old. :)

The Odyssey and the original (and I do mean the original) Atari 2600 were the only "consoles" I've ever owned in my life as I jumped right into personal computers and never found the limitations of consoles worth the trouble, and to this day I still feel exactly the same: PCs are just better overall since they're capable of more potential. Sure they lack some games that are console only given the platform but, I'm not a gamer, never have been so for me it's irrelevant.
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I tried to get into PC gaming. I think that the people who were using Amiga PCs were the only ones getting good PC games back then. The frustration of using a 286 to game on was not worth it.
 
Some baseball game on Intellivision.
Probably 25 years ago.
 
Krenum said:
Does this count?


My Uncle had one like this but a different model with a toggle switch & I used to play it all the time when I was little.

If not, then I guess it would have to be Xevious for the Atari 2600.
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Oh wow, that's a blast from the past. Anyone played this?

 
I can't remember if this was the first game I played for sure but it was definitely the first game/game system I owned and could play at home.


 
Youn said:
Clayfighter?

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Yeah, clay NOT dough! I remember the graphics were rather good and just read that they used real clay models. Apparently, for one of the characters called Blob they had to come up with 70 different clay molds to capture all positions and moves :)
 
Pong...in the dining hall (?) at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, sometime during 75-76 school year.
 
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The oldest game I remember playing console wise is Pole Position. My dad had an Atari 2600 and I remember playing that game when I was like 3-4yrs old.

Pc game wise, it was Oregon Trail, Tecmo Bowl, and Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? All played at school when I was in like the 3rd grade. I remember when we had recess a few of us would ask the teacher to stay inside and we'd all take turns on Tecmo Bowl or Oregon Trail.
 
I lived in a small village in early 90's where no one knew anything about video games. I used to read A LOT at school library. Then one birthday I wished for some books, and my parents bought me Sega Mega Drive.... I instantly got hooked on Super Mario. That was my first video game and the moment that ruined my next 15 years :p
I actually got hooked so badly on video games for so many years that degrees in school sucked (although I did fine and Always passed) and quit university back in 2004 because of Lineage 2. That's the thing I regret most. I would have been a very rich man now as I studied things that would put me in great position to develop apps for iOS and Android, which released about 4-5 years after I started university.
Today I spend a small fortune on computer parts only because of video games. But I am not that hooked on video games anymore.
My very first PC game was Worms (1). That's what made me switch from console to PC gaming.
 
Nebell said:
Then one birthday I wished for some books, and my parents bought me Sega Mega Drive.... I instantly got hooked on Super Mario. That was my first video game and the moment that ruined my next 15 years
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Are you sure it wasn't Sonic you first played or are you fooling us a little? :) Or were there fake Asian game cartridges back then with Nintendo games that you could play on the Mega Drive/Genesis?
 
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