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[SteveTR]

What video game introduced you to the world of gaming? It doesn't matter what console it was for. PC, NES, Genesis, anything goes.

I believe my first video game was Prince of Persia. I must have been about three or four years old at that point. I didn't really know how to play the game but I just enjoyed pressing the directional buttons and seeing the protagonist move.

 

[patapuf]

super mario land on the original Game Boy.

 

[Matt Attack]

I remember Duck Hunt very vaguely, so I'm pretty sure it was that.

 

[BertramCooper]

Link's Awakening.

Set a pretty high bar.

 

[kuroneko0509]

Chip's Challenge...

 

[Bernbaum]

Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion on the Master System.

It all started there.

 

[Thoraxes]

Burger Time for the Intellevision.

 

[Banzai]

Galaga, I think. Man, my dad was a beast at that game.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

The earliest I recall is OUTLAW on the Atari 2600.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Super Mario World.

I was four/five. My uncle got me the SMW/All-Stars SNES bundle.

 

[GrizzNKev]

Sonic the Hedgehog, dentist's waiting room as a babby boy

 

[Ranma]

Pong

 

[nkarafo]

Snoopy Tennis game & watch i think.

 

[GamerJM]

No idea, I think it was either Super Mario Bros., Super Mario World, or F-Zero. Though from what I can tell it was most likely F-Zero.

 

[HORRORSHØW]

some shit on the atari 2600.

 

[JSoup]

Ms. Pac-Man.
Specifically the cocktail table version.

 

[Sinfamy]

Probably an arcade of sorts.

 

[Holygriever]

Probably not my FIRST game, but the first one I REMEMBER, so it's moot: an old, battered arcade of Street Fighter II back in 1992.

 

[Shuggananas]

Probably super mario bros, apparently played it at age 3 according to my parents

The one I can remember though ? Uh probably something on megadrive, I can't remember well

 

[OddSockZA]

The earliest I have real recollection of was Centipede on the Atari 2600, though I also have vague memories of Munchman on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A.

Holy crap I'm old.

 

[lentini]

Some Pong clone in '82

 

[SteveTR]

For a lot of people, a platformer was their first game. I find that interesting.

I makes sense, though. Platformers are generally pretty easy to understand.

 

[Dog Problems]

The Oregon Trail on an Apple II at school. It was in first or second grade. Can't remember which.

 

[AsianOni]

Fantasia : Mickey Mouse Magic.

A 'lil bit difficult for the 3 years old of me.

 

[MegamanPoweredUP]

Can't remember th exact one, I played games very early in my life.
Maybe the very first was some arcade game since I loved them.
The first game I have memory for is Super Mario Bros 3.

 

[electric turd]

Beachhead on the commodore 64 circa 1983
C64 Longplay - Beach Head (HQ): https://youtu.be/OBTud6ujDDw

 

[Bulbasaur]

Super Mario Bros. I remember moving the controller in the direction I wanted Mario to move in. Aahh youth.

 

[Putty]

Horace Goes Skiing.

 

[NeoGiff]

Super Mario Bros. for the NES.

As great a starting point as any.

 

[potam]

Either Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, or RBI Baseball. My parents have a pic of me when I was 3 or 4 playing Mario naked. Was getting ready for a bath and ran downstairs to get in a couple of minutes.

 

[Theorry]

Pong offcourse.

 

[WITHE1982]

Aged 3 when my dad introduced me to this work of art.

Horrace Goes Skiing.

My man!

 

[Ethelwulf]

First game I played? Alley Cat at my uncle's computer. First game I owned? Super Mario World.

 

[Gries]

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose for the SNES is the first one I can remember actually playing. That was back in 1994 or so, when I was 3 years old.

 

[Putty]

Aged 3 when my dad introduced me to this work of art.



My man!

8)

 

[EdLin]

Pong at a neighbor's house, then arcade games. I think Space Invaders was the first one of those I played, not sure, because I played them so much at the time. Also played an Atari VCS (2600) and Mattel Intelevision.in the early days. I've been around for all console generations and all generations of computer games from 8-bit onwards. (Though I admit I didn't play ping-pong using the front panel lights of an Altair, or games on a mainframe. Though Zork was a mainframe game port to my Apple II.)

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

The first I can recall was Doom at a family friend's house. They had children who were in their teens and I was like 6-7 or thereabouts (estimated). I didn't understand much of it but thought it was cool. Wasn't until a couple years later I was gaming on N64 at friends places and playing shareware games on the PC my parents got.

 

[Kresnik258]

Jumping Flash!, PS1.

 

[mercenar1e]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

 

[Artemis-Thoth]

Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe...my entire family died of dysentery, yet I drudged on and became the man I am today.

 

[Sgblues]

It was Sega's 1985 My Hero, it was also my first arcade game played as well.

 

[SliceSabre]

Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt on the NES. Mom got it for me when I was like 4.

 

[EdLin]

The scary thing is that I bet there are people of voting-age who've only played Xbox 360 and PS3 era games as their earliest. Really anyone who hasn't at least seen the ugly polygons of the original Playstation era, much less played Mario in 8 bit glory, shouldn't be given legal majority.

 

[DiscoJer]

Skeet

I had an early pong machine (mid 70s) and it had a light gun with a skeet shooting game. I think it was a Telstar Marksman

 

[bluexy]

I remember three games that my mother played on DOS and which I mashed the keyboard of thinking I was playing a few times. Leisure Suit Larry and Aldo's Adventure were two of them, but before that there was a baseball game which I think was named The Slugger.

Then in 1988 they bought the NES Action Pack with Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, because I begged and begged for it. They probably regret that nowadays.

 

[roytheone]

 

[10101]

Mine was Punchy on the Commodore 16. I was 5 at the time when my Dad came home with the machine, we ended up having to take it back to the shop 3 times for various faults preventing it from even switching on (they had awesome quality control lol).

He kept babbling on about how computers were the future of the world and I was completely non interested until he loaded up Punchy. That was it for me, every morning I would wake up and load that bad boy up quickly before my parents got up as my Mum was fascinated with some Spirograph type program and would kick me off it! I never understood her fascination with typing reams of code to make something she could do with my Spirograph in a few seconds, but then she was probably equally bemused by my love of Punchy.

Never looked back from there been a complete game nut ever since

 

[protomouse]

Super Mario Bros. 3. What a game.

 

[Gravy Boat]

The first console I owned was a Sega Megadrive, but I remember playing some games in school when I was about 4 that came on a floppy disk, though I've no idea what they were called.

EDIT: OH MY GOD I FOUND IT

Granny's Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGXixy3QIV0

 

[Spades]

Can't remember exactly which one, but it was from this pack:

Commodore 64 Light Fantastic bundle.