Question What was the first video game you remember playing?

[sadiq rehan]

I remember playing Mario and counter strike as a kid. These were the first game I have played.

 

[Shadowclash10]

I've recently starting getting into modding KOTOR II, the successor to the first ever game I remember playing, KOTOR. Those were released early 2000s, but they still look pretty good at QHD 😛. How I wish there was a KOTOR III...

 

[hotaru.hino]

The original Super Mario Bros on an NES! And Mega Man 2. I don't recall which came first.

 

[HamSwolo]

Atari 2600, combat maybe? my uncle brought over a bunch of games when I was young. I played a bunch of them at once. I was hooked for the past 40 years.

 

[sizzling]

I remember playing Rocket Raid on the BBC after hours of entering the code as a young kid.

http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=13

 

[noobie_one_kenoobie]

Birth of the Federation, Half Life and Need for Speed IV: High Stakes were , I think, the very first PC games that I have played nineteen or twenty years ago on a Pentium II. I did not know how to play the first two, I found them confusing but I wore out the NFS IV: HS CD-ROM. When I figured how BOTF works I fell in love with that game and today I still play it on occasion.

I also remember playing Asterix and Phantom on cousin's Super Nintendo around the same era.

Sweet memories indeed.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Pong

 

[memydidydo]

Centipede on a very old Atari.

 

[GarrettL]

Pong

You are old as well

My first game too, in a shopping mall of course.

 

[PaulDesmond]

As seen at the top Monkey Island. It is a GREAT shame they stoped doing these. I have never found anything like it. We must put presure on Lucas arts.

 

[LilBob00]

it was a flash game on miniclip, You had to run from bull first, and then from different people,

 

[Venti]

Sonic the hedgehog

 

[LolaGT]

It would have been pong at the pinball arcade as there was no PC "fad" then, nor any consoles yet.

 

[alceryes]

"Combat" on the Atari 2600.

 

[Endre]

The first game that I ever played was: “Super Mario” on an Ending-Man Console (I played it in 1994-1996) 😃
https://videogameresource.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Design_Ending-Man_BS-500_AS

The first PC game that I ever played was the shooter: “Serious Sam: The First Encounter” (I played it in 2004). 😄

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[terry12]

YUP, I remember it. It was Snow Bros.

 

[woot]

The first Need for Speed for PC (1996), i was blown away by the graphics, especially the dashboards.

 

[Venti]

The original Shining Force, I loved that game so much.

 

[terry12]

The first Need for Speed for PC (1996), i was blown away by the graphics, especially the dashboards.

It was the first racing game, I played

 

[MichaelNowik]

I think it is this game where you shoot ducks with a pistol (its a plastic pistol you hold in your hand and point at the television). I think its an old game for a Nintendo system.

 

[Eximo]

I think it is this game where you shoot ducks with a pistol (its a plastic pistol you hold in your hand and point at the television). I think its an old game for a Nintendo system.

Hard to forget the name of Duck Hunt. Very well known title for early use of the light gun.

 

[Old Molases]

The first game that I remembered playing was Dave 3... lol

 

[Sportplus]

Conan when I was in Kindergarten around the early 90s.

 

[kanewolf]

Gunfight - 1975. I'm old.

That is what came to my mind as the first one I remember.

 

[punkncat]

The actual first video game I played was a tennis based game in a console like device. It hooked to the TV by way of the antenna, and you had a selector switch between a couple of channels it would display on. It had four wired controller and only had tennis based games. It had options for from 1-4 players. Up to 4 "lines" as paddles, and a small square dot representing the ball.

Come to think of it, I bet this thing is probably packed away somewhere at mom's house.
Of note, it utilized batteries to operate in spite of being a console. Took a boatload of either C or D cell.

 

[Eximo]

I've been trying to recall myself. It was probably King's Quest III on my dad's 386, at least that I can recall. We had many other games including 8086 titles, and a TI-994a that I probably saw first but can't recall sitting down and playing. We had a NES and SNES eventually, so a lot of gaming was done there. Started getting more into computer games once I had my own. That was a 486 made of a jumble of parts. Cannon fodder, Command & Conquer, Ultima 7, Wing Commander/Privateer, Doom, Warcraft II, Red Alert. Around then I bought my first Athlon 686 and started getting into the late Win98 games. Big ones for me were Unreal Tournament and Battlefield 1942.