Wow, that's tough.

If you go with "computer or console, in the home", it'd probably be Apple Panic, 1979, on the Apple ][+. I honestly don't remember at this point, whether I had a friend with an Atari 2600 before then.

I may have played the original text Adventure ("you're in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike") on a thermal-printer, anolog-phone terminal, calling in to a mainframe at Bell Laboratories before that. But that's not really a "video" game, is it?

Crash Bandicoot I think, possibly one of the Spyro games.

Chess or Monster Maze on my Sinclair ZX81.

Duke Nukem 2 on PC. Those were the days... when games were actually fun.

Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt

To be honest I'm not 100% sure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDw_mpjKlpg - DOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmjTC8p0UoQ - Sega Master System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69WhRV19pQ - Sega Master System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7QMxOgYTI - Sega Master System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuZeZzlnUrA - TI-99/4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vruvBNd4Zzc - TI-99/4A

I'm not sure which of those it was. But it was in that group.


It needs to be 20% cooler: The Game.

Great game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_LY7r8P3ns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0WLbeORRlo

Freakin train level though. The bathtub one too.

Oh yeah, the arcades, I'd forgotten about them. When I was a kid, my grandfather used to take me around the amusemant arcades which had started to replace some of the traditional "one armed bandits" with video games around 1980... so I could watch him playing! He was actually pretty good; I was hopeless.

Our local newsagents soon joined in with the trend and soon had a pair of very noisy arcade machines installed just inside the doorway. Most of us started choosing cross country as our preferred activity in the school's PE lessons and would jog as far as the local shop and spend the next hour playing around on these things instead of, y'know, getting any exercise. I mostly just spectated, but avid gamers need their spectators, I suppose.

Aaaaaah nostalgia. Yeah, was the train level the one that kept moving? That totally broke my 10 year old brain

Yeah you had to make long jumps where at the height of the jump you could no longer see the platforms, and the background was moving so it really messed you up. Such a sadistic design.

Urgh here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXuxzxwFaYU

Still hurts my brain.

omg...

The first time I played a non-arcade game was back in the 80s, on an Atari 2600. I think the game was, um, Tutankhamen. I think. It's tough to remember if that was actually the "first" game, but it's the one that first comes to mind.

Wow. Amazing to think how far games have come.

Must have been some PS1 game. Most likely Crash Bandicoot. I don't really remember.

Breakout -- Atari 2600.

Pole Position. Contra was second, and the first game that I spent more than a few minutes on.

I'm pretty sure the first game I played was Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the Sega Master System II.

I'm pretty confident it was http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kr6QdS-Qs3I/SxQqAeIJROI/AAAAAAAADZc/7ESSJOMHf4Y/S1600-R/Donkey+Kong+II+%28JR-55%29+1983.JPG because it was the first electronic game in our household, and I definitely played it before I got my C64 with http://www.c64-wiki.com/images/7/75/Wizball-Spiel.gif, http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/great_giana_1.jpg and multiple other games I can't remember the name of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165bezvsHS0

Tekken 2 on the PS1 back in the distant past. I used to play it with my Dad when I was still pretty young. It was awesome, though I prefferred Tekken 3 which I got a few months later. I think.

I was three years old and sat on my uncle's lap while playing the first Quake. It was awesome.

Command & Conquer, '95, PS1.
I still have both discs and the PS1.

I actually just recently figured out the first game I played-or at least the first game I remember playing

It was Platoon on NES

I'm sorry to hear that.

Pokemon Red for the original Gameboy. This launched my 90's childhood!

Hmmmmm geez ill say pac man back in the 80s

Pong for the Atari 2600. I forgot the year. Between 1987 to 88.
And what an awesome way to start your gaming career.

I think it was the first Tomb Raider, on PC. Or it might have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!