What's the first videogame you ever played?

[shadow460]

The first video game I remember playing ever was the arcade version of Amidar. My dad had to hold me up because I was way too short to reach the controls or see the screen!

[accousticguitar]

My sister and brother-in-law had a home pong console of some sort, so it was probably that. The first arcade game I remember playing is Sea Wolf.

[AussieAtari]

Space Invaders on a very new, just released 2600 - I've been hooked ever since.

[iswitt]

I wish I could remember the name of the game I first remember playing. Maybe someone here can help. It was a NES side-scrolling adventure where you played as a dinosaur. I know that it wasn't the Adventure Island series, though.

 

I know it isn't much to go by, but I narrowed it down the console, genre, format and character for you. Please help me!

Edited May 26, 2010 by iswitt

[DickNixonArisen]

Dynowarz? Probably not. The infamous 'Color a dinosaur'? Could be. Joe and Mac? Flintstones dinosaur peak? ... Little nemo dream master? (boy in dinosaur suit). There was a Jurassic park for the NES, but I don't believe you played AS a dinosaur.

 

What kind of dinosaur?

 

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Yoshi!

 

There's no chance you're remembering the admittedly awesome chance to be a raptor in the genesis Jurassic park?

[cvgplus]

Space Invaders in like 1983 on Atari 2600. My friend had the system. I wanted an Atari so bad but didn't get my first system, the NES, until 1986. Nothing like your first game. Ahh, memories.

[cvgplus]

I wish I could remember the name of the game I first remember playing. Maybe someone here can help. It was a NES side-scrolling adventure where you played as a dinosaur. I know that it wasn't the Adventure Island series, though.

 

I know it isn't much to go by, but I narrowed it down the console, genre, format and character for you. Please help me!

 

It's been so long but believe in Jurassic Park could only be a human. Dynowarz weren't you a space guy trying to save dinosaurs, maybe you could be a dinosaur, I don't know. I have played it many years ago and remember a guy in a blue? space suit. Never played Color a Dinosaur so don't know anything about it. It wouldn't be Godzilla would it? I have that game but technically you are a monster but maybe could be confused with a dinosaur. Yoshi and Yoshi's Cookie are both puzzle type games if I remember correctly. I'm stumped hope you find out what it was.

Edited May 27, 2010 by cvgplus

[fdurso224]

Hi,

 

I think it was NARC in the Arcades.

 

 

Anthony....

[DickNixonArisen]

Hi,

 

I think it was NARC in the Arcades.

 

 

Anthony....

haha i was definitely about to post a reply saying "Damn Fool, you ain't no Dinosaur in NARC"

 

Unless we define supporting the drug war as reactionary...

 

debate for another place and time

[almightytodd]

Pong and Space Race. The two machines were side-by-side at a Shakey's Pizza Parlor. I also remember playing a pong-type game on an Odyssey system that a friend had. I'm not sure which I played first. I remember that the Odyssey didn't keep score for you and had no sound. It seemed primitive to me and unfinished. That aspect may have something to do with why Ralph Baer didn't get the credit he deserved for developing the early technology.

[NBC]

Pong and Space Race. The two machines were side-by-side at a Shakey's Pizza Parlor. I also remember playing a pong-type game on an Odyssey system that a friend had. I'm not sure which I played first. I remember that the Odyssey didn't keep score for you and had no sound. It seemed primitive to me and unfinished. That aspect may have something to do with why Ralph Baer didn't get the credit he deserved for developing the early technology.

 

 

I played Matell handheld football game.

[Herbarius]

Never played Color a Dinosaur so don't know anything about it.

Can't be. You just color dinosaurs. There is no platforming game in it.

[DickNixonArisen]

Never played Color a Dinosaur so don't know anything about it.

Can't be. You just color dinosaurs. There is no platforming game in it.

 

 

 

...yep. I knew that. Mostly from reading the title, "Color a dinosaur".

[Atari2600Lives]

This exact type of Pong cocktail on or around 1975-1976

 

[DickNixonArisen]

It's... beautiful. Very modern looking. I guess it's like when you hear the Velvet Underground, and no matter what decade it is, it sounds like something modern.

[xg4bx]

i want to say either laser blast or the arcade version of rampage.

 

my first console was a 2600 jr. i seem to remember the imagic games like no escape and demon attack being my favorite.

Edited May 31, 2010 by xg4bx

[retrorussell]

My first arcade game was probably Sprint2.

First home game.. Probably some sort of Pong clone, as they were red-hot in the mid seventies.

[stones]

In the arcade not sure on the order

Pacman

Donkey Kong

Centipede

 

Home video game

Pong 2600

defender 2600

Super Mario Bros(nes)

[lushgirl_80]

Wow forgot I wrote this thread. I did'nt mention the first ever arcade game I ever saw...it was Ms Pacman at the nearby grocery store,had be around '81 or '82. While my mom was checking out the groceries I noticed all these bigger kids wearing bellbottoms huddled around this machine. I walked by them and one of the big kids looked down at me and said "Girl...you gotta play this game! " . I'll never forget that!! I did'nt get to play that at that moment cos my mom was in a hurry to get out of there.

 

The first arcade game I remember playing was Donkey Kong tho at this ice cream parlor with my mom and dad.Or it might have been Pengo....drats memories a bit fuzzy on that one lol. Donkey Kong and Pengo I remember very early on.

Edited June 3, 2010 by lushgirl_80