Fezmid Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Wrote a short article and tied it to a gaming thread on Neowin. A nice trip down memory lane. Article: http://www.neogamr.net/news/videogame-virgin-what-was-your-first-game Forum post: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1108441-video-game-virgin-whats-the-first-game-you-remember-playing/
/dev/null Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 I don't remember which game it was. But it was on Atari 2600. Maybe Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, or Breakout
Just Jack Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 What came with the Atari 2600? I remember playing Asteriods but I don't think that was included.
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Pong. I actually owned an upgraded pong device that allowed 1-player, 2-player, and also had a "race" game.
DJasper Probincrux III Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Combat on my neighbor's Atari 2600.
Chef Jim Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 What a bunch of old farts we have. Oh and mine was pong. And I'm so old I used to get stoned before I played.
apuszczalowski Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 What a bunch of old farts we have. Oh and mine was pong. And I'm so old I used to get stoned before I played. ............it was on an Atari that you purchased for your grandchildren............ Mine was Frogger on an Atari 2600
kegtapr Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Can't remember the game, but it was on a Magnavox Odyssey
Britbillsfan Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Pong. Jeez, it came out in 1972???? Must have played it a couple of years later, I guess.
TheMadCap Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Some mystery/crime game in 5th grade, at the school library on an Apple IIe...
ajzepp Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Can't remember the game, but it was on a Magnavox Odyssey My first memory is of something called "Odyssey", too...not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about, but this one had these plastic-like films that went over the tv that had images on them. Like one was a haunted house and the lights on the screen would correspond with rooms in the house. I dont remember how it all went, but that's my earliest memory. My most vivid early memory was going home with an Atari 2600 in hand with the game space invaders. I played that for hours and hours...freaked out the first time I flipped it. I suck at video games now, but I was a monster on that 2600.
UConn James Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 (edited) It was on a Commodore 64. I don't remember the name of the game, but I've been looking for it for awhile. It was a space shooter game that's an overhead scene. You're a small fighter and on each level, you fly onto a large ship and you have to destroy targets. Otherwise there was Pacman, Wolfenstein, and Galaga. All of which I've actually got now on the iPad3.... These are still the only real computer games that I can manage. Played Zelda: A Link to the Past a lot during summer vacations in WNY with a cousin as a teen, and after that cold turkey and then games got so complex I can hardly play. My nephew had all the consoles and had a dirt bike racing game and It was all I could do to get it around the track in a quarter of the time as he did. Every time he passed me he'd say, "Lapped ya, Uncle James!" I'm not as old as some of you on here who fart dust, but I feel it some days. Edited September 27, 2012 by UConn James
DC Tom Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Custer's Revenge. (Seriously...it was either Pong or Ultima...can't remember which.)
Drifter Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Like most here Pong was my first game. I ended up with Intelivision instead of Atari. Better graphics but it didn't have asteroids. My father worked at IBM so we were lucky enough to have to PC's in the house, back when a PC cost as much as a used car.
Just Jack Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 Custer's Revenge. I remember hearing about that game.
GOBILLS78 Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 "Excitebike," I do believe. Also could have been "Castlevania" or, of course, "Super Mario Bros."
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