Super Mario on NES!

Damn, guess I'm the odd-man out. I'm in my seventies and have never played a video game at home or anywhere else.

Pong. We thought that was da' bomb.

The first one I played was a basic program called "Hunt the Wampus". Was fun. Then, when I got my first PC, I bought a game where you would walk around a German castle and destroy guards. Can't remember the name of that one, but I got to the highest level (I was obsessed).

Mario/Duck Hunt on the NES.

Or some game on the ole Apple IIGS. I recall a Space Invaders game for the old Apple.

Not quite sure which of those entered our house first, but it would have been around '87, maybe '88.

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Originally posted by Rev. A. J. Forsyth:
My Dad was an early A/V nerd and a computer geek in general. He came home with this bad boy one day.

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We had that too. I remember my neighbor and I playing the baseball game, with the special controllers, for up to 20 hours straight. Those were the days.

A Berserk clone on a Commodore 64 at a neighbor’s house after waiting 30 minutes for the program to load from a cassette.

Harpoon

I once spent a few hours playing a game on my computer that was a shooting gallery with an Arab that popped up to be shot. This was many years ago and the picture quality was not super.

flashguy

The first game I played was pong. The first "console" was coleco Visions specifically the game "Venture"

The first computer game I played was F15 strike fighter.

The first online game I played caused the PC Gamer magazine to create the category of ONLINE Pc Game of the Year. It was called Cyberstrike.

I went on to be captain of the {{ShadowKnights}} and we were the most successful clan in the games long history.

I would bring the game back if I was a billionaire, outdated or not. It was the perfect pace of action with as much strategy and skill required. Twitch reflex gained you no advantage if you were too dumb to have awareness.

Ohhh I wish that game could come back.

{{Nemesis}} Only player to ever brake 225k bounty with 432k

You can all bow down to me now....

j/k...but the game really was great. At a time where only people who could afford 6 bucks an hour to play online, there was not much rubbish in the game communities.

Probably King's Quest.

Like many here, I think my brother and I cut our video game teeth on Pong with the Atari 2600.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I once spent a few hours playing a game on my computer that was a shooting gallery with an Arab that popped up to be shot. This was many years ago and the picture quality was not super.

flashguy

That was a game where Osama Bin Laden owned a convenience store and had hostages. You had to shoot OBL and save the hostages. I would play that for a few hours a day. "[in heavy arab accent] Get out of my store!!" LMAO!

Winter Games on a Commodore 64

winter-games_1 by kdrieber, on Flickr

winter_games_06 by kdrieber, on Flickr

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Originally posted by odin:
The first one I played was a basic program called "Hunt the Wampus". Was fun. Then, when I got my first PC, I bought a game where you would walk around a German castle and destroy guards. Can't remember the name of that one, but I got to the highest level (I was obsessed).

Castle Wolfenstein?

It would have been on the Intellivision for sure. Maybe Burger Time.
Still have the Intellivision and close to 100 games for it.
The boxes for the games are long gone and probably only have about a quarter of the little controller cards that varied for each game.

combat

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Castle Wolfenstein?

YES!!!! That's the one! Thanks!

Atari 2600 - Combat (I believe that is the game that came with the set.) We bought about 15 other games and other controllers. Eventually it was all put in a box and stored. Surprisingly it survived several moves and yard sales. We dug it out a few years ago, everything still worked, and advertised it local. It sold it for $120 to a 30-ish gaming couple wanting to display some gaming history in their house. They were happy and we sure were too.

Pong. I’m old.

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Originally posted by P-220:
Pong. We thought that was da' bomb.

yep..same same