Your First Videogames

[Dark Junior]

What were your first childhood videogames? I'm going to sort some of mine below by genre.

First shooter game: Star Fox 64

First FPS:Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

First racing game: F-Zero X

First turn-based strategy game: Heroes of Might and Magic 3

[LN400]

First game I ever bought from the store: Impossible Mission

First flight sim, 2d hand: Dam Busters

Both for the Commodore 64.

First for the Amiga 500: Innocent Until Caught.

First PC game: Hind/Apache combo pack.

[Shpaget]

Most likely not the first one I played (that would probably be some type of Pong), but one of the first games I clearly remember playing and having a great time was Ugh!. It's still a great game.

[kerbiloid]

1. Lunar landing with an engineer calculator and formulas in head. The same with Lunar ascent.
 

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2. Handball Practice Wall with a rubber ball and malfunctional D3-28 as wall.

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3. Lunar landing, Kingdom and Kalah on ES-1045 (clone of IBM System/370) 

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4. Lunar landing, Atmosphere, etc on MK-61, MK-52, MK-85

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5. ZX Spectrum. One of the first and the best - Elite.

Edited December 20, 2016 by kerbiloid

[Gianni1122]

Born in 1990

1) NES & SNES: Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, The Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Adventure, TMNT & Mario sequels

2) Game Boy: Wario Blast featuring Bomberman

3) N64: Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, MarioKart 64, Donkey Kong 64, Star Fox 64 & Army Men: Sarges Heroes

4) PS2: Metal Gear Solid 2, GTA III & Max Payne

5) My very first PC games were Unturned then Kerbal Space Program. I started gaming on PC because of KSP

[p1t1o]

3 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

<Mr.Snips>

Those calculators are straight-up dope!

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I think my *first* video game experience was with "Granny's Garden" on a "BBC"? Thats a type of early computer right?

Other early game experiences were:

Dune II

Frontier: Elite II

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Flanker 1.5

Some random sharewares on an IBM 286 running "Conductr" OS with a greyscale monitor.

 

Then a little later (once we had our own computer):

Quake

Archimedian Dynasty (this one really cemented things, I have real nostalgia for this game)

Total Annihilation

Super EF2000 + F22 ADF

[MaxxQ]

Arcade - Pong

Console - Either Asteroids or Missile Command on the Atari

PC - Descent: Freespace - The Great War.  I still play it every so often.  Even still use the original CDs that the game was released on.  The FS2 engine is open source now and lots of updates have been created over the years for it, as well as mods for updating the graphics, player-made campaigns, etc.

[The Raging Sandwich]

Though not the first I've ever had, but the first I've ever played is Pokemon Ruby.

[adsii1970]

Arcade: Centepede

Console: Asteroids

PC (TRS-80): Green block pong

Hand-held game: Baseball (yeah, the old school red winking lights...)

Edited December 20, 2016 by adsii1970

[Dartguy]

6 hours ago, LN400 said:

First game I ever bought from the store: Impossible Mission

First flight sim, 2d hand: Dam Busters

Both for the Commodore 64.

First for the Amiga 500: Innocent Until Caught.

First PC game: Hind/Apache combo pack.

When I saw the OP's first shooter, Impossible Mission came to mind (although not a shooter).  I can't believe you mentioned it.  It was great!  I can still remember trying to jump-flip over those robots!

I had a Commodore Vic-20, games on a cassette tape drive.  I can't really remember what they were.

Commodore 64, I loved playing Summer Games and Test Drive.

 

Man, that was a long time ago.

[sal_vager]

Probably the first I ever played       was this, I didn't have games of my own till much later.

[Robotengineer]

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Saga

 

[katateochi]

Lunar lander on windows 3.1. I see now that it was all just training for Mun landings.

[Slam_Jones]

I played video games since before I can remember, but of those I do remember, it's something like this (unless specified, these are the original versions of these games):

(For reference, I was born in 1989)

First FPS: Doom
First RTS: Age of Empires
First ARPG: Diablo
First NES Game: Either Legend of Zelda or California Games.  (I don't remember which we had first, since I was about 4 years old at the time, but I have lots of memories from both games).
First Handheld Device: Sega GameGear (yeah, the kind that used 6, yes 6 AA batteries)
First Game on Handheld: I think I had a few games: Lion King, Road Rash, and Ecco.
 

My parents also told me that we used to have an Atari 2600 (or was it a Commodore 64?) which I may have used maybe once, but I honestly don't remember it.

Also, anyone remember this game?

Edited December 21, 2016 by Slam_Jones

[Shpaget]

1 hour ago, Slam_Jones said:

Also, anyone remember this game?

I used to play that on my mom's computer at work.

A couple of decades later, I still haven't figured out how to not get eaten.

[Spaceception]

Guitar hero 2 (That was a fun one)

LEGO Indiana Jones

Wii sports

LEGO Star Wars 1-6

And a lot of demos from the Xbox 360 and Wii.

Then they broke, and I reach KSP

[GDJ]

Well, let me put it this way:

This was one of my first.

[worir4]

Star Wars Pod Racer on the Game Cube. It was awesome. I wish i had a tv that still had the connector for it. 

[Spacetraindriver]

The first I can remember was...R[CLASSIFIED]. But I didn't love it as much as Trainz Simulator 2006. Yes. That counts right?

[Green Baron]

LoadLoderunner on the Apple ][. But I wasn't a child any more ... oh and Ultima. No damn 2,3,4, ....

 

Edited December 21, 2016 by Green Baron

[regex]

I think... Zork, at the base rec center on some Apple II? Followed shortly after by random Atari and Coleco games played at friends' houses. I bought an NES with money I saved from mowing lawns (took a good couple of months) which came with Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. When I bought my first 386 I played Syndicate, Ultima 7 Part 2, and SWOTL.

E: Ah, I see the format.

First FPS: Wolfenstein 3D
First RTS: Dune 2
First "Flight Sim": SWOTL
First 4X: Master of Orion
First RPG: Might and Magic 3 or Ultima 7, can't remember.
First Platformer: Super Mario Bros.
First Video Game: Zork

Edited December 20, 2016 by regex

[HoloYolo]

Mario Cart on the Wii was the first video game I've ever played, all the way back in 2006. Yes, I'm not 50 billion years old like the rest of the forum (and no I'm not saying everyone is 50 billion years old it's an exaggeration).

[Bill Phil]

Can't quite recall... Maybe Doom or Wolf3D.

[HazelPine]

One of the first games I played was Worms 2 on my dad's old computer, running windows XP (I think). The first game I really played and got to call my own was when I got a Wii and played NFS undercover. It's a great game.

[razark]

Either ASTEROID or MOUSETRAP on the ZX-81.  The cassette also has STARS and CHASE listed on it, but I don't remember either one of those.