What was the first game you ever played?

[anjellara]

For me it was pong on a computer with a 5 inch green screen built right into the computer and a drive bay just as big as the computer to read the disks like a floppy but bigger and thin

Pong frist second was frogger.. on the same green screen computer..

[grantm]

I remember playing some form of torpedo vs submarine game at Luna Park in Melbourne back in maybe 78-79ish

[Otorongo]

Jumping Jack on a ZX Spectrum.




I'm still a lucky owner a ZX Spectrum Plus, it looks much more glorious and has 48 KB of RAM:

[Mike]

Super Mario Bros on the NES in 1991.

[happy stutter]

The first video game that i played was on a counterfeit console(looked a lot like the Sega console)a friend of mine just received for Christmas back in 1994,it was Mario Bros.,than a game of pool.Why counterfeit you may ask,because back in those days,the merchandisers brought stuff only from Turkey and Russia.Lots of people made a lot of money back then.
I got my console(also a counterfeit one)in 1996 ,it came preinstalled with 1001 and one games(only 15 actually but kept on repeating to 1001).The console name was "Terminator 7"and looked like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/75755566@N00/190657937 ,only that mine was red with blue buttons.

Back then we didn't know about Sega or Nintendo ,or that they where counterfeit stuff .And games came in yellow cartridges ,you could find them anywhere on the street.

[Otorongo]

I've never played on a console and they've never been popular in my country, or in my circles anyway.
My friends and I played on all types of computers - ZX Spectrum / Timex, Amstrad, Commodore 64, Atari, Amiga 500 (the coolest of them all, at some point almost everyone but me had one and I was so envious...) Then the first PCs came out (XT) and the holy war started between the Amiga and PC owners. PC gaming was never the same though...

With ZX Spectrum, Commodore and Atari, the most common form of storage was audio cassettes. ZX Spectrum was the most versatile - you could use a regular cassette player, or even a walkman, and copy software using a double cassette player like you would copy music. It sounded like a modem does when you connect to a BBS (if you're old enough to know what it is ) or a fax (never heard one but so I've been told). There was a radio station that would air games regularly. You could download games and software from the radio, imagine that! So freakin' cool
Of course all of this would be considered piracy these days. The material was copyrighted, but no one cared in that part of the world back in the 80's.

[Cambrai1979]

Moon Patrol on either a ZX Spectrum or a Commodore 64 (I forget which).

The first console game would have been the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo cartridge that came bundled with the Nintendo NES in the mid/late 80's.

[grantm]

Aah I still have a zx81 in my shed. I used to love that machine

[sheepskin]

Duck Hunt on the NES

[grantm]

Originally Posted by sheepskin

Duck Hunt on the NES

I also have in my shed a NES with light pistol and shoulder cannon