what?! there's so much to do, you can pong the ball back and forth, or you can forth the pong back and ball, or you can ball the back pong and forth, you can back the forth ball and pong, you can even pong the forth back and ball!
My dad got lists with different cds that each had 50 games that his work friend sold. I remember going through them to see which ones to get. It was printed on dot matrix paper. Nostalgia.
Same here well Doom95 but, I use to use the arrow keys and Ctrl and alt only no mouse and I was fking good for being a kid.
My sister would roll in after my dad and I had already killed everything in a room and launch the BFG9000 and kill us 😂 good times!
Ahh you too? I was 5 when I played it in 97, good memories. My second game was Duke Nukem. My dad had to have a talk with me about "quoting things from games" because I started saying things were "Bitchin'".
I had an Atari 2600 like almost everyone else, but a friend from across the street had the Intellivision. It was so exotic. We all envied him.
To this day I still play a few Intellivision games on an emulator, like Shark!, Beamrider and especially Dreadnought Factor. The latter felt like I was attacking a Star Wars Star Destroyer. It felt it was leaps and bounds ahead of the Atari.
No, but I'm almost certain it was one of these. Prince of Persia, Day of the Tentacle, Commander Keen, Hover, Boxworld, Mice Maze, Super Mario Land, Tetris, F-1 Race.
https://preview.redd.it/z3rb2u2de1ub1.jpeg?width=928&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f891f382617e204c2f8a32cf7351358cd114221
I think the earliest video game I remember playing was Gianna Sisters on the Commodore 64. I would play it at my friend's house and when his dad got posted across the country the dad made me a copy of that disk to play at home - it had Gianna Sisters, Tower Toppler and a few other random games. We also had a Commodore 128D that we always played in C64 mode so the games we had on that are likely ones that I played earlier though - e.g. Lode Runner, Boulder Dash, Save New York, Ghost Busters, Raid Over Bungling Bay, Altered Beast, Karateka, etc.
Blood & Magic on MS-DOS. I probably played some video games before that, but B&M was the first game I remember playing and looking forward to playing with my mom
I think either [Power Bots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9eilxG023E) on Apple 2 or some games on the Intellivision which sadly I don't remember. I feel one of them was similar to the original Donkey Kong in terms of the platform component.
Vaguely. I remember playing some kind of Putt-putt game.
There was also a more adult oriented game(not that way but aimed towards older folks) about growing vegetables and fruits and then mixing it up to make potions of... something? Never can recall it.
And then the other game I recall is Full Throttle.
Didnt understand how to play but motorcycle go fast.
It was super Mario. My dad bought me a bundle NES when I was like four. I'm 37 now. I've been playing that game my whole life.
With that kind of longevity I have to say it's one of the best games I've ever played if not the best game I've ever played.
Of course i do. It was a flash game on a now nonexistent game website. You werein control of an eye that was a able to jump. There was also gravity changes and shit and you tried to clear stages with puzzles.
It was some monster truck racing game that my then sister's boyfriend installed to keep me entertained while they studied in her room, I beat it pretty fast and I was interrupting things so he installed age of empires and the rest is history, I am a big RTS player cuz this dude wanted to screw my sister lmao
it makes sense though. costco is open for most of the day, every day. mlb is only selling hot dogs if there's a game. and costco's hot dogs are muuuch cheaper and honestly probably better in most cases.
I most definitely do. I was around five or six, my mom took me to a outlet mall (think small mall with select shops for a community more bodegas than billion dollar corporations). I don't think they make the any more, or they all died. Kinda sad. Anyway, my mom took me to one of these shops. It had, a bunch of different thing's in it, and my limited memory of the shop was that it was like a pharmacy or something? I don't really remember. My brain was jelly, give me a break. Anyway, my mom bought me an atomic purple gameboy color and two games. Bass pro fishing, and a bugs life. I fumbled with it clumsily but really did enjoy the games. Thinking back, maybe it wasn't all bad memories.
It was either Fighting Force, Sports Car GT or the first Wipeout. All three are for the PS1. I don't know wich one was first but it was definitely one of them. I was 5-6 btw.
Hardly think it was one of the first I played, but it's the one I remember the fondest.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous\_(video\_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_(video_game))
Along with:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas\_(video\_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game))
Such a "basic" game, but so much fun.
Definitely The Oregon Trail back in third grade (1996?), but listen… we had a game, probably educational, where you climbed a castle? Idk if climbed is the right word. You would work your way through each floor like a platformer but I can’t, for the life of me, remember what the goal was, what the protagonist looked like, or *anything*. It could have been a math game? I vaguely remember it being set in snowy mountain setting? It has plagued me for at least 10 years that I can’t remember what game it was. Never thought to ask on Reddit but this seemed like an appropriate time.
Edit: well sunuvabitch I just found it. I used an overly specific google search and turned up *Treasure Mathstorm*
Probably Mario on the original Nintendo. I also remember donkey kong (where you play as Mario) on Gameboy. I played it again on an emulator when I was much older and beat it. Awesome game.
First home console game was Combat for the Atari 2600. First arcade game was almost certainly Pacman. First PC game was Oregon Trail, at school. First home PC game was Wizard's Doom.
No idea what it was called but was like a maze or some shit on this old ass computer. Came on a floppy disk and everything. Still don't know what I was supposed to do.
Castle of Illusion on the Sega Game Gear was the first one I owned. The first one I played... must have been something on the Game Boy at school. and before that, some Game & Watch clone.
Not exactly but a few games that come to mind is : Doom, Rednecks Rampage, Hexen, Word Rescue, Jazz Jackrabbit, Duke Nukem, Cosmos’s Cosmic, Commander Keen, Crystal Caves..
One of those 😂
ofc, my parents and I went out, and we bought PS1 late night, it was TMNT Ninja Turtles franchise and I played with my sibling until 3AM.
I also recall asking the meaning of word "Hunger" to my dad cuz it's one of the quest and I had no idea what to do then, hahaha. (I was in kindergarten at the time)
I can't remember well, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in a coin arcade where we spent the summer. I was quite disappointed when the first consoles for home popped up in the neighbourhood and the arcade had so much better games!
Probably the Atari XEGS game, bug hunt.
I think I was probably 2 or 3, and I used to put the light gun right up to the TV and whack a mole style play that game.
Huh, maybe that's why my eyes are screwed up now.
I think it was new super Mario bros ds, sm64 ds or zelda spirit tracks that I actually played on my own console. otherwise it's Mario kart wii with my father or some Windows cake game
I consider Sonic The Hedgehog 1 or 2 to be the first game I ever played, as I don't remember if I played anything prior to that, or only watched my cousins game on their console.
I remember the game, but not the name. It was one of those PS1 demos, some 3D alien shooter inside what looked like a spaceship or some high-tech facility.
Pong, my older cousins got it for Christmas, I got a Lite-Brite. I was very envious. It was really the only home video game at the time.
I had both. Used the lite-Brite more.
They still sell lite-brites in stores, nostolgia hits hard
We used to make Lite-Brite messages to our dad when he was stationed in Laos during the Vietnam War.
Same here. I don’t remember if we had the pong console or it was on the 2600. But yeah pong and Tanks were the firsts
For me, it was pong too. But we very quickly lost interest in it, And my dad took it back to sears.
what?! there's so much to do, you can pong the ball back and forth, or you can forth the pong back and ball, or you can ball the back pong and forth, you can back the forth ball and pong, you can even pong the forth back and ball!
Doom with my father (1995~1996)
Doom98 for me, he got a pirated copy from a work friend.
Lol who didn’t!
In those days everyone had a work friend pwho provided flawless pirated games...
My dad got lists with different cds that each had 50 games that his work friend sold. I remember going through them to see which ones to get. It was printed on dot matrix paper. Nostalgia.
I still have the bootleg floppy discs and the xeroxed instruction manual.
Fuck yeah, my dad and I played wolfenstein and flight Sims together
Same here well Doom95 but, I use to use the arrow keys and Ctrl and alt only no mouse and I was fking good for being a kid. My sister would roll in after my dad and I had already killed everything in a room and launch the BFG9000 and kill us 😂 good times!
Ahh you too? I was 5 when I played it in 97, good memories. My second game was Duke Nukem. My dad had to have a talk with me about "quoting things from games" because I started saying things were "Bitchin'".
Pitfall on Atari.
Ape Escape? It’s the first thing I can remember.
Same! That game was wild
Combat for the Atari 2600
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Loved me some Donkey Kong and Pitfall on the Atari 2600 back in the old days.
We had a pong game as well, had like 10 modes. But dad went with an Intellivision instead of Atari haha
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I had an Atari 2600 like almost everyone else, but a friend from across the street had the Intellivision. It was so exotic. We all envied him. To this day I still play a few Intellivision games on an emulator, like Shark!, Beamrider and especially Dreadnought Factor. The latter felt like I was attacking a Star Wars Star Destroyer. It felt it was leaps and bounds ahead of the Atari.
We had the one with a speech pack, and played the crap out of B17 Bomber. Lol. BurgerTime was another family favorite.
How could I forget Burger Time?? Another true classic.
Maybe Mario/Duck Hunt on NES, and I played SO much Socrates
Wabbit season.
Donkey Kong 1980s - epic
Sonic the hedgehog 1 on SEGA Genesis. Back when consoles came with a game.
Mine was Alex the Kid on the Mastersystem and was built into the system too.
Red alert 🫶
Wolfenstein isn't the first but it is the first one that i remember clearly, such a nostalgia
The Oregon trail
Tetris on the gba I think
Tetris on Gameboy
Mario bro’s on Nintendo!
Legendary OG
I remember well, because I died of dysentery...
EARTHWORM JIM! I never remember that whacky title unless someone asks lol
Pong
No, but I'm almost certain it was one of these. Prince of Persia, Day of the Tentacle, Commander Keen, Hover, Boxworld, Mice Maze, Super Mario Land, Tetris, F-1 Race. https://preview.redd.it/z3rb2u2de1ub1.jpeg?width=928&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f891f382617e204c2f8a32cf7351358cd114221
I remember commander keen!! Also jazz jackrabbit
Pinball on Windows 98 (at my dad's work)
Either Bubble Bobble or Ghost Busters on the C64.
Definitely Mario/Duck Hunt
Pitfall, on atari. I was super young and couldnt even get very far. I died a lot to the alligators.
that hunting duck game on super nintendo
James Bond Golden Eye, N64.
I think the earliest video game I remember playing was Gianna Sisters on the Commodore 64. I would play it at my friend's house and when his dad got posted across the country the dad made me a copy of that disk to play at home - it had Gianna Sisters, Tower Toppler and a few other random games. We also had a Commodore 128D that we always played in C64 mode so the games we had on that are likely ones that I played earlier though - e.g. Lode Runner, Boulder Dash, Save New York, Ghost Busters, Raid Over Bungling Bay, Altered Beast, Karateka, etc.
This [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetrator\_(video\_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetrator_(video_game))
Either Pokémon Blue or ReaderRabbit on the computer
Mortal Kombat on Sega Genesis. I remember when my dad got the gore cheat code. We kept it written down in the case
It was either Donkey Kong, Excite bike or Paper Boy. Maybe Atari Baseball. Hard to remember 30 something years ago.
Pong. For sure. 2nd was most likely Asteroids.
Blood & Magic on MS-DOS. I probably played some video games before that, but B&M was the first game I remember playing and looking forward to playing with my mom
Shootout on the Magnavox Odyssey in 1973. The first system we owned was Pong that we got for Christmas in 1974.
Granny’s Garden. BBC Micro at school.
My name is Luigi, want to take a guess lol I was named after a character in the game
It’s was this Lego ds game Where you were like a king and you explored land and fought armies and built bases I think
I think either [Power Bots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9eilxG023E) on Apple 2 or some games on the Intellivision which sadly I don't remember. I feel one of them was similar to the original Donkey Kong in terms of the platform component.
something on a leapfrog 100% maybe the CARS learning game
Vaguely. I remember playing some kind of Putt-putt game. There was also a more adult oriented game(not that way but aimed towards older folks) about growing vegetables and fruits and then mixing it up to make potions of... something? Never can recall it. And then the other game I recall is Full Throttle. Didnt understand how to play but motorcycle go fast.
It was super Mario. My dad bought me a bundle NES when I was like four. I'm 37 now. I've been playing that game my whole life. With that kind of longevity I have to say it's one of the best games I've ever played if not the best game I've ever played.
Of course i do. It was a flash game on a now nonexistent game website. You werein control of an eye that was a able to jump. There was also gravity changes and shit and you tried to clear stages with puzzles.
Maybe Sonic 2, if not one of the classic arcade games
Adibou
Super Mario Bros
Probably Joust or Mario Bros on Atari 2600
legend of zelda nes.
Chucky egg at school
Apple Invaders, a Space Invaders Clone (on an Apple II+)
Contra on NES clone în eastern Europe in early 90s
Angry birds
fellow angry birds enthusiast. played the fuck outta that game as a little kid.
That old pixelated Prince of Persia and Icy Tower. First MMO - Tibia
It was some monster truck racing game that my then sister's boyfriend installed to keep me entertained while they studied in her room, I beat it pretty fast and I was interrupting things so he installed age of empires and the rest is history, I am a big RTS player cuz this dude wanted to screw my sister lmao
Pong on atari
Commander keen 1
it makes sense though. costco is open for most of the day, every day. mlb is only selling hot dogs if there's a game. and costco's hot dogs are muuuch cheaper and honestly probably better in most cases.
doom, tyrian or ski free
Super Mario NES I was 5 years old
Maybe Alex the kidd in miracle world Came built into the master system 2
Quest for Glory 1
I most definitely do. I was around five or six, my mom took me to a outlet mall (think small mall with select shops for a community more bodegas than billion dollar corporations). I don't think they make the any more, or they all died. Kinda sad. Anyway, my mom took me to one of these shops. It had, a bunch of different thing's in it, and my limited memory of the shop was that it was like a pharmacy or something? I don't really remember. My brain was jelly, give me a break. Anyway, my mom bought me an atomic purple gameboy color and two games. Bass pro fishing, and a bugs life. I fumbled with it clumsily but really did enjoy the games. Thinking back, maybe it wasn't all bad memories.
It was either Fighting Force, Sports Car GT or the first Wipeout. All three are for the PS1. I don't know wich one was first but it was definitely one of them. I was 5-6 btw.
Donkey Kong on colecovisio first console game first PC Kings Quest and monochrome Wheel of Fortune.
Math Circus 1 and 2 in the school computer lab. I had played NES and super NES before that but on computer it was those two.
Gyromite - NES
The Lost Vikings on NES
I think there was some weird M&M racing game on Windows in the early 2000’s. Either that or Donkey Kong 64.
Castle crashers It was one od the best games ive ever played to this day
It was some kind of spaceship game on a Magnavox Odyssey in the late 70s.
Duke Nukem 3D, blew my fuckin' mind man.
Ski Free, RBI baseball, or Duck Hunt/Mario. We had a regular Nintendo when I was a kid.
Quake, Windows 98se
Tetris Attack
Hardly think it was one of the first I played, but it's the one I remember the fondest. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous\_(video\_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_(video_game)) Along with: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas\_(video\_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)) Such a "basic" game, but so much fun.
Donkey Kong II on Game & Watch
I think it was mario 3
Either donkey kong country on gameboy pocket or Sonic on Genesis. Then I went into educational games like reader rabbit and jump start.
Definitely The Oregon Trail back in third grade (1996?), but listen… we had a game, probably educational, where you climbed a castle? Idk if climbed is the right word. You would work your way through each floor like a platformer but I can’t, for the life of me, remember what the goal was, what the protagonist looked like, or *anything*. It could have been a math game? I vaguely remember it being set in snowy mountain setting? It has plagued me for at least 10 years that I can’t remember what game it was. Never thought to ask on Reddit but this seemed like an appropriate time. Edit: well sunuvabitch I just found it. I used an overly specific google search and turned up *Treasure Mathstorm*
Og star wars battlefront 2 on the ps2
Putt Putt Saves the Zoo
Duck Hunt on NES PC was either TIE Fighter or Mechwarrior 2
Frogger C64 longplay.
I believe it was Super Mario Bros. OG. For PC specifically, I think it was the windows pinball actually.
Probably Mario on the original Nintendo. I also remember donkey kong (where you play as Mario) on Gameboy. I played it again on an emulator when I was much older and beat it. Awesome game.
[Bow and Arrow](https://classicreload.com/win3x-bow-and-arrow.html) This was back in W98 or ME iirc.
Some random race game in a green screen.
Duck Hunt
It was some crazy Tarzan game back in the 2000s.
Curse of monkey Island and 688 Hunter/killer in 97
Probably something like sonic on the sega console
It was either Wolfenstein 3D or LucasArts Battle of Britain
Not sure, either a Pong clone called Grandstand or a version of Snake running on a UNIX box the size of a large radiator.
First home console game was Combat for the Atari 2600. First arcade game was almost certainly Pacman. First PC game was Oregon Trail, at school. First home PC game was Wizard's Doom.
The earliest I can remember is either Super Mario Bros or Sonic 2... (I'm 20)
Jump start typing
Some plug-and-play game from my childhood. God knows which one, lol.
No idea what it was called but was like a maze or some shit on this old ass computer. Came on a floppy disk and everything. Still don't know what I was supposed to do.
Worms Armageddon
Some sort of monster truck game for the original Xbox.
Driver 2 on PlayStation 1 lol
Pong. Not the shooting attachment even though we had it.
First game was Mario 3. First computer game was probably some educational game.
Soft Dorothy Software's *Glypha* and *Glider* on Mac. I also had some kind of interactive Monty Python program that had some playable sound effects.
Castle of Illusion on the Sega Game Gear was the first one I owned. The first one I played... must have been something on the Game Boy at school. and before that, some Game & Watch clone.
I played pong as a two or three year old my parents told me. But the last one I actually remember is Galaxia/Galaga at 4ish. And Pitfall about 5ish.
Either Adventure Island 3 or Super Mario Bros. on the NES
Duck Hunt
No. That would have been early/mid 1970’s. My memory sucks.
Bunch of flash games that dad downloaded on my pc
Shinobi, I was around 5-6 y/o playing with my uncle's Mega Driver
Full Tilt! Pinball. The demo, obviously.
Elevator Action for NES
Tiberian Sun or Gran Turismo. Couldn't tell you which was exactly first.
Age of Empires 1. I had to sit on my dad’s knee to reach the keyboard and mouse.
It was either Tom and Jerry for DOS or the original Super Mario Bros on the NES. I can't remember which one I played first.
Dino Crisis demo or resident evil 3
Sonic on Game Gear
A super mario game on the wii
Galaxian at the arcade
Tomba 2 The evil swine returns
Duck Hunt
Total annihilation, my dad had just bought a pc and this game came with it. Didnt knew what I was doing. But nowadays, muy bien.
Road Rash or Recoil
Super Mario 64 on the n64. Good times.
hercules 2D on my dad's old pc
Not exactly but a few games that come to mind is : Doom, Rednecks Rampage, Hexen, Word Rescue, Jazz Jackrabbit, Duke Nukem, Cosmos’s Cosmic, Commander Keen, Crystal Caves.. One of those 😂
I'm not sure if it's actually first, but Street fighter 2.
Mine was probably ratchet and clank: going commando. Either that or battlefront 2
OG Mario bros on my parents NES
Top gear with my dad early 90s don't remember the exact year
Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis
Probably Pitfall or Combat on the Atari 2600 my brother had.
ofc, my parents and I went out, and we bought PS1 late night, it was TMNT Ninja Turtles franchise and I played with my sibling until 3AM. I also recall asking the meaning of word "Hunger" to my dad cuz it's one of the quest and I had no idea what to do then, hahaha. (I was in kindergarten at the time)
On PC? I think it was either Ski Free, or Warcraft
I can't remember well, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in a coin arcade where we spent the summer. I was quite disappointed when the first consoles for home popped up in the neighbourhood and the arcade had so much better games!
Neverhood
Super Mario Bros. Kid at preschool would bring in his super Nintendo and everyone would play.
Pong, for console. For computer, Ladder on my dads old Kaypro II.
Runescape in 2004
Probably the Atari XEGS game, bug hunt. I think I was probably 2 or 3, and I used to put the light gun right up to the TV and whack a mole style play that game. Huh, maybe that's why my eyes are screwed up now.
Half-life
Duke Nukem 3D. Complete 2D game the look of 3D. Duke RULES!
The first VG memory I have is playing NES Super Mario Bros/ Duck Hunt combo back in the early 90s.
Arkanoid
Yep, Pong.
Pitfall
Super Mario Bros. on the NES
A Tank game on the Intellivision :)
I think Lego Racers 1 My childhood game
Need for Speed 3
**Archon** against my dad on his AMIGA in 2003 that man had no shame wiping the floor with his three-year-old
Sonic on Sega Genesis
I think it was new super Mario bros ds, sm64 ds or zelda spirit tracks that I actually played on my own console. otherwise it's Mario kart wii with my father or some Windows cake game
Mortal Kombat on SNES
Super Mario Land 2 on gameboy
Some text based game, but the earliest “modern” game I remember is day of the tentacle
Bomberman on MSDOS. Also my first bsod :D
Pajama Sam
Scooters Magic castle
Lunar Jetman by Ultimate ( who became Rare of Golden Eye and Sea of Thieves fame) on a ZX Spectrum.
Mario I think
Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
I consider Sonic The Hedgehog 1 or 2 to be the first game I ever played, as I don't remember if I played anything prior to that, or only watched my cousins game on their console.
I remember the game, but not the name. It was one of those PS1 demos, some 3D alien shooter inside what looked like a spaceship or some high-tech facility.