What was the first video game you remember playing?

[red_5ive]

The first thing I actually remember attempting was a sidescrolling Star Wars game on the SNES. I was very young, probably only about 4. My father worked at an ad agency at the time handing Nintendo of America's account and apparently a few of them got sent home with the product.

I was very bad at it. I can guarantee my father was very bad at it because he did not then nor does he now play video games. But I remember passing the controller to him absolutely convinced that he could beat it for me when I died jumping into those sarlacc holes over and over.

That reminds me, while not the first game I'd ever played, but it was the first Star Wars game I played, which was also a side-scroller, but on the Atari 2600.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwjFDQMmXf8

 

[isleepinabed]

The first game I remember playing was the DOS version of Sokoban published by Spectrum Holobyte, and I would have played it on my father's 286 type computer around 1989 or 1990, I imagine.
Other games of that time I remember having at home were Battle Chess, Blockout and Test Drive Lotus Esprit.

All of them were, I felt, graphical powerhouses, with photorealistic impressions and decent animations. Battle Chess ended up being quite a nice toy to have (being that I have always been a very poor chess player) just to try and see all the different animations. The CPU also took ages to move (afair over 2 to 5 minutes to move), which made the impression that there was some little man inside the machine trying to think of his next move before pushing the pieces. The "wait" icon was a miniature of Rodin's "The Thinker", the kind of cultured detail you hardly see in games these days.

An uncle also had a Macintosh which, even at around 1990 still looked quite slick in black and white. Most memorable was Stuntcopter. It also had a few parlour/board games like Wheel of Fortune, Hangman, Iago and Risk which were interesting takes on the board games, much like Solitaire when we finally got Windows 3.1 at home.

First console game was Sonic the Hedgehog that a neighbour who was my age had, as his father had got him a Mega Drive. Not much later I got a Master System II which had Alex Kidd in Miracle World.

 

[Kathrylee]

my first game .... i think is CS , playing with my Cousin it is my best memories .

 

[Tarrax Ironwolf]

1978 Pong, home version.

 

[Monster Man Enishi]

I want to say it was a Super Mario Bros. arcade machine at a Pizza Hut in the 1980s.