What was the first video game you ever played?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I think mine was the Nintendo World Class Track Meet with the powerpad. My mom HATED it because all it was was jumping up and down on the buttons as fast as you could or stomping on them while running in place.

[JohnKleeb]

1. World Series Baseball I think for sega genesis

[jonolover]

2. Super Mario Brothers

n/t

[Blue-Jay]

3. Zork!

It is dark. You may be eaten by a grue.

[Baclava]

16. Me too!

Commodore 64
(and I never finished it either)

[Worst Username Ever]

4. Arcade Spyhunter

[parasim]

5. Pong

a loooong time ago...

[CottonBear]

11. Pong

...in a galaxy far, far away.

dink...dink...dink...

[merh]

12. You and me both!

LOL - a very long time ago.

[Misunderestimator]

15. Yep.... Pong

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. Pong too

[mtnester]

38. Yep, Pong here too

second...Pac Man
Then Mrs. Pac Man
Then Steroids

Can I count pinball machines?

On Edit - forgot to mention Frogger

Amyone remember sitting on bar/lounge area of restaurants on glass top tables playing Pac Man? AM i dating myself (I don't know, are I good looking enough to do that? Do I meet my expectations of someone I would date?) Someone stop me please.

[Beaverhausen]

41. Pong here, too.

[bearfan454]

44. pong here too.

[tuvor]

6. Probably Asteroids

When I was at the age that you were jumping up and down playing Power Pad, I was saving the universe!

You kids have it too easy these days. :eyes:

[merh]

7. Pong!

Yeah, I'm that old. I even had one of those pong tables that were in bars, but my roommates brother sold it out of storage to get some cash for his recreational hobby.

[rug]

40. The bar Pong tables were the best

[Sporadicus]

8. Pong

In a bar in Key West. 1973.

[Fenris]

9. Probably Atari Tennis

[TlalocW]

10. Space Invaders

Probably was 1980 or so when I was 8. It was at a little hamburger restaurant, called the Mustard Seed, north of town across from the Co-op Grain Elevator.

I sometimes cringe when I think about how much time and money I've wasted on video games, but there was very little else to do in my small Kansas farming community. Fortunately, I never got into Everquest and stuff like that, but I still play an arcade one every now and then, and there are plenty of computer games - both ones you buy and ones you play on the internet to waste time on.

TlalocW

[Huckebein the Raven]

13. I'm old school: Pole Position on Atari 2600 baby !!!

[havocmom]

14. never played one

:shrug:

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Asteroids, I think.

circa 1980 or so. Atari 2600.

[name not needed]

18. Super Mario

[Arkana]

19. Duck Hunt for NES

I'll never forget it, either. It was the COOLEST thing I'd ever seen.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

24. I was looking for an image and this is what came up:

[sakabatou]

32. same

[Sandpiper]

20. Space Invaders

For the Atari 2600.

[arismomkoofie]

21. Hunt the Whumpus (sp?) by TI...

That has got to one of the world's best games!

I think you can play it here:

http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.phpz?cat=&game=249&mode=html

[brainshrub]

22. Pong.

At the optometrists office.

[Dookus]

23. Pong

we used to walk a mile and a half to the local bowling alley with a quarter just to play one game of it.

[Borgnine]

25. I love the Power Pad!

I still have mine, as a matter of fact. I got it (along with Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and the Zapper light gun) with my NES back in the mid-'80s. It was great actually getting exercise while playing Nintendo

Anyway, my first video game was on the old Atari. I can't remember the specific title, but it was something with an escaped criminal throwing bombs.

[deadparrot]

26. Super Mario World, on Super NES.

[LeftyMom]

27. Frogger on the Commedore 64

I think. It's the first game I remember playing, anyhow.

[LoZoccolo]

28. I think Space Invaders.

Either that or Pac-Man. My dad was his company softball team and would take me along to games. Once afterward they went to a bar connected to a bowling alley and there was a tabletop Space Invaders and a standup Pac-Man. I still remember when I learned the rules of Pac-Man!

[7th_Sephiroth]

29. the verry first video game ever

Magnavox Odessy

[Jesus H. Christ]

30. Ladybug for the ColecoVision.

I've been hooked every since.

[x-g.o.p.er]

31. Pong, at the bowling alley.

There were no arcades back then.

Man am I old school.

[flamingyouth]

33. Pong, on the Princess Marguerite from Seattle to Victoria

Or as my parents called her, "that old rickety bucket of bolts." :D

[Reverend_Smitty]

35. Super Mario Brothers...

got my first NES during Christmas of 89...and has been hooked ever since

[AccessGranted]

36. Atari Space Invaders

Okay, I'm ancient LOL.

[gizmo1979]

37. PONG

boop------boop------boop------boop

[Thor_MN]

39. That's easy, Pong, followed by just about every other game that

was made

[Left Is Write]

42. Pong.

[Twillig]

43. Pong. Anybody that doesn't say Pong

is a Newb.

Period, end of story. I can prove it on a roll of paper tape and a PDP-8.