BillyHW Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I think for me it was Smurf on ColecoVision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertagenda Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 For me it would have been Pong on a clone in the 1970s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Pong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Pitfall for the 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leods Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I really don't know. I think probably either Enduro on the Atari 2600 or Stampede on an Apple Macintosh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Sea Wolf or, possibly, PONG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byonddrivn Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) I'm gonna go with Combat on our 2600. Edited October 28, 2015 by byonddrivn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I'm going to have to go with Combat on the 2600, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Midway's Gun Fight, back in the mid-70s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertagenda Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamchevy Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Super Mario Bros on the Nes, and I have been hooked ever since. Funny though, I currently don't own an nes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperman Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Tumblebugs on a8. It was 1984-85 making me 3-4 years old at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empsolo Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Super Mario Bros on the NES. I believe this around 1988 or 1989. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey.shake Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybot67 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 probably space invaders 2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Epoch's "Astro Command" was the first video game that I ever owned. I don't remember whether I played anything before that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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