First game ever played

[Warthog]

Nintendo - Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[SithLord075]

Pac-Man (coin-op) back in '82.

[OuTpaTienT]

Patty-cake (patty-cake baker's man) was the first game I ever played, I think. Either that or "who's got your nose?"

[zskillz]

beast

-Z

[GroundZero3]

it was called iceman. you were secert agent and it was one of those games where you type in what they do. i.e. walk to the door. pretty funny

Jason

[sns]

Wow, my first game was that tennis type game you plugged into a tv and had the white lines on either side going up & down to hit a little white dot.
If you are talking about pc type games well that would have been doom - I worked in a technical environment but had a phobia about **** pc's - until I saw doom and have not looked back. Have not had much to do with console type games.

[dafremen]

it was a game called Lions that was on the OSI Challenger 1p. The objects was to trap the two lions(asterisks) by pushing blocks(solid block cursors) around the screen to form a cage. The lions would always chase you. It would actually be fun today.

8) Daffy

P.S. This game actually predated the PONG consoles, but not PONG the actual game which I saw played on a modified O-Scope in 1976!!


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[Mykex]

TV console - Pong "what else?"
PC - I think it was called "jungle jim"or something? It liquid crystal display type graphics very liniar you ran and swung from vines. I think the "system" it was running on had less memory than an Athlon CPU.

[skuz]

Back in the '80s.

Played Wonderboy on the Sega Master System.

[Joel Kleppinger]

I'm skipping ahead to the computer because I have no idea what the first video game I ever played was (Pacman? Pong? Excitebike?).

The first computer game I played was a BASIC game called Lumpies Maze. I tried and tried, but never did figure out how to beat the second level (or even if it was possible). What a game (and I still have it http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif).

[jaida]

id have to go with super mario brothers/duckhunt for nintendo http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[AuraEdge]

First video game?

I think it was some lame racing game on the Oddysey^2 where you go around a track and try not to hit the walls with your joystick with one button.

First computer game?
Thats tough. Mom loaded me up with alot of those educational quasi-games. Maybe it was Civilization on my 486/33 powerhouse. My brain was far to underdevoloped to indulge in that one though. Then I think Simcity2k ruled me over for a while until i saw C&C on my friends comp. My comp would freeze up after running it for about 5 seconds.

Then came the pentium age...
I feel old now.

[NDC]

I'm not exactly sure, but it was in the dark ages when "Asteroids" was a hit!

[nunyadam]

outpatient are you sure it wasn't "pull my finger"?

[Tom Pico]

First computer game -- Silent Service. Great game, sweaty palms everytime I took a bow shot on an Akazaki!

The machine? An Atari 1040 - the first PC with 1 (Yes, ONE) meg of RAM. No hard drive the game played off a floppy disk. Silent Service II was lame by comparison.

[MiKe85]

I decided this would make a neat post to go along with the http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum17/HTML/002597.html topic http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

My first game i remember playing was Phantasie III: The Wrath of Nikademus...
What was your first game ? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Mike

[chefde]

1966 Subhunt Coin-op in a laundromat when I was a paperboy. I don't remember the name of the first PC game I played but it was a D&D game on an AppleII in the late 70's early 80's.

[GunHo]

zork on a commodore 64....and silent service was a heck of a game... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[SithLord075]

The first PC game I've ever played was The Enchanter. Awesome text-based adventure. My cousin and I would spend hours playing that when we were kids. Heh, I was always the one breaking out the #2 pencils and graph paper.

[Warthog]

LOL Outpatient http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[bwkaz]

Adventure / Colossal Caves -- One of theose text-based adventure games where you type in "throw axe" to try to kill the dwarf that was trying to kill you. Hours upon hours of entertainment. After that, it was Desolation, a text-mode-graphics game where you ran a helicopter around the screen trying to get away from the rockets and claws and such. These were both on an Osborne Executive with 64K (that's KILOBYTES) of RAM, and a 7.5-inch orange-and-black display. I still have that computer, and it still works.

Bryan

[MiKe85]

Isn't it fun to remember those ol' games?! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Mike

[Wozza]

spitfire 40 on the commodore 64
wozza

[MadMatt]

I can remember playing Pong in about 1975. After that, it was probably Zork or Blue Max on my C= Vic-20. Blue Max took about 20 minutes to load from the cassette drive....

[Eli]

Offhand I have no idea what the game was, but it was either on a Collecovision or am Atari 2600. Good stuff. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Now for the PC, that would be Elfquest on an old 286. Wow it was awful...

...unless you want to count the spelling and math "games" we used to play on the Iconix network at school as a kid. Grade four man, the good ol days. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[kenyg]

I believe it was 'pong' late 70's. Then we had an atari system - I remember being able to play space invaders. As far as pc games, playing F-17 Stealth fighter on an 8088 - but then in a circuit city somewhere - I saw Doom - and that was the coolest game I'd ever seen - I got that old AMD 586 @ 133 pc - pretty much just so I could play it.

Ken

[MikeHof]

Wolfstein 3d on a computer.

[Praetorian]

The very first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt.

[keithb]

Holy man reading these messages makes me feel old. Alot of kids here started out with Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. That was not that long ago! I remember Pong from Sears, then went on to a Atari 2600,Itellivision,Colecovision, Nintendo (1) then Supernintendo, then Playstaion and finally a PC. PC by far the best in my opinion, I really could care less about the X-Box or Playtstn 2.

Sorry to get off track...The first video game on T.V. was Pong for me. I am only 29! There have been an incredible amount of changes in tecnology in the last 25 years.

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[bwkaz]

You got 780K floppies! Wow, the Osborne's were only 360K..... And only some of them were double-sided (until we used a hole punch, that is.... then they all were....)

Bryan

[Tom Pico]

Hey! The Atari 1040ST was cutting edge, man. None of the old 360kb junk for us http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Barney]

My first game must've been "Pong" on one of those old, crappy consoles. The first game I remember playing on a real computer (VIC20), was a game where you were in an airplane and you had to shoot the top off the skyscrapers or would crash into it.

Ronald

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[Z@rgON]

A ramBo 2 game i still got it if anyone wants it It beats counter strike Anyday,
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[Tom Pico]

You've got that right. As I mentioned above, my Atari 1040ST was the first PC with 1 MB of RAM and it had no hard drive at all. Everying ran off floppies. Games, paint programs, word processor - everything. I still can't understand how a game like Silent Service with great game play and not so bad graphics (even my today's standards) could be contained in one floppy. If my memory serves -- and sometimes it doesn't, I'm an old geezer http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif -- the floppies were 780kb not the 1.44 version.

[darrell]

oh the memories...

Arcade: Star Castle - I put a lot of quarters in this game. (yes you COULD actually play an arcade game for under $10 a pop...)

PC: TSR's Pool Of Radiance on a Commodore 64. Great game. I still got it somewhere. Might dig it out and play it again one day...

Darrell

[jtax]

i had a amstrad computer where the only games you could play were on audio tapes which took a long **** time to load.

My first game was some soccer game on that computer.
Either that or 'digger' on the pc.


jtax

[BDAWBTP]

First console game was Pong also

First arcade game was Tempest(got it on my PC now)

First PC game was Unreal Tournament. I know, I got a late start in this category, but when you only have "hand me down " computers, you take what you can get.
Not that much of a "Gamer" anyhow


Bill

[HomeYield]

I first played a version of Dungeons and Dragons or something like that on an intellivision.

[DanU]

This is really gonna strain the brain cells...

I think the first arcade game I ever played was centipede, or maybe dig dug or pac-man.

First console game was COMBAT for the atari 2600.

First PC game... I can't remember since I had soooo many pirated games for my commodore64.. hehehe. Cliff Hanger seems to be the earliest I can remember.

[FrozenLiquidity]

For me, the first video game I played was the same as Warthog's.

Nintendo - Super Mario Bros. / Duck hunt

The first computer game I played, was some game for the Apple IIe', it was really neat, you got to build roads and little stores, then you got to drive around the little city you created and waste your time! It was pretty cool because you controlled it with a joystick that had one button.
I forget all the details, becuase this was back in like 1st grade.

FrozenLiquidity

[DanU]

That sound a lot like SimCity, no?

[FrozenLiquidity]

Yes, it sounds like, but isn't, the only thing I remember very well was the horrible graphics and the main character (that you got to pointlessly drive around in the car) was some bear, or other big furry mammal (not Sasquatch or a Wookie) Just trying to clear things up...

FrozenLiquidity

[HomeYield]

Hey FrozenLiquidity, I played that same game. It was a blue bear if I can remember back that far. That bear or whatever had several games out back then. All great for little kids. They were great for wasting time.

[deore101]

Yep, Pong here too. Though it wasn't hooked to a TV, it was in a plastic box that looked like a TV. Had 2 knobs on the front, and we loved it!

M/38

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