What is the first game you remember playing?

Josey Wales

The first game I remember playing was Mountain King for the Atari 2600. As I was about six at the time it is difficult to remember too much about it and if what I do remember is how it actually was. But I think I did think it was good and I still remember the music from the game. I also think I found it very hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbCc4BTI370

What is the first game you remember playing?

The Pheasant

I vaguely remember playing some kind of bowling game on the original A4 sized gameboy...on playstation it was tomb raider/crash bandicoot...oh and pokemon red

666irishguy

Mario on the Gameboy. Sometime around 92.

richymcdermott

sonic the hedgehog

Pierce_1991

Had a 6 in 1 on Mega Drive. Had street fighter, columns, golden axe, world cup 94 and couple of others. Anyone remember that?

NTMK

Playing Super Mario Land on GB was my first gaming memory and pretty much one of my first memories. there are photos of me when i was 2 or 3 playing it. the gb was nearly bigger than me :pac:

and after that it was playing Sonic 1 or Command and Conquer when i was 5/6

calex71

Hmmmmm probably this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYLA_uO-XH0

We got a knock off 2600 type box back in the day that had about 30 games on it, River Raid was was my favorite.

After that probably some of the Dizzy games on amstrad 464 with green screen, I can safely say I have no nostalgia for tapes and the load times and the noise lol

Comic Book Guy

Alex the Kid in Miracle World on Sega Master System. Santy brought it when i was 9 i think. Hours waiting for dad to wake up and tune in the tv!!

Great game, still remember that Rock Paper Scissors in game thing!

NTMK

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

Had a 6 in 1 on Mega Drive. Had street fighter, columns, golden axe, world cup 94 and couple of others. Anyone remember that?

Streets of Rage
Sonic
italia 90
Super Monaco GP
The Revenge of Shinobi
and
columns

was on my one

harry Bailey esq

1942 on the Atari 2600

the_barfly1

Jet Set Willy on an old commodore sometime in the late eighties/early nineties if i recall correctly

harry Bailey esq

calex71 wrote: »

Hmmmmm probably this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYLA_uO-XH0

We got a knock off 2600 type box back in the day that had about 30 games on it, River Raid was was my favorite.

After that probably some of the Dizzy games on amstrad 464 with green screen, I can safely say I have no nostalgia for tapes and the load times and the noise lol

river raid! brilliant. id actually fancy a game of that now for old times sake!

Josey Wales

calex71 wrote: »

Hmmmmm probably this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYLA_uO-XH0

We got a knock off 2600 type box back in the day that had about 30 games on it, River Raid was was my favorite.

I'm pretty sure I played that at one point as well.

DrumSteve

Excitebike on the NES. Build your own levels. Dlc was muck though.

Will I Amnt

Midnight Resistance. Spent hours a day getting my arse handed to me by that game.

degrassinoel

Frogger in Barneys amusements back in the 80's!

JazzyJ

One hundred and one monochrome mazes:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/one-hundred-and-one-monochrome-mazes/screenshots

But only at Christmas when my da brought home his PC from work.

I also vaguely remember a text based adventure game imaginatively called Adventure.

Pushtrak

I don't know for sure it is the first game I played, I've a feeling that honour goes elsewhere but nothing concrete... Anyway, as the thread asks, the first I remember playing was Midnight Resistance on the Commodore 64. Had lots of fun with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47AQP8rDWZg

Harps

Vaguely remember some sort of space invaders type game on the Atari 2600 some time in the early/mid 90's, haven't a clue what it was called but spent an unhealthy amount of time on it

Earliest I remember well is boringly enough probably Tetris on the original gameboy

Super Mario Bros for the NES.

Hitch11

Maybe Choplifter - Commadore 64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrKd0fM1CY

Lucifer31

Jupiter Lander, on Com modore 62 in '82. On cartridge it was too.

Potential-Monke

First ever memory of a game was one of the pong machines. Can't imagine it now, but back then it was better than breathing!

Played quite a few games on different consoles i didn't own, in shops, friends houses, etc, but here's the first games with each console i owned:

Atari 2600 - Centipede, California Games, Pole Position, Bezerk
GameBoy - Tetris
SNES - Super Mario All Stars
PlayStation - Destruction Derby 2
PlayStation 2 - Smugglers Run
PSP - Ape Academy
PlayStation 3 - Motorstorm
DSi - Professor Layton
PS Vita - Uncharted: Golden Abyss

RUSTEDCORE

tekken

Retr0gamer

Think it was Ghosts n'Goblins in the Arcade. Either that or Jack the Nipper on the C64.

Magill

Loved it. Probably wouldn't have played it until like 5/6 years after release.. but its my earliest memory and probably the first game i ever actually completed.

Duggy747

Xmas Day in '88 / '89 or '90, my brother got a Nes + Zapper as a present.

First game I played was the Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt cartridge. I remember a shìtload of my relations came down that day and all played it.

Each and every one of them did that thing where they raised the controller above their head whenever they wanted Mario to jump :pac:

MikeD22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduvEG1ItsM

5uspect

Pretty sure it was Split Personality on the C64.

Browning2010

James Bond, World cup (something) and some jet ski racing game on the Nintendo 64.

They were the days...

I also remember playing 'Small Soldiers ' on Playstation 1...

And of course Zelda on the 64 as well.

YouSavedMyLife

Pong.....

Harps

Browning2010 wrote: »

James Bond, World cup (something) and some jet ski racing game on the Nintendo 64.

They were the days...

Goldeneye, World Cup 98 and Wave Race, three of my favourite games back in the day, N64 was the first console I owned myself, good times..

KAGY

Programmed my own "skiing" game in BASIC on a BBC micro, but the gme that sticks out most was captain comic on an IBM ps2 I think.

Captain Chaos

First console game I ever played was Mario Bros 3 on the NES.

First on the SNES was Mario Kart.

First on the Playstation was Wipeout.

First on the N64 was Mario 64.

First on the PS2 was GTA3.

First PC game was Thief.

Love to go back and experience them all again for the first time.

KAGY

KAGY wrote: »

Programmed my own "skiing" game in BASIC on a BBC micro, but the gme that sticks out most was captain comic on an IBM

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Banjo

I remember that skiing game - q to the left of you, p to the right, and if you made a false move it scrolled "over the precipice! " all over the screen.... Good times...

Earliest was a tabletop space invaders / Galaxian type deal in Spain (I have lots of fond memories of unnamed arcade games from early holidays) , my dad did the movement, I did the firing and my big sister did shields. Also, the football game on our Texas Instruments computer. The big Eeeeeyuuuuuuh! I noise when you pressed a button at the wrong time...

taytothief

First games I played were Safari Hunt and Hang On on the Sega Master System. My uncle had it when I was still a kid, and I'd sit for hours watching him and waiting for a go. Crazy how I can remember the music and sounds so well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV69oO0-Gtw

zef

Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum.
I got pretty good and could finish all 20 levels.

im invisible

Got the Terminator 2 special edition of the Commodore 64, and the Chase HQ cartridge aswell, but the first game i remember being into, was Flimbo's Quest, on a cartridge with some 'big top' circus game

Josey Wales

im invisible wrote: »

Got the Terminator 2 special edition of the Commodore 64, and the Chase HQ cartridge aswell, but the first game i remember being into, was Flimbo's Quest, on a cartridge with some 'big top' circus game

Oh man, that brings back memories. That cart was my first experience on the C64. Flimbo's Quest was amazing. The circus game was Fiendish Freddies Big Top O' Fun. Then there was the International Soccer game and the tile game Klaxx.

con___manx1

im invisible wrote: »

Got the Terminator 2 special edition of the Commodore 64, and the Chase HQ cartridge aswell, but the first game i remember being into, was Flimbo's Quest, on a cartridge with some 'big top' circus game

those were my first games too. fimbos quest was deadly that was my favourite one. the circus game with the diving board and the knife throwing was good too. all i remember of terminator was getting chased on the motor bike by the truck trying to dodge all the big rocks. good memories : )

con___manx1

con___manx1 wrote: »

those were my first games too. fimbos quest was deadly that was my favourite one. the circus game with the diving board and the knife throwing was good too. all i remember of terminator was getting chased on the motor bike by the truck trying to dodge all the big rocks. good memories : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtdUBPYVKmk

EGriff

Went to a friends house and they had a little stand alone box like a tiny arcade cab with space invaders on it. I was amazed by this thing, had one go of it and I've been hooked on games ever since.

Ah bloody flimbos quest. I remember hating that game with a passion but I forget why.

Vojera

Either Roland in Time or Oh Mummy! on my cousin's Amstrad, but which I later inherited. Waiting for tapes to load ftw!

Agricola

Centipede on the 2600

Monty - the one and only

pong... cant even remember what it was on. Was well before the atari 2600 though

God, I feel old now

Jamie Starr

MicroMachines on the Megadrive.

GalwayKiefer

First computer in our house was an Amiga 600 that came with Formula One Grand Prix, a sponsored game called Pushover and Putty. Damn I miss those games and the cool fighter jet looking joystick I saved up for ages for.

First games console was the Megadrive with the 6-in-1 cartridge.

SpannerMonkey

pitfall on the atari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhXMYw1lXY0

Skerries

I remember going to visit my cousins in England in '79 and one of their mates had this game and have never looked back since

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZRc6qcOq8

ShadowHearth

This game started my Gaming Era. I played it at friends house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuMYsGiS33k