The first video game you remember playing?

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Not sure, some arcade game between the late seventies to early eighties. Probable choices could be: space invaders, pacman, Rally x, pole position and elevator action.

 

[monkeybanana]

king's quest & police quest, played on a pc

 

[Azkik]

Probably Asteroids but possibly Missile Command, Centipede, Battlezone, SkiFree, Chip's Challenge, or some helicopter game where you had to click to stay aloft and could also shoot lines that would stick into walls.

 

[tigg]

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

king's quest & police quest, played on a pc

Police Quest! wow I *so* forgot about that one! pure class brvh

 

[RegulusBlue]

I'm pretty sure it was Popeye (1982) for NES. I think I was just 5 years old or something. I used to play it at my cousin's.

 

[destinyduelist]

This fun little gem, sometimes I come back to it, fun times

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

I slept on Bomberman since the mid-to-late 80's until just recently when I realized it might be such a long-enduring franchise for a reason. threw on the OG (well, USA OG anywey) NES version... I suck at it but I can feel the potential for it to be an addictive action-puzzler lol

 

[Rylioli]

i definitely know the first game i finished but not played. finished was sonic adventure and i never fully recovered from what sonic and unlimited internet access will do to a kids psyche

 

[leoflannel]

The first game I still remember playing was LittleBigPlanet 2 on my hand-me-down PS3.
There were so many good levels, (both user-made and in the main story)
Also, the ending cutscene gave me chills!

 

[dr grim]

First game i remember was sorcery on amstrad at my grandparent house.

Also Army moves.

 

[Raccoonus]

It's super hard to remember what the first game I ever played was but I'm almost certain it was Sonic The Hedgehog on a Genesis plug n' play. Sometime after I had messed around with the EyeToy on my mothers PS2 and I guess she figured me and my siblings should have our own system and we got another PS2 and some PS1 games alongside Devil May Cry, Sonic Mega Collection+ and my mom allowed us access to select games from her PS2 title collection after she got finished or bored with them. These were games like Virtua Fighter 4, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, GTA3, GTA San Andreas, Pac Man World 2 and Red Faction. Soon after that me and my brother started watching X-play, noticing game advertisements and heard about games from kids at school and would beg our mom to buy them; I still own like 70 or so PS2 games from back then and I still have my hands on Tomb Raider, Resident Evil and Ninja: Shadow of Darkness all for the PS1.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

In the oldest and earliest recesses of my memory the earliest gaming related memory I have is playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

 

[Trainer Red]

space invaders for the atari ... a relative just happened to own one so yeah i played that

 

[MegaHiro91]

I can't be 100% sure, but I want to say it was Commander Keen on the kindergarten's PC. They had a random computer lying arround that me and a couple other kids would gather at. It had Wolfenstein 3D, Halloween Harry, Lion King, and the aforementioned kid astronaut in the yellow football helmet.

I mostly just watched the other kids play, but remember thinking Keen was so damned cool with the way he confidently smiled while flipping his thumb upon the start of a stage. His laser pistol was cool, and the way he got around on his pogo-stick (like a child) was cool and made him (somewhat) relatable. While it may sound morbid coming from a 6 year old, his death animation where he would bounce off screen was really amusing to me as well, because it was like his "left the game" and broke the 4th wall. Like whatever killed him hurt him SO badly it threw him out of his own reality!

For some reason I also found it cool that he was albino and had freckles xD ...what can I say? Everything about him was COOL!!!

...in fact, you could argue that Keen was my first "cosplay" as for a period I would walk around with my purple bicycle helmet everywhere to look like him.

 

[ThunderBoy]

Exolon

in Amstrad CPC6128

 

[kyujin]

My first game I remember play was on a java phone I don't remember at all but I can't forget Diamond Rush, otherwise this game born the same year I born, I played that when I has 4 years old.

But the first game I played in a console was Super Mario Bros 1 I remember also my cousin playing Kirby on NES the same day but I've don't play because I thought: "Pink is girls color so I don't will play, because I'm not a girl" and Kirby is pink, now one of my favorites games is Kirby Dream Land 3?.
I also remember my friend and I playing TMNT for NES and has a versus mode in the game and I always choose shredder because of his attack, he punch very fast so I just spammed the attack button and I have win every match, now I understand his frustration, after I don't be able to attack the opponent in Street Fighter 3 I will never play this game in netplay anymore

 

[RIK-C-137]

I can still play Moon Patrol any time. Maybe not very well but I'll still enjoy it.

 

[GundamOO683]

Final Fantasy 10

 

[Jotaro]

tekken 3 and street fighter alpha 2, good times

 

[SeisShooter]

Dorky as it sounds, I remember mine pretty well since I keep coming back to it once a year. It's Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island on the SNES.

 

[symplily]

 

[LostKing]

Lemmings on the ZX Spectrum, either that or Oh Mummy. My dad had picked one up at a car boot sale with like 40 tapes of games, I always liked those two the most along with Double Dragon and The Saboteur.

 

[Djwho75]

Pac-Man,when i was a Little toddler without knowledge that the good pac could eat the ghosts AFTER gobbling the power pill,not before.

 

[DeadVoivod]

I also don't know exactly anymore, but I got my first Game & Watch console Manhole, guess that was my first game I played.

I also had this TVG-10, although another version, it was a small black & white TV, and it came with 2 controllers and a cable which you plugged into the side of the TV and you had 10 games, like Pong games.

I also played Asteroids on an Arcade cabinet, oh boy, was that exciting