First game you played?

[TriedandTested]

Could well have been this:

Cool game. Very difficult though..and never managed to make it to the airport.

 

[el_dazza]

Sonic the hedgehog
Completed it on my 5th birthday, lol.

 

[Insanity]

Dodge 'em - Atari 2600

 

[William]

Commander Keen 4.

 

[me227]

Might have been Joust on the Atari.

But I think I had played some games before that anyway. But thats the one I remember as being one of my earlier memories.

 

[Darryn]

Chuckie Egg on a BBC/Acorn type computer.

 

[DailyGeek]

The New Zealand Story on the Amiga 500. Got the batman pack and a commodore 1084 monitor for my sixth birthday - never looked back

 

[ShakenNstirred]

mine was that game with the 2 paddles on screen with the little dot as a ball
lol
think it was called pong?
on a real computer is was a F1 game on the spectrum

 

[Inquisitor]

Mario or Donky Kong on SNES I think.

 

[HangTime]

Some wall breaker game on the zx81.

Me too. Shame my dad chucked out the zx81 a few years back as it's probably worth a few quid now

First proper game would be one that came on the discs with the Amstrad CPC 6128 - something like Supertest (hello broken joystick), roland in time, doors of doom, hunchback2 or something like that.

 

[Doohickey]

Probably Rainbow Islands or Street Fighter on the Amiga 500+ I think

 

[Meridian]

Hack (predecessor to Nethack) on the company Sun Unix system in about 1981.


The DOS port of Nethack was the first game I ever installed on my first computer of my own. It's been on every computer since.


M

 

[Andelusion]

Seriously can't remember, it was some spectrum thing I think, where you controlled this little man with a boingy board and had to bounce your chum up into the air.

I must have been about 4.

Remember when it was a monumental occasion completing a game? You can do most new games in a few days now if you play on them solidly.

I remember tearing my hair out at virtually every single game on the Master System, and getting tendonitis at the same time

 

[nands]

Reading this thread it is good to know that some of you are as old, if not older, than me - for a time I thought everyone on this forum was about 21!

My first was caterpiller on the Dragon 32.

 

[Trick]

Not sure I can remember the 1st game I played at home, bt it must have been one of the games my dad had on the Atari 2600, so I guess something like Adventure

or Raiders of the Lost Ark:

or Pitfall 2

 

[Mundu]

Good ol 64. Only reason my dad bought it was because there was a closing down sale in an electrical store. I must have been 7 at the time. I could only play Robocop though because the tape deck was broken until I fixed it with celeotape and 007 all the way until my mum saw the celotape and was like OMG!!!111.

The I got some atari thing that has asteroids and some game where I could bomb U boats until my parents bought me a megadrive when the N64 and PSX just came out. Cheap or what.

 

[redline]

nice graphics...would benifit from a little AA though.

 

[Zefan]

Double Bubble or something. Rainbow Island, North and South, all these ring a bell. I was about 3-4 so I can't really remember.

 

[Killerkebab]

Tied between Wolfenstein 3D and Dune 2. It depends on which order I loaded them in, and I can't remember back to when I was 5/6.

Thank God my dad taught me some DOS.

 

[Street]

Pong would have been my first game, played on my parents old bright orange Binatone console thing. Had a choice of about 5 games on it, all pong based and came with two controllers with just simple knobs... Was great fun, still play it occasionly to this day when I visit my parents.

After that we got a BBCB Micro and I played loads of the old classics on that