What was the very first game you ever played?

butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
edited November -1 in Miscellaneous
Seeing QS's post about the ZX81 made me reminisce about the good old days of gaming, and what got me hooked. This post or something similar to it has probably already been done, but I thought I'd ask people here, what was the very first game you ever played that had you hooked into gaming forever?

The first game I ever remember playing and getting hooked into gaming for life was "Time Pilot" in the Arcade. I absolutely LOVED that game. I would ride my bike down to the local shopping center in Aussie, and my parents always knew where to find me... with a stack of 20 cent coins on the machine and playing Time Pilot ;)

What was the very first game you ever played, and what made it so memorable?

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  • mynameisacemynameisace Hull, UKMember Posts: 2,484
    Pitfall on my Atari ;)

    Favourite game of all time is Super Mario Bros.

    Ace
  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    My absolute first game EVER had to be......... one of those educational games on those fake kidish laptop book things. ya know? those electronic tablet things that they have for kids to read and stuff
  • DrGlickertDrGlickert Member Posts: 1,135
    No idea what it was called. But when I was very young (26-27 years ago or so), my neighbor had a computer that had this game where you played a ninja. It was on an Apple computer (with the 5.25" discs) and the old screens only had two colors; black and green.

    It was a pretty sweet game. Don't remember anything else about it, don't remember the name or the actual computer used (other than it being an Apple).
  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    First game I played was Space War, then Pong on the same day. Been addicted ever since.
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  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    I believe it was one of the first home 'pong' machines - the ones with 'football' and 'hockey' as selectable extra games!

    A massive amount of my childhood was spent in arcades though. Loved them dearly!

    QS :D

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  • ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
    Ummm, man that was Ages ago.

    Either something on Atari or.. Sonic The Hedgehog/Super Mario world.
    Best game ever was probs super mario, if I had my super nintendo set up i'd probably play it.
  • ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
    Could never beat sonic lol

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  • BBEnkBBEnk Member Posts: 1,764
    I don't remember the name of the first electronic game I played but it was a arcade type game that had planes flying overhead on a mirror that reflected from a TV image below with an "Actual Model tank" that you controlled the turret on and fired a holographic missle up at the planes that showed up on top of the tank and moved in 3D crazy, I remmember this game like yesterday.
  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
    I'm not sure I remember correctly...so it was either

    A pong type thing made by Binatone - "TV Master??" - (had tennis, squash etc..you know the type of thing)
    http://www.tvmaster.co.uk/binatone_tvmaster.jpg

    Or

    The Atari2600 version of Space Invaders that my friend had. I also remember playing Pac Man on the 2600 on the same day, and thinking I had to press the fire button every time I wanted to eat a dot :)

    and from that moment on, I was hooked.
  • Peter_OlafsonPeter_Olafson Member Posts: 301
    I'm guessing it was a table top arcade console Space Invaders.
  • BBEnkBBEnk Member Posts: 1,764
    lol I found the game I was talking about talk about old old school games.

  • JCFordJCFord Member Posts: 785
    Same as Quantum Sheep - Pong on some retro B&W 1bit machine, then moved onto Atari Cartridge console and loved Berserk and Adventure!
  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    There was another old arcade game I played around '84-86, and it was a fighter game where you moved to the right, and you would knock armor off the boss at the end (with a whip or sword?) (I vaguely remember what it looked like, but I would love to revisit it if someone could give me a clue as to what arcade game it is)

    I can't even remember the name of it, or what character(s) you played with but I distinctly remember knocking armor off enemies....
  • IsabelleKIsabelleK Member, Sous Chef Posts: 2,807
    The first game I remember is Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge series on Amiga :)
  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315


    This is sooo cool! I decided to google it, and found that it was "Gladiator" for the Arcade! So cool to revisit games you can barely remember playing!! :)
  • Marc_n_SophMarc_n_Soph Member Posts: 111
    Oh boy do I feel old now.

    I was actually thinkin about making a similar thing to this the other day.
    Heres the first game I played!!

    http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9854

    I loved this game so much. Been addicted to gaming ever since!

    Marc
  • Marc_n_SophMarc_n_Soph Member Posts: 111
    This is the game that ate most of my pocket money. I wanna play this now!!

    http://www.gamesdbase.com/game.aspx?mame=kingofb

    Ooohhhwww!! Quick, sum1 make a GS version!!

    Marc
  • gazjmgazjm Member Posts: 578
    I'm pretty sure my first was centipede for the atari 2600, it was included with the console!
  • OldAccountPlzIgnoreOldAccountPlzIgnore Member Posts: 80

    Guess I'm a bit younger than most in this thread.
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    Some text based tedium on a Research Machines 380Z, it was truly inspiring at the time :)
  • LumpAppsLumpApps Member Posts: 2,881
    I don't know the name (I have a Mame version somewhere)
    edit: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8039

    It must have been 19seventy something edit: 1975). Waaaay back in time ;)
    It was a game with a black background and white cowboys on the left and right. Sometimes a buggy drove in the middle as an obstacle.

    And a Tron/Snake like game I believe named barricade.

    It was at the bowling alley my family would use to go. I never wanted to bowl... Momma can I have another quarter ;)

    (thanks for the link to the museum Marc_n_Soph)

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  • calvin9403calvin9403 Member Posts: 3,186
    I never play games!!
  • spliketspliket Member Posts: 93
    original super mario i think. pretty sure whatever it was, it was on the original NES. although, i didn't really get into games until i got the Sega Genesis. 16-bit was awesome. Sonic, Road Rash, etc...awesome games.

    Now that I thought about it, Road Rash may have been my favorite game of my early gaming life.

  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    This is the game that defined my youth...

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  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    @EightBitRemix: You're making me feel very old right now with that Crash Bandicoot video ;)
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