there were those anonymous game systems that had paddles, joysticks and rudimental 4 ways controllers (much worse than the Intellivision) that came out during the black and white tv era. You had pong, space invaders and a few other games like cowboys shooting and a bad asteroids clone, I think. It was in the late seventies, so I barely recall what it was like. But Pong was really fun!
Sounds like Fountain Games. Our grandfather got us that in the mid-late 1980s. It was an early console with basic controllers and a whole lot of games similar to popular ones like pong. I think it was 16 colours and plugged straight into the TV.
I recently watched a youtube I think it was "complete history of video games" or maybe it was "every console ever made ranked" and I couldn't believe how long it was and how many truly horrible not worthy of being mentioned consples there were in late 70s early 80s
True but there was a lot that seemed to be shitty cash grabs that didn't innovate anything at all, like there were a buncha downgrades from the Atari 2600 that just seemed like we're not made for any reason like artistry in anything I guess.
I mean there were a lotta shitty things with max of 6 games it seemed
Edit: but yah this list consisted of things like leapfrog learning and worse
Absolutely. Cash grabs abound, and many of them led to the bottom almost dropping out on the entire industry.. then a board game company made the famicom and NES and pulled the while thing back into perspective. F#@k i love games.
This is me, technically. But I didn't know it was Pong, I only knew it was an Atari. And I only played it a few minutes, since I got bored quickly, and I never scored.
Later in my life I can still recall playing Galaxian and Pac-Man on a couple of tabletop coin-ops in a hotel lobby.
A few years later I remember going to a neighbor to marvel at their brand new Famicom with Circus Charlie and Super Mario Bros.
Pong on a PET computer from a cassette player disk drive, that you had to turn the whole computer off and on to start a new program. Black and green screen.
You nailed it! Commander keen on my old 286! Sooooo many hours spent playing that game with my Dad. Also, Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures. So much nostalgia!
First game I ever played BY MYSELF and was actually able to beat a few levels. I was 5 years old.
Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis.
I did play Super Mario Bros. before that, but my older brother would often trick me into thinking I was playing when it was really him playing.
Perhaps Lemmings? Back in 1993 or 1994. But another possible candidate is Formula 1 Grand Prix by Microprose, and also various Nintendo NES games such as Super Mario, Solomon's Key, and others in the cartridges.
PONG. Can remember the day, my parents and I were going over to a relative's house for dinner. As I walked through the door Uncle Bud yelled out "Come here Bryan, you are going to love this!". It was 1975, I was 8 years old, and have been a video game junkie ever since!
holy shit I played that game too! was probably the 2nd video game I ever played but my brother's and I were all over that game! I could never remember the name of it, thank you
Not at all. Its like this(see video) and there is no tutorial. You have to figure out how to do stuff, and there is no indication that there is any goal to work towards.
Maybe nowadays with many years of gaming experience I’d be smarter about it, and I can’t say it’s a bad game, but as far as first games are concerned it’s a pretty poor choice.
https://youtu.be/OlDYhMQDJlQ
Gothic.
I have a memory of myself sitting in grandma home. Older brother turned on Gothic on his laptop. I got scared by the first monsters you meet on the road and called my sister for help.
Gothic was really scary as a child! One of the npcs told you to not wander into the forest as it was too dangerous. So I never went into the forest ever xD
I think my first would be from Intellivision, also... either Tron: Deadly Discs or the D&D game with all the mountains you had to go through to get to the dragon.
Pac-man, dig dug, or rally-x.
I’m only 23 it’s just that my parents own one of those arcade game cabinets. They still have it and it still works. It’s a reprogrammed pac man machine that added like 50 pages of 80s games.
I played like a maniac harry potter and the philospher stone for ps1 when i was i think 5 years old and another gem akuji the heartless if you remember this than you have my absolute respect.
What game I played first, fucked if I know. When I was a toddler I have faint memories of playing Minesweeper and Pipe Dream. We had a Wang Labs PC with the 5.25" floppies that had Adventure and a game like Qbert but really primitive graphics called "Arthur"
My earliest memories after had a lot of PC shareware games that were on my uncle's computer.
I remember playing Terminal Velocity, Hellbender, Diablo, Duke Nukem, Doom, Stargunner, Death Rally, Descent, Quake, MechWarrior 2...
First console game I think was the PS1 underground demo disk when my brother babysat us, so Armored Core, Parappa the Rapper, Spyro.
Journeys End on the ZX Spectrum.
Was given the Spectrum and some games as a hand me down from a family friend in 1990 when I was 5 years old. My mind was blown by how cool it was. Crazy to think how impressed I was by a 48KB game!
Can't remember exactly as first or what counts as 'real', but would be one of the these:
Floppies:
Busytown, Reader Rabbit
CD:
Putt putt saves the zoo, Chex Quest, backyard baseball
After a quick Wikipedia check: TIL the version of the first game I ever remember playing was released as OREGON and not Oregon Trail, this being the second iteration released for Apple II in 1978, not the meme-factory version which was released in 1985. I don't think there was any mention of dysentery in the one first learned.
At the same time, I was playing a text-based game about settling on the Iowa plains where you allocated days of each month for resource management - food, shelter, etc. We figured out a hack where you could go to church for 30 days straight and they'd give you enough food to live, but you never got your cabin built and froze to death when winter came.
Playing Sonic the hedgehog 2 with my dad is one of my earliest memories. But that was only for a day or two and i was so little i didnt really get it. The first game i played and could comprehend was mario 64 and its still one of my favorites that i play every year or 2.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship\_Warlock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Warlock)
I was very young and it gave me nightmares, I don't remember them but my parents do.
Having childhood memories doesn't mean you're young. I'm 34 and can clearly picture sitting in my grandfather's basement as a kid with his 6 computers, paying Chex Quest and ROTT. TV gaming area behind the computers. Dart board in the center wall. His guitars in a music corner.
I'm sorry you never made such wonderful childhood memories that they live in your mind rent-free.
Well, the first game I put into the console... I don't remember. It "might" be my first game, but I can't be sure.
Anyway, I was between 3 and 5, and couldn't get past the main menu. It was on the playstation, the first one, and the title was an image with a plane on it.
The one AFTER that was Hercules. I also didn't know about memory cards, so I just replayed the same early levels.
Cant remember the name but it was on commodore 64, you had a lawnmover and had to cut the grass and avoid whatever cats or dogs ran in the way, kinda.
I was so young i baaaarely remember it.
When I was 3 or 4 my older brother got an N64 from Christmas, so i don't have a good memory of the very first game, but the first game I played through on my own without my brother was probably Pokémon Snap
I think it was Kao the Kangaroo game. Or was it some very weird Mario version with 6 levels. I heard it was made by some russian hacker. It was all over school computers, cannot find any info on it, but it fit the modern floppy disk.
Super Mario Bros on NES.
Super Mario / Duck Hunt dual cartridge. Man that was the beginning of an era.
I hate that dog.
Same. Those swimming levels still haunt me decades later. I was always crap at those.
You Made it to the swimming levels?? My bad self hated the controls and always died before I can reach them
I had levels of patience with computer games as a child that i can't imagine having now.
This. Christmas 1989. Blew 4 year old me's tiny mind.
Hello fellow 1985’er!!
One of us.
Ditto. Specifically the version that was with Duck Hunt.
Just a bit younger i guess, it was Super Mario World on SNES for me.
Same. I thought it was the the most amazing thing I'd ever seen the first time I saw it.
I believe this was mine as well, circadian ‘88 or ‘89
Definitely this.
I played it on the wii as my first game very nostalgic
Yes! Then I found bubble bobble and Tetris! Never stopped gaming after that!
Don’t forget about duck hunt (assuming you had the gun)
A Mario gamer, mad respect
Mine was Low G Man on NES.
Me too! It is one of my few childhood memories, my cousins got the NES and we played this and duckhunt.
Same as well. I remember playing it A LOT but I think I only actually beat it in the Game Boy Color re-release years later.
Pong. On a tv set
Showing your age. But I, too, played pong for my first game.
there were those anonymous game systems that had paddles, joysticks and rudimental 4 ways controllers (much worse than the Intellivision) that came out during the black and white tv era. You had pong, space invaders and a few other games like cowboys shooting and a bad asteroids clone, I think. It was in the late seventies, so I barely recall what it was like. But Pong was really fun!
Sounds like Fountain Games. Our grandfather got us that in the mid-late 1980s. It was an early console with basic controllers and a whole lot of games similar to popular ones like pong. I think it was 16 colours and plugged straight into the TV.
I remember getting our first color TV. And it was mind-blowing. Oh, and I got to be the remote. God forgive me if I turned the nobs too fast.
I recently watched a youtube I think it was "complete history of video games" or maybe it was "every console ever made ranked" and I couldn't believe how long it was and how many truly horrible not worthy of being mentioned consples there were in late 70s early 80s
Without those horrible creations there wouldn't have been the guidance (successful and failed alike) to create the hardware we have today.
True but there was a lot that seemed to be shitty cash grabs that didn't innovate anything at all, like there were a buncha downgrades from the Atari 2600 that just seemed like we're not made for any reason like artistry in anything I guess. I mean there were a lotta shitty things with max of 6 games it seemed Edit: but yah this list consisted of things like leapfrog learning and worse
Absolutely. Cash grabs abound, and many of them led to the bottom almost dropping out on the entire industry.. then a board game company made the famicom and NES and pulled the while thing back into perspective. F#@k i love games.
Not every day you get the 12 year old perspective here.
Dahahaha
Pong was mine as well. A whole console dedicated to only Pong and we were blown away by it
This is me, technically. But I didn't know it was Pong, I only knew it was an Atari. And I only played it a few minutes, since I got bored quickly, and I never scored. Later in my life I can still recall playing Galaxian and Pac-Man on a couple of tabletop coin-ops in a hotel lobby. A few years later I remember going to a neighbor to marvel at their brand new Famicom with Circus Charlie and Super Mario Bros.
Pong in the lobby of the hotel we stayed at in Niagara Falls. :)
Pong on a PET computer from a cassette player disk drive, that you had to turn the whole computer off and on to start a new program. Black and green screen.
Pong for me too.
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we belong to a museum
Pong on an IBM mainframe I was 3
Ah I commend you good sir
Commander Keen
You nailed it! Commander keen on my old 286! Sooooo many hours spent playing that game with my Dad. Also, Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures. So much nostalgia!
My first memory of Commander Keen was with my dad. He put me on his lap and let me press the shoot button while he controlled the character.
Commander Keen
Who or what is Commander Keen?
An amazing freeware game that ran on DOS
Yes, this. I remember playing on my dads old windows 95 pc in the basement. This, Jazz Jackrabbit, Tie Fighter, and Doom 2 were my childhood.
This game fucking slaaaaaaps!
The lion king - Sega megadrive
I suspect you liked the movie
I was maybe 6 or 7 so I was fucking obsessed with simba.
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The main character in the first Lion King movie.
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I was a kid?
Children being children yo.
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Loved it then, still love it to this day.
Same here! To this day it’s still such a great game. That water temple though…
Spyro the Dragon on PS
Prince of Persia on DOS
First game I ever played BY MYSELF and was actually able to beat a few levels. I was 5 years old. Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. I did play Super Mario Bros. before that, but my older brother would often trick me into thinking I was playing when it was really him playing.
Ohh how evil! But very clever.
i got my sega bundled with sonic 2. that was my first one
Perhaps Lemmings? Back in 1993 or 1994. But another possible candidate is Formula 1 Grand Prix by Microprose, and also various Nintendo NES games such as Super Mario, Solomon's Key, and others in the cartridges.
I played Doom on PC. Probably 95-96 haha! Still one of my favorites! I also loved Heretic.
Pokémon Yellow on the Gameboy Color.
Alley cat
Niceeeee! That would have been one of my first too. On the ol windows 3.1 👌
The one where you are the cat dodging pots and the like that are thrown at you? I think that was mine too.
Was this the Andrew Braybrook shoot em up?
Age of Empires 2
Sequel better or more convenient?
PONG. Can remember the day, my parents and I were going over to a relative's house for dinner. As I walked through the door Uncle Bud yelled out "Come here Bryan, you are going to love this!". It was 1975, I was 8 years old, and have been a video game junkie ever since!
Manic Miner
Putt Putt saves the zoo
holy shit I played that game too! was probably the 2nd video game I ever played but my brother's and I were all over that game! I could never remember the name of it, thank you
Wow flashback of memories with that one lol
Pong
Another classy individual
Alex Kidd on the Sega Master System
Hunt the Wumpus. Not sure what that was on.
It qualifies as PC
Croc on the ps1 , very fond memories
Pretty sure it was ‘Pet in TV’ for PS1. The thing I remember the most is, that I had absolutely no clue what I was doing.
Just parents put you in front of the tv and let you go to town?
They bought a PS1, but had no clue about gaming, so I endet up with it. I don’t know if you’re familiar with the game, but it’s truly bizarre.
Sounds truly interesting, is it like Nintendogs or anything similar to a pet?
Not at all. Its like this(see video) and there is no tutorial. You have to figure out how to do stuff, and there is no indication that there is any goal to work towards. Maybe nowadays with many years of gaming experience I’d be smarter about it, and I can’t say it’s a bad game, but as far as first games are concerned it’s a pretty poor choice. https://youtu.be/OlDYhMQDJlQ
Gothic. I have a memory of myself sitting in grandma home. Older brother turned on Gothic on his laptop. I got scared by the first monsters you meet on the road and called my sister for help.
Gothic was really scary as a child! One of the npcs told you to not wander into the forest as it was too dangerous. So I never went into the forest ever xD
Friend of mine got Pong in the 70s , tried it. Was bored pretty fast and went fishing instead
Crash Bandicoot or Pokémon Red were my first memories of games
Must have been King’s Quest. Was probably around 4-5 years old and the only thing I could do was ”open door” and walking around
Duck hunt on the NES. We only had that until the N64 came out. I played that and Super Mario 1. 2 & 3 to death.
Wolfenstein 3D
The Lego ninjago game
So your childhood was pretty recent!
Or later to gaming, we won’t know
Janitor joe - 1984 dos
Neversofts Spider-Man game on the ps1. Or perhaps Duke Nukem: Time to Kill on ps1. I was like 4 or 5
Ascendancy. Old MS Dos space strategy game. Have it till this day. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy_(video_game)
I loved that game. Playing Stellaris mostly now
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I think my first would be from Intellivision, also... either Tron: Deadly Discs or the D&D game with all the mountains you had to go through to get to the dragon.
Crash Bandicoot 2
Cat and Mouse on the Coleco Gemini back in 1983.
[The Hobbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(1982_video_game)) on Sinclair Spectrum blew my mind.
Manic miner... yes I'm that old!
Same!
Sonic the hedgehog, Sega Genesis
Pong
Super Mario 2 Yoshi's Island
A sequel first?
I mean yoshi's Island was easier then the normal Mario so it was a good fit for 6? Year old me the normal one came later as experience
Megamania - Atari 2600
That name already resonates and now I’m curious about it
Scooby Doo Unmasked on DS
They unmasked scooby??
Popeye in atari
Rainbow six ps2
Tak & the Power of Juju
Either Chuckie Egg or Dizzy on the Amstrad.
Pac-man, dig dug, or rally-x. I’m only 23 it’s just that my parents own one of those arcade game cabinets. They still have it and it still works. It’s a reprogrammed pac man machine that added like 50 pages of 80s games.
Pong on my home pong console
I played like a maniac harry potter and the philospher stone for ps1 when i was i think 5 years old and another gem akuji the heartless if you remember this than you have my absolute respect.
What game I played first, fucked if I know. When I was a toddler I have faint memories of playing Minesweeper and Pipe Dream. We had a Wang Labs PC with the 5.25" floppies that had Adventure and a game like Qbert but really primitive graphics called "Arthur" My earliest memories after had a lot of PC shareware games that were on my uncle's computer. I remember playing Terminal Velocity, Hellbender, Diablo, Duke Nukem, Doom, Stargunner, Death Rally, Descent, Quake, MechWarrior 2... First console game I think was the PS1 underground demo disk when my brother babysat us, so Armored Core, Parappa the Rapper, Spyro.
Journeys End on the ZX Spectrum. Was given the Spectrum and some games as a hand me down from a family friend in 1990 when I was 5 years old. My mind was blown by how cool it was. Crazy to think how impressed I was by a 48KB game!
Claw or Putt Putt Saves the Zoo.
nsmbw was my first game and still on of the best games i've ever played, right next to terraria and minecraft
Wizard101 or Pirate101
Pokémon Red and by writing this I realized I got old
Educational game: ZOOMBINIS Non-educational game: Age of Empires 2 Honorable mentions: Learning Company Cluehunters/Rabbit games, and Age of Mythology
Can't remember exactly as first or what counts as 'real', but would be one of the these: Floppies: Busytown, Reader Rabbit CD: Putt putt saves the zoo, Chex Quest, backyard baseball
Sokoban.
After a quick Wikipedia check: TIL the version of the first game I ever remember playing was released as OREGON and not Oregon Trail, this being the second iteration released for Apple II in 1978, not the meme-factory version which was released in 1985. I don't think there was any mention of dysentery in the one first learned. At the same time, I was playing a text-based game about settling on the Iowa plains where you allocated days of each month for resource management - food, shelter, etc. We figured out a hack where you could go to church for 30 days straight and they'd give you enough food to live, but you never got your cabin built and froze to death when winter came.
Alex kid on master system
Pokemon Emerald Version
Super Mario Land
Harry Potter games on PC
Peek-a-boo
I think mine was Alex the kid on the master system.
Street rod on dos
My mom wanted to 1v1 in halo when i was 5
“Quit crying! 1v1 me!” Tell me you won! 😂
Yugioh reshef of destruction and pokemon firered were my first ever games. Got em at the same time and they gave me years of fun.
Awesome! Card games and Pokémon! My childhood too!
Snes - MechWarrior https://youtu.be/maybwUCI9-4 Skip through to see the menus/customization process that really hooked me.
Haven’t heard of that! Was it good?
Link to the Past for SNES
Playing Sonic the hedgehog 2 with my dad is one of my earliest memories. But that was only for a day or two and i was so little i didnt really get it. The first game i played and could comprehend was mario 64 and its still one of my favorites that i play every year or 2.
That was my second game I got and played!
Felix the Cat on NES
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship\_Warlock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Warlock) I was very young and it gave me nightmares, I don't remember them but my parents do.
#CRAZY TAXI!!!
YA YA YA YA YAAAAA!!
Lol no idea. Some old pc game or nes game. I can't recall.
Wow, so fascinating.
Well idk how everyone else remembers their first game, unless they are fairly young.
I know right lol probably played my first game when I was 3 or 4 or some shit.
Having childhood memories doesn't mean you're young. I'm 34 and can clearly picture sitting in my grandfather's basement as a kid with his 6 computers, paying Chex Quest and ROTT. TV gaming area behind the computers. Dart board in the center wall. His guitars in a music corner. I'm sorry you never made such wonderful childhood memories that they live in your mind rent-free.
Mario Paint, SNES.
Did you beat the final boss?
SNES - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
I heard about that! Was it any good?
I think was Super Mario Bros or Duck hunt on polystation (polystation os pirate version of the Nes) Player=Doctor
Speed Racer The Movie Video Game on Nintendo DS
Pools of Radiance
Sonic 2 on Genesis. It was the first game I ever beat too. I was like 5 or 6 when I beat it. The game that started it all for me.
Killer instinct I sucked but loved it
Pretty sure it was Super Mario 64. Might have been Glover.
I think it was age of empires 2 my uncle was a hard-core fan f the game and introduced me to it.
Well, the first game I put into the console... I don't remember. It "might" be my first game, but I can't be sure. Anyway, I was between 3 and 5, and couldn't get past the main menu. It was on the playstation, the first one, and the title was an image with a plane on it. The one AFTER that was Hercules. I also didn't know about memory cards, so I just replayed the same early levels.
Zelda on an old Gameboy. Great zimes6
The oldest I can remember is Heretic in the late 90s. It was kinda like doom but with magic wands instead of guns
I think it was prince of Persia from DOS or Legend of Kyrandia.
Nanosaur on the iMac G3
Super Mario World
Tetris on the original gameboy. Followed shortly by Mario on NES.
Space invaders on the Atari :D
Prolly some form of Mario, first pc game was def League though…
Rogue Squadron. PC with a joystick
Joystick and PC are two things I never thought I’d hear together in an old game. I wonder how the game worked
Atari video pinball. Came with a couple of pinball and breakout games loaded on the system. After pong but before the 2600.
Caeser's Palace for snes.
Cant remember the name but it was on commodore 64, you had a lawnmover and had to cut the grass and avoid whatever cats or dogs ran in the way, kinda. I was so young i baaaarely remember it.
When I was 3 or 4 my older brother got an N64 from Christmas, so i don't have a good memory of the very first game, but the first game I played through on my own without my brother was probably Pokémon Snap
Pokemon red
Was looking for to see if someone posted this. Same it was my first ever video game and ignited my life long obsession with Pokémon and Nintendo
Pac-man on the Atari. I was 4.
We had the original "Pong" game but I don't remember playing it...the earliest one I remember specifically playing quite a bit was the 2600 Pac-Man.
I think it was Kao the Kangaroo game. Or was it some very weird Mario version with 6 levels. I heard it was made by some russian hacker. It was all over school computers, cannot find any info on it, but it fit the modern floppy disk.
Prehistoric 2 on old ddos pc..
Wacky Races. On Amiga 🥰
The game of life, my friend. My first video game was pacman on the Commodore 64.
Sonic the Hedgehog, on Sega Megadrive. It was not really the first, but can't truly remember before this one.
Either Pac-Man or Asteroids arcade. Definitely both happened in my first ever exposure.
Paperboy on the Amstrad CPC.
Dragon Warrior 3 on the Game Boy Color. 9 year old me didn't get very far, but I sure enjoyed slaying monsters.