Mine was Mario and duck hunt (Like I expect a lot of people), but I wonder what your first game was.

I had more fun as a kid with duck hunt than the first mario, but I was bad at platformers.

  • EchoCranium@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    I remember playing games on a Commodore PET computer when I was 10-11 years old, had to be loaded up using a cassette player, took about 5 minutes and didn’t always work. Haven’t a clue what any of them would be called now.

    But, first video game I remember loving was Lode Runner by Broderbund. Played it on a Apple II PC in the early 80’s. I was lucky and had a free pre-release copy. My parents had started a computer business back then selling Apple computers and some IBM stuff as well. They listed me as their software guy so occasionally companies would send me free games to try out, which was awesome!

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
        2·
        9 days ago

        The collection was arguably my mum’s — I was too young to play properly, but she played on it almost everyday. That’s why it was actually playable stuff.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    Some Olympic sports game on my brothers C64. I vaguely remember weightlifting being part of it.

    First game I played extensively without someone else telling me which buttons to push when was The Incredible Machineon PC or Mario on NES. Not sure which was first.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      9 days ago

      Some Olympic sports game on my brothers C64. I vaguely remember weightlifting being part of it.

      There’s a pretty good chance that was Epyx Summer Games.

      Looks like you can play it - in browser - here if you’re nostalgic.

      https://c64online.com/c64-games/summer-games/

      There were also Winter Games, California Games and Summer Games 2 for C64.

  • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    I think it was Donkey Kong 3. The church my parents dragged me to as a kid had an arcade cabinet of it on free play that I would use when I could.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    3·
    10 days ago

    I am trying to wrack my brains but it’s actually kind of hard. It might have been some semi-educational game on the daycare/school PC early nineties, as an after school activity waiting to be picked up by my parents? I know there were some of those, absolutely no idea about the names, though.

    Otherwise it would have been Super Mario Land on the Game Boy.

  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    Batman SNES, then Mortal Kombat, then Super Mario. My dad got a SNES for Christmas when I was like 5 years old and I never looked back.

  • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    Either Dangerous Dave or the original Prince of Persia. I hated both 😂 But they were video games, so I played the shit out of them.

    First video game I enjoyed so much I couldn’t drop until I beat was Streets of Rage 2.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    mmmmm. I know space invaders is the first I saw but I can’t remember if I actually played it. It was a pin ball arcade and space invaders was its first video game it ever had and I was very young and many people wanted to play. I don’t know how but my dad actually got a pong system like before I even knew at home systems existed. That might be the first thing I played if it was not space invaders.

  • hesh@quokk.auEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    Probably an arcade game like Rampage. For home gaming, it was definitely Super Mario Bros