What was your first video game? (Or the first ones per major generation)

[Luka-boy]

Pitfall! on the Commodore 64 when I was three years old and my uncle brought it home one afternoon while he was visiting.

It had such an impact on me that many years later I easily found what game and device they were just by cross-checking my own memories with some online images. Even later on I confirmed it was not just my imagination when I found the C64 and the game in some old boxes belonging to my uncle.

 

[JoacoN]

I think it was a Disney Painter game on PC

 

[sser]

We initially had 3 games on the Amiga:

Corridor 7, Prince of Persia, and Dragon's Lair


I think Dragon's Lair was the first, and Corridor 7 the last. We also later got Flight Simulator for the Amiga which doesn't look so hot now, but for the time, considering you were sitting in that dusky 80s/90s standard of living, wobbling around on a rickety wooden chair, in some office full of junk beyond your understanding, with a table that someone from WWII probably used to own, coffee stains and all, the pixelated 'flying' around was quite an insane introduction to escapism. The cracked windshield for kamikazing into stuff is also burned into my brain. Adjacently, the first RPG I ever played was Ultima Underworld on a cousin's computer. I have a core memory of being very scared of that 'walking into darkness' effect when dungeon delving.

First really immersive 3D game was Alone in the Dark, at least that I can remember and not counting FS. It looks godawful now but the ghoul jumping through the glass scared the daylights out of me. Also that game and Prince of Persia had radically different vibes about them. They were weirdly menacing so it made the spooks really good. Like in Prince of Persia I hated running across the screen and it would board change into a Persian guard two-hopping toward you with his sword out. That made me jump EVERY time.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

Mario Bros on the NES, there's a home movie of me running around on Christmas as a tyke the year that we got the system.

First RPG was Dragon Warrior 3 on the NES. We rented it over and over again.

First PC game that I can I remember was the DOS version of Stellar7. I remember having Star Trek 25th anniversary at the time, as well.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Combat (1977) and Breakout (1976/1978) on the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600)

 

[Churrasco]

I started playing on a friend's snes, don't remember the first game but have happy memories of Power Rangers the movie, Tiny Toons wacky sports and Bomberman 2.
Afterwards I got a pc and someone installed Doom 2 and Duke Nukem 3D on it, then I discovered emulation so I started playing a lot of snes games.
Since I didn't have internet I remember going to an internet cafe to download roms on floppy disks, the worse were games larger than 1.44mb like Chrono Trigger since I did'nt know how to split the file into various disks.

 

[Shadowfang]

Prince of Persia.
Played it on a pc from a friend of my father.

 

[Bruma Hobo]

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

First game I ever played: Super Mario Bros. (NES) or Donkey Kong Country (SNES) - Played both at different friend's houses around 1997 or so, can't remember which came first.

First game I ever owned: Star Wars Episode I: Racer (N64) - Bundled in with the console for my B-day of '99. Followed closely by Star Fox 64 the day after.

First PC game I ever played: Baldur's Gate - My cousin brought it down when he came to stay for Christmas of '99. My mom had just bought a DELL as our first PC ever a week earlier.

First PC game I ever owned: Amazon Trail 3rd Edition

First game I ever completed: Hard to say... either Ocarina of Time or Aidyn Chronicles.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Parsec on the TI-99.

 

[OSK]

My earliest memories of playing video games are at a relative's playing BurgerTime and Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle on ColecoVision.

 

[Nutmeg]

Probably Battle City on a NES at about 5 years of age, at least that's my oldest memory as a sentient being.

Try its sequel Tank Force. Player in the video above is a Russian guy btw, good player of many difficult games.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Probably Pong on the Atari 2600. If not that then it was either Lemonade Stand or Oregon Trail on the Apple ][.

 

[KafkaBot]

The first game I ever owned was Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64.

The first game I ever played was probably Donkey Kong Country at a friend's house (the SNES was already considered a legacy console at the time).

 

[DemonKing]

I think it was this:

Played on an old Australian knock-off console:

I remember it being terribly unbalanced - as you had a slow sub at the bottom of the screen with a very fast missile shooting up at a fast destroyer on top of the screen with a very slow depth charge. As slow as the sub was it was easy to dodge the painfully slow depth charges while the sub's speedy missiles could often connect with the destroyer.

May have played something earlier at the Arcade like Asteroids or Space Invaders.

This was my first handheld game:

First game I played on a home computer was Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on an Apple II.

 

[Beastro]

Can't say if it was THE first, but it was one of many I'd play with, and watch, my brother's and cousins play with the 2600.

After that, it was a ton of Nintendo games that I can't say. My cousin had a dozens of them, and whenever I visited, I could pick freely trying them out.

First RPG I played with was Dragon Quest. I was too young to understand some elements, like I needed my cousin to let me out of the starting room by opening the door since that was beyond my toddler grasp. That little bit's all I really remembered of it and it helped me track down what game it was when I went looking for it years ago in LPs.

 

[Great Deceiver]

The oldest recollection I have of playing a videogame is probably Frogger on the Atari 2600. An uncle gifted me and my brother one of those original wood-paneled ones. I spent a lot of time playing Combat, Pitfall, Enduro, and Pinball.

 

[Hagashager]

My first non-hospital piece of knowledge was that there once were cowboys...

Sunset Riders was my first video-game, period. A local sports center had a cabinet I wasted many of my parent's quarters in.

The first home-console was Turok for N64.

First PS2 was ATV Offroad Fury. Came with the system.

First Xbox 360 was Oblivion, it's why I got the 360 in the first place.

After that I did not buy any video-game consoles until the Switch. First game on that was Breath of Wild.

Not bought a new system since and I don't plan to.

 

[Disciple]

Pong on a Thomson TV set. It was the only video game-related stuff at home back then besides some MSX device which my parents ran like once a month.

 

[Sodafish]

Earliest I can remember is this one on the ZX Spectrum:

I was probably around 4 or 5.

 

[Reinhardt]

Probably Battle City on a NES at about 5 years of age, at least that's my oldest memory as a sentient being.



Before that I tried playing something like Space Invader's on a ZX Spectrum, but failed. I was about 3. I can't recall the specifics. I don't think that counts.

color tv. lucky. my parents had odd belief that consoles kill tv so only old black and white was allowed.

 

[Zlaja]

Probably Commando on Commodore 64. Played it at a cousin's house and was blown away.

 

[VerSacrum]

Some Ninja Turtles game for the Gameboy with 6 (1991), I think Fall of the Foot Clan.

 

[Nutmeg]

Probably Commando on Commodore 64. Played it at a cousin's house and was blown away.

It's a port of a Japanese arcade game by Capcom and its Japanese name is Senjou no Okami or "Castle of the Wolf".

Have you played its sequel Senjou no Okami 2? I recommend the Sega "reprogrammed" Mega Drive port's original mode which is an exceedingly rare arcade format ARPG.

 

[Percy]

River Raid on the Atari.