First Video Game you ever played?

[Big_al]

For me I think it was Space Invaders in a n arcade :D

http://www.arcadeclassics.co.uk/images/space%20invaders%20ur.jpg

[Nephil]

As far as i can remember it was PacMan, in a shopping mall. That's where my dad had to lift me up so I could play! :D

[Big_al]

I was never big in Pacman in the arcade, played it at home on my Atari 2600 :D

[DOOM_GOAT]

First game I ever played was Citadel on the Acorn Electron.

[Dr.Dude]

I got into gaming "really late". ;) Believe it or not, the first games I played were the first Commander Keen and original Duke Nukem.

[Nomad]

Excitebike, back on the old NES. Oh man, I loved that game. And when you think about it, it was the first "extreme" sports title ever. It even had a "park" editor. Eat that, Tony Hawk. *cool*

[Doom_Dude]

Pong. I played pong on a console-like jobby one of my brothers got someplace. heh Then I think Pac-Man on this hand held type thing that was designed to look like an arcade machine. I played the crap out of it then loaned it and never got it back. hah dirty bastard, no return stuff, scum-chicken.

[sLydE]

i have an original pong system, one of the first releases, my grandfather bought it, and showed my dad what was going on, and my dad couldn't grasp that he was interacting with the tv. the system is about as wide as a ps1, but it's about 6 inches deep, and runs on 4 or 6 (can't remember right off the top of my head) D batteries. the controllers are hardwired to the system, and they are paddle-like dealies with a dial...fun

the first game i can remember playing would have to be either some dentist game where you were a tube of toothpaste and you had to shoot the various food items before they touched your teeth (basically missle command, but with food, my dad is a dentist), or possibly star fox for the atari 2600, but that cartridge is broken now :(

[Nemesis]

Super Mario Bros. for the NES.

[Looney]

Pong The first arcade version. I stood in line for 4 hours to play. :p hahahahahahahahahahaha
http://www.pong-story.com/pics/arcade/proto.jpg

[Player_of_Doom]

Super Mario Bros. for the NES.
Same here, loved that game and always will.

[Frades]

"Alley Cat" and "Prince of persia" on IBM PC.

[Big_al]

First game I ever played was Citadel on the Acorn Electron. Did you ever complete it without cheating?

I did once :D

[DOOM_GOAT]

I got all 5 crystals, then died just as I got to the palace. That was as far as I ever got, though admittedly I was only 6 at the time.

I think to this day, Citadel remains one of the hardest games ever made.

[Azrael_ rage]

Teenage mutant hero turtles on the nes. From there I semed to work backwards on the consoles. I spent most of my childhood spanking my pocket money on the arcade machines, ahhhh precious memories, still haven't worked out who 'ace' is. He held the number one spot on all machines everywhere.

[HyperFlash]

I remember playing Mario 1 on some old machine. I don't think in was an NES. And I had Duck Hunt too.

[Azrael_ rage]

Might have been an atari. Mario first appeared in donkey kong, under the very technical name of jump man.

[Big_al]

I got all 5 crystals, then died just as I got to the palace. That was as far as I ever got, though admittedly I was only 6 at the time.

I think to this day, Citadel remains one of the hardest games ever made. Na its squel, called Palace of Magic (http://www.rubybay.com/users/drbeeb/superior.html) was harder.

I think I was 13-14 when I completed Citadel :D

Get a BBC emulator and you can finish it off now, lol.

[Tylenol]

The very first game I played was the combination Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge on the NES. I played that thing for hours.

[Felix]

a BASIC port of SPACEWAR on my grandfathers XT(?) it booted off a 5 1/4" into DOS 1.3 or something like that... ahh memories

[thegrimmling]

I think it may have been MoonPatrol for an ATARI system.

[DOOM_GOAT]

Get a BBC emulator and you can finish it off now

I could dig out my old electron, I just hope the tape still works.

[SpawnofCheese]

or possibly star fox for the atari 2600, but that cartridge is broken now
Not possible Star Fox was on the SNES.

[Nomad]

Actually, he's right. There was a Star Fox for the Atari 2600, as well as SNES.

[Shakadi]

DooM. All the way.

And offtopic: thegrimmling, your avatar rocks. *thumbs*

[WarMachine]

Pong.

[Big_al]

I could dig out my old electron, I just hope the tape still works. Lol them where the days, 5 mins to load stuff of tape :D

[DOOM_GOAT]

Never did figure out what CHAIN"" meant.

[Big_al]

I could type that with my eyes shut lol.

Ahhh happy days

http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/kuvat/acorne.jpg

[GreatWasabi]

My first video game had to be Duck Hunt for NES. So fun...

[Azrael_ rage]

I had an old spectrum ZX2. Ever program a game onto those things? It took me six hours of typing to create a slot machine game. Waste of time.

[GreatWasabi]

Oh man...so many bad memories of old games past...I remember one of my friends had an Atari. We'd play Asteroids for hours, laughing at the poor old thing.

[Tyberious]

I got into gaming "really late". ;) Believe it or not, the first games I played were the first Commander Keen and original Duke Nukem.

yeah same here, I dunno but, ti was one of these
Wolfenstein 3d (which i was damn good at it) pong from commander keen 4th eddition, the original duke nukem, mario brothers on nes, all the duke series..... ahhh the memories. I still remember when wolfenstein was an arcade game.

Oh and i can't forget, Megarace!

[sLydE]

Oh and i can't forget, Megarace!
ahhh, Megarace, with your host Lance Boyle, i played that one for hours...then i found my doom cd *rolleyes*

[GreatWasabi]

I wish I could forget "Cosmic Race". The horror...the horror...

[Tyberious]

I loved megarace, still wish I could play it.

[sLydE]

I loved megarace, still wish I could play it.
i am pretty sure i still have it on cd :D

[Tyberious]

I still do but, I have to install it on dos (communal: DUH!).

[Big_al]

I loved megarace, still wish I could play it.
i am pretty sure i still have it on cd :D I tried it on my P2-400 it was too dam fast

[iori]

The First game i ever played was Robocop for the NES. I was 5. I wasnt allowed to own a game system till I was 16. Go Me.

[GreatWasabi]

My parents gave up on me playing "violent" video games when I was about 10 or so. Apparently they no longer care. Yay! Go violence! :D

[sLydE]

i remember the time i went to buy mortal kombat 2 on the day it was released. i went to k-mart, and because i wasn't 17, they wouldn't sell it to me, so i turned right around to my dad, handed him the money, and he bought it for me lol, stupid k-mart, no wonder we don't have one around here anymore

[DoomedAce]

I remember playing some games on the old Commodore 64. Don't even know the names of those games anymore. You also had to load those using tapes :D.

A few years later I got my first GameBoy with Tetris and later Mario Land.

[Doom_Dude]

I remember playing some games on the old Commodore 64. Don't even know the names of those games anymore. You also had to load those using tapes .

I used my C64 for many years and I HATED the tape drive because it took soo long then a lot of times it would choke with a syntax error. Luckily most of my Commodore stuff was on floppy and I had one of them chunky, noisy Commodore floppy drives that ate floppys if the power went off. *alien*

[edit] Actually it was when the power came back on and the drive repowered that it would damage disks. heh There was a few times I was away from the C64 and the power went off and I had to make a run for it to get the disk out before the power came on. Bwahahahahahahahaha. Then I clued in to making copies of anything decent. ;)

[edit2] LOL@Looney waiting in line to play Pong! LOL *bliss*

[doomjedi]

Mine was Kong-Fu on Nintendo videosystem (the game where karate guy walks and kicks ass, after killing the boss advances up one floor at the building).
I think the second was Super Mario Brothers on that same system

[DJ_Haruko]

Oh my...it's hard to remember back to when I was three or four. But I want to say something like Tombstone City on my TI-99/4A or something on my 7800 like PitFall or Robotron, or possibly Pole Position II.