What was the first video game you ever played?

[BillyHW]

I think for me it was Smurf on ColecoVision.

[covertagenda]

For me it would have been Pong on a clone in the 1970s.

[VectorGamer]

Pong

[Nutsy Doodleheimer]

Pitfall for the 2600.

[leods]

I really don't know. I think probably either Enduro on the Atari 2600 or Stampede on an Apple Macintosh.

[Christophero Sly]

Sea Wolf or, possibly, PONG.

[byonddrivn]

I'm gonna go with Combat on our 2600.

Edited October 28, 2015 by byonddrivn

[BigO]

I'm going to have to go with Combat on the 2600, too.

[Flojomojo]

For me it would have been Pong on a clone in the 1970s.

Same here. It was somehow cooler than Simon or Mattel Football, which also seemed incredible to me. Space Invaders soon after.

 

God we were so tech-poor in those days. Those of us who were there sound like old people talking about going to the silent picture show all day for a nickel.

[Flojomojo]

I really don't know. I think probably either Enduro on the Atari 2600 or Stampede on an Apple Macintosh.

Stampede, the Activision game? Or something like this? http://macintoshgarden.org/games/mouse-stampede

[Ransom]

Midway's Gun Fight, back in the mid-70s.

[covertagenda]

Same here. It was somehow cooler than Simon or Mattel Football, which also seemed incredible to me. Space Invaders soon after.

 

God we were so tech-poor in those days. Those of us who were there sound like old people talking about going to the silent picture show all day for a nickel.

Yes we were at the cutting edge tech wise with pong,seemed amazing at the time almost magical that you could make something move (in a limited way) on a TV screen.How times have changed..

[Skippy B. Coyote]

For me it was the DOS game Paganitzu on the family computer, an IBM PC XT when I was 4 or 5 (around '89 or '90). I'm not sure exactly what the first home console game I played was, but it was definitely on my older brother's ColecoVision around the same time. Cosmic Avenger maybe? I definitely remember my first arcade game, a Ms. Pac-Man cocktail machine at a local bar/restaurant when I was 5 or 6, and the first handheld game I ever played was Tetris on an original gray brick Game Boy that I got for Christmas when I was 5. That also happened to be the first video game system that I could really call my own.

[adamchevy]

Super Mario Bros on the Nes, and I have been hooked ever since. Funny though, I currently don't own an nes.

[cimerians]

A pong clone in the 70's and then later around 80' I played Combat on my friends Atari. I was able to get one for myself later that Christmas.

[Reaperman]

Tumblebugs on a8.

It was 1984-85 making me 3-4 years old at the time.

[empsolo]

Super Mario Bros on the NES. I believe this around 1988 or 1989.

[jhd]

I think that the first arcade game I ever played was Space Invaders in about 1980 or 1981 (though I saw it being played at a local pizza place a year or so prior). As an aside, our local Sears store briefly had a Japanese Space Invaders arcade machine during this time!

 

The very first home console game that I played was Asteroids on the Atari 2600 (it came as a pack-in, along with Combat). This would have been early-Spring 1982.

[BydoEmpire]

No idea - probably an arcade game like Asteroids or Pac Man around 1980? My family got an Inty for Christmas around '81 or '82, so the first game I played at home was Poker & Blackjack. I know I had played a video game before then, though.

[mikey.shake]

If it wasn't Megamania, Kaboom, or Frogger at my Aunt Helen's between '83 and '84, it was a Ms. Pac-Man cocktail cabinet at Barleycorn's in Ft. Mitchell, KY. I was mesmerized.

 

When I grew up, I married the hostess from Barleycorn's.

 

In the early 2000s, we stopped in a sub shop (Sub Station II) a mile up the street that had... a beat-up old Ms. Pac-Man cocktail cab. I couldn't prove it, but my heart told me it was the same one from all those years ago. We had gyros and played it all evening. It was a pretty cool combination of things.

[+save2600]

Actually played arcade video games before I ever played anything on a home console. Having trouble remembering the name of it, but it was a primitive b/w horizontally oriented game, where you controlled an airplane that fired and bombed things. Enemies and buildings scrolled from the right and while it was a fairly simple game graphically, was pretty fun for the time! This must be it: Sega's Bomber from 1977.

 

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12797

 

Space War, Sea Wolf, Allied's Ski and Gun Fight were other early games we had at the time. Can't remember for sure which of these I played first, but am fairly confident it was one of these 5.

[xybot67]

First arcade game was Breakout around 1976-77, It was the first arcade machine I had ever seen.

First Atari game was Outlaw and I was actually impressed by the graphics! Lol!

[0078265317]

probably space invaders 2600

[mbd30]

Epoch's "Astro Command" was the first video game that I ever owned. I don't remember whether I played anything before that.

[NE146]

Very very easy. Was definitely PONG. (probably a clone) on a tabletop machine at Kinneys Cafe in Guam circa mid-late 70's. There was an awesome dimly lit shufflepuck bowling machine right next to it that I had played a bunch prior to that video game revolution hitting us in the face.

 

First home video game I played was a Coleco Telstar Colotron unit that my dad brought us home from the states. Used two 9-volt batteries.