The first game you ever played? On What System? How Old Were You?

[m355y]

My uncle used to come and stay with us some summers when I was a kid, he was still only in his 20s, still single etc so came over just him and his dog in his BMW M3, and used to bring some cool stuff with him. One year he brought his ZX Spectrum, this must have been in the very early 1990s so it was hardly up to date tech even then but I remember us spending ages trying to get the games to load from the cassette, then playing an F1 game (Pole Position?), asteroids etc. My favourite by far though was Scuba Diver, which I still remember clearly today. You started on a boat, then you dived and went further down collecting pearls from clams while trying to avoid sea creatures - then when you got far enough down you have to get past this Octopus guarding a cave, and then there's this cave system to explore. I absolutely loved this game.

After that I got a Game Boy for a birthday or something and my first game was Super Mario Land, which again I remember vividly down to the music. I wish it was on Switch Online.

 

[MroczMR]

I was 5 years old this was my first game ever xD

 

[SPhilli911]

I was 5 years old this was my first game ever xD

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One of my first games was Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo. Don't know if it was the first, though.

I am struggling to think of a first. My dad had an Intellivision so maybe a game on that but more likely a PC game at school like Oregon Trail or Math Blaster.

First proper game was Crash Bandicoot, that I do know. Was about 10 when my brothers and I got a Playstation with Crash, Gran Turismo and Destruction Derby 2.

 

[UKMikey]

Galaxian (Namco, arcade, 1979), 12 years old

 

[egl92]

The first games I remember were Sonic, Virtua Racing, G-Loc, Street Fighter and Columns on my older brother's Mega Drive/Genesis.

But I was so young that I barely remember playing them.

He sold it and bought the PlayStation.
From that moment my world change.

Psygnosis' F1, Destruction Derby 2, Tekken 2 and Crash got me interested in video games to this day.
Nostalgia usually makes see past things better than they were, but what a time when we only care about having a fun time, and not counting fps, pixels, bugs, paying for incomplete games with thousands of DLC...

 

[Fezzik]

Sega Master System. Safari Hunt (with lightgun!), Ghostbusters, Ghouls and Ghosts (and some bike game that I can't remember very well).







This would've been early 90s. My dad bought it for my sisters and me after we'd played one at his work.

 

[Sonygamer455]

Tekken 2 and Crash

Had to mention these 2 games, Interactive CD Sampler Pack Volume Three I mentioned in my post had demos to both of those games on it and it was what got me into Crash Bandicoot. A Tekken 3 was also on the Turbo Mode disc for Ridge Racer Type 4 as well.

Nostalgia usually makes see past things better than they were

Yeah, and some stand the test of time better than others. I've had my share of games I used to like but later lost interest in, I even have a thread about this as well.

 

[05XR8]

Like UKMikey. Arcade game is Space Invaders at a corner store on my old street of Harrison & Tremont Ave. First home console play was at my grand parents on Intellivision 1980( a baseball game of all things). That’s the year they moved from Long Island to Florida. Me and my brother got a 2600 for Christmas in 1983. Gotta connect some of these dots.

 

[Dave A]

Hard to recall what the very first game I played was, but the first computer I owned was an Amstrad CPC 464 my dad bought for us. I think around that time the Master System was also out, and I had played games on that. Which game I played first is very hard to remember, it miust be over 35 years ago and I often mix up Amstrad, Megadrive and Master System games inmy head. But standout games include Rambo 3, the original Sonic and R-Type. Thunder Force 3 and Shinobi.

Edit: Road Rash and Road Rash 2 were favourites of mine back in the day too.

 

[Sprite]

The first game I actually remember playing was Monkey Island on the Amiga 500.

As for first racing game it was Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga.

We did have a spectrum before that, but I was just a little too young at the time to appreciate playing on it so nothing stuck in my mind.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Pong. On a little system that my uncle bought. Black and white with rotary controls.

My first system pre dated the Atari VCS . I can only remember it having orange fire buttons and analogue sticks. My mum convinced me to give it to my cousin as I was getting an intellivision for Christmas. It is the only console I've owned that I don't still own...

 

[Pearl Jam]

Flight Simulation
ZX81
1982



greatest game ever (until the next one)

yes I’m old !!

 

[GTboyz]

NFS II on PC.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

One of my earliest memories in general is (attempting) to play V-Rally on the PS1 at the age of 4, so I'll go with that. My first ever personal game was the Game Boy Color version of Test Drive 6, which I got alongside the system for my 5th birthday. Still have my copy to this very day, and every year near my birthday, I do a playthrough as some kind of weird tradition.

 

[Nacho Libre]

Pong on a Pong home console. i it had other "games" like soccer/hockey, but they were just variants of Pong. Later, Pac-Man on the Atari 2600.

 

[MatskiMonk]

It looked like this, and it was on a ZX Spectrum

 

[Sonygamer455]

Still have my copy to this very day, and every year near my birthday, I do a playthrough as some kind of weird tradition.

Join the club! I also have some weird traditions with gaming much like yours. One of mine consists of me playing Crash Bandicoot 2 on Valentine's Day because back in 2005, I had one of the best Valentine's days I ever had and that game played a vital role in it. I have gone back to it around that time almost every year since and I am about to do it again since that time is just around the corner.

 

[mika haka]

First system i owned was the commodore 64 and the first game i played was platoon for the light gun.

 

[Mafio]

Pole Position, ironically, on the Atari 2600. I had to be like 5, so 1987. Its weird because I don't remember the controller having a number pad on it, though.

 

[AEKara38]

Pong on a Pong home console. i it had other "games" like soccer/hockey, but they were just variants of Pong. Later, Pac-Man on the Atari 2600.

I had this in 1978 at the cutting edge of technology:

It played Pong and other variants plus I had a "Breakout" cartridge. It's still upstairs in my spare room somewhere!

 

[Populuxe]

The first game I actually remember playing was Monkey Island on the Amiga 500.

I had that. I loved it. As for me, my first video game was Pong on the... [checks notes] Pong console. 1975 or 6. 12 or 13 years old. It was hooked up to a little black and white TV in our basement game room.

 

[Nacho Libre]

I had that. I loved it. As for me, my first video game was Pong on the... [checks notes] Pong console. 1975 or 6. 12 or 13 years old. It was hooked up to a little black and white TV in our basement game room.
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Mexican Pong console circa 1976-1977 maybe. I may been 5-6 years old.

 

[Tired Tyres]

I had this in 1978 at the cutting edge of technology:
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It played Pong and other variants plus I had a "Breakout" cartridge. It's still upstairs in my spare room somewhere!

That was my first system.

 

[Jtheripper]

Pong on a pc i think.

 

[R55NA]

This on the Amiga with my dad. Having to input a code with that weird blacklight book that came with it, to boot it up every time.

Bizarre times.

 

[GlamFM]

Space Invaders
Atari 2600

Sometime in the 80s.

 

[Dave A]

Having to input a code with that weird blacklight book that came with it, to boot it up every time.

Bizarre times.

Indeed, I recall a couple of games I had to do that with. One was a game you were flying a fighter jet on the CPC 464, can't recall the name of that game though. It wasn't Afterburner.