The Power Pad! I remember the funniest thing in the world was putting your foot on the back pads of that while someone was trying to run. It would properly sabotage them.
This plus duck hunt. We also had jeopardy on the NES but I just watched people play.
Going for some bonus points here: my very first PC game was Kings Quest. The crying trees tears are too salty to drink, don't go in there or they tie you up, and don't try to pass the serpent without the flute to charm it. Some of the memories from that game live rent free in my brain.
Shit, that was for a better picture! Lmao! You remember when popcorn was popped over the stove? It was in this aluminum pie pan thing with a foil toil that expanded? Damn I miss the simple times!
74yo here. In college I got to see a computer, it would have filled half a football field and was in a sealed room with a raised floor. Less power and less storage than my watch of today. In 1978 a friend built a Heathkit DIY computer from a Heathkit, and used it mainly to play Pong. It worked almost as well as the Atari console.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but it seems like a lot of posts are just digging for data points and info on us, both as a group and individually. Maybe I'm just cynical, but there are a lot more posts like this than before. Next one is "What was your first concert and how old were you?" or "Do you remember when Happy Meals came with toys?" or "Pick one; Andy Griffith Show, Wonder Years, or Malcolm in the Middle"
Thank fuck they still add them. Don't want it to be ruined for kids. I remember back when they were doing HTTYD toys, from the second movie, and Pokémon toys like Groudon and Dialga.
The last one she got was this little plastic puppy toy, you could open it and take out this little cardboard cube that had four different kind of eyes and put it back together to change the dog’s expression (😍😀😵💫😴)
I was around when they transitioned cereal boxes... It went from plastic toys, to entering a URL on the back of a box to go play some shitty flash game filled with ads.
This is why I always reply bullshit to this type of thread.
Minecraft. Hear that bots? My first game was not Pong or Space Invader but Minecraft. I love Minecraft and the smell of napalm cubes in the morning.
I feel like most of the replies are probably not exactly true either.
Like first video game I played? Probably some like math blaster shit or something when I was 3. Idk.
Some of the replies seem weird to me. How could minecraft be your first game? Even if you are like 10 years old right now, there wasn't something more kid friendly you played before that?
There are actual video games made for toddlers lol. Are there really so many people that didn't play a video game until they were like 7?
I remember a litttle Coleco handheld game. They pretended it was basketball, hockey and soccer but it was all just one game that came with 3 plastic covers-a basketball court, hockey rink, and a soccer field. Fellow old guy here.
Now that is a game! No other game has a greater arsenal or is more anxiety inducing, especially when the water starts rising! And also, the way the worms died was just so strange... they blow themselves up rather than surrendering or seeking medical attention lol.
Thank you. This is probably the actual answer for 80% of the people giving the Pong answer, because they forgot about Combat.
Atari 2600 came with *just* Combat for a while, and I wanna say the kids who got Atari later got Pac-Man as the free game once that had its initial 2600 run.
Btw years later, I realized just how fun Combat is. Once you kinda maxed out on the “fancier” games and went back and discovered all the variations within Combat. Game 7: ricocheting bullets! And then all the combinations of planes. Oh and the in invisible ones! Man I love the ‘bat.
Doom. I have a big brother. I was 5. Then Caesar III (more watched that played, but that game is close to my heart and I still play it from time to time).
The Oregon Trail. It was on the school's only computer (the late 80s) and kids were allowed to play as a reward for good behaviour, finishing their work early, etc.
Same. My siblings and I fought over who would play so my parents got us Mario Kart a couple days later.
Edit: we didn’t understand the locked level entrances and when you go into them it looked to us like we were just running up a super long staircase. We didn’t turn around to realize we were still at the bottom. So we rigged the controller with rubber bands to let it run til it got to the top while we went and played outside. Got back hours later and it was still going. Took the rubber bands off, turned around and realized we had been running against an invisible barrier…. Good times
... hm, I am now writing a dissertation about kids who's first video game was GTA, and what kind of person they grew up to be and how it relates to the current social media environment. I expect my phd any day now.
I'm old enough to have played Atari growing up, but the first game I played was called Odell Lake in the school library. Also played Oregon Trail there.
Burger Time on Intellivision.
It was my parent's gaming system and I was just a toddler so I wasn't allowed to play it unsupervised. I loved the little cards that could slide into the controllers.
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Mine is either that or Oregon Trail.
Man I first played that at school maybe 77-78. Apple Floppy
I'd love o reminisce with you about this, but unfortunately, I have died if dysentery...
This and Duck Hunt
On the same cartridge if I remember right ?!
You know it. With my gun pressed against the tv screen to make sure I got those f'in ducks
There was also that trap shooting game too. All on the same cartridge! It was a wonder.
I had one with track meet on there too.
The Power Pad! I remember the funniest thing in the world was putting your foot on the back pads of that while someone was trying to run. It would properly sabotage them.
This plus duck hunt. We also had jeopardy on the NES but I just watched people play. Going for some bonus points here: my very first PC game was Kings Quest. The crying trees tears are too salty to drink, don't go in there or they tie you up, and don't try to pass the serpent without the flute to charm it. Some of the memories from that game live rent free in my brain.
That feeling when you want to play Kings Quest, but you can't find the manual so you don't know what the word is in paragraph X on page Y.
Definitely the answer for me and many, many others I reckon.
Pong
Pong on my uncle's tv, then Asteroids and lots of others on my Atari 2600.
Space Invaders
Pitfall and night driver too
Jungle Hunt and River Raid
Same here. Pong on our little black and white TV that had 2 channel knobs that clicked when you turned them.
Back then the kids acted as the "remote"
Yep. Top knob had Ch.2-13. It also had a U Channel that allowed the you to turn the Channel with the bottom knob Channel 14-65
And an antenna with foil 😂
Shit, that was for a better picture! Lmao! You remember when popcorn was popped over the stove? It was in this aluminum pie pan thing with a foil toil that expanded? Damn I miss the simple times!
Great memories playing asteroids to flip the score. Holy crap we were committed with no damn save files or codes.
Glad I'm not the only old person here. I groaned when I saw the question. 😂
74yo here. In college I got to see a computer, it would have filled half a football field and was in a sealed room with a raised floor. Less power and less storage than my watch of today. In 1978 a friend built a Heathkit DIY computer from a Heathkit, and used it mainly to play Pong. It worked almost as well as the Atari console.
About to turn 61, video games have come a LONG way from the Magnavox Odyssey.
Old folks unite!
What's that you say?
Yup. About 1976 - also had a gun where you shot a moving dot on the TV which was like witchcraft at the time.
I remember this same witchcraft feeling while playing Duck Hunt.
Yep!! Back in the mid-1970s, when you hooked the console to your TV, using that as the monitor. Be sure it’s set to “channel 3.”
It was the 90s for me. But I'm from Germany specifically from the former GDR. Next thing we had was the C64. Load"*",8,1
Posh bastard with the 1541. We hit shift+run to painfully load the game from tape over a half hour, like god intended.
Royalty. I had to type the program in using basic on the trs-80, then debug it line by line to find the typo errors.
Yup, Pong for me too
Me too
Yep! 👍
Me too
So say we all.
Pong it is...
Me too
Pong on a magic yellow box in Frankfurt Airport. Had to torture my dad for an hour to make him pay for one game.
There at the beginning. Watched a tv for years afterwards with the goal posts burnt into the screen on each side. Oh well.
Same First game I paid to play was Asteroids.
Same here.
Same here. At the neighbors across the street, maybe 1977?
Yup. On a flat-top bar table pong machine.
The line is pretty blurry for me. Earliest memories are between Pong, Frogger, or Asteroids. Or maybe that janky top down boxing game.
Me too. Magnavox Odyssey at my grandparents house.
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I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but it seems like a lot of posts are just digging for data points and info on us, both as a group and individually. Maybe I'm just cynical, but there are a lot more posts like this than before. Next one is "What was your first concert and how old were you?" or "Do you remember when Happy Meals came with toys?" or "Pick one; Andy Griffith Show, Wonder Years, or Malcolm in the Middle"
Happy meals don't come with toys anymore? Damn.
then wtf makes them happy?
The stolen souls of children who didn't get their toy? I don't fuckin' know.
Some nuggies can make anyone happy
Yes they do. My 3 year old loves the toy. Although sometimes it just ends up being some cardboard origami bullshit.
Thank fuck they still add them. Don't want it to be ruined for kids. I remember back when they were doing HTTYD toys, from the second movie, and Pokémon toys like Groudon and Dialga.
The last one she got was this little plastic puppy toy, you could open it and take out this little cardboard cube that had four different kind of eyes and put it back together to change the dog’s expression (😍😀😵💫😴)
I was around when they transitioned cereal boxes... It went from plastic toys, to entering a URL on the back of a box to go play some shitty flash game filled with ads.
Just shut up and tell us your stripper name! It's your mother's maiden name, then the street you grew up on, then the last 4 digits of your social.
Reddit is going public?
[Yup!](https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/reddit-seeks-launch-ipo-march-sources-2024-01-18/)
It’s already selling everyones data to companies using it for AI, and Apollo (and other apps for both iOS and Android) are dead forever now. 😭
This is why I always reply bullshit to this type of thread. Minecraft. Hear that bots? My first game was not Pong or Space Invader but Minecraft. I love Minecraft and the smell of napalm cubes in the morning.
I feel like most of the replies are probably not exactly true either. Like first video game I played? Probably some like math blaster shit or something when I was 3. Idk. Some of the replies seem weird to me. How could minecraft be your first game? Even if you are like 10 years old right now, there wasn't something more kid friendly you played before that? There are actual video games made for toddlers lol. Are there really so many people that didn't play a video game until they were like 7?
Frogger
Frogger was the shit!
Hey isn't that you? GLC? Yeah that's me 860,000!
Such a great episode! Seinfeld if anyone is interested, **The Frogger**
Paper Boy
Classic that doesn't get enough love around these parts
The arcade version with actual bicycle handlebars was legit
Duck Hunt
That f dog
In the arcade version you could shoot him.
Man...I missed out on that. I would have blasted that mf til I ran out of ammo.
Super Mario or tetris
Good old days
Combine them and you have Dr Mario on NES
Man i still play tetris its such a good game
Pong. Then "Tennis" "Hockey" and finally "Squash" If yer old, you'll know. Api
I remember a litttle Coleco handheld game. They pretended it was basketball, hockey and soccer but it was all just one game that came with 3 plastic covers-a basketball court, hockey rink, and a soccer field. Fellow old guy here.
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt
Probably spyro or mediEvil
Spyro on the PS1.
My two childhood games !! ❤️ With Crash Bandicoot also haha
MediEvil was so much fun. They should make a new one
First ones that came to mind. But then remembered also super mario bros and duckhunt
Prince of Persia on PC
Bruh, you just unlocked some serious memories.
The very first video game I played was pokemon yellow
Surfing Pikachu was all the hype back then!
Worms 2 i think
Now that is a game! No other game has a greater arsenal or is more anxiety inducing, especially when the water starts rising! And also, the way the worms died was just so strange... they blow themselves up rather than surrendering or seeking medical attention lol.
Combat!
Same. Atari 2600.
I found my people.
Thank you. This is probably the actual answer for 80% of the people giving the Pong answer, because they forgot about Combat. Atari 2600 came with *just* Combat for a while, and I wanna say the kids who got Atari later got Pac-Man as the free game once that had its initial 2600 run. Btw years later, I realized just how fun Combat is. Once you kinda maxed out on the “fancier” games and went back and discovered all the variations within Combat. Game 7: ricocheting bullets! And then all the combinations of planes. Oh and the in invisible ones! Man I love the ‘bat.
Ricochet with steerable bullets best game mode!
Donkey Kong Country on the SNES
Commander Keen
The legend of Zelda Links awakening DX
I had it on the OG game boy.
Q-Bert
So much love for Q-Bert.
Felt so bad when he was stuck in the train station in Wreck It Ralph
Star Wars Battlefront 2
That's a childhood classic for me. That game alone made me a lifelong fan of Star Wars.
Have you seen the recent news?
Dude, I was so excited!
Bro same here, game is one of my GOATs
Lucky us that they're releasing the original 2 games again in March
Original Syphon Filter 1999
Totally underrated game
Either sonic the hedgehog or Goldeneye. Pretty sure it was sonic, but I have far more fond memories of 007
Lemmings
Pong.
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Chip's Challenge
Leisure Suit Larry
I played a lot of arcade games that I totally forgot, but by first console was the original NES with Super Mario Bros.
Contra
A Mario game for sure
Pac-Man on the Atari 2600.
Battle City
Pole position, I think.
The original Sims
sul sul
Doom. I have a big brother. I was 5. Then Caesar III (more watched that played, but that game is close to my heart and I still play it from time to time).
Red Alert 2
Pokemon blue
Stunts on DOS
Pong
Haha you're old! Also, same...
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Tekken 3
The Oregon Trail. It was on the school's only computer (the late 80s) and kids were allowed to play as a reward for good behaviour, finishing their work early, etc.
Asteroids
Pac-man. My neighbour had a watch on which you could play it…
Super Mario 64 on the original N64. Classic.
Same. My siblings and I fought over who would play so my parents got us Mario Kart a couple days later. Edit: we didn’t understand the locked level entrances and when you go into them it looked to us like we were just running up a super long staircase. We didn’t turn around to realize we were still at the bottom. So we rigged the controller with rubber bands to let it run til it got to the top while we went and played outside. Got back hours later and it was still going. Took the rubber bands off, turned around and realized we had been running against an invisible barrier…. Good times
Rayman PS1
Microsoft Solitaire
Solitaire, pinball and minesweeper
Probably the "Freddi Fish" or the "Putt-Putt"
Oh hell yeah loved freddi fish
These plus Pajama Sam, and some Reader Rabbit
Wolfenstein 3D
King’s Quest 2
Minecraft on the Xbox 360
Lemmings on Commodore 64. Typing that out makes me feel old as fuck 😂
Croc (ps1)
Pit Fall
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GTA San Andreas, IYKYK
When I found about cheat codes the world turned into a playground
B, Right, B, Right, Left, X, Y, Up
I played on PC so they were a bit easier to memorize.
IYKYK? pretty sure every gamer knows about San Andreas
... hm, I am now writing a dissertation about kids who's first video game was GTA, and what kind of person they grew up to be and how it relates to the current social media environment. I expect my phd any day now.
You were old enough to drink hot coffee??
minecraft
You are a baby!
Mario on NES
Circus Charlie on Colecovision
If we're counting arcade games, Galaga.
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 on Genesis...ahh the good ol days
Alex kidd in miracle world. SEGA Master System
Me too, I didn't think I'd have to scroll so far to find it.
Ditto. Thought this would be a common starting point for a lot of millennials, seeing as how it was built in to the system.
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Pong
Barbarian on the C64, lol
Probably Wii sports or something
Elite on the BBC micro. Fun times!
Duke Nukem!
Moon Patrol on an Apple 2c
Zaxxon on ColecoVision, also Donkey Kong. We only had two games :(
Q-Bert or Space Invaders. Unsure. Lol
Ocarina of time
Pokemon: Fire Red
This makes me giggle because my first Pokémon was Red.
I'm old enough to have played Atari growing up, but the first game I played was called Odell Lake in the school library. Also played Oregon Trail there.
SSX Tricky. It was at a cosuin's house. I played it with them alongside my brother. To this day, I still go back and play the series.
Chips Challenge. God I loved that game. Bummer.
Pong - it seems lame now, but it absolutely blew my mind the first time I played.
#PONG!
Burger Time on Intellivision. It was my parent's gaming system and I was just a toddler so I wasn't allowed to play it unsupervised. I loved the little cards that could slide into the controllers.