What's the First Game You've Ever Played?

[orion70]

What if you present your wife with a haut couture pair of shoes and yourself with a Vectrex at the same time?

They'd cost roughly the same, and the grand total would be definitely more than I can afford at the present time

[beamrider]

She would complain that you didn't get *two* pairs of the designer shoes instead of that useless pile of junk

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[orion70]

[OT] BTW, I'm always surprised by how pricey fashion objects are - their content in design, research, and everything being vastly unjustified compared to the high-tech or retro-tech object. But this simple observation won't fit a wife's mind.[/OT]

[Jeff-20]

First video game ever: Space Invaders (arcade)
First console game ever: Combat (Atari 2600)
First Vic-20 game ever: Killer Comet (User guide type-in)

[pixel]

Some BASIC program with PETSCII graphics that's been delivered with my first VIC in 1985. Can't remember its name. Aliens dropped straight down and one could shoot them with a ship on the bottom which could be moved horizontally. It was rather fast. Didn't get the hang of it, though.

[eslapion]

I think the first video game I ever played was Omega Race on an arcade machine that was in a restaurant owned by an uncle. That was during the summer of 1981.

The first VIC-20 video game I played was Sea Wolf when my aunt just got her VIC around christmas 1981.

[Kakemoms]

Space invaders! We were on summer holidays south of Rome in 1979 and my mother gave me some coins to try it. I was amazed! It was so fun!

Before that there were only pinball machines and other mechanical things to put money into