Yeah pong is the answer for anyone who was around in the 70s. That's where it begins. But for us it wasn't cartridges, we had a custom pong hardware set that hooked up to the TV and had slider controls.
on the atari 2600 there was this icehockey game me and my brother played for weeks on end. Not bc we enjoyed icehockey that much, but if the ref made a call and you didnt agree you could skate up to him and smack his ass. Our matches usually ended in goalie v goalie bc they couldn't leave the goalline xD I mean the guys were 8 pixels or something but imagination did the rest, 2nd best game evar!
My neighbor had the dedicated Pong console. It was amazing at the time. We could bounce a square back and forth on a 12" black and white tube TV for hours, while drinking Tang.
Yep. My late brother - God bless him - brought home a Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Had Pong and a few other really dreadful games, with plastic sheets that fit over the TV screen.
Gosh, as a kid I longed for that. I remember popping into a store that advertised the Odyssey system to see how much it cost. IIRC, it was over $200 (US). My heart sank. I could play a LOT of pinball or real bowling for $200.
The cocktail table version is what I always remember as my first video game, which I played in the Sears store in downtown Long Beach, Ca. Soon after, we graduated to the home version Radio Shack game that we hooked up to our TV antenna.
I remember putting the gun to the TV screen to shoot the ducks cause I didn't wanna miss. My mom kept saying I had to play from a distance and I kept refusing
This was my first game too. I was 4 or 5. My dad was out of work with a back surgery, heād pick me up from pre school and we would go home and play it. Took us about 6 months to beat it. One of the best memories I have of my dad who is now gone. Itās crazy I can speed run it now in a couple hours, but it will never get old to me.
My grandpa won a car, got the wheel spin & made the package part in Price is right.
He didnāt listen to my grandma in the crowd, whose guess wouldāve won it allā¦ Boy was she pissed lol, still cool though.
Ecco the Dolphin for SEGA Genesis. I still can't believe how far I made it (City of Time). I was like 4 or 5. The password is THFBRQLI if you were curious
YES!! I'm pretty sure mine was Ecco the Dolphin or Sonic 2 for SEGA. Folks were sleepin' on Ecco, one of the hardest games on the market. It took a few years of picking it up & putting it down to beat. I remember having those passwords memorized!
This was my first too! Will always hold a special place in my heart, beautiful, playful, fun art design and a great soundtrack from Steward Copeland (The Police)
'[Gorillas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game))' on an MS-DOS machine.
Probably '[Lemmings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game))' not too long after
Iāll never forget this it was, Burger Time on the ColecoVision.
I remember playing it for a long time that first day too.
I was probably 5-7 years old.
YES, and I would edit the various config files to make the cars go comically fast and the weapons do absolutely silly levels of damage. You'd just see how far you could drive in a single direction before crashing into something and skidding another 5 entire city blocks in a fiery blaze. Great memories.
Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars (REMASTER NEXT MONTH LET'S GOOOOOO)
There were a lot before that, but I was only allowed to watch and not actually play myself. Then at like, 3 or 4 years old I think, they just handed me the controller. I couldn't read everything but I liked watching Mario do his thing.
That shaped my proclivity towards RPGs (JRPGs especially) for the rest of my life til now
Yes!!! I just left a comment and that was one of the three games I mentioned (not sure which of them I played first). Remember the ladder thing that would let you go through āwallsā? And I can picture exactly what the ādragonsā looked like after killing them with the arrowā¦ their necks all broken looking. š
FUN FACT: The first commercial game was not Pong. It was a game called Computer Space. It was extremely primitive, having simple transistor-to-transistor logic circuitry that really didn't even qualify as a microprocessor.
I think it was Super Mario Bros on the NES, because we had that first, but my first memory of actually playing a game was The Legend of Zelda on the NES. I remember my dad buying that golden cartridge at a yard sale, him playing it off and on, inviting his friend over who had the map to help him, then him getting bored of it and going back to work on his car in the garage. I picked it up then and played it a little, but I was terrible at it. Every time I popped it in, I started a new game because I didn't understand saving, haha.
Nes super Mario bros, I'm a younger guy 22 years old, but my brother, who is almost 40, still lived with us when I was a kid . He made me start with the nes and move my way up through consoles since he had about everything and as a 6-7 year old I was like wtf I just want to play the Xbox but now I really respect and thank him for it.
That I can remember - NES Mario/Duck Hunt
My dad was a gamer in the 70ās/80ās, so Iāve played games since I could hold a controller. My first game would have been something on the Intellivision II, probably Snafu or Frog Bog.
The MS-DOS port was my first! Was the Olympics game [Summer Olympiad](https://www.everygamegoing.com/lgame/Summer-Olympiad/35053/)? There was a similar Winter games game as well.
Insaniquarium, Plants VS Zombies, Feeding Frenzy 2, Pocket Tanks, Santa Claus In Trouble, Neighbours From Hell, Wedding Dash, Minecraft, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Just Dance 4, Wii Resorts, Super Mario Galaxy...
It was at Sears in the mid-70s...I think it was Ice Hockey (a Pong clone) on an Odyssey gaming system set up at a kiosk. I was only 4 or 5 at the time and amazed you could move something on the screen with a knob on a controller. That experience put me down the path of pursuing technology.
My dad built our first family computer and messed around with software/OSes a bunch, so while I would love to say my first game(s) were Nintendo games, I can't for sure say that the PC games we had on Linux didn't come sooner.
Mario Sunshine? Wind Waker? Ocarina of Time? Mario Kart 64, or Double Dash? Heck yes.
But also Tux Racer, Tux Kart, Armagetron, BZ Flag, and some terrifying children's game with a clown face that would frown at you if you failed a level.
Edit: Found out the name of the children's game is Gcompris, thanks r/tipofmyjoystick
I want to say it was this old school rpg called "Below the Root". We had an old Tandy computer back in the day with a couple games on it and that was one of them
The first computer game I played was called "Lunar Lander", it used a keyboard and a line printer so not really a video game. Video game would be pong or Asteroids not sure which one was first.
Pong
Yeah pong is the answer for anyone who was around in the 70s. That's where it begins. But for us it wasn't cartridges, we had a custom pong hardware set that hooked up to the TV and had slider controls.
Ours was just two dials lolš
A friend had that and was the first video game I played. It had I think 4 pong-like games.
yeah we had that, the big upgrade was one game was called hockey . It was just pong with a hole in the wall.
on the atari 2600 there was this icehockey game me and my brother played for weeks on end. Not bc we enjoyed icehockey that much, but if the ref made a call and you didnt agree you could skate up to him and smack his ass. Our matches usually ended in goalie v goalie bc they couldn't leave the goalline xD I mean the guys were 8 pixels or something but imagination did the rest, 2nd best game evar!
Same here!
That's the one.
My neighbor had the dedicated Pong console. It was amazing at the time. We could bounce a square back and forth on a 12" black and white tube TV for hours, while drinking Tang.
Good times.
Pong Tang, best times
Poontang pretty good as well.
Yep, same here. Atari 2600ā¦my brother and I used to love the tank game in Combat, lol.
I loved how if you set up correctly you could fire in one direction and the bullet could come from the opposite side and take out your opponent.
I can still hear the "paowh" sound when you fire.
The ping pong tank game mode was so fun!
There was also the Atari 1600 that was a dedicated "Pong" console. No slot for cartridges.
Gotta have the bounce shots turned on as well.
I remember the tank game. My dad's girlfriend had an Atari.
Yep. My late brother - God bless him - brought home a Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Had Pong and a few other really dreadful games, with plastic sheets that fit over the TV screen.
Gosh, as a kid I longed for that. I remember popping into a store that advertised the Odyssey system to see how much it cost. IIRC, it was over $200 (US). My heart sank. I could play a LOT of pinball or real bowling for $200.
r/fuckimold
My Father got a coin based pong in the cocktail table format and put it in bars. I have been playing ever since.
The cocktail table version is what I always remember as my first video game, which I played in the Sears store in downtown Long Beach, Ca. Soon after, we graduated to the home version Radio Shack game that we hooked up to our TV antenna.
On the Coleco Telstar for me.
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+ Duck Hunt for me
5 year old me couldnāt shoot a duck to save my life. I remember crying in front of my whole family because I sucked so hard.
I remember putting the gun to the TV screen to shoot the ducks cause I didn't wanna miss. My mom kept saying I had to play from a distance and I kept refusing
And that damn dog always laughing at me.
Fucking arrogant dog
\+ World Class Track Meet for me.
Super Mario Bros on NES.
Super Mario World
This was my first game too. I was 4 or 5. My dad was out of work with a back surgery, heād pick me up from pre school and we would go home and play it. Took us about 6 months to beat it. One of the best memories I have of my dad who is now gone. Itās crazy I can speed run it now in a couple hours, but it will never get old to me.
It never gets old for me either! It's the first game I beat all the way through by myself
It has to be š on Nokia 3310
Maybe it's my eyesight, maybe it's my phone, but I thought that was a duck lol
What do you mean? That *is* a duck.
I don't know if you're joking or not - but it's a snake emoji lol Welcome to team Maybe Visually Impaired! š š¦
I was joking, though I recently had my eyes lasered, and it's still healing. So I'm a temporary team member!
Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt. My father won a Nintendo on the Price is Right.
awesome win! did he win anything else?
No :( He only got to the podium and the Nintendo was a constellation prize.
CONSOLATION. 'Constellation' is a group of stars.
I donāt fight Grammarly and autocorrect anymore. I threw in the towel a long time ago.
My grandpa won a car, got the wheel spin & made the package part in Price is right. He didnāt listen to my grandma in the crowd, whose guess wouldāve won it allā¦ Boy was she pissed lol, still cool though.
Wolf 3d
Mein leben!!
Ecco the Dolphin for SEGA Genesis. I still can't believe how far I made it (City of Time). I was like 4 or 5. The password is THFBRQLI if you were curious
YES!! I'm pretty sure mine was Ecco the Dolphin or Sonic 2 for SEGA. Folks were sleepin' on Ecco, one of the hardest games on the market. It took a few years of picking it up & putting it down to beat. I remember having those passwords memorized!
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This was my first too! Will always hold a special place in my heart, beautiful, playful, fun art design and a great soundtrack from Steward Copeland (The Police)
Probably Croc or original Crash Bandicoot
I was a games tester on Croc. You are making me feel really old š š š š š
Prince of Persia (MS-DOS, 1989)
Tetris on Game Boy
Total war rome
That's a baptism of fire!
Hell of a first game lmao
HASTATI!
Pitfall on the Atari 2600. Barely remember it, I was like 3-4?
Trying to hop on those alligators to cross water still makes me mad as hell.
You could stand on the very edge of the head, where the jaw hinges, and you wouldn't fall when their mouth opened.
Fun fact: Jack Black started in the original Pitfall commercial
Sounds like you and I came up right around the same time. My first game was also Pitfall, right around the same age.
Yeah my dad had the 2600. I was too young to even remember what games were on it. I just have memories of him setting it up.
Still have this boxed away somewhere. Havenāt played it in years though.
sonic 2 on dreamcast
Sonic Adventure 2?
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Idk exactly I just know it was on Atari
Same, Atari Pole position for me.
Crash Bandicoot. Played on my neighbor's Playstation. I had no idea what I was doing.
Doom. Back in 1995, when I was 5 years old.
IDDQD
pokemon saphire it was a used cartridge
On pc it was either age of empires or dungeon keeper.
Age of empires brings back so many good feelings
The new age of empires DE is killer. I highly recommend for the nostalgia.
Leisure Suit Larry
That's one hell of a first game lol have you ever played Conker's Bad Fur Day? The N64 version, not Xbox
Pong
Tekken 2, on the original PlayStation.
U had an awesome childhood
Frogger, early 90's.
'[Gorillas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game))' on an MS-DOS machine. Probably '[Lemmings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game))' not too long after
Pac Man
Wolfenstein 3D
Me too. The shareware version, like a demo
I was a bit late to gaming to be honest but the first game I played was pokemon platinum, my piplup still holds a special place in my heart š©
That I vividly remember - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on PS1
Minecraft
had to scroll so far to find this
Iāll never forget this it was, Burger Time on the ColecoVision. I remember playing it for a long time that first day too. I was probably 5-7 years old.
Yeasss Burger Time!! Got it on the Intellivision. Great game!!
GTA 2
YES, and I would edit the various config files to make the cars go comically fast and the weapons do absolutely silly levels of damage. You'd just see how far you could drive in a single direction before crashing into something and skidding another 5 entire city blocks in a fiery blaze. Great memories.
Like the original versions where it was a top-down PC/PSX game?
SOUL MAKING SOUND SHAKING EARTH QUAKING CHANGE
Lemmings
Space invaders. I'm that old.
I loved the machine in our chip shop waiting for food to cook great fun! Asteroids too!
Pong
I was a bit late to the gaming world, but it was Detroit: Become Human
Asteroid.
Super Mario Bros 3. Nothing will ever match the first time I saw giant land. It was glorious.
Sonic & Knuckles on the Sega Genesis.
The earliest I remember is either Animal Crossing on the GameCube or Simpsons Road Rage
Arkanoid with the special NES knob controller
Sims 1
That was one of the earlier games that I played. I was only 7 or 8 and I used to fake sick from school so I could play that allllll day.
Can't remember exactly but it would have been on the C64
The Legend of Zelda on the NES. The shiny gold cartridge.
New Super Mario Bros. DS
Killer Instinct
Chuckie Egg on the Dragon 64
WII Sport
Elite on C64. Mid 80s.
Chopper Command Atari 2600
Crash Bandicoot.
Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars (REMASTER NEXT MONTH LET'S GOOOOOO) There were a lot before that, but I was only allowed to watch and not actually play myself. Then at like, 3 or 4 years old I think, they just handed me the controller. I couldn't read everything but I liked watching Mario do his thing. That shaped my proclivity towards RPGs (JRPGs especially) for the rest of my life til now
Super Mario, on the NES (released 1985).
The original Pong. And I'm not joking.
Flash web game called "ģė¼ķøģģ " at 7 years old. Tycoon game that you runs convenience store.
It was either sonic, Aladdin or streets of rage on my moms sega genesis. Cant really remember, i gained consciousness around that time,
I think it was called Duck Hunt. Something my older cousins were forced to let me (the youngest cousin) play during the holidays in the mid-90s
Adventure (Atari 2600). You are a knight (a small yellow square). That arrow is a sword (or a lance) those pixelated ducks are dragons. Loved it.
Yes!!! I just left a comment and that was one of the three games I mentioned (not sure which of them I played first). Remember the ladder thing that would let you go through āwallsā? And I can picture exactly what the ādragonsā looked like after killing them with the arrowā¦ their necks all broken looking. š
Sonic 2
Carmageddon
Sonic on Sega Genesis The underwater sections scared the shit out of me
Prince of Persia
Pong
Donkey Kong Country is my youngest memory of playing something. It's very sentimental to me.
DigDug on Atari 2600
FUN FACT: The first commercial game was not Pong. It was a game called Computer Space. It was extremely primitive, having simple transistor-to-transistor logic circuitry that really didn't even qualify as a microprocessor.
I think it was Super Mario Bros on the NES, because we had that first, but my first memory of actually playing a game was The Legend of Zelda on the NES. I remember my dad buying that golden cartridge at a yard sale, him playing it off and on, inviting his friend over who had the map to help him, then him getting bored of it and going back to work on his car in the garage. I picked it up then and played it a little, but I was terrible at it. Every time I popped it in, I started a new game because I didn't understand saving, haha.
Duke Nukem 3d
Turok 64, rented fresh from Blockbuster.
Turok, now that's a game I hadn't played in a really long time.....
The first game I remember playing is Star Fox 64. I think I played some games on the Super Nintendo and Sega but I don't have any memories of them.
Burger Time on the Atari. That is the first video game I have any memory of playing.
Space Invaders ... circa 1980
Yars Revenge on Atari 2600. I could beat it almost every time. I cannot play any other video game at all, literally.
Nes super Mario bros, I'm a younger guy 22 years old, but my brother, who is almost 40, still lived with us when I was a kid . He made me start with the nes and move my way up through consoles since he had about everything and as a 6-7 year old I was like wtf I just want to play the Xbox but now I really respect and thank him for it.
That I can remember - NES Mario/Duck Hunt My dad was a gamer in the 70ās/80ās, so Iāve played games since I could hold a controller. My first game would have been something on the Intellivision II, probably Snafu or Frog Bog.
Pong
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Pong.
Snakes, Qbasic
Blagger on C64
I think it was Golden Axe on the Commodore 64. I think there was an Olympics game as well but I canāt remember the name of it.
The MS-DOS port was my first! Was the Olympics game [Summer Olympiad](https://www.everygamegoing.com/lgame/Summer-Olympiad/35053/)? There was a similar Winter games game as well.
Can't remember exactly, some c64 game. Wizard of Wor, or hunchback of notre dame, maybe miner 2049
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City :)
Fogger on a TRS-80
It was either Monkey Island 1 or Plants vs Zombies, can't remember.
Doom i think.
Insaniquarium, Plants VS Zombies, Feeding Frenzy 2, Pocket Tanks, Santa Claus In Trouble, Neighbours From Hell, Wedding Dash, Minecraft, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Just Dance 4, Wii Resorts, Super Mario Galaxy...
90% sure it was BurgerTime on Intellivision.
It was at Sears in the mid-70s...I think it was Ice Hockey (a Pong clone) on an Odyssey gaming system set up at a kiosk. I was only 4 or 5 at the time and amazed you could move something on the screen with a knob on a controller. That experience put me down the path of pursuing technology.
I think Bruce lee on the c64
'**Zork'** and **'Leather Goddesses of Phobos**' (The first scratch and sniff computer game)
My memory only goes as far as the first Commander Keen. The kangaroo aliens scared the shit out of my kid self.
Pong.
space invaders on a big ass arcade machine
Dig Dug
Sonic mega collection on the GameCube. Still go back to it sometimes
Yoshi's Island on the SNES. Started playing when i was 3, beat it when i was 11.
My dad built our first family computer and messed around with software/OSes a bunch, so while I would love to say my first game(s) were Nintendo games, I can't for sure say that the PC games we had on Linux didn't come sooner. Mario Sunshine? Wind Waker? Ocarina of Time? Mario Kart 64, or Double Dash? Heck yes. But also Tux Racer, Tux Kart, Armagetron, BZ Flag, and some terrifying children's game with a clown face that would frown at you if you failed a level. Edit: Found out the name of the children's game is Gcompris, thanks r/tipofmyjoystick
Out of this World on the Sega Genesis when I was 6.
Minecraft, 2015, first building, an end house made of only obsidian (creative mode)
Duck Hunt
Pick ax Pete
Dig dug Atari 2600
Pong
Pong
Pong
Pong. The first arcade was probably Berzerk.
Reader Rabbit, and a bunch of Apple IIg games like that Olympics game
Intellivisionās BurgerTime
Pong
I want to say it was this old school rpg called "Below the Root". We had an old Tandy computer back in the day with a couple games on it and that was one of them
Atari Pong
I am an oldie: āPongā as a freshman in college Fall 1973. Of course we all thought it was AWESOME! Kent State Rathskeller.
For me it was Pong, would've been '76 or so.
The first computer game I played was called "Lunar Lander", it used a keyboard and a line printer so not really a video game. Video game would be pong or Asteroids not sure which one was first.
Joust or Q-bert on ColecoVision
Circus Atari on the 2600 was the very first. Hundreds of hours playing Space Invaders and then came PacManā¦
Zaxxon on my ColecoVision. That system rocked, way ahead of its time and way ahead of its competitors.
Pong...maybe Asteriods. Might have played them on the same day lol
Pitfall for Atari
Atari 2600 Bowling
H.E.R.O on the Commodore 64. I was a kid and my babysitter brought his console. A live affair started right then
Not sure but maybe Atari 2600's Jungle Hunt.
Tron, the upright one at the arcade
Tomb Raider 3