What was the first computer game you played?

MPC

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I think the first one I ever played was Supaplex on the MS-DOS, that was ages ago now :( Still got the game working on my android phone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqQj1QPT4ts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supaplex

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DanottiTR

DanottiTR
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moon patrol was the first game I played ; was on a c64 ,there were other games in that casette too like river raid and aztech challange ; I just cant recall the others ....it was 1983 and I was 12 and c64 was very new for our country those days ,when we first managed to run the casette with the commands written behind the casette cover with help of my dad ; my jaw just dropped :D I remember that well....
 
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Darkflame

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Something on the Commodore Plus/4
Maybe Crazy Golf, or Treasure Island.
I soon worked my way up to the excellent (and Elite-ish) Mercenary: Escape from Targ.
 

Ketzerfreund

K
I got my first computer with 12 in '92 - a 286 with a 5 1/4" floppy drive - those things were already in the process of fading away from the market; the cool kids had Amigas or SNESes or Mega Drives or, if it had to be a PC, a 386. So until I got a 486, I had to rely on shareware/freeware/public domain disk vendors and bargain bins for games. I don't really know what the absolutely first game I ever played was - some throwaway freeware version of battleship...? I do remember which game was the first one to keep me hooked, though: Nethack. Sold by one of these shareware vendors on a floppy disk for ten Deutschmarks - alongside a printed out and illustrated(!) guidebook. Very unusual and very awesome.
I've had that game on every computer and under every OS since then. I'm mainly a Linux guy now, maintaining a dual boot setup with Win7 which I keep on my machine just for games. And occasionally I still switch over to a text console to hack away in yet another round of Nethack. Since I played the text-only version under DOS back in the day for so long, I've never gotten used to any of the windowed builds with their tile graphics.
 

Jaffa0

J
I think it was probably something on the Vectrex (not mine, unfortunately), or maybe Operation Wolf, which I remember playing at about 5 years old.
 

Koen

Koen
Pong on a dedicated TV console.

On a real computer: Nim on Sharp MZ-80K. It was the only game that was included with my computer. I typed in Snake/Tron from the BASIC manual and all other 100+ games on that machine were written by myself (first in BASIC, later in machine code).

I did not have the patience to type over programs from magazines (and to convert them to BASIC SP-5025), so I usually only read the descriptions of the games and then programmed a clone of it from scratch.
 

Dohon

Dohon
Oh man, I recognize several of the games here! Starting to feel a bit old ...

As for me, the very first game ever I played was the first Prince of Persia. Haven't played it a whole lot recently, mainly because it still gives me nightmares. That game was hard! Then again, I was just a young lad back then.
 

Guyuti

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The first game i played was on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and was called "The Hobbit" and then a few years later was on the commodore 64 "The Eye of the Beholder" series.

God I feel old lol

Guy
 

Coll inder

Coll inder
sorry missed a bit

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Yaffle said:
Pong was the first I played, but on a home computer it was Kingdom on the BBC welcome tape.
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Surely the first 'game' you played must have been the getting the welcome tape to load game :D:D:D

My first game was star trek on a tandy
 
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SMcA

SMcA
Coll inder said:
sorry missed a bit

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Surely the first 'game' you played must have been the getting the welcome tape to load game :D:D:D
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Nah! You forgot the boot loader program. You know, the one you entered in BCD into the shift registers. Step by step ;)
 

Bazil

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My first game would have been a text adventure game on the BBC that school let us play if we finished our work early. At home I think Blitz on the Vic20.
 

adoredtv

adoredtv
Horace Goes Skiing on the Spectrum.

I should add I had an Atari 2600 before that but it wasn't really a computer. If that counts then it would have been "Combat".
 
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Pir8pete

Pir8pete
Scramble on the ZX81 I think. No graphics just lots of letters and square blocks, no sound and all one 1k ram.
 

Thorvald

Thorvald
Wizardry on an Apple II+ in public school, grade 7. Many thanks Mr. Robins for bringing those into the school and exposing me to Wizardry and Galactic Saga!
 

Matt168

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Probably a version of Space Invaders or Breakout but I couldn't tell you what system it was... it was housed in a (possibly home built) square black case, about twice the depth of the old C64. I am not really sure when this was, but would guess no earlier than 1979.
 
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