What's the first Video Game you ever played?

apmiller · 10-30-2002, 03:09 PM

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 · 10-30-2002, 03:10 PM

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

Ladogaboy · 10-30-2002, 03:13 PM

I can't remember that far back...

apmiller · 10-30-2002, 03:18 PM

Quote:

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

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

Blitz · 10-30-2002, 03:29 PM

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

cig · 10-30-2002, 03:40 PM

Apple IIC?
Swashbuckler and Taipan

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

LPMiller · 10-30-2002, 04:35 PM

Quote:

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 · 10-30-2002, 04:56 PM

My first game was Asteroids.

modena · 10-30-2002, 05:08 PM

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

Tommy Boomfiger · 10-30-2002, 05:50 PM

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 · 10-30-2002, 05:56 PM

Eh, I have a pinball machine in my house

mY house in Sims online that is

Memo · 10-30-2002, 06:38 PM

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 · 10-30-2002, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Blitz
Eh, I have a pinball machine in my house

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 · 10-30-2002, 07:59 PM

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..[Thinking]..........[/Thinking]
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 · 10-31-2002, 12:15 AM

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 · 10-31-2002, 01:30 AM

My parents bought the Magnavox Odyssey 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 · 10-31-2002, 02:05 AM

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

apmiller · 10-31-2002, 07:21 AM

Quote:

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 · 10-31-2002, 07:26 AM

So you really miss playing them old games from the 70's and 80's? Check this out: http://www.electronickits.com/classi...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 · 10-31-2002, 08:29 AM

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

~~Cantacuzene~~ · 10-31-2002, 08:35 AM

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 · 10-31-2002, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DarkFury

You talkin' about "Pitfall" maybe?

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

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 · 10-31-2002, 10:10 AM

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 · 10-31-2002, 01:03 PM

Quote:

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!

Bires · 10-31-2002, 06:49 PM

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

chrissy · 10-31-2002, 10:23 PM

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 · 10-31-2002, 10:35 PM

Quote:

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.

But they ain't goin' nowhere.

Tommy Boomfiger · 11-01-2002, 01:50 AM

Quote:

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 · 11-01-2002, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DarkFury

You talkin' about "Pitfall" maybe?

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

Or maybe it was Jungle Hunt?

LPMiller · 11-01-2002, 12:08 PM

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.

10-30-2002, 03:09 PM	#1
apmiller Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Anywhere the video games take me... Posts: 711	What's the first Video Game you ever played? 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? __________________ I'm a Cartoonsit, gamer, lover... just check me out! URL="http://www.millercomics.com"]Miller Comics[/url]

10-30-2002, 03:10 PM	#2
Nija Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: May 2001 Location: City of The Dead Posts: 13,552	Pong Galaga edit: wanted to add that I played them on the atari 2600 console __________________ "Nija is the dark soul of gotapex. We don't like to talk about him." - LPMiller Last edited by Nija : 10-30-2002 at 04:42 PM.

10-30-2002, 03:13 PM	#3
Ladogaboy Admiral Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Hiding amongst the minnows Posts: 6,843	I can't remember that far back... __________________ It is not enough to merely touch the face of god; you also must open your eyes so that you may see your palm.

10-30-2002, 03:29 PM	#5
Blitz Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Guitar Festival villa Posts: 630	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 __________________ -Grimm "Hey, if I ever make a post of: "Wow, the RIAA visited my house" It's code for I need help getting rid of the bodies of an RIAA swat team. So any help would be appriciated. kthxby."

10-30-2002, 04:56 PM	#8
Merlin Admiral Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Square On My Arse Posts: 7,410	My first game was Asteroids. __________________

10-30-2002, 03:40 PM	#6
cig Lieutenant Junior Grade Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: NorCal Posts: 73	Apple IIC? Swashbuckler and Taipan Arcade Pac-Man and Zaxxon (man, I feel old after someone said Doom) :cry2:

10-30-2002, 05:08 PM	#9
modena Captain Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: pa Posts: 1,741	lode runner type game, space commander, space invaders, tank __________________ WoW - Perenolde - chars: intron, modena Computer - AMD 64 3700+ 939 on NF4 SLi mobo (ZALMAN CNPS 9500), 2 GB DDR466 (2-3-2-5), XFX Geforce 7900GT 256mb (520mhz core, 24 pipes, 1500mhz memory), Western Digital Raptor 74GB Serial ATA HD 10k, 850GB in other HD's, 21in Widescreen LCD

10-30-2002, 05:50 PM	#10
Tommy Boomfiger Rear Admiral Lower Half Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Chi town Posts: 2,348	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

10-30-2002, 05:56 PM	#11
Blitz Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Guitar Festival villa Posts: 630	Eh, I have a pinball machine in my house mY house in Sims online that is

10-30-2002, 06:38 PM	#12
Memo Admiral Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: East Village Posts: 5,659	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.

10-30-2002, 07:59 PM	#14
kain9i6 Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Signal Hill, Ca Posts: 859	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..[Thinking]..........[/Thinking] 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

10-31-2002, 12:15 AM	#15
DaFunkyUnit Rear Admiral Upper Half Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: the peanut gallery Posts: 3,909	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!!!

10-31-2002, 01:30 AM	#16
seqiro Commander Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Western MA Posts: 1,183	My parents bought the Magnavox Odyssey 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. __________________ Paul Beasi

10-31-2002, 02:05 AM	#17
Showtime Lakers fanatic Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: L.A. ->SoCal<- O.C. Posts: 7,338	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

10-31-2002, 07:26 AM	#19
apmiller Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Anywhere the video games take me... Posts: 711	So you really miss playing them old games from the 70's and 80's? Check this out: http://www.electronickits.com/classi...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...

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10-31-2002, 08:29 AM	#20
gear02 Admiral Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 7,223	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

10-31-2002, 08:35 AM	#21
~~Cantacuzene~~ Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Posts: 8,700	Some atari game. It was a side scroller and set in a jungle and you swung from vine to vine to get across casms.

10-31-2002, 10:10 AM	#23
ironape Lieutenant Junior Grade Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 133	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 __________________ Screw Spelin and Gramur... Im a Damn Dirty Ape!!

10-31-2002, 06:49 PM	#25
Bires Admiral Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 5,064	Another vote for PONG It cost a dime in the arcade 2 miles from my casa; an easy bike ride. __________________ Five years...

10-31-2002, 10:23 PM	#26
chrissy Admiral Join Date: May 2000 Location: OKC Posts: 5,046	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 )

11-01-2002, 12:08 PM	#30
LPMiller Chief News Editor & Master of His Domain Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Minnesota Posts: 8,161	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.

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