What's the first Video Game you ever played?

[apmiller]

The first video game I remember playing around with was Battle Tank. It was released shortly after Pong. You had two blocks that were suppose to be tanks and the object of the games to two shoot the other tank. That was it. Just shoot the only other tank on the screen then it would reset and you would do it all over again!

At the time I thought it was a hard game just because my brother would blast the heck out of me for hours on end, BUT NOW?! Sheesh! Looking back, Battle Tank made Pong look like fun!

So what was the first game you remember playing?

[Nija]

Pong
Galaga
edit: wanted to add that I played them on the atari 2600 console

[Ladogaboy]

I can't remember that far back... :bawl:

[apmiller]

Originally posted by Ladogaboy
I can't remember that far back... :bawl:

Let me guess...It involved a stick and a rock? :heh:

[Blitz]

Mine was doom, ever since that came out I have been game'n constantly...or maybe wolfenstein was first..dont remember..I remember playing a shooter first tho....forget pong :bigmouth:

[cig]

Apple IIC?
Swashbuckler and Taipan

Arcade
Pac-Man and Zaxxon
(man, I feel old after someone said Doom)
:cry2:

[LPMiller]

Originally posted by apmiller
The first video game I remember playing around with was Battle Tank. It was released shortly after Pong. You had two blocks that were suppose to be tanks and the object of the games to two shoot the other tank. That was it. Just shoot the only other tank on the screen then it would reset and you would do it all over again!

At the time I thought it was a hard game just because my brother would blast the heck out of me for hours on end, BUT NOW?! Sheesh! Looking back, Battle Tank made Pong look like fun!

So what was the first game you remember playing?

That was actually about 10 years after pong. You won't remember it, but we did have one of the first pong machines.

However, the first one I ever played was space wars, at Control Data when I was 9, though it's quite possible I played the arcade version of Pong before that, I'm not positive.

[Merlin]

My first game was Asteroids.

[modena]

lode runner type game, space commander, space invaders, tank

[Tommy Boomfiger]

im pretty sure it was pac man on one of those table games. i loved those. im actually trying to find one of those, i would love to have one in my house

[Blitz]

Eh, I have a pinball machine in my house :P
















mY house in Sims online that is :bigmouth:

[Memo]

I don't remember the name. I remember going to a neighbors house back in like 1st grade and playing a an adventure type game on his computer. I do remember the copmuter was a zenith and had a yellowish-orange monochrome monitor. I'm pretty sure it was a Zenith.

[Tommy Boomfiger]

Originally posted by Blitz
Eh, I have a pinball machine in my house :P
that is another thing i want. i dont have the room yet, and any of the ones i want are way too expensive for me. not that the pacman table is all that cheap either... anyone got any deals on this? ;)

[kain9i6]

HAHAHA.. I was going to post this topic when I got home.. Someone reads some other forums (I forgot whether it was DSLreports.com or something else I came across today)

Wow.. i can't even remember............
I believe it was for the Odyssey system, can't remember the names..

I do remember programming Top Gun for the Commodor 64.. pretty hard for an 8 year old who doesn't know how to type (gotta love my older brother's who told me I could play if I spent the 8 hours typing, then not letting me play at all)

Then we bought the tape drive and saved it..

Then they said I could play if I sat in front of the computer the whole time it took to load the game .... all 2 hours of loading..

Gotta love older brothers..

BUT!!! the game that got me hooked on PCs was Leisure Suit Larry 1

[DaFunkyUnit]

pac man on the atari.

after that, came the donkey kong and dk jr.

then it was astroids.

and there was a nifty little game called jumpman jr. If anyone knows where I can find Jumpman Jr., please let me know!!!

[seqiro]

My parents bought the Magnavox Odyssey (http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm) when I was a wee lad, so my first video game was Pong.

My console history:

Magnavox Odyssey
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Playstation 2
XBOX

Didn't really console game between the SNES and the PS2, mostly played PC games.

[Showtime]

We had that little paddle pong game thingie. It was like tan with these brown sliders on either side and you slid it up and down and hit a "ball" back and forth. I think its the same thing you guys had.

Than arcade games.

Than 2600.

Nintendo.

SNES.

PS1

Computers

PS2

Better computers/video cards

-jel:halo:

[apmiller]

Originally posted by Tommy Boomfiger
im pretty sure it was pac man on one of those table games. i loved those. im actually trying to find one of those, i would love to have one in my house

Check out this site: http://eagledistributing.biz/arcadegames.htm

They actually make those. I don't think they have Pac-man but they do have Ms. Pac-man and a few others. They might even have a way to score Pac-man for ya!

[apmiller]

So you really miss playing them old games from the 70's and 80's? Check this out: http://www.electronickits.com/classicarcade/videogames.htm

For


$50 bucks you can get this kit that will let you play all those games right off your TV. I might have to look into this...

[gear02]

I can't remember the first game I played. I remember this old text based adventure game, simply titled "Adventure", that I had on a floppy. I think one of the first few games I played diligently was Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue (had to do a lot of searching to remember this title). Anybody remember this one? It's kinda of a educational title, but it was fun as hell. Also the Where in the World/Time/US History is Carmen Sandiego series. hehehe
:D

[Cantacuzene]

Some atari game. It was a side scroller and set in a jungle and you swung from vine to vine to get across casms.

[apmiller]

Originally posted by DarkFury

You talkin' about "Pitfall" maybe?

If so... I had that one on my Atari 2600 too! :D

Good old Pitfall Harry! That turned into a bad Saturday morning cartoon and the games they made in the 90's were really bad. Nothing like the original!


I remember playing Math Blaster and the Oregon Trail back in elementary school. You couldn't get me out of the computer room!

[ironape]

PONG was my first video game. I cant believe how many hours Ive logged on that game. I saw a comercial with the game pong in it on the G4 network and I told my daughters that I used to play that for hours at a time and they looked at me like I was crazy.

Since someone brought up Pitfall Im not afraid to say Im geeky enough to have gotten the Pitfall Adventure Patch. I remeber the day I did it too, I was all excited and got my dad to take a picture of me and the sceen where the score was visible. You sent activision the picture and they sent back a patch and certificate. Ill bet I have that picture and the patch somewhere.

Ape

[apmiller]

Originally posted by ironape

Since someone brought up Pitfall Im not afraid to say Im geeky enough to have gotten the Pitfall Adventure Patch. I remeber the day I did it too, I was all excited and got my dad to take a picture of me and the sceen where the score was visible. You sent activision the picture and they sent back a patch and certificate. Ill bet I have that picture and the patch somewhere.

Ape

HA! You actually got the Pitfall patch? ...geek! :D

[Bires]

Another vote for PONG It cost a dime in the arcade 2 miles from my casa; an easy bike ride.

[chrissy]

My first was the Atari system. My cousins got one and I would go over and play on it constantly. THEN, my mom went to Sears and brought home the Intelevision and Burgertime :) Along with a bunch of other games. We also picked up the intelivoice add on for that with bomb squad and the two other titles made.

After that it was the Nintendo and the super nintendo. Then I moved out of the house and had nothing :(

About 5ish years ago, I built my PC and started playing diablo and I am slowly catching up. Oh and we did get a PS1 2 yrs ago and I upgraded to the PS2 in may :)

That pong system you were talking about, Donnie still has one! And it works! We know the one atari system (he has the sears version of the 2600 too) works. Mikey plays it more than the PS2. We have a ton of games (if you have any in a closet, send them my way :) )

[seqiro]

Originally posted by chrissy
We know the one atari system (he has the sears version of the 2600 too) works. Mikey plays it more than the PS2. We have a ton of games (if you have any in a closet, send them my way :) )

I have over 125 Atari 2600 games at my parents' house, still in the original boxes. :D

But they ain't goin' nowhere. :cool:

[Tommy Boomfiger]

Originally posted by apmiller


Check out this site: http://eagledistributing.biz/arcadegames.htm

They actually make those. I don't think they have Pac-man but they do have Ms. Pac-man and a few others. They might even have a way to score Pac-man for ya! DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!!! that is awesome. thanks apm. i dont think i can spend 2500 bones on an arcade cabinet right now, but i am going to buy one of these in the future. the area code of this company is actually really close to my house. they have a pacman/ms pacman combo table, but the cabinet is actually from a ms pacman game. they probably changed the rom to a combo.

[cig]

Originally posted by DarkFury

You talkin' about "Pitfall" maybe?

If so... I had that one on my Atari 2600 too! :D

Or maybe it was Jungle Hunt?

[LPMiller]

actually, now that I think on it, I believe the very very first Computer game I played was Oregon Trails. The first version. The one that ran off of a teletype (that's paper boy, no monitor) terminal dialed into the U of M mainframe at 120 baud, 300 if we were really lucky. Yes, that's 120. When you had to shoot, you have to type P O W with each letter taking about 5 secs to respond. I remember bringing home the huge printout when I finally won that damn game....must have been a good 50 pages of paper.

[sho.gun]

Mine is that submarine game on a handheld, the one where you shoot torpedoes up and the boats on top drop bombs at you. Ahh... classic.

[LPMiller]

only the best in ASCII based printed graphics for my family!

[gwilks98]

I believe my first was "Hunt the Wumpas" or something like that. I don't even remember what system it was off of, but it was pretty basic. You run around on a tiny map, and when you get within one square of the Wumpas, you have to shoot your only arrow in one of the 3 remaining directions. If you pick the right square, you win. If not, the Wumpas eats you.

Remember folks, this was 1984. Atari was in its prime.

[sleepminded]

Originally posted by Blitz
mY house in Sims online that is :bigmouth:

freak :o

[Freelance Superhero]

yeah, do those handheld ones count, cuz if they do, my first was probably one of those nintendo game-n-watch games; i had a few of em...

but that also came around the time i got my atari (never played pong, alas)... i don't remember, did the atari come with a game? i know it wasn't the first game i played on atari, but the only one i remember owning was called warlords... oh wait, no, i also had breakout and some star wars game...

[sachin tendulkar]

Im pretty sure, Contra was the first one I played. i think on a Sega something.

[sachin tendulkar]

oh no, i forgot 'Prince' on a old black and white monitor computer. And remember the game(black and white) where u shoot at choppers and they release like parachute thingies?

[Jihforce]

Mine was a Pong/Arkanoid type game. Then Pole Position, SpyHunter Space Invaders and Galaga (my uncle rented the arcade and brought it my house, fun times.

[Inspect-her Gadget]

Mine was some game on Commador 64. It involved some "guy" who would walk through a maze eating up stuff on the way, or something. I vaguely remember it, but I DO remember the maze being green or something... very old school. Must've been when I was like 6 or 7.

Then I got my Nintendo and my first game on that was Gyromite.. and you could play it with the nintendo robot! Then I remember one morning when I was in 2nd grade, a big earthquake hit in LA... like '87 or something, and it happened while I was playing that game, and so I never touched Gyromite after that again...

And the first computer game I ever played was Leisure Suit Larry 1 or Space Quest 1 on my ghetto 286... very cool games!

[GraingerGuy]

On Atari (I don't know which model) Cops and Robbers

That was such a great game! :D

[Leebo]

Don't know if anyone remembers it but I played Vetrex. That little monochromatic 12" screen with a controller hooked up to it. Can't remember for the life of me what the game was but it was pretty dang fun.