Earliest game I can remember playing was Zaxxon for Coleco Vision. Great game, and I kicked ass at it.

Frogger on the Atari. Vague memories of it but that was certainly the first game.

Tetris/Game Boy (' 89 gameboy) combo.

The first home console I owned myself, as opposed to my parents was a Sony Playstation.

I had the Atari, MSX , NES , Amiga , Mega Drive , SNES in my childhood (more like my older brothers consoles lol) but i dont remember game names or years exactly since i didnt know how to read english at the time and didnt care about dates lol. I just chilled and played. Some of the games that i remember are an Adam' s Family game and a racing game that had a Jaguar XJ220 as its theme car with jaw dropping graphics and it even came on a whopping 2 floppy disks!

King' s Quest on the IBM PC jr. It was truly a great game, though as a kid I did not really fully appreciate it for what it was.

Two earliest games I remember playing were Duck Hunt for NES and Super Mario World for SNES, don' t remember which was first though.

After the 2600 me and my brother did most of our gaming on the Apple ][e for a while. My favorites were Bolo, the Bilestoad, the Infocom games, Tony Suzuki' s great shooter Star Blazer, SubLogic' s Flight Simulator 2.0, EA' s " Construction Set" games... later on Broderbund really pushed its capabilities with Karateka and Wings of Fury. Of course I was amazed by my friends' C64s too, but didn' t get to use them a whole lot.

My first 8-bit console game was probably The Ninja for the SMS.

I couldn' t remember the first game I played if my life and the life of my family (cats included) depended on it..

Something tells me that PONG was the first console game I played.. I remember plugging that ugly brown console to our ancient TV set with bad reception, switching over to Channel 3 and having a ball playing against myself, the CPU, and my siblings.

In terms of Arcade games, I don' t remember what my first quarter muncher was. But some of my earliest Arcade gaming memories are of Donkey Kong, BurgerTime, Kangaroo, Galaga, Galaxian, Zaxxon, Frogger, Q*Bert, Pac-man, Ms. Pac-man, and Jr. Pac-man.... I absolutely LOVED the original Donkey Kong and BurgerTime. I liked Kangaroo but sucked at it, I always struggled to get past the first level. I thought Galaga and Galaxian were OK but I much prefer scrolling shooters. I enjoyed Zaxxon but sucked at it. Liked Frogger but sucked at it. Liked Q*Bert and was mesmerized by the little fella, but sucked at the game. I was never a fan of the Pac-man family back then but played them all. When I got older I developed an appreciation for them..

I can' t forget the Laser Disc games like Dragon' s Lair and Cliff Hanger. Cliff Hanger has the distinction of having been the greatest game mystery to me up until 2 years ago.

I think the first console game to impress me as a little kid was Smurfs for the Coleco Vision. That game had awesome graphics back then! As a kid I marveled at the character designs and thought, " Wow, they look just like the Smurfs on TV, Coleco Vision can do WAY better graphics than the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision!!!" And thus a young Graphics-whore was born!

I had an Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and 7800, though, the latter 2 were pretty much used as door stops since they didn' t work. Had a Vectrex unit but don' t remember what the hell I had for that thing. Had a Coleco Vision and loved it. Had an Intellivision, loved that too. Also had the Magnavox Odyssey. Even though the Odyssey predates Pong and Atari' s other stuff, I didn' t get one until after I had the Atari systems, Coleco, Intellivision, etc.

I think the very first computer game I played was Karateka for the Apple II I believe. And because of my very limited exposure to PC gaming, it remains my favorite computer gaming experience.

Since I was born in 1990, I believe my first game was Super Mario World. However, we did have a Gameboy and a number of games for that.

Heyy, we were born in the same year.

SNES in my childhood (more like my older brothers consoles lol)

Haha yeah i know that feeling too.

I honestly don' t remember the first game i ever bought, but i remember when i was young, playing.. stupid fucking tennis games on SNES and playing Star Fox and.. the Lion King game >_> Not to mention the handfull of mario games we had.
The games that really got me into ' gaming' and ended up stopping me playing sport all together would probably have been Ocarina of Time, or PC games like Unreal Tournament.

I thought this was a " first game you bought" thread instead of a " first game you played" . It would be near impossible to remember the first game I played. Maybe Pac Man or something.

I thought this was a " first game you bought" thread instead of a " first game you played" . It would be near impossible to remember the first game I played. Maybe Pac Man or something.

LOL, My first game I bought was GTA Vice City for PS2.

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its going to be fun to see what people got as their first game.

Everybody, please review your prior messages and correct your f***ups.

Everybody, please review your prior messages and correct your f***ups.

No way! Did you see that lengthy novel my low reading comprehension a$$ typed up?? I' m not correcting $hitte!

Since I was born in 1990, I believe my first game was Super Mario World. However, we did have a Gameboy and a number of games for that.

Heyy, we were born in the same year.

I' m a year shy of y' all. We may just be the few products of the nineties here. I think Aba was younger than I am, but I haven' t seen him here, or on Xbox Live in ages.

The Moroccan piracy po-pos must' ve finally caught up with him.

Edit: First game I bought? Mario All-Stars for SNES. I saved for almost a year, every bit of change I found for that game.

Edit: First game I bought? Mario All-Stars for SNES. I saved for almost a year, every bit of change I found for that game.

I fucking loved that game! :D

Ah, my first taste of gaming proper was when I was 6, and I bagged myself a Master System with Sonic built in. Also got Ghostbusters and Lucky Dime Caper (such a great game), but I' d say Sonic MS was my first played game on a console I owned.

Then came the Amiga, and Lemmings took over my life. That and Captain Planet (bastard-hard game that is).

I can' t remember the first game I played. The first game I bought was the old platformer Gods back on DOS. I remember not being very good at it, and I don' t think I ever finished it.

The first game I remember playing was Crazy Golf on the Spectrum. It was rubbish, but iliked it at the time.

R-Type on the spectrum blew me away with it' s glorious colour!

Here it is

Quite impressive for a 20 year old game!

Since I was born in 1990, I believe my first game was Super Mario World. However, we did have a Gameboy and a number of games for that.

I was also born in ' 90.

ORIGINAL: Joe Redifer

I thought this was a " first game you bought" thread instead of a " first game you played" . It would be near impossible to remember the first game I played. Maybe Pac Man or something.

Ahh, first game I bought is easy. It was the NES version of Galaga. I used every bit of my 13th birhday money to buy it.

My Dad bitched at me for " wasting" my money. Then, he played so much I couldn' t even get any game time the first night. I had to get my mom to tell him to get out of my room so I could sleep that night.