The first game i played was a sega something lol i was about 3.
it had super mario, after that, i fell in love with gaming lol

My first game was Happy trails and BurgerTime on the Intellivision

wow! lol

It was either a pong clone on my cousin's atari, or probably a formula one racing game on my neighbour's Macintosh so yeah, I started gaming on an Apple!

That racing game is so old that I can't even find screenshots of it -- just imagine two rows of white blocks (much like Pong's blocks) that form the outline of a road; that was all you got to see. The joystick/controller had a rotating disc which actually didn't make it any easier to steer as the blocks were so far apart and offered so little visual perspective that you simply lost track of where the road was supposed to be anyway.

Funnily enough, the neighbours didn't let me play anymore after I [allegedly!] melted their xerox machine by leaving it on The smell of xerox was divine in those days

I think it was either King Kong or Ultima, not very sure.

My first game, i`ll ever remember it, was DAN DARE in 1986. (Shooter One :D)
I never find it to have it like a remember ... was writen in BASIC language.

Played on a HC85 PC - on that time my school haved 4 of it, fist steps on PC`s.
Game was loaded to PC with a Cassette.

Time run so fast :) Was like yesterday.

Thanks for this topic, is good to remember.

My first game was Space Invaders on one of the old Ataris that had the fantastic wood look finish (2600 I think). Quality. Shame I left it on over night and fried the bugger. Ooops!

some of you guys make me feel young

my first PC game would have been echo the dolphin, as for console i can't be sure, but it must have been the duck hunt/smb combo for NES

The original Pong,the one with the controls right in the console(mid 70's).

OMG echo the dolphin haha i remember that

So do I. I thought it sucked balls lol.

And you're making me feel old

I actually remember seeing an 'echo the dolphin' review (may even have been in a PC mag) that was so full of praise that I really wanted to play the game myself (but never got to) -- that's how I remember that one

my first game ever was michael jackson something for mega drive LoL sonic game was sold out

My first was space invaders on a table top arcade machine at a hotel, you've gotta be pretty old to remember table top players and first computer would of been on a commodore 16plus4 or asteroids on the atari.

unluck about sonic lol




WOW lol

my grandparents had this cutting edge technological marvel to entertain me when i was 6 oh so many moons ago.

pong which it had but called tennis but it was much more advanced as it had squash(pong against a wall), football(pong with two bats on either side) and practice(one player squash).............oh what joy it did bring me!

first console game, pong
first computer game, Maziacs on the zx81!
Showin my age now :P

ah then youd prob remember good ol hungry horace to then.......ah memories!

anyone remember blitz on the commodore vic20

The 1st console (1975?) I had was with Pong and some other games, basically all based on some white squares on a black screen. But it also had a rifle, where one could shoot those moving white squares (on the black background).

The first computer (1982) I had was a ZX-81 and my 1st game (3D racing game) wasn't sold on tape, but was printed in a magazine and one had to type in some hundred lines with hex values...

quake 2 on PC, i was about 4 i still play it today lol

Hurgry Horace! lol the memories.... Horace goes skiing my fave.. god i loved my speccy

you guys are tracking times before i was born, im actually impressed lol

the first time a saw a computer game was pacman from the Atari, i never had a chance to play it my cousin wont let me.. damn him.
then it was love at first sight the super mario game from The Nintendo Family computer from japan, i wanted it so bad that i beg my parents & did all my chores everyday just to buy it for me, 2 yrs after they bought it for me & it was not that cool anymore.. lol

& ohh my first handheld was i think donkey kong...

Hardcore man......Hardcore.....

I remember typing a program from a magazine a couple of times -- first was a MasterMind type of game:



and the second one was a QBert type of game, I think:



After typing all those pages of code, neither worked

wow! lol

First game i ever played was Galaxian on those huge game things in arcade halls.

You know, this one...


Galaxian, galaga, Phoenix, 1942 and paper boy were the favorites in those days.


And Space armada i think it was called + sea battle on the intellivision were the first ones i ever owned meself.

After that came a Vic20, the a C64, Amiga and then an Amstrad Pc1512 'Pc' with an 8Mhz 8086 cpu, 16 greys CGA card, 640 Kb mem and a woppin 20MB HD.....wich i couldnt get full for some reason

There were predecesors to video games in the late 60's when I was very small. The first game I played was a racing game that used cellophane (sp?) images as digital images weren't around yet. The fist computerized video game I played was pong. I liked pinball best, though.

retro, but awesome

Yeah i remember that. Typing line after line for a bloody hour to find out the game (program) was buggy or hell didn't work at all!

haha lmao

Haha mine was Rayman on the playstation 1, i never completed it first time round i was about 6 or 7. Last year im now 18 i found it in the attic and forfilled a childhood ambition to complete it.

HAHA i loved rayman, this takes me back lol im only 14 thought

you guys are awesome lol, thanks

What an awsome thread, it really sent me back to my childhood. I remember sitting in my friends living rooom when he introduced me to the Atari . It wasn’t long after that I had my own Atari and used to play, gawd, im struggling to remember the game itself but it was a 2 player tank shoot em up. Much later, I eventually persuaded my mum to buy me a spectrum 48 – my first game being Jetpac. That was really awsome at the time. I think the developers were called Ultimate. At the time, they became frontrunners for top quality Spectrum games – er, was there – Underworld? Brill. But there were so many other cool games for the Spectrum- how about the Lords of Midnight? The Hobbit?

I also had a BBC B, well, it wasn’t mine but, I would play Elite for hours, I think my status was Deadly in the end.

Years on from that and I had an Amiga, there was a racing game—ATR- All Terrain Racing. A two dimensional birds eye view of a racetrack. Me and my mates spent hours racing each other pinching up the track times on that..

First post Btw – couldn’t resist posting.

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Thanks for the posts - brings back some great memories... I had Pong that plugged straight into the TV via an antenna connection - I remember it probably cost about £20 around 1979!!

My mate had an Atari console so we played Missile Command, Space Invaders and some kind of Tank game in a maze - can't remember the name...

My first ever game computer I owned was a Sinclair Spectrum and got Jet Pack free with it.. What a bargain!!

Owned an old 2nd hand BBC Micro purely to play Elite..!!

I then rose to the heady heights of Amiga 2000 ownership... Best games were Flashback & Syndicate... I still have it in the attic..!!

Aweome


Before my day LOL, thats pretty cool though

my first consloe was an atari 7800 i got it new from the store and tought it was the best thing since sliced bread. although i had played earlier versions like the 2600, but they didnt belong to me. i think my first played game was missle command.
first pc ibm compatible something or other. s86 it had 16 colors, 40mb hdd, numeric prossesor was opional(wich my bother paid for), 5 1/4" floppy, dos 5.0 operating system. oh the days of typing "dir/w" and "cd (folder name)". the first game i had for that was links 386, or prince of persia.

awesome lol

Manic miner on the zx spectrum but even before that I think was pong and then in a shop (store) playing space invaders and defender on upright machines for 20cents a go. Hyper olympics ruled!

First game eh? Infiltrator and Chuckie Egg on the commodore 64, ahhhh, good times. Can´t remember much of the amiga games i had besides all the hours i spent trying to complete the Kings Quest Series and Zany Golf. First game i bought on playstation was Resident Evil.

The first game I ever played was when I was 3 or 4. It was a yellow hand held power rangers game. It was shaped like a gameboy and had two different cartridges I could put in and play. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called.

The first true video game I ever played was when I was 5 years old. I got the N64 for my birthday and got Super Mario 64.

Sonic the hedgehog for the sega genesis

Then i started gaming on a PC...

i had a sonic game, with windows 98, lol goo0d times

It would be good do go back to the good times when games were simple, and not all about war and killing

The first game I ever played was food fight for the atari 2600. Does that make me old?

I was around when the N64 was coming out so I got stuck with supermario 64, starfox 64, and Crusin USA

first game I ever played must have been Mario brothers oh the memories LOL

Yeah, I've asked my parents this question a few times over the years lol. They say I was playing Mario Bros. on the NES when I was 2 and a half lol.