Weekend Open Forum: What was the first game you ever played?

[fraggerron]

Pong in an arcade 72 ish

 

[Tamos]

I programmed (or I should say typed) a game called "Leaping Lizzie" into a TI99/4A from a book called "TI Games." There was a row of "lily pads" made of capital T's and gaps of periods spaced throughout. The sprite moved from letter to letter at a gradually increasing pace and you had to hit the number on the keyboard that corresponded with the number of periods in the gap, timing it so that you hit the right number on the T before the gap.

 

[mosu]

Pacman and hakuna matata in the early '90.

 

[TomSEA]

I'm with the ancient ones - Pong was my first game.

 

[mailpup]

Pong for me too.

 

[JordLevy]

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers on the NES

 

[psycros]

Probably a zillion variants of Pong on our Tandy home game system. Or its possible I might have somehow gotten a quarter into a cabinet game before then - not too sure.

 

[p51d007]

Pong...yes pong, in the mid 70's at a pizza place.

 

[NicktheWVAHick]

Pong.

 

[Axle Grease]

Hide & Seek when about 2 or 3yo.

 

[turismozilla]

Phoenix, Arcade. Back in the early 80s.

 

[trgz]

A noughts and crosses game in the 1974 (or 75), housed in some large cabinet, that was part of a presentation at our school.

 

[tipstir]

Pong was mine, I've own Coleco Vision Game System Console still have it with the OEM box and my favorite ZAXXON and Time Pilot games for it. Next to that would be Play Station PS1 gran turismo with

 

[Igrecman]

River Raid from Activision, on Coleco Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYLA_uO-XH0

 

[MarkHughes]

Pong on my Atari 2600, Though I played Combat far more often.

 

[JohnnyStone]

I think Dan Dare on ZX Spectrum or was it ... Dizzy?

Spin Dizzy

 

[JohnnyStone]

My first on my own ZX Spectrum 48K was the games that came with it, Hungry Horace, Space Raiders and through the wall.

Later classics were Manic Miner, Chequered Flag, Jet Pac, Scuba Dive, Ants (I think this was the first proper 3D game ever), Sabre Wulf and Underwurlde (best of all platform games). These were the days...

 

[MannerMauler]

First non-browser game, AoE 2 and Starcraft,

 

[Unearthed]

Atari - Jungle Hunt

 

[Synric]

My first video game was Pac-Man, and It still is fun to play.

 

[ChrisH1]

Hide-and-seek, but not on a PC or arcade - you said, "we want to know what was the first game you ever played, or at least the first one you remember playing", not "we want to know what was the first electronic game", lol.

But in the interests of knowing what you mean & communicating ... the first electronic game was pong, in a pub in England. Yup, that old.

 

[Ggomadesuwing]

I believe the first arcade game I played was Rally-X, and the first PC game was a Pac-Man clone on a Sharp MZ-80K. First console game was an Atari 2600 side-scroller called 'Scramble.'

 

[Arris]

I think it was Pacman on the Atari 800XL.

Me too Julio, in fact I still have my Atari 800XL in all its yellow keyed typewriter styled glory
Although that was definitely first I owned and played. I'm sure I must have played pong or one of the "sports" themed derivatives on another machine prior to that.

 

[Daithi]

The Super Mario All Stars version of SMB1. I was afraid to move because I thought the bush on the first screen was going to kill me.

 

[Peter Farkas]

I think my very first one was Jetpac on a ZX Spectrum sometime in the late 80's. wow, I am old...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpac