x-wing vs tie fighter.

Good old Pokemon Yellow

I think it was Lost Vikings on an old DOS laptop.

Lunatic Fringe, it was a screensaver so to play it you had to wait for your computer to go to sleep, and if you moved the mouse the game would end.

Mario Kart on N64

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and I played a couple levels as recently as a few weeks ago.

Backyard Football and Baseball for PC. I'm pretty sure there were some earlier puzzle games but those two had me loving sports and stats for years.

Scarab of Ra

I think it might have been Falcon 3.0?

I think it was Adventure on the Atari Flashback 2

Jet Set Willy on the Amstrad CPC6128

Math Munchers on one of the old school Mac desktops.

Boulderdash 2 and Kickstart 2 on the Commodore 64.

The home version of pong when I was 4 years old.

My friend's dad owned a small local cable station so he had access and money to get all the latest crap.

I remember he also had a brand new beta max, and I was just this innocent 4 or 5 year old kid and I was asking why the time was flashing and the adults didn't know. So I just walked up and programmed it. They praised me as being a literal genius and I was like you idiots It's just a fucking clock.

It was either the dungeon crawl game "Eye of the Beholder" or a Japanese translated strategy game “Romance of the Three Kingdoms III” on a floppy, around 1991-1993 I think.

Microsoft Adventure

Mostly flash games on some websites. However, the main one I remember was Colin McRae Rally 2.0. Getting a cheap controller with force feedback was amazing.

I doubt it was the literal first game I played, but Ghouls n' Ghosts for the sega genesis was my favorite as a kid, with sonic 2 as a VERY close second

Probably The Ultra on an Oric-1.

Probably something on the Amstrad CPC computer, and I couldn't tell which game specifically.

I had the Donkey Kong arcade port on it, ironically better than the NES one because it had the full 4 levels instead of just 3.

Other game of note was Jet Set Willy. Despite the simplistic style that game was creepy as hell to me. The intro music was a pretty good 8-bit rendition of the Moonlight Sonata. Not sure how much of this is due to the game, but that music still kind of gives me the creeps.

Then on that computers I had lots of forgettable games, often in compilations. And a few bad ports (Salamander a.k.a Life Force), okay ones (Contra) and a very late addition of Lemmings, probably the best game I had on it yet not the best version of the game by far.

I got a NES as a secondary gaming platform at some point. Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 were not the first games I played, but after playing so many crappy platform games on the CPC they definitely had a huge impact on what I still consider good game design now.

Mazogs on my godparents ZX81. The game was basically navigating a maze and occasionally fighting spiders. Which was a luck based thing where you just ran into them and waited for the result. Not very exciting but novel at the time.

But it probably wasn't the very first game. I grew up in a tiny coastal tourist town that had four arcades. So it's more likely the earliest games I played were in them but I don't have a defined 'first' memory. They were fairly ubiquitous arcade games so: Space invaders; Donkey Kong; Pac-man; Asteroids; Frogger; Pole position; Paper boy; Lunar lander, etc.

I think the first game that I ever got addicted to (partly because I had the pocket money to sustain the addiction) was Ghosts and Goblins. Been chasing that buzz ever since lol.

Man I don't remember I was like 1. Probably kidpix or something like that lol. Some of my earliest memories are watching my dad play Doom though

All of the games in the 42 in 1 cartridge for the Nintendo Famicom.

Fond memories i have of Golden Axe and Warcraft 2. They werent my first games. But ones i played alot. My Dad had an Amiga and the only game i can remember by name is Golden Axe :) maybe Gianna Sisters too

The first game I played was somewhere between those Disney Storybook Games on PC, and the Tonka games. And sitting on my Dad's lap playing Police Quest and Wolfenstein 3D Shareware. Eventually we got a PS1 with non-point and click games with Spyro the Dragon and I think Crash Bash and CRT. Can't remember which one we played first.

Hard to say, but possibly Spectron for the Spectravideo SV-328. The first game I remember really having an impact was Super Mario Bros. Played it at my friend's house and afterwards I begged my parents for a NES. That was a happy Christmas.

Either btd5 on pc or Block dude on a ti calculator

Rocky's Boots on Apple II. It was an educational logic game using logic gates to complete puzzles.

I can't remember which came first, my mom got some games for her Commodore 64, or my dad getting a used Intellivision from one of his buddies at work.

It was either Pitfall or Frog Bog depending on which came first.

croc for ps1; first game and system I owned - this was when ps2 just came out time wise - had to sneak buy the ps1 and hide from rents

Mario kart on the Wii. still load it up on occasions to play with friends

The very first game I remember was Alex Kidd on Master System II, my mother was always playing it!

The very first I played was probably NFS 3 on PC with my father. I remember playing it during the 1999 Athens earthquake aftershocks and getting scared

Either Combat or Pitfall on Atari 2600.

Blew my toddler mind. Which happened again the following year when Santa delivered an NES for Christmas with Super Mario & Duck Hunt.

River Raid for the Atari 2600

My first gaming experience was when I was stuck in the hospital for days due to surgery on my feet when I was super young. My mom's friend let me borrow her kid's NES and, as I couldn't get out of bed, I did nothing but play River City Random, Super Mario Brothers, and one other game I no longer remember.

I don't really remember. Maybe Kirby on my aunts Gameboy?

Edit: Should read the whole post instead of just the title. So it'd probably be Bomber Jack. It was on a Gameboy cartridge with other games my dad got me when I was in the hospital as a kid (don't remember what for).

super mario bros on one of those NES bootlegs that have "16000" games while in reality it's more like 50 60 pirated games repeated across the whole list. remember i couldn't finish the second level really couldn't time the moving platform jump over the hole. it was fun.

Probably "ports of call" on PC. Still haven't found an actual modern version of it. There were some half assed attempts in recent years, all with such huge flaws that they still haven't managed to be considered "playable".

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First i remember playing was Pitfall Mayan Adventure on pc, through an emulator. First I finished, Dark Souls Remastered, last year

Sheesh. That's a tough one. My memory is trash from TBIs... Maybe pong, or space invaders? I think it would be something that was in an arcade. Our first console was the NES with SMB, but we definitely played in arcades before that.

VS. Super Mario Bros, aka the arcade version of NES Super Mario Bros