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What were the first five games you ever played?

SERPENTINE

SERPENTINE

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Error in title. Instead of five list [**TEN**] 🙂

What were the first ten games you ever played (no particular order)?
Name, Year of Release, and Console/OS?

These are mine. If you can't directly remember, kind of shotgun it like I did.
  • Age of Empires II, 1999, Windows
  • Ghost Recon, 2001, Windows
  • Thief: The Dark Project, 1998, Windows
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 2001, Windows
  • Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, 2001, PS2
  • Red Faction, 2001, PS2
  • Gauntlet Dark Legacy, 2001, PS2
  • Rune, 2001, PS2
  • Spiderman, 2000, PS1
  • Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, 2001, Windows

Thanks,
SERPENTINE :biggrin:
 
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I don't know if I can recall, but here are at least 3 of the first 5:
Pong on some sort of dedicated Pong box in the mid 1970's.
Pac Man on the Atari 2600, probably around 1977-79. It's too long ago to know for certain.
Space Invaders, Atari 2600, the same time as the above.
 
From what I first remember playing:

Pong (pong console)
Tunnels of Doom (TI99/4a)
Hunt the Wumpas (TI99/4a)
Astrosmash (Intellivision)
Night Stalker (Intellivision)

Something like that...
 
Pong and some sort of hunting game on that same console that did pong, you had a few angles you could have on the rifle shooting up the screen to hit a moving bird or so I believe, no idea the name of the game or the console.

Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr and space invaders on colecovision

Then I'm not sure if the Atari games came before the PC games for me, I remember pitfall, a racing and a football game for Atari.

For PC the earliest games I remember were asteroid, centipede, alleycat, paratrooper, tron, snake, and castle

time frame should be something like 83-86
 
Pacman (Arcade)
Space Invaders (Arcade)
Donkey Kong (Arcade, and later on NES)
Defender (Atari 2600)
Joust (Atari 2600)
Duck Hunt (NES)
Mario bros (NES)

So thats technically seven, but they are the ones I distinctly remember playing. There was lots of others, but these ones come to mind).
 
If you don't include "Kick the Can", Baseball, Football, Basketball, Horse, Hide and Go Seek, Monopoly, Poker (with real cards), Checkers and Chess, I played Adventure on a Cyber 64 mainframe, later I downloaded Crowther's FORTRAN code and installed it on my Heathkit H-11 interfaced to an ASR43 (300 Baud Teletype I could also log in to the University Cyber) and moved the code with a paper tape (punch) reader. The tape reader meant you could built your own Turing Machine and I guess you could call that playing a game if using state to make jumps (GOTOs - I can see Professor Doctor Edsger Dijkstra rolling over in his grave) and simulate a useful computer a game? it was fun I I thought it was a game 🙂

By then the much modified Don Woods addition was on the Cyber and I'd play it once in a while when I really shouldn't. The nice thing about that program was you could curse by typing "Damn Troll", the program would scold you, then say "Fuck Troll" and it would log you out, removing all evidence of a adjunct professor goofing off when he should have been working.

I couldn't port it to my OSI 2p (6502 based pre-Apple) with keyboard and interface to a regular TV (I've written compilers but not on an 8K machine), but I did write and play a simple game (By those standards) where you play against the computer and take 1, 2, or 3 (perhaps also 4 sticks) from a pile of sticks with the total randomly generated. The math was such that the first person to go could always win the game of making the opponent (the computer) to take the last. Great programming fun including an option for the computer to pick wrong 20% of the time. I also wrote a solution to the 8 Queens game (exercise in writing a recursive solution in a language FORTRAN II which didn't support recursion).

I played in on my first Apple ][ (also my first floppy drive) as the 8" floppy disk for the H11 was just too expensive. I play several other games including Sierra Games like King's Quest but by the early 80's stopped playing games. Now I sometimes play Risk on Pogo. I guess by the OP's first 10 list, I haven't ever played any modern game and I'm definitely not a gamer.
 
The following games are the ones I barely remember having played, most of them at some friends' place, perhaps during very early-to-mid elementary school years. The only thing I do remember clearly enough is that two of my friends at that time did own Atari consoles... I just can't recall which models they owned:

- Qbert (Atari 2600 or 5200... I think, not 100% certain of the console I played it on)
- Pac-Man (it probably was on the Atari 2600)
- Some unknown top view shoot 'em up game on the Sega Master System. It might have been Power Strike, but that's just a crude guess right now as I type this; I don't actually remember (I was around 7 or 8 years-old at the time).
- Galaga (probably on the Atari 7800)

The following ones are the very first games I "owned" (that my parents bought, or that were gifted to me by other family members). I'll just go with my NES games since the NES was my very first video game console. In no chronological order (except for the first one listed which I know was my first ever NES game):

- Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt (same cartridge)
- Super Mario Bros. 2
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Blaster Master
- Double Dragon II

That's about what I can remember right now.
 
Stuka87 said:
I remember playing all those in school too. Not to mention Oregon Trail!
Click to expand...

TBH we may have had an NES at the same time but TBH I really don't remember that far back, this would have been 1990 ish not sure when we got the NES so Mario and duckhunt and Zelda were played back then as well


also remember this from I wanna say 5th/6th grade, it was on the apple comp we had in the classroom we used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqNJCgnohWE
 
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These are the earliest ones I can remember owning before I got an NES.
Frogger - Atari
ET - Atari
Pac Man - Atari
Pitfall - Commodore 64
Karate Champ - Commodore 64
 
On the PC, the first game I remember playing is Space Quest 3. Although if you count games from the computers at school (the Commodore64) then the first game is probably Oregon Trail.
 
PC -
Rogue
Amnesia
Oregon Trail

Console -
Had an Atari for my first console. Pitfall is always the game that I remember playing the most.
 
- Star Raiders (Atari 800)
- The Ancient Art of War
- Zork
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Kings Quest
- Star Trek (ASCII based)
- 3-demon
- Bouncing Babies
- Apple Panic
- Planetfall
 
I remember it very clearly - Valentines Day 1981 - Atari 2600 - Space Invaders then Missile Command

First and last time I played for years after that. Beyond that, I don't remember.
 
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console and pc?

might have played something on Atari at one point and early arcade stuff, like pac man.

started gaming on a NES
super mario bros
dragon warrior

first few pc games were
Oregon Trail
Possibly some other educational games on the early Apples
other stuff was on Tandy 1000
Lemmings
some space tank game



no idea after that
 
Pong on an arcade machine at Pizza hut in the mid-seventies.
Space Invaders on an arcade machine a couple years later.
Pong on a bright yellow Pong console at home, circa 1976 or 1977.
Space Invaders on an Atari 2600, 1978?
Pacman on an Atari 2600, 1978?
Global Thermonuclear War on the mainframe, 1979.
Rogue on the PC, 1985.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the PC, 1987?
Gunship on the PC, 1987?
Castle Wolfenstein on the PC, 1992?
Rise of the Triad on PC, 1995?
 
Since this PC gaming I'll only list PC games.

Strip poker
Street Rod1/2
Spyhunter
Some kung fu game
 
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