Your First Video Game

[Erebus]

Either Street Fighter 2 or Killer Instinct.

I was very young but I remember my dad borrowed a Super Nintendo from one of my aunts. We only had it for a short time and I didn't get a console of my own until years later. I'm reasonably sure my first proper console was a Sega Saturn but my memory is hazy.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

What was the first non-arcade video game you played, and what system did you play it on?


Mine was tennis/hockey/handball on the Coleco Telstar.

Life on a TRS-80.

 

[Viker]

Demon Attack - Atari 2600, Christmas day 1982.

 

[Nyingjé Tso]

The first Castlevania, on NES o/

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The whole video game thing passed me by and I've never tried to catch up.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I think it was at a friend's house playing Ninja (c1986) on a home computer that used a television. It was probably an IBM PCjr. The game was on a cassette tape. It went into what looked exactly like a cassette tape player, but it worked as storage for the computer. The computer controlled the cassette player, much like a later model computer would control a disc drive. At the time I had no idea what a computer was. All I knew was that I wanted to get one.

I could not find a picture, but I think I found a youtube of the game:

https://youtu.be/kDZ2rKTTCII

 

[Father Heathen]

The whole video game thing passed me by and I've never tried to catch up.

Never have played a video game.

It's never too late.

 

[Father Heathen]

For me it was Duck Hunt followed immediately by Super Mario Bros.

 

[John53]

Pong

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

It's never too late.

That may well be the case for @InChrist, but it's not as if I've never attempted such things. On the contrary, I once spent a humiliating afternoon playing some crazed Super Mario game. She may never again look at me with a sense of wonder and respect.

 

[JustGeorge]

That may well be the case for @InChrist, but it's not as if I've never attempted such things. On the contrary, I once spent a humiliating afternoon playing some crazed Super Mario game. She may never again look at me with a sense of wonder and respect.

Reminds me of my dad trying to use the family computer when we first got it...

"You hit the letter, dad, and then it comes up on the screen."

He spent a very angry half hour trying, and then he didn't use a computer again until, decades later, he decided he wanted to re-marry and needed to use a dating site.

He still couldn't adjust. My sister helped him operate the computer. Once he found a woman he liked, he gave the computer to my sister. (He married the woman.)

 

[mangalavara]

What was the first non-arcade video game you played, and what system did you play it on?

It was either Mortal Kombat or Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. I played both of them quite a lot, especially the former, when I was a boy.

 

[Father Heathen]

It was either Mortal Kombat or Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. I played both of them quite a lot, especially the former, when I was a boy.

MK is quite extreme for one's first VG.

 

[mangalavara]

MK is quite extreme for one's first VG.

‘Quite extreme?’ Lol! When I saw the trailer for the latest version of MK, I was genuinely shocked.

Back then in the 90s, MK was my world. I had the first two video games, the soundtrack on cassette, the first two movies on VHS, a 3D cartoon movie on VHS, and the soundtrack for the first movie on cassette.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I don't know what it was called, bouncing a ball at a wall of bricks to break the bricks on a Sinclair zx spectrum

I wonder if that's called Breakout. I think that's what you mean, there's also a Breakout type game called Warlords, which was actually one of my all time favorites and still is.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm surprised Space Invaders wasn't mentioned yet. Lol.

 

[Father Heathen]

I wonder if that's called Breakout. I think that's what you mean, there's also a Breakout type game called Warlords, which was actually one of my all time favorites and still is.

Warlords is a blast with 4 players. The original party game.

 

[Father Heathen]

‘Quite extreme?’ Lol! When I saw the trailer for the latest version of MK, I was genuinely shocked.

Back then, blood and gore was not common and very controversial. By today's standards, it's quant.

Back then in the 90s, MK was my world. I had the first two video games, the soundtrack on cassette, the first two movies on VHS, a 3D cartoon movie on VHS, and the soundtrack for the first movie on cassette.

That album was cheesy, but a classic:

 

[exchemist]

What was the first non-arcade video game you played, and what system did you play it on?


Mine was tennis/hockey/handball on the Coleco Telstar.

The only video game I have played was Space Invaders, and that was in pubs in the 1970s, As I recall.

 

[McBell]

I wonder if that's called Breakout. I think that's what you mean, there's also a Breakout type game called Warlords, which was actually one of my all time favorites and still is.

the Atari 2600 (I only mention that one because it is the only one of the series I had) has a game called Breakout and a much better one called Super Breakout that like Warlords used the paddle controller