What was the first video game you remember playing?

[Adonathiel]

VOLFIED!!!

 

[sintears]

Tanks on the NES!

 

[reneg]

I was a child and it's all blurry but it was on PS1 as I remember. Could be Silent Hill maybe.

 

[Gumbledore]

40 winks was the first game I ever played, it used to scare the crap out of me

 

[Limiteds]

My first game i played was Roblox

 

[Berious]

Lord of the rings text adventure on the BBC! Never got very far in it. Used to pick up all my stuff at Bilbos house and take it to Merry/Pippin's place. Just did that over and over. Called it "house life".

Still prefer any games player housing

 

[snake55k]

The legend of Zelda SNES

 

[GamingTheocracy]

Back in the 70's I played with the Magnavox Odyssey , but I loved my Intellivision - jungle man

 

[Sean Noonan]

I played (but maybe watched) an arcade game in my early years. I have a vague memory of a game where you were digging in sand, pushing rocks and collecting gems (I'm sure someone knows that game)... I was very young, it's difficult to remember.

But really it was when I was presented with an NES with Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. Super Mario Bros. was the first game I tried out. I have memories of frantically lifting the controller up in the air as I tried to leap over gaps. Looking back I find it strange how little I was interested in Duck Hunt, the lightgun gimmick didn't really interest me until Virtua Cop came along.

 

[Superhanns]

First game was button basher Daley Thompson's Decathlon on zx spectrum+2. Fingers have never been the same since!!

 

[Mr.s1NiSt3r]

1984, the first time I saw a computer at a friends house. Commodore 64: Wizard of Wor that system was so clunky. Can still remember how to load games. And haven't touched another C64 in 30 years

Started me on my path, 36 years later still playing video games

 

[RevoluGame]

Icy tower of course!

 

[Elric]

In the ARCADES: Pang.

 

[Frindis]

@Elric Pang was so much fun! I remember playing it for the whole weekend at a friend's place. We made tons of chocolate/banana milkshake and basically barricaded ourselves in the room and played until it started to become a bouncing ball

 

[Chubster Games]

Prince of persia and civilisation. First games on my 286 pc

 

[Frindis]

@Chubster Games Never any good at Prince of Persia, but it really was fun to play. I remember it to be quite gory for its time, especially getting spiked on those traps.

 

[PC-AMETURE]

I remember playing some point and click games. Can't remember what the names where.

 

[zippygeorgeandben]

DUCK! BBC Micro - probably '85.

 

[usamatahir]

I will play Grand theft Auto 1 first time

 

[Ashaw97]

I'm an avid gamer, but I've been trying to think of the first games I remember playing and really loved. I remember sneaking into my cousins dad's study to boot up his mac to play Monkey Island, where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? And Myst (which I wasn't very good at). If you're a gamer, what do you remember playing and why?

I remember playing Mario, but don't remember what console I was playing it on as it wasn't mine.

 

[bh3bh3]

I remember playing Battle City on Nintendo. One of my favorites.

 

[Saulsberry]

WoW Classic

 

[Rooster]

And I thought I'd embarass myself when I said that "Ping Pong" and "Hockey" on the old 1970's rig that my parents got for free from a door to door vaccuum salesman for listening to his sales pitch. But, I see I'm not the only guy who was around in the 70's. Then my friend was lucky enough to get an Atari for Christmas and I'm thinking we played Asteroids and Stargate first.

 

[Gaberino]

I'm an avid gamer, but I've been trying to think of the first games I remember playing and really loved. I remember sneaking into my cousins dad's study to boot up his mac to play Monkey Island, where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? And Myst (which I wasn't very good at). If you're a gamer, what do you remember playing and why?

Electric Racer, the video game spinoff of the 2009 reboot of the 1971 Television show

 

[nakedian]

I'm an avid gamer, but I've been trying to think of the first games I remember playing and really loved. I remember sneaking into my cousins dad's study to boot up his mac to play Monkey Island, where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? And Myst (which I wasn't very good at). If you're a gamer, what do you remember playing and why?

My friend's dad had an original Magnavox Odyssey. You actually had to put a plastic overlay over your CRT TV screen which would inevitably be held on by static. We went over there as much as we could, but the games were kind of boring because almost everything was basically Pong.