1st game you ever played

marcuspheonix · 14-07-2010 12:16AM #1

whats the 1st game you ever played?

Jack burton · 14-07-2010 12:25AM

marcuspheonix wrote: »

ok. didnt mean to cause trouble. just wanted to continue the discussion. how do i delete a thread?

An obvious forum expert here

jaykhunter · 14-07-2010 12:26AM

marcus just in case it hasn't been said i want to say that only that 'troll thread' (should) contain inflammatory statements, we're a real nice bunch of guys here, please don't be put off by any rocky moments here and there on boards! sometimes ya get them but in general boards is well moderated to foster a positive community

LoGiE · 14-07-2010 12:41AM

Just like I'd hoped, peace and quite. You leave the moderating to me marcuspheonix. When I close a thread I mean it to stay closed ok?;)

Anywho...

The first home 'console' game I ever played was one of those a generic pong machine's. Mind blowing at the time of course! First arcade was a cocktail defender in wexford I think, sometime in the mid 80's...

ghostchant · 14-07-2010 12:53AM

First game I ever played was pacman on my uncle's atari 2600. In hindsight, I couldn't have picked a worse game (that's not a shot at pacman, just the dreadful 2600 conversion). Loved it at the time though, and led to me getting a NES off santa.

the_syco · 14-07-2010 12:58AM

It was either the soccer game, or a game of bong, on a 16" black and white TV, with I think was a Magnavox Odyssey 4000? Looks like it, but some buttons on it were a bit different. Maybe a cheaper clone. 8 basic games on a cartridge. Fun times were had with that. I do believe that was the only console that I played on for a long period of time, other than maybe the PS1. 386 ftw!

Retr0gamer · 14-07-2010 01:02AM

Contra in an arcade in the Airport. Maybe that's why I love hard games.

deathrider · 14-07-2010 01:05AM

I honestly can't remember what the first game I ever played was, but I can remember the first games I've ever owned. Got a Gameboy for christmas back in then early 90's, with Tetris and Fortress Of Fear. Although I spent a lot of time trying to nab my Gameboy back off my sisters before they ran the batteries dead with Tetris, Fortress Of Fear was the fisrt game to really grab my heart. Spent an unhealthy amount of my childhood playing that one.

Kxiii · 14-07-2010 01:15AM

Batman on an Amstrad on monochrome green monitor.

kwalshe · 14-07-2010 01:18AM

My first one on a friends console was Combat on the Atari

My first game on my own console was

Atavan-Halen · 14-07-2010 02:22AM

First game I played was ridge racer on the ps1 when I was about 5 and got the ps1 off Santa. Couldn't steer for my life and ended up facing walls most of the time but I loved it none the less.

CathalDublin · 14-07-2010 02:47AM

Hard to remember
In the arcade was Double Dragon(the 1st one) in a games room on the side of a pub in wexford!
At home I cant remember but it was either on the Spectrum 48k(probably booty or jetpack) or the Rowtron games system(pong clone or something)

CathalDublin · 14-07-2010 02:56AM

atavan-halen wrote: »

First game I played was ridge racer on the ps1 when I was about 5 and got the ps1 off Santa. Couldn't steer for my life and ended up facing walls most of the time but I loved it none the less.

I feel so old
My mate got that with his PS1 when it was 1st released for xmas, think it was December 1995, I was about just turning 16:eek:

Warren3 · 14-07-2010 09:04AM

First game i ever played was call Arcadian on the BBC 32K

Welease · 14-07-2010 09:09AM

First one I remember was 3D Monster Maze by JK Greye software on the ZX81..

File:3D-monster-maze-T-rex-2-steps-away.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze

Arcade wise, I'd imagine it was Space Invaders...

o1s1n · 14-07-2010 09:10AM

It was either Yar's Revenge on the Atari 2600 or Punchy on the ZX Spectrum, I'm not too sure. It was the 80s and I was young!

First arcade game I'm pretty sure was Operation Wolf.

Skerries · 14-07-2010 09:22AM

in the arcade it would have been Space Invaders or Pac-Man

at home it was when i visited my cousins in England in '79 and their mate had an Atari with Gun Fight, i had just turned 6

LoGiE · 14-07-2010 09:53AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Contra in an arcade in the Airport. Maybe that's why I love hard games.

I just mentioned I'd been playing it recently in another thread. Credit up, 30 seconds later GAME OVER. They sure dont make them like they used too!

The Atari 2600 seemed to have been the platform of choice before the outbreak of personel computers in the early 80's. I owned a c64 and a speccy although Arcades have always been closest to my heart.

Anyone else get a strange feeling when someone says the first game they remember in Sonic?

chopperbyrne · 14-07-2010 10:14AM

One of the games on a pong console, probably Pong as the rest were crap.

Retr0gamer · 14-07-2010 11:43AM

LoGiE wrote: »

I just mentioned I'd been playing it recently in another thread. Credit up, 30 seconds later GAME OVER. They sure dont make them like they used too!

The arcade version is regarded as the easiest of the series other than super contra on the NES

It's funny now to read reviews of Megaman 2 saying it's one of the hardest games ever made when it was criticised when it came out for being too easy.

Josey Wales · 14-07-2010 12:12PM

I'm fairly sure it was a game called Mountain King on an Atari. I still remember the music from it.

BenK · 14-07-2010 12:32PM

Can't remember which one of these classics I played first! Got them with a Nes for Christmas back in the day. I do remember my sister being better at me with the light gun and getting quite upset at the time... Oh the nostalgia...

Warren3 · 14-07-2010 01:30PM

I can not believe I found some info on it and it came on in 1982. I feel old now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadians_%28video_game%29

Roar · 14-07-2010 01:42PM

it would have been on my cousin's NES i think, possibly Mario.

Anthony Walsh · 14-07-2010 02:17PM

I think it might have been tetris, first game I played on a pc was wolfenstein 3d

o1s1n · 14-07-2010 02:22PM

Now that I think about it, I can also remember playing Bomb Jack on a cocktail cabinet in a hotel in Killiney. That may predate Operation Wolf as my first arcade game

oeb · 14-07-2010 02:35PM

marcuspheonix wrote: »

whats the 1st game you ever played?

I think it was pacman, one of those cocktail cabinet versions in 86 or 87.

My first true addiction though was the TMNT cabinet in 89 or 90

ntlbell · 14-07-2010 02:39PM

Struggling to remember but I think it was this.

Cracking game, must get my hands on an aul CBS

branners69 · 14-07-2010 02:52PM

Mine like most of the old fogies was pong on a pong clone called the Universum Multi-Spiel-Color A, catchy name eh!

The console looked like this but it also had a gun:

In the arcade my first and best game was Pac Land! I can still remember all the hidden tricks even though I havent played it in 20 years! Ah the memories, back when 10p went somewhere!

LoGiE · 14-07-2010 04:20PM

branners69 wrote: »

In the arcade my first and best game was Pac Land! I can still remember all the hidden tricks even though I havent played it in 20 years! Ah the memories, back when 10p went somewhere!

I'm the same. The locations of the hat, skips , baloons and extra lives have been burnt into my memory. I will always remember playing the c64 version and being so disappointed that they took most of that stuff out. Brilliant game :pac:

twilightzone · 14-07-2010 05:42PM

marcuspheonix wrote: »

whats the 1st game you ever played?

super mario bros on the NES. my brother received it as a gift from Santa Claus, and i fondly remember countless hours stuck in front of the television, eyes glued to the little man jumping from block to block. a wonderful way to begin a lifelong passion for gaming

1st game you ever played

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