What is the first video game you remember playing? Asteroids on the Atari VCS/2600. That really...

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What is the first video game you remember playing?

Asteroids on the Atari VCS/2600. That really shows my age, hahaha 🤭.

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Thebestof1995 · 26-30, F

Yoshi’s Island, when I was about eight or nine probably.

Indy74 · 46-50, F

Pong

HannahSky · F

Pong

hunkalove · 61-69, M

Pong. And the only one I have ever played. Waste of time. There is no life to be lived on an electronic device.

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Gumba1000 · M

@EnchantedArtist2 Excellent game!

latinbutterfly · F

@EnchantedArtist2 I used to have that on the Dreamcast. Haven't played it since 2004.

Gumba1000 · M

@latinbutterfly I played it on the PS2. It had a good sound track too, I recall.

VeronicaPrincess · 61-69

Asteroids on a big stand-up money-slot console in a hotel lobby, although I can't remember if it cost a nickel or a dime to play. Home consoles weren't a thing yet.

VeronicaPrincess · 61-69

@VeronicaPrincess Oh wait, it might have been Pong - the Asteroids and Pong machines were right next to each other in that lobby.

SW-User

I'm not sure it counts as a video game, but some text based exploration game.

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SW-User

@IndridCold I don't remember the name of the pc or the game, but it used a 5¼" floppy disk.

IndridCold · 46-50, M

@SW-User It was probably on an old Commodore system. I used to have a couple of those text adventure games. I thought they were fun.

SW-User

@IndridCold It was very fun indeed. It was some kind of western setting where you had to inspect saddle bags in a wooden hut.

LucyFuhr · 56-60, F

Frogger...Atari VCS/2600...OG woodgrain model

(My first video game was really PONG but that just makes me sound "ancient" 🤫 LOL)

SW-User

I never played one 😎

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ExperienceDLT · M

@SW-User yes you have you are playing a game right now the winless game called life

SW-User

@ImOnlyMe84 candy crush on android isn't the same I guess

ImOnlyMe84 · 36-40, F

@SW-User Well in all reality, it is a game, maybe not on a game console, but nevertheless it is still a game :)

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indyjoe · 56-60, M

Pong...then I played a lot of the games on the Atari 2600 (Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Burger Time, Asteroids, Space invaders, etc.). That was pretty much the extent of my "gaming" career, though I did play a few of the example games on the original X-Box. I am not much into video games.

SW-User

Asteroids

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@SW-User My dad had asteroids. Sometimes he couldn't even sit on the pot.

latinbutterfly · F

@hunkalove 😬...

iamnikki · 31-35, F

Spyro or crash bandicoot maybe

SW-User

Super Mario for Nintendo

Fairydust · F

Jet set willy

xixgun · M

Pong

htoad34 · 36-40, M

I tried to remember this the other day and I can't. I can't even remember which platform it was on, I do know it must have been either; Atari 2600, NES or Commodore 64.

Texasgurl

pong

SW-User

Vaguely remember going with my family to a mall arcade back in the late 70's and playing space invaders...so I'll go with combat on the 2600...

ImOnlyMe84 · 36-40, F

Super Mario Brothers on the NES, and Zelda and Link on the NES. I really hated that game (Zelda)

Stevy · 46-50, M

Pitfall on Atari !!

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Stevy · 46-50, M

@latinbutterfly How about Kaboom !!

latinbutterfly · F

@Stevy I vaguely remember playing that at an arcade when I was very young.

Stevy · 46-50, M

@latinbutterfly played that with my dad all the time

UpForItNow · 22-25, F

It was probably that for me too, or maybe Pong - slightly older and much more basic.

SW-User

Super Mario brothers the old version not the 64 one though

YukikoAmagi

[c=#359E00]Shadow Dancer in Sega Genesis [/c]

latinbutterfly · F

@YukikoAmagi I had a Sega Genesis too at one point. Did you ever play Sonic the Hedgehog?

YukikoAmagi

@latinbutterfly [c=#359E00]yes of course, i love play Sonic 😄[/c]

Cantsayno · 56-60, M

Also Asteroids, but in a pizza parlor

Gumba1000 · M

Rodland for C64 and Green Beret

SW-User

Super mario 64 on Nintendo 64.

tiggerandariel13 · 41-45, MVIP

Super Mario bros on Nintendo

GeorgeTBH · 31-35, M

Super mario bros

SW-User

Riiiidge Racerrrr!

Effloresce · 26-30, F

Dig dug at the arcade

BobbieT · M

Miss Packman

Biffed · 26-30, M

Mario kart n64

ExperienceDLT · M

Contra

SW-User

Pong.

IndridCold · 46-50, M

Pong

DDonde · 31-35, M

Super Mario Bros 3 for NES I think?
Or a version of Space War on our computer.

PirateMonkeyCabinet · 36-40, M

Hard to say the exact game, but it'd have to be something on the Commodore 64. Forbidden Forest, Wizards of Wor, Hunchback at the Olympics, Jumpman Junior? Probably one of those.

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