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most likely Peek-a-Boo, or outside either Tag or Hide and Seek, if not something like Mouse Trap or Candy Land for board games
If you're asking about video games, Pong on some sort of Realistic/Tandy console system in the late 70s when I would go to work with my father at Radio Shack (back when it was legit) and he would put me in front of the black&white.
Mine was a point-click quest written in visual basic that taught Russian alphabet. I was 2-3 years old, playing while sitting on my father's lap. Apparently this created some core memories since once I was 15-17 I found it and still remembered every dialogue word-to-word
Pajama Sam: There's no need to hide when it's dark outside
Pole position on the commodore 64.
frogger
The original Prince of Persia, in DOS.
Played the shit out of that game. I could probably draw maps of every level from memory.
My earliest would probably be Space Invaders on the Atari 400.
But I also did a lot of PC gaming around that time - Alley Cat, Paratrooper, Prince of Persia, Dangerous Dave, GORILLA.BAS, NIBBLES.BAS - these were some of the earliest DOS games I played and still remember them fondly.
When we got a NES later on, spent a lot of time on Duck Hunt. And Super Mario of course, but don't think I ever managed to get past level 3. Still had fun though.
Mr Do on the colico vision. There was another game we had Carnival. Good (simpler) times.
Oldest game I remember playing (when it was new) was Lemmings on the Macintosh. Early 1990s. I can still hear the tunes.
Wizard of Wor on C=64
we had quite a few carts so it might not have been first but it certainly was the most played
It was a racing game I can't remember the name of on our first computer, a TI-99.
Combat on the Atari 2600. There are games I remember better, but I do know that was my favorite... just no one would play it with me.
Various demos on PS1 demo discs
Jumping Flash (ps1) was my first ever game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Flash!
It was pretty hard as a 5 year old.
Probably Duke Nukem 3D, introduced by way of my uncle’s at the time high end computer.
I’d seen arcade games and things, but an actual interactive 3D world I could walk around in was wild. It was also a much bloodier and more “adult” game than anything I’d seen before.
Later that year, 1997, I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas along with Goldeneye and StarFox64. Those two games became mainstays for me at home.
Sonic 1 on my newly acquired Mega Drive at Christmas when I was 5. Died to that first ladybug repeatedly for months on end but never gave up!
Duck hunt with the gun. That shit ass dog. Oh wait no....
There was a typing game with a frog that ate letters?
Not fun.
But that is the first game I remember. In school.
My first game was Yoshi's Island for the Game Boy Advance! I still go back and play it every few years, I love that game.
Earliest memory is c64 gridder
First game I remember playing is a DOS game called Snipes. It was at my stepdads work and I remember getting smoked by his workmate as we were playing it LAN and I remember crying haha.
New Super Mario Bros on my sick red Mario DS. Although Pokémon would come shortly after which I remember much more fondly.
Roadrash and prince of Persia
I don’t remember exactly, but it would have been on the Atari 2600. Probably Pac-Man or Q-Bert.
Adventure for me, but we had Atari 2600 Pac-Man too. And Combat, Space Invaders and a few others.
Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights on the ps2, other than that maybe Freddie Fish or one of the other humongous games on mac
Going to my step dads house when my mom first started dating him and playing Pitfall on his Colecovision in the late 80's. I was 3.
It was an Apple ii I think and Star Trek of some sort. ASCII based graphics and words. Idk I was 6. Didn't have a clue what I was doing. It was on my bio father's computer. He used it as a way to distract me while Mom and him argued over child support. Last time I saw him thankfully. But at least I have that memory of trying to catch a "k"
Fuck I'm getting old.
We didn’t have much money when we were kids, so when I cousin brought over his SNES with LttP, my mind was totally blown.
Asphalt 4
x-wing vs tie fighter.
While I had probably already played a couple of counterfeit NES games at a friend's house before that, the first 2 games I clearly remember playing on PC were Tux Racer (on my dad's Linux setup) and Warcraft 2.
King's Quest 6, on my dad's old Compaq Presario Windows 98 laptop
Potentially HOVER! on the ol' Windows ME machine iirc.
Age of Empires 2 also comes to mind.
The cart said Final Fantasy 2. We now know it as Final Fantasy 4.
My father had my playing it and reading all the text out loud. I played that game over and over and over. I have all the hidden paths and treasures memorized.
The opening scrawl ended in something about Cecil and Kain vanishing "into a deep fog." For years and years I thought it said they vanished "into a deep frog." Let me tell you... the hours I spent lying awake at night wondering what that meant...
And of course my Dad didn't correct me.
Intellivision. Sea Battle. 1987.
I think it was Lost Vikings on an old DOS laptop.