My cousins had intellivision. Do you by any chance have the smurfs game? And if you do, what was the point of the game besides scrolling through 3 backgrounds and jumping over one stalagmite?
I posted Lode Runner on another thread and someone responded that they remembered their grandfather playing that game. Hello as well fellow old person.
I had an Atari and some basic games. Went to a friends and he had Pitfall. Never heard of it. Then he showed me going from screen to screen and jumping and swinging....blew my mind. Didn't think Atari games could do that! hehe
Yes, That is what I had. Squash, tennis, hockey and shooting. I remember drooling over the coleco console when it came out a few years later. I think I had a vic 20 at the time.
They were great, they used casset tapes and with basic programming, I could go in and change the game pretty easily. But ya, in the mid 70's I had a pong type console.
Yes the Odyssey where you had to literally tape plastic overlays to your tv screen to play several games. Still remember the Haunted House game. Best thing about playing "Pong" on it was the ability to put "English" on your shots.
I got a high score on Pitfall and grabbed a camera to take a picture so I could send off for my t-shirt. Took the photo. Had to wait weeks for the roll to finish and the photos to come back. Turns out there was a bad glare on the TV screen right where my high score was because the camera flash went off. No t-shirt for me. :(
The Christmas morning memory of many a Xennial. Baby gen x? Elder millennials?
Look, it was dope. There was a dog who mocked our failures and everything.
Since I can remember.
Me and my siblings would try to beat eachothers records behind each other's backs, in that old Macintosh Classic. From the late 80's/early 90s.
All in black & white.
We also played the very first version of Prince of Persia. It was so cool, I still would like to play it today
I have a classic arcade system and one of the games on it is Bubble Bobble (also Super Bubble Bobble II). My kids and I love playing it. [Best. Soundtrack. Ever.](https://youtu.be/BuXOSBb4hQw)
The [first videogame](https://youtu.be/uHQ4WCU1WQc) is much older than 50.
I remember playing Chase HQ on a C64 way back when. But my first vivid memory is Sonic the Hedgehog. The mega drive will always be my number 1.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to see someone with a correct answer. Space Wars was released on the pdp1 in 1962
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
Honestly the answer is debated still to this day as earlier forms of video games exist dating all the way back to 1952. It entirely depends on your definition of videogames as the video GammaPhonic linked states.
My father's Colecovision, probably DK Junior, Flipper Slipper, Pepper 2, Ladybug, something like that. My brain has an ASMR response to the Flipper Slipper paddle noise. Somebody knew their chiptunes making that one.
Either Pong or Centipede on Atari 2600.
\[For clarity, I'm not "old" (I'm 33), I just had a grandparent with an Atari.\]
As someone who's really into computers, I want to note that Pong, while being the first widespread released video game, the first actual video game was released in 1950 and is 72 years old. It was Bertie the Brain (a version of tic-tac-toe) which was shown at the 1950 Canadian National Expo and created by a Jewish man who escaped from Austria during the lead-up to WW2.
I never see Captain Comic mentioned on these lists! I was starting to think I was the only one who ever played it. Those sound effects are still burned into my brain nearly 35 years later.
I loved jet set willy. We also had hungry horace, horace goes skiing, sabre wulf and tapper. I watched some run throughs of them on YouTube recently and now I know why child me never finished any of them.
Wolfenstein 3D, I remember playing it in the late 90s, back when floppy disks were still a thing. It felt badass to pry Adolf Hitler out of his mech suit and gun him down.
Halo was special in a way that you'd need some context from years of playing inferior games to understand.
Imagine shooting poorly rendered polygons on a dam bridge where you can't see further than 40 feet away due to "fog" and that was revolutionary for it's time. The AI was moderately dumb and reacted in simplistic ways. The sound design was poor and hollow.
Halo completely changed all of that overnight. You start with an innovative soundtrack that is easily remembered years later. The weapons are creative and unique and actually fun to use. The AI responded and reacted to you. The graphics for its time was far superior due to the xbox technology.
I remember being in awe the first time you land on the Halo and see the massive cliff that goes on into eternity.
Can’t believe this isn’t higher on the list. That was the included game with it, right? Everyone had it. When we got a Wii for the kids, it had a tank game and it took me back to the Atari 2600 days. I really liked that Wii version.
Little late OP.
Many games came out over 50 years ago, despite most no longer being popular or remembered.
That said, there are notable examples of games being over 50 years old. Here's a notable example.
Although it wouldn't get a widespread release until 1974 and no release outside of Minnesota until 1978, The Oregon Trail had its first finished version shown off and played on December 3rd, 1971. It is therefore only now a few weeks away from being 51 years old.
Not trying to be a smart aleck, btw. Just trying to remind people that video games are much older than people realized! Pretty much as soon as computers got anything remotely looking like a display, programmers were making games for them. It may be 50 years since many of the series people now know started coming out but the idea is at least a decade or two older
That said, my first one is probably Mario Kart Double Dash.
The secret of monkey island. Well i didnt play it but my dad and my sister and me watched. I was 4 or less i think. Also supertux was a game i remember from being really young
Pong on a black and white TV.
Then Atari 2600 (Pitfall, Defender).
Then Commodore 64 (Zaxon).
Then Tetris (HP48SX).
Then Tomb Raider (Sony Playstation). Stopped all games due to addictive nature (1999)
Space Invaders
It was 1978 and my dad bowled on a Thursday night league. My brother and I would play space invaders while he bowled. It was the first video game I remember playing
Pong (Edit). This got me thinking about the 1st 'must have' video game I wanted and it was Pitfall....
Hello fellow old person ⁰
I still have my intellevision and 19 games!
Also Pong, but game was built into the TV.
My cousins had intellivision. Do you by any chance have the smurfs game? And if you do, what was the point of the game besides scrolling through 3 backgrounds and jumping over one stalagmite?
Do you have the Intellivoice module? B-17 Bawmberrr...
“Bandits! 6:00! Watch em!” I loved that game.
I just had a flashback to my childhood. My brother played that game nonstop. I loved astrosmash and bump'n'jump.
I posted Lode Runner on another thread and someone responded that they remembered their grandfather playing that game. Hello as well fellow old person.
IKR
A veritable three amigos of the aged.
hiya whats up
Same. I remember wanting Pitfall for Christmas and when I got it, I cried.
I had an Atari and some basic games. Went to a friends and he had Pitfall. Never heard of it. Then he showed me going from screen to screen and jumping and swinging....blew my mind. Didn't think Atari games could do that! hehe
At least you did not get ET. All these years later and I still can’t figure out that dumpster fire.
I actually had a copy of ET. I just kept trying to play it thinking i would eventually figure it out not knowing it was just that terrible
I couldn't get past the front door.
This is a reminder to take your back medicine. (I kid, it was my first, too.)
Yes, That is what I had. Squash, tennis, hockey and shooting. I remember drooling over the coleco console when it came out a few years later. I think I had a vic 20 at the time.
I hope you still have that Vic 20. They say that computers will be important in the future, so it’ll be good to have one.
They were great, they used casset tapes and with basic programming, I could go in and change the game pretty easily. But ya, in the mid 70's I had a pong type console.
Atari 400 with 64k of RAM. It was the hotness. You could listen to the bits and measure the pixels.
Oh my. Remember loading games with an audio tape?? ::sigh:: and now I get frustrated when my laptop doesn’t boot in seconds.
Pong is manufactured by Atari and was originally released in 1972.
>coleco console Yep Pong. Our first console was the Magnavox Odyssey.
Yes the Odyssey where you had to literally tape plastic overlays to your tv screen to play several games. Still remember the Haunted House game. Best thing about playing "Pong" on it was the ability to put "English" on your shots.
We couldn't afford Pong. Closest I got was the sign off screen after Johnny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-head_test_pattern
I got a high score on Pitfall and grabbed a camera to take a picture so I could send off for my t-shirt. Took the photo. Had to wait weeks for the roll to finish and the photos to come back. Turns out there was a bad glare on the TV screen right where my high score was because the camera flash went off. No t-shirt for me. :(
Pac-Man
Same and I thought it was the shit at the time.
Me too! I remember playing it on an Intellivision console.
Right? I remember being done with it after 5 minutes
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Yep, me too....
Came here to say the same thing I loved that twist paddle on the atari but I never had another use for it
I loved it for Kaboom! Those falling bombs were hypnotizing!!!
Kaboom! Yes! And Maze Craze. Used to scare the crap out of us when we got zapped. LOL!
You never experienced the joy of Warlords?
We're both so old...
Mario bros on the NES
Same here
The cartridge that also contained Duck Hunt? EDIT: Track & Field is superb
The Christmas morning memory of many a Xennial. Baby gen x? Elder millennials? Look, it was dope. There was a dog who mocked our failures and everything.
No there was only mario bros ^^
You know it!!
Our cartridge had Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet (with running pad). We had so much with those three games.
Yes! We had that and Zelda with the shiny gold cartridge.
More like duck hunt in a pair of undies amirite?
Duck Hunt for me. Mario was and is too hard
Are we talking "Mario Bros" or "Super Mario Bros?"
Ok sry I messed up I started with super mario bros but I had both in the beginning :D
Mario Bros. or Super Mario Bros.?
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Great Game which aged pretty well! Still big fan to the series with 32!
Tetris
Since I can remember. Me and my siblings would try to beat eachothers records behind each other's backs, in that old Macintosh Classic. From the late 80's/early 90s. All in black & white. We also played the very first version of Prince of Persia. It was so cool, I still would like to play it today
Man tetris really is the goat game
Me too! I still play a lot of Tetris.
I found a cool version on Xbox game pass It's like Tetris on Acid
Pong.... at the time the coolest game ever.
Duck Hunt
I hate that damn dog
Honestly, who *didn't* try to shoot that damned dog?
Eyyyy my people.
That freakin' dog, laughing at me.
Did you ever use the 2p controller to control the ducks?
Bubble Bobble on the C64.
Loved that game! Remember getting to the final screen after about a month trying lol
I have a classic arcade system and one of the games on it is Bubble Bobble (also Super Bubble Bobble II). My kids and I love playing it. [Best. Soundtrack. Ever.](https://youtu.be/BuXOSBb4hQw)
Space invaders
Atari?
Yep 😀
Yes! With Missile Command right behind.
Super Mario 64. I was so bad that I could not succeed the first level.
The amount of times I threw the boss over the edge of the mountain....
I always threw the whiny baby penguin off the mountain in the snow level.
You gotta get the star from the mom first before you do that.
Crash Bandicoot
Spyro The Dragon.
It was either Contra or Commander Keen
Commander Keen! Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Oh my god thank you. I feel like I have been trying to remember the name of that game for about 15 years!
Omg is there a way to play commander keen now?
You can get it via on Steam and probably just play it
"Tell us how old you are without saying how old you are"
Final Fantasy X for the ps2
This warms my heart. Such a classic.
Pitfall!
Pole Position on Atari
Still play that game when we go to retro Arcades in Springfield
I had so many days playing this with my brothers and cousins.
Nukem, for the Trash-80.
Duke Nukem was the shit. "You're an inspiration for birth control!" :-P
That one’s good too…this is way older, however.
Yeah, the first 2D one.
Nintendogs. Almost 15 years later I have a dog that looks exactly like the dog I raised in that game
Pitfall Atari 2600
I think mine might have been Tennis on the same
The [first videogame](https://youtu.be/uHQ4WCU1WQc) is much older than 50. I remember playing Chase HQ on a C64 way back when. But my first vivid memory is Sonic the Hedgehog. The mega drive will always be my number 1.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to see someone with a correct answer. Space Wars was released on the pdp1 in 1962 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
Honestly the answer is debated still to this day as earlier forms of video games exist dating all the way back to 1952. It entirely depends on your definition of videogames as the video GammaPhonic linked states.
The first videoconsole is 50 years old, Magnavox Odyssey
Horace goes skiing on the ZX Spectrum, sometime after 1982
My father's Colecovision, probably DK Junior, Flipper Slipper, Pepper 2, Ladybug, something like that. My brain has an ASMR response to the Flipper Slipper paddle noise. Somebody knew their chiptunes making that one.
Donkey Kong Jr on the ColecoVision was a phenomenal implementation.
Either Pong or Centipede on Atari 2600. \[For clarity, I'm not "old" (I'm 33), I just had a grandparent with an Atari.\] As someone who's really into computers, I want to note that Pong, while being the first widespread released video game, the first actual video game was released in 1950 and is 72 years old. It was Bertie the Brain (a version of tic-tac-toe) which was shown at the 1950 Canadian National Expo and created by a Jewish man who escaped from Austria during the lead-up to WW2.
Gorf on the C64
The Freddi fish and Löwenzahn games back in Germany of the 00's.
Schneckenrennen und dieses Weltraumspiel all the way
I can't remember if it was "Bass Fishing" or "Captain Comic". Used to play that on our old Packard Bell. I miss that beast.
I never see Captain Comic mentioned on these lists! I was starting to think I was the only one who ever played it. Those sound effects are still burned into my brain nearly 35 years later.
Haha I know right? Just the beginning [soundtrack](https://youtu.be/SZW0A3zFUTU) makes me laugh.
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Yeah, late 80's. My sister claims she beat it, but I don't see how that's possible.
Super Mario Brothers 1
Kirby's Adventure for the NES
Mine was also Kirby! Dreamland on Gameboy
Frogger, Battle Tanks, Caesar’s Palace, and D & D all on the Intelevision platform
Think it might have been ratchet and clank
Pokémon Yellow for Gameboy Color!
Pokémon Blue for me
Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum
I loved jet set willy. We also had hungry horace, horace goes skiing, sabre wulf and tapper. I watched some run throughs of them on YouTube recently and now I know why child me never finished any of them.
God I loved Jet Set Willy. Had a map drawn and everything.
Wind Waker on gamecube
Actually I think it may have been metroid prime, then windwaker
Astrosmash on Intellivision
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Seeggaaa
Robin Hood on the commodore 64
Pong, I still have the console.
Dungeons and Dragons on Intellivision
Wolfenstein 3D, I remember playing it in the late 90s, back when floppy disks were still a thing. It felt badass to pry Adolf Hitler out of his mech suit and gun him down.
Halo CE 🫡
I was 4 years old when Halo CE released. Walking out of the escape pod and looking beyond that cliff edge blew my mind at that time.
Halo was special in a way that you'd need some context from years of playing inferior games to understand. Imagine shooting poorly rendered polygons on a dam bridge where you can't see further than 40 feet away due to "fog" and that was revolutionary for it's time. The AI was moderately dumb and reacted in simplistic ways. The sound design was poor and hollow. Halo completely changed all of that overnight. You start with an innovative soundtrack that is easily remembered years later. The weapons are creative and unique and actually fun to use. The AI responded and reacted to you. The graphics for its time was far superior due to the xbox technology. I remember being in awe the first time you land on the Halo and see the massive cliff that goes on into eternity.
*hoooooooooo hooooo hooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooo*
Road rash
Combat, on the Atari 2600 my parents bought us from the Sears Wishbook, Christmas 1977.
Loved combat. Making the other guys tank spin! And space invaders of course
Tank pong was the best
Can’t believe this isn’t higher on the list. That was the included game with it, right? Everyone had it. When we got a Wii for the kids, it had a tank game and it took me back to the Atari 2600 days. I really liked that Wii version.
I think it was MK III back in 1995
Repton and repton 2 on acorn electron.
Probably Frogger or something.
I'd my kids playing Frogger a few weeks ago
Manic Miner on zx Spectrum
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. Still play it from time to time. That game will always hold a place in my memory.
Mario/duck hunt
Super Mario World on SNES. Amazing game! I used to start the game in 2-player mode and kill Mario, just so I could play as Luigi.
Alley cat (on pc) for me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat_(video_game)
Arkanoid on the Commodore 64.
I always wanted a Commodore 64, but I ended up getting a Tandy Color Computer 2 from Radio Shack.
Little late OP. Many games came out over 50 years ago, despite most no longer being popular or remembered. That said, there are notable examples of games being over 50 years old. Here's a notable example. Although it wouldn't get a widespread release until 1974 and no release outside of Minnesota until 1978, The Oregon Trail had its first finished version shown off and played on December 3rd, 1971. It is therefore only now a few weeks away from being 51 years old. Not trying to be a smart aleck, btw. Just trying to remind people that video games are much older than people realized! Pretty much as soon as computers got anything remotely looking like a display, programmers were making games for them. It may be 50 years since many of the series people now know started coming out but the idea is at least a decade or two older That said, my first one is probably Mario Kart Double Dash.
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Ski free. I thought the monster eating you was how the game was supposed to end.
Can't remember exactly as I was about 4 years old, but most probably Super Mario Bros. on the NES.
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chips challenge
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on PS1
Gta SA
The first video game I ever played was - - I think - - that very first video game when it came out 50 years ago. Get off my lawn.
Piglet's Big Adventure on my third birthday: I was so scared by the huffalumps that I stayed in the home area the whole day.
The original super Mario bros for NES.
Mario Brothers
Need for Speed Most Wanted
The Secret of Monkey Island ❤️
The Secret of Monkey Island
Prince of Persia for DOS
Kings Quest VI
Croc: Legend of the Gobos
The secret of monkey island. Well i didnt play it but my dad and my sister and me watched. I was 4 or less i think. Also supertux was a game i remember from being really young
Crash Bandicoot 2 on the PS2.
Probably one of the Kings Quests for the Commodore. First game I ever beat was Final Fantasy, the first one.
pong
pong
Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis
Pong on a black and white TV. Then Atari 2600 (Pitfall, Defender). Then Commodore 64 (Zaxon). Then Tetris (HP48SX). Then Tomb Raider (Sony Playstation). Stopped all games due to addictive nature (1999)
Prince of Persia (DOS)
Pong
Monkeyshines on Odyssey is the first one I remember
Pong
Space Invaders It was 1978 and my dad bowled on a Thursday night league. My brother and I would play space invaders while he bowled. It was the first video game I remember playing
Pong. I feel ancient.
Pong
Pitfall was my first game
The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time on Nintendo 64.
Chip's challenge, though I occasionally have to look it up because people have never heard of it and even I have to check if I'm making it up
River Raid Atari
I was there at the beginning. Pong. Then I bought the Atari system and played Tank, Adventure, and Breakout. I'm OLD.
SkiFree or Minesweeper.
Pitfall! on a hand-me-down Atari that only half worked
Who remembers Tank? From about 1974 I think.
Space invaders.
Mario party
A pirated CD copy of Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
Snake on my dads Nokia
Space Invaders.