What is your first game ever played !

Folly

A friend had a TOSHIBA HX-10 MSX1.
I think the first game I played was over there.
It was Scramble (Super Cobra) loading it from cassette.
We always were drinking thee while waiting for the loading process to finish.
Many times the loading failed, and the we had to move the heads a little bit and try again.
If we were lucky we could play after about 15 minutes.
I must have been about 7 years old.

saccublenda

Raid on Fort Knox on a Vic 20 cartridge. No joystick yet, only keyboard.

windg

Jumping Jack for the Atari 2600.

YFZdude

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.

Thorr69

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

DTEAM

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

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

That's an old one !!

Thorr69

@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.

gomineko

Probably Manic Minor on the ZX Spectrum.

sleve_mcdichael

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.

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. :)

barbudreadmon

@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.

ts-x

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!

A Former User

first game i played was a gameboy it was like space invaders i dont know how the name was named

retropieuser555

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

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

ClassicGMR

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

DTEAM

I’am glad to see we are all from x generation!! 😂

A Former User

@dteam is 1997 x Generation?

Genos98

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

hawkes_84

@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!