Topic: Your first video game experience

[Belmont Stakes]

Was it Night Driver? Don't remember if it had close ups though, but your car did look wrecked after.

Anyways mine was Laser Blast on Atari 2600 back in 1979 at the tender age of 4, I also remember watching my uncle play an Odysee II back in the day, never got to play it. Atari 2600 was my first system owned, had a lot of fun with it with Pitfall, Pac-Man (not so much this unfinished version now), Donkey Kong, and some other games. My first arcade game was likely if my memory serves me correctly, Galaga, then stuff like Time Pilot and Joust. Never saw a Space Invaders cab till I was well into my 20's, shame really, but still had a blast with it and Asteroids (though I played Asteroids in arcades far earlier).

Also ninja mind move.

First thing, sorry about posting in the wrong forum. Second, nah wuddn't Night Driver. I think this game may have been produced before I was born even. Third, the game I played was played in Salem Massachusetts at the Salem Willows Park. I will say this game is my first memory but Pac-Man is what started the madness for me. Before Mario, Pac Man was the Godfather of games. But when you think about it Pinball would have to be the foundation of all arcade experiences. I just pulled this up off the web.

http://www.bmigaming.com/videogamehistory.htm

After watching this I don't feel so old now.

Happy New Year everybody. Almost...

[Mooning Freddy]

http://www.atari.com/arcade/arcade/adventure

You are the block. Use arrow keys to move. Touch items to grab them, press space bar to release them. Key open castles of the same color (touch the key to gate). Enjoy.

LoL! You won. A fuckin' block? *facepalm*

I believe my friend made a similar game in JAVA once.

[Arma]

It kinda sounds like losing some sort of virginity ha ha, sorry tacky joke
The first video game I played was Kirby Super Star.

[Gecko]

My first video game... was DOOM.

I was five or six at the time, and I saw my dad playing a cool game on his computer where you fought and killed monsters. I wanted to give it a try, although it looked scary. He showed me how to play. I was horrible at it then, but nowadays I can tear their alien demon asses apart no problem.

That was my "first time". 

[julianbelmontxx1]

like most of gamers,my first experience was mario.

[Tanatra]

It was either '88 or '89 (I was only 4-5 at the time, so I can't be sure) when my parents bought my sister an NES with SMB/Duck Hunt. It didn't hold her interest for long, but for me it was a different story. Less than a year later I beat my first video game - CV2, with the help of a cousin who told me where to go.

My dad was trying to get me into baseball at the time, so it's quite possible that if it weren't for video games I would have grown up to be a dumbass high school jock. Given my proclivity for all things fitness nowadays, I'm almost certain that would have been the case.

[PFG9000]

Space Invaders on the Atari 2600, circa 1984.  We inherited my aunt's 2600 with 9 games.  The first system I had that was all mine was the Atari Lynx, circa 1989, and then the Jaguar in 1994.  It wasn't until about 1998 that I got my first non-Atari system: the NES.  I had played it at my friends' houses over the years along with the SNES and Genesis, but was never allowed to own anything mainstream until then. My parents thought I only wanted Nintendo so that I could be like all the other kids.   

[crimsonmist]

kirby's adventure on the nes, i first played it when my older bro was watching me and i couldn't figure out when to push the a button at the right time to get the best bonus possible after each stage XD

[TheouAegis]

My first was Frogger. On  a table-style cabinet.


After that was either Jumpman, Winter Olympics, or Captains Of Industry on the Commodore 64. My first NES experience was of course Super Mario Bros. at my daycare. I remember when Mario3 came out, all the rage. And my first violent video game was Tecmo Knight, which I played in the arcades. ... And by violent I mean O_O my mind was raped.

[Claimh Solais]

First video game ever? Resident Evil on the PSX. Greatest memory of my younger days.

[VladCT]

First video game ever? Resident Evil on the PSX. Greatest memory of my younger days.

I take it that you still remember this from your younger days?

[Claimh Solais]

I take it that you still remember this from your younger days?

Brings tears to my eyes... the nostalgia...

...And the bad voice acting. Yeesh.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Pokemon Blue Version. Followed by Super Mario Brothers Deluxe.