Video: What Was Your First Video Game Ever?

Like everyone above 30, Super Mario Bros.

I think the first game I personally owned was Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge for GBA.

First game I played was probably Fifa with my brother on PlayStation. Heck knows which one.

Probably Atic Atac, or Jetpac, or Sabre Wulf.

Stampers ftw

Probably Lemmings for me on the computer.
And when I was little, we had tons and miscellaneous DOS games and demos here and there that were distributed in magazines and all that.

oh and as a kid i loved playing Zoombinis hehe.

Sonic 2 on someone else's Mega Drive was probably the first "console" game, but we didn't get the Mega Drive in the house ourselves until later.
...and then Pokémon gen 1 on the GB of course.

Those are my earliest games

Strewth, 3D Monster Maze on a ZX81!

#old

When I bought a used NES - an NES clone, to be honest, and they were so popular in Brazil back at the time - it came with only one cartridge: Tiles of Fate, a rather unknown mahjong solitaire game in which you conquered more territory in ancient China (or other Asian country, but I'm pretty sure ) as you progressed. I fell in love with mahjong games because of it and still play a lot of of mahjong today on Switch

But the first game I really chose to be my first, the one that made my eyes shine was Mega Man 3. It changed the way I saw video games

@Erigen that is such a sad statement... but so completely true
same here!

I don't actually remember but mom said it was Super Mario Bros. I'm 33, my parents had an NES, so yeah.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City or Call of Duty(2003) on Windows 7 laptop.

Either Donkey Kong Game & Watch or the Astro Fighter arcade game.

That said, it was discovering the Warp Zone in Super Mario Bros 1 that really blew me away and taught me that games could be much more than just going from left to right.

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.

Donkey Kong Country 3, then Super Mario World, then Zelda A Link to the Past. All fantastic games.

Despite being older than Space Invaders, I can still remember the first game I laid eyes on and the first game I played. Adventure and Centipede on the Atari 2600 on Xmas day, either 1980 or 1981

Pokemon Blue on my 7th birthday. The Summer of 2000.

Although I vaguely remember some Kelloggs games that came free with my cereal being played on my Windows 95 monstrosity before then.

Mine was Super Mario Bros. 2 for the NES. I was probably around 3 or 4 years old when I played it and don't think I ever got past the first level, but I remember booting it up often to have a go. The character select screen with the red curtains is forever baked into my memory. Classic game. For the record, I'm 33 years old and was playing it after Super Mario Bros. 3 had already long been on the market.

It had to be something on the Cube. I know it came with Rogue Leader and Luigi’s Mansion so probably one of those two. Although they’re both quite complicated so I might have waited until we had a 2 player game like Mario Kart Double Dash or Melee.

Podd on the BBC Micro. An absolute monstrosity of a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRIMFMUvE0M

It was actually mario land 1. Gameboy double pack. 1993.

Tetris on the Gameboy. Still got it.

NES is what got me into gaming. But I remember playing Pitfall at a friend’s house before that.

Clever Clogs on the ZX Spectrum.
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I grew up on the Atari 7800. I have absolutely no idea what my very first game was--but I can tell you which ones were likely among the first, and which ones were the most influential to me. Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man. The original Mario Bros. Galaga, Galaxian. Pole Position & Pole Position II.

Eventually I was hooked by the Super NES. with Super Mario All*Stars, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, etc., being some of my favorites. I never had an NES. I also didn't have a Sega Genesis for long, but I absolutely loved what I got from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

I remember playing countless hours of a really ***** game called Jinks, and another game called "Choplifter!"

First computer I owed was an Attari ST which had about 30 games with it.

My first real memories though have to be the SNES as that was the first console I owned. It came bundled with the GOAT super Mario world

I always played the NES at friends houses but was never lucky enough to actually own one

New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I think I was about 3 at the time.

My oldest video game-related memory is playing The Lost Vikings at my cousin's

Space Invaders arcade machine when it was released.
Started a craze and the birth of the arcades
Good times.
Yes I'm old.
Born in 71.
7 years old when it came out so I grew up with the birth of the video game arcades and the video game industry.

Poured countless 20c pieces into that machine.
Went without many lunches and had to walk home on many occasions after spending both my lunch money and bus fare.
Worth every cent.

my first memory of a game is playing the first Tomb Raider on my dad's PC, I couldn't have been any older than 3 at the most, probably around 96/97, I wasn't very good and kept getting killed by a rolling boulder, after that my first real memory of playing a game and actually being able to play it properly was Crash Bandicoot 1 on the PS1

As a man in his 40s with older brothers I can't be sure what the first game was. Some early memories...

Snapper (Pac-Man clone) for Acorn Electron
Boxer for Acorn Electron
Sopwith for DOS (on a Zenith Data Systems laptop with a blue/white screen that my dad brought home from work)

I definitely remember my first console games though... Our parents bought us a Master System with Wonder Boy in Monster Land (brilliant) and Altered Beast (not so brilliant).

Like everyone above 30, Hook on the SNES.

Super Mario Kart. Got it at the same time as our SNES, the Super Game Boy & Super Mario Land.

Super Mario World. That or Link to the Past.

Chuckie Egg in the Dragon 64. 😂

@nessisonett I watched Eraserhead hungover with 4 hours sleep and started crying.

1983 Coleco Donkey Kong, Jr. tabletop LED game.

Best I remember is pong and Froggr on the atari.

Oh how things have changed!!

Can't be 100%, but the first memory of a game was Zelda 2.

Although Minecraft was technically my first, Lego batman 2 gives me the most nostalgia. Just hearing the soundtrack (Although not original to the game) is enough to make me tear up.

Technically Smash Bros Melee at a friend's house (when I was like 3) but Wii Sports.

Yar’s Revenge on the Atari ST

I'm old. Back in the day, my parents were in a bowling league and I had to go to the alley with with them. They had a game center with the typical pinball machines, but they also had things like Breakout and Space Invaders.

I got the GameBoy bundled with Tetris and Turtles fall of the foot clan for my additional game.

The first video game I remember playing was Circus on the 2600....yeah I'm old...

I believe it was a Genesis fantasy beat em up with multiple characters. I was at my friend's house, so I don't remember the name of it.

Pong from one of those 6 pack video game machines from 1970s.
Before those, pinball and fruit machines in the arcades and cafes of the 70s.
Yes that's how long I have been a gamer and I still Love it!

@Type_Trubbish Sounds about right 😂

Sonic built in on master system

Possibly Donkey Kong Jr on the Game & Watch. Played it in Hamleys, wanted it badly, couldn’t have it. … Then again, didn’t Teletex have games of some sort? Pong maybe?

Propably Duck Hunt or Turtles 1 or 3 on a Dendy. The NES we had in Russia. Played a lot of NES games at the time. It was really love at first sight.

The first game I played was Super Mario Bros. 3 on NES at my cousin's house, while the first game I owned was Rayman on PlayStation.

As far as I can remember, it was Super Mario All-Stars for the SNES. I think Super Mario Bros. 2 may have been the first game in that compilation that I actually played.

My older brother had an SNES, N64, and PS2, but he was mostly interested in sports and outdoors stuff, so they were basically mine. I grew up on all the games he already had, like Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Crash Bandicoot 2, Spyro the Dragon, Jak and Daxter, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Super Mario 64...good times! I also remember us renting a handful of N64 games like Paper Mario and Mario Party.

The first console that my parents bought specifically for me was the GameCube when I was around 6. Maybe they couldn't afford to buy any games for it early on, because I remember they rented Luigi's Mansion and Wario World. But later on, they bought me games like Super Mario Sunshine, Melee and Pac-Man World 2. A lot of the games they got me were ones I didn't specifically ask for, but despite not being gamers themselves, I don't think they ever really picked ones I didn't love.

I do remember asking for Donkey Kong Jungle Beat after seeing the commercials and how you move with the bongos. I thought that was really cool as a kid. I also asked for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, thinking it was the same one we used to rent on the N64. Little did I know that it was a completely different game entirely, and it would go on to become my favorite game of all-time. I didn't have a memory card at first, so I had to keep starting the game from the very beginning until Mom and Dad realized and got me one.

I also played Donkey Kong Country on the GBA, but I can't remember if that was my brother's or if my parents had bought that system just for me.

We weren't particularly wealthy at all, and for a good portion of my childhood, Mom was the breadwinner while Dad was on worker's compensation after sustaining a back injury in the coal mines. (For that reason, I have more memories of playing with my dad growing up than my mom, since he was always home and she was always working.) But despite us not having a lot of money, Mom made sure my brother and I always had nice things. We were never left wanting anything. That must've come at a great personal cost to them, though. I'm incredibly grateful for the amount of self-sacrifice my parents made and hope I can repay them in some way.

Space invaders on Atari 2600.

Hmm. Let's see....
First game I remember playing: Super Mario Bros. 3.
First system I THINK I owned: Either Atari 2600 or Commodore 64. I had both, but I can't really remember any games I had on them, at least not by name.
First game I KNOW I owned: Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World. And ever since then, I was hooked to Nintendo and particularly Mario and Yoshi. Kind of. I remember thinking Yoshi's Island looked too kiddy and now as an adult it's one of my top favorites.

I can’t remember, definitely on the Commodore 64, probably from a boot lagged compilation floppy disk you’d get from a gas station.

Before even knowing Nintendo exists — Tetris, on a yellow Tetris console.

H.E.R.O C64 I had played the game a lot at school on BBC micro and loved it still have a quick go from time to time on C64 mini and I think I got space pilot about a week later used to be able to buy a couple of games every week with my pocket money 😂 good times!

I think Space Invaders for the PS1 🤔 it's really tough to remember haha. I'm pretty certain that was before the N64 games I used to play; if not then games like Mario Kart 64 and the original Smash Bros might have been my earliest games. Still thankful to have a dad who took such an interest in gaming!

@Freek Mine was Space Invaders (arcade), too. What a phenomenon that was!

@gb_nes_gamer That's a strong debut pairing!

super mario brothers it came with the nes...

The first one I remember playing is XIII on my dad's PS2.

It was 1990 and the game was TMNT on MS DOS. Mind blowing to my 5 year old brain. First Nintendo game was Duckhunt at a friends house.

before home consoles i used to hang out at arcades that had games like space invaders pacman defender berserk etc etc etc

I believe it was Prince Of Persia for DOS, but not far from that, Mario Land

There were probably a couple before it, but the first game I ever vividly remember playing was Pokemon Black followed shortly after by Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii.

And just like that my age range has been fully exposed....

I think it's moon patrol on atari, but before that I played arcade games and game & watch portable titles. If we're talking nintendo games, it's mario bros of course, then super contra and double dragon 2.

One things I hate from that era is the games cover art usually cool but the graphics suck, lol.

@Erigen

Super Mario bros too for me ^^

The first console that I owned was the NES (with Mario/Duck Hunt), which I received on Christmas ‘89. I also received Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest, so for me the nostalgia is still strong with that game.

Prior to that, my neighbours loaned me their Collecovision with a handful of games. I especially remember playing Donkey Kong, Rocky boxing, and Time Pilot.

So I’m confident it’s Banjo & Kazooie on the N64 although, it could have been Sonic on the Megadrive 2. Banjo’s still my favourite game to this day!

Super Mario Bros. December 1989. Plettenberg Bay, South Africa.
Also got Circus Charlie, Rock Man & Yie Ar Kung-Fu, but Mario Bros was the first one played, no doubt.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the arcades. Then later in the arcade I notice this little immaterial game called 'Street Fighter II'. Then later later I figured out you could play this Street Fighter II at your own home on some device called 'Super Nintendo'.
The rest is history.

@Advantage Xmas '89 was obviously a good year for us both.

Probably Space Invaders or Missile Command in the arcade and likely the same for the 2600.

It was probably some Atari 2600 game my dad had, but the first one I remember playing distinctly and being excited about was Super Mario Bros.

Pitfall Atari 2600. Yes, I'm old...

My family got a Wii when I was 2 years old, and so Wii Sports, MarioKart Wii, New Super Mario Bros Wii, and Super Mario Galaxy were some of my first video games. I do remember when I was 6 though, I was gifted Super Paper Mario (Nintendo Selects version) from a family friend, and that same year, my Dad pulled out his N64, and introduced me to TLoZ OoT and the OG Smash Bros.

I’m as old as hell. Can’t remember the name of it but it had a compilation of sorts. Twist the dial to ride your motorbike over a ramp to jump buses. You either made it or died. No messing about.

It would be rubbish now. It was then tbh.

My first is Super Mario World

It was off the Nintendo 64 and it had to be either Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, DK 64, or Diddy Kong racing

In my earliest memories we already had an Atari 2600 and several games. The ones I remember most from very early on are Pac-Man and Combat.

Hazy memory, blame old age. But, earliest name I recall is tied between Chuckie Egg and Mr Wong's Loopy Laundry on the MSX.
(Had an Atari before it, but no idea what games.)

We found Pong at a yard sale before buying our NES.

Faxanadu for the NES. Scared the crap out of me haha.

Hunchback on the ZX Spectrum.

Junglebook on the very first Gameboy.

On zx spectrum it was football manager

Above 30 but being the youngest in a family of gamer's it is hard for me to remember since they were always around. But I would guess it would be one of the TI-99 games (we had that before getting a NES and the Mario/duckhunt/world class track meet.

Hunt the Wumpus, Missile command, facemaker and Alpiner are the earliest games I can remember.

Space Invaders in the arcades and Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum

If we're not counting handheld LCD-type stuff, probably something on a BBC Micro or some crumbling VIC-20 I reckon. No idea what the game would have been though!

Combat on Atari VCS.

Pitfall for Atari

mind was super mario bros BUT it was cartridge mixed with Duck Hunt for some reason

I’m pretty sure it was either Mario Kart Wii, or Super Mario Bris Wii. I think the first time I remember enjoying a game was Smash Bros Brawl. My cousin gave me Pokémon White and Pearl, and I started Bowser’s Inside Story, but never finished it. I really started playing often when I bought a 2DS and Tomodachi Life, Animal Crossing NL, and Ocarina of Time 3D(my first Zelda game and still my favorite).

The first games I played were Pacman, Galaga, and Mortal Kombat 2 in an arcade. Pretty sure MK2 was the absolute first as it was closest to the entrance.

My first game crash bandicoot on platstation 1
Second one spyro
Third one tomb raider

Duck Hunt! My gateway to Mario Bros.

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Wii Sports, then MKWii, then Brawl.

@Sirvant7, that’s weirdly close to my story.😂

I normally credit a PC version of Manic Miner experienced on a Spectrum analogue on a visit to my parents' friends way back when, although the jury may be still out on that - I had a Game & Watch clone as a kid and I'll be damned if I can remember how it chronologically aligns with the precedent above.

Yes, a duck hunt. No, the dog here isn't nearly as much of a troll as the one the Nintendo audiences undoubtedly associate with duck hunting after that 8 bit childhood trauma.

As for my first console game... boy, beats me - I know it was on an Atari 2600 clone (proudly titled "Rambo" with the box art to dispel any doubts), but it had a whole bunch of games built in (no, not the number on the box art😂) and I'd be hard-pressed to narrow down which I ever played FIRST. At least stuff like Pitfall, River Raid and Air Raiders is among the ones I recall most readily and vividly, but the First One was probably either the first in the lineup (incidentally, the console had one button to go through the dozens in ONE direction - if you got past something of interest, you'd have to mash your way full circle to reach it again😵😆) or whatever "title screen" of sorts piqued my curiosity most.

Granted, all the aforesaid probably makes me sound even older than I am - make no mistake, for many young Belarusians like myself it was all in the mid-90s.😄

1986: 3 y/o me played the combo cart Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet. I jumped Mario down the first hole I saw, thinking I could jump back out.

First one I played? Couldn't say. One of my earliest gaming memories is of some old powerboat racing game on a pc. First game I owned was actually 3, as I got a NES and a Game Boy for Christmas in the early 90s. This resulted in Super Mario Bros 2 and Little Nemo: The Dream Master on the NES, and Tetris on the Game Boy. Only had those three games for a long time and got a lot of mileage out of all of them.

That was so long ago!

Probably Q*Bert.... possibly Spaced Invaders or Pac-Man...

Mine was a Pong-type console in the late 1970s. One with four variants of Pong. From there I went to the Atari 2600, the NES ... and all the way to the Switch.

I cant remember what it was as it was when i was very young. I know my first computer was a C64 tho so it would have been something like Dizzy id imagine.

Mine was some really old pc game involving a chicken I believe. It would have been late 80's, but I can't remember the name. The first one whose name I can remember is Chopper Command for Atari 2600.

@Zeropulse Oh yeah, the TI-99! Thanks for the reminder... Parsec was an early one for me.

I think it was Digger on PC, back in 1986 or something.

Wario Land I think.

Seaquest for Atari 2600. It still holds up today, in my opinion.

Super Mario Bros. on my dad's NES

My first videogame was Super Mario Bros. through my dad's NES, whuch was the best way to enter into videogames.

Star Raiders for the Atari.

Played ever? I have some extremely vague memories of playing Pitfall at a cousin's house on an Atari. First one I ever owned? That would be the Sega Master System with built-in Alex Kidd.

Super Mario Land 2 on the Gameboy Pocket when I was 4 years old

Gun Fight back in 1975 I believe.

Super Mario 64 on N64. Walking into the castle for the first time and those first few levels, especially Bob-omb Battlefield and Whomp's Fortress, were magical experiences.

It was most likely Super Mario Bros. since that was the NES pack-in and game everyone was crazy about at the time. But I also remember playing Major League Baseball (and being bored to tears by the endless blue stat screens you would need to navigate before getting to the less monochrome baseball game).

Sonic The Hedgehog on mastersystem.
As for Nintendo game, Donkey Kong Country or Super Mario World, I can't recall which one came first. But doesn't matter, both are masterpieces.

First game was Super Mario 64. Got one of the first N64 console at 4 years old. Had so much fun with that console. ^^

Thinking about it, would've either been Wii sports or Mario kart Wii.

Pretty sure it was Super Mario World

It was Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES. Today I'm a plumber... Coïncidence?.... Actually I think yes it is XD

Jetpac on the spectrum
First Nintendo game Super Mario 3. That lead to my Nintendo obsession which was pretty rare in the UK in 1990

Some nes game. SMB or Track&Field probably.

New Super Mario Bros Wii oh the memories

If we're talking first video game ever played, I think it was Pac-Man at the local pizza place. If we're talking first video game owned, it's Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.

First game I owned was Sonic the Hedgehog in the Megadrive. Prior to that I had played Kirby and a Snoopy puzzle game on my friend’s GameBoy but I couldn’t say which came first.

Outside of consoles it was likely a semi-educational PC game. I also played a lot of Jazz Jackrabbit and Worms on PC.

And to this day I am still drawn to games with cartoon visuals and animal protagonists!

Super Mario 64. As a kid, I got lost just wandering the castle grounds!

I don't remember my first time playing a video game, but the first one that really got its hooks in me was Pokemon Red. My sister made the mistake of leaving me unattended with her copy, and fullfilling my obligation as a dumb younger brother, I of course overwrote her save file and started off on my own adventure. I'm fairly certain I could barely read at that age, but I somehow made it through to the end with my Blastoise leading the charge the whole way. Even though I don't have many distinct memories of my first playthrough, I can still more or less walk through the entire map in my head, and nearly anything from the original soundtrack triggers my brain's deepest level of nostalgia. Despite playing many, many more games since then, and even finding a few worthy of being called my new favorite, I don't think another game could ever take the place that one holds for me.

MS PAC MAN in an arcade in italy during the holidays. It was a trip! My first console game: F ZERO, bought in a bundle with an used SNES.

Pong
Manic Minor on the Spectrum
Frak on the BBC Micro
Super Mario Bros. in the arcade

Wii Sports on the original Wii with the GameCube controller ports

Q*bert on the Atari 2600. Then in the late 80's we got a NES and I've been hooked on Nintendo ever since.

If we're talking EVER, then it's the arcades for me, and was Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. First ever console game played was Super Mario Bros.

My earliest gaming memory is asking my dad to get the Atari 400 out of the attic so I could play Pac-Man, and being devastated over him lending it to a guy at work who got transfered.

Now as a parent myself, I’m starting to understand why our Atari was in the attic in the first place. A lot harder for me to just go into the livingroom and turn it on when it’s not hooked up or even physically accessible to my 3 year old self.

I'm actually not positive because I was 7, but it was either Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Guerrilla War, or that baseball game with superpowers.

ms pac-man on the atari 2600 -_-

My first video game was Space Invaders (arcade). The first console I bought was SNES, which came with Super Mario World. The first game I bought for it was Star Fox. Great games.

Mario’s Cement Factory

My first games were on Intellivision, but those were my Dad's. The first game that "belonged" to me was Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.

Street Fighter 2 for the SNES. It was a hand me down from my cousin's for me and my brother to share as they got a PS1 or ps2. Dhalsim was my favourite because he had the long limbs you could use to attack from afar, wasn't good enough to finish arcade mode any other way 😅 (Still my favourite Street Fighter character to this day, love the beard he's rocking nowadays!) Also had mario and Aladdin.

I think it was pitfall on an old atari 2600, some cousin had it laying around and gave it to me when i was a little kid, been hooked ever since ❤

Somewhere between Mario All-Stars, Mario World, Kirby Superstar, and Donkey Kong Country. Just a baby with a SNES controller!

It's Eyetoy Play on the PS2 for me. If we're talking Nintendo games then I'd probably say either Kirby's Epic Yarn or Mario Kart Wii.

Sonic Adventure 2. I cannot forget that game and it was definitely a high point of my childhood.

mario bros/duck hunt OBV. duck hunt first.

Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt was my first game on Christmas morning. I was four years old, 1989, I think.

My parents got a Super Nintendo and a few games before I was born, so my first was likely Super Mario All-Stars and Monopoly, followed swiftly by Killer Instinct.

For me it was the first lego batman on the wii, I think I was 4 at the time

Pong. I’m getting old.

A bunch of DS games including Cooking Mama, Nintendogs and my all time favourite game Mario Kart DS.

@ozyr that is very old

The first video game I ever saw was Alex the Kidd on the Sega Master System. It was my brother’s so I didn’t play it if at all. The first video game I actually played was probably Super Mario World on the SNES. I played the hell out of that. Street Fighter 2 and Super Mario Kart too. The first console I actually owned was a turquoise gameboy colour. Still have it.

For me it was a ratatouille game on the Xbox 360, where everyday after school I would play that game, which eventually led towards skylanders, then a wii with mario galaxy.

Probably Stunts, a Dos racing game where you could build your own tracks. First nintendo game was super mario land and tetris on the origional gameboy

Astro Blaster by Tomy. Also known as Tomytronic Scramble and Alien Attack in other regions.

I later got a spectrum 48k with Arkanoid. The games came on tapes and took about 20 minutes to load, often failing leaving you to try again.

First video game I played was paperboy on my brothers zx spectrum. First game I owned was sonic the hedgehog on master system.

Mine was a little game called Mickey's Dangerous Chase on the Gameboy. When the Gameboy Color came out, my older brother passed down his grey Gameboy Pocket to me with that game and a few other (mostly Disney) titles he had. I have fond memories of this one!

My first? I'm relatively old and it's rather hazy...

Space Invaders arcade was probably the first video game I touched, followed closely by Pac-Man. Unless it was Tomy handhelds like Football/Baseball.

A friend had Pong and a light gun game for their TV. Soon after I was playing Atari 2600 Combat and Asteroids everyday after school at my grandparents.

My first real home video game console was Colecovision, which the family got one Xmas in 82 or 83. We loved that thing, especially Donkey Kong at first. It was THE best home port of the arcade original, at the time. I think Jumpman Jr. by Exidy was our fave, though, all around.

Ah, memories.... those early games were love at first sight for me. I mean, there was the Space Invaders/Pac-Man boom, then Atari and Nintendo fevers swept the USA, but video games hooked me way more then the average kid back then.

My first 2 games were Harvest Moon 64 and Super Mario 64. I was 6 years old, my older cousins who lived far away were staying with us for a week and they brought their N64. I mostly played Harvest Moon, as growing digital crops and raising digital chickens was mind-blowing to me. Also Super Mario 64 was a bit to complicated for me at the time.

Something in the original Atari 2600 lineup. I think Asteroids is the one I have the most vivid early memory of… but that’s cheating a bit and only home console (I probably played a home pong variation first, maybe? I was very young) but I also remember space invaders and asteroids as arcade games. So much Arcade gaming when I was young.

Super Mario Land 2:Six Golden Coins was the first game I personally owned and beat.

However, I played a lot of Atari (dad's) and NES (friends) before that. My dad had an Atari 2600 that I played and my first games were Combat, Pac Man, Pitfall, Frogger, Defender, and Phoenix. I started playing those when I was so young (3?) that I can't remember not playing games.

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt

technically the playroom for dos, an educational game, but super mario world

Probably something else but I remember that my first game I can name it was Flimbo's Quest on Commodore 64. Wonderfull platformer game with amazing graphics and music.

Zork (text adventure). Yes, I'm that old. First game with video was probably pong.

Probably the original super mario or marios bros 3 on nes, my first system was a snes with mario world when i was 5, my dad mostly played as my younger brother and I sucked and it would be a couple years before we can get past world 1

Operation Tsunami!!!!

Look it up 💪😁

I know it’s probably a bad thing to confess on a Nintendo fan site, but the first game I remember playing was the built in Snail Maze game on the master system

I think mine was Super Mario Bros. 3, but it may have been the original. Those two games, Duck Hunt, and original Zelda were all played the most when I was ages 3-6 (1994-97).

@Zuljaras One of my all time faves!

Cat Trax on the Emerson Arcadia 2001. Congratulations if you even know what that is, and welcome to the Obscure AF Club! You're membership kit will be mailed to you.

First game I can remember playing was Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES at my cousins house. At some point my other cousin lent us their NES. I remember playing Hook and a wrestling game with special moves. That might be how I got to experience Ninja Turtles, I'm not really sure where that fits on the time line. Later we picked up a Snes with Super Mario All Stars, a Super Game Boy, and Mario Land 2. Then I begged my parents for a copy of Pokemon Blue and the rest is history

No idea. I've been playing games since before I can remember. It must have been an Atari 2600 game like Combat, Fishing Derby, or Pac-Man.

@Erigen

Not quite.

Mine was Burger Time on the Intellivision.

Probaby unlike anyone, it was: Fatman adventures.
And I still love it. Even though they never made it available for other platforms.

The first game I remember playing was either Skiing or Pole Position on Atari (pretty sure it was the 7800).

First game I ever owned was Pro Wrestling on the NES. My father bought it for Christmas when I was eight or so, and my older brother and I had to share it. He got Mike Tyson's Punch Out, I got Pro Wrestling, but neither of those games held my attention when I got what I consider my first true video game: The Legend of Zelda. It was gifted to me that same year and it was what made me fall in love with gaming.

It was either Space Invaders or Pac-Man both arcade and/or Atari-2600. But the game I regard as the one that made me a gamer is the table-top Ms. Pac-Man arcade cabinet we had at a local family restaurant. It was a must-play every time and I can still remember the magic I felt. Hope to get one for my house someday.

Bulder Dash on Commodore 64 !

First game I remember playing was Space Ace in an arcade, but the game that made me a gamer like so many others was Supee Mario Bros.

It was Super Mario 64 DS! I was 5

I put so many hours into that game and I took it everywhere with me. Its still amazing it was crammed onto a handheld at the time

Super Mario Bros 3 which I played at my cousin's house. First game owned was Sonic the Hedgehog in 1993 when I got my Genesis.

It was Pong because, yeah, I’m that old. Second game I remember was Pac-Man on the Atari 2600.

Super Mario Bros, remember playing NES games with my older brother and my step siblings at the time.

The older the memories the harder they are to recall. I think it was 1982 or 1983. Played an unknown game on an Atari VCS at a friends house. Later I got the 2600 Junior for Christmas and remember many others games: Jungle Hunt, Battlezone, Real Sports Baseball, Desert Falcon, etc.

My very first game was Double Dragon for the Tiger LCD handheld, sorry I was kinda poor back then. Before I got into home, handheld, console, plug 'n play, PC, and arcade videogames this is all I could afford as a kid. My parents would give me $20 for doing chores for a month or two and I would use it to buy this to kill time during my break in between chores. As for my first Nintendo game ever, it has to be Super Mario Bros. 3 which came with my NES, my first Sega game ever was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for my model 1 Sega Genesis, and my first PlayStation game ever was Tekken 3 but only play it on my PS2 as I never bought a PS1. My first Xbox game ever was Dead or Alive 3 for the original Xbox which I bought when I got my Xbox One and my first Atari game ever was Dragon Ball: Advance Adventure for GBA. My first ever PC game was Number Munchers for MS-DOS which I got for free from my computer lab teacher back in grade school, still had that game on floppy til this day. It was given to me so to help me improve my math skill as I was growing up.

As far as Nintendo consoles go, Mario Kart Wii.

I had an old Leapster before that, though. I don't remember much from those days, but I remember the Sonic X game on there and I love to quote the intro scene all the time:

"Did someone say my name? Hey! My friends! You're going DOWN, Eggman!"

"Ha ha! Not so fast! You'll have to get by my greatest invention ever: my wonderful MATH ROBOTS!"

Oh, the nostalgia...

First console game was obv Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt that came with our NES, but before that, things like Reader Rabbit and The Playroom on our DOS PC if that counts

I think it was Super Mario bros. Because I remember hating it but liking duck hunt.

Space Invaders. My dad and me had no idea what to do, we both had never seen anything like it lol. What a wonderful time to be alive.

The very first prince of Persia think I played that in 1991/92 somewhere there.

Oh jeez, either Prehistorik, Alley Cat or Prince of Persia. Also some kind of a DOS Dinsey puzzle game.

We had a bundle that came with it, but the first videogame I recall ever playing was Quack-A-Jack on the Amstrad.

Combat on Atari 2600

First game I remember playing was at the age of 4, Nintendo's port of Donkey Kong for CollecoVision. My Dad eventually sold his CollecoVision to buy us an NES a few years later, but we'd rented one a few times before then.

Pong on Atari 2600. Yep I'm a Dinosaur! Still it's pretty awesome having been alive since pretty much the birth of gaming. I'm basically a walking talking videogame encyclopedia.

I vaguely remember having a C64 when I was a wee nipper. I remember playing some golf game and Chase HQ on it. But my first clear memory of gaming is Sonic the Hedgehog on my trusty Megadrive. Still got that copy of the game, still got that original Megadrive.

Blaster Master on the NES

I think it was Castle Crashers on ps3 or it was at least the first game I truly played.

The first game I remember playing as a kid was one called Venture on my dad's Colecovision. Good times. If you don't know what that is, don't feel bad. It just means I'm old.

Alex the Kidd, preinstalled on my Sega Master System II. Great game, never finished it until I played it on the Switch 🥳🥳🥳😅😅😅

Either Pit-stop or boulderdash on the Commodore 64.

@StAmbrosius

C64 is a computer, not a console. Thus you have been playing computer games, not video games.
I dont remember my first computer game other than it was on the VIC20.
My first video game was either Petch or Pacman in the Arcade. First console game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES. That game sold me on the console 👍

By the time I was old enough to wrap my hands around a controller (I was 3), my older brother already had a few games for our NES and Gameboy, so I had played Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Track and Field (we had the pad), Super Mario Land, Tetris, and F1 Grand Prix. We eventually grabbed The Legend of Zelda, and thanks to video game rental stores being a thing, we had access to all kinds of games. The first game that was ever "mine" though, was Ninja Gaiden II.

My first gaming memory was playing Gunfight on the Bally Astrocade. This would have been around 1979-1980.

Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for my geriatric pills and a nap.

That I owned, I wanna say it was Sonic Chaos on Game Gear…That I played, I have very vague memories of someone in kindergarten bringing in a game boy with “Zen: Intergalactic Ninja”…

@Erigen I presume you mean everyone... in the US. Because nobody really had that where I grew up on.

River Raid and Missile Command - both on the ATARI 2600. Those were my first.

When the NES finally arrived here, a couple years later, it was the first Super Mario Bros that I played (along with Duck Hunt and Excitebike).

My earliest memories of playing are Mega Man 2 or Zelda 2 on my brothers NES. First console that was mine though was a SNES and I got Addams Family with it.

Binatone TV plugin tennis game. KO of pong.
#old timer

the local Ramada had Ms. Pacman. later got a NES with Super Mario/Duck Hunt.

That must be Pong when it appeared at the arcade end of 70’s or early 80’s. Yes I’m that old.

Can't remember if it was Donkey Kong Country or Super Mario World

Hard to say if mine was Super Mario Bros. or Duck Hunt since I got them at the same time on the same cartridge. Probably Super Mario Bros. I think it was 1987 when my dad gave me my NES with those two games.

My mom surprised me with a Game Boy the summer it was released in the US, so my first game had to be Tetris. I played the heck out of that, Super Mario Land and Baseball I remember.

Hmmm…my first coin-op experience was “GORF”, a beat up cabinet located in a dingy poolside lounge area in a hotel where my brother and I used to swim. I was too small to play (it was a pretty elevated machine, my hands could barely touch the dashboard) but I loved the sound—the title was announced by a “Steven Hawking-like” voice.

My first console experience was the original “Castlevania” on NES. That was 1987, so the game had already been out for a year or so in the states…I was late to the party. After begging and pleading with my parents to get me an NES for Christmas, I finally received the basic bundle (packed with two controllers and “Super Mario BROS.”); they threw in “Castlevania” for good measure.

I still play the original “Castlevania” more than any in the series. The nostalgia is strong in that one.

Probably ‘Cookie Monster Munch’ or ‘Popeye’ on the Atari 2600 in the early 1980s.

Pole Position II and Karateka for the Atari 7800.

My brother gave me his SEGA Master System and so the first game I played after the change over was Psycho Fox but my first game specifically bought for me was Pokemon Blue on GameBoy Color. First game I bought myself was Conflict: Desert Storm on GameCube.

The Smurfs, Atari 2600

The first game I ever owned was New Super Mario Bros U, which I got as a Christmas present along with a Wii U when I was 5, but the first I played was probably Angry Birds on my dad’s Ipad

The duck hunt Mario combo pack. Hooked me immediately! 😂

Either the Mario bros 1 port on Gba, pac man collection, or Mario kart super circuit

I don't really remember. If I had to take a guess, I'd say either Pac-Man or Centipede.

Like at least several others hurtling towards the half-century mark, Little Brick Out on the system disk for the Apple ][+.

Despite being a Nintendo fanatic nowadays, I started as a Sega gamer. My first system was a Genesis, and my first game was Sonic the Hedgehog. But for reasons I can no longer recall, I skipped right past both the Saturn and the PlayStation (I have never owned a Sony console) and went straight to the N64, and have never looked back.

Can't remember the first video game I play. It was probably an old computer game if we count that or a game on the computer that was emulated which would be either Super Mario RPG or Donkey Kong Country. (Never knew it was an emulated game, as I was just a kid without any knowledge of the word "emulator.")

Other than that, maybe my first game was on the N64 as that was my first console. (Well technically my sister's but I played on it more than her XD.) But I don't remember the first game I played on it. Super Mario 64, Mario Kart or Mario Party maybe???

Maniac Mansion on c64

Super Mario Brothers. 3

Kirby's Dream Land.

Combat and Asteroids in the Atari 2600.
Yes, Im old

@IronMan30 probably “Golden Axe.” 😎

I was probably 4 so my memories are not accurate, but it was on the Atari 2600. Maybe Adventure, maybe Enduro, or Megamania, among few other possibilities.

All I knew about video games was reset at 9, when I played Super Mario Bros. 3 on my cousin's NES.

Alex Kidd & Ghostbusters on Sega Master System.

Either arcade Galaga or Pac-Man in roughly 1981, or possibly even the Coleco Telstar Marksman at home. Unfortunately, my early memories predate the point I could tell times and dates, and when exactly I knew who Pac-Man was. I do know if it was indeed one of the arcade games, then a chair of some sort was involved. For reasons.

I think mine was Maze Game on an Apple II when I was 4. It was hooked up to a TV rather than a monitor. My first NES game was - unsurprisingly - Super Mario Bros. Between the Apple II and NES though was probably an Atari 2600 at my babysitter's. I don't remember which was the first game on there, but my favourite was Centipede.

In general... well I couldn't say, probably played some mobile game I've since forgot about. But the first console videogame I remember playing was... Dance Central 2. Incredible.

The earliest games that I remember playing were Golden Axe and Vectorman on my brother's Megadrive. Then soon after Super Mario Land and Tetris on the OG Gameboy.

@weelz79 I assumed it was years ago, but playing it later (via Wii VC) it didn't seem like that was it.

Pong. No really. Pong. Yes. I’m that old!

I can't remember exactly, but I think either Pokemon FireRed or Nigel Mansell's World Championship

Wario Land II for Game Boy Color. Great game.

Ultima 3, what a great game! Final Fantasy looked like Ultima but it was not even close to the awesomeness of Ultima.

Duck Hunt. I was 4 and I held the lightgun directly to the TV screen.

Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. I couldn't even sit up yet. My Dad propped me up in his lap and put the joystick in my hands.

Pong when I was about 7 and my Dad brought a pong system home. Around 10 or 11 I got my first Atari. Along with it got Pitfall and Pacman. Had lots of games, but got a Starpath Supercharger and that was super cool. But, my fave system of my youth was my Colecovision, which I got when I was 12. Played a ridiculous amount of Donkey Kong on it.

@OorWullie Great games, heck Space Invaders and Centipede are still amazing games (especially Centipede Recharged). I spent way too long trying to figure out the innerworkings of Atari Adventure.

@Freek Loved Space Invaders, still do. I was born in 53, passion for gaming since Pong!

@Hck I so remember that game, when it came out. Very cool!

A cool older neighbour let me have his atari 2600 when he upgraded. It had about 20 games, I loved Frogger, so it was probably that. This was around 85.

Oh and it was the original 2600, with the WOODEN finish. Yes a wooden games console young people 🤣🤣🤣
I so wish I'd kept that thing.

@agrazioli Pinball and Space Invaders are still lots of fun today!

@Nic-Noc20th-C You know, it seems there are quite a few of us on here that have been around since the early days of gaming. I think that is pretty dang cool!

@wiiware That was so true. Arcade games were awesome, but the home console games, ehhh we were thankful we had them. But damn that box art, truly amazing!

@Daggot There seem to be quite a lot of us whose first game was Space Invaders and started in the arcades. Pretty cool.

@Zeropulse Ti-99 was great, I learned how to program Basic on that, and programed a snake game with codes from a magazine.

@dcstud @JasmineDragon
Yeah, Space Invaders is amazing.
Never forget the first time I saw that machine with its beautiful artwork.
The line up of kids to play it (usually 15 to 20 people deep), the coins lined up each side of the screen and the booming sound was definitely the start of an amazing time.
I remember a couple arcades popping up not long after it came out.
Then within a few years that number doubled and they were twice the size, all complete with neon lighting, music blaring, cigarette smoke so thick it was like a fog and arcade machines lined up with their beautiful 80's artwork.
It truly was a great time to be growing up.

I recently bought 2 1 up arcade machines for myself and my 2 daughters, Pacman 40th Anniversary Edition with most of the Pacman games and the 4 Arcade game cabinet that has Rampage, Joust, Gauntlet and Defender.
Next one will be Space Invaders.
My kids love them.

@TryToBeHopeful I didn't have the light gun.

It was either the original SMB/Duck Hunt combo pack for NES, or Centipede on arcades when my mom took me to the laundromat. I was very young when I played both, so I'm really not sure.

I can't remember the first one I played. I got 20 games out of Atari ST Powerpack back in 1989.

Pong on Atari 2600.

@dcstud I was too little to program on it when we had it (still do have it stored away somewhere) but I do remember the books and my parents programming games using them. Nothing like having to transcribe the game you are playing.

Also learned a lot on the Socrates. My mom found it and all the educational games for it in a 90% off bin. Though is perhaps the most obscure console of all.

Mine, like plenty of others, would be the two-in-one cartridge of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, which of course came with my very first console, the NES, a gift from my grandma, shipped from the US to the Philippines where I live (as it was still very expensive and hard to come by here at the time).

SMB would also be the very first game I was able to finish, and solidified my preference to Nintendo's products, with my PSP and PS2 being the only non-Nintendo systems I've ever owned.

@Freek pretty cool! I'll never forget hanging out at the arcade in the mall. Loved the rows of Pinball machines in the back. But all the new arcade video games with their cutting edge graphics and sound. The uniqueness of Qbert, the voice in Sinistar, and so many more. That was the place to be.

@ozyr @ozyr @Freek pretty cool! I'll never forget hanging out at the arcade in the mall. Loved the rows of Pinball machines in the back. But all the new arcade video games with their cutting edge graphics and sound. The uniqueness of Qbert, the voice in Sinistar, and so many more. That was the place to be.

@ozyr Seems there are many of us on here that got our start in the days of pong.

@Teksetter ColecoVision has always been one of my favorite consoles. Amazing memories of playing it when it came out. Still have mine, complete in box with my games and super action controllers. Last year I found an original magazine ad for the system, had it blown up to poster size, and framed it. Such nostolgia.

@Kiyata it seems there are far more of us from that generation on here than I would have imagined.

Duck Hunt when I got an NES for Christmas back in 1989.

Ok so I'm going way back here to the 1970's I remember my dad buying space invaders when he got the Atari 2600 for us.

Sonic 2, older bro had a genesis and I was stuck being tails.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World

International Karate on Atari 65XE.

TMNT 2, Duck Hunt and Circus on the Family Computer

Super Mario Bros, Nes. Like a lot of people from the early 80's !

But technically, before the NES, there was an Intellivision at home. I was pretty young at this time, so I didn't "own" it, but I have perfect memories of Burger Time and Shark shark.

@calbeau nice meeting a fellow countryman here! For some reason Nintendo home console presence here was kinda weak IMO after the SNES. The Switch is my first Nintendo home console after the SNES since Playstation basically took over with the PS1 era onwards. Really glad to see Nintendo making a comeback here and in this gen I just realized how much I missed their first party games.

That's a tricky one. I am pretty sure I had controllers in hand when I was 1-2 years old during family game night. There was an Odyssey, an Atari, and a Colecovision came later. Oh and an Apple 2e.

@Erigen everyone over 40 maybe and in the USA. In the UK no one gave a thought to the NES.

A Ms. Pac-Man cocktail arcade machine when I was 3 years old at Burger Express.

First game played was probably Atari's 1978 coin-op Fire Truck, maybe at Sears.

First game owned was the pack-in Donkey Kong for ColecoVision that I got for Christmas 1982. My Dad took a look at the Atari 2600 and Intellivision consoles at Sears and picked the right one!

My dad was cool enough to get us (himself) a Commodore Vic20. Pretty sure Atlantis was my first game. That and Trashman. Which was just PacMan but with a pile of trash instead of you know, PacMan.

@dcstud I was thinking the same thing when I read these comments! That really surprised me! 😊

Pokemon Sun on the 3ds.

First game I owned was Crazy Chase on the Philips Videopac, although coin-ops were pretty prevalent where I lived and would have played Space Invaders and Phoenix and things like that before that. Still have the Videopac but it’s not been switched on for about 30 years so no idea if it works

Mine was Super Mario Bros. for the NES. Specficially, the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt combo cartridge. Then, it was The Legend of Zelda. Then after that, Tetris. And after that, Jeopardy!, Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary Edition, and The Black Bass. For years, those were the only games I ever had, until college, when I took a box full of NES and Atari 2600 games off my cousin's hands.

But that was just console. For PC, it was probably one of those interactive storybooks by Living Books (likely The Tortoise and the Hare). And then for handheld, it was Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles for the GBA. And for smartphone, Angry Birds.

Four games actually, got a NES with Mario and duck hunt, and Teenage Turtles and Sunsoft's Batman.

Pretty sure I loaded up Batman first though.

Wave Race Blue Storm on the GameCube.

My first game was Tetris on PC, then Prince of Persia (the original dos game). My first Nintendo game is a tie between Super Mario Land and Tetris (GameBoy) which I got at the same time.

The first computer game I played on someone else's computer was "Donald Duck's Playground", the first video game was Super Mario Bros. 2 which introduced me to the world of Nintendo. My first own video game was Tetris on the Game Boy.

First game I ever played was probably on Intelliivision - maybe Burger Time or a Space Invaders clone I forget the name of.

First game I ever bought was The Last Ninja 2 and first game I played on my own computer was Phantom Club (a superhero-themed isometric game similar to a not-as-good Head Over Heels.)

Combat on my Dad's Atari 2600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKU-NMrK4qw

Pong. Gawd I'm old...

@Octane_st1m Very true. Nintendo's presence in the Philippines, though better these days than back then, never was as strong as elsewhere. I remember barely getting any Streetpass hits except in big cities during my 3DS days, for example.

Theme Park (PC) and Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System). Happy memories of both!

I can't remember. Some of the earliest games I do remember though are Pokemon Blue/Red, Starfox 64, and SW Shadows of the Empire

A veetical shmup called Zodiac, on C64

@dcstud There are always more of us around than anyone thinks. It's hilarious to see all the older peeps suddenly come out of the woodwork when there is an article about our first video games, just to say "I played SPACE INVADERS at the mall, beat that young'uns!!" (And then there's always some old dude who goes "lol, PONG".)

Star Wars at the cinema, Dungeons and Dragons at home, and first gen video games at the mall. That's like half of my childhood memories.

Pick Axe Pete on Philips Videopac G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey² for you muricans). The sounds (beeps) are still easy to recall

After that we got Commodore 64 - Summer and Winter Games. It also had some version of Space Invaders, don't remember the name.

Aaand then SNES with SMW included.

Super Mario World on the Snes

It would seem that I'm way younger than the rest of you.
I remember my mum got me a pink DS for my birthday one year when I was maybe, I don't know 6 years old. My 4 siblings soon followed, for quite a while we were satisfied with shovelware, until @ScoobyDoo got Lego: The Lord of the Rings for her birthday.
My 2DS that I saved all my money for, is probably where I got serious about gaming, after I got Majora's Mask for Christmas one year.

Either Super Mario Bros on the wii virtual console or Super mario Galaxy

The first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros.
In the late 80s the big German supermarkets usually had a toy section, and often you could find there an NES hooked to a TV.

The first game I owned and played at home was either Tetris for the Game Boy or Booty for the C64. I don‘t really remember if my father‘s best friend gave me his old C64 before or after I got my Game Boy on Christmas.

Spyro for the PS1

Minecraft on the Xbox 360!

First one I have memory of is Sonic 3D Blast

Technically speaking it was probably Pong but the first game I really dived into was Jet Set Willy for the ol' Speccy. It gave that incredible sense of exploration despite the limited resources.

Pokémon Yellow! I couldn't quite read yet at 4, but I would use my brother's cartridge to play without saving. Never even got to Brock! (And then because I couldn't read, I didn't know the PC would save the game. Sorry bro!)

My first video game would have been something on the Atari 2600/VCS (I didn't know what it was called at the time), probably Space Invaders or something like that in the early 1980s. It really gave me a love for games consoles.

I can’t say for sure… possibly Asteroids, Centipede on an Atari, or something on my friends Spectrum. Chuckie Egg on some sort of BBC piece of hardware? BBC Micro, does that sound right?

I was one of the lucky few that got a Intellivision back in the day and Astrosmash was one of the few games I had for it.

I can’t remember the others.

I think it was either Anarchy for C64, or possibly Jet Set Willy or that Karate game for Amstrad. My first Nintendo game was either Super Mario Bros 2 or Mega Man 2 I think.

Nintendo Game & Watch Mario Bros.

Before the Atari 2600 came out, we had a system called Sportstronic. It basically had four or five variations of Pong, such as Squash, and Football, but still just paddles going up and down to hit a ball. So my first every video game was Pong!

My first game was Creatures 2 on the Commodore 64. Followed closely by Flimbo's Quest!

Back when I was young I played Donkey Kong in the arcade days before the nes was out. I've been gaming since around 1980 so it's pretty hard to remember.

Super Mario Bros. was my first. Christmas of '89 my sisters and I were given an NES. Life was never the same

it was BARNYARD BLASTER on the Atari XE.
best. lightgun. ever.

Tricky one...

First played (and remembered) might have been California Games on Commodore 64 or Last Ninja, but before that were some Space invaders/Galaga or Galaxian possibly on an intellivision? Can't remember... At the same time also played Greenhouse as a game & watch, and got to test my sisters' Parachute before that as well as Donkey Kong II

First owned - together with sisters - was a used NES for Christmas 1986 with 5 games: Mach Rider, Excitebike, Soccer, Duck Hunt and Tennis. Soon thereafter we got Super Mario Bros. and gaming as I know it was born (7th game was Zelda about one year later, thereafter Pro-Am Racing)

The Duck Hunt portion of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. Was very young but had fun.

My first video game was Frogger 3D on the 3DS back in 2011. I played the he'll out of my 3DS ever since.

@JasmineDragon Excellent memories. Early 80s were some cool times. And at the time we thought we were witnessing cutting edge graphics! Arcades were awesome.

Kirby Super Star on the SNES back on Christmas 1996 when I got it in bundle with my SNES Jr..

On the handheld side it was Kirby's Dream Land 2 on 1997 when I got my Game Boy Pocket, which sadly I don't have anymore, but I still have my sister's.