I guess it's Atlantis on the Atari 2600

First game I played was way back in 1977/78 it was sea wolf the arcade game. First home game was PONG on a orange and brown binatone machine that came free with our first colour TV!, think that was 1980.

I can't remember if it was really the first one, but my earliest memory would be Super Mario bros. on my uncles famiclone. Still have it! 😎 (insides are all rusted tho, thing is from ~1993)

Munx wrote:

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what the hell is that...?

Is that seriously a NES clone disguised as a cheap knock off Sega MegaDrive\Genesis?

DracoNihil wrote:

Is that seriously a NES clone disguised as a cheap knock off Sega MegaDrive\Genesis?

Yup.
And in case you're wondering, the "phones" knob isn't actually connected to anything 🤣

Famiclones were a big thing in post-soviet countries all the way to the mid 90s. Zhiliton brand was the biggest one where I live, to the point where any NES hardware is simply referred to as "Zhiliton".

Probably Pac Man from Tomytronic, or Bruce Lee/Pit Stop on C64.

Oscar the Otter on Apple ][. I have never found it or any information on it since (it's some kind of kids edutainment game).

Edit: of course, I say that, then found it on archive.org https://archive.org/details/Oscar_the_Otter

hmmm, earliest memory is of a home console Pong of some kind, I only remember the screen, a tiny little portable AC-powered TV we had.

Next earliest memory is of sitting on a stool to play either Asteroids or Asteroids Deluxe at a local pizza place. If it was at release, I would have only been two and a half, so it must have been a few years after release.

Not necessarily in that order, these memories are pretty fuzzy.

I have clearer memories of playing educational and entertainment games on our Texas Instruments TI-99/4A.

Leisure suit Larry 1 😁 -- don't quite remember the system, but most likely an IBM PS2(386), waay back in 1988 I think.
(some pirated stuff I accidentally found installed on a random PC in the college computer lab while trying to do some school work --- as I didn't yet own a PC myself for many many years to come...)

That would be Alley Cat on Hyundai Super 16 TE or Pippo on the ZX Spectrum, really fond memories of both 😊

BSA Starfire wrote:

First home game was PONG on a orange and brown binatone machine that came free with our first colour TV!, think that was 1980.

+1 to the Binatone, though we had the all brown one (Mk IV?) and the orange one came a bit later IIRC. I have a couple of these, in fact last night was researching how to mod them to get RCA output, as my TVs won't tune to them. Didnt have the light gun as a little kid... ho ho ho now I have a light gun
First game on a computer was probably something on the BBCs at school, vaguely recall a game flying through a cavern, or Granny's Garden. First game at home was Taxman on Apple II, and Gato on IBM PC at a friend's house.

Easy question, the first ever game I played was Guimo on I think a Windows 95 (or 98) PC.
I'll never forget that game, it was super fast and at the time I was 2 or 3.

Afterwards I spent my childhood with Doom, Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior and classic Apogee games until I was 4 (1999), when I got my first ever console: a famiclone transparent yellow PolyStation with hundreds of NES games (mostly the same games with different levels as first level), so I COULD say that I also grew up with NES games, but while it's true, I don't quite feel it to be true since I never had a real NES (not even currently, but one day... I shall...)

Anyway, yeah, the first ever game I played was Guimo on Windows 95 (or 98, can't really remember) in probably late 1997 when I was 2.

Pretty sure it would be Space Invaders in a Taito coin-operated cabinet in my college common room. 1979? Followed shortly after by Asteroids, Defender, Pleiades, Phoenix and a side-scrolling game with a rocket going through tunnels that I cannot remember the name of. All coin-operated machines in pubs.

ratfink wrote:

land a side-scrolling game with a rocket going through tunnels that I cannot remember the name of. All coin-operated machines in pubs.

Tunnel Run ?

Pinball, ok so that's not a game or a system, but pinball rules.
Frist video game I played was Marble Madness in the arcade.

According to my dad, this is the first game he remembers me playing https://www.mobygames.com/game/disneys-the-hu … psy-turvy-games

I think the earliest game I might have played was the arcade racing game with wheel, when I can barely look at the screen while standing. This game is a monochrome green, with top down perspective, with green F1-like cars and green road outline. I couldn't remember the name.

The earliest memories I have of video games are Pac-Man on my cousin's Atari and Pole Position in the arcade. The first video game I owned however was Super Mario Bros. 3 when my parents got me an NES Challenge Set (I didn't have any other computers/consoles up to that point, but most of my friends had NES/C64/Spectrum so I was already "addicted").

Pretty sure it was "The Black Bass" for the NES. At least, it's the earliest game I can remember getting brand new from the store. Probably circa 1987.

I still play it sometimes 😜

Hmm, My first games were for the Sega Master System. Both being Rambo III and Hang-On. Rambo III required the Light Phaser!

What a beauty! 😎