[Little Writer]

I'm 30, started playing pc games around 13 - so 17 years ago.

[Niko]

Ooooh! i cant remember 100% what it was called, but i am pretty sure my older sister had a commadore 64 or something, and there was a game where you shot Alien space ships as they flashed across the screen. Other than that, probabley Duck shoot/super mario/zelda on the NES.

[runningback]

Had a Atari 2600 under the Christmas tree in 1982 with Pong, PacMan and Space Invaders thrown in as games if i remember correctly and I was twelve at the time, hooked up to TV, later Commodore C-64 ( bout 1984 ) where the passion for Adventure games started, mainly text based ones, first graphical one that sticks to mind is oddly enough a game called ' Dallas '.
Only switched to PC in the mid nineties, when I did HAVE to HAVE Wing Commander 3.

[TiAgUh]

Something from Spectrum, those load times were epic

[M-E]

Super Mario Bros on the NES when I was about 3 years old. First game I actually completed was Ducktales on that same console about a year later, I guess.

[nonax]

My uncle had a pong console. It also had a game with "light" gun with which you could shoot dots on the tv. This was somewhere in the late 70's. Then I played space invaders on some sort of console. This game had a some colours if I remember it right. After a few LCD handhelds - a racer and Donkey Kong Jr - I purchased a Philips Videopac G7000 (known as Magnavox Odyssey 2 in the US). It had a pacman clone (you could build your own mazes!) but very poor graphics.

[hild]

Mine was Duckhunt on the Super Mario/Duck Hunt combo pack, then super mario bros

[sysryn]

Think it was prehistoric on some old 286 or something... black'n'white screen ofcourse

[Hillseeker]

Pong, Breakout or Arkanoid was one of my first games if my memory serve me right.
BTW is there only Atari people in here?
No one else besides me that sat on an old VIC -20?

[HaroldO]

I assume it was either Enduro or Pac-Man on my Atari 2600 about 20 years ago. I can't say for sure which game but those are the ones I remember owning and playing at home.

[K515]

I remember back in Christmas 1980 we got an Atari that hooked up to the TV in the den, and several game cartridges and I played a bit of Superman with a little joystick. But it didn't hold my interest because the graphics were extremely blocky and I didn't care for the very limited colors. So I didn't play anymore on this Atari. Then in 1989 we got our first PC (Packard-Bell) but I didn't start playing games on a PC until 1995 when I was 41/42, and that was when we got a Packard Bell with more memory/color screen, and these first PC games I played then were Alien Breed (never finished this one/it was too hard/I gave up on it), then came Star Wars Rebel Assault - and after playing the first 2 chapters of this game, I was hooked!

Call me a computer game junkie - I buy a game any chance I get these days (as well as 10 - 15 years ago).

[Luna Sevithiainen]

I think that was Paperboy on an old BBC (according to my father it was called that way, I never came around checking that; it was one with those nice green screens ). We used to call it 'Rinkeldekinkel', which is the Dutch 'word' for the sound of breaking glass, because although the aim was to throw newspapers in mailboxes, little me found it much more fun to throw the papers through the windows

I also remember playing other games on that system, of which I don't remember the name. One was a platform game with ladders and you had a jojo to fight little round monsters. I think the jojo pushed the monsters back, but this memory is a bit vague, so I am not sure if any is exactly right.

The other one was also a platform game, I think had something to do with aliens, and when you were killed you became a skeleton and I think disintegrated afterwards. And I vaguely remember some room with a bathtub or something, but that can be a completely different game, or just a trick of my mind.

[Mohlin]

I'm 49 and I started at 25ish, in the mid 80's.
(Except for pong, that was in the 70's, but my first "real" AG was Fools Errand and that must have been 87)

[Fantasysci5]

My first adventure game was probably "Kings Quest 5".

[Zanthia]

First game I ever played? Hm..
I think it was called Cat. or the cats? Or cats? Something like that.

[Antaios]

I think my first game was either Carmen Sandiego or Ducktales: The Quest for Gold.

[beat!the!champ!]

A pinball machine in a bowling alley, my dad held me up for the first ball, then he got a chair for me to stand on.

For computer games it was Choplifter on my uncle's computer.

[Kazmajik]

Originally Posted by Hillseeker

BTW is there only Atari people in here?
No one else besides me that sat on an old VIC -20?

I totally rocked the vic-20! I had a bunch of Scott Adams text adventures that were on cartridges to play on mine.