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Oregon Trail
They had it installed on the computer in my 5th grade classroom.
For most people under 50 i would guess they cant remember which it was. Even 40 years ago there were lots of arcade games, home game systems, and little portable game devices. So most people under 50 probably can’t remember the actual first one they played.
But you can answer the question “what’s the first video game that you remember playing?”
For me it was some atari 2600 game that a much older cousin had, i don’t remember which specific game it was.
I’m 47, and the early games for me were clear. Five year olds don’t get to play arcade machines in 1982, but they do get to play an older relative’s game and watch
And that stuff is memorable
I doubt the post iPad (maybe the post home computer) people have much chance though. 3 year olds have games made for them, though they’re in this thread, naming popular games
atari 2600. Breakout.
I just want to say, I love social media. I think that the afterlife is a giant social media mindmeld. Half the joy here is nostalgia for the land of the dead.
And one more thing. leminal.space has a really nice UI.
That’s an interesting idea. If it is as people describe it, it really does sound like you’re just swimming through consciousness, space, and time.
I wonder if they have videogames there? They must do.
Anyway, you doing ok??
Ya ya I’m fine.
Frogger!
Oregon Trail on an old Apple IIGS. It was in the elementary school computer lab, and they would let us play that or Carmen Sandiego whenever we were done with our work. We would have little contests to see who could go the farthest without their party dying.
Street fighter arcade… I think
A PlayStation hack-n-slash from the late 90s called Medievil! First memory of life was walking into a lava pit over and over in the 2nd level. I go back and replay it every few years, speedran it for a while, and recently got the main character as an arm tattoo!
One of the first ones I can remember playing at home was Willow pattern
I’ll start: my earliest memory is playing Cool Croc Twins with my big brother on his Commodore 64. I also remember watching him play Shinobi or The Last Ninja (although both games look entirely different, I can’t say with any certainty which one it was).
Combat (1977) for the Atari 2600. Tbf it was some time in the early eighties, not straight after release when “that kid on the road that had everything” finally also got a console.
Commodore 64 for me as well. Can’t remember which one was the first for me either. Maybe Giana Sisters or Usagi Yojimbo. We had tons of floppies with games and large printouts showing which game was where.
Nice! My big bro had the cassette for the C64, no floppy drive. Ahh… memories.
When my father got a new computer I got to have the C64 in my room, along with an old TV as a monitor, which I was only allowed to use for the computer. My brother tried to warn my parents that I would just get an antenna cable and use it to watch TV but they didn’t believe him.
Of course I did get the cable and through the way our in-house cabling worked I could also watch what my brother watched on his VCR. I really miss his BMX videos, they were great. That way I was also able to watch the Street Fighter 2 anime when I was much too young.
Good times.
I’m not sure which one was first in order so I’ll just list them
My first console was Sega Mega Drive 2 (Genesis 2 in the US) with Lion King. I just recently read a thread where people said the giraffe and monkey level was so game breaking for them while I remember that I ran this level blind as a kid.
My school buddy’s sister had a NES with Super Mario Bros. and World Cup.
My first own PC was my uncle’s old 286 DOS PC which could run Prince of Persia in black and white.
On my uncle’s new PC i played Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn for the first time which started my love for RTS games.
Edit: oh and my cousin had a C64 with Giana Sisters and Summer Olympics
Either New Super Mario Bros (DS) or Mario Kart DS.
That has escalated to me being a Nintendo fan now
First gaming memory is Prehistoric - a platformer with a caveman dude, smacking dinosaurs with a club. Got to like third level once :D
Also remember this helicopter game I don’t know the name of but it ran on Windows 3.1 as oposed to DOS, which most games I played ran on.
Got to like third level once
I’ve no idea how I had so much tolerance back then for difficult games; I recall when I got a megadrive and only ever completed like 2-3 games because everything else was so monstrously difficult. I enjoyed a lot of the games I played back then but I’m much happier today for being able to have easy mode so I can actually the enjoy the game just like no-lifers.
Dangerous Dave on DOS, must have been in the early 90ies somewhere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Dave
