Your first electronic game?

[Syt]

Through internet magic I found the first "console" I ever played on. Basically, a souped up pong with a few extra gameplay settings, must've been around 1980.





I recall my middle sister in the early 80s had a console that had a keyboard incorporated in it. It may have been an Odyssey, or maybe a Crativision, or something similar; the memory is hazy.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Operation Neptune, an educational game that I played on a 286 in the early 90s. You zoom around in a little submarine shooting fish with ink pellets and collecting parts of a crashed space probe, but once in a while your fun is interrupted by a math problem.

[Valmy]

Oh hell. It was one of those TRS-80s from Radio Shack my dad had in the early 80s:



My dad actually had to program the games himself, the code would come in game magazines.

This was the first video game system I played on:



I have to say it was not actually that close to arcade quality but pretty good. It was my friends though so I only played it at his house.

Speaking of my Dad he turns 71 today!

[Grey Fox]

Like Valmy a TRS80 in the 80s but I don't remember that one. I remember the Commodore 64 tho. Played a Moon game on it.

[Razgovory]

My parents bought me a "Frogger" Mini-arcade game, which I promptly dropped down a flight of stairs.

[Barrister]

Behold the mighty Apple //c!  Got it Christmas of 1985 I think and played the shit out of hit.

My parents never did get us a console of any sort.  So sure I do kind-of remember playing an early Atari system at a friends house, and later player NES games at another friends, but I was always a computer gamer.

*insert PC Master Race meme here*

[frunk]

I remember playing Pong, but the Atari 2600 is the one that we played a lot.

[The Minsky Moment]

Either Merlin or Electronic Quarterback

[MadBurgerMaker]

Behold the mighty Apple //c!  Got it Christmas of 1985 I think and played the shit out of hit.

My parents never did get us a console of any sort.  So sure I do kind-of remember playing an early Atari system at a friends house, and later player NES games at another friends, but I was always a computer gamer.

*insert PC Master Race meme here*

Apple IIc fo lyfe

Wings of Fury was a freaking awesome game.

E: I also had some gigantic type of Atari.  5200? (e2: yeah it was this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_5200 I remember those controllers) Something like that.  I think we had both of these around the same time.

[celedhring]

If we don't count those crappy LCD handhelds, the first computer game I played was this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfright

My school had a computer room with MSXs, so we had an optional computing class. We learnt to code in BASIC, which given that we were 9 years old I guess it was quite far-sighted from the school (that was all I ever learnt about coding though  ). Anyhow, the last day of class the teacher brought a few games, and I played this one.

My parents ended up buying the same computer for me, the next summer:



I still keep it at my parents house, btw. It gave me many many hours of classic gaming entertainment: Metal Gear, Gradius, Maze of Galious... those classic Konami games were ace.

[Ed Anger]

Pong.

[11B4V]

[CountDeMoney]

I wasn't even cool enough to have the Coleco version;  I had to settle for the rebadged Sears ripoff.



Went with my Toughskins.

[CountDeMoney]

Now, as far as video games go--



Christmas '80, motherfuckers.

[Razgovory]

God, we're old.

I didn't know until today that Coleco stood for "Connecticut Leather Company"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco