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