What is the first video game you ever played?

[ExplodingBoy]

PONG look-alike on a home console that included pong, tennis, hocky, breakout; from 80 or 81 I think.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Pong. Beat that!

 

[phray]

Originally posted by: Goth

Originally posted by: juancferrer
some atari game with a little guy jumping over a flame, and then he would try to run around and grab stuff, and try not to get burned by the dragon.

Dragonfire?

Trogdor? or maybe Peasants Quest?


oh, and for me it was definately pong. and it blew my mind.

 

[abaez]

Popeye on Atari 2600.

First computer game was Winnie the Pooh and the hundred acre wood or Mickey's Space Adventure on my Tandy 1000ex.

 

[cheetoden]

Pong.

 

[badmouse]

Geez, you guys are making me feel old. I used to do laser light shows back in the early 60's, and produce music and stuff. We used to play "pong" on the oscilloscopes backstage - I don't know how early pong happened, but it was definately there before the early 60's.

I did a lot of work in boston and the electro-music, laser-experimenter, early-computer guys had a game I think called Space Wars. It was like a dot and two lines (or, a line and two dots?) and the line was a spaceship and the dots were things to avoid. I don't remember how we controlled it - up and down toggle switches, I think. I know there was a punch card version of it that you could feed into the timeshare and watch - the people in charge hated that, though, so you'd lose your card time.

/returns to another rousing round of solitaire

 

[Cerb]

A baseball game on the Tandy Color II.

 

[spidey07]

space invaders - arcade

pong - home

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Gnote
For me it was Duck Hunt on the NES

 

[bigshot]

Mario/Duckhunt at my doctors office!!

 

[AdamRader]

Commodore... I can't quite recall the title of the game, but the character that you would play looks like Woodstock (the bird from Peanuts) and you had to navigate around some kinda maze... I was addicted to it around age 5.

 

[Kelemvor]

I remember some sort of Mountain Cliber game where you had to go up the mountain and avoid the bears. But they had a glowing ball under their foot you could get for extra points. It was something on some sort of cartridge system but have no idea what it was.

 

[Mnementh]

Space Invaders (black and white before the coloured strips) on an Arcade machine

Or If you meant on a home console then it was either Pong or Tanks on the Atari VCS 2600 (can't remember which one I played first)

 

[faZZter]

Pong on an Odyssey console......

 

[TuxDave]

Probably astroids on the Atari 2600

 

[civad]

Squash on a Sinclair. Forgot the details. Played at a friend's place, hooked up the machine to the tv, inserted the 60-minute audio cassette...

 

[lobadobadingdong]

pong

 

[SZLiao214]

Mario with duckhunt.

 

[Dacalo]

Zanac on MSX system

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: SZLiao214
Mario with duckhunt.

cheers

 

[Nightfall]

I played Space Invaders in the arcade. That was my first game I ever played.

As for the first game I played at home, that would be pong and Outlaws on the Atari 2600.

 

[blodhi74]

space invaders and pong on atari

 

[dakels]

this thread almost acts as an age indicator too ^^
for me I think it was Oregon Trail on an Apple II... or maybe Choplifter on an Apple. Choplifter was awesome... so good there are still current remakes with just better graphics and same concept.

 

[dakels]

Originally posted by: godmare

Nesticle works for me in win2k.

sounds like a personal problem
what the heck is a nesticle?

 

[spherrod]

Horace Goes Skiing on a Spectrum 48K