What was the first video game you ever played? Details please!

Question

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm getting a little tired of people ranting and raving about how the "casual gamers" and/or "n00bs" are ruining gaming. Doesn't anyone remember their gaming roots? I'm sure that many of us who are gaming veterans started out with a hopelessly simple game and worked our way up to games like Zelda. This is why the "casual gaming" thing doesn't bother me. I think that the more people get used to simple games like Wii Sports, the more they'll want to play the difficult and complex games.

So, gamers, what was the first video game you ever played? Go into as much detail as possible! Here's an example to get you started:

My first game was the Sesame Street Letter Go Round on the NES. I was two years old, but I was very proud of myself for being able to play on "Mommy and Daddy's toy" (my parents were avid gamers at this point). It actually taught me how to read.

Answer 1

Well, I played an Arcade game before I played NES.

For the longest time I wasn't allowed to own a gaming setup like NES as it rots your brain or some such (parents can be so weird), but I've had a computer for a long time.

1st Arcade Game: Golden Axe.

Got so good that I could beat it on normal setting with 1 quarter. Didn't hurt that I owned the Arcade Game. :)

1st computer game (Commodore Amiga): Not sure on this one, it was either Eye of the Beholder II or Shadow of the Beast II. These were followed quickly by Lemmings and Tetris

Yep, the unbelievable Commodore Amiga. No hard drive, 3 1/2" floppies ran everything and the entire operating system ran on 5 megs. When windows came out (not as good as the Amiga at the time) it took much more power to run.

Oh, and to this day it is the only system with a side scroller BETTER than Super Mario Bros. which is Super Frog. Zool the ninja ant was pretty good as well.

Super Frog is a cross between sonic (you can run really fast) Mario (you're a frog, got to be able to jump high) and other stuff.

All those games are awesome games btw, check em out if you can find them.

1st game played at school: Oregon Trail

Amazing, what else can be said?

1st home game system (Texas Instruments): Hunt the Wumpus or Tombstone

Hunt the Wumpus is kinda like mine sweeper, but you have to shoot the Wumpus when you think you've found him and if you miss it eats you. Yikes!

Tombstone is kinda like space invaders, but you can move all around and hide from the critters in a grid of nine squares. 3 lives, one hit and you're dead, no save feature!

1st well known game system (NES): Super Mario Bros. or maybe Castlevania

Classics

Answer 2

Here's why they are 'ruining gaming', because when I was a noob at least, I had the decency to realize I was a noob, and I stopped, stepped back, and tried to learn how to play the games. I listened to the older more experienced gamers, and they respected me and 'taught' me because of it. The typical "noob" (god I hate that word...) runs into a server now and just starts screaming "lol wtf omg hax y u haxing lololol???!/1/?!?1/!?!eleventy!/?/?!//11... and THAT'S whats ruining gaming.

Oh, and my first real game (my first 'game' was some stupid math program) was one of three, I don't remember which, Doom, Hexen, and Quake.

Answer 3

my first game was zelda on the NES , i was 5 i think , it was cool back then , and it still is now

Answer 4

Pong - but I'm old. I play Diablo, and I understand what you are talking about, Diablo plays on-line in realms and single player, after Xmas, every year, and I have been playing for 11 years, there are hundreds of noobs who have not a clue on the realms, I am constantly telling them to go to single layer, read the manual, learn the game first before you get on-line. Some listen, but they are usually only new to that game, and they think that if they can play one RPG they can play any of them, which is not true.

Answer 5

Donkey kong country on the SNES.  My older brother got it for christmas and I just had to try and play it.  Except I was too afraid to go past the first level, so I played that until I had 99 lives.

Answer 6

my was either mario kart or donkey kong country

i remeber playing all the time wiht my older brother as he introduced my to the wonderful world of video games

i remeber watching him play Sim City ( the original for SNES) and also playing kirby superstar together

o the good memories

i remeber him letting me play his gameboyand play   pokemon red and blue  

and then i got my special edition gameboy pokemon themed and it came with pokemon yellow

that game was the best

we would battle each other and trade

you can never make fun of the original pokemon

but i dont have mario kart anymore i gave it to some young kid who got his very first system two years ago and it was an SNES

and i wanted him to enjoy that classic and introduce him into the world of videogaming

i gave away my yellow versoin of pokemon and special gameboy to a first grader ( who i knew)

its all about continuing the legacy

Answer 7

My FIRST game is Pac-man on Atari 2600 my dad own that game back in the 1980's. I really never have that much game back than. When I first got nintendo everybody elss have super nintendo. Now I own all 3; Wii, Xbox 360, Ps2(gonna get Ps3 this winter) Im casual gamer I dont care what other gamers say. At least I'm not hardcore like they are. I have life and they dont

Answer 8

My first video game was Super Mario 64 for N64. I played it at my friends house because we couldn't afford a gaming system and I'd never played one before, and I thought it was amazing! It belonged to their babysitter, and she gave her N64 to my sister and I ^_^ good times. Good times.

I swear I still cling to that game and am liable to chew anyone who bashes it out >__>

~The Otaku Twins~

Answer 9

I started with test drive 6 on the game boy color.

I think the people who are ruining gaming though are the people who only care about how the game looks and how you can move to play the game (like on the wii) but dont actually care about the game itself.

Every body is buying the wii because of its motion sensors and I admit to doing that also.

But have we ever thought about how simply moving your arm will actually make your game play better or not.

Same thing with the people who buy ps3 for graphics.

the real good games are the ones with the best game play and my favorite games happen to be on the game boy advance and nintendo DS

Answer 10

My first game was sonic the hedgehog 2 on the mega drive.Such good memories of running through Green hill zone so fast sonic was always at the edge of the screen.Bring back the good old days!

Answer 11

Starcraft and sims on pc....when i was 2

Answer 12

Alex Kidd in Miracle world was the first video game I played, and as a kid I would often buy other platform games like Castle of Illusion, Lucky Dime Caper and Chuck Rock etc, after that I got the Mega Drive (known as Genesis in the USA) and played a greater variety of games with that console than previously, Streets of Rage 2, Shinobi 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles are particuarly memorable titles for that system.

As for casual games they have opened up a new revenue source for developers, and attracted new people to gaming, personally I tend to avoid most of them but if its good enough I will buy it, after all a good games is a good game regardless of its genre.

Answer 13

super mario on nes and im 13 now

Answer 14

my first game that i ever played was super mario bros. i have to admit, it wasn't that memorible, i played like 1 level. i really didn't think much of it. it was my uncles NES so it wasn't like i could play it everyday. but that was my first game i ever played.

but the game that's more significant was the first game i ever owned. i wanted a N64 in the worst way, all my friends had it. then on christmas my parents got me my first video game console. there really are no words to describe how happy i was. but i actually didn't even know what games there were for the N64. but my parents also got me a game. it turned out to be The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, the best game i have ever played at will always be the most amazing game in my eyes.. at first i had no idea what type of game it was. it was used, it had 3 pokemon stickers on the back, and 1 saved file that was actually in ganons castle (even though i didn't know it at the time). i played it, the brain teaser puzzles killed me, i got a faithful strategy guide but i still couldn't finish it. it was a great game. it's basically my general deffinition of a vido game should be. after 6 yrs of owning that game i looked at it, the memories just flashing before my eyes, and i thought to my self. "ya know, i really never finished that game." i finally finished it with no strategy guide!! i was so happy. but that game was just so great. i could never give up that game. it brought me into the world of video games, i'm addicted to them now, to a degree. but i always come back to play my first and favorite video game called zelda.

Answer 15

i dont remember but it would make sense if it was pokemon.  I knew i got it at some point and i knew i had a gameboy color at some point.

Answer 16

A racing game called Lego Racers, it was so cool :).  

Answer 17

Super Mario Bros., for the NES. It made no sense to me, because when I first lost against a Goomba, I thought I had to jump over everything, mushrooms, stars, etc.

Answer 18

Duckhunt or Super Mario Bros

Answer 19

mario =D

haha, nintendoo.

i also remember when i was like 6, a spongebob game that you connected to the tv, and it was just a box that looked like spongebob, a joystick as the nose, and a button as his eye. haha. that games was fun.

Answer 20

The first game I ever played? LOL- Hercules on ps1... It was good, but it didn't please me, well my first game would have to be:

~~~Crash Bandicoot.~~~

I loved this game so much I was maybe 5 when I got a ps1 and my dad got me Crash Bandicoot with it, I have lots of fond memories playing that game me and my dad...

I have played almost every Crash Bandicoot game there is and the main reason I liked it so much was Crash is AWESOME! Even now, being 14 years old I still enjoy the Crash Bandicoot games.

Answer 21

this relly crapy game called pickmin for the gamecube

Answer 22

the first game i played was back in 1998, when i recieved a nintendo 64,i was 5 years old,  it was super mario 64.  

Answer 23

Way way back in the very beginning there was a very simple game called Pong.  Simply two cursers & a moving target.  That was my first.

Answer 24

mario brothers on the game boyy color i was 3 when i played it.

Answer 25

When I was about 2yrs old I remember playing an Indiana Jones game on the original Atari that my parents owned. I loved playing it, I still have that Atari and 9 games that we had for the Atari. I also remember when the NES first came out I was so excited when we got it and have really been a happy gamer ever since

Answer 26

I THINK it was some stupid spongebob game on the gameboy color. I'm not sure if it was that though. Now I don't play TV show games. I learned how bad they are.

Answer 27

The very first game I played when I was little was Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. I never knew a thing about video games. Until my dad let me play the Sega Genesis. I played Sonic the Hedgehog. It was very fun, I loved video games all my life. I especially loved the Sonic the Hedgehog classics. That's why someday soon, I'm gonna buy Sonic Mega Collection for the PS2 to play on my 80GB PS3 (yes the game will work on the 80GB, it says so on the Sony website).

Answer 28

The first game I played on a console was Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Dreamcast.

The first game I played on the PC was a children's game called Mia ( http://www.kidsclick.com/descrip/mia_mat... )

Good ol' days