The first video game you remember playing?

[micheI]

Serious Sam TFE.
My dad was a huge fan of Serious Sam and when i was little he'd let me play it.

 

[Skeleben]

Rayman Revolution on the ps2. Got it for my 4th birthday.

 

[Trix_]

I don't know exactly, but I got into gaming through my brother. He was born in the early 80s. My mum's financial situation was good around that time (80s-90s), so she bought quite a few systems for him, including a NES clone, a Mega Drive (Genesis), SNES and others. Here in South America most consoles are imported but at the time we also had local manufacturers making clones or bringing consoles over to Brazil.
My first gaming experiences were probably around the age of 3-4 years old. I remember playing beat 'em ups with my brother such as one of the TMNT games, River City Ransom, Battletoads and others.
I remember the game Urban Champion which took me almost 20 years to find, because I would confuse it with River City Ransom, and in my mind the colour palette was completely different.
My mother always liked the Mario games and they were basically the only thing that she would play.
I also recall my brother and one of my relatives playing and discussing Sonic The Hedgehog.

I had some experiences in the computer lab at school, and I thought that it was all so neat, so I asked Santa for a computer. At school they had Rayman, an Aladdin CD-ROM game, and other stuff that I don't know anymore.
Soon enough, Santa gifted me a PC and we immediately got internet access. That must have been in late 2004. Although my memories and old files are all from 2005 and beyond.

My brother already knew about emulation through gaming magazines, so the first thing he did after setting up the computer, was download emulators for me to play. I spent a lot of time with GBA emulation specifically, even though my English skills were non-existent, and sometimes we would play together.
I also got into virtual worlds and MMOGs in late 2005 or so... but that's a story for another day.

 

[ThatOneLum]

There are a few options for my "first" game, mostly because I remember playing them all at a relatively young age, and I can't be 100% sure which one came first.

Sonic 2 - Played at various friends' houses in my childhood
Secret of Monkey Island - Played with my dad on his work PC pre-5 years old
Super Mario Land - Played on some relative's gameboy ( I don't know which one, everyone had a sodding gameboy)

 

[Tetronomicon]

Not 100% sure. It's a toss up between two games considering I can't remember the order I played them in. Though considering one was an arcade game and the other was an arcade port, I guess I have an early memory of both ways of playing games back in the day.

Between the two, I think it was Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 in 1989. And honestly? I think it's... okay. Just okay. It's overly basic and lacking a lot compared to the arcade version. But I think I was okay with that considering it was on a smaller system than the original game. I was a kid and that was how I tended to think about technology back then: Bigger piece of technology was more powerful than the smaller one. (Which isn't entirely untrue in the right context. A supercomputer that takes up a huge room is more powerful than the most expensive workstations we have today).

Anyway, the other game I vaguely remember playing was the arcade version of Donkey Kong. I think I played it at a university arcade (or at least one nearby the university). Can't remember if I played it before or after Pac-Man on the 2600. But I think it was after that.

 

[JusaikiJusaiki's icon]

That's a hard question to answer honestly, I grew up in my grandmas house since I was 3 years old and her sons - my uncles - had big age gaps between them, I remember in the early 2000s they were still playing on old Nintendo's and arcade machines I can't remember all the games, but I can't forget the Olympic & football games but if I can say first game I played and liked ? That would be Vigilant 8 on the PSX that game was pure joy for me, and it was the first game I booted up on my new PSX I bought that year

 

[rugal]

my first game was playing super mario bros on nes with my brother