The First Game You Ever Played

[Dan]

You heard me. What's the first video game you ever set your hands on?

I think... Think...That mine was Marble Madness for the NES, but I'm not entirely sure. I played it in hospital once. It's a long story.

[Zakia]

The original Castlevania. You'd think a youth pastor would have picked Bible Adventures, but no >.>

[wolfull]

Hmm, first game i played....
Most likely Space Invaders

[Dan]

'Tremble in fear at our three different kinds of ship!'

Heh...Unfortunately I missed out on the whole arcade versions...The first console I ever owned was a Sega Master System II. Funny little console, but I loved it. Then onto a N64, which I loved twice as much. Then onto the new generations, where the lovey feeling of consoles has been somewhat replaced by the console wars.

Aaaah...Good times.

[Lionmane]

Well, that depends on the type of video game.

In the arcade, that would be Pong. Yes, I'm that old.

On a console, that would be the Atari 2600 system, and Asteroids would be the game. It might also have been Space Invaders... I got them both at the same time, and I can't remember which one I played first. But I think it was Asteroids.

[Trillion]

My first console was a N64 and my first game was Mario 64.

[NEMESIS]

Hmm, first game i played....
Most likely Space Invaders
Same. Then again, the classics are always the best.

[GaZPT]

Blimey this is going back a while, the first game i really remember playing was 'The Legend Of Zelda, Link To The Past' on the SNES. Boy did i love that game

[JudeMaverick]

Super Mario Bros.

[HedonicWill]

I think it was on Atari 2600 because that is what my parent's owned the first few years of my life. Though vague, my memory suggests that it was Space Invaders, Pole Position, or Donkey Kong. But who knows, maybe my controller was never plugged in. I do vividly remember playing Super Mario Bros. for NES when I was three, maybe that came first. I'm 22 so it's hard to say exactly what order those events took place.

[Polluted]

I was playing games before I really have any clear memories ( according to my mommy), but the first games I remember playing clearly were Wonder Boy, Black Belt and Action Fighter all for the Sega Master System. Prior to that I was supposedly fond of a D&D game for Intelevision, but I don't recall that at all.

[Toast]

Goldeneye 007 on the N64 at my cousin's house. Until his Mum said it was inappropriate for me to see violence...

[Dan]

No Oddjobs, Toast.

NO ODDJOBS!!!

[Polluted]

No Oddjobs, Toast.

NO ODDJOBS!!!

Lol. I didn't know what you meant at first. The cheapness that is Oddjob has long since been replaced by that damn monkey from Timesplitters.

[Johnny5]

Asteroids on the Atari is the first I remember. Got me hooked.

[terpitude71]

1st game ever was the original Super Mario Bros.

[panickedthumb]

PONG on the atari 2600. By the time I played it, the NES was already out, but I didn't get an NES until like '88 or '89. I've been an addict ever since.

[Bassium]

First game I ever, ever, ever, (EVER!!!) Played I'm not sure what it was I was too young to remember correctly, but the one that I remember playing the earliest in my life I CAN remember is probably something like Super Mario 64, or Clay Fighters for the SNES, not sure which.

[panickedthumb]

First game I ever, ever, ever, (EVER!!!) Played I'm not sure what it was I was too young to remember correctly, but the one that I remember playing the earliest in my life I CAN remember is probably something like Super Mario 64, or Clay Fighters for the SNES, not sure which.
I forget that not everyone was gaming in the 80's. I know it's sad and almost a little ageist of me, but when I read that people started on the N64, it's a little sad to me that they missed out on the NES. Sure, they could always go back and play it now, especially with the Wii VC becoming so popular, but they missed out on the magic of those days. Missing the Atari is no big deal, but the NES... *tear*

[Bassium]

I forget that not everyone was gaming in the 80's. I know it's sad and almost a little ageist of me, but when I read that people started on the N64, it's a little sad to me that they missed out on the NES. Sure, they could always go back and play it now, especially with the Wii VC becoming so popular, but they missed out on the magic of those days. Missing the Atari is no big deal, but the NES... *tear*

I don't think I could've been gaming in the '80's you see I was born in 1992, I would've had to bend the very understanding of time and space (Don't forget life!) as we know it to do that.

[Colin]

Hmm, I can't remember the first game I played but.. the first console I purchased was the Master System, and that came with Alex Kidd.

[Polluted]

Hmm, I can't remember the first game I played but.. the first console I purchased was the Master System, and that came with Alex Kidd.

Mine came with Hang-On and a Duck Hunt clone. If you turned it on without a cart, it had a snail maze game. Later revisions had Alex Kidd built in I guess.

Remember those games you could get on little cards? I had a sweet one called Ghost House. I tried it a while back on an emulator and it was brutally hard.

Edit: The only Alex Kidd game I ever had was on the Genesis.

[TMR]

Oh dear Rassilon this thread isn't making me feel old in the slightest...!

i'm not sure of the order, but the first arcade cab i remember playing is Space Invaders, the first computer game was a type-in listing called Nibblers on a friend's VIC 20 and the first console game Combat on the Atari 2600 - i think that's the order it happened and the second one was what got me hooked on the idea of playing games at home and indeed trying to write my own...

[Bassium]

Oh dear Rassilon this thread isn't making me feel old in the slightest...!

i'm not sure of the order, but the first arcade cab i remember playing is Space Invaders, the first computer game was a type-in listing called Nibblers on a friend's VIC 20 and the first console game Combat on the Atari 2600 - i think that's the order it happened and the second one was what got me hooked on the idea of playing games at home and indeed trying to write my own...

Lawl see it's funny because you're old. :P

[Ataxia Ghost]

Super Mario 64, but I haven't played any nintendo games in ages, lol.

[Ziriux]

First game I've ever played was the first metal gear solid on the PS1.

[AgentxRicky]

My dad bought me a NES when I was...less than a year old actually. The first game I played was Super Mario Bros. but played is kind of an overstatement. I just kind of mashed on the buttons stupidly.

[Ziriux]

Ahh good old Mario, I think officially everyone has played a Mario game.

[Anchorman Mazda]

First ever game I played was Super Mario World 2 I believe. It was on the SNES and involved that game which included the large bullets, the goal post stage ends and those enemies with football gear. I have not played it for a couple of months so I am not 100% on the name.

[Anchorman Mazda]

Ahh good old Mario, I think officially everyone has played a Mario game.
He is a classic in the history of gaming. My personal favourite character.

[A Hooded Psycho]

Mario 64 was my first game :)

[DeadlyDevil666]

No fricking clue... :)

[Ziriux]

No fricking clue... :)Must have been a long time huh? You old man hehe. j/k

[TheDevilBringer]

It was either Pitfall or Dragon's Lair - both of them were among the first before I got to play my brothers Nintendo.

[Zanthis]

Mine of course was Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, both games on a single cartridge.

[AgonisingNewt]

Pac Man on the N64 I believe.

[Mike]

Pac Man on the N64 I believe.Pac Man wasn't on the N64, perhaps it was Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness? That was on the N64. :rolleyes:

[AgonisingNewt]

Oops. Yep it was Ms.Pac Man. All I know it was some kind of pac man game on the N64.

[TooLegitVolz]

Sonic on the Sega Genesis is the first game I really remember...

[Ziriux]

Aww, Volz, that's cute.

[Zanthis]

Yeah we have quite bit of "new" gamers.

[Ziriux]

Yeah we have quite bit of "new" gamers.Yes, sir I've brought most of my comrades from xbox.com forums hehe. I need to go to PS3.com forums and try to do the same lol.

[Zanthis]

Not that it's a bad thing, I welcome all those who only recently got into gaming.

[A Hooded Psycho]

Mine was rugrats on the PS1 :(

[Quraishi]

Super Mario Bros. for the NES, my first system aswell

[Quxx]

Well, the first console I bought was a Sega Genesis for $5 at a garage sale when I was 6. They sold two games with it, The Magic School Bus and Sonic the Hedgehog. Naturally, I played The Magic School Bus game first.

[Zanthis]

Mine was rugrats on the PS1 :(

hehe I remember that

[Sly]

Apple 2e -- it was some kind of spelling game that involved conveyor belts and spelling words. I thought it was awesome.

As for the others... I was so young my memories sort of bleed together. I remember the first MS Flight Simulator and MegaRace (awesome game... I still remember the stuff Lazlo did) both of which had a whole string of MS-DOS prompts to go through.

My first "real" game... was probably Starcraft. It's what got me hooked on PC gaming. And, of course, Super Star Wars and Mario on the SNES.

[Peter Skerritt]

Telstar PONG was my first video game experience. My mom still recalls that I soundly beat my father when we'd play.

That was over 30 years ago. Sheesh. :o

[Michael.Moriarty]

Star trek on the Vectrex . . . man I loved that frikin thing. It was like an original gameboy with a steroid problem and a seperate controller . . . Lol

[Austin_SJ]

warcraft or Doom I had two demos on my first pc.

[TheGameLlama]

Rygar on my grandparent's yard sale NES. Couldn't even beat the first boss!

[Andrew Bennett]

Burger time on the old Intellivision

[Grahame]

Mine would have been on the Sinclair Spectrum.

Probably Jet Set Willy.

First console game was Sonic the Hedgehog in an electrical store. It was the highlight of my Saturday for about 4 weeks in a row, playing the first level of Sonic.

Then one day my dad said "would be great if we had one in the house, shall we get one?" Even as a child, I totally thought he was winding me up. He wasn't and we boughtone right there.

I'll most likely remember that moment in full clarity til the day I die. :biggrin:

[Martin Oddy]

I am the only one that has absolutely no idea? :(

It was either on the BBC or the Amiga - and while I can remember a whole bunch of games from very early in my life, I couldn't name one as being the first with any degree of confidence!

[TheGameLlama]

If it was Amiga, it would have to be Shufflepuck Cafe! Where there even any other games worth playing on the Amiga? (Don't pick on me, that computer is older than I am!) I think Shufflepuck Cafe was re-released on another system at some point too... maybe on GBA?

Also, I might have to edit mine from Rygar... There was this game on my dad's old green-screen Tandy where you push a number key and it makes a robot on the screen do a dance move. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? He sold that Tandy at a garage sale for $10 years ago... wish I still had it today.

[Steve Kelso]

Super Mario Bros, without a doubt.

[sel]

Pokemon; though I played a lot of older games after that (I was a little junkie). I suppose a lot of them were before my time, but pokemon was still my first.

[Colin]

Did you get addicted to pokemon from that moment forth?

[Brandon Jackson]

Not exactly sure what the first game I played was but I tend to remember being a kid and playing the Atari. Games like Star Wars, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and yes PONG.

[Colin]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? Was that based on the movie?

[Brandon Jackson]

Very much so...basically red blobs and you were trying to destroy them. Ah the graphics back then :)

[TheGameLlama]

Did you beat the last boss by holding up a piece of sheet music? That movie was TERRIBLE. Now The Toxic Avenger... there was a film that deserved to be made into a game. Oh wait... what's this (http://sydlexia.com/vald/toxic_crusaders.htm)? Oh yeah, another crap movie-based game.

At least the new Wolverine game didn't turn out so bad...

[Jess]

Wow, I can't even remember exactly. I guess the games I have the first memory of playing were probably Centipede and Pitfall for the Atari. :biggrin:

[Brandon Jackson]

Toxic Crusader needs to be redone (the movie not the game). That and Swam Thing :)

Speaking of remakes, I always wished they'd remake Maniac Mansion on today's consoles. It doesn't have to be a full game, it can be offered on XBL and PSN and I'd be happy with it. Imagine playing a couple friends, each taking a different character, as you go through a 3D mansion :)

[cynicalmonkey]

gorillas in qbasic or indiana jones and the last crusade on a 386

[TheGameLlama]

Is the Gorillas you're talking about the one where the two monkeys stood on rooftops on the opposite sides of the screen and tossed bananas at each other like Boom Boom or Worms? Because that game was AWESOME and probably my first multiplayer experience.

[Colin]

Toxic Avenger!!
That movie was the shiat! Was soo goddamn awesome.
I watched it as a kid, was insanely twisted.

I can remember the guts being pulled out of someone, then the guy used it as a skipping rope.

[Simon Jones]

I was an absolutely unoriginal newbie gamer. Woke up one Christmas morning to find my grandma had got me Mega Drive with Sonic. Played it for three days without turning it off, damn no memory cards!

[cynicalmonkey]

Is the Gorillas you're talking about the one where the two monkeys stood on rooftops on the opposite sides of the screen and tossed bananas at each other like Boom Boom or Worms? Because that game was AWESOME and probably my first multiplayer experience.

there was multiplayer?

[Daniel Clancy]

I reckon for me it was this game on the C64 where you controlled a cannon on a ship and had to shoot down jets over the sea.

Also, http://www.everyjoe.com/files/130/2006/05/original-game-and-watch-donkey-kong-nintendo.png

[Kowbrainz]

Not entirely sure, but my earliest gaming memories are of the PC versions of Pacman and Frogger, as well as the original Prince of Persia. The third I still hold in high regard; just a really good platformer/adventure game. I was young at the time so it took me a while before I stopped dying from spikes or long drops so often, but it was still really fun.

Edit: Add Wolfenstein 3D to that list too. Didn't realise it until I went back to that game recently on the Live Marketplace and was just like "shit... this is familiar". My Mum, as it turns out, was actually a fan of some of the really early PC shooters like Duke Nuken and Wolf 3D; the latter of which I played my fair share of as a kid.

[Simon Jones]

Nothing special here: Sonic on the Mega Drive!

[TheGameLlama]

Nothing special here: Sonic on the Mega Drive!

Your first game was 16-bit? You're so young wittle Simon!

[randombullseye]

I would like to say it was Mario/Duck Hunt. That was my first game I owned. But I can't really recall if it was the first.

[reemasams]

You heard me. What's the first video game you ever set your hands on?

I think... Think...That mine was Marble Madness for the NES, but I'm not entirely sure. I played it in hospital once. It's a long story.

If first box was Xbox and games was HALO. It was gifted by my dad.

[Mark Davis]

Mine was either Mario/Duck Hunt on the NES or Wheel of Fortune on our old MS_DOS computer (with the huge floppy disks that were actually floppy). Outside of that, the other game I really remember from early on is Oregon Trail because we played that in our elementary school computer lab (on oldschool Apple II's). Good times...

[Shawn Evans]

Listening to you guys list your first game makes me feel old, which I guess is the right feeling to have since I am old.

The first game I ever played was Pole Position on the Atari 2600. Now that was a racing game people!

[Mark Davis]

I've played Pole Position on a 2600, but I only owned PCs and Nintendo systems growing up. Owning more than one system at a time woulda meant I had no money to buy games. I hated chores and thus never got my allowance (what a dumbass, right?).

[LegendaryEd]

Mine was Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis, I believe...

Yeah, my history doesn't stretch so far as some.

[Mark Davis]

Sonic is a damn good game. As for your start, I don't think anyone should be ashamed or shy of where/when they got their start. As the gaming industry grows up, fewer and fewer people can trace their gaming roots back to the Atari, Arcade, or NES days. That doesn't make younger gamers less cool... especially since you can get emulators that do all that stuff for cheap/free, anyway.

[Kowbrainz]

^ I think the important part lies in actually having an appreciation for how far games have come, and being able to go back to the older titles which shaped the industry despite what generation you may have started at. Having a good knowledge of what's been done before and where certain games have borrowed from is something everyone can strive for regardless of how old they are.

[Mark Davis]

@Kowbrainz: you're absolutely right.

Although, with the older consoles almost being more like home arcades, I think it is getting harder and harder for newer gamers to go back into the retro library's of these classic consoles because the gaming landscape is so much different now than it was then. Just look at how MegaMan 9 was considered impossible and too frustrating for a lot of gamers. For me, it was a flashback to my youth where not being able to complete a game on the first few tries was just accepted as part of the experience. But for others, having to play the same level 30 times before you could breeze through it without dying because of a missed jump or an enemies movement/fire was just way too much to ask.

[LegendaryEd]

@Kowbrainz:

I agree with you completely. I play what NES games I can whenever I can, and I definitely appreciate how we have evolved, and what made older games great. I feel as though I am educating myself on the topic by playing these games, and frankly it's not as if the quality is bad whatsoever. I've been playing a lot of Castlevania, and I find it to be incredibly enjoyable, moreso than some of the 360 games I've experienced. The experience is different, but one is not necessarily better than another...in fact, I wish I'd owned an SNES, at the very least, as a child.

[Jonny]

It's strange the way I started and am the position i'm in now, as I started on the PS1 and N64 - with my first real game being Earthworm Jim, followed by PaRappa - and made my way into the Nu Gen consoles progressively to the 360, PS3 etc. However, like most things, we have a desire to understand things better, hence I went back to and am currently on consoles like the SNES and Atari systems in order to look at the "classics". The real conclusion is, despite the obvious massive difference in graphics, realistically it is just as easy to get addicted to games such as Missile Command, Pacman, Super Mario World and Gradius III. GradiusIII by the way, is AWESOME.

[Mark Davis]

Retro games are probably more addicting to me just bc of how much easier it can be to get into them and how addictive they can be. I always say "I'll just play until I die again" or "I just want to make it to the next level" and a few hours later I'm having to leave for work and am tired as hell. lol

[ThomasC]

Castlevania

[Bobby Hunter]

The first game(s) I ever played were: Super Mario World and F-Zero. They were the two games my brothers and I got with our SNES for Christmas one year.

[Christopher Bratt]

Tetris? I have absolutely no idea. I imagine it was something Tetris related.

The first game I have really fond memories of though was similar to Bobby: Super Mario World. What a fantastic game :]

[alp12ha]

The first game i ever played is puzzle bubble game
so easy and best game for bgineers

[koc12hi]

The first game which i play was need for speed it is the best game in the all kind of games and i like it very much.

[robbiesmith]

It was Contra. I like to play games a lot and have played many in this years. I like to play first/third person shooter, racing, sports, adventure, memory and puzzle games. My most favorite games are: COD Black Ops, Super Mario and Max Payne.