What is the first video game you remember playing?

[Hermes]

Pitfall on an Atari 7800.

 

[spikechiquet]

Wow! I loved Smurfs when I was a kid. Pretty sure my 8-yr-old could design this game on his own in Roblox! LOL

 

[sgreenwell]

Super Mario Bros. for me on the original Nintendo.

I was born in 1984, and this is my answer as well. I think I was 4 or 5, so I'm kind of surprised that my parents got me one, or how they knew I'd love it. They had an Atari 2600 that I remember playing *after* the NES, but outside of some really short dalliances by my mom (she loved Dragon Warrior 1 and Shadowgate, and beat both), neither one played games. Other prominent games of my youth were The Legend of Zelda 1, Dragon Warrior 1 and 3 (two was impossible to find, and I didn't get 4 until I was a teenager), SMB3 (again, two always seemed in short supply), and Castlevania 1. Oh - along with literally dozens of games that we (sister and I) rented from the nearby Stop & Shop.

ETA: Shameless plug, but myself and two buddies hosted a podcast about pre-2000s games for a couple years. It has 200+ episodes and it's on Spotify, and has its own website, too. For the interested, you can use the tag links to find episodes by theme, like SNES games.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

 

[qtlaw]

Not sure if this counts as "video" game but if it does then this was the first, hours at a time.

Hey if you're going to count Mattel football, then its got to be this:

Coleco >>>> Mattel

 

[As The Crow Flies]

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Wow! I loved Smurfs when I was a kid. Pretty sure my 8-yr-old could design this game on his own in Roblox! LOL

HA! My eight-year-old might have the same game-designing app as yours. And yup, her games are better than anything I played at her age (or slightly beyond).

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I actually played the arcade version of that back in 1986-1987.

 

[swingline]

Pong

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Pong

Same here. In the late 1970s.

 

[swingline]

Yep