Pong on a red console that didn't have changeable games, all it had was pong, tennis, and hockey (pong with 2 paddles per side).
1977 in Anchorage, Alaska. I was 10.

The first game I ever played was Pong. I still have the Pong machine somewhere at my parents house. That game was great!!

My first console game was also Pong. I think i was 4 yrs old at the time.
First PC game was DoomII on a 386 :D

I can't remember the first arcade game I played, but it would probably be Space Invaders. The first computer game was Digger Dan on a Spectrum 16k.

It had to be something on the Atari 2600. The only two games that really spring to mind are Pac-Man (I was too young to know it was a bad version of the good thing) and Combat (I kept tricking my sister into letting me be the invisible tank!)

Chopper commando on an IBM 286.

I downloaded it the other day but my computer is too fast to run it.

Qbert on coleco vision

pong , boy did I suck at it to.

My first game was Enter the Matrix.. lol j/k.. wow you guys go waayy back.. mine was NES Super Mario Bros. :-D

Intellivision Poker, family room, under a Xmas tree. Santa was good that year (he soon thereafter brought me Ice Hockey - coolest game ever b/c you could trip your own players (thwack-boom.)

Some kind of match guessing game over an old teletype computer terminal. I don't remember what kind. My father brought it home from school, it had an audio coupler modem. We dialed up to some kind of computer at the school he worked at and it would type out the screen inputs. I remember it was loud as all get out.

Other than that... Probably Pong on the Atari 2600.

There was some sort of Star Trek type game that was floating around the old Plato network back when I was young. You played it online over an acoustic coupling modem. That was great. Around that same time (1976?) my brother brought home a console of some sort. I think it was pong, but it had a light gun. He got it at Sears.

I still have the first PC game I ever bought. Star Fleet Command. Picked that up in 1986 and played on my college roomates computer. B&W starship simulator, great for the day.

Altered beast. OWN, best game ever.

'Combat' on the original Atari...

Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple ][+.

My 1st and favorite game i ever played wuz the almighty tetris! How can you not get into that game?! Id sit 4 hours and play!! I think the highest level i got 2 wuz 21:D

I loved Scramble, but it was more like '83 or '84.

As for my first game ever, that would be Peek-a-boo. Played it with my mom when I was 9 months old!

pong on a pong console was the first one I remeber playing (and still play it when at my dad's house).

space invaders. lol it came with atari

Buck Rodgers for commodore or Pong for Atari...

Pac Man on an atari 2600! I was so young, I had no idea what to do. I thought you were just supposed to watch!

Pong at the bowling alley... When pong first came out about 1974...

probably battlezone in a pub arcade... At least that was the first I remembered... Maybe asteroids before that... I don't really remember, but it was definatly a vector game.

either Othello or Spy vs. Spy

Pac-Man

I don't know, I might have played some old arcade games when I was really really young, but the first video game I remember clearly is Super Mario 3. I was six years old and it totally mesmerised me, it's still one of my favourite games ever along with Doom, Half-Life, X-COM UFO Defense and Metal Slug 3.

My first game would have to have been either Rags to Riches, Origon Trail, or Test Drive all on a C64 those where the days.

I played mortal kombat on my neighbors genesis.

Duck Hunt!!

before NES? dunno... C64 probly, as to what? no clue, played them all incessantly :)

NES tho? I played it at my grandparents on my Dad's side. Original Super Mario Brothers.... During the week we had to go to Wisconsin because my Grandpa on my mom's side of the family had passed away. I got the NES as my Uncles knew how much I wanted one, and had hope it would distract my mind, it worked... What a great idea, and I thank them for it. Which is precisely why i'll never get rid of my NES, even if for some reason it stops working... (still like a charm after all these years:))

I played NES at my cousins house playing duck hunt, then after about a year my parents got me a Super nintendo with super mario world the year it was released.

I agree

it was either Pong or Pick Ax Pete (donkey kong rip off) on the Odyssey console. What a piece of junk that was. It did have a game called Ricochette that I really enjoyed about cowboys shooting at each other with ricochetting bullets. I was easily entertained at that age. :)

My first game was further along the line than Atari and that.

My first game was Sonic The Hedgehog 1 on the Mega Drive (Genesis). What a way to start your gaming life eh? Brilliant.

I have a couple first games:

Lode Runner

Test Drive (yes, the original, installed with 5.25" disks...6 of them)

Kings Quest/Space Quest/Police Quest

I love those series.

Hunt the Wumpus, oldskewl TI in 1st grade library.

Um, first game for me was probably pong, though my favorite game when I was 6 was Hunt the Wumpus. I used to play that on my dad's sparc station when he was a TA at Purdue.

The first video game I ever played was Asteroids on a friend's Atari. After that experience, I knew I must have an Atari of my own at once, so my parents bought a used one and a shitload of games from one of their friends and gave it to me for Christmas.

I have fond memories of playing Frogger, Pitfall, Bowling, and others all Christmas day long.

My first computer game was Paperboy on our first computer, a 286. Good times.

Hm... first video game was prolly the old AD&D game on the Intellivision... or perhaps Nightstalker...

First arcade game that I can remember is the old Star Wars flight combat sim (remember, the one you actually sat inside of?).

Duck hunt!