What was the first video game you played?

That tennis type game where you have a stick each and a ball bouncing about on a black screen...the controls were dials and the console was orange...very seventies... it was my mums before i got my hands on it...after that...pacman! xx

"Mrs. Pac-Man." I was the only thing to do while I was staying in a hotel while on business. I think I played till my wrist hurt.

Welcome scribe...ms pac-man was awfuly popular

boxing and combat on the atari... oh boy the memories... man do i miss it... but the first game i started playing seriously was Mario brothers...

I also started with Atari- Pong, Combat, DonkeyKong...
Does anyone remember Alex Kidd for sega? Lost a lot of time with that one.

wolfpack by broderbund



I have also been looking for Wolfpack, but so far I have been un able to find it if you have forund out anything will you please let me know.

This might help,

http://www.classicpcgames.com/?p=download&ei=Wolfpack

Thanks, I once found a copy on ebay but moved too slowly.
Another favorite is Flying Corps Gold where you lead a squadron in WWI France.

Warlords for Atari.
Still one of my favorite games.

i played tetris for the 1st game boy

Me too, very addictive

I loved completing it, with the rocket blasting off. I also loved Super Mario for the gameboy. I had one of those clip on lights/ magnifying glass. I loved that so much, and think my mum still has it in her loft somewhere.

Rare video Game please help find: Tamper
I used to play this game called Tamper. It was probably the first game i ever played, i have tried searching for it for hours on the internet and have found nothing if anybody can find it , its an awesome game!!! Thanks.

First games I ever played were Circus Atari and Tennis on the ancient Atari console (the one with the wooden trim across the front).

megamania, pong, frogger

Pong,brand new and in the box. and I could have bought a new Lincoln with all the quarters I pumped into Stargate!!

I did play the electro-mechanical games like "Spinout" and pinball just before video games took over. Space Invaders was probably the first, Pac Man, but I really liked Galaxian. A little later I got hooked on Namco's Rally-X, and Donkey Kong came out the same year (1981). The arcade was at the top of a shopping complex and they demolished it in '81 so I went elsewhere to play. Later still I discovered Data East's "Bump N' Jump". Anyone remember that? Top down game with little car driving though a changing background (spring, summer etc) as it bumped other vehicles and then you jumped over stuff like water. That would have been about 1983/84. Then the video game industry crashed, never went back to an arcade since.

Missile Command. I still like the cheesy graphics.

My first video game i ever played was Sonic the Hedgehog, thats why i love it so much

There was a green rectangle on the right, a green rectangle on the left, and a green dot that represented a ball, like, tennis ball ...

That was the first game I played on a computer. (Well, my dad had this keyboard thing that you plugged into the TV).

But before that (I think it was before that), there was this annoying game the size of half your hand, which my mother's friends' annoying children played all the way to Switzerland (Austria?) in the van when we went skiing ... it had a primitive Donald Duck or something on the screen, and something with eggs you had to put in a basket - or something of the sort?