First video game you truly remember playing...

[monk3y]

I know the first game I probably played was pong or something like pong but the game I truly remember playing vividly was a game called Congo Bongo. It was sorta like the first Donkey Kong. You were a hunter that had to dodge a bunch of obstacles that a gorilla was setting you up against.

 

[TomC25]

space invaders on amn Atari 2600

heart pounding when there was only one ship left to shoot

 

[pulse8]

First? Breakout or Qbert.

 

[nihil]

super mario bros.

 

[BigJohnKC]

My first has to be Dungeons and Dragons on the Colecovision that my friend had.

 

Frogger, mabey.

 

[Maetryx]

Coin operated: Tempest (I think)
Console: River Raid on Atari 2600
Computer: Dog Star on the C64 (text based)

 

[Hammer]

donkey kong in the arcade or super mario bros on the nes, whichever came first. I didn't have an atari.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Does 'Reader rabbit' count way back in the DOS days and Win3.1 and i was a little kid? lol Not really a VIDEO game though, there has been plenty between that and Quake 1. Three i can think of is Sierra Incredible Machine 2, Papyrus IndyCar Racing or something.., and Red Baron by microprose i think

 

[flavio]

Pong and Space Invaders

 

[FoBoT]

pong on the tv at home

space invaders / asteroids in the arcade/came out later , although they had pong in the arcade as well, IIRC

 

[pyonir]

pretty sure it was Carnival for Calico Vision

 

[b0mbrman]

I remember I had a video game system with a sort of centipede chasing after stuff in a Pacman type maze...totally forget the name or system though

Anyone know the name of this game/system?

First one I had that I can name is Super Mario Bros. on NES

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Commander Keen

nik

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

oh, not only for computer? hehe, well for NES there was Super Mario bro's was the first game i played on it. We still have it :Q.
Who still has their old skool NES?

 

[nexus_7]

I would have to say, burger time on my intelivision. I still play it actually. closely followed by shark shark for the same system.

Greg

 

[spidey07]

I'm 31 so here goes.

Home - pong
coin op - space invaders
Computer - miner49er for vic20
Handheld - breakout

I remember the gorrila game you speak of. Hella fun!!!!! I really need to check out some of the classic gaming scenes.

 

[pyonir]

<< oh, not only for computer? hehe, well for NES there was Super Mario bro's was the first game i played on it. We still have it :Q.
Who still has their old skool NES? >>


i still have my NES back home in MN will all my games. wish i would have brought it with me. my roommate has one but we can't get it to work. all it displays is a blue screen. (and yes we have tried all of the tricks of the trade. all for not)

 

[Aves]

Crystal Castle - Atari 2600

 

[GermyBoy]

Mario Bros. in the arcade. Such a dumb game.

 

[docmanhattan]

Atari 2600: Combat

 

[CPA]

That 3 vs 3 man football game on the Atari. Man that was a long time ago. It was probably more fun the current or past crop of football games, TECMO Bowl excluded.

 

[Linflas]

The first one I ever saw was when I was a teen at the beach. I have no idea what the name was but it was a very simple black and white tv screen with a field of moving stars. The goal was to move this little rocket shaped thing to the top of the screen without hitting any of the stars. It had a joystick that moved it left, right, up, or down only. No diagonals etc.

Edit: Researched this a bit and I think it was called Space Race. You could not move left or right, only up.

 

[DnetMHZ]

PONG

 

[pillage2001]

Zeliard and dig dug!!!!!!