Topic: what was the first videogame you owned?

[Sapphirus]

Mine was (pc) Mechwarrior 2 and (Console) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the N64 as well as (handheld system) either Super Mario Land or Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on the old GameBoy.

[TechPro]

I'm not sure what my first video game was, but if I go back to the first computer games I owned (discount the ones a brother owned) ... I'd have to say my first was the original DOS based Zork, and also Rogue.

Those were the days. 

[NUMBERZero]

Hellbender or MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries.

And if we are doing console: Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies (PS2)

[Kaiaatzl]

Was either Zone 66 or Descent.  I know Descent was what really got me into gaming.

[Scyphi]

Well, I can't say I actually own that many videogames (most of them that I play were really originally obtained by Techpro) but the first computer games I really remember playing was a couple old DOS games, with Jumpjet being the one I most readily remember, if that counts.

I also have fond memories of watching Techpro playing games like Commander Keen and a demo for D1 often enough that I might as well have been playing, 'cuz I practically knew the games backwards and forwards (but it would be many years before I would attempt either one).

[-<WillyP>-]

Dungeons of Dageroth, for the Tandy Color Computer, is the first one I remember.  A multilevel maze of cubes, rendered in wire-frame, with wire-frame creatures to battle.  Input was by command, ie; f for forward, b for back, l would move left, tl would turn left, etc... (or something like that ) You could type and number of commands, then hit enter, once you've played it a few (dozen) times.  

So you'd enter 'f f f f f tl f f s s s f f f tl tl'  and when you hit enter, you would run down the hall, turn left, move forward two more cubes, strike three times, move forward three cubes, and turn to face the creature you just attacked, because if you struck three times, the creature would have time to strike back.  Anyway, it was a pretty advanced game for back then. Which was around mid or late seventies.

Another one I had was Bustout, or Breakout, it was a Tandy copy of whichever it was not.

[Mzero]

On my first PC, I had the cars game Lotus, for two players, each using some keys on the same keyboad  , and the reflexion game Lemmings, with their green hair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_%28series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_%28video_game%29

[Kyouryuu]

If I don't count the edutainment stuff I had as a little kid on the Commodore 64, I'd say my first video game was Excitebike, which happened to come with the NES I had.

... and I don't think 24 hours had even passed before I got Super Mario Bros. 

[Foil]

First videogame was Super Mario Brothers on the original NES.

First PC game was one I created on a Commodore 64.  First retail PC game I owned was Stunts (a driving/stunt game), I think. 

[-<WillyP>-]

I seem to remember an old pc game where two gorillas would throw exploding bananas at each other.  But I think my first PC game was Tetris.

[Foil]

I seem to remember an old pc game where two gorillas would throw exploding bananas at each other.

I remember that one!  It was called "Gorillas", and was an example program that came with the QBasic compiler.

Now that you mentioned that one, I'm remembering a few games I had on an old 8086-based Tandy PC (monochrome monitor, yeah!).  The first one I remember on that machine was probably "Sopwith" or one of the "Zork" games.

[-<WillyP>-]

Yeah, Gorillas was a pretty good game for it's day.  Not a lot of depth but it was challenging.

[Kaiaatzl]

First PC game was one I created on a Commodore 64.  First retail PC game I owned was Stunts (a driving/stunt game), I think. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

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

[Scyphi]

I remember seeing Gorillas be played before, or at least something like it. I don't think I ever played it, though (it was too challenging for a four-five year old).

[Kaizerwolf]

An old, and crappy, Playstation 2 game titled "Surfing H2O." It came with my Playstation 2, and it was probably one of the hardest and most awful game ever.