The first video game you remember playing?

[artificialrose]

Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast is the first game I remember having a concrete memory of playing (also one of my earliest memories altogether). Alongside playing two player on Sonic 2, columns and Streets of Rage 2 on Genesis with my mom.

 

[Kamako]

Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast is the first game I remember having a concrete memory of playing (also one of my earliest memories altogether). Alongside playing two player on Sonic 2, columns and Streets of Rage 2 on Genesis with my mom.

I've always wanted to play Sonic Adventure!
Sonic 2 co-op was the best growing up. Being able to fly more than makes up Tails' slower speed

 

[BigHairyMarty]

I remember it well. Computer Scrabble for the Amstrad CPC 464, played on a green screen.
I would have been about 4 or 5 at the time. I walked into the living room one morning and there it was, the first computer I ever laid eyes on.

 

[MegaDrive1987]

I've always wanted to play Sonic Adventure!
Sonic 2 co-op was the best growing up. Being able to fly more than makes up Tails' slower speed

Tales can't fly in the original Sonic 2 on the Mega Drive. He could from Sonic 3 onwards...

 

[Kamako]

Tales can't fly in the original Sonic 2 on the Mega Drive. He could from Sonic 3 onwards...

Oh yes ofc that's right! My bad. Still, It was fun to play one of the best games ever 2 player with my bro, even if we had to take the levels a little slower

Edit: No hang on, I looked it up, and Tails CAN fly in 2 player mode in Sonic 2. You can even carry Sonic like in 3 when you have to beat annoying mid-air Robotnik boss battle.

Edit 2: No hang on again, it's only on the re-release of the game?! How confusing...

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Gradius 3 and by "play" I just helped my dad get through the space sections

 

[MegaDrive1987]

Oh yes ofc that's right! My bad. Still, It was fun to play one of the best games ever 2 player with my bro, even if we had to take the levels a little slower

Edit: No hang on, I looked it up, and Tails CAN fly in 2 player mode in Sonic 2. You can even carry Sonic like in 3 when you have to beat annoying mid-air Robotnik boss battle.

Edit 2: No hang on again, it's only on the re-release of the game?! How confusing...

Yeah I was gonna say he can in the re-releases but not in the original Mega Drive games.

 

[silver9000]

Frogger on the Atari 2600, along with Pitfall and Enduro. Although I didn't quite like them, just played for a bit, died a lot and went on to play with my toys. I was just 4~5 back then, but when I saw the Master System running Alex Kidd and Sonic at a neighbor's house about a year later, I really got interested in videogames.

 

[Necrodyte95]

I'm not sure. It's either something on a bootleg Atari 2600 or a famiclone. Probably the original Super Mario Bros.

 

[Bluewyne]

I don't know if its actually the first, but the first games I consciously remember playing was Pokemon Stadium and Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64.

 

[Audrissa]

I'm a lil' fuzz yon the very first game I played.
It was for sure something on the NES...
A toss-up between Batman, Dr. Mario, or Spy Hunter. Stuff my parents or cousins had.

On a relate note, I have clear, vivid memories of the first game I purchased with my own money:
Super Return of the Jedi.
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Good times!

This was the first game I bought with my own money too - except I had the Gameboy version. It was a little silly, but my god, the shield generator level is a core memory!

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The first game I can recall is Kingdom of Kroz - a super old PC game by Scott Miller

 

[depes]

It has to be Pokémon Silver on a GBC my brother had. We also had a PS2 with some demo discs, but I'm pretty sure I didn't touch that one until I was a bit older.

 

[Morgana Veil]

It's either Centipede or Space Invaders on the original Atari 2600. I was around 5ish years old, and one of my relatives brought the old console over. They brought it to my dad for repairs and I vaguely remember him letting me play it. Also may have been Pong

 

[Tsetskhli776]

This I remember well, it was Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Master System. I bought the remake not too long ago but I haven't had the time to play it.

 

[DorfleFlorp]

the first game I ever played was Warcraft 2 on a Compaq all in one pc with windows 95 on it. one of these
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[Dr.Kisaragi]

Super Mario bros and Bomberman on Famicom

 

[Speed3]

I have some early memories of Wheel of Fortune on MS Dos, but I checked and Super Mario Bros. came out two years earlier so I suppose that one was the first.

 

[username_]

Blaster Master (NES).

 

[Ephemera1_]

I started very early, around age 3? Ive thought about this question many times before but i still dont have a definitive answer. However, I've narrowed it down yo two choices.

Back in the day we(my family) had an old windows 98 computer before upgrading to XP, and it was there in which my journey into gaming began. The first games ive ever played was either this Crayola Crayon 3D Activity Center, or a port of Sonic and Knuckles for PC

 

[Netra]

The first one was a light gun game in an arcade, my godfather work in one and sometimes my father go there to play pool, I don't remember what game was.

 

[Clam Snail]

One of my earliest memories is of my dad handing me the controller to play Pitfall on the Atari 2600 and being stoked that I finally get to play instead of just watching.

 

[Isegrim]

Pong. In an ice cream store named Sundae, Sweet Sundae...I'll never forget the name of that store. Videogame that is.

But not the first arcade type game. I remember as a very young child seeing these shooting coin op operating machines where some toy like things would scroll at the back of an arcade machine like cab and you'd shoot it with something...light, pellets, air...it made a hitting sound...I'm not sure how it worked. No video though so it's not a videogame.

 

[Ed36]

I had a famiclone too, i remember a game named Gryzor (contra with another name lol), good times...

 

[danimanx]

Donkey Kong Country at my first school – I remember there was a fundraising event where you could play for 15 minutes, like an arcade.

 

[Pearly]

Sonic 2 on my older brothers sega mega drive, I was 4.

Fell in love with the character and devoured the animated show and comics as I grew till I played adventure on the dreamcast which I also loved. I haven't really enjoyed Sonic games as much since adventure 2, save for mania and the day stages in unleashed.