What was the first video game you remember playing?

[Blind Dog]

Pong

 

[KayC-P]

I can still hear the theme music of TETRIS in my head as soon as I think of playing a game, so I am going to go with that

 

[Pifanjr]

Super Angelo by Wiering Software​

And I thought their Charlie the Duck game was a rip-off of Super Mario Bros...

 

[James Parker]

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?

The first video game I remember playing was Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was such a classic and iconic game that it introduced me to the world of gaming. I spent countless hours guiding Mario through different levels, stomping on Goombas, and saving Princess Peach. Those nostalgic memories still bring a smile to my face whenever I think about them. Super Mario Bros. will always hold a special place in my heart as the game that ignited my passion for gaming.

 

[PCG Dash]

The first video game I remember playing was Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was such a classic and iconic game that it introduced me to the world of gaming. I spent countless hours guiding Mario through different levels, stomping on Goombas, and saving Princess Peach. Those nostalgic memories still bring a smile to my face whenever I think about them. Super Mario Bros. will always hold a special place in my heart as the game that ignited my passion for gaming.

🤨

 

[Thresher]

I believe it was either the original Super Mario bros or Super Mario Bros 3. I stated out on the NES that my parents used to play games.

 

[piccard]

Guess its fair to say I'm getting old as my earliest memories were from Tetris - and I'm talking about the original, text based Soviet made classic version in the 80s, not these modernized fancy ones. It was very similar to this version I could find online: https://www.hahagames.com/game/tetris

A close 2nd would be NetHack which was more of an actual game that really sucked me in right after. Wish there was browser based version of it similar to the old school Tetris.

 

[ttguy99]

I do not remember the game but it was on a Commodore 64 in 1987

 

[Mu The Guardian]

Wow, I was about to say "Super Mario Bros" on NES (8 bit), but then a flashback struck me!
It was actually an early-80s single-game handheld little thing containing a Kung-Fu game! Wow, what drawer you just opened in my memories!!! If only I was able to remember its name...

Wow found it!! It was actually this!!!! Incredible!!!
oh the 80s Kung Fu game!

Thank you for reminding me of all this!

 

[WilhelmScream]

First notable memory for me would have to be Warcraft 2. I'm not a native english speaker and was very young and unfamiliar with video games at the time so i must've tackled the game while building as little as possible since i do remember controlling units but making my first additional Peon was a complete revelation to me. For some reason i had to collect Gold and was doing so with my one starting Peon and it was easy, boring and taking absolute ages remember the moment when i figured out how to build additional Peons and how that started a chain reaction of me applying what i had observed during that interaction to the rest of the UI (+ hints at learning the language) and from there figuring out pretty much all of the basics of the game.

PS: this is all based on a collection of faint memories so i may well be giving my past self too much credit*

 

[Smellincoffee]

First video game would be Mario on the original NES in 1990 or so. First PC game would be SimCity 2000, played on a Walmart demo computer.

 

[DonnyTheRacoon]

First game I really remember playing...

F22: Raptor on the Megadrive which was my brother's or River Raid on the Atari at my grandads

 

[VillainousVelKoz]

Super Mario Bros. (1985)

 

[Solareus]

my pop brought home a pong console in 1980 or 81 and it was the one of the most mesmerizing things ever at the time.

 

[cultkobert]

i was born late 90s, so my introduction to gaming was playing Pokemon Fire Red on my blue Gameboy Advance SP. rip to my gameboy, you'll forever be missed

it's funny to write that out because my initial reaction to this question was going to be RuneScape because of how attached to that game i was (and still am). but after some thought, i've really been gaming my entire life. crazy where life takes you

 

[dinozzo]

as far as I remember, my 1st video game was flappy bird.

 

[DonovanMelissa]

Super Mario, but I don't remember exactly

 

[jewel.r]

The first game i remembered ever playing was either between pac man or chicken invaders- the next wave.

 

[NaokoYing27]

Hello, my first game was Star Soldier on the family console, it was hours and hours trying to get rid of the enemy ships that attacked everywhere.

 

[Rottenless]

Pong. (not joking)

 

[zhenoil]

cs

 

[syedjaffarshah]

The first I remember playing "seriously" was the Nibbles game in Q Basic that i have plzayed.

 

[Naino009]

Gta Vice city

 

[1BRAVO9]

I'm 52 years old so I can remember even before Atari 2600 came out my dad had a dedicated console that connected to the TV and I think all it had was Pong, maybe a few others. I believe it was called Pong IV.

So I think it would be some type of pong.

Around that same time, maybe just a little while later, we got a 2600 and it was Combat and Gunslinger.

 

[bretbernhoft]

The first video game that I remember playing was Duke Nukem 3D. Once I had a taste of that title, I was hooked. I knew that from then on I was a true gamer, and would be for the rest of my life.