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    • YFZdudeY
      YFZdude
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      Frogger - Atari 2600
      I think I was somewhere around 3 years old at the time. I would mostly run the stick in circles until frogger got splooched in traffic. I loved the sound effect.

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        Thorr69 @DTEAM
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        @dteam
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        • DTEAMD
          DTEAM @Thorr69
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          @thorr69 said in What is your first game ever played !:

          @dteam
          https://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm

          That's an old one !!

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          • Thorr69T
            Thorr69 @DTEAM
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            @dteam said in What is your first game ever played !:

            @thorr69 said in What is your first game ever played !:

            @dteam
            

            https://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm

            That's an old one !!

            It's the FIRST one, so yeah. My parents got it as a gift for looking at condos when I was about 4.

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              gomineko
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              Probably Manic Minor on the ZX Spectrum.

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                sleve_mcdichael
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                The first video game I remember playing was a Space Invaders knock-off called "Space Creeps." It was on the TI-99 and it loaded off a cassette tape. The early 80s was a long time ago so I might be misremembering, but I want to say my dad wrote it.

                Another early one I remember was on my Grandpa's computer (a C64?) that I now recognize as an incarnation of "Theseus and the Minotaur," although it went over my head at the time, and I always ran straight for the exit and got caught every time. It was rendered in ASCII text and also loaded off cassette.

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                • IanDaemonI
                  IanDaemon @YFZdude
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                  @yfzdude said in What is your first game ever played !:

                  Frogger - Atari 2600

                  I was "babysat/watched" by an older cousin at their house. They had Frogger on the Atari 2600... mind blown. :)

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                    barbudreadmon @Thorr69
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                    @thorr69 said in What is your first game ever played !:

                    @dteam
                    https://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm

                    I had the odyssey² (philips videopac) as my first home console, with pickaxe pete as my favorite game.

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                      ts-x
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                      Probably either Snafu or Astrosmash on the Intellivision. I believe Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack arrived at the same time but that game was lost on six year old me!

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                      • ?
                        A Former User
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                        first game i played was a gameboy it was like space invaders i dont know how the name was named

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                        • retropieuser555R
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                          @retropiecase nemesis maybe? That was one of the first Gameboy games we played as kids

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                          • BobHarrisB
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                            last edited by BobHarris

                            It's over 30 years ago so a bit hard to remember.
                            It definitely was one of the following:

                            • Double dragon 2 for the NES at a friends house

                            • California games on the Atari Lynx (LOVED that surfing mini game)

                            • Paratrooper on DOS

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                            • ClassicGMRC
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                              My father brought home an Atari 2600 and Space Invaders. My life has been on this path ever since.

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                              • DTEAMD
                                DTEAM @ClassicGMR
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                                I’am glad to see we are all from x generation!! 😂

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                                  A Former User @DTEAM
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                                  @dteam is 1997 x Generation?

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                                  • Genos98G
                                    Genos98 @DTEAM
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                                    @dteam Not surprising there since the people who would most likely make a retro gaming machine for themselves are gen x and millenials.

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                                    • hawkes_84H
                                      hawkes_84 @DTEAM
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                                      @dteam if we're talking console it's Super Mario Bros on NES
                                      If we're talking first game ever it'll be something on the Sinclair Spectrum ZX either Impossible Mission, Ghouls & Ghosts or maybe the text adventure the Hobbit. Yeah I'm old!

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                                      • DTEAMD
                                        DTEAM @A Former User
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                                        @retropiecase

                                        @dteam is 1997 x Generation?

                                        I agree, not everybody, but a lot of people are from the 70’s and beginning/mid of 80’s and I'm surprised to see this.

                                        I agree with you, all generations do retrogaming. It's like music, what you have heard young stay with you all your life!

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                                        • sirhenrythe5thS
                                          sirhenrythe5th @DTEAM
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                                          First game ever: a Pong Console at a friend of my parents about 1982.
                                          First own game: "Decathlon" (Microsoft) on my Apple //e with a yellow 12" Monitor.
                                          Second one: "Aztec", also on my Apple2.

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                                            daywane
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                                            Sears pong. first PC atari 400. I am 57

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