What was your first video game?

[staticon]

This is inspired by the Console Of Choice thread. It started me wondering what, everyones first video game was.
I originally had one of those fixed tennis games, but when I got my first home computer (An Atari 400) I got Star Raider with it.
I still play this game and it still draws me into the game as if I was actually there in a space fighter battling with aliens. It's hard to believe that this absorbing game is stored on a 4K ROM cartridge.
I stll think its the best game ever.

So, what was your first?

[Zaphod]

Star Raider is one of the best games I've ever played in my life. I had it for the Atari 5200. As that was my first gaming system (console or computer), I'd have to say Whatever Game Came With That (probably Breakout or Centipede). But since I got Star Raider soon after getting the console, I could also list that, since I spent the vast majority of my time playing that. Ahh... memories.

[Dracoraptor]

Lost Eden. It was a RPG where you would be a human trying to help Dinosaurs. I still have it too.

[SkrasherSmasher]

Sonic 2 for the Sega Genisis. I think I still have both up in my closet now. I actually played that so long once I got a headache and couldn't play it for a week without getting a flaring of pain. Out of the two to three years I played it I only beat it once to.

[chuffy]

barbarian for the spectrum. swords and decapation(sp?) what else do we need?


chuffy

[LARAMANIAC]

My first video game was that old ping pong game - you know the one with a vertical line at each side of the screen and a very bouncy ball being hit from side to side!!! Can't remember what we played it on either - but it was aaaaaaaaggggggges ago!!!!

[Salvage]

The first game I owned was the Sonic the Hedgehog that I got when I bought my Genesis.

I don't remember the first game I played(Moonmist, Hollywood Hijinx, Myst or maybe it was Arkanoid? Wait I remember, it was Pitfall an Atari console), but Alternate Reality: The Dungeon is the best game ever(Atari 800XL computer, go Atari).

[Kat]

Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega oh that brings back such memories. My first PC game though was TR3 the Lost Artifact.

[DaveJ]

Space Invaders.

First one I bought and played was 'The X Files' game for PC a few years ago.

[Lil Lara]

My first few games were for the "family" NES console. Despite the crappiness...I still love that console and wish that mine didn't break!

The games that I really played were...Super Mario Bros( all of them but especially number 3), Tetris, Paperboy, Kurby, I could go on and on! Oh, such great memories!

[windcloud]

mario bors.

[tomb_raiding]

C&C Red Alert

Duke Nukem 3D

I was only 7 when I bought them to my PC, and I didn't knew how to play them at ALL !

[OuTR]

My first game was the classic River Raid for the
Atari 2600. Great game

[willow]

The first game I had was Space Invaders.
The first game I puchased with my own money was Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA version)

[Rook]

Pac-Man, baby!

And it's still one of my faves!!

[staticon]

Originally posted by Drexel
It was simply called Pong. And that was my first introduction to interactive television also.
And you're right, it was a long time ago. I'm guessing 1976?

In England, it was called ping pong. Here, pong is a bad smell

[Gumdrop]

First video game would be a pong rip-off which turned out to be better than the original becouse the *blip* sound was an octave lower.

First Spectrum game - Manic Miner
First Commodore 64 game - Attack of the Mutant Camels
First Genesis game - Altered Beast *shiver*
First Amiga game - Shadow of the Beast
First Playstation game - Ridge Racer
First PC game - Unreal

[purple rain]

i dunno!
it may have been tetris on my gameboy when i was about 8. :\
tetris rules

[Dell]

My first was a Mario that came with the old Nintendo console. Then it was the love of my life, the old original Zelda...still have the console and the game. Of course, Final Fantasy I was there about the same time, too.

The first for Supernintendo was Shadow Run, still around on emulator.

Then, dracoraptor, there was my first PC game: Right! The Lost Eden, and that opening sentence still gives me goosebumps..."My name is Eloi...."

Chuffy, where did you get the dragon pic on your sig/banner? Very classy! I collect dragon pics and even helped create a small dragon inspired maze game...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.mu...mazeindex.html

[Joan]

*thinks back* hmmm...

*thinks back further* arg...

*thinks back to when Poison was hot* ok, getting warmer...

*thinks back to when Helen Reddy was a hit* No wait, I wasn't even a zygote then...

*thinks forward a little* Ah! 1986! I was 4 years old. Very first memory of playing a video game was one of those space-shooter games (can't quite remember which) at the arcade in the big mall which I seriously thought was a city at the time. Anyways, the only reason I was able to play it was because it was like in a glasstop table format instead of a regular arcade tower. The first arcade tower art I remember very clearly was Ms. Pacman, but I couldn't play the towers because I was too little to reach the controls or see the screen, reason why I was playing with the little table-type thingy.

[Younglara_babe]

herc's adventure for sega saturn
tomb raider 2 for ps1
nitindo ?????????/
pc??????????

[LARAMANIAC]

Originally posted by Drexel
It was simply called Pong. And that was my first introduction to interactive television also.
And you're right, it was a long time ago. I'm guessing 1976?

Drexel you are quite correct of course!!! And as staticon correctly pointed out twas called ping pong in little old England!!!! Also, staticon please excuse my starting the previous sentence with the word 'And'!!! I know that it is incorrect grammatically!!!!!

[Umah Bloodomen]

My first video game was Frogger for Atari...LOL

Who knew that game would lead me to where I am today?

[Eddy Bones]

Crash Bandicoot for ps1. I was 7 then (I think). That's not an easy game, despite what anyone may say.
I have a question. Why do people say that Pong is easy? It isn't.

[cool#9]

First video game I ever got into was Green Beret on TO7 or MO5 Thomson.