The first game you played

[ear8dmg]

Probably F15 Strike Eagle on an Amstrad IBM PC compatible.

 

[gamebrain89]

Afterburner, or the built in light gun game on the Sega Master system, was my first .

 

[Pingrash]

Man that's a hard question. I'm going to have to say the first Age of Empires because that was the first game that I personally owned.

There's no way I could remember the very first I played.

 

[Mother Yeti]

I also played GTA: Vice City at five. Great game, lots of hooker bludgeoning.

Uh, so you're 10-11 years old? Why the hell are you here rather than playing Club Penguin or hanging out in Barrens chat?

 

[The Mono One]

Pokemon Blue. Back when there was only 150 of the little bastards. Good times, Good times.

 

[ND]

Ack. I think it was a game called Dragons Treasure something-or-other on the Atari - the sole aim was to run back and forth between a tower and a castle with a dragon collecting treasure whilst dodging fireballs...

The first actual game that I got hooked on however, was 1942 on the C64.

 

[iamnotincompliance]

Spiderman on an AT&T computer running the XT Gold operating system (of which I can find no evidence as ever existing). 5 1/4" floppy disks that are actually floppy, 16 colors, surprisingly long, CPU speeds under the megahertz barrier, dot matrix printers... damn, I sound twice as old as I actually am. Oh well, still a superb game that I wish I still had.

[EDIT] Here's how little information exists on XT Gold: a Google search of "XT gold" -hunter -spirit -sprint -radeon (for reasons that become evident you search without those exclusions) turn up this thread, my post very quickly.

[SECOND EDIT] Okay, a titch more digging finds XT Gold was some sort of DOS shell. As I recall, it was still command line, so what was the point? But no matter, now that I know it was DOS Spiderman, I have hope of finding it again.

[EXTRAORDINARILY QUICK THIRD EDIT] An abandonware site just turned this game up. You cannot imagine my joy right now.

 

[Kedcom]

I'm pretty certain that the first game I ever played was Duckhunt on NES. But that was a double game with original Mario on it too so I suppose Mario would have been the 2nd game I ever played.

After pwning everyone on Duckhunt first of course.

 

[chaostheory]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

It may actually be somthing else but that was the first game I really remember.

 

[Schiggy]

Heh this thread makes me feel old. First game was Alex the Kidd, the one that was built into the Master System, think someone mentioned it before. If only consoles still came with a game built into the system

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

Pong on a neighbor's wood-paneled home Pong console. I was 4.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I think it may have been Dread Dragon Droom on the Acorn Electron, back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy.

But it was a very long time ago, so I can't be sure.

 

[Kedcom]

I think it may have been Dread Dragon Droom on the Acorn Electron, back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy.

But it was a very long time ago, so I can't be sure.

What does your kanji mean nilcypher?

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I think it may have been Dread Dragon Droom on the Acorn Electron, back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy.

But it was a very long time ago, so I can't be sure.

What does your kanji mean nilcypher?

I assume it means Ikaruga, as it's the logo for the game.

 

[Kedcom]

I think it may have been Dread Dragon Droom on the Acorn Electron, back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy.

But it was a very long time ago, so I can't be sure.

What does your kanji mean nilcypher?

I assume it means Ikaruga, as it's the logo for the game.

Ah I don't know that game! I will have to go investigate! ^.^

 

[Duhri5]

the first game i ever played was shinobi 3 on the sega megadrive, good times

 

[Kedcom]

I think it may have been Dread Dragon Droom on the Acorn Electron, back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy.

But it was a very long time ago, so I can't be sure.

What does your kanji mean nilcypher?

I assume it means Ikaruga, as it's the logo for the game.

Ah I don't know that game! I will have to go investigate! ^.^

Investigations complete! That game looks absolutely incredible judging by the youtube vids i just watched of it. And incredibly hard too!

 

[Undeed]

First console game was Dr. Mario.

First handheld that I owned, can't remember what I played first, was pokemon yellow version.

That's right, pickachu.

 

[StygianBastard]

Sonic 3. Still have the game on my PC in memory of that.

 

[Voodoo Child]

Alex Kidd in Miracle World.

Fuck. Yeah.