What is the first video game you remember playing?

[Splendid Splinter]

Super Mario Bros. for me on the original Nintendo.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Pong, but the first one I remember that I really wanted to play was Kaboom. And Asteroids for Atari.

 

[spikechiquet]

Adventure on Atari, followed by Combat. My guess is I was around 5 or 6 when my parents got me the Atari (82/83?).
My friend down the road got a Nintendo fairly early (like maybe early 85?) so we played Ice Hockey & Mario/Duck Hunt from then on.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Definitely Atari Super Pong in the 1970s, hooked up our ****ty little TV with that TV/Game switchbox that came with it.

 

[Driftwood]

 

[Inky_Wretch]

What was the tank battle game on the 2600?

 

[Scout]

Pong - black and white or green and white.

 

[User 150927]

Pong

 

[dixiehack]

Definitely Atari Super Pong in the 1970s, hooked up our ****ty little TV with that TV/Game switchbox that came with it.

Dad brought home on of these from a yard sale, only it was a Sears brand. Might have been another year or so before we got a 2600.

I’m sure I played an arcade game before that but couldn’t tell you which one. Probably Space Invaders.

 

[mpcincal]

Being of grammar school age in the '70s, Pong was the first one for me also. It was a pleasant diversion whenever we found a machine at the local pizza place, but nothing more. Space Invaders was the first game to really become popular with me and my friends, and then Pac-Man was the one that really made me want to go to an arcade and pump some quarter into the machine.
Of course, a little later we became an Atari 2600 (or Video Computer System, as it was called back then) family. The other consoles were Mattel's Intellivision (high concept but not as popular) and the Odyssey (which was kind of the ghetto version of a game console).

 

[Neutral Corner]

Pong, the small tabletop version in a bar as well as the cabinet style. I got addicted to Asteroids a bit later.

 

[Songbird]

What was the tank battle game on the 2600?

Yes.



Journey the video game was one of the first games I played for hours in the arcade of the Sahara Hotel.



Pac Man. Q-bert. 1942. Centipede. Dig-Dug. Space Invaders. Asteroids.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

It would have to be Baseball on Intellivision. Though, I was so little it could have been anything on that system.

 

[MileHigh]

Pong as well.

 

[outofplace]

Combat on the Atari 2600 was my first.

 

[Cosmo]

I'm pretty sure I played something on the Atari 2600, but my first real memories were definitely Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt for the Nintendo.

 

[Roscablo]

Super Mario Bros. is my video game foundation and what I remember first and most (and honestly, a favorite still today), but I know it wasn't my first. I definitely played Commodore 64 and Atari before that, just nothing that sticks out.

 

[User 150927]

We had the tank game. So I guess we had some kind of Atari

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

We had a Radio Shack TV Scoreboard. It looked like Pong, but it had tennis, hockey, squash and practice - just a square ball hitting lines that you shifted up and down.

For Christmas 1982, my brother and I received Coleco Vision. He got Donkey Kong, I got Smurf's Adventures. That was the first game that was officially "mine."

 

[Songbird]

Not sure if this counts as "video" game but if it does then this was the first, hours at a time.