What was your first video game?

[CastlevaniaNut18]

For me, it was Super Mario Bros 3. I got it with my NES in 1990, I believe. I remember I could never beat the 4th level and I've hated sky levels ever since!

[Setharion]

Awesome thread! Pitfall was my first, it was bout 1982 when my love for gaming started. I played pitfall to death.

[mrdelltoid]

My first game ever was the Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt game cart for the NES. I remember I used to miss on purpose in Duck Hunt just so the dog would come up and laugh at me, I loved that little guy.

[BingJohnson]

Pitfall Harry on the Atari 2600! Shortly after that, Berserker.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Wow, I feel so young here.

I think I was 3 when I got SMB3. No wonder I sucked so hard at it!

[BingJohnson]

SMB3 gave me my first gaming related headache. I played it for like 8 hours straight. My head hurt so bad that I couldn't sleep that night.

[Phoenix S117]

The first game I really remember playing is Dig Dug on the Atari. I was better at it then than I am now. ;D

[LionFranco]

If you are talking about games you own, then that would have to be Pac man and that multiplayer tank/flying game that came with it on the Atari 2600.

If you are talking about the first game i ever played, that was the arcade Pac-man, although i had to stand on a milk crate to see the screen. I think i was 4.

[ManillaRoad]

As far as games we (my brother and I) owned, Wizard of Wor or possibly International Soccer depending on which we put in the C64 first.

No idea what games I might have played before that point.

[Tomtin]

Definitely was the original super mario bros that came with my nes. I remember I got it on easter. I had no idea what it was...and I guess my life was never the same after that day lol.

Fast fwd years later, I remember my local video store had super mario 3 months before the actual release but it was in japanese. I didn't care that all the mushroom shops were speaking japanese in the game. I rented it as much as I could and beat it before it was ever released in the US.

[BobbyB]

Apr 22, 2011 20:44:06 GMT -5 @mrdelltoid said:

My first game ever was the Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt game cart for the NES. I remember I used to miss on purpose in Duck Hunt just so the dog would come up and laugh at me, I loved that little guy.

This

[Kinikko]

I had a C64 but I was so young I can't really remember what games I had for it. I think there was a Sesame Street game I played? I don't remember what it was now. It was a computer and I played a sesame street game xD

Anywho, the first game I remember was Duck Hunt / SMB for the NES. I ended up being scared of the dog for some reason.

[Keadil]

For me, I believe it was Space Jockey on the Atari 2600.

[xpert74]

I honestly have no idea what my first video game was. My family has had video games of all kinds in the household since before I was born, and out of them, I have no idea what the first one I played was. It's just always been part of my life. Some early ones I remember playing include Super Mario Bros. 1-3, Tetris, Frogger, Montezuma's Revenge, some old shooting-gallery computer game, Mega Man 2, Metroid, Zelda 1 & 2, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., the computer port of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, and a bunch of others.

[Sondiame]

Mortal Kombat... Now look at me.

Crazy i say that after i kill every bug.

[Freneticburn]

I don't even remember. The earliest times I can remember playing games was combat on the 2600. I never really got games outside of the pack ins and had to borrow them from cousins and friends or rent them. I do remember Dragon Warrior was one of the first games I personally owned and was a gift from my dad.

[Manny-Calavera]

I don't remember the first game i played, just the 1st i owned. And it was Alex Kidd in Miracle World. It was built into my Master System, which was also my first console.

[NeoFoxTrot]

I was so upset when my parents sold the Atari and all the games in a garage sale.

[Laxdragon]

This was the first home console game I remember playing on an old 9" B&W TV.

[Setharion]

Good stuff Laxdragon, and welcome aboard!

[BuckFly]

Space Invaders in the early 80s with my TRS 80 computer.

For you youngins: back then we would save our work...on cassette tapes.

[StarSlicer]

My first game was actually Ninja Gaiden 2. (However I have an explict memory of it being Shadow Dancer.) I was only two years old and apparently, I actually beat a boss and a stage all by myself that my uncle couldn't even beat.

I think that was the first calling to the games.

[teylix]

First game I can remember is Pong on atari. I was like 4 yrs old.

Then I remember Q-bert.

First game I actually beat though was original Mario Bros. Good times...

[Mudhippie]

I remember playing Atari games as a kid but don't ask me what all I played. The first console my parents bought us was the NES so I can vividly remember playing SMB and Duck Hunt all the time. I know I played older games but that cart is the first owned.

[potterscrow]

I don't remember my first game but I do remember playing all those games like Pac Man, Q Bert, Pitfall, Mouse Trap, Keystone Kapers, and a ton of others. We had a Gemini, Coleco, and Atari at some point or another. The first system I played like crazy though was the NES and Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. I remember the dog laughing and I remember always putting the gun right up to the TV. I also remember having the ROB thing that came with the NES. Does anyone remember that thing?