What was the first video game you played?

If my mind isn't playing tricks, I do believe it was Pac-Man!

pong

Pong for me, too. I thought it was fantastic!

Pong for me too. I think the first machine I ever used had a switch on the side labeled "Pong/Tennis". The only differnce between the two was Pong had a grey background and Tennis was green. My how things have changed since the early 1970s... lol

eeyep, pong

Then it was Asteroids. That really hooked me!

Pong then asteroids. Is this a parallel universe or what?

Pong, then basketball (Atari 400, or whatever it started at), then Ka-Boom!, then Combat...

I worked in bar in which a Space Invaders machine was installed. I used to take quarters from my tip jar to go play when things were slow. Then one day, one of the customers asked me if i was in the 100 club. When i asked him what he meant, he said those who had spent $100 or more on Space Invaders. We'd had the machine about two or three weeks at that point. I stopped playing immediately.

About 16 or 17 years later, i got a Sega, and one of the Shining Force games. I remember it fondly, and if i could get my hands on an old console and all of the Shining Force cartridges, i'd get right back into it. I've been an RPG addict ever since. Last night i loaded the "Darkest Day" hack for the Infinity Engine used in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. It is way cool--i'm hooked all over again on an old game made suddenly new.

PONG, in High School. At College in the Student Union they had both PONG and ASTEROIDS, a black-and-white game where you maneuvered a little arrow-shaped spaceship and blasted approaching asteroids into harmless bits.
The Campus computer, which ran on punch cards, could play a Star Trek game, but there was no video so it typed out a new grid
after every move. Took forever to play.

AND WE HAD TO WALK 20 MILES THRU SNOW TO PLAY 'EM, AND WE WERE GLAD! GLAD! YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS THINK YOU GOT IT SO ROUGH...

space invaders was definitely the early game I played most often. Pac-man didn't do much for me. We had an early PC and we played an action-adventure game called The Castle of Ert.

Eej, my first game was probably pong as well.
Then came an atari console, with space invaders... A grerat moment of pride was when I finished level 99 and came back to level 1! Played some pacman too... Good old days...

The home game I was hopelessly addicted to was Miner 2049er. Nobody I've mentioned it to has heard of it. Anybody out there remember it? Squat little guy running around a uranium mine?

Pong, then asteroids, then space invaders occasionally. Anyone else here hang around Tony's Pizza in the arcade room? I think we're dating ourselves.

Later in life I got addicted to Doom, but now I just goof around online.

But not without protective mask - is that after effects from doom?

I LOVED Space Invaders. And Phoenix. Phoenix? Is that right?
Yeah! Phoenix

Magnavox Odyssy. Early home 'video game' Had a varient of Pong and some other things, like a light gun, but most of the games worked with some sort of plastic screen overlay, because it was all just pong.

Hustle on the old TRS-80. Conway's life (and trek) on the high school PDP-8...

Anyone remember Space War? Buddy of mine and I dropped a roll of quarters in one go. Not quarter, quarter quarter, but we fed the whole damn roll and played ofr, I think, sixty minutes straight.

But!

Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball!

UHOH! 80s arcade games online