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    What is your first game ever played !

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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
        last edited by IanDaemon

        @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
                retropieuser555 @A Former User
                last edited by

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

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                • BobHarrisB
                  BobHarris
                  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
                    ClassicGMR
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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
                      last edited by

                      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
                          last edited by

                          @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
                            last edited by

                            @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
                              last edited by DTEAM

                              @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
                                last edited by

                                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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                                  • Thorr69T
                                    Thorr69 @daywane
                                    last edited by

                                    @daywane Atari 400 was my second. Sinclair ZX81 was my first (my uncle gave it to me after he graduated college). C64 was my third

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                                    • hawkes_84H
                                      hawkes_84 @daywane
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                                      @daywane bet it was mind blowing?

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