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What was the very first video game you ever played?
Rockgod99
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I'm gonna have to say mine was also Combat on Atari
Mh not sure
but I think that must be a pacman version from 1989 or something..
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I think the first video game I ever played was probably Ghost Busters on the Atari. My cousin was playing it and let me give it a try.
Super Pong on the Sears Tele-Games system! Yeah I'm old school...
I know it was Pong at home, but I may have played something at the movie theatre before then - like Asteroids?
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Super Mario Brothers.
Probably Pong.
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My parents gave me a quarter to play on a "cocktail" style arcade version of Galaga at a great restaurant on the way to our cottage back in 1985. I was very young, had just finished a cheesedog with fries and gravy, and can remember feeling guilty for having not washed my hands.
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Starflight 1986, sigh thats been awhile.
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guess would be ducktales on the C64 - great times :P
Methinx my first arcade game was Space Invaders.
My first console game was Pong.
My first computer game was on an Apple 2, I think... I wish I could remember the name of it... you traveled in an air balloon, had to borrow stuff from your uncle to sell for money, and had to pick fruit that fell from a tree before it got spoiled. Might've been one of the first RPG's of all time... named something like the "greatest adventure" or something.
Pong! It was amazing, you could change the paddle size and speed of the ball.
I remember playing this weird platformer on a Apple computer. It was sitting in this chicks basement that i had a crazy crush on as a kid.
You were this robot and you hit a button and changed into a aircraft.
I have no idea what its name was but that was pretty early in my gaming career.
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Same here. Super Mario Bros on the original Nintendo when it first came out. I was very young, and I still remember the very first moments of plugging in the cartridge and playing the game.
I had no idea how to use the controller or what to do. I knew you had to run and jump over bad guys, and that's all I knew. I pressed start, and started running to the right. I saw that first goomba on the screen and looked down to find the jump button. I looked back up and I was dead. After that, it took me a few tries to get the timing right.
Anyone remember this?
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
Wow I can't remember the first arcade game I ever played, but remember going to a friend's house in the 70s and playing Pong. blip blip blip blip blip blip..ahh I am dating myself :P
But I also remember my first hand held video game..it was a football game with lines as the players..and a dot for the ball..wish I remember what it was called lol. I was born with a controller in my hand even though it wasn't invented yet.
Huu by my math your not old enough for the 70's. but math was never one of my strong suits.
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I'm gonna have to say Shadow of the Comet, not because it was my very first game, but because it's what made me into the gamer i am today.
Sitting as a 10 year old trying to figure out lovecraft based puzzles, it was mind-blowing back then.
Space Invaders on the first Atari
Does Pong count? We used to have a set back in the late 70s
For me it was PONG and SPACE INVADERS. I am old.
Does anyone rember the first fantasy game for ATARI?
it was called adventure
Kings and Sons of God
Travel on their way from here
Calming restless mobs
Easing all of their, all of their fear
Strange times are here.
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Yea and I remember finding the easter egg in it..was a name of one of the developer's behind one of the walls..
i know the first home game was Pong played it at my grand parents when i was little, tho i remember it looking different form the pic above. it was like yellow and black(console itself) a generic off brand maybe?
but i think MAYBE played Pacman before that ,at this old Bar/resturant we use to eat at when i was a kid. one of those old 2 player ones with the glass top.
i remember having an Odessy system, hell i actually still have it, tho i don't think the piece to hook up to the tv works anymore...not like i own a tv with the old ant. hook up anyway..
River Raid was my favorite game on the old systems tho!