Retro The first ever video game you ever played

[Jaffa5]

Another old fool here!

First played - Yes, I think it would have to be the multi-sports package on the Binatone.

First owned - Star Raiders on the Atari 400..........what a machine!

[Brooxy]

For me it was either pac-man on a yellow handheld, or missile command on the Atari XE

[PauloWhysalli]

Its got to be the brilliantly addictive Chuckie Egg on my old ZX Spectrum 48

[Almightyrastus]

I am not too sure on the first I ever played but the first I ever completed was Double Dragon on the 48k Spectrum.

I want to say the first was a Pac-man clone but that had a VFD display rather than a true screen so I wouldn't call it a video game as such.

[Tomhyde1986]

First Played: Can't be sure but i think it was Duck Hunt. That light gun in orange is still the best controller ever made in my opinion.

First Owned: I'm certain it was Worms on DOS.

They don't make them like they used to

[andyb123]

first gaming machine I had was a spectrum, so some non-descript version of something like space invaders

[Blademrk]

Space Invaders on a Intellivision (I think it was, I've still got some of the carts at home - I'll double check). it 2 fixed black/silver joysticks which had analogue sticks and calculator-like buttons underneath.

[AmEv]

Did you guys know that the aliens going faster in Space Invaders was originally a bug, but the devs rolled with it, as it made it more challenging?

[Flibblebot]

Originally Posted by Blademrk

Space Invaders on a Intellivision (I think it was, I've still got some of the carts at home - I'll double check). it 2 fixed black/silver joysticks which had analogue sticks and calculator-like buttons underneath.

Yup, that was an Intellivision. Each game came with a pair of plastic inserts which sat over the calculator buttons to give a different key layout for each game. I think my mum still has ours somewhere in the attic. I wonder if it still works?

[Fishlock]

James Pond on an Amiga.

[SMIFFYDUDE]

First proper video game I played which I owned was Operation Thunderbolt on the C64, played with a light gun. Actual first game was some crappy lcd handheld game that I don't remember the name of.







edit: I think this may have been the first game I played.

Systema Saturn

[Shirty]

Handheld: Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong
Console: Super Mario Bros
PC: Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons (edit: it was actually probably Battle Chess!)

Awesome.

[VipersGratitude]

First Video game:


First Console:

(There was an Atari 2600 in the house, but it wasn't technically mine)

First Home computer:

[TrevDX]

First system in the house and thus first game played was the Binatone when I was 5-6. My first computer and games that were mine was a Commodore Plus 4 with a Dig Dug clone based around Christmas (Santa, presents & snow) is what I remember when I was about 8.

[Showerhead]

Used to play demo version that came with our first pc around 94/95 with my dad, he'd fly i'd fire weapons. Also the two really hard bosses on New Kroy and Tiamat the latter of which we eventually found a glitch that let us skip it.

The other was indycar racing.


Had very life like physics for it's day looking back can't remember how i managed it at 5 years old. Made by Papyrus.

[Mongoose132]

Duke Nukem 3D

When I was 9 :L
Still burnt into my mind; one liners, enemies etc :3

[Thedarkrage]

Well mine would have to be Super Mario Bros. And so began my love of games








and so began my love of games

[SMIFFYDUDE]

Originally Posted by Showerhead

Had very life like physics for it's day looking back can't remember how i managed it at 5 years old. Made by Papyrus.

Watching that video I couldn't believe it was from 1993 it looked pretty impressive.
Papyrus also made Grand Prix Legends, another game that was way ahead of it's time in terms of car physics.

[bodkin]

Can't remember which was first, but I love them both!

[Sloth]

I'd probably played various things before hand, but the first one I actually remember putting some real effort into and "playing" rather than just poking around is Myst. The first game I owned for myself was SimCity 2000.