Your first electronic game?

[Zanza]

Atari 1040 ST, late 1980s, with a monochrome screen though. We had some kind of Pacman and a Space Invaders and a third game I can't remember.

[Syt]

Ah, from the days of the Atari ST vs Commodore Amiga wars.  A few friends had Amigas (I was too poor and had to settle for a C64; later got NES and SNES before moving on to PC in 96, though I did spend extensive time with friends' DOS OCs before that) but never knew anyone with an ST.

[Josephus]

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!

LOL Never mind your dad...I used to do that. It was all BASIC programming...would take hours to do, and then of course you typed something wrong so you had to read it all to find the bug.

[Josephus]

yeah. that's what I had too. Except being in Canada mine was head to head hockey.

[CountDeMoney]

Heh, had the Head2Head football version.  Pretty unwieldy with two people, actually.

[Delirium]

I played



on a



using this to load the game

[katmai]

Pong

[CountDeMoney]

I still have my--

[Agelastus]

Either this -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_%26_Watch_games#Donkey_Kong

Or a game I don't recall for the Spectrum.

Strangely I don't recall playing any games on the ZX81, although my household had one.

[HVC]

The fist computer game I remember playing was in school. It was called cross country Canada. You played a truck driver taking freight across Canada. You leaned facts about province Lang the way. You could speed to get there faster (but there was a chance of getting pulled over), you had to buy food and sleep... You could also run over hitch hikers on purpose

[Grinning_Colossus]

cross country Canada.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Crosscountry_Canada_1991

[HVC]

I'm so gonna run over some hitch hikers tonight!

[Caliga]

[Maladict]

Tulip computers,those were the days.  I had loads of games of the Digger and Fogger kind.
Good times.

[Arvoreen]

My first exposure was the original Atari Pong dedicated console, circa mid/late 1970's.



But the one I remember enjoying the most was Intellivision