what was the first game you played? and when was it?

my first game was Super mario world (it came bundled with my SNES) and that was back in 1990 (or 1991 dont remeber exactly)

Tetris

it was and is a classic, and was the first thing i played that really got me hoocked on computer games. :D

granted, it was the first game i played :D

Depends what you mean. My first console was the NES, i got it with six games: Mario 1,2, and 3, Konami soccer, a track and field game, and an icehockey game.

I don't exactly recall what my first PC game was, either a game about the American civil war, or Settlers 2. Perhaps both, dunno anymore. Sorry. :D

The first game I ever played was Pong on a dedicated pong console that you plugged into your TV. But didn't really like it that much.

We got our first PC when I was 6 and I played space invaders on it a lot. That was the first game I played a lot but it wasn't really that inspiring.

The first game that I really liked and really got me thinking that actually gaming can be addictive was North and South on that first PC (it was an 8Mhz 8086 with a 20MB HD and 640K RAM hehe).

The first game I played was a kiddie game. A game for toddlers. Called Fattie Bear or something like that.

But after I played that game I played my first real game. Which was an FPS called Doom. I played it when I was five years old. LoL I was exposed to so much violence when I was young. I even played it even though it gave me nightmares almost every night. Till I was six.

Hmm the first game I started to play regurlarly was Colonization. Then it all went downhill from there. ;)

I got my first computer, a glorious Commodore 64 when I was 13... in 1988, my uncle gave it to me and it came with few games... I liked Bruce Lee, the old platformgame best at first and played it a lot. about 2 week later I bought my first game, it was called Operation Horuz or Hormuz not sure which, but it was a sidescrolling fighterjet game, you flew a Harrier jet and basicly had to destroy... everything... [img]smile.gif[/img]

First game ever was Super Mario World for the SNES...i remember i wsa 5 and my dad would only let me play it for 10 minutes at a time...those were the days!

The first game I played was Mario on the regular Nintendo game system when I was about two and a half. Good times, good times :D

Space invaders and pac man on Atari. Oh, and circus atari and Pitfall.

When NES came along, Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Metroid, MT Punchout, etc.

Space invaders, Commodore PET. The ultimate in low-conflict gaming -- reboot the machine every time you want to play a different game. No memory leaks there, believe me.

No memory, either. :D

First game I played was Pong, on one of those old "plug into TV" Pong games.

However, first system that I owned was an Atari 2600, and it came with Space Invaders. It was my first game that I was addicted to.

IIRC, my first game was pong, too.
As for the PC I started with North and South, Tetris and Monkey Island.

The first PC game I ever played that got me hooked was Scorched Earth, the mother of all games :D . After that came Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft ...

I think the first computer game I ever played was 'Mr Robot's Factory' on our Atari 130XE when I was about 4.
Though the computer game that turned me into a true computer-nerd was Ultima 4, which I got when I was about 6 or 7. I played it, non-stop, and without ever really getting anywhere until I was 8, when we bought a PC. The next obsession became Ultima 6...

My first game was Civilization. I still play it every now and again...great game

The first game(s)?

Space Invaders - In an arcade cafe

Single player squash on a TV (you know - one ball, a wall and a 'brick' to hit the ball with)

JetPac on Sinclair Spectrum 48

Asteroid on PC (good old PC-G model with a 8088 running 4.77 MHz)

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Insane

I think it was a Atari 600, we had this game that you were this man and you had to find like an apple for the guy with the beard and kill things with your lazer thing, it was a plaform game. And the other was a 3d helicopter game called Tommahawk, it was really good but by 3d i mean the square mountains were 4 lines making a triangle and tanks were a series of lines in a messy pattern, still i thought it was really fun

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ZORK [img]smile.gif[/img] - such language from a supposed up and coming adventurer :D

I feel so young. Everyone else is talking about Ataris and other game systems I don't understand. First game I played was that duck hunter game on the NES. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The first game I played was some bunch of black and white sport game on tv video game where you can play tennis, squash , shoot the square and so.
I forgot the name.

Mine were Zork and wizardry.

First 'game' was some maths program when I was like 6 (multiplying and stuff with all kinds of pictures). First real games were Fifa 94, Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, so that was when I was around 6 years old. The first game that really got me was Diablo 2, I never finished it but it started the whole crpg for me

The first game I played was called the last ninja and it was on a c64. Ah, those were the days...

well we had an atari....i played lots on that. i don't remember game names cept like pac-man and such, but on the pc i remember playing dirtball harry (my dad made it) and pitfall, and some other games. we had lots of fun. then came the commador 64...then the nes, then sega, then snes....well you know them all.

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First games I played (usually at friends' places - we didn't get a computer or console until later) were Tetris, Super Mario, Golden Axe, Sonic the Hedgehog.
First games I played on an old computer we got were two of the Commander Keen games. :D

Mi first game was Donkey Kong on the Coleco system...first RPG was D&D boxed set it started all from then on I was hooked.

My very first game was on my cousin's atari - Frogger. The first games we had on our very first computer were space invaders, alley cat, pacgirl, chomp.

The first video games I ever played were Jetset Willy, Dizzy, Manic Miner and Chucky Egg, on the ZX Spectrum console, in either '88 or '89.

My first Nintendo game was Super Mario in 1994.
The Computer game I played was a child's learning game called Treasure Math Storm. I got into violent games much later on.

<font color=lime>That would be "Defender" on Atari. My parents bought me an Atari 2600 when I was in like 3rd or 4th grade. Defender was the first game they bought, and I was addicted to video games ever since! :D :D :D :D :D </font>

Ah Mel, Golden Axe was great...

Also my brothers first game was definetly Commander Keen, 4 I think, I had it on my first PC when he was about 3, and he was pretty good at it... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Now THIS is an interesting topic! Congrats

My first game... woulda been Monopoly on board. Or was it Scrabble? Scrabble is a classic board game.

I had a Commodore 64 also. Had some games but hell if i can remember them. Youd go up elevators and then grab some funky things and exit levels. Good 'ol cassette games they were. [img]smile.gif[/img]

We had an Atari also! But i didn't find it until i was 8. What a waste cause by then why had a Pentium 386 computer. (hi tech! [img]tongue.gif[/img] )


I reckon my first greatest game woulda been Commander Keen. DUDE ON A POGO!! haha

Today, i like Wizards and Warriors and Diablo. Making an online FREE game with a crew of people. Its not done yet, but it'll be advertised here. I hiope many people would enjoy to test it.

~Marikai

I played alley cat for the first time last year, ARRGHH!!! i tell you by a just a few minutes i was ready to rip out my internal speaker, how can 4 tones be good sound efects, hmmm the opening "music" wasn't to bad though, lol

Obviously you never had a Sinclear spectrum... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Cool topic,
The first game I played was Kingdom on the really old BBC computers. A great game, you had your town and had to decide what the people would do, plug the dam, work in the fields or stay in the town to make more people!! Great.
Played a lot of Elite.
First RPG was Dungeon Master on the Atari.

Does anyone remember an addictive little RPG called 'Rogue'? There was also a cool star trek simulation game called 'BEGIN' or 'BEGIN2'.

Say, I'm not the only one who remembers these, am I? They could be stored off a 5 1/4 floppy & played through a COMPAQ Portable...

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I played alley cat for the first time last year, ARRGHH!!! i tell you by a just a few minutes i was ready to rip out my internal speaker, how can 4 tones be good sound efects, hmmm the opening "music" wasn't to bad though, lol </font>[/QUOTE]ROFL! It probably loses a bit with time - when I played it at about age 8 I thought it was pretty high tech stuff! :D ;)

I sure do - you were represented by "@" and just walked into rooms full of letters (monsters)... great fun.

First computer game was probably Trek on an old PDP-9 system. First PC game was Ultima 6.

Oh yeah, do I ever! I still have copies somewhere...Rogue is a classic, BEGIN and it's successor BEGIN2 I often played into the early morning on weekends.

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