What was the first video game you ever played?

Commander Keen.

This one was my favorite, the 6th out of the "series":

Easy, Friday the 13th on the NES. It was scary shit too.

Jason would pop up randomly and fight you. Scared me every time. And if i remember right, the music was pretty creepy too. I played this before the Mario games or Duck Hunt.

Wow, I love the graphics. Must find that to play online.

"Break-Out" on the Telstar (ours was shaped like a triangle--one side had a steering wheel, one had a six-shooter, one had paddles).

I still love this damn game.

actually, I can't remember if it was that or this.

Aladdin was awesome and so was the Lion King game.

Duck Hunt

First video game system we ever had was a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis so my first games were Altered Beast, and also Hang On and Columns

Thanks guys, keep them coming.

Also love Aladdin - although it seems harder playing it hand-held (GameBoy Advance) than when I used to play it on the SNES

Kit - is this just a poor man's Tetris?

Ohhh!! I remember that it was the tertis 55+ or megaman

yeah it was totally a poor man's Tetris! Altered Beast was awesome though.

Also I used to play Jill of the Jungle a lot on the PC

I used to like Karateka on the PC

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Mario, Duck Hunt, and this track and field game on a single NES cartridge. My brother had the track that you run on. And of course the gun for duck hunt. No video games ever seemed as fun as NES did back in kindergarten and first grade.

Now that I think of it, this on an Apple II GS was probably the first video game I played, but at the time I didn't consider computer games to be video games.

I remember playing the Rescue Rangers game on the NES when I was really young! I think that was my first game. About the same time my cousins and I had a Mega Drive at my bampi's house and we had Mickey's Castle of Illusion which iI remember as one of the best games ever!

Edit: I remember something else! It was a Japanese import, we had a converter cartridge that went in first then the game went in to the top of that. So all the dialogue was in Japanese.

ch-ch-ch-chip and dale

Pong :

Not exactly this one, but pretty close :

This:

You have to get the man to spray all the caterpillars to protect the plants. I think my granparents gave it to me when I was very young, 3 or 4, or even younger. It's copyright is 1983.

My friend had an atari. We would play football (which had this ridiculous controller with a million buttons) and this scuba diver game.

After that, it was nintendo. And of course Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3.

on an Intellivision

And this,

which had no graphics

on this

Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. I was two years old.

It was a single cartridge that came with the NES that my brother got for Christmas when he was 5.

Loving those Game & Watch images. Played on those for a billion hours.

I think this might have been my first though:

Either that or one of my BBC Micro games, such as Dare Devil Dennis:

The noise of loading those games! Off a cassette no less!

EEEEEEEHHHH.....OOOOOAAAAAAGHHHHHH.....EEEEEEEEEEEE.....OOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA....EEEEEEEEEEE......OOOOAAAAAAAA....EEEEEEEEE

...for about three hours. And then it fails to load.

I loved it.

I had one of these

Then we got a Sega Genesis

and I would play this

i still play pong but that could do more with my lak of hand eye cordnation than any thing else.

Flight Simulator 2, on the Commodore 64.

(my dad is a huuuuuge flight sim guy)

We had BBC Computers at my primary school. There was an educational game I used to get to play once a week called Granny's Garden. The graphics were terrible... still LOVED it though.

Mother Goose, how I love thee!

Pong was awesome.

There was an educational game i used to play in the 5th grade. It was a math game and kind of an RPG. You'd walk around and talk to people and you couldn't get gold or advance until you answered a math question. There's this one bridge with a troll on it and his questions were the hardest questions so nobody could get past him. But sometimes there'd be a glitch and he wouldn't be at the bridge so i'd sneak past go to the more advanced part of the game. I've searched for it a few times but i can never find it. I remember there was a stable boy and his questions were the easiest so that's where you'd go to get a bunch of gold.

So I guess I have to change my answer to this.

there was an educational game we played at school, I was maybe 8 or 9, where you were in a submarine and you had to use coordinates and things to find a Kraken and take a photo of it.

Our first PC game, Lakers vs Celtics :

How about Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

You could actually choose between 12 teams. I used to kick ass with the Pistons.

Well, back then the Pistons were amazing! That was the Bad Boy era.

Combat. It came with our Atari 2600. Also, I was like some sort of autistic savant with Maze Mania. Never went down the wrong path or into a dead end. No one could ever beat me!

Not in the 80's but for a birthday, I was given one of these.

To play this...

and this with.

And a few years later, one of these.

To play this with.

Which apparently looked like this.

I like this thread.

Super Mario bros./duck hunt/ track meet was the first console game. The first computer game was that green on black turtle game where you made shapes on MS DOS.

Looking at the answers in here I'm wondering how many were actually from the 80s.

My favorite video game memory is when a buddy of mine was the first to get a NES. And we had set up a sleep over with my brother and I at his house. It just so happened to be on the same day as Wrestlemania 2 and his dad had a bunch of friends over, so we all got to see that and then ended up playing Super Mario and Baseball till the sun came up!

River Raid

Godzilla: Monster of Monsters

Oh, that game was great. I remember my cousin had it.

And I paid a quarter for the pleasure. This was 70's however.

First home game we owned (slightly later) was the home version of the same thing. Akin to this:

We never really got that into it though.

We did eventually get an Atari in '80. One of the 6 switch ones with the wood-grain. I played a lot of the Tank Wars game that came with it, then Asteroids and Space Invaders. Missile Command, too, I think. We, my brother and I, were responsible for buying games with our own money. Not getting any kind of allowance, we never ended up buying a lot of them.

I didn't play any (home) video games at all after '81.

Ohhh.The good old 80's.I miss those years and games.

I can't remember the name of it, but it would have been something on the commodore 64, or spectrum zx. Now I'm showing my age!