What is the absolutely first game you remember playing?

[nightingale]

Joust on the Atari 2600:

We also had ET... I remember trying to figure out how to play that turd of a game at 4 or 5 years old... what a nightmare.

[Godot]

Back when I had my Amiga, I would have given my right arm for one of these:

http://www.pcmuseum.ca/images/Amiga590-750.jpg

It's a 20MB hard disk.

Thad was my Amiga HDD from the beginning of the 90s on:

SCSI controller and whopping 200 MB (but also had cost me around 1500-2000 DM)

When I switched to my first PC a few years later I hadn´t even filled it to half

Edited July 19, 2015 by Godot

[Flymetothemun]

Unreal Tournament 1999. I was very young. Probably explains why I'm weird (But in a good, creative way).

Even to this day I still play it (You can pick it up on Steam for a $10). It also has what I consider to be one of the greatest video game maps of all time:

Edited July 19, 2015 by Flymetothemun

[Voidryder]

I can trump 5thHorseman: Pong on a black & white TV.

Hmmm, I might be able to trump you Vanamonde. Pong when it was table-top coin-operated arcade games and only available in bars.

[colmo]

It might have been a space invaders game on the BBC Micro, or one of a number of ZX Spectrum games - there was a fruit machine one, and a flying side-on level-based game called Helichopper, which had the all time greatest level name: "Soft Solid Tank Attack", featuring bouncing rubbery tanks.

[Overfloater]

Duck Hunt or Super Mario. (or a bunch of other NES games)

[segaprophet]

Probably not the first game I played, but I have faint memories of playing Double Dragon game watch :

[LABHOUSE]

One of those stick man games, I think it was the escape jail one.

[Dispatcher]

Hmmm, I might be able to trump you Vanamonde. Pong when it was table-top coin-operated arcade games and only available in bars.

Had the same thing, only it was in a pizza parlor.

[stibbons]

[jmiki8]

Sonic the Hedgehog on a Sega Megadrive (Genesis).

[[ Jeremy ]]

For as far back as I can remember, I always thought of Donkey Kong Country as my first game, I was only a measly three years old when I started I think, still play it whenever I see it too. Haven't finished it though

[Slam_Jones]

My Dad told me we had a Commodore 64 (I think that was the right one) when I was very young, but the first game I can actually remember is Legend of Zelda on the NES.

[moogoob]

Super Mario Bros. The original. At a sit-down arcade cabinet in a tiny independent burger place that shut down 25 years ago.

[NJP]

Grew up with my brother's copy of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Genesis. Never was a Nintendo guy, but I did eventually end up getting a Gameboy Advance

[Hagen von Tronje]

Hard to remember exactly which. It was an Atari 2600 game, and was probably either Pitfall, Haunted House, or Air-Sea Battle (though the cart I had was named Target Fun, the Sears variant). Maybe Night Driver but I don't think that was the first I went for.

[klesh]

Star Wars, the arcade one with the wireframe action. God I dumped lots of quarters into that thing years before I got my own Nintendo in '86. So its somewhere between '83 and '86, which means somewhere between 5 and 8 yrs old.

[Findthepin1]

Real Life.

8/10 good game. Excellent visual effects and physics processing, great render distance (13798000000 lightyears and counting). The game only begins to lag when a massive number of objects are present, or when something is moving at Ludicrous Speedâ„¢.

However, mods are difficult to install, there appears to be a speed limit, and I can't figure out how to access Creative Mode.

Edited July 24, 2015 by Findthepin1
i only edited it so that i could put this sentence in the reason box

[KSK]

Jet Set Willy on a borrowed ZX Spectrum.

[Broax]

The earliest one I can name was Pyjamarama. It must've been around 1989 I was four, maybe five years old... Sweet sweet memories!

[Red Iron Crown]

This:

On one of these:

Yes, I'm old.

[11of10]

Anyone remember that?

[Araym]

As said from someone:

my first videogame was PONG!

... from a child of the '70, I saw them ALL

(thanks for a GrandMother that owned a bar, so I could play for free from the very beginning of "videogames age" )

[Aanker]

Age of Empires, the first one.

[FishInferno]

My first game was probably something on LEGO.com in 2007-ish. 21st century kid here