What was the very first video game you ever played?

Pong, now I feel really old.

Me, too, @SQUEEKY2, I was a Pong shark in college. :-D

My dad brought me to come see it after he found it on a university campus. It was an arcade game called Tank which was like the tank battle in Atari 2600 Combat (which is a copy/elaboration of the design), but an arcade version where each player got a set of two tank driving sticks that go forward or backward, one controlling each track on the tank (so to turn in place, you push forward on one while pulling back on the other, etc). It was an amazing and fun thing to see and play!

@SQUEEKY2 and @canidmajor Add me, pong on a tiny screen when I was around 12 yrs old.

Pong here too. The fraternity had a table top pong game that could play doubles too!

For me it was also Pong. No, I do not still play it. At the time i thought it was awesome. Until we got bored of it.

Not sure.
Might have been Wario Land.

Not sure, I played lots of kids’ computer games for Windows 95 and don’t remember what they all were. A few memorable ones were Gizmos and Gadgets, Math Blaster, and Outnumbered.

My first console game was probably the original Mario Party on Nintendo 64. I still remember the day we went to Walmart and brought home an N64 and that game, and then my mom, dad, sister and I all played Mario Party together. It totally blew my mind.

I may have seen Pokemon Red/Yellow and Super Mario Land on my friend’s original Gameboy before that. Not sure which came first for me.

I still love all those old school games. Super Mario 64 is probably still the best video game ever in my eyes. It’s hard to separate out my feelings of nostalgia when trying to make these evaluations though.

@Mariah I’m having a blast with my PS4 and Pacman, graphics are very cool. HD.

Pong on our TV. This would be the early 70s.

Pong. I almost forgot about Pong, but that was it. This was before we had home computers, so it was a self-contained box. Did we plug it into the TV? I think so. There was a litle console with knob controls for each player.

My husband gave me a Pong game for Christmas—this was probably 1977—and he was so excited to try it that he insisted I open it on Christmas Eve. We stayed up until three in the morning—“Just one more.”

Still play it? No. I don’t play any computer games. But for a while there, back in the 80s, I loved some of the early RPGs—the ones that consisted of text and two-word commands or moved ASCII symbols around on a simple screen layout, leaving most of the imagery to your imagination. I was out long before they became about graphics. Nothing about them attracts me now.

My username came from my character in one of those.

Pong.

Pong, which is also the last video game I’ve ever played.

@Love_my_doggie
You are missing out

I played Galactica in the 80’s.

I’m not sure if it was Mario or this Lion King game. The earliest game I remember owning was Mario. But according to my family dad sometimes brought me to his office when no one was there. Then he would turn on the computer and load a game inside for me to keep me busy. As I can still remember, the Lion King game was the only game every computer there had, so it could very well be that game.

Pong, then Space Invaders (on a TV console) then Asteroids on a commercial video game (like they had at arcades).

I liked Asteroids and Centipede, but that’s about it.

When video games started to “advance”, that’s when I completely lost interest. I don’t like the look of the graphics, or anything else about them. I’d rather read a book, or a million other things.

Either Pong or Space Invaders was the first game I remember playing. I also liked Breakout and Battlezone a tank battle game.

Table Tennis and then Space Invaders

Space invaders….

We inherited a Pong in the late 70’s. Too bad we didn’t keep it. I think it is worth quite a few bucks now.

If there’s any Spyro fans out there, the PS4 version is being released this fall and is supposed to be BADA$$!!!

I can’t WAIT for the Spyro remake!

@Mariah It was only $5 to reserve my copy! Paid gladly…lol

Crash Bandicoot…I was a late developer if ya catch mah drift.

very funny

Pong. The neighbor had one.

I think it was Space Invaders but Joust became my favorite during that time.

@ragingloli I could only handle 20 seconds. An hour? I love it.

Tetris or perhaps Pacman. It was on probably the first version of console created by Nintendo. I don’t really play that kind of game anymore. If I have time to play I’ll prefer complex srpg or life simulation game.

Pong for me too. I though that was so clever!

@ucme That’s a great one to be your first though! The new one on PS4 is pretty good, too, although only took a short time to beat all three games, kind of like Uncharted.

The one and only arcade video game I ever got into was BATTLEZONE.

no missle command?

I had enough money to play one game of BattleZone after school every day.

Super Mario World! My dad taught me how to play it. :) I was 6 years old.

@stanleybmanly As a first video game, Missile Command is fairly complex (trackball, three fire buttons, missile interception an slow explosion timing, chain reactions…) and maybe overwhelming for a new player. It’d be interesting to hear from someone who played that as their first game.

I played it when it was new, as well as many or maybe most of the first-wave arcade games.

KaBoom and Combat.

Pong. That’s also the last video game I ever played.

Pong, in the early 70s. Dad got one that hooked up to the TV.
Then Pacman around that same time. My neighbor kid got the arcade for Christmas. See, he had an “Uncle” who was super rich and the dude was always buying my neighbor kid really expensive toys for birthdays and Christmas. Like, he even had a mini-bike that we rode the hell out of. Rumor has it that his “uncle” was really his biological father.
Neither of those had to power to drag us away from the creek and the woods for very long.