What was the first game you ever played?

Highway_UK · 7 Oct 2020 at 19:38

I had one of those too, thought it was better than the Atari 2600

C64 · 8 Oct 2020 at 00:08

that tank game on a mates atari

Jim_76 · 8 Oct 2020 at 00:20

I remember playing pong on a Binatone, paperboy on a BBC, Arkanoid on a Sinclair Spectrum..... And of course space invaders on a table top.

Pickirk · 17 Nov 2020 at 18:41

Mine was Gorf in an arcade

Mint8 · 25 Nov 2020 at 13:28

Rainbow Islands on the Amiga. (came in the box with the hardware)

No i lie - it was actually Turrican - got stuck literally on the first screen where I kept missing the jump, over the waterfall. Luckily my other half (now wife) can in and did it first time - otherwise my gaming hobby might have ended there...meanwhile 30 years later i'm still gaming

mrbios · 26 Nov 2020 at 11:33

Knightlore was my first ever memory of gaming. Not long after that it would be double dragon 2 on the NES, or Nicky Boom on the Amiga 500.

Never actually seen anyone get past that level at 15:30 of double dragon 2 so that's a fun video

Sweey · 3 Dec 2020 at 11:22

My earliest gaming memories....

andrewr2019 · 15 Dec 2020 at 20:25

If I remember rightly it was Bart vs the Space Mutants. Came with my Amiga 500 back in the day along with Lemmings.

Duke · 16 Dec 2020 at 14:55

andrewr2019 said:
If I remember rightly it was Bart vs the Space Mutants.

Such a difficult game that, I can only remember completing the first level a handful of times! It wasn't until I saw some videos on Youtube all these years later that we saw so little of the game as it was so hard!

bainbridge · 18 Dec 2020 at 17:16

Manic miner on spectrum

IICIIEII · 3 Jan 2021 at 02:56

The very very first game... probably Dustin in an Amstrad CPC464 that belonged to an older friend of mine. Either that or an ancient shoot them up that a cousin had in his MSX 1. This is not counting the handhelds, because I had a few when I was very little. Then ny first computer was an Amstrad CPC 6128 and in that one the first game was L.E.D Storm

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Darey · 3 Jan 2021 at 19:47

Remember a pong game which having Googled was an Ingersoll unit and then PacMan on the Atari 2600, have fond memories of the Atari games, can remember a few I used to enjoy, Frostbite, Pressure Cooker, Keystone Kapers.

iamwilf · 14 Jan 2021 at 10:25

Smurfs on Atari 2600

robinbanks · 14 Jan 2021 at 12:22

I think mine was chips challenge on my parents pc.

NathG79 · 14 Jan 2021 at 12:26

Raid over Moscow. C64

Jay85 · 14 Jan 2021 at 13:13

Leisure suit larry on C64 haha

SexyGreyFox · 14 Jan 2021 at 13:26

Pong was the first.
I bought an Atari 2600 with around 4 games with one of them being Space Invaders (or their version).

Junglist · 14 Jan 2021 at 15:18

Can't remember for sure but I think it was Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise on MS DOS

SexyGreyFox · 14 Jan 2021 at 15:34

Junglist said:
Can't remember for sure but I think it was Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise on MS DOS

That's just reminded me of one of the first games I played on a PC and it was a kids game called Putt Putt in 1992.
I'm really crap at games but wanted to get through it so I could sit and play it with the kids the youngest being 3.
I came to a cow in the road and I tried everything to get past it for 30 minutes before I finally gave up.
I told my youngest that Daddy couldn't get any further so she climbed on my chair, looked at the scene, got the mouse and clicked on Putt Putt's horn (ooh err).
The cow moved.

Junglist · 14 Jan 2021 at 15:39

SexyGreyFox said:
That's just reminded me of one of the first games I played on a PC and it was a kids game called Putt Putt in 1992.
I'm really crap at games but wanted to get through it so I could sit and play it with the kids the youngest being 3.
I came to a cow in the road and I tried everything to get past it for 30 minutes before I finally gave up.
I told my youngest that Daddy couldn't get any further so she climbed on my chair, looked at the scene, got the mouse and clicked on Putt Putt's horn (ooh err).
The cow moved.

Ha! I used to love the Putt Putt games as a kid, had a few of them. I think it's games like that which paved the way for me to like games like Day of The Tentacle, Monkey Island, Full Throttle etc

Simpler times