What was the first Video Game you played?

[AngryApples]

So, whats the first video game you remember playing?

(home gaming as opposed to Arcade)

There were probably earlier ones, but as for a clear memory, it would be Asteroids on the Atari 2600! (yes, I appreciate I'm giving my age away)

[Patch1875]

Combat on the Atari.

[m1dg3]

Hungry Horace on the C64 if you don't include the Pong clone we had.

[Phil1]

Parsec on the TI-99/4a

[satans worm]

Radar rat race on the C64, on cartridge!

The fking music still haunts me now

[toasty]

Probably Asteroids on a mate's Atari.

The first game I got myself was Skramble which came with my C64. Happy days.

[Ved]

I think it was either Sabrewolf on the BBC micro or a table top space invaders in a pub both in the early/mid 80s when I was very small.

The first game I owned and played was Xzap on the C16 + 4

[daddy cool]

For me it was Jetpac i think, on the Spectrum

[dave7692]

A Crash Bandicoot game of some sort on the PS1, I'm a 90's child so by the time I'd managed to pick up the controller we were into the realms of PS1.

I remember my mate having one and me constantly nagging my parents for one, they were about £85, £85 seemed like such a huge amount back then.

[CrutyRammers]

Arcade would have been the daddy, Space Invaders.
Home was an early console of some description, with a multi-game cartridge containing pong, tennis, etc - all basically different versions of "move the line up and down to bounce the 4x4 pixel square ball backwards and forwards".
I remember when games were games...

[garrykiller]

something acomadore based.

[Sammitch]

Tir Na Nog on the ZX Spectrum

[chrissull]

Super mario bros on a snes, around 1993.
I'm only 22 now, so i've been playing games for 20 years. And to think my parents thought i'd 'grow out of it'

[rich1231]

Pong

[paolow]

rich1231 said:

Pong

+1 - Pong on an ancient Atari

[Rick_1138]

Cred Breaks Out on the ZX Spectrum.

Was a TSB (The old TSB) sort of sponsored game you got with an account, I inherited the console from my cousin and that came with it, along with some racing and fighting games.

Even my folks played it

[garrykiller]

chrissull said:

I'm only 22 now, so i've been playing games for 20 years. And to think my parents thought i'd 'grow out of it'

My parents were the same. I'm 28 now and all thats happened is my wife is now wondering when I'll grow out of it. I say "I'm growing out of it, I'm growing with it"

[Morningside]

paolow said:

rich1231 said:

Pong

+1 - Pong on an ancient Atari

Also pong on a "home entertainment system". 4 games! Pong and 3 more that look like pong with a slightly bigger bat.

I think I still have it here somewhere.

[davel*]

Duck Hunt on the NES.

When I was a kid this thing was amazing, you shot the screen and the ducks/clay pigeons went down. Was bloody brilliant!

[Tonsko]

It was a motocross game on some wooden-fascia thing, didn't even have cartridges, all games were on the ROMs inside it, changed via a selector switch. It had a few games, presume pong must have been one of them, but it was the motocross game that I remember the most! Consisted of three or 4 horizontal 'tracks' on the screen, with a square obstacle every so often, that a button press would cause you to do a wheelie and thus make it over the obstacle safely. Repeat. I was crap at games even back then!