What was the first video game you remember playing?

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Jul 28, 2025
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my first videogame I ever play was Pokemon red when I was 7 years old and
my first Pokemon was squirtle

first console every play was the nes and on the hand was gameboy pocket

pc game I liked to play was rollercoaster tycoon and Rayman
 
Jul 24, 2024
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My first? Depends on what we are looking at.

First game I played ever was likely Red Alert 2, at friend's PC.

First game I played on my own PC was likely either Civilization 2 or else Wacraft 2. Not sure which.
 
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Jun 23, 2025
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I can't vividly remember the first video game I played. However, it will be between Super Mario 64, developed by Nintendo and Street Fighter II published by Capcom, for Arcades.
 
Aug 29, 2025
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Super Mario Bros. was the first video game I recalled playing. on the NES. The excitement of jumping over obstacles and discovering hidden levels is still unforgettable! What was your first gaming experience?
 
Sep 6, 2025
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I remember the first game I played on a PC was need for speed 2. It was one hell of a game back then. My parents were very strict about screen time, so I was only allowed to play for half hour only. But those were really good times, i must say. Those 30 minutes were the best time during my day.
 
Nov 29, 2025
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first game I remember playing was the Mario Brothers...really gave me a hard time mastering it.though after sometime I couldnt get my hands off it till I became a pro.
 
Aug 10, 2021
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At home we had a Commodore 64 and it will have been something like street fighter 1, or a side scrolling beat em up like double dragon or it might have even been kikstart 2 (I’ve still got it in mint condition).it could also have been a demo tape from zzap 64 magazine that my parents bought, I remember getting to play one of the viz games from that magazine once which were very sweary and rude-but god bless them and the lack of anti gaming rants from Jo Frost at the time, luckily my parents thought computer games were all “ for kids”. It’s that very belief that led to my school teachers in junior school using doom and canon fodder etc as rewards on the acorn computers if we were more controllable that day.

The first game I played at school was actually really cool and it’s such a shame it hasn’t been put out there to play,being completely retro abandonware.
It was called Pen Down, and I first got to play this on the BBC micro computer.it was a coding game and you were a triangle,or as the game very creatively imagined you-you were a turtle. You had to write different codes to get this triangle….sorry,turtle to draw whatever your skill allowed you to. If you had a disability that affected your use of education and numbers like me then you would just find it impossible to draw with,I used to look at what other kids had done in awe. You had to write F120 for example to go forward quite far which would draw a line or L for left, B for back, R for right etc, back then it was well above its time even though it was just black and white, as it opened the world of coding to kids.
 
Dec 18, 2025
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My first video game that I played was harvest moon back to nature on play station 1. It is a life farming simulation role playing game. It brings a lot of memories, especially when your character get married and has a children.
 

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